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60,000 Ha Reclaimed Around Tonle Sap, Activists Call for Similar Action in Prey Lang Forests
Alleging renewed large-scale illegal logging, environmentalists around the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary said authorities should take action to stop deforestation before it was too late, just as officials had reclaimed 60,000 hectares of protected flooded forests around the Tonle Sap lake.
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In Cambodia, union arrests spotlight pressures on civil society
Before plainclothes police forced Chhim Sithar into an unmarked sedan within sight of the casino complex where she had worked last week, the Cambodian union leader had plenty of time to consider alternative courses of action.
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Cambodia’s Female Coder
Having always harbored an interest in tech and innovation, a young and enthusiastic Rith Sovandalin started exploring her passion of ‘’coding” at the age of 13. Despite the social norm and lack of family’s support, Sovandalin managed to overcome these emerging obstacles and is now recognized as a role model for other young girls to look up to.
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Growth in Online News Outlets Sees Calls for More Independent, Quality Media
The Ministry of Information has announced that the number of online news outlets in Cambodia has increased by just over 17 percent between 2020 and 2021, which is considered reflective of the government’s approach to free speech, but journalism groups say that press freedoms in Cambodia have continued to decline.
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Ex-opposition commune chiefs freed from Prey Sar
Two ex-CNRP commune councillors and ex-commune chiefs were released yesterday from Prey Sar prison’s Correctional Center 2 (CC2) after they both served the term of their 18-month-sentence in the prison for inciting the people against the government committed in 2020.
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Jailed, Sick, Still Struggling: A Brother’s Plea to Quit Politics Goes Ignored
Lanh Than never wanted his sister to be involved in politics. He advised her against joining the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party years ago, and then urged her to defect to the ruling party when Prime Minister Hun Sen moved to crush the CNRP.
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CNHP leadership may face charges
The Ministry of Interior has hinted that the founding representatives of unrecognised opposition party Cambodia National Heart Party (CNHP) must face criminal charges, following its loss of a legal battle in the country’s highest court over fraudulent thumbprints.
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One-Year Imprisonment Upheld for Vaccine-Critical Facebook Posts
The Appeal Court on Tuesday upheld one-year jail sentences against two former opposition activists for incitement and insult after they criticized the distribution of Chinese-made Covid-19 vaccines in Cambodia before they were approved by the WHO.
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Striking casino workers stand against crackdown
Police violently grabbed and arrested the union leader when she attempted to join the demonstration by striking workers in Phnom Penh on 4 January. Video of the altercation, showing Sithar trying to evade shouting plainclothes officers who swarmed and pushed her into a car, was widely shared on social media.
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Ministry warns of forest fire dangers in dry season
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon introduced a number of measures to guide specialised units at the sub-national level and the local community in joining forces to prevent wildfires over this year’s hot summer period.
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CHRC all set to debate rights report with UN expert panel
The Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) will defend the government’s National Human Rights Report on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights at the UN Office in Geneva, Switzerland, in March.
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Takeo Villagers Protest as Local Field Used as Trash Dumpsite
Dozens of villagers blocked a road to stop a trash company from bringing its trucks to a 1-hectare field near the village, which has been overflowing with bags of unprocessed, unburned garbage.
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NagaWorld Workers Tell Labor Ministry Their Arrested Leaders Need to Be at Negotiating Table 3 mi
NagaWorld union members admonished the Labor Ministry during an impromptu press conference on Monday, accusing labor officials for disregarding calls to release jailed union leadership as a precondition to restart negotiations.
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Baker McKenzie says US Government has tightened export controls for Cambodia
The US Departments of State and Commerce had reportedly amended their regulations to strengthen US export controls targeting Cambodia on December 9, 2021.
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NagaWorld Union Demands Apology over “Color Revolution” Claims, says Leadership Must be Released for Negotiations
The NagaWorld strike continued on Jan. 10, with the Labor Rights Supported Union of Khmer Employees of NagaWorld (LRSU) holding a press conference at 9 a.m. where they called out the Ministry of Labor for branding the strike a “color revolution” and said they would refuse to settle the dispute until the eight jailed leaders were released.
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Authorities on alert as Omicron variant spreads into community
As public health officials continue to find new community transmission cases of the more-contagious Omicron variant of COVID-19, the prime minister is urging provincial authorities to speed up their booster vaccination campaigns.
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Striking Cambodian workers demand release of union leaders
The strike at the NagaWorld casino and hotel, now in its 23rd day, has drawn hundreds of workers since Dec. 18 and the dismissal by managers of more than a thousand employees. The protesters are demanding that 365 of those laid off be rehired.
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Five charged with incitement in K Chhnang
Kampong Chhnang Provincial Court yesterday charged and detained three online journalists and two other villagers for allegedly inciting people to go against the authorities through a report on Facebook about a land dispute in in Kampong Leng district.
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Bunong group prefers in-person apology from Facebook celebrity
Social media celebrity Try Dana made a public apology via Facebook to the Bunong indigenous people on January 6, saying that she had no intention of inciting anger or insulting the Bunong or any of Cambodia’s other indigenous ethnic minority groups.
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CHRC all set to debate rights report with UN expert panel
The Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) will defend the government’s National Human Rights Report on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights at the UN Office in Geneva, Switzerland, in March.
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