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SCIENTISTS RELEASE ANCIENT ANGKOR FINDINGS
Utilizing airborne laser technology, archaeologists in Siem Reap have made new discoveries that could shed light on the puzzling decline of the ancient Angkorian Empire and may establish it as the largest empire on Earth in the 12th century. Led by Australian archaeologist Dr. Damien Evans and funded by the European Research Council (ERC), the project revealed a vast network of interconnected medieval temple-cities hidden below the jungle floor – some as old as 1,400 years – stretching from Beng Mealea and Koh Ker to Angkor and a massive city beneath Phnom Kulen that could match Phnom Penh in size.
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CNRP petition activities facing pressure from authorities
Authorities in several provinces kept up their apparent efforts to prevent opposition activists from gathering thumbprints for a petition, which one official claimed was causing “social chaos”. The Koh Kong provincial governor penned a letter – dated last Tuesday and obtained yesterday – ordering authorities to prevent thumbprint collection by the Cambodia National Rescue Party, who plan to petition the King to release political prisoners and drop a legal case against opposition acting president Kem Sokha.
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Ten Years on, Things a Lot Like 10 Years Ago
A crisis strikes after a national election. Two longtime rivals to Prime Minister Hun Sen stand together to demand he resign and refuse to work in parliament. It lasts a year, until a deal is struck keeping Mr. Hun Sen in power for four more years. —News Analysis One of the rivals is not as happy with the deal than the other but—through gritted teeth—agrees to it, allowing the political arena to enter a brief lull before Mr. Hun Sen starts playing one rival against the other.
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PM SHOOTS DOWN CNRP TALKS
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday ruled out starting a dialogue between the ruling party and the opposition, rebuking calls from United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the European Union. Mr. Hun Sen also said there will be no negotiations related to the judiciary after requests from the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) to discuss political tension, detentions, charges and the prosecution of human rights officials as well as National Election Committee (NEC) representatives and opposition members.
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PM dismisses CNRP's request for negotiations with CPP
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday shut the door on the possibility of negotiations between the two major political parties, saying there could be no talks over “prisoners” and any discussions would undermine the criminal proceedings in the courts. Responding to a request for negotiations by the Cambodia National Rescue Party last month, Hun Sen, speaking to Fresh News, dismissed the possibility and instead suggested that the opposition ask the National Assembly to convene and solve their problems.
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Srey Mom to testify on prostitution
Salon worker Khom Chandaraty, an alleged mistress of CNRP leader Kem Sokha, has agreed to appear before the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday to offer testimony relating to a prostitution case. Kem Vesna, an attorney for Chandaraty – who also goes by Srey Mom – yesterday confirmed she would appear.
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Hun Sen Says No Discussions With the CNRP
Prime Minister Hun Sen told a local media outlet on Sunday that the ruling CPP would not engage in any talks with the opposition CNRP over the jailing of its officials and supporters or recent moves by police to arrest deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha. The online Fresh News service, which Mr. Hun Sen often praises, quoted him as saying: “No negotiations will happen between the CPP and the CNRP in the coming period,” before explaining the prime minister’s reasoning.
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‘Black Monday’ Will Move to Appeal Court
Activists behind the “Black Monday” protests said on Sunday they would demonstrate yet again today despite the threat of more arrests, this time in front of the Appeal Court, where four employees of rights group Adhoc and an election official will have their bail hearing in the morning.
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GOVERNOR: PROTESTERS PAID
Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong accused land activists from the Boeung Kak, Borei Keila and Thmor Kol communities of political allegiance after their participation in recent Black Monday protests demanding the release of opposition politicians and officials from civil society. At a groundbreaking ceremony for a new road at the Royal University of Agriculture on Saturday, Mr. Socheatvong accused the land activists of being hired for political gain.
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Gov't-produced video sums up Sokha scandal
The Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit (PQRU) released a 30-minute, documentary-style video detailing Kem Sokha’s alleged sex scandal and laying a case to justify the actions of the courts in handling criminal proceedings against the CNRP deputy president. The video, released on Saturday and set to Cambodian singer Noy Vanneth’s song Whose Fault?, uses an interview with Justice Ministry spokesman Kim Santepheap and television clips of Prime Minister Hun Sen and the head of the government’s Cambodia Human Rights Committee (CHRC), Keo Remy, to lay out a timeline of events surrounding Sokha’s case.
