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Assembly passes LANGO
The National Assembly yesterday passed the controversial NGO law, amid a boycott by the opposition and street demonstrations against the widely criticised legislation. After almost four hours of speeches commending the legislation and criticising their absent opposition counterparts, 68 Cambodian People’s Party lawmakers voted at about 12pm to send the Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organisations (LANGO) to the Senate. Outside, a beefed-up security presence kept protesters from descending on the National Assembly. A force of more than 100 security personnel, armed with shields and batons, blocked a peaceful march of some 300 people who had gathered at nearby Wat Ounalom to march on parliament.
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Families File Petition Over Land Dispute With Dry Port Company
Representatives for 77 families involved in a land dispute with a company that plans to build a dry port and industrial area in Kratie province petitioned the Interior Ministry and the National Assembly in Phnom Penh on Monday against a court order for them to leave their land, officials and villagers said.
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Family of Factory Worker Killed On Job Agrees to Compensation
The family of a worker who was killed Friday in Phnom Penh in a workplace accident at a factory that supplies fashion giant H&M has accepted a payment from factory bosses and will not file a complaint with police, officials said.
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Law on NGOs Passes, Despite Protests and an Opposition Boycott
PHNOM PENH—Despite days of protests in the capital and mounting objections from the international community, ruling party lawmakers on Monday approved a draft law that will regulate the thousands of NGOs in the country. Critics fear the law will be used to shut down or curtail the activities of organizations critical of the government. US Ambassador William Todd has called the law unnecessary, and last week the European Union urged the government to withdraw it from consideration. Sixty-eight National Assembly lawmakers from the Cambodian People’s Party, including Prime Minister Hun Sen and his son, voted in favor of the Law on Associations and NGOs. All fifty-five members of the opposition boycotted the vote.
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Cambodian Parliament Passes Restrictive Draft Law on NGOs
Cambodia’s parliament passed a controversial law on Monday on the regulation of nongovernmental organizations with unanimous approval by ruling-party lawmakers, amid a boycott by the opposition and a last-ditch attempt by protestors to convince the representatives to scrap the restrictive legislation. All 68 members of parliament from Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) passed the draft Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organizations (LANGO), which requires the 5,000 domestic and international NGOs that work in the developing country to register with the government and report their activities and finances or risk fines, criminal prosecution and shut downs.
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Four Convicted Over Attempt to Send Brides to China
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday convicted a Chinese man and three Cambodians of human trafficking over an attempt to send three Cambodian women to China as brides.
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NEC recruiting 2,400
The National Election Committee (NEC) has announced it will recruit 2,400 computer-trained staff to oversee electronic voter registration, due to be launched early next year across more than 1,600 communes. NEC spokesman Hang Puthea confirmed the Japanese government would assist in constructing the computer server for the system and will dispatch a Japanese computer expert to work at the NEC’s computer centre in October. “We don’t know how much [assistance with the server] will cost yet because we still wait for quotes from Japanese companies,” Puthea said yesterday. Talks have been ongoing since July 7 between NEC head Kouy Bunreoun and Japanese representative Ryuichi Tomizawa, who has offered recommendations on how the Cambodian government should design registration procedures, as well as on the creation of a digital voter lists.
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Cambodia Commemorates Khim Sambo’s Death
Last Saturday, Cambodia commemorated the seven year anniversary of the killing of Khim Sambo and his 21-year-old son Khat Sarinpheata. They were both shot on 11 July 2008 by two unidentified men near the Olympic stadium in Phnom Penh, after they had finished exercising. Khim Sambo died on the scene while his son succumbed to his injuries the following day at the hospital. Khim Sambo, 47, was an opposition journalist who had been working since 1997 for the Moneakseka Khmer, a Khmer newspaper aligned with the opposition leader Sam Rainsy. He had frequently wrote about allegations of corruption among the members of the government and was heavily critical towards Hun Sen and the ruling Cambodian People’s Party.
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Woman Jailed for 15 Years Over Attempted Trafficking
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced a Cambodian woman to 15 years in prison on Friday for planning to sell five women into the sex trade in Malaysia.
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Still No Arrest Warrant for Oknha Who Assaulted TV Personality
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has yet to issue an arrest warrant for a real-estate magnate who was caught on video viciously beating a well-known female TV personality at a Phnom Penh restaurant earlier this month, according to police.
