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More than 40 drivers protest fines for violating COVID-19 measures
More than 40 taxi drivers protested on Wednesday after each being fined 2 million riel ($500) for transporting passengers despite COVID-19 travel bans.
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Bicycle Factory’s Covid-19 Panic and Mass Escape Spreads Across Bavet
Afraid of getting locked down inside a bicycle factory, an estimated 2,000 workers fled out of rear entrances, overwhelmed a deputy governor asking them to stay, carried their motorbikes through a pond, and scattered.
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Phnom Penh Down to Two Orange Zones Where Covid-19 Has Surged
Phnom Penh City Hall has designated parts of two villages in Pur Senchey and Russei Keo districts as “orange zones,” shutting down travel and businesses in a return to restrictions for a factory area and a dense urban neighborhood.
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Incinerating Covid: Medical Waste Up Tenfold, Disposers Don 20 Suits a Day
As one of the Medical Waste Management Unit’s trucks rumbles through the gates of the landfill site in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district, Nguon Sokheng and his team begin the arduous process of suiting up to deal with the Covid-19 waste arriving.
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Cambodian govt accused of silencing critics of Covid efforts
A group of 12 non-governmental organizations have accused the Cambodian government of silencing public criticism of its Covid-19 program and harsh lockdown measures amid a communal outbreak which has claimed at least 183 lives.
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Twelve more people have died in Cambodia from drinking cheap adulterated rice wine, a perennial problem especially in rural areas, officials said.
Twelve more people have died in Cambodia from drinking cheap adulterated rice wine, a perennial problem especially in rural areas, officials said.
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Incinerating Covid: Medical Waste Up Tenfold, Disposers Don 20 Suits a Day
As one of the Medical Waste Management Unit’s trucks rumbles through the gates of the landfill site in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district, Nguon Sokheng and his team begin the arduous process of suiting up to deal with the Covid-19 waste arriving.
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More Cambodians Die from Tainted Rice Wine Despite Crackdown
Twelve more people have died in Cambodia from drinking cheap adulterated rice wine, a perennial problem especially in rural areas, officials said.
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WHO, labor leaders urge stronger action to prevent COVID-19 in factories as more workers test positive for virus
As the World Health Organization urges action for Cambodian garment workers infected with COVID-19, union leaders are calling on the government to take stronger action to protect factory staff.
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UN rights envoy raises concerns over controversial internet gateway law
In his first speech since taking office in May, the UN’s newly appointed special rapporteur to Cambodia, Vitit Muntarbhorn, raised concern over a new law creating a national internet gateway and over any form of control over media or online access.
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Opinion: Together We Can End Child Labor
62 million children in the Asia Pacific region are in child labor. It is a simple sentence to write but far harder to comprehend. 62 million children. Spend a moment to think just how big that number is–roughly similar to every child aged under 14 in the Philippines, Viet Nam and Japan combined.
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Drivers fined $500 each for breaking restrictions
A group of 42 van drivers on May 26 requested that Por Sen Chey district authorities in Phnom Penh return their trucks and not fine them 2 million riel ($500) after they complete their 14-day quarantine.
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Prisons Director Acknowledges Covid-19 Outbreak, Defers on Case Count
A prisons department spokesperson on Wednesday confirmed there were Covid-19 cases in Phnom Penh’s PJ prison but would not say how many, while the mother of a prisoner there said her daughter had heard of widespread transmission.
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Justice minister pledges to fight corruption amid calls for judicial reform
Cambodia’s justice minister has again urged judges and prosecutors to crack down on corruption in the nation’s judicial system, declaring that the fight against corruption was a key part of a now-year-long campaign to clear the backlog of cases in Cambodia’s courts. But longtime advocates for legal reform are calling for concrete action to follow the minister’s commitment.
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Some Workers Accept NagaWorld Compensation Due to Economic Pressures
NagaWorld workers are being offered over $1,000 in compensation for layoffs, they said, with some accepting due to financial difficulties and others rejecting the offer saying they want to stand in solidarity with their union.
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Two Vintners Arrested After 10 Dead in Another Wine Poisoning
At least 10 people have died and more than 30 were hospitalized after drinking tainted rice wine at a Kampot province funeral, leading to the arrest of two winemakers, authorities said.
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Dismissed Pailin health official in limbo after hearing
The sub-national commission on conflict reconciliation and public function affairs announced that the case in which the Pailin provincial governor dismissed a health department official could not be addressed as both sides took a different stance.
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Svay Rieng workers storm out of factory amid Covid scare
The Svay Rieng Provincial Administration has appealed to workers and drivers of trucks that transport those employed at the bicycle producing factory A&J Cambodia in Bavet town to place themselves in quarantine after they stormed out of the factory for fear of contracting Covid-19.
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NagaWorld workers awaiting official termination notice as union fight to halt layoffs
Executives of the sprawling NagaWorld casino complex are moving ahead with plans to lay off 1,329 workers despite protests from the casino’s labor union, which is accusing management of using COVID-19 as a pretext to fire union members.
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Youth Aim to Combat Shrinking Civic Space in Cambodia
Human rights activism has been affected worldwide by increasing challenges due to shrinking civic spaces and Cambodia is no exception.
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