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  • Villagers demand $250 payout for land grab

    Some 1,000 villagers on Tuesday blocked National Road 2 in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district, each demanding compensation of $250 from the provincial authority for communal land they claim a former commune chief sold to a well-connected developer without their knowledge in 2008.

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  • Party law amendment divides former opposition members

    As the amendment to the Law on Political Parties awaits approval from the King, former opposition members on two sides of a leadership divide within the CNRP seem to have different plans when it comes to having their political bans lifted.

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  • Thousands demand compensation

    About 1,000 people locked in a land dispute with Heng Development Company in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district yesterday descended upon the Boeng Kyang Commune Hall demanding compensation for their loss of land.

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  • Six new political parties registered last year

    Forty-four political parties are registered to legally conduct activities in the Kingdom, according to an Interior Ministry report.

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  • Raising the profile of LGBT rights

    The Cambodia Human Rights Committee has defended the government’s record on LGBT rights and urged LGBT people to protect themselves from HIV.

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  • Government ensures workers of their seniority pay

    The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has told workers not to worry about their seniority payments, which come into effect this year, and requested them not to pay attention to “villainous incitement”.

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  • Three men held over gang rape

    Kandal provincial police have arrested three people suspected of raping a woman near a pagoda along the riverside in Koh Thom district.

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  • Journalist charged with extortion

    Kratie Provincial Court on Sunday charged and jailed a journalist who was posing as the assistant to the provincial police chief and the provincial military police commander to extort money from illegal loggers.

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  • Thousands must still register to vote: NEC

    The National Election Committee yesterday said that more than 8.5 million people have been officially registered on the 2018 voter list.

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  • Garment workers continue strike

    Striking garment workers from two factories in Phnom Penh have refused to return to work until they have their benefits paid as stipulated by the Labour Law, despite a Labour Ministry letter ensuring them that they will get their benefits.

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  • Din Puthy to appeal verdict

    Din Puthy, chief of the Cambodian Informal Economic Workers Association, is planning to file an appeal with the Appeal Court after Banteay Meanchey Provincial Court found him guilty of committing violence with aggravating circumstances on Friday.

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  • Sar Kheng again rebukes Sam Rainsy

    Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday denied an accusation by former opposition leader Sam Rainsy that he told the latter not to return to Cambodia following his flight to France

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  • PM calls on West to learn from past and avoid a ‘third mistake’

    PRIME Minister Hun Sen used Saturday’s inauguration of the “Win-Win Monument” to blast Western governments he accused of making policy mistakes damaging to Cambodia.

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  • Illegal logging claims refuted

    Forest activists in Battambang province’s Samlot district said on Thursday that a company that has received an economic land concession (ELC) in the area is trading timber from outside its ELC boundary.

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  • More than 200 garment workers petition ministry

    More than 200 workers from Prestige Garment Co Ltd in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district have petitioned the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training for an intervention after the factory owner refused to reinstate their sacked representative who stands accused of intending to form a trade union.

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  • Authorities blocked from clearing ‘ancestral’ homes

    Nearly 200 villagers from Dang Peng commune in Koh Kong province’s Sre Ambel district on Friday stopped the authorities from dismantling the homes of four families alleged to have been built in a preservation area of the Cardamom Mountains.

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  • All benefits will be provided: Labour Ministry

    The Labour Ministry on Friday issued a statement asking all factory workers to remain calm and trust that all benefits they are lawfully entitled to will be provided in due time.

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  • Workers strike over unpaid indemnity

    Nearly 2,000 garment workers from the W&D factory in Meanchey district yesterday continued a strike for the third day over unpaid seniority indemnity.

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  • Joint directive to benefit disabled persons

    The Ministries of Land Management and Social Affairs yesterday issued a joint directive requiring all buildings to accommodate those with physical disabilities by building infrastructure such as wheelchair ramps and allocating parking spaces.

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  • Two villagers in court in Kiri Sakor dispute

    Two Peam Kay villagers in Koh Kong province were summoned for questioning by the provincial court on Wednesday in a dispute over the ownership of 277ha in Kiri Sakor district’s Koh Sdech commune.

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