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  • UNFPA provides dignity kits to aid for Cambodia’s vulnerable migrants

    The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Cambodia provided 1,670 dignity kits along with communication materials to assist the Interior Ministry’s National Committee for Counter Tracking in fighting against COVID-19 pandemic, said its news statement released late on Monday.

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  • Clearing court backlogs

    The Justice Ministry yesterday announced the launch of a six-month campaign to resolve a backlog of nearly 40,000 court cases across the country.

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  • Eight arrested in forestry crime busts

    Eight suspects were sent by officials of the Kratie Provincial Environment Department to the provincial court over separate cases of forest encroachment in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary.

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  • NGO head calls out officials

    Civil society organisation ACNCIPO head Chea Hean said on Monday he will send a letter to Minister of Environment Say Sam Al next week requesting officials to investigate Central Cardamom National Park director Chea Yuthea and Southern Cardamom National Park director Long Si for allowing illegal loggers to transport timber through the parks.

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  • Sokha’s case could be delayed until next year: Prime Minister

    Prime Minister Hun Sen has said the treason trial of former opposition leader Kem Sokha could be delayed until next year and not held by August, which is when the European Union makes its final decision on partial removal of the Kingdom’s Everything-but-arms trade status.

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  • ’ PM places boundaries on Supreme Council’s work

    At a plenary meeting of the Council of Ministers on Friday, Prime Minister Hun Sen restricted members of the Supreme Council for Consultation and Recommendation from addressing disputes being handled by the courts or those already solved by the government.

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  • PM tells SCC to lay off resolved land disputes

    Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday prohibited members of the Supreme Consultative Council from re-opening or getting involved with any land dispute cases that had already been addressed by the courts and the premier himself.

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  • PM: Resumption of Sokha trial to be decided by court

    Prime Minister Hun Sen has confirmed that former opposition leader Kem Sokha’s treason case will be decided by the courts according to procedure, said government spokesperson Phay Siphan.

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  • Mekong region under threat, report claims

    A recent report by the Regional Community Forestry Training Centre (RECOFTC) said villagers living around Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary had recently reported illegal loggers in the forest and they took action by seizing some of the perpetrators’ chainsaws.

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  • Call to reduce discrimination against LGBT community

    The Cambodian Human Rights Committee has called on the public and families with LGBT members, to avoid discrimination, violence, and psychological oppression against them.

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  • Financial bills heading to NA

    The Council of Ministers has approved six draft laws including that on anti-money laundering, terrorism financing and counter-proliferation financing. The bills are considered urgent and would be sent to the National Assembly (NA) for deliberation in no later than a week.

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  • Cambodia commits to Anti-Financing of Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

    Cambodia has strongly affirmed its opposition to weapons of mass destruction, WMD, through two new draft laws approved on Friday, May 15.

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  • Official shrugs off M’kiri land grab claim

    Mondulkiri provincial Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction director Mao Chamroeun has denied allegations he collaborated with a third party to steal land from indigenous people.

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  • VOA Khmer radio station allowed to resume broadcasts

    The Minister of Information on Friday allowed the return of VOA Khmer to radio broadcasting via Women’s Media Centre FM102 and FM103.50MHz following its suspension in 2017 for failing to complete the requirements for its legal registration at the Ministry of Information.

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  • Suth Dina pardoned as special case: Justice Ministry

    The Justice Ministry said yesterday that the royal pardon for Suth Dina, former Cambodian Ambassador to South Korea, was granted based on a request made by Prime Minister Hun Sen as a “special case”.

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  • IDEA asks the government to help informal workers

    Independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association (IDEA) has asked the government to help support street vendors and tuk-tuk drivers as they feel the pinch amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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  • Law to identify citizens set to be finalised at year’s end

    At a Wednesday meeting on the 2020 action plan of the General Department of Identity (GDI), Minister of Interior Sar Kheng urged the department to accelerate the drafting of a law entitled “Civic Registration, Registration Statistics and Identification.”

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  • Sar Kheng asks provincial governors to stem illegal border crossings

    Interior Minister Sar Kheng has ordered all governors of provinces bordering Thailand to prevent migrant workers from sneaking into Thailand in a move to curb the coronavirus.

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  • CSOs voice concern over state of emergency law

    A government spokesman said civil society organisations (CSOs) don’t seem to understand the purpose and content of the state of emergency law.

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  • No Covid, no Sokha trial

    Despite no new cases of Coronavirus the trial of former opposition leader Kem Sokha remains delayed indefinitely, leaving his treason charge in limbo.

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