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Lengthy Banteay Meanchey land dispute finally ends in payout
After a seven-year struggle, a Banteay Meanchey teacher finally got $8,000 in compensation for her land, which was seized by the Cambodian military during a border flare-up with Thailand. Souk Ratha, a high school chemistry teacher, said that her father bought a hectare in Pong Rong village in Sisophon district in 1994 but, during the 2009 standoff between Cambodia and Thailand, a tank division took up defensive position on her land.
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Rainsy Says Not to Protest Hun Sen’s US Trip
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has urged his party’s supporters in the U.S. not to stage any protests against Prime Minister Hun Sen during his visit to California later this month for a summit with fellow Asean leaders and U.S. President Barack Obama. The plea follows Mr. Hun Sen’s warning of demonstrations against the opposition CNRP here in Cambodia should his trip to the U.S. be marred by protests against him, like the ones that have met him on past missions abroad.
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Gov’t denies land issues
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction issued a statement on Saturday defending its track record and denying that Germany ended its support for the ministry’s land rights program due to a lack of transparency and sluggish reform pace. “The German side accepted that there was much development and achievements from the 20 years of cooperation,” a two-page statement released on Saturday read.
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Shots fired in Mondulkiri timber chase
A former Mondulkiri provincial military police officer, Sou Marith, fired on authorities who had chased a car carrying timber to his home, but managed to make good his escape in the hours it took authorities to procure an arrest warrant, local authorities said. It’s not Marith’s first run-in with the law over illegal timber.
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Appeal Court Upholds Veng Sreng Riot Convictions
The Appeal Court on Thursday upheld convictions of intentional violence and causing property dam- age against 13 unionists and workers who were arrested during a riot outside a Phnom Penh industrial park on January 3, 2014, at which military police shot dead at least five people. The 13 were convicted by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court in March, after what rights groups called a flawed trial, but were immediately set free on suspended jail sentences.
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Two Cambodians Arrested for Attack on Thai Officials at Market
Two Cambodian men were arrested late Wednesday for their alleged involvement in a melee at a Thai market in Sa Kaeo province earlier that day, during which hundreds of Cambodian market vendors reportedly attacked and injured officers from the Thai Department of Special Investigation and damaged cars belonging to the unit.
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Gov’t Blames Garment Workers for Road Deaths
Garment workers were involved in more than 4,300 separate traffic accidents as they traveled to and from their factories last year, leading to 60 fatalities, according to a report released by the government on Thursday.
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Poipet vendors charged over riot
Two Cambodian vendors on the Thai side of the Poipet border crossing were charged yesterday with the destruction of private property following a riot at a market on Wednesday, according to Poipet police chief Oum Sophal. The incident began at about 10am at Long Keur market when a group of Thai officers began confiscating fake products, mostly perfume and belts, from Cambodian vendors.
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Medical body seeks malpractice protections
The Medical Council of Cambodia and the Ministry of Health are working on a draft law that would force malpractice complaints to go through the council before they make it to a courtroom, an MCC official said yesterday. Keo Pech Sovann, head of the MCC’s Banteay Meanchey division, who on Tuesday attended the annual convention of the council – the medical equivalent of a bar association – said that attendees discussed the need for legislation to protect doctors against frivolous complaints.
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Shots fired in Mondulkiri timber chase
A former Mondulkiri provincial military police officer, Sou Marith, fired on authorities who had chased a car carrying timber to his home, but managed to make good his escape in the hours it took authorities to procure an arrest warrant, local authorities said. It’s not Marith’s first run-in with the law over illegal timber.
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Deported activist Gonzalez-Davidson ‘charged’
Environmental activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson, deported by immigration officials nearly a year ago, has been charged by the Koh Kong Provincial Court along with two co-founders of his NGO Mother Nature, according to the wife of one of the group’s three detained activists. Tha Sophea, wife of jailed activist Sem Samnang, said yesterday that when she visited her husband at the provincial prison on January 30, he told her that Davidson along with monks Sok Chantra and Prom Dhammajat have been charged by the court as accomplices to the same alleged crime that resulted in the original arrests.
