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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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Malady and Magic: The Murders of Cambodia’s ‘Black Magic’ Practitioners
As the sun sets above the isolated village of Sre Ken, set in the rugged Oral district of Kampong Speu, the mountains that rise above on all sides fade to a soft purple before disappearing in the night.
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Briefs: Court Delays Mass Trial, NEC Relents on Vote Document
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court delayed a mass-trial hearing against CNRP members and supporters because a defense lawyer had come in contact with a Covid-19 case at PJ Prison.
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City Orders NagaWorld Protests Move to Freedom Park, Workers Resist
NagaWorld protesters are not permitted to rally in public spaces, City Hall said on Tuesday, urging them to gather at a park in the city’s outskirts when workers clear Covid-19 testing and quarantine requirements.
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Tycoon Doung Ngeap Arrested after Complaining of Corrupt Courts
Three-star Police General and Tycoon Duong Ngeap was arrested on the morning of Feb. 14 on charges of fraud, just days after he had taken to Facebook in a livestream to complain of the corruption in Cambodian courts. Bail has been set at $5 million.
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Cambodia commits to halve deforestation by 2030
Cambodia is all set to reduce deforestation by half by the year 2030 and achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions in its forestry sector by 2040.
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Court sends tycoon Duong Ngeap to pre-trial detention on fraud charge after claim of judicial corruption
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday decided to place tycoon Duong Ngeap, a three-star general with the Ministry of Interior, in pre-trial detention as he faces a charge of fraud.
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Unions Looking for Place Within SEZ Boundaries
Since just before the pandemic started, Chhoum Phen has changed his job more than five times within Hi-Tech Apparel, the garment factory he has worked at for more than five years.
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Three-Star Oknha Facing $5M Bail Arrested Despite Apology
Duong Ngeap, who railed against court corruption last week while facing a fraud charge, adultery conviction and $5-million bail order, was arrested this morning.
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Fears Cambodia is rolling out China-style ‘Great Firewall’ to curb online freedom
“It is therefore very likely that the NIG will become another instrument for the Royal Government of Cambodia to control and monitor the flow of information in Cambodia,” said Sopheap Chak, CCHR’s executive director.
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Unions Looking for Place Within SEZ Boundaries
Since just before the pandemic started, Chhoum Phen has changed his job more than five times within Hi-Tech Apparel, the garment factory he has worked at for more than five years.
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Indigenous claim trees logged daily in Mondulkiri
Mondulkiri province’s Indigenous community is concerned about deforestation in wildlife sanctuaries, claiming that there are traders who hire local people to enter the forest to cut down trees to sell them, but officials claim that there is largely no forestry crime.
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Cambodia Steps Up Surveillance with New Internet Gateway
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) says the new gateway will give the former Khmer Rouge cadre yet more ways to silence opposing voices.
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Cambodia steps up surveillance with new Internet gateway
In 2021, at least 39 Cambodians were arrested, jailed or had arrest warrants issued against them for online posts that fell foul of government censors, according to the CCHR.
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