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After Factory Fire, Workers Agree to Deal
After a fire burned through the Xing High Feng garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district on Monday night, the four unions representing more than 400 workers there agreed Tuesday to give the factory two months to rebuild and to receive $30 each in the meantime.
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In Court, Lawyers Spar Over Activists’ Actions at Protest
A prosecutor at the trial of opposition activist Ouk Pich Samnang yesterday asked the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to drop charges of joining a criminal association and damaging public property but keep those of obstructing authorities and intentional violence.
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Alleged traffickers tried as more brides return
Five suspected human traffickers were tried yesterday at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for allegedly attempting to send five Cambodian women and two minors to China for marriage. Presiding judge Svay Tong said the suspects, Chinese nationals Wang Houguo and Li Xiging, and Cambodians Chhun Lida, Sok Khim and Duoy Sam Oun, had been charged with “the attempted act of selling, buying or exchanging a person” and “producing fake documents”.
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After Arrests, Environment NGO Defends Tactics
When Sam Samnang’s son decided to join the ranks of environmental NGO Mother Nature, she knew he was in for trouble.
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Hun Sen Thanks UN for Maps; Opposition CNRP Not Satisfied
Prime Minister Hun Sen thanked the U.N. on Sunday for providing maps that he said prove that the government had upheld the law in its work demarcating the country’s border with Vietnam.
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Arrests after baby ‘sold’
Anti-trafficking police in Phnom Penh on Sunday arrested two women in relation to the sale of an 11-month-old infant to a woman incapable of bearing her own children. Mother To Pi Ray, 28, allegedly worked with Kong Chandy, 24, to sell her child for $800 because she claimed that after divorcing her husband she was not in a suitable position to raise the baby. Police arrested the pair at a house in Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district. Keo Thea, the chief of the capital’s Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Unit, said yesterday the police made the arrests after Chan Ta, the father of the child, issued a complaint on August 18.
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Strike ends at Bavet window factory
More than 400 workers from a Chinese-owned window factory in Svay Rieng’s Bavet town returned to work yesterday following two weeks of protests that saw strikers pelt their own factory with rocks. Toun Saren, an official at the Collective Union of Movement of Workers, said that the workers agreed to return after their case was sent to the Arbitration Council. “We sent our case to the Arbitration Council on August 17 after negotiations failed, and the Arbitration Council will be hearing the case on Monday next week, so the workers agreed to return to work,” he said
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Gov’t and NGOs Join to Settle Land Dispute
Environment Minister Say Sam Al and a group of NGOs on Monday agreed to cooperate to resolve a years long dispute between hundreds of families in Koh Kong province and a Chinese company they accuse of stealing their land.
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Poppy says Term ‘Kteuy’ is Out of Date
Her comments also followed a press release from the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), lambasting the district governor’s comments. It said he had used a derogatory term to refer to transgender people, whose rights are enshrined in the Constitution. The district governor’s comments were offensive for two reasons, CCHR said. First, the word ‘kteuy’ is offensive and should be avoided, particularly by the public officials. Second, Mr. Chamroeun’s comment that police were targeting transgender people as a distinct group, rather than sex workers in general, suggests the existence of discrimination on the basis of gender identity by authorities.
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Two Women Arrested for Selling Baby
Anti-human trafficking police arrested a woman in Phnom Penh on Sunday for selling her 11-month-old baby to a wealthy couple without her husband’s knowledge, while another woman was apprehended for helping broker the deal, an official said Monday.
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Poppy says Term ‘Kteuy’ is Out of Date
PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – It is time to change the language used to refer to people who have changed their physical appearance to match their sexual identity, the most famous transgender Cambodian told Khmer Times yesterday. The TV host, beauty pageant winner and hair salon owner known as “Poppy” said the word “kteuy” is antiquated. The term – which literally means “third sex” is often used as an insult and should be replaced, she said.
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Factory Worker Gets Life for Fatal Acid Attack
A 40-year-old garment worker was sentenced to life in prison by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday for killing a 20-year-old woman by dousing her with acid after she learned her husband had been having an affair with the victim.
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Rector Says Student Was Warned Against Activism
After a Khemerak University student was jailed in Phnom Penh on Saturday over a social media post calling for a “color revolution” in Cambodia, the school’s director Monday claimed that politics had “poisoned” students at his institution.
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Activists Launch Smartphone Apps to Protect Women
Three free smartphone applications designed by Cambodian women to help reduce gender-based violence in the country were launched by The Asia Foundation on Monday.
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Bloggers forced to tread lightly
Cambodia's young internet users are thinking twice before discussing politics online, say prominent bloggers, after the third case of government punitive action sparked by Facebook comments within a month. On Saturday, student Kong Raiya, 25, was charged over a Facebook post linked to him for comments published on August 7 calling for a “colour revolution”. According to Phnom Penh Municipal Court deputy prosecutor Seang Sok, Raiya faces charges relating to incitement to commit a crime and, if found guilty, could spend up to two years in prison.
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New union group formed
A new collective of transportation workers unions was announced on Sunday by the Cambodia Labour Confederation, Cambodia’s largest association of independent unions. The Cambodian Transport Workers Federation (CTWF) is composed of seven transportation workers unions and currently represents about 2,000 workers, according to Ath Thorn, president of the CLC. The seven unions represent airport workers in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Sihanoukville, along with other transportation companies, most of which are bus firms such as Sorya and Capitol Tours.
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Student Jailed Over Facebook Post on ‘Color Revolution’
A university student in Phnom Penh has been arrested and charged with incitement over a Facebook post he made earlier this month calling for a “color revolution,” an official said Sunday.
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Hun Sen Takes Shot at US Ambassador; Is ‘Bored of Advice’
During a speech at a business dinner on Saturday, Prime Minister Hun Sen chided recently departed U.S. Ambassador William Todd, saying that he was “bored of advice” from foreign diplomats, and that he should be the one teaching them about “change.”
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Official Charged After Man Electrocuted by Fence
A district official in Banteay Meanchey province was charged with manslaughter Sunday after his neighbor died when he touched an electric fence surrounding the official’s property, police said.
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Cambodian student held over Facebook post calling for ‘Colour Revolution’
PHNOM PENH, Aug 24 — Cambodian authorities have charged a student with incitement to commit a crime over an alleged Facebook post calling for a "colour revolution" in the country, a right groups said today. Kong Raiya, 25, an anti-government activist, was arrested on Thursday outside a university in Phnom Penh, Am Sam Ath of local rights group Licadho told AFP.
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