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Veng Sreng protesters' appeal rejected
The Court of Appeal yesterday upheld the convictions of 13 protesters from 2014’s deadly Veng Sreng Boulevard riots on charges ranging from incitement to intentional violence, a ruling slammed by a rights group for glossing over the role of security forces, who shot dead at least four and injured dozens that day.
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Couple gets two years for child exploitation
A couple arrested for pressing more than 20 children into labour as snack vendors in the capital were convicted yesterday on charges of “subjecting a minor to working conditions harmful to his or her health”. Judge Yin Saroeun sentenced defendants Chea Sady, 30, and his wife, Khen Vanthai, 28, to two years in prison each. Speaking after the verdict was read yesterday, Sady said he accepted the court’s decision.
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Timber busts biased against small-scale logging: locals
Official in Preah Vihear province were forced to stand down during a timber raid near a community forest on Tuesday, after being confronted by dozens of villagers who say authorities are unfairly targeting locals while turning a blind eye to large-scale commercial logging. About 60 villagers surrounded six provincial forestry officials at a village in Tbreng Meanchey district’s Pou commune after they arrived unannounced and found four large pieces of timber at the home of a villager named Chork Chea, according to Pich Porn, chief of the provincial community network.
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Teachers get jobs back after protest
Three teachers at Toul Ampel High School in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district got their jobs back yesterday after a protest against the school director by more than a hundred students on Monday. The teachers, Yong Chantoeun, So Phon and Pheap Samnak, had been transferred to another school by director Keo Teng without an explanation.
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Ex-Military Commander Leaves Prince, Launches New Party
Nhek Bun Chhay, who commanded the country’s military under the Funcinpec-led government in the 1990s and has remained a prominent figure in the royalist party, on Wednesday announced that he had launched a new political party due to his dissatisfaction with Prince Norodom Ranariddh. Mr. Bun Chhay, who helped engineer Prince Ranariddh’s ouster from Funcinpec in 2006—which lasted until last year, when the prince returned as president of the party—called television reporters to a press conference at his home in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district in the morning.
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Villagers Surround Forestry Officials to Protect Timber Stash
Dozens of angry villagers surrounded a detachment of Forestry Administration officers in Preah Vihear province on Tuesday in order to protect a pile of valuable logs from being seized, claiming the wood had been legally harvested, officials said on Wednesday.
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Families in Ratanakkiri file ELC complaint
More than 220 ethnic Tompuon families in Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district yesterday filed a complaint to rights group Adhoc over a 2,000-hectare land dispute against an economic land concession. The ELC’s 9,000 total hectares were granted to Chinese company Jing Zhong Ri Co Ltd in 2011, and in 2014, local tycoon Roth Sokhorn became a major stakeholder in the concession and began clearing land on the 2,000 hectares that Tompuon villagers claim as their own.
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TI Calls for Protection of Whistleblowers
During a presentation at the Interior Ministry yesterday, Transparency International Cambodia (TI) once again urged the Anti-Corruption Unit to repeal articles in the Penal Code that dissuade individuals from reporting corruption within their organizations and also to expedite the drafting of a law to protect witnesses and whistleblowers. TI executive director Preap Kol said whistleblowers play an important role in revealing information on corrupt activities in both the public and private sectors.
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Cambodian Merchants Injure Thai Officers During Counterfeit Raid
About 100 Cambodian merchants doing businesses in Thailand’s Thai Rong Kluea Market protested and later clashed with Thai police during an attempted confiscation of counterfeit goods yesterday morning, injuring multiple officers, according to a Banteay Meanchey provincial human rights monitor. Sum Chankea, Banteay Meanchey provincial coordinator with rights group Adhoc, said, “This is not the first time that the Thai authorities confiscated illegal goods owned by Cambodians. Before, they would confiscate trucks of goods, accounting for big losses. However, after the Thais checked about two stalls this morning, the merchants gathered and protested, leading to verbal arguments and stone-throwing.”
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