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Illegal timber busts made in Stung Treng, Mondulkiri
The ongoing nationwide crackdown on illegal logging has produced another pair of high-profile busts touted by the national military police. Early yesterday morning, alleged smugglers in Stung Treng were busted attempting to sneak three tractor loads of luxury wood into Laos.
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Parents of alleged acid attackers to remain supervised
The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a decision to maintain a supervision order on two suspects allegedly involved in a horrific acid attack on a pregnant woman and her daughter during a business dispute in Takeo province more than a year ago. Nhe Deng, 63, and Seng Kimleng, 55, are alleged to have ordered their children Leakhena and Beng Meas to carry out the attack in November 2014. The siblings remain at large after fleeing to Vietnam.
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All sides air union law views
Unions, employers and government officials from both sides of the political divide had their say yesterday during a public forum at the National Assembly to discuss the controversial draft union law, with officials concluding they will consider all suggestions at a further review with two of the assembly’s commissions today. Unions, who claim the law is designed to repress their activities and restrict worker freedoms, acknowledged yesterday that some concerns have been addressed, but said clauses relating to the right to protest, the number of workers needed to strike and the financial reporting requirements of unions still needed further debate.
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Sihanoukville Beach Vendors Given Eviction Reprieve
The Council of Ministers issued a letter last Saturday asking the Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities to re-examine its decision to order vendors out of Otres, Ochheuteal and Damnak Sdech beaches in Sihanoukville. The document cited a letter signed by 62 vendors from Otres Beach asking the Council of Ministers to intervene in the decision, complaining that the February 2 announcement ordering them to move for “environmental reasons” by March 13 was made without consulting or negotiating any sort of compensation with them.
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Deforestation Taskforce Files Complaint Against Five Companies
The National Anti-Deforestation Committee (NADC) filed complaints to provincial courts against five companies that obtained economic land concessions (ELCs) from the government after discovering irregularities in the companies’ timber stocks after a three-day inspection early this week. Eng Hy, a spokesman for the National Gendarmerie and the NADC, said the committee finished inspecting the five companies – Uni-Green, Master Kesan, Dai Than, Khmer Angkor Agriculture and Binh Phoeuc – yesterday after starting on Monday.
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Int’l Women’s Day bike protest gets punctured
A 200-strong bicycle rally to raise awareness for women’s rights on International Women’s Day was blocked by Meanchey district security yesterday. The community members and civil society organisation officials gathered in front of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and planned to cycle en masse to the National Assembly.
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Police Official Avoids Prosecution for Rosewood Smuggling
A police official in Kompong Thom province has so far avoided prosecution in a weekend timber smuggling case involving his brother, three unidentified loggers and three carloads of rosewood logs marked with his name.
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Sex Scandal Spreads With Threat to Lawmaker
A senior CNRP lawmaker said Tuesday that he was being blackmailed over an alleged sex scandal, a week after the apparent leak of a series of recorded conversations purported to be between deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha and his mistresses.
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Female farmers seeking louder voice on ag policy
A national network of women farmers was established in the capital yesterday in the hopes of amplifying the voices of the Kingdom’s primarily female agricultural labour force amid a male-dominated policymaking environment. Some 100 “women-farmer champions” met in Phnom Penh at a conference organised by Oxfam and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF). The women selected 48 national champions – two from each province – to represent the interests of agricultural stakeholders at the national level.
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Blackmail threat for CNRP MP
The agitator behind the salacious recordings purported to be of acting opposition president Kem Sokha and a mistress is attempting to blackmail Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker Eng Chhay Eang, threatening to expose the senior official’s unspecified wrongdoing should he continue to ignore the allegations against Sokha. In a letter received by Chhay Eang and posted on Facebook yesterday, the author, who goes by the alias The Truth of CNRP, threatens to make public Chhay Eang’s “personal scandal” if the opposition lawmaker continues to speak to the media and deflect attention away from the allegations against Sokha.
