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Gov’t slams edict pushback
Council of Ministers Secretary of State Tek Reth Samrach yesterday rebuked opposition lawmakers Ho Vann and Son Chhay over their criticism of a government directive forbidding ministry employees from dealing directly with lawmakers on corruption issues, calling both misinformed and accusing Chhay of “incitement and provocation”.
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Council of Ministers Defends Gov’t Corruption Probe Directive
The Council of Ministers on Monday convened a press conference to defend a directive circulated this month telling government officials to seek clearance from their superiors before providing information to lawmakers investigating corruption claims.
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“Realpolitik†In Action
PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – Monday’s comments by Opposition leader Mr. Sam Rainsy on the Law on Nongovernmental Organizations (LANGO) represent an ideal description of “realpolitik” and his version of keeping alive the culture of dialogue. His comments on LANGO give us a lot of insight into how Mr. Rainsy thinks and works, and why “Black Ops” are crucial to political success.
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Sweep targets still in lockup
More than 100 men, women and children rounded up from Phnom Penh’s streets last week remained in detention yesterday at the notorious Prey Speu Social Affairs Centre, with orders from City Hall to keep them there indefinitely.
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World Bank Urged to Speak Up for Bullied Protesters
Human Rights Watch says the World Bank is not doing enough to help people in Cambodia and elsewhere who are facing government harassment for speaking out against Bank-funded projects gone bad.
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Unions agree to push for $177 wage at meet
Leaders of several independent garment-worker unions yesterday agreed that they will again push for a $177 monthly minimum wage next year, with negotiations officially slated to begin next month, according to the head of Cambodia’s largest independent garment union.
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Five guilty of luring brides to China
Five suspects were sentenced yesterday at Phnom Penh Municipal Court for attempting to traffic Cambodian women to China for marriage in December of 2014. Chinese nationals Huy De Hua, 35, and Xie Tao Seng, 50, were sentenced to seven years in prison, and Zhou Yanping, 42, was sentenced to five years in prison for “attempting to commit human trafficking”, according to the presiding judge, Kor Vandy.
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EU, Japan to provide election support
The European Union plans to spend about $11.3 million over three years to boost election reform in Cambodia, while Japanese experts will arrive in July to advise the National Election Committee (NEC), it was announced yesterday.
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Reporters briefly held for filming at crossing
Two SEATV reporters were allegedly detained for several hours on Saturday by border police officials in Banteay Meanchey after capturing photos and footage of the flow of illegal workers and smuggled goods at the Cambodia-Thailand border checkpoint in Poipet town’s Kbal Koh village.
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Host of groups call for scrapping the NGO law
More than a dozen international advocacy groups wrote to National Assembly President Heng Samrin asking him to withdraw a controversial draft law on NGOs and associations. The group said the draft “appears designed to restrict the legitimate activities of civil society and human rights defenders in violation of the right to freedom of association”.
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Opposition to Draft NGO Law Continues to Grow Abroad
Opposition to the latest draft of a proposed law that aims to regulate the hundreds of NGOs in the country continues to mount ahead of a pending vote, with a group of 10 international rights groups urging the government to scrap what they call a “severely flawed document.”
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Opposition blocked at border
Opposition lawmakers are set to send a joint letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen next week urging the premier to lodge a complaint to the International Court of Justice over Vietnam ignoring Cambodian diplomatic notes protesting its alleged border encroachment.
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Farmers cry foul on excavation
Four families in Kandal province’s Muk Kampoul district have sued a local official who they accuse of colluding with a village chief to excavate their rice fields without their permission. The families, from Svay Chrom and Lor Ith villages, filed their complaint to the provincial court in late May, claiming that several workers from a nearby company had been allowed by Khun Sokhem, Prek Dambang commune chief, and Koe Kem, the Svay Chrum village chief, to excavate their land, damaging irrigation systems.
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CNRP will vote against draft NGO law, Sam Rainsy says
Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy told representatives of NGOs today that lawmakers from his party will vote against the controversial draft law on associations and NGOs if it is not amended. “Having no law is better than this one,” Mr. Rainsy said, referring to the draft legislation approved by the Council of Ministers and sent to the National Assembly for debate.
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CNRP Leads Trip to Another Disputed Vietnamese Border Area
Opposition lawmaker Um Sam An on Saturday led about 200 nationalist activists to inspect a non-demarcated strip of land along Kandal province’s disputed border with Vietnam where the Vietnamese government is constructing a military outpost.
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Floating community clears out before date
Forty four families living in Kandal’s Akrei Khsat commune, characterised by its ethnic Vietnamese population and floating homes, have jumped ship prior to their June 22 eviction deadline, moving to other parts of the country out of fear they would be forcibly removed.
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Kratie’s Villagers Continue Protesting in Phnom Penh
More than 50 villagers embroiled in a land dispute in Kampong Damrei commune, Chhloung district, Kratie province regrouped in front of the National Assembly on 22 June 2015 after arriving in Phnom Penh at the end of last month. “We come here to meet parliamentarians because we have been waiting for a solution to our land dispute for more than three weeks in Phnom Penh,” said Uch Phally, 36, one of the villagers who showed up at the main gate of the National Assembly despite the heat.
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R’kiri asylum seekers get to the capital
After spending five days hiding out in the forest in Ratanakkiri province, two teenage Montagnard asylum seekers made their way to Phnom Penh on Friday where they joined more than 100 others waiting to be registered.
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CNRP will vote against draft NGO law, Sam Rainsy says
PHNOM PENH, (Khmer Times) – Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy told representatives of NGOs today that lawmakers from his party will vote against the controversial draft law on associations and NGOs if it is not amended. “Having no law is better than this one,” Mr. Rainsy said, referring to the draft legislation approved by the Council of Ministers and sent to the National Assembly for debate. He made the comments during a meeting with representatives of civil society at the National Assembly this afternoon.
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Rent law heads to assembly
The draft of a rent-control law aimed at regulating rising housing prices and sudden rental hikes for low-income workers and students is expected to go before the National Assembly by the end of June, officials from the bipartisan working group in charge of the law said yesterday.
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