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Curtain Factory Workers Break Windows During Strike
More than 400 employees of a curtain factory in Svay Rieng province’s Bavet City were on strike for the eighth day Thursday over alleged labor abuses and unmet demands, a day after some of the workers lobbed rocks at the building, causing thousands of dollars worth of damage.
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Koh Kong Protesters Continue to Rally Outside Court
About 85 people continued protesting outside the Koh Kong Provincial Court in Khemara Phoumint City on Thursday, demanding the release of three activists from environmental NGO Mother Nature who were arrested on Monday, a rights worker said.
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Human rights groups urge UN to address Cambodia “violationsâ€
A number of humanitarian groups are calling on the United Nations to address serious human rights violations across Cambodia and implement key legal and institutional reforms. In an open letter to the UN Human Rights Council, a number of groups including Human Rights Watch, and the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), are calling for the support of a resolution at the next session that highlights “patterns of serious violations” and urge Cambodia's Government to “put an end to such violations and to abide by its domestic and international legal obligations”.
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Judge grills activist on anti-dredging efforts
The questioning of three environmental activists arrested over their anti-sand-dredging activities in Koh Kong province began yesterday, as police attempted to quell protests organised by their supporters. San Mala, Try Sovikea and Sim Somnang – all activists affiliated with local NGO Mother Nature – were arrested on Monday and charged with threatening to cause damage during protests against a Vietnamese company accused of illegally dredging in a local estuary.
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Gov’t Spokesman Says Senator Wanted ‘Color Revolution’
Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan called a press conference Wednesday to defend the arrest and imprisonment of opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour, accusing the 59-year-old of presenting a doctored diplomatic treaty on Facebook in an effort to spark a “color revolution.”
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Villagers balk at gravesite’s division
More than 300 families in Tbong Khmum’s Suong town have petitioned to halt the handover of a portion of a communal graveyard to three families, activists and villagers said yesterday. Von Seng Thouy, an investigator with rights group Licadho, said the 306 families are lodging a complaint over a 5-hectare strip of land used to bury villagers since 1980. Local authorities allegedly handed over 1 hectare to three families without consulting local stakeholders. “All the villagers need the land. It’s the community’s property, not to be owned by each family,” he said.
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Workers pelt factory
More than 400 workers from a Chinese-owned window factory in Svay Rieng’s Bavet town threw rocks at their own factory yesterday out of frustration following a week-long protest that resulted in no concessions. Choeun Sinouen, a worker representative at the Beautiful Windows factory, said the workers had been protesting since August 12 demanding better working conditions, such as fresh air in the building and bonus pay. “This morning, at about 7, the workers were so angry that they threw rocks into the factory for about 30 minutes,” he said.
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Progress seen on trafficking
Less than a month after Cambodia was handed the second-lowest rating in the United States’ annual Trafficking in Persons report, a senior official is “optimistic” the Kingdom can eventually move up the ranking. Released in July, the State Department report kept Cambodia as a “Tier 2 – Watch List” country for the third year in a row, due to the government’s failure to fulfill minimum anti-trafficking standards even though it is a source, transfer and destination country for traffickers. “We don’t dare say that it has been a great success – we still rank second [tier] in the classifications; it’s not very good,” Chou Bun Heng, permanent vice chair of the National Committee for Counter Trafficking, said at a conference in Phnom Penh yesterday.
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Three Suspects on the Run After Gang Rape of 16-Year-Old Girl
Police are searching for three men who allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl in Kandal province on Tuesday, officials said.
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Dozens of Protesters Demand Release of Activists in Koh Kong
Dozens of people protested outside of the provincial prison in Koh Kong on Wednesday demanding the release of three activists from environmental NGO Mother Nature who were charged on Monday with threatening destruction, a rights worker and police said.
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Witness tells court of KR disappearances
A former low-level work group leader at the Trapaeng Thma dam worksite told the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday of his constant fear of having his past as a soldier for the Lon Nol regime discovered. “From 1972 to 1975, I was a low-ranking soldier [for the Lon Nol regime]” said Tak Boy, who said he had “participated in the battlefield two or three times” against the Khmer Rouge before the Lon Nol regime’s collapse.
