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Four years for lakeside
About 40 members of the Boeung Kak community gathered yesterday to mark the fourth anniversary of a landmark government regulation that provided land to some of those dispossessed by the lake’s filling but left many others out. “Sub-Decree 183 gave incredible hope and suffering for all of us in the Boeung Kak area,” said Tep Vanny, a longtime activist for the community.
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Six women abused as maids, brides return
Six Cambodian women rescued from allegedly abusive conditions in China and Malaysia were returned home yesterday after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs intervened in their cases, officials said. Two women – Soa Kimey and Len Chenda, both from Kampong Cham province – were returned to the country yesterday from China, where they had been trafficked and sold to Chinese men as “brides”, while the other four were returned from Malaysia, where they had been working as maids.
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Thailand Asks Cambodia to Repatriate Prisoners
A spokesman for the Justice Ministry said Tuesday that the government was considering a request made by the new Thai ambassador to repatriate seven of the country’s nationals serving prison sentences in Cambodia.
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GMAC lays out training centre plan
The Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia will build a training centre for garment workers in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone on the western outskirts of the capital, according to a statement released yesterday, with the opening slated for September 2016. Construction on the centre, which is being financed by a $3 million loan from France’s development agency, is set to begin before the end of this month. According to GMAC secretary-general Ken Loo, courses for the centre have not yet been decided.
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Cambodia needs 2,400 computers to start computerized voter registration next year
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald)— The National Election Committee (NEC)’s spokesperson Hang Putea said Cambodia will start computerized-voter registration in March next year, but needs 2,400 computers. In case, there are not enough computers, the registration may delay to May, he added. In July, European Union has pledged to provide 10 million Euros in aid for the elections in Cambodia from 2016 to 2019.
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Tycoon’s son guilty, and free
Duong Otdom Chhorvin, aka Duong Chhay, was convicted by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday of having beaten and threatened to kill the son of tycoon Try Pheap but walked free following the verdict after having his sentence reduced. Handed a one-year jail term, Chhay, eldest son of tycoon Duong Ngiep, saw his sentence reduced to four months already served and was fined $725 in the wake of the April 13 attack, which followed a verbal dispute at a shop in the capital’s Tonle Bassac district.
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Young people celebrate International Youth Day in Siem Reap
This morning, about 200 youths aged 18-25 celebrated International Youth Day in Siem Reap with a bike ride, balloon release and public forum under the theme ‘Youth are important for development’. About 200 more children joined the youths for the forum which also included traditional dancing, games and music. The question-and-answer session of the event revealed that the most common concerns among those present are poverty and economic opportunities, education and corruption in the education system, and youth engagement in such political, social and economic issues. Today's event was organised by about 10 youth groups from different districts and organisations across Siem Reap.
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Prison spot checks ordered
he Minister of Interior has ordered senior officials to conduct unannounced spot checks of the Kingdom’s detention centres in an effort to ensure that inmates are not receiving ill treatment behind bars. The order was given in a letter from Interior Minister Sar Kheng dated August 7, and sent to immigration, rehabilitation and other detention centres nationwide.
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Trafficking arrests protested
About 200 people gathered in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district on Sunday demanding the release of two women who were arrested last week for allegedly chaining up their 13-year-old niece and selling her for sex. Protesters called for Chea Tina and Chea Sros, both currently being held at Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison, to be allowed to continue caring for their children, with some blaming the teenage girl for the brutal treatment she was allegedly subjected to.
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Parties Discuss Activists’ Convictions, NGO Law
Interior Minister Sar Kheng and deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha met at the National Assembly on Monday to discuss the recent jailing of 14 CNRP activists over the “insurrection” at Freedom Park a week before last year’s July 22 political deal.
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One-time supervisor tells of work on dam
During the final stretch of construction on the Trapeang Thma Dam in 1977, on sweltering April days just before Khmer New Year, workers carried earth in shifts for 120 hours straight with only brief breaks, witness Kan Thorl told the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday. Thorl, now 57, worked as deputy platoon chief at the worksite, supervising 30 workers, though he recalled 15,000 people labouring at the dam, which he said was completed in under three months – although other witness testimonies dispute this timeframe.
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Cambodia’s Election Body to Make the Disabled a Priority in Next Elections
Cambodia’s National Election Committee (NEC) will make the disabled a top priority in political participation and include related policy in the country’s new election law to ensure them equality in the next nationwide elections, an agency official said. NEC spokesman Hang Puthea said the independent body that oversees Cambodia’s elections would reach out to the disabled who live in remote areas of the country to ensure they have an equal opportunity to vote in the 2018 general elections.
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Cambodia Prepares for New Round of UN Development Goals
PHNOM PENH—Cambodia has failed to meet a number of UN Millennium Development Goals, which were set out years ago and aimed at halving global poverty. It has met some of these goals, and as the 2015 deadline for the plan approaches, government officials and development workers are looking at what worked and what didn’t and preparing for a new set of benchmarks under the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Group seeks help for disabled voters
n an effort to help facilitate greater access to voter registration for the Kingdom’s disabled persons, the Cambodian Disabled People’s Organization (CDPO) yesterday put forward suggestions to the National Election Committee to pave the way for possible changes ahead of the next election cycle. At a workshop in Phnom Penh detailing the results of a four-month study conducted by the CDPO, executive director Ngin Saoroth said that while the NEC has helped disabled persons take part in the election process, many needs have yet to be filled.
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Unions eye Bandith verdict
As Chhouk Bandith yesterday began his 18-month jail term, union leaders praised the arrest of the former Bavet town governor who shot into a crowd of striking garment workers in 2012, though most saw in it no hint of a warming in relations between the government and independent unions. After spending more than two years in hiding, Bandith turned himself in to authorities on Saturday, less than a week after Prime Minister Hun Sen had publicly called for his arrest.
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Families seek help for workers in Thai jail
The families of six Cambodian migrant workers arrested in Thailand for crossing illegally into the country two months ago have appealed to Cambodian authorities to intervene after being informed they need to raise 8,000 baht ($230) per head to bail them out. The six – Kim Tem, 22, Teay Ran, 19, Keo Sros, 25, Keo Srey, 18, Chhoun Kong, 16, and Deung, 17 – hail from Lvea commune, in Siem Reap province’s Puok district.
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Four Loggers Reported Killed In Thailand, Rights Group Says
A rights worker in Oddar Meanchey province said Monday that a border official informed him that four Cambodian men were shot dead by Thai soldiers last week while logging rosewood across the border.
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World Bank Urged to Help Boeng Kak Families
A group of local and international NGOs are urging the World Bank to include a program for helping the thousands of families evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood as part of the plan to start funding new projects in Cambodia.
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CPP and CNRP to discuss arrests
Senior members of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party will meet this afternoon amid rising tensions over recent court actions against a number of CNRP members and supporters. On July 21, 11 CNRP activists were convicted and sentenced between seven and 20 years' prison over a protest that turned violent last year at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park. Last Monday, Prime Minister Hun Sen called for yet more arrests to be made, and the following day Yon Kimhour, 28, and Roeun Chetra, 33, were detained.
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M’kiri indigenous rally blocked
Hundreds of indigenous peoples in Mondulkiri are planning to lodge a complaint with the National Assembly and relevant ministries to demand the ouster of the provincial governor after authorities yesterday pre-emptively shut down celebrations in honour of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Around 700 members of the Phnong ethnic group in Pou Chrei commune’s Puo Tang village, in Mondulkiri’s Pech Chreada district, slaughtered chickens, pigs and a buffalo in a ritual yesterday.
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