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Cambodian Committee to Monitor, Discipline Journalists Raises Alarms
Cambodian journalists and rights groups are voicing concern over the authoritarian government’s creation of a new committee to promote “journalism ethics and professional standards” with the power to discipline reporters.
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Mental Health Counseling at Clinic Doubles Under Covid-19 Pressures
More than 2,000 people have visited a Phnom Penh mental health clinic in seven months, a doubling from last year, many of them suffering insomnia and developing unhealthy habits from worrying that they have Covid-19.
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Tightening road traffic laws with amendments to improve safety
The Ministry of Public Works is in the midst of getting feedback and input from all relevant officials and stakeholders to amend the existing traffic law to tighten all loopholes to improve road safety and strengthen enforcement measures.
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TOP NEWS: Cambodia Reports 583 New Cases of COVID19; 658 Recovered; 17 Died
Cambodia reported 583 new cases of COVID19, 17 patients died, while 658 patients recovered on Wednesday, according to the Ministry of Health's press release dated 4 August 2021.
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Farmer representatives in Svay Rieng canal dispute fined over protests
Two representatives of a farming community in Svay Rieng province have been fined a total of $1,000 by district officials for gathering protests earlier this week as part of a land dispute centered on a canal restoration project.
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Court sentences protesters 12-20 months in prison
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday sentenced nine protesters for demonstrating in front of the Chinese Embassy, including former opposition officials, to between 12 and 20 months in prison and fined them about $500 each.
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Police Detain 21 People After Dark in Phnom Penh Curfew
Phnom Penh police detained 21 people and confiscated a further 132 vehicles Tuesday night as they tightened their crackdown on Covid-19 curfew violators.
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The Anakut podcast: Corruption and the destruction of Prey Lang Forest
Authorities have only continued to escalate restrictions on civil society groups committed to monitoring the forest for illicit activity. For its part, the Cambodian Ministry of Environment denies that large-scale logging is happening in protected areas and has threatened activists with arrest for using satellite imagery to track deforestation.
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Cambodian Foreign Minister insists non-interference, in the name of human rights
Chak Sopeap, executive director of Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said she welcomed the government’s commitment to upholding the fundamental freedoms of ASEAN citizens.
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Farmers Resist Lowly Land Compensation Offer
At least 120 farmers in Svay Rieng province are holding out after refusing to give up the rights to their land for 900 riel per square meter from the authorities.
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Justice Ministry: Commercial and Labor Courts Won’t be Ready Until 2022
The inaugural operations of the Commercial and Labor Courts have been postponed until at least 2022 due to a number of problems in establishing the new courts, a senior Justice Ministry has confirmed.
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TOP NEWS: Cambodia Reports 577 New Cases of COVID19; 628 Recovered; 29 Died
Cambodia reported 577 new cases of COVID19, 29 patients died, while 628 patients recovered on Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Health's press release dated 3 August 2021.
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Journalist Says He Was Threatened After Covering Land Clearing Case
An online journalist says he received an anonymous call that he took to be a threat after reporting on land clearing in Siem Reap province.
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Cambodia’s Top Diplomat: Human Rights Must be Understood and Approached in a Holistic Manner without Double Standards
At the 54th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM), Cambodian foreign minister Prak Sokhonn stressed that human rights must be understood and approached in a holistic manner without double standards, with due respect to national sovereignty and the principle of non-interference.
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Woman kidnaps niece to get money for gambling
A 43-year woman admitted in the Supreme Court yesterday that she did kidnap her eight-year-old niece and demanded ransom money of $4,000 from her parents for her release.
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Appeal Court Denies Bail for Son of Jailed CNRP Official
Cambodian Center for Human Rights director Chak Sopheap also called for the 16-year-old’s release. The detention of the 16-year-old could be an act of intimidation against his mother and her fellow protesters, she said.
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Svay Rieng farmers protest against irrigation project compensation
Hundreds of families with claims to nearly 100 hectares of farmland in Svay Rieng province are protesting against provincial authorities who locals say are forcing them to accept a low price for land compensation to make way for a canal restoration project.
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City Hall to Allow Dining In, 1,053 Vehicles Confiscated in Capital Curfew
Phnom Penh Municipal Police say officers will get serious about enforcement of the capital’s curfew starting tonight, after meting out only “soft punishments,” including confiscating 1,053 vehicles, over the first four days of renewed Covid-19 restrictions.
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Prey Veng villagers refuse burial for Covid-19 victim
The body of a deceased Covid-19 patient was finally taken by his relatives to his hometown in Tbong Khmum province after hundreds of villagers in Prek Khsay Kor commune of Prey Veng province’s Peamro district refused to bury him in the cemetery behind their village for fears that it would spread the virus in their community.
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Armed With Sticks, Prey Veng Residents Force Covid-19 Corpse Out of Town
Crowds of residents armed with sticks blocked an ambulance from bringing a Covid-19 corpse into two villages in Prey Veng province for burial, forcing authorities to take the local ethnic Cham resident’s body to his family’s hometown in Tbong Khmum province.
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