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PM defends graduation speeches
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday hit back at critics who complained about his practice of delivering speeches at university graduations. “They say that because I join the graduation ceremonies, the minister of education has to work as a cyclo driver because I do the work of the Ministry of Education,” Hun Sen said during a customs department ceremony.
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Prey Lang Still Logged: Community
Continued widespread logging in the Prey Lang forest is evidence that the government’s recent push to have more than 400,000 hectares of land protected is toothless, according to activists as well as a Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) report released yesterday.
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Illegal Wood Seized on Sugarcane Plantation
Authorities in Kompong Speu province say they have found a pile of illegally logged wood on a local sugarcane plantation that has previously been caught processing illicit timber, although they have yet to lay blame this time around.
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Hun Sen Says Sokha Will Be in Prison ‘Forever’
Prime Minister Hun Sen lashed out at CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha and Phnom Penh’s foreign diplomatic corps on Wednesday, threatening to imprison Mr. Sokha “forever” and warning diplomats not to get too close to the opposition or risk relations with Cambodia.
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Unions told to abide by dictates of new law
With its passage by the National Assembly nearly three months in the rearview, the Labour Ministry this week offered unions and employers alike a friendly reminder that the contentious Trade Union Law is now fully in effect.
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PM Hun Sen again blasts foreign donors
As the government comes under continued pressure to normalise relations with the opposition, Prime Minister Hun Sen has lashed out at the diplomatic community for trying to use aid money to leverage influence on internal matters.
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Illegal Mining Continues in Ratanakiri
Despite claims from local authorities that illegal mining in Ratanakiri province’s Borkeo district had been stopped, more than 100 people have been seen continuing to mine the area.
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Drug Trafficking ‘Reporter’ Gets 25 Years
A purported reporter was convicted of trafficking more than 400 grams of crystal methamphetamine and sentenced to 25 years in jail by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday.
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Anti-Corruption Unit Wants New Protection Laws Drafted by Year’s End
Long-awaited legislation to protect whistleblowers and witnesses will include “clear mechanisms” for authorities to ensure the safety of those who assist in the government’s anti-corruption investigations, officials said on Wednesday.
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ACU pushes whistleblower, witness protection laws
Draft laws to protect whistleblowers and witnesses are expected to be completed by the end of the year, it was announced yesterday at a workshop to solicit public input on the legislation.
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PM bodyguard ‘pulls gun’ in workplace row
A member of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Bodyguard Unit, who also works as a security guard at Golden Sorya Mall in Phnom Penh, was arrested yesterday for pulling his gun on a colleague during an early morning altercation at the venue in Daun Penh district.
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Video Evidence Presented on Day 2 of Mother Nature Trial
Both the prosecution and defense in the trial of three environmental activists accused of threatening to damage a sand-dredging barge in Koh Kong province last year presented protest video footage on Tuesday purportedly supporting opposing accounts of the incident, a rights worker said. The activists—Sim Samnang, 29; Tri Sovichea, 26; and Sun Mala, 24—are all members of the NGO Mother Nature and were arrested in August while leading a campaign to stop illegal sand-dredging in Koh Kong, which locals blame for the destruction of fish stocks.
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Appeal Court to address Sokha summonses
The Appeal Court is to hear an application on July 4 to quash legal proceedings against Kem Sokha, acting president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, over his failure to obey repeated court summonses. Sokha’s lawyers filed an appeal on June 17 asking the higher court to rule that the Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s repeated summonses of Sokha were illegal.
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Mother Nature hearing concludes in Koh Kong
The trial of three activists from environmental group Mother Nature, charged with threatening to damage sand-dredging equipment, wrapped yesterday at Koh Kong Provincial Court, with the judge setting July 1 for a verdict. San Mala, 24, Try Sovikea, 26, and Sim Somnang, 29, have been in pretrial detention since August in the high-profile case, which critics say is being pursued to stifle protests against the province’s lucrative sand-mining industry.
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Most ELC Disputes Still Unresolved
More than two-thirds of the 158 land disputes triggered by large-scale plantations over the past two decades have yet to be fully resolved, according to a new report by the NGO Forum on Cambodia. Drawing largely on incomplete government records, the umbrella group’s Statistical Analysis of Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) in Cambodia, released Tuesday, states that the government has since 1995 approved 267 concessions covering 1.53 million hectares, well short of the roughly 2 million hectares claimed by officials.
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Court Suspends Land Activist’s Jail Sentence
The Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld a three-year sentence against anti-eviction activist Yorm Bopha for a 2012 assault conviction, but she will not be returning to prison, with the court deciding to suspend the remainder of her prison time.
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Activist Yorm Bopha again found guilty
Prominent Boeung Kak land rights activist Yorm Bopha has again been found guilty of organising the beating of two motodops in 2012, this time by the Court of Appeal, but will not face any additional jail time. Bopha, 32, spent a year and eight days behind bars after originally being found guilty and sentenced to three years in prison over the attack.
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NGO Releases its Report on Land Concessions
More than 150 companies operating in 18 provinces have been involved in Economic Land Concession-related conflicts since ELCs were established more than 20 years ago, according to an annual report by the NGO Forum on Cambodia, which was questioned by a government official. Only 42 of the 158 companies have resolved their conflicts, which affected 35,604 families, the 33-page report said. By the end of last year, an additional 50 companies were said to have partly resolved conflicts.
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Rosewood Exports Violate UN Treaty: Org
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) released a report this week saying Cambodia is in direct violation of a UN treaty due to the increased logging and export of rosewood. Siamese rosewood, designated an endangered species by the UN due in part to the voracious appetite for it in China, is protected under the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
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PM lashes out at critics at CPP’s birthday bash
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday accused foreign states of bullying Cambodia over its position on the South China Sea dispute while also lashing out at criticism that the country had descended into a “political crisis”. The premier delivered the speech to about 10,000 Cambodian People’s Party members at an event celebrating the 65th anniversary of the creation of the ruling party, which links its birth to the establishment of a Cambodian Communist Party in 1951.
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