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Ministry says Molnupiravir use only after positive tests
A senior Ministry of Health official has warned that use of the Covid-19 antiviral medicine Molnupiravir before an individual has contracted the disease is dangerous as the treatment is to be used only when one tests positive, and is not to prevent infection.
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Rescue Team Leader Sent to Sihanoukville as Governor Complains of ‘Headache’
Months of foreign nationals making pleas for help from forced labor at scam operations led to some international attention in recent weeks after one alleged victim claimed his blood had been harvested when he refused to work.
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Prosecution Questions CNRP Supporter Over Facebook Posts
CNRP supporter Seng Chan Theary was asked to explain the use of terms like “illegitimate government” and “dictatorship” in Facebook posts that are being used as evidence against her in the mass trial of CNRP leaders and members.
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Labor Ministry Reports $3 Billion in Remittances, but Migrant Rights Remain Insecure
A report released on Feb. 25 by the Ministry of Labor found that Cambodian migrant workers sent more than $3 billion in remittance back to their families in 2021, a sharp increase from the $1.2 billion reported in 2020 and the $1.5 billion reported in 2019 by the National Bank of Cambodia.
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Academy’s Preah Vihear park under attack from loggers, encroachment
Large trees within the Royal Academy of Cambodia’s (RAC) Techo Sen Russey Treb Park in Preah Vihear province are being felled and forest has been cleared for illegal use as agricultural land, according to RAC president Sok Touch, who oversees the park.
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Authorities Evict Lakeside Residents of Boeung Tamok
Fresh fears of forced evictions have returned to Phnom Penh after Prek Pnov District authorities dismantled the lakeside houses of Boeung Tamok residents on the morning Feb. 28 to make way for a range of private and government developments.
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Sixty per cent of all women run business, says minister
Minister of Labour and Vocational Training Ith Samheng claimed that more than 60 per cent of women in Cambodia are business owners or entrepreneurs, a rate he said is three times higher than the US.
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Briefs: Hun Sen Abruptly Ends Press Conference, Business Body Worried About Crimes Against Chinese
In a diplomatic dodge in a Thursday press conference with the visiting Malaysian premier, Prime Minister Hun Sen quickly shut down a reporter’s questions about previous criticism from the Malaysian foreign minister.
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Oral forest activists protest legal case against them over land dispute
Six forest community representatives in Kampong Speu province’s Oral district were questioned by the Provincial Court on Wednesday for intentionally causing damage, threatening, publicly insulting, and incitement.
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NagaWorld Strikers Accused of Pictures Stunt
Officials said the workers abandoned sleeping material provided by the authorities and refused to stay in the living rooms. Instead, they rested on the ground outside and posted pictures on social media with the intention of blaming the authorities and doctors.
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Supreme Court Rejects Bail for Land Broker in Conflict-Ridden Commune
The Supreme Court on Thursday denied bail to a land broker who claimed he wasn’t aware he was falsifying documents, after he was arrested alongside seven others in relation to land conflicts in Preah Sihanouk’s Bit Traing commune.
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Sokha’s lawyer asks for more trial days
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court will consider adding more trial days for the hearing in the treason case against former opposition leader Kem Sokha following a request by his lawyer. Civil society groups have maintained that the trial, which is being held just once a week for less than four hours each time, undermines Sokha’s rights to a speedy trial.
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Cambodian groups accuse authorities of sexually harassing female strikers
Cambodian civil society groups, community organizations, and trade unions on Thursday accused governmental officials of sexually harassing female strikers and applying COVID prevention rules arbitrarily as part of an effort to break up recent labor demonstrations.
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As CNRM Trial Ends, Prosecution Says CNRP Leaders Responsible for Trade Hitches
One of two CNRP mass trials will have a verdict on March 17 after lawyers in the prolonged legal affair made their concluding statements Thursday, with the prosecution alleging senior opposition leaders and members were directly responsible for partial revocations of international trade privileges.
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Soldiers Assault Villagers in Disputed Kampong Speu Forest, Says Rights Group
On Tuesday, members of the elite Brigade 70 military unit fired warning shots and physically assaulted villagers as the soldiers attempted to clear a section of disputed forest in the Aoral district of Kampong Speu, according to local witnesses and a rights organization.
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NGOs Decry Police Use of Force, Sexual Harassment as NagaWorld Detentions Continue
Authorities on Thursday continued to detain NagaWorld workers attempting to resume their strike, with local rights groups criticizing what they described as excessive use of police force including sexual harassment against the strikers.
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Mine authority launches information dissemination campaign in Preah Vihear
The Mine authority erected billboards to raise awareness of the dangers of mine and UXOs, which is part of the information campaign and part of efforts to keep injury and deaths caused by the war relics down.
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Kem Sokha Trial Sees Heated Arguments Over Evidence, Procedural Minutiae
Meng Sopheary, a Sokha lawyer, said the 2013 Siem Reap video — in which the former CNRP president encourages people to vote and talks about his party policies — reveals that Sokha was not treasonous and that the prosecution had never pinpointed an event to prove their charge.
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Residence, family books free of charge, district police say
The seven commune police stations in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district have been instructed to pay more attention to the issuance of residence and family books to people changing their residence or moving from one village or commune to another.
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Striking Cambodian workers say they are being held in deplorable conditions
Workers detained for striking against the NagaWorld Casino in Phnom Penh said they are being held in squalid conditions and must agree to stop gathering in protest as a condition of their release.
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