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Anti-Dredging Activists Jailed In Koh Kong
The Koh Kong Provincial Court on Monday imprisoned three activists from environmental NGO Mother Nature after a prosecutor charged them with threatening to cause damage during their ongoing campaign against a company accused of illegally dredging at a local estuary, according to rights group Licadho.
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Group slams maid program
A pilot scheme to send Cambodian domestic workers to Singapore has been described as a “failure” by a worker welfare group due to concerns over poor working conditions. Speaking at a conference in Singapore over the weekend, John Gee, spokesman for Singapore-based Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2), said that while standards were improving, issues still remained for many of the foreign domestic workers in the tiny island nation.
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Bandith living well in jail: org
Former Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith is enjoying preferential treatment in prison, according to an NGO with access to the facility, while the three garment workers he was jailed for shooting have still not received compensation. According to Nut Bopinroth, Svay Rieng provincial coordinator for rights group Licadho, Bandith is waited on and allowed considerably more freedom than other inmates at Svay Rieng Provincial Prison.
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Migrants rounded up
Nearly 30 Nigerian nationals and one Filipino were arrested in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district yesterday after being found to be living in the Kingdom unlawfully. Uk Hai Sela, head of investigations at the Ministry of Interior’s Immigration Department, said that immigration police, along with local law enforcement and court officials, picked up the people at the Borey New World development in Choam Chao commune.
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Recent Arrests Disrupt Charade of Political Truce
Cautious in the face of mounting political danger, Prime Minister Hun Sen watched for three months as the opposition CNRP advanced a hostile campaign accusing his government of surrendering swaths of Cambodian territory to Vietnam.
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400 Cambodian Garment Workers Experience Unexplained Mass Faintings Within One Week
Last week, nearly 400 workers fainted in four factories across Cambodia. On July 2 alone, 38 workers lost consciousness working at the Quint Major International factory in Phnom Penh. WWD reported that in 2014, the Ministry of Labor recorded that more than 1,800 workers collapsed in 24 factories.
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Arrest senator, PM says
Opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour is in hiding after Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday demanded his “urgent” arrest over a “treasonous” Facebook post. Speaking at a graduation ceremony in Phnom Penh yesterday morning, the premier accused the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) senator, a dual Cambodian-French citizen, of committing treason by posting a “fake” section of the 1979 Cambodia and Vietnam border treaty on Wednesday.
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SRP’s Sok Hour arrested
Opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour was sent to Prey Sar prison yesterday and charged with forgery and incitement, just three days after Prime Minister Hun Sen publicly accused him of treason. In a report filed to acting Senate President Nay Pena, Phnom Penh Municipal Court prosecutor Yet Chakrya said the Sam Rainsy Party senator had been charged under three articles of the Kingdom’s Criminal Code, which could carry a combined maximum prison sentence of 17 years.
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Cambodia's garment exports up 9 pct in 1st half of 2015
PHNOM PENH, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Garment industry, Cambodia's largest foreign currency earner, has seen a 9 percent rise in exports in the first six months of 2015, according to the latest data of the Ministry of Commerce on Monday. The Southeast Asian country exported apparel products in equivalent to 3 billion U.S. dollars during the January-June period this year, up 9 percent from 2.74 billion U.S. dollars over the same period last year, the data said.
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VN nationals arrested on kidnapping charge
Four Vietnamese nationals were jailed on kidnapping charges in Svay Rieng province on Saturday after allegedly detaining two of their countrymen over gambling debts in a casino in Bavet town. According to Bavet police chief Maophin Phirum, who did not name suspects, the victims were reportedly prevented from leaving a room rented at the Asia Casino, after it was discovered they were unable to repay a debt of 52 million Vietnamese dong – around $2,400 – loaned to them by the four suspects.
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Six maids back from Malaysia
Six Cambodian domestic workers were repatriated yesterday after spending three months in Malaysia where they were promised work by a broker but given only tourist visas. Lim Mony, deputy head of women’s and children’s rights at local NGO Adhoc, said the women, who had travelled to Malaysia on May 3, had been staying in a shelter after realising immediately upon arrival that they had only been issued one-month tourist visas.
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Cambodian Legislature Strips Detained Opposition Senator of Immunity
Cambodia’s legislature voted to strip an opposition senator in police custody of his immunity Monday, prompting criticism from rights groups, after Prime Minister Hun Sen accused him of treason for posting a disputed diplomatic document online relating to the country's border with neighboring Vietnam. Police arrested Hong Sok Hour of the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) early Saturday from the residence of a lawmaker belonging to the main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), and the senator is now facing charges of forgery and incitement.
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Facebook assault Three jailed, one at large in rape case
Three youths have been charged and detained by the Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court for the alleged two-day abduction and gang rape of a 13-year-old girl on August 9 and 10. Nuon Hong, Kampong Sela district deputy police chief, said the victim, a high school student, had asked two female friends to take her to meet two boys she knew through Facebook.
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Activists ignore summonses
Authorities in Koh Kong province’s Botum Sakor district said yesterday they will take legal action against three environmental activists summonsed on Friday over their refusal to answer questions about their supposed involvement in a protest against Vietnamese corporations involved in sand dredging. Botum Sakor district police chief Sok Phom said that despite calling in San Mala, Try Vokikea and Yeun Dinit – all activists affiliated with the NGO Mother Nature – for questioning on August 14, the three have failed to comply with the request.
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Senator Arrested, Charged on Hun Sen’s Orders
Following orders from Prime Minister Hun Sen, opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour was arrested and charged with forgery and incitement over the weekend for posting an apparently fake treaty with Vietnam to Facebook.
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Kratie Families Feel Effects of NGO Law
Officials in Kratie province are insisting that a small group of families involved in a local land dispute register with the Interior Ministry or be “punished."
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Thirty Unions Call on Labor Ministry to Rethink Draft Law
Thirty labor unions and associations appealed to the Labor Ministry on Friday to redraft its planned Trade Union Law, which they say will suppress industrial action and facilitate union busting, despite significant concessions in the latest draft.
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Former Court Director Arrested by Anti-Corruption Unit
The Anti-Corruption Unit on Friday arrested Ang Mealaktei, the former director of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, who was removed from his position in February after Prime Minister Hun Sen suggested that the court took a multimillion-dollar bribe to grant bail to a wealthy couple.
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Pagoda Warns of Protests Over Arrest of Monks
The chief monk at Phnom Penh’s Wat Samakki Raingsey said on Friday that he would organize protests in the capital if two former monks who were arrested earlier this month for possession of drugs and fake documents were not released next week.
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Police Summon Three Koh Kong Anti-Sand-Dredging Activists
Three activists from environmental NGO Mother Nature were summoned to appear at the Botum Sakor district police station in Koh Kong province on Friday to answer for their involvement in a campaign to chase off a sand-dredging company accused of destroying the environment, officials said.
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