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New group set up to tackle land disputes
The newly appointed minister of land management and urban planning, Chea Sophara, has announced a working group to handle petitions and complaints lodged by land dispute victims. In a letter dated April 8, Sophara appointed 11 officials to the new committee, which includes staff from the ministry’s cadastral, legislation, planning and finance, and land inspection departments.
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Ministry Cancels Visa for Deported Spanish Activist
The online “e-visa” granted last week to deported environmental activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson has been canceled, according to a letter obtained Saturday, with the Foreign Ministry citing a “technical error” in issuing it despite the activist’s presence on a blacklist.
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Alex’s e-visa no good, Foreign Ministry says
A Ministry of Foreign Affairs letter obtained by the Post yesterday states that a tourist e-visa issued for deported Mother Nature co-founder Alex Gonzalez-Davidson is null and void. The April 8 letter from Foreign Affairs Ministry Secretary of State Long Visalo is addressed to the General Department of Immigration and stamped “urgent”.
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Protests Greet Hun Manet in US
Dozens of Cambodian-American Long Beach residents protested in front of a restaurant over the weekend against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s eldest son, Hun Manet, on the first day of his trip to North America. Observers said that the protest has the hallmark of the opposition to discredit the Royal Government.
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Beachfront Evictions Begin In Sihanoukville
Authorities in Sihanoukville followed through with their long-threatened eviction of vendors from the end of the popular O’Chheuteal beach on Saturday afternoon, demolishing nearly 100 structures along the 2 km strip known locally as Ariston. Officials said buildings on nearby O’Tres beach would be next, but did not say exactly when the demolition might begin.
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Deported Spanish Activist Gets Tourist Visa; Return Uncertain
Environmental activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson, who was deported in February last year, has been granted a one-month tourist visa through the Foreign Ministry’s online “e-visa” service, but an immigration official said yesterday that it was unlikely he would be allowed to use it.
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Ambassador Charged, Jailed for Vast Corruption
Suth Dina, who rose through the ranks of the Foreign Ministry to become Cambodia’s top diplomat in South Korea in 2014, continued his fall from grace on Thursday as he was imprisoned on charges of corruption and abuse of power, according to his lawyer and the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU). Mr. Dina was arrested on Monday afternoon after being summoned to the ACU’s headquarters and remained in the unit’s custody until Thursday morning, when he was sent to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
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Businesswoman Accused of Forging Land Titles
Seang Chan Heng, general director of the Heng Development Company, was tried in absentia by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday on charges of forging land titles to illegally sell 147 hectares of land in Kampong Chhnang’s Relear Pha-ear district in 2007. Ms. Chan Heng, 49, was charged with “forgery of public documents, and use of forged public documents” under articles 626, 627 and 628 of the Penal Code, Judge Long Kesphirum said, reading from the complaint against her.
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Rainsy accuses CPP of fearing strong unions
Self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy late on Wednesday night likened the Cambodian People’s Party-led government’s unease with a strong union movement to Soviet fears of the non-violent rise of the Polish trade union Solidarnosc, or Solidarity, which unseated a repressive Soviet-backed regime in the late 1980s. Writing on his Facebook page, Rainsy said the government’s passing of the trade union law and violent backlash at protesters on Monday were emblematic of the current regime’s fear of a worker’s movement “fighting for freedom”.
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Probe Into Justice Minister Possible, ACU Chief Says
The Anti-Corruption Unit has not yet opened an investigation into Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana’s secretive offshore holdings, but the unit’s chairman said on Thursday that a future probe could not be ruled out. “It’s not just wet—it’s saturated,” ACU Chairman Om Yentieng said wryly of widespread media coverage of news that Mr. Vong Vathana had been a stakeholder in a now-defunct company based in the British Virgin Islands. “We have heard it.”
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UN to Assist NEC Ahead of Elections
The United Nations is ready to cooperate with and support the National Election Committee (NEC) with additional aid, providing it submits a written letter of intent to the UN’s office in the country. The decision was made yesterday after a meeting at the NEC head office between UN Assistant Secretary-General Miroslave Janca, Shin Umezu, the official in charge of political affairs in the Asia-Pacific region, and NEC chairman Sik Bunhok.