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Employers Push for Union Law Amendments
Garment sector employers have pushed for amendments to several articles in the proposed draft union law that will govern how unions are formed, funded and operated, ahead of public consultations to debate the controversial legislation. According to a statement released yesterday, the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has continued to urge the working group in charge of amending the new law to ensure it best represents the interests of both workers and employers in Cambodia’s biggest business sector.
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Journalists want more upfront public figures
The Club of Cambodian Journalists on Monday called for politicians and local authorities to be more transparent and help facilitate the work that journalists do in order for them to better serve society. And while the statement came on the heels of an incident in which local journalists were banned by bodyguards from interviewing deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha, the organisation denied that was what prompted the statement.
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More Families Take Deals to Vacate Dam Site
Another 73 families in Stung Treng province have accepted the government’s offer of new land in exchange for the farms they will lose to the Lower Sesan II hydropower dam currently under construction, the second group to take the deal. Seventy families accepted the land swap in May to make way for the 400-megawatt dam being built in a joint venture between the Royal Group and China’s Hydrolancang International Energy across the Sesan and Srepok rivers, both tributaries of the Mekong.
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Group Warns of Protests During Hun Manet Visit
A Cambodian-American activist group, which last month staged a protest against Prime Minister Hun Sen during his first official state visit to the U.S., has warned of the possibility of further demonstrations if the premier’s eldest son visits the U.S. next month as planned. In a letter published on Facebook yesterday, Vibol Touch, the president of the Cambodia-America Alliance, said Hun Manet’s visit to the U.S.—at the invitation of a Cambodian-American civic organization—would be met with boycotts and protests in Long Beach, California, and Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Capital residents protest airport expressway
Roughly 100 Phnom Penh residents who believe they will be affected by a planned expressway leading from the airport to the city centre protested again at the Ministry of Public Works yesterday, demanding that community representatives be included on the committee that settles such matters as relocation and payouts. Ministry secretary of state Lim Sidenin accepted a letter presented by the protesters and said a public forum on the project would be held in the next two weeks.
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Youths Demand Sokha Explain ‘Sex Scandal’
About fifty university students protested in front of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) headquarters calling on deputy president Kem Sokha to explain accusations that he was having an affair. The protest was prompted by the release of audio clips last Monday featuring Mr. Sokha and a woman named “Mon Srey” allegedly discussing their love for each other and a possible pregnancy. The protesters shouted in front of the head office, and demanded Mr. Sokha come out to talk with them. Eventually, a party representative spoke with the leaders of the protest and accepted their petition.
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Rainsy decries ‘cheap tricks’
While a small group of university students continue to pursue acting opposition leader Kem Sokha demanding that he respond to accusations of infidelity, Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy yesterday called on followers to ignore attempts to destabilise his party and to focus on more pressing political debate. Speaking to CNRP supporters in Phnom Penh yesterday via video link, the self-exiled opposition leader said that unnamed political provocateurs were attempting to divide his party and, without explicitly referring to the alleged instances of extramarital affairs that have dogged Sokha over the past week, described efforts to distract from important political issues as “useless”.
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Unions, NGOs ask for time to review draft union law
With the draft union law due to be debated during a public forum on Wednesday, a group of 21 unions and NGOs released a statement yesterday calling on the National Assembly to allow more time to discuss the legislation before it is passed. Unions have long argued that the draft law is designed to impinge on the basic freedoms workers and the government have not taken enough time to incorporate their concerns.
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Lawmakers to Hold Workshop on Draft Union Law
Lawmakers on the National Assembly’s labor commission will hold a public workshop on Wednesday to gather more input from unions and employers on a controversial draft union law before it gets worked over one more time and put to a vote in Parliament.
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Bodies swap control over ELCs, preserves
Authority over economic land concessions (ELCs) currently under the purview of the Ministry of Environment will be transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture, while all protected areas and nature preserves currently under the Ministry of Agriculture will pass to the Ministry of Environment, according to a sub-decree issued on Friday. The sub-decree, signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen, also states that the Ministry of Environment reserves the right to submit amendments to laws pertaining to ELCs despite the transfer of control.
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