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Families, firm feuding over lakeside farmland
Nearly 50 villagers representing roughly 30 families in Kandal’s Muk Kampoul district protested yesterday claiming that local authorities colluded to sell their farmland, which surrounds a drying public lake, to a private company. Chab Sokim, one of the protesters, said while the families have no land titles, they had farmed the land around Russey Chroy commune’s Chroy Metrey village lake since 1979.
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Sina to face forgery and disinformation charges
Pav Sina, president of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers, is set to appear at Phnom Penh Municipal Court today to face forgery and disinformation accusations levelled by a hat company. The union leader confirmed the hearing yesterday, which had been filed by the Southland factory, whose lawyer could not be contacted yesterday.
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Sokha's alleged mistress ‘changes her story’ in court appearance
Appearing before the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday, 24-year-old salon worker Khom Chandaraty purportedly reversed her public position of the past six weeks. According to the case’s prosecutor, Chandaraty identified herself and CNRP acting president Kem Sokha as the voices on an audio recording of an intimate conversation released anonymously on social media in March.
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Fire officials to aid CPP village push
Twenty-four officials from the Interior Ministry’s fire department have been ordered to join the ruling Cambodian People’s Party’s local working groups operating in Battambang province. O’Taki commune chief Pong Nath said the local CPP group helped his commune by donating money to villages, including $50 for pregnant women, and visited two to three times each month.
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Calls for Angkor Beer Boycott Over Dam
Members of civil society, a youth group and communities affected by the Don Sahong hydropower project have called for a boycott of Angkor Beer, claiming the brewer’s parent company Cambrew is funding the controversial project which started in December last year. “If we drink a can of Angkor beer, we are destroying six million Cambodians living along the Mekong River. Please stop drinking Angkor Beer. Please join us in not consuming Angkor Beer for the lives of those six million people,” said Chum Hout, a representative of local NGO Youth for Social and Environmental Protection.
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Venue to abide by gov’t ban on Chut Wutty film
Following the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts’ move to ban the screening of I Am Chut Wutty at Phnom Penh’s Meta House Café on Monday, the venue’s founder yesterday said they planned to obey the directive. The ministry maintained that it had blocked the screening because the filmmakers had not sought permission to make the documentary about the late forest activist – who was gunned down in 2012 – and because neither they nor Meta House had sought permission to show it.
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Woman Admits to Affair With Kem Sokha
The hairdresser at the center of deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha’s sex scandal admitted on Tuesday that it was her voice calling Mr. Sokha “lover” in audio recordings leaked online over the past two months, according to the prosecutor who questioned her for four hours. “Yes, she admitted that the voices on the recordings really belong to her and Kem Sokha,” said deputy Phnom Penh Municipal Court prosecutor Sieng Sok, referring to Khem Chandaraty, 25, who is better known by her nickname “Srey Mom.”
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Police block Preah Vihear villagers’ planned sugar protest
More than 200 angry ethnic Kuoy villagers who claim their land has been stolen by a Chinese-owned sugar company were blocked from protesting as Prime Minister Hun Sen inaugurated the firm’s mill in Preah Vihear province yesterday. The $360 million facility is the biggest sugar plant in Cambodia and one of the largest in Asia, according to its owner, Rui Feng (Cambodia) International. The prime minister hailed the plant – which can produce over 2,000 tonnes of sugar per day – as a sign of Cambodia’s political and economic strength.
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Verdict in Fraud Case Against Tycoon Delayed
The verdict in the forgery case against Oknha Seang Chan Heng, a businesswoman who runs Heng Development Company, was delayed yesterday after Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge Long Kesphirum said the case needed to be reinvestigated because there was not enough evidence for a conviction. The unusual move will likely result in a delay of about five months before a verdict is handed down in the latest case against the high-profile tycoon, court observers say.
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Transgender Cambodians at Higher Risk for HIV Infection
The rate of HIV infection among Cambodia’s transgender women is nearly six times higher than the national average, according to the results of a 2012 survey published in the online journal PLOS ONE this month. Researchers supported by USAID interviewed and tested some 891 transgender women—individuals who were born as males, but identify as women or as a third gender—aged 18 and older, and found an HIV infection rate of 4.15 percent, compared to 0.7 percent for the general population.