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‘Very Slow’ Ministers Move Out
The two ministers who were publicly scolded for their “very slow” work by Prime Minister Hun Sen in February both gave up control to their successors at a pair of handover ceremonies in Phnom Penh on Wednesday as part of a cabinet reshuffle approved by lawmakers on Monday. In a speech that proved humiliating for Agriculture Minister Ouk Rabun and Public Works and Transport Minister Tram Iv Tek in late February, Mr. Hun Sen gave them both an unofficial F-grade for what he called their sluggish performance and hinted at the shakeup to come.
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Heat, fumes to blame for Battambang mass fainting
Thirty footwear factory workers fainted at the Aerosoft Summit Footwear factory in Battambang province yesterday due to poor ventilation, overwork and unusually hot weather. Sampov Loun district deputy chief Ly Rom said that 29 women and one man felt nauseous and had headaches before collapsing around lunchtime.
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NGOs vow to continue union law opposition
Following the passage of the controversial trade union law on Monday, international rights groups say they will continue to oppose the legislation, which will now move to the Senate for approval. Human Rights Watch and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Parliamentarians for Human Rights both called the passage of the law a setback for workers’ rights in Cambodia; with the latter saying the government failed to “conduct genuine, inclusive public consultations”.
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Suth Dina expected to appear in court today
The parents of Cambodia’s ambassador to South Korea, Suth Dina, yesterday made a public appeal to Prime Minister Hun Sen, as their son, who is accused of corruption, prepared to spend his third night in custody ahead of a likely court appearance this morning. Dina was taken into custody on Monday by the Anti-Corruption Unit, whose president, Om Yentieng, says the body has been probing a raft of complaints against the envoy.
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Saphea blames Vun for Assembly attack
Kong Saphea, one of two CNRP lawmakers severely beaten outside parliament by a pro-ruling party mob last year, yesterday suggested senior CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun may have organised the pair’s assault, after Vun made comments appearing to shift the blame for the attack to the victims. The public war of words erupted after Vun, a Cambodian People’s Party spokesman, said Saphea and Nhay Chamroeun, who were set upon as they attempted to leave the parliament on October 26, would have avoided the attack if they had not chosen to leave the assembly.
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Capitol Bus brawl duo given bail before trial
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court granted bail yesterday to Capitol Bus Company driver Norn Vanna and Cambodian Labour Confederation member Ros Siphay, who were arrested after striking drivers were brutally attacked by a tuk-tuk union in early February. The men, who are charged with intentional violence, aggravation against authorities and blocking traffic, were released yesterday. Requests to drop the charges were denied, said defence lawyer Kim Socheat. “I think it will be fair for my clients only when the case is closed and they are freed,” Socheat said.
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Russia Claims Cambodia Failed To Notify of Embezzler’s Arrest
Cambodian officials have not informed Russian authorities about the arrest of a wanted embezzler in Sihanoukville last month, despite apprehending him at their request, Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday. Acting on a months-old arrest warrant from the Appeal Court, police in the seaside city arrested Russian national Vladimir Batalin, 37, on the afternoon of March 28 and later transferred him to Phnom Penh. According to the warrant, he has been wanted in his home country for “cheating a company of money” in 2007 and 2008.
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Court Releases Activist, Former Capitol Tours Bus Driver on Bail
Former Capitol Tours bus driver Nan Vanna and labor activist Ros Siphay were released on bail Wednesday, nearly two months after they were arrested for taking part in a demonstration against the company during which protesters were attacked by a mob of angry tuk-tuk drivers. Ros Piseth, an investigating judge at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, said the men had been released on bail after assuring court officials that they would appear at the court when called.
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Drivers Released, but Boycott Continues
Two former Capitol Tours bus drivers who have been in jail since early February were released on bail yesterday afternoon after fired bus drivers resumed their protest in front of the company’s office near Orussey Market yesterday morning. The group reiterated calls for the public to boycott the bus service.
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