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Ministry, OXFAM hold forum for ASEAN businesswomen
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs and OXFAM in Cambodia on September 7 jointly organised a national forum on “Promoting Women Entrepreneurship in ASEAN through Social Protection and Family Care Policies”.
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Indigenous communities ask for government intervention in land disputes
The representatives of two different indigenous communities in Kampong Thom and Preah Vihear provinces are calling for government intervention to help solve long-running land disputes in their communities.
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Prosecution, Judges Link CNRP, Sokha to Veng Sreng Violence
. Prosecutors and judges in the Kem Sokha treason trial looked to link senior CNRP leadership to the violence during garment worker protests in 2014, though most of the time they linked Sam Rainsy or Mu Sochua to the violence, not Sokha.
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Trainee teachers to study media and information literacy
Soeur Pisey, 19, is in her third year of studying to be a primary school teacher at Phnom Penh Teacher Education College, and will soon return to her hometown in Preah Sihanouk to teach, yet she has never studied media literacy.
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Over 100 complaints filed as ‘doomsday’ believers vacate farm
As of September 5, Siem Reap provincial authorities had received more than 100 inquiries from people asking for help finding their relatives who travelled to the sprawling plantation of Khem Veasna – president of the League for Democracy Party (LDP) who now doubles as cult leader and doomsday prophet – in Siem Reap province’s Banteay Srei district.
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I will sue you Veasna, if my son dies at Kulen farm’
High drama continues to grip the sacred Phom Kulen as hardcore Doomsday believers and die-hard fans of League for Democracy Party (LDP) leader Khem Veasna refuse to accept the fact that the world is not going to end as prophesied by the maverick leader.
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Bodies of lies: Ministry dismisses allegations about organ harvesting rings
A senior government official at the Interior Ministry in charge of combatting human trafficking yesterday dismissed the allegations made by a Hong Kong official and Taiwan journalist that some human trafficking organisations in Cambodia are committing organ harvesting and selling human body parts to the wealthy and on black markets.
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Opinion: Shame Around Premarital Sex Is Making Abortions More Dangerous
Abortions have been legal in Cambodia since 1997, but social, cultural and religious stigmas are still preventing women from accessing them in safe settings.
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Power Line Markers Reveal Looming Path of Destruction in Prey Lang
“People don’t have land titles, it’s state land, so if they don’t give compensation, what can people do?”
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Villagers take protest over long-running land dispute to Cambodian capital
More than 1,000 people from two Cambodian provinces staged a protest on Tuesday outside the Ministry of Justice in Phnom Penh, calling on the government to resolve a long-running dispute over land taken by politically connected businesspeople, sources in the country said.
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Mother Denies Her Son Supported Khem Veasna Before Death
The mother of a 20-year-old who died by suicide on Monday denied a report that he had gone to politician Khem Veasna’s farm fearing the end of the world.
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Preah Vihear’s Indigenous Patrollers Red Flag Preah Roka Logging
Indigenous community patrollers found around 250 cases of suspected deforestation at Preah Vihear’s Prey Preah Roka forest during two patrols in July and August, and are urging authorities to allow more patrols into the forest.
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Three NagaWorld Strikers Accept Payout
Chhim Sithar, president of Labor Rights Supported by Union of Khmer Employees of NagaWorld, said the company had a fraudulent strategy to cooperate with the Ministry of Labor to prolong the dispute, put economic pressure on employees and force them to accept illegal compensation.
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Famers in Battambang Fear Unexploded Landmines
Hem Sophal, a 69-year-old farmer living in a small house with a perforated thatched roof located in Prek Chik village, Prek Chik commune, Rukkiri district, Battambang province, brought his family to live here in the early 1980s, shortly after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime.
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Authorities Say Situation Stable as Deadline Passes at Politician’s Doomsday Farm
A gathering to wait for the end of the world is effectively over even as around 1,000 supporters remain inside politician Khem Veasna’s farm, officials said.
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Love Party in Limbo After Interior Ministry Rejects Acting President
The future of the Cambodia National Love Party is in limbo after the Interior Ministry refused to accept its single remaining permanent committee member as acting president due to violations of party bylaws.
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REDD+ soon one-third of protected land
The government is aiming to boost the sale of carbon credits by expanding the scheme to all protected areas in Cambodia, according to Ministry of Environment spokesman Neth Pheaktra.
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Cambodian cult members leave ‘doomsday farm’
The number of people holding out at a ‘doomsday farm’ awaiting an apocalypse has fallen to about 1,000, from more than 20,000, as followers of a self-declared brahma (heavenly king) began leaving en masse as the deadline to disperse passed.
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Four parties to approach NA again to discuss electoral reforms
The four opposition parties – Candlelight Party (CP), Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP), Khmer Will Party (KWP) and Reform Party (RP), said that National Assembly (NA) has refused to meet them to discuss their proposals for free and fair elections in the country, but they will approach the government again.
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CPP: Campaign budget limit unjust
The rejection came after four political parties – Candlelight (CP), Grassroots Democratic (GDP), Cambodian Reform (CRP) and Khmer Will (KRP) – held a September 2 press conference suggesting that the changes would ensure transparency and equality during election campaign seasons.
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