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Hun Sen Surpasses Rainsy in Facebook ‘Likes’
Prime Minister Hun Sen is nearing the pinnacle of Cambodian social media popularity, having now passed opposition leader Sam Rainsy in their heated race for “likes” on Facebook.
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Protesters Call on Hong Kong Investment Firm for Compensation
Several hundred villagers gathered yesterday to demand Empire Big Capital Ltd. (EBC) compensate them after investing in the company without seeing returns, according to a protester. Kep Vanna, a villager from Kampong Cham province, said that BN Investment Advisory Co. Ltd., ASEAN Instrument Foundation (AIF) and the Investment Consultation Association (ICA), all advised the people in his village to invest and deposit their money in EBC, a Hong Kong-based investment company promising high returns on all initial deposits.
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Hun Sen Overtakes Rainsy in Facebook Likes
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook page surpassed opposition leader Sam Rainsy’s in “Likes” yesterday, the latest milestone in the Prime Minister’s recent push for a more active social media presence. Mr. Hun Sen commemorated the event with a speech urging party members to follow his lead and spend more time connecting with citizens on the social network. In the months since the Prime Minister claimed responsibility for his Facebook page, he has gone from a technophobe to a Facebook evangelist. He even used a meeting of the central committee of the Cambodian People’s Party to urge fellow party members to be more active in social media at the district as well as the national level, said party spokesman Sok Ey San.
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Samrin Blocks Letter About Vietnamese Army ELCs
National Assembly President Heng Samrin has refused to forward to Prime Minister Hun Sen a letter from an opposition lawmaker asking that a group of rubber plantations owned by Vietnamese Army commanders be canceled because they violate the Constitution. The January 25 letter from CNRP lawmaker Um Sam An follows a Cambodia Daily report in December revealing that the Vietnamese military had gradually assumed ownership of four rubber plantations inside Ratanakkiri province along Cambodia’s border with Vietnam totaling nearly 40,000 hectares.
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Village Representative’s Arrest Sparks Protest
More than 100 people from Okorki and Tuol Krasaing villages in Battambang’s Sampov Loun district began their second day of protest yesterday morning at the provincial hall after beginning the demonstration in front of the provincial court on Monday following the arrest of one of their representatives on Sunday, according to a human rights monitor in the province. Yin Mengly, provincial coordinator for Adhoc, said, “The protest was sparked by the arrest of their representative and their demand for a solution to their land conflict.” He added that the representative had been arrested on charges of encroaching on private property, although he was unable to speak at length about the terms of the land conflict.
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Guards Attack Workers With Meat Cleavers, Union Says
Eight factory workers were injured on Monday at a special economic zone (SEZ) in Kandal prov- ince after being attacked by several dozen men, including SEZ security guards, wielding steel pipes and meat cleavers, according to union officials.
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Kampong Speu Villagers Block Road, Demand its Repair
About 40 families in Kampong Speu province’s Phnom Sruch district blocked a local road yesterday in protest against mining companies’ use of it, insisting that heavily-loaded trucks were causing irreparable damage to the road’s infrastructure and demanding the companies that owned them replace the road with a new paved one, according to villagers. While roughly 40 trucks were prevented from driving on its account, yesterday’s protest was a peaceful one, police said.
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Rallies, Protests Remain Part of Daily Life: City Hall Report
Demonstrations and protests occurred daily in the capital again last year, with 443 held compared to 442 in 2014, according to a report from City Hall obtained by Khmer Times yesterday. Most of the demonstrations and protests were related to disputes involving garment workers, the border-demarcation process with Vietnam, housing rights and land rights, according to the data compiled by the municipality at the end of last year.
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Women of Boeung Kak Protest at World Bank Office
Roughly 50 women from the Former Boeung Kak Women’s Network (FBW Network) protested in front of the World Bank office in Phnom Penh yesterday, in an attempt to submit a petition requesting the World Bank intervene as they lobby for more compensation from the government after being evicted from their homes to make way for a real estate development. Before a World Bank official was able to come outside to accept the petition, eggs were thrown at the office’s gate. Network leader Sea Nareth, who was evicted in 2009 from her 600-square-meter plot of land, said, “We all come to the World Bank to urge it to intervene with the government, to offer additional compensation to us who suffered from forced eviction.” Mrs. Nareth went on to say that all of those evicted faced great hardships as a result, some of whom attempted to commit suicide after losing their houses and jobs.