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NGO alert: Cambodia legislation gives government new powers to monitor, fine or disband
What happened: The government has just passed a Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organisations (LANGO) which will impose mandatory registration on all domestic and international associations and NGOs, in order to have legal standing. They must also file annual reports on their activities and finances to the government. The legislation has involved long and painful negotiations. Civil society organisations and NGOs continued to protest throughout, and there were protests outside the parliament today as the law was passed.
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Sex Worker Project Faces Challenges
PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – A much-touted HIV-prevention program aimed at Cambodian sex workers has been hitting speed bumps as leaders of the initiative realize the tracking of workers and periodic HIV testing are more of an arduous task than expected. The short-term, fixed contracts given to workers in the entertainment industry are forcing them to constantly shift work places. The SMARTgirl program, first initiated in 2009 and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has been successful, and feedback on results has been positive thus far. The program provides periodic HIV testing to workers and sends counselors to educate sex workers on sexual and reproductive health. Yet, with an ever-changing industry, it’s hard to keep up with women once they have left one workplace for another.
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Cambodian parliament passes controversial NGO law
PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Cambodia's parliament Monday passed a controversial law regulating non-governmental organisations (NGOs), despite a boycott by opposition lawmakers and street protests by activists who say it will hinder their ability to operate. Cambodia is home to some 5,000 NGOs, many of whom provide key services in the impoverished country. The new legislation says that all domestic and international NGOs must report their activities and finances to the government. Failure to comply could result in fines, legal action, bans and "other criminal punishment".
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Migrants get reprieve
Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand have been granted an extension until March 2016 to register and remain in the country legally, following an official visit to Thailand from Cambodian Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong. The visit also saw 16 ancient artefacts officially handed back to the Kingdom by its neighbour. After his return from the two-day trip, Namhong, who is also a deputy prime minister, said a new scheme should also soon be endorsed by Thailand allowing people from border communities to stay in Thailand for up to a month with just the use of a special border pass.
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Authorities to Deport Convicted British Pedophile by Week’s End
A British national and convicted pedophile, who served about three quarters of his two-year sentence for child sex abuse, will be deported to the U.K. by the end of the week, an immigration official said Sunday.
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Unions suggest changes to law
Members of 30 independent and government-leaning labour unions and labour advocacy groups met yesterday to discuss aspects of a draft trade union law they want altered, and strategies for accomplishing the changes. The nearly 200 participants gathered in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district, where they focused on about 30 of the draft legislation’s 91 articles, to bring the much-criticised law more in line with international standards, said Ath Thorn, president of the Cambodian Labour Confederation.
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Gov’t to Inspect Disputed Svay Rieng Border
A team of Cambodian border authorities plan to inspect a disputed area along the Vietnamese border in Svay Rieng province where an opposition lawmaker and NGO director separately claim to have been beaten by Vietnamese civilians, a border official said Sunday.
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CPP Passes NGO Law Amid Opposition Boycott
The CPP’s 68 lawmakers unanimously pushed a controversial NGO law through the National Assembly on Monday morning without debate and without the opposition, whose 55 members boycotted the session in protest over legislation they say the government will use to stifle dissent. The U.S., U.N. and European Union have joined hundreds of local and international
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Company Wanted to Sell Spyware to Cambodia
Italian spyware vendor Hacking Team was working on “potential deals” with customers in several Southeast Asian countries including Cambodia over the past three years, according to internal emails recently released by transparency website Wikileaks.
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Factory worker killed by exploding machine
An employee at a Phnom Penh garment finishing factory that supplies to clothing giant H&M was killed when shrapnel from a machine that exploded struck him in the head. Chea Saroeun, 35, an employee of C Square Garment Finishing Co Ltd, in the capital’s Russey Keo district, was working at a machine that grinds wood on Friday, said Meach Serie, chief of police in Prek Liep commune, where the factory is located. The machine helps power a furnace that creates steam for clothes to be steam-washed before they are sold. An explosion at about 6:20pm on Friday sent the machine’s cover flying, fatally hitting Saroeun in the right side of his head, Serie said. “The victim’s body was brought to his family by officials from the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), which has also offered them 4 million riel [about $1,000] for funeral costs,” Serie said yesterday.
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