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Self-Exiled Political Activist Returns After King Grants Pardon
Moeung Sonn, a self-exiled political activist found guilty of disinformation in July 2009 over his claims that a lighting installation on Angkor Wat would damage the temple, returned to Cambodia on Monday, vowing to revive the nationalist NGO he headed when he fled six years ago.
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Tigers, cobras wished on firm
Villagers at odds with Chinese plantation firms in Preah Vihear province yesterday morning held a ceremony to curse the companies for allegedly conspiring to evict them from their land since 2012.
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Polonsky Camp Accuses Cambodia of Rights Abuses
A day after Russian businessman Sergei Polonsky was deported from Cambodia, the eccentric former billionaire’s family and friends on Monday publicly accused Cambodian authorities of acting “in breach of his human rights” and “against both Cambodian and international law.”
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Eleven of 96 Chinese Construction Workers Return Home
Eleven of the more than 90 Chinese construction workers on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich island who claim their employer withheld their pay and confiscated their passports returned to China on Monday, according to a police official.
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Villagers Protest at National Assembly Over Land Dispute
About 100 villagers involved in two different land disputes in Kratie and Preah Vihear provinces converged on the National Assembly in Phnom Penh on Monday to ask the country’s lawmakers for help in settling their cases.
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Landless Families Promised Plots on Kampot Site
A provincial official in Kampot said Sunday that landless families squatting on a disputed 1,300-hectare area in Chhuk district—the site of a visit by hundreds of student activists Sunday—would be awarded plots of land there.
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Rights group decries gov’t anti-net ‘arsenal’
As internet access spreads rapidly among the population, the “newfound space for free expression” is increasingly under government attack, local rights group Licadho said yesterday. In its report, titled Going Offline? The Threat to Cambodia’s Newfound Internet Freedoms, Licadho says government efforts to monitor web content, backed by a “new legal arsenal”, are threatening what has become “an essential tool through which citizens can share information on the social and political issues that affect their lives”.
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Activist Threatens Protests Against Minister
The head of the Federation of Cambodian Intellectuals and Students said Sunday that he is planning to hold a series of protests to demand that Foreign Minister Hor Namhong apologize for saying a disputed 16.6-hectare plot of land on the border of Tbong Khmum province belongs to Vietnam.
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Discrimination a fact of LGBTI life: group
When Srorn Srun, founder of the human rights organisation CamASEAN, checked his Facebook account on Saturday, he found an upsetting, but not uncommon message.
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Interior Minister Says Refugee Decision Pending
Interior Minister Sar Kheng said over the weekend that there was still no arrival date set for a group of four refugees who have volunteered to resettle in Cambodia and are reportedly being held in northern Australia pending their trip here.
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Kem Sokha pushes for more judicial reforms
Deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha has called on Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy to use the recently forged “culture of dialogue” with the ruling Cambodian People’s Party to push the government to reform the judiciary.
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Ninety-Five Chinese Construction Workers Protesting to Go Home
Ninety-five Chinese nationals working at a construction site on Koh Pich island protested outside the Chinese Embassy on Friday and then visited a commune office on Saturday to lodge a complaint against their employer for allegedly confiscating their passports.
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Activists Decry US Deportation of Cambodians
Cambodian-Americans Chanravy Proeung and Mia-lia Kiernan flew to Geneva this past week on a mission: stopping the U.S. practice of deporting Cambodians with criminal convictions
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Meta House Hosts Gay Pride Film Festival
Cambodia’s annual LGBT pride celebration will begin with a launch party on Sunday under the motto “I Am What I Am” at Phnom Penh’s Meta House, followed by nearly a week of documentary films starting Tuesday.
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Illegal charcoal export still going on: activists
Residents and conservationists in western Cambodia have denounced the renewed exportation of charcoal to Thailand, an illegal practice allegedly reliant on corruption that places the future of protected forests in peril.
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Study group denied access to Prey Lang
A group led by social analyst and political activist Kem Ley decided to halt their study expedition yesterday in Stung Treng’s Thala Barivat district after authorities denied them entry to the area on Wednesday. The trip, according to Ley, aims to familiarise students and monks with the destruction of the Prey Lang forest – which is bordered by Thala Barivat district, among others – and have them understand the situation of the locals living in the area.
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Not making the grade
A new report from the World Economic Forum underscores Cambodia’s poor performance at providing the education and training needed to guarantee future prosperity, though experts say the country is slowly improving. The Human Capital Report 2015, published on Wednesday, lists Cambodia 97th out of 124 nations. Among its Southeast Asian peers, only Laos and Myanmar feature further down the rankings.
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Send Rohingya to Cambodia: Malaysian Minister
A Malaysian minister has said that the U.N. should send Rohingya and Bangladeshi asylum seekers stranded off his country’s coastline to Cambodia and the Philippines, rather than attempt to persuade his government to house them, Malaysian media reported on Thursday.
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Rights Group Denies Minister’s Accusations
Rights group Adhoc on Thursday rejected Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem’s recent accusation that the organization was somehow manipulating and prolonging a long-running land dispute between his wife, Chea Kheng, and a group of villagers in Kompong Chhnang province.
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After Riverbank Collapse, Vattanac a No Show
More than 10 days after a section of the Tonle Sap riverbank collapsed in Phnom Penh, causing five houses to fall into the water, the Vattanac company, which residents blame for the destruction, has not yet met with the villagers to discuss compensation, a local official said Thursday.
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