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Meta House Founder Responds to Chut Wutty Ban
The founding director of Meta House, Nicolaus Mesterharm, responded yesterday after the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts called off tonight’s screening of I am Chut Wutty, which was set to be publicly screened for the first time in the Kingdom. Despite having not been removed from the center’s events calendar, Mr. Mesterharm said Meta House would comply with the ministry’s request regardless of his personal feelings in the matter.
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NEC touts achievements
A year after a major overhaul, the National Election Committee (NEC) issued a statement touting its achievements – including testing online voter registration and consulting donors like the EU and Japan – with one observer saying that despite criticism of the deal that reformed the body, it appeared to be improving. In the April 12 statement, the NEC said it will release rules for its voter registration process at the end of this month, and Korn Keomono, head of the news and public relations department at the NEC, said yesterday that the new online registration system was tested in one commune in each province, but had hit a few bumps.
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Protests planned for Preah Vihear sugar plant’s opening
Preah Vihear’s deputy governor has vowed not to let protesters near Prime Minister Hun Sen as he cuts the ribbon on a $360 million sugar mill in Tbeng Meanchey district today. The mill – one of the largest in Asia – is owned by Chinese company Rui Feng (Cambodia) International, which has been involved in a series of land disputes with local villagers since it arrived in the country in 2012.
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Prestigious prize awarded to local forest activist
Cambodian environmentalist Ouch Leng was named as one of six recipients of the world-renowned Goldman Environmental Prize yesterday for his efforts to expose illegal logging and the corruption associated with it. Established in 1990, the prize is awarded to individuals who undertake “great personal risk to safeguard the environment”, with a winner from each inhabited continent being chosen each year by a seven-member jury.
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Officials survey Prey Lang from sky
Making a dramatic arrival by helicopter at the Sofitel Hotel in Phnom Penh after a flyover of Prey Lang forest, Environment Minister Say Sam Al and US Ambassador to Cambodia William Heidt discussed a plan to make the Kingdom’s largest forest a protected area. Speaking to reporters after the chopper’s touchdown, Heidt said officials “saw both the very nice condition of the central part of that forest but also threats around the edges, particularly on the southern border”, adding that the purpose of the flyover was to bring the environment, agriculture and interior ministries together to “think about how best to protect that area going forward”.
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After Helicopter Ride, US and Government Commit to Save Forest
U.S. Ambassador William Heidt joined Environment Minister Say Sam Al for a helicopter ride over the sprawling Prey Lang forest on Monday in a show of their commitment to preserving the area, the largest remaining lowland deciduous forest in Southeast Asia. For years the area has been besieged by illegal loggers and clear-cutting rubber plantations and is one of five new protected forests the government wants to set up by the end of the year.
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Alleged mistress of Kem Sokha slandered for political gain: experts
The purported mistress of Kem Sokha, due in court today to face accusations she worked as a prostitute and lied to police, is having her name dragged through the mud for purely political ends and without any legal basis, legal and women’s experts said yesterday. Khom Chandaraty, a 24-year-old salon worker who denies having an affair with the opposition deputy president – a client at her shop – yesterday broke down in tears as she spoke to reporters to discuss her case prior to today’s hearing at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
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Workers at abandoned factory seek back wages
More than 400 workers at the South Korean-owned Dae Kwang Garment factory protested at the Canadia Industrial Park yesterday demanding unpaid salaries after the factory’s owner disappeared. Having not been paid since March, the workers at the garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district first protested before Khmer New Year.
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Government Nixes Chut Wutty Film Screening
Plans to screen a documentary in Phnom Penh this week about the final months of slain environmental activist Chut Wutty’s life have been called off at the behest of the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, according to the film’s director. The ministry sent a letter on Monday to Nico Mesterharm, founder and director of Meta House, which planned to show “I am Chut Wutty” on Wednesday, explaining that the screening of the film could not go ahead because of a lack of proper permits.
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Local Activist Earns International Acclaim
Cambodian activist and human rights lawyer Ouch Leng was on Monday awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for his undercover investigations into the country’s illegal logging trade and advocacy work with communities affected by deforestation and land grabbing. The annual award has since 1989 recognized individuals for significant contributions toward protecting the natural world, often at great personal risk.
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