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A Rare Banteng Is Killed by Poachers in a Wildlife Sanctuary in Oddar Meanchey Province
A male banteng weighing around 300 kilograms died in the Sorng Rukhavorn Wildlife Sanctuary in Oddar Meanchey Province on Feb. 18 due to injuries caused by an illegal hunter’s trap.
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NagaWorld rallies: 19 more former staff test Covid positive
Among the 78 protesters who were swabbed on February 18 in a second round of Covid-19 tests, 19 came back positive as of 5pm, the Phnom Penh municipal Department of Health said in a notice.
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Ex-CNRP commune chief freed after serving time
A former court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party commune chief was released from prison on Wednesday after he has served his five-year jail term for inciting porters to protest in front of the Poipet Customs and Excise Office building in Banteay Meanchey province in 2015.
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Hun Sen Jokes on Stage About Officials’ Taste for KTVs
In a speech in Kratie on Wednesday, Hun Sen said his officials’ wives should not give him a hard time for their husbands being like “birds out of their cages” when they go on a “mission” outside their homes.
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Ministry refutes report on North Korean operations in Cambodia
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has refuted an “unfounded report” by a well-known North Korean monitoring website that accused Cambodia of “abetting Pyongyang’s intelligence operations and illegal economic activities”.
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Another 13 NagaWorld protestors detected with COVID-19
The announcement was made by the Department of Health of the Phnom Penh Capital Administration, who state that on February 17, 2022, a team of doctors from the Phnom Penh Municipal Administration of Health conducted a sample test to detect COVID-19 on 182 other former NagaWorld employees in the second group of protesters.
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United Nations urges government to protect civic spaces and independent media
Chak Sopheap, executive director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), said via email that individuals who dare report on issues deemed “sensitive” in criticizing governmental policies and actions, or who work in the pursuit of causes that impede the ruling elite’s agenda, have been increasingly targeted in recent years.
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Police Turn Away Summoned NagaWorld Workers as Case Moves to Court
NagaWorld workers have had their strike brought to an abrupt halt after local officials demanded they get tested for Covid-19 and self-isolate for seven days, after one worker tested positive for the virus. Even after finishing their mandated quarantine, workers have not said when or how they will resume their protest, which, according to City Hall, can now only take place at the new Freedom Park in the city’s outskirts.
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Grassroots Party Says Svay Rieng Official Blocking Their Activities
The Grassroots Democratic Party in Svay Rieng province has declared a commune chief intends to obstruct the party’s campaign activities in his jurisdiction.
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Lawyers allege tampering on Kem Sokha videos
Chak Sopheap, executive director of the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights who was present to observe the hearing, said the two sides continually interrupted one another with accusations of not following procedure or causing deliberate delays. Tensions between the government and defence lawyers persisted until the judge was forced to intervene and remind them to stop exchanging barbs and attacking each other, she said.
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Hun Sen orders authorities not to stifle political parties before upcoming elections
Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered the authorities not to threaten or disturb the activities of political parties before and during the election campaign, in order to safeguard the country’s democratic space.
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Secret weapon: CP recruits ex-commune chiefs to become strongest opposition
According to the National Election Committee (NEC), political parties have three days to register their candidates, from March 4 to 6, and it has set seven days to review and decide on the applications with a deadline of April 24.
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Cambodia's Internet gateway raises fears of China-style surveillance
With such a broad mandate, the gateway will facilitate "mass surveillance", said Sopheap Chak, executive director of CCHR, a non-profit.
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Kem Sokha Lawyers Show Nine Videos to Argue Nonviolence
Tensions between prosecution and defense consumed most of Wednesday’s trial hearing of opposition leader Kem Sokha’s treason case, as each side accused the other of trying to delay the trial process.
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Navy Battles Local Tycoon Over Land Loss at Ream
The Cambodian Navy wants 120 hectares of land near the Ream naval base back from a prominent business tycoon, who claims that he legally purchased the land from a military official.
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Sopheap’s Safeguarding for Garment Workers: A Union Leader’s Story
Im Sopheap, 33, was born to a family of farmers in Kampong Cham Province, but by 2005, the family of seven found that farming alone could no longer sustain them. It was then that Sopheap decided to move to Phnom Penh in search of job opportunities.
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CPP urges NEC to move the new election rules forward
Amid the increasing demand from six political parties for the National Election Committee to revoke the new changes in election rules of not allowing party agents at polling stations to take out copies of the election report, or “Form 1102”, the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) yesterday urged NEC to move the change forward.
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Environmental Authorities Deny Suspicions After Death in Custody
A logger who died in custody had no bruises as alleged and may have had mental health issues, a Pursat environmental official said of a 22-year-old man arrested for cutting trees in a protected area.
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Government Confirms Controversial National Internet Gateway Plan Delayed
The government on Feb. 15 confirmed that it would be temporarily delaying the rollout of the controversial National Internet Gateway, which would route all Cambodia’s internet traffic through a centralized government system, prompting fears of restricting online freedoms.
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Controversial National Internet Gateway postponed as project criticisms grow
Chak Sopheap, the executive director at the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said the government’s reassurances it would not use the law for greater rights restrictions were unconvincing. Sopheap said the state had offered nothing to assuage concerns pertaining to the establishment of the gateway, while recent years have seen growing state intolerance of criticism and dissent.
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