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Accused China bride broker arrested in Phnom Penh
Police arrested a woman in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar district on Saturday as she allegedly attempted to take two Cambodian women to China to get married, police said. The suspect, Och Senghong, 45, was apprehended at the bus station near the Chroy Changvar Bridge, and was yesterday sent to the municipal court, said Municipal Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Unit chief Keo Thea.
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ACU seeks volunteers to stop exam cheating
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has called for volunteers to monitor the upcoming national grade 12 examination in a bid to curb cheating. Volunteers – including students and civil society organisation officials – are invited to apply between July 1 and 31, according to the ACU’s announcement on Friday.
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Land activists are ‘political’, paid, says Phnom Penh gov
Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong has called on unnamed politicians to stop using Boeung Kak, Borei Keila and SOS land activists for political demonstrations. Speaking at the University of Agriculture on Saturday ahead of the sixth “Black Monday” protest, in which the activists have been taking part, Socheatvong said they were protesting just to score political points.
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Value of dam-affected homes being assessed
Officials have started to assess properties in Oddar Meanchey that will be flooded by an under construction dam, though the affected villagers remain in the dark about possible compensation. Eight officers from the Ministry of Finance and the province’s water resources department were in Chongkal district’s Srah Keo village yesterday, which is expected to go under when the Sino Hydro dam project comes online displacing more than 200 families.
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Preah Vihear villagers seize company’s bulldozers
Authorities in Preah Vihear province’s Chheb district yesterday backed villagers who seized bulldozers owned by a Chinese company that was clearing community land and has long been embroiled in land disputes in the area, according to local residents. About 100 villagers took possession of two bulldozers owned by the Rui Feng company and detained the drivers, who they said were clearing property the community uses as grazing land, said villager Sath Say, 63.
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NGO head apologises to NEC
The Victory Intelligent Standard Association issued an apology on Wednesday to the National Election Committee for accusing the body’s senior staffers of corruption during the transfer of its employees from independent contractors to the government’s fold. Ros Sarom, director of the group, which claims the membership of 10,000 intellectuals, government officials and NGOs, apologised to the NEC President Sik Bun Hok, admitting that his accusations had affected the reputation of the election body and its staffers.
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CNRP sits out Assembly's questioning of justice minister
Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana addressed empty opposition benches at the National Assembly yesterday as the Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers boycotted the question-and-answer session that they themselves requested. The CNRP in May asked to quiz the minister about alleged misuse of the judiciary to target opposition lawmakers and jailed human rights activists.
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Global pressure on CPP builds
International pressure continues to mount on Cambodia’s government, with the European Parliament yesterday calling the EU’s funding for the country into question over a recent raft of “politically motivated” charges against opposition members and civil society figures. The motion – endorsed by members of Europe’s legislature – came after the United Nations released details of a phone conversation between Foreign Minister Prak Sokhon and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who voiced his concerns about the “widespread intimidation and harassment” to the Kingdom’s top diplomat.
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CNRP’S TV STATION TO BE MOVED
The Cambodia National Rescue Party’s (CNRP) Sun TV station, the country’s first opposition aligned station, is to be relocated because it’s original construction site in Kandal province’s Takhmao city was banned by authorities, according to officials. CNRP spokesman Yem Ponnarith told reporters yesterday the new site complies with authority guidelines.
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Amid Turmoil, EU Calls for Review of Aid To Cambodia
The European Parliament on Thursday passed a resolution accusing the Cambodian government of laying politically motivated charges against the opposition and calling for aid cuts if its respect for human rights fails to improve—a loud echo of a resolution it passed just six months ago. Passed by a show of hands during a plenary session in Strasbourg, France, the resolution holds up the $465 million in aid committed to Cambodia through 2020 and urges the European Commission to make “financial assistance dependant on improvements in the human rights situation.”
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