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Arrested timber smugglers escape
Two men caught transporting illegal timber on Saturday have seemingly escaped punishment after Forestry Administration (FA) officers let them go and “rest” at a nearby guesthouse, a rest from which, perhaps unsurprisingly, they did not return. Initially spotted in Pursat, the smugglers were chased down and intercepted en route to Phnom Penh by FA and anti-economic crime officers in Kampong Chhnang’s Rolea Ba’ier district, according to Chorn Dara, chief of staff of the province’s Anti-Economic Crime Office.
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Government Blocks Alleged Letter Granting Logs to Try Pheap
The government is refusing to release copies of letters it claims to have sent to timber traders Try Pheap and Lim Bunna giving them permission to collect already felled wood on a pair of canceled economic land concessions (ELCs) inside a wildlife sanctuary.
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Labour unrest continues
An ongoing labour dispute turned violent yesterday after striking garment workers in Kandal province said they were attacked by security guards, while in a separate case involving labour-related violence, a prominent union leader was summonsed for questioning over a scuffle he has publicly accused factory owners of planning themselves. At about 8:30am yesterday morning in Kandal province’s Khsach Kandal district, workers from the Starlight garment factory rallied with an outside union to march to Phnom Penh.
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Ministry of Labor Urge to Garment Workers Bring Attackers to Court
The Ministry of Labor yesterday urged Starlight Apparel Manufacturing Co. Ltd. workers to file a complaint against gangsters allegedly hired by their employer to prevent protesters from traveling to the ministry to request government intervention, saying Starlight must respect labor rights and freedom. Chan Veasna, Secretary of the Cambodia Labor Solidarity Union Federation and a garment worker representative who met with the Ministry of Labor’s Secretary of State Hem Huen, said that the ministry urged workers to file criminal cases against the gangsters who allegedly attacked and blocked them from coming to the ministry.
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Union Leaders Summoned to Court Insist Innocence
Kampong Speu provincial court issued a summons last week to the president of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW) and his six supporting officials for questioning later this month related to protests at the Agile Sweater (Cambodia) factory last month, according to court officials. Men Vannak, investigative judge at Kampong Speu provincial court, signed the summons letter on January 28 and Khmer Times obtained it yesterday. The letter ordered the president of CUMW and his officials to appear at the court for questioning on February 29.
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Protesters put sugar firm’s wall on hold
Roughly 30 villagers locked in a land dispute with Koh Kong Sugar protested at a construction site yesterday where they say the company was attempting to erect a concrete barrier on disputed land. The villager’s representative, Preab Rotha, from Prek Khsach commune in Kiri Sakor District, said the company was attempting to fence off the land before the dispute had been settled.
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Boeng Kak Evictees Attempt to Oust World Bank From Country
In a departure from their previous strategy of asking the World Bank for help, current and former residents of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood pelted the Bank’s country office with raw eggs yesterday to demand that the organization pull out of Cambodia.
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Boeung Kak protesters pelt World Bank office with eggs
Villagers evicted by the development of Boeung Kak lake took their protest to the World Bank headquarters in Phnom Penh yesterday, demanding to meet with the bank’s Cambodia country manager, Alassane Sow, and pelting the building with eggs after being rebuffed. The protestors, who are seeking a resolution in the years-long displacement dispute, say they are fatigued after nearly 10 years of protesting and the World Bank has a responsibility in finding a solution as it continues to support the Cambodian government with aid.
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Capitol bus drivers back on picket line
Fired Capitol Bus Company drivers resumed protests in front of their former employer’s office in Phnom Penh yesterday after a City Hall-brokered truce failed to bring forth a resolution to their dispute. The 40 drivers, who say they were fired for trying to start a union, halted weeks of protests on January 26 after City Hall urged Capitol to consider hiring them back.
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NGOs seek access to jailed Koh Kong activists
A coalition of human rights groups filed a request on Thursday to the Ministry of Interior’s General Prison Department for permission to visit four environmental activists detained in the Koh Kong Provincial Prison since last year. Three of those activists – Sun Mala, Try Sovikea and Lem Samnang from Mother Nature – were arrested in August over their opposition to sand dredging, while the fourth, Areng Valley conservationist Ven Vorn, was arrested in October for alleged “forest crimes”.
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Buried Logs Uncovered on Wood Trader’s Property
Authorities in Tbong Khmum province on Sunday confirmed finding a cache of valuable logs buried underground on property tied to a wealthy local timber trader, part of an ongoing search for illegal wood stocks across eastern Cambodia. It follows news that as-yet-unknown arsonists set fire to several piles of valuable timber in neighboring Mondolkiri province in a possible bid to destroy evidence last month.
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