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Surveillance recalled at KRT
A former work crew overseer at the Trapaeng Thma Dam worksite yesterday told the Khmer Rouge tribunal about the regime’s practice of monitoring workers to ferret out those suspected of “opposing Angkar”. Witness Chhum Seng described a “special unit” of Northwest Zone cadres assigned to covertly monitor workers from within the mobile work units. “In our company there was [a cadre], but we did not know it, because he came to work like us. But he would ask us questions about what we did during the [Lon Nol] regime”, he said. According to Seng, this resulted in the arrest of two members of his unit, one a former Lon Nol lieutenant, the other hailing from a wealthy family; they were taken away and never seen again.
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Activists at court
Three environmental activists imprisoned on Monday over their involvement in protests against a company accused of illegally dredging in a Koh Kong province estuary will be questioned today at the provincial court, according to a local rights group. San Mala, Try Sovikea and Sim Somnang – all activists affiliated with the NGO Mother Nature – met with their attorneys yesterday to discuss their case. All three men were charged on Monday with “threats to destroy followed by an order”, which carries a maximum prison sentence of two years.
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Senate Vote Paves Way for Lawmakers’ Arrests
The seven opposition CNRP lawmakers charged last year with “leading an insurrection” could be arrested and imprisoned in the same way that opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour was arrested and imprisoned over the weekend, Justice Ministry spokesman Chin Malin said Tuesday.
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PM lashes out at opposition
Prime Minister Hun Sen likened opposition leaders to a gang of thieves confessing to their crimes after opposition head Sam Rainsy said his party would tame its attacks on the ruling Cambodian People’s Party regarding the Vietnam border issue. “A gang of thieves destroying the stability of this country who have come to confess: that is Mr Sam Rainsy and his party,” the premier said during a radio interview on Monday. “While they shake our hands, they step on our toes and use the culture of dialogue to destroy the royal government.”
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Supporters of arrested Mother Nature activists prevented from entering city
Supporters of three arrested activists from Mother Nature have been blocked from entering Koh Kong city to protest their arrests. The three activists – Try Sovikea, 23; Sun Mala, 23; and Sim Samnang, 28 – were arrested on August 17 amid an ongoing campaign to end alleged illegal sand dredging in Koh Kong. They have been charged under Article 424 of the Penal Code with threatening to cause destruction, defacement or damage and ordering others to do so, and are currently detained in Koh Kong prison. About 40 supporters, who were planning to gather outside Koh Kong provincial court to protest their arrests, have been blocked from entering the city by military police. Another 45 supporters, who managed to enter the city before the road block was in place, are protesting the arrests outside Koh Kong prison.
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Senate Disregards Opposition Lawmaker’s Immunity
The CPP-led Senate voted Monday to allow the court system to continue prosecuting opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour on charges of fraud and incitement without stripping him of his immunity from prosecution.
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Cambodia's garment exports up 9% in 1st half of 2015
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald)—Garment industry, Cambodia's largest foreign currency earner, has seen a 9% rise in exports in the first six months of 2015, according to the Chinese State’s News Agency-Xinhua. The Southeast Asian country exported apparel products in equivalent to $ 3 billion during the January-June period this year, up 9% from $ 2.74 billion over the same period last year, said the latest data of the Ministry of Commerce.
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Conservation activists arrested in Koh Kong
Three environmental activists affiliated with local NGO Mother Nature were arrested in Koh Kong province yesterday morning after refusing to appear for questioning over their alleged involvement in protests against a Vietnamese corporation engaged in sand dredging. San Mala, Try Vokikea and Yeun Dinit were summonsed to appear at Botum Sakor district police station on Friday but ignored the order on the basis that they believed they had not committed any crime.
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Locals voice concerns as dredging to restart
Locals in Kandal province’s Sa’ang district are worried that renewed sand dredging will damage their land as the Ministry of Mines and Energy gears up to hand out licences that will make the practice legal once more. “If the sand dredging is allowed to continuously happen haphazardly like this, where can I live when the size of my land is so small?” asked Horn Eng, 51. Eng was speaking at a public forum held by the ministry in the district yesterday that attracted a crowd of about 500 people.
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