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Official in Oz as refugees wait
A government official who is overseeing the refugee resettlement deal has flown to Australia following reports that four refugees who have applied to move to Phnom Penh were secretly transferred to Darwin on Sunday, a source at the Interior Ministry has said.
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Prey Long Activists Return Home After Being Blocked
A group of about 40 youth activists and monks whose trip to Prey Long forest—aimed at educating locals about environmental protection—was blocked by authorities on Wednesday returned to their homes Thursday, an official said.
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Donors to help set up poll rolls
The Electoral Reform Alliance has urged experts from Japan and the European Union not to shy away from addressing “severely undemocratic” provisions of Cambodia’s new election law when they meet with National Election Committee members next week.
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UN envoy’s first official visit set
The UN's newly appointed special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Rhona Smith, will visit the Kingdom for five days this month, in her first official visit since being appointed in March.
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Sex workers call for ‘safe zone’
Phnom Penh sex workers and rights advocates met yesterday to denounce police brutality and corruption, and called on the government to establish a zone where sex workers can operate in safety.
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Minister backs wife in dispute
Minister of Mines and Energy Suy Sem for the first time yesterday publicly threw his support behind KDC International, a company owned by his wife, which has been locked in a years-long land dispute with villagers in Kampong Chhnang province.
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Rainsy criticises land policy
After months of cozying up to Prime Minster Hun Sen, opposition leader Sam Rainsy yesterday took a shot at the government’s land concession policy, saying it had left many families destitute. The Cambodia National Rescue Party president has in recent months toned down his attacks on government shortcomings, preferring to highlight his current détente with Hun Sen, dubbed the “culture of dialogue”.
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EU making ‘progress’ on Mitr Phol sugar disputes
The European Union has said it has made “good progress” towards finalising an agreement with the government over compensation claims made by thousands of villagers from Oddar Meanchey province who were evicted from their homes by Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol.
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Monk accused of child rape defrocked, jailed
Battambang Provincial Court yesterday charged a former monk, who was defrocked, with raping a child, and are holding him in the provincial prison until his trial.
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Villagers claim proof of land ownership
Families in Tbong Khmum province embroiled in land conflicts with two rubber plantations last week sent a letter to the Ministry of Land Management for intervention.
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Bittersweet End Nears for Embattled Land Dispute Family
From his shack on the edge of a busy junction in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district Monday, 58-year-old Ly Sreang Kheng threw a rock at his feet and shook his head at the thought of a condominium stabbing the skyline on land he has spent years fighting for.
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Family of killed migrant: pay up
The family of a migrant worker allegedly shot dead by his Thai supervisor is demanding $30,000 in compensation and urging the Cambodian government to push Thailand to punish the accused killer.
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Sex workers’ health at risk: study
A new report due to be published next month has warned of the detrimental effects to public health created by the heavy-handed policing of sex workers in the capital, though some experts have urged caution in interpreting the study’s results.
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Kandal villagers call for intervention in dispute
Over 100 families hailing from two communes in Kandal have called for justice after claiming two powerful people used their status to grab more than 300 hectares of farmland and sue the residents’ representatives.
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New spat for Preah Vihear company
Representatives of almost 50 families from Preah Vihear’s Chheb district yesterday submitted a petition to the National Assembly and Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cabinet calling for them to intervene in a new land dispute with Chinese company Rui Feng.
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Man sentened 5 years in foreigner rape case
A Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge has sentenced a Nigerian national to five years in prison for beating and raping a Norwegian tourist. Judge Im Vanak announced the sentence against Ekwegbalu Ugochukwu Udok, 26, on Friday, after he was convicted of posing as a taxi driver on the night of December 25 to lure the 27-year-old victim to his rental house.
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Evictees Want Land Back From Nixed Sugar Farms
Farmers in Oddar Meanchey province who were kicked off their land by three now-canceled sugarcane plantations say soldiers have started to move onto their old farms and urged the government Monday to return the the land to the people who lost it.
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Kompong Cham Woman Charged With Human Trafficking
The Kompong Cham Provincial Court on Monday charged a 39-year-old woman with human trafficking after she allegedly tricked more than a dozen people into traveling to work in Malaysia under false premises, officials said.
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Initiative aimed at curbing begging
Thai and Cambodian authorities at the Poipet border crossing are working together on a campaign to diminish human trafficking and child exploitation on the border.
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Enslaved Fishermen Return to Cambodia After Lengthy Ordeal
Fifty-nine Cambodian fishermen who spent years enslaved aboard Thai-captained fishing boats returned home Monday to be welcomed by their relatives at the Phnom Penh International Airport.
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