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Outcry Builds as Environmentalists Charged with Plotting, Insulting the King
For the second time in two months, the Cambodian government has detained activists from the environmental group Mother Nature, with four members—including the group’s exiled leader Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson—charged by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on June 21.
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Cambodia’s COVID-19 Deaths Rise as Outbreak Spreads Unabated
Cambodia has seen a sharp increase in cases – more than 40,000 in the last three months – since early April resulting in the lockdown of Phnom Penh and other parts of the country. And, while the number of deaths have hovered around 8 to 10 deaths a day, in the last three weeks there have been 238 reported deaths – more than half all deaths reported in the country during the pandemic.
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Alleged Mother Nature Zoom meeting posted as “evidence” of royal insult
A video clip purportedly taken from an online Zoom meeting between Mother Nature environmental group co-founder Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson and a number of environmental activists has been posted on social media as supposed evidence that the activists were guilty of insulting the nation’s king. The arrest of three environmental activists of plotting and insulting the king has been criticised by a number of foreign embassies and civil society groups.
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COVID-Infected Cambodian Migrants in Thailand Beg Phnom Penh and Bangkok for Help
A group of 50 coronavirus-infected Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand are calling on the governments of both their home and host countries to provide medical treatment and other support, the migrants told RFA.
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Journalists, publisher face five years prison over cockfighting extortion
Four online news journalists and their publisherwere charged with extortion by the Kandal Provincial Court on Tuesday for allegedly demanding money in return for not publishing stories about illegal cockfighting, officials said.
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Please Do Not Throw Garbage into the River
Every year, billions of fish of all kinds spawn and hatch in the Mekong River in Kratie Province and migrate downstream into floodplains, eventually reaching the Tonle Sap Lake.
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Mother Nature Arrests Criticized, Gov’t-Linked Media Posts ‘Evidence’
International rights groups and embassies raised concerns over the recent arrests of Mother Nature environmentalists, as a government-aligned media outlet posted alleged evidence of a Zoom meeting where the activists appear to discuss a cartoon sketch of Prime Minister Hun Sen wearing a crown.
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Residents in Dispute With New Airport Curse Developers in Ceremony
Nai Phun says her rice field was only one month old when the bulldozers came to clear it. The 46-year-old resident has been told she lives in the path of a future runway, and her family and 12 others are currently being pressured to move out and take compensation of $8 per square meter — much less than the land is worth, she says.
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Court Sets Trial Date for Rally Outside Chinese Embassy
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has set a July 1 trial date for incitement charges against nine defendants involved in a rally outside the Chinese Embassy last year.
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Domestic workers call for social protections amid “slave-like” conditions
Domestic workers are calling for government support after publicly speaking out about poor working conditions, repeated abuse at the hands of employers and a lack of social protections.
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UK Foreign Secretary’s Visit to Cambodia Will Focus on Climate and ASEAN
United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is set to pay an official visit to Cambodia on June 23 in an effort to promote action on the climate crisis and tout the UK’s post-Brexit “Global Britain” image.
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Emotional Hun Sen: June 20, is the day I decided to invest my life to liberate the Cambodian people from Pol Pot
On the 44th anniversary (June 20, 1977 – June 20, 2021) of the march towards national liberation and the liberation of the lives of the Cambodian people from the Khmer Rouge killing field regime, Prime Minister Hun Sen stated that he decided with pain to use his life as capital to fight to liberate the Cambodian people from the genocidal regime of Pol Pot.
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Investigation Refutes Police Explanations of Alleged Torture Death
An Interior Ministry investigation refuted a string of Battambang police explanations of an alleged torture death — first that the detainee was beaten by villagers, then that he had a traffic accident, and third that he died from a drug overdose.
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Cambodian Workers Caught Up in Thai Covid-19 Surge
At a canned fish factory in Thailand’s Samut Prakan province, Nuon Narin says most of about 600 Cambodian workers tested positive for Covid-19.
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Income, Debt Struggles Amid Covid-19 Highlighted by NGOs, Reports
Heng Sopheaktra, a tuk-tuk driver in Phnom Penh, said that before Covid-19, he owed debt to just one bank. But after the disease continued to spread, and Phnom Penh was locked down, he was in debt to six creditors.
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Environmental activists charged with plotting and insulting the king
Three environmental activists have been sent to pre-trial detention on charges of plotting and insulting the king by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court. The co-founder of environmental group Mother Nature has also been charged in absentia.
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Cambodia Sends Three Youth Activists Awaiting Trial to Prey Sar Prison
A Cambodian judge on Monday sent three young activists to Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey Sar Prison on an order of pre-trial detention, in a move one rights group called an attack on young Cambodians trying to protect their country’s environment.
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Mother Nature Activists Charged for Alleged Plotting, Insulting King
Three Mother Nature environmentalists were charged on Monday and placed in pretrial detention at Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison, as the mother of one of the activists said she was in shock but buoyed by support on social media, including from celebrities.
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Mother Nature activists charged
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday charged four Mother Nature activists including a woman for insulting the King and creating social instability in the Kingdom
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Arrested Mother Nature Activists Accused of “Plotting” to Topple Government
Three of four Mother Nature environmental activists arrested on Wednesday, had arrest warrants issued for them on the alleged charge of “plotting,” local authorities said, a charge used recently against former opposition officials.
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