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After Raids, Police Hunt Owner of Forest Furniture Workshops
Authorities in Stung Treng province are searching for the owner of two furniture workshops that were raided and shut down on Wednesday for making wooden doors and shutters out of first-grade timber, officials said Thursday.
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Police Stop Workers from Taking Petition to Japanese Embassy
Traffic police in Svay Rieng province briefly detained three striking workers from a Japanese watch factory Thursday after preventing them from traveling to Phnom Penh to lodge a petition with the Japanese Embassy.
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Farmers Told to Stop Farming on Vietnam Land
Authorities in Tbong Khmum province on Thursday told villagers to stop farming a piece of land in Memot district after Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong said that the 16.6-hectare plot belonged to Vietnam, an official said.
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Secret Draft of NGO Law Arrives at Council of Ministers
The latest draft of a controversial law to regulate the work of the country’s robust NGO sector has reached the Council of Ministers, precluding any more public meetings on the proposed legislation, at least until it arrives at the National Assembly.
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CNRP Urges Police to Find Motive in Activist’s Murder
Opposition CNRP lawmaker Ke Sovannaroth on Thursday called on police to investigate whether there was a political motive in the killing of a party activist in Siem Reap province’s Puok district on Wednesday night.
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Siem Reap Families Kept Out of PM’s Land Deal
A group of 25 families in Siem Reap province who thought they were to be included in a deal Prime Minister Hun Sen personally arranged last month to settle a decades-old land dispute were abruptly informed otherwise Tuesday, when local authorities crashed their celebration plans.
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Foreign Minister Says Land in Dispute Vietnam’s
Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong has come under fire from an opposition lawmaker and villagers in Tbong Khmum province after sending a letter to National Assembly President Heng Samrin this week asserting that a piece of land being farmed by Cambodians actually belongs to Vietnam.
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Rescued Fishermen to Return Home Next Week
Fifty-eight Cambodian fishermen who were rescued from slavery on the small Indonesian island of Benjina last month are set to return home next week, according to the International Organization for Migration, which is arranging their repatriation.
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Official Threatens Arrests Over Workshops: Adhoc
An activist working for human rights group Adhoc in Mondolkiri province said Tuesday that a district governor threatened to arrest Adhoc staffers if they held planned workshops on human rights and democracy next week.
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Commission Questions Minister Over Mega-Project in Koh Kong
After a three-and-a-half hour meeting with the National Assembly’s human rights commission Tuesday, Environment Minister Say Sam Al said he would consider its recommendations for helping families facing eviction by a Chinese mega-project in Koh Kong province, but refrained from making any commitments.
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Cambodia’s ‘Urban Survival Gap’ Among World’s Worst
In Cambodia’s urban areas, poor children are 4.7 times more likely to die before reaching the age of 5 than the children of wealthy parents, making the country’s “urban survival gap” one of the largest in the world, according to a new report.
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Wealth gap means health gap: report
Cambodia is the 132nd worst place in the world to be a mother, according to a recent report. Save the Children’s 16th annual State of the World’s Mothers report ranked 179 countries on its “Mothers Index”, scoring nations on maternal health, child wellbeing and women’s education, economic status and political empowerment.
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Police Chief Calls for End to Impunity For Rich Kids
National Police Commissioner Neth Savoeun said Tuesday that the police and courts should stop offering preferential treatment to the badly behaved children of the rich and powerful, and work on improving prisons to rid them of drugs and crime.
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Disgraced Ex-Commune Chief Gets 3 Years Over Land Feud
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday sentenced a former commune chief to three years in prison for refusing to enforce a 2008 Supreme Court ruling on a land dispute, court officials said.
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Minister ‘will end’ UDG row
Minister of Environment Say Sam Al has pledged to resolve the long-running and at-times violent land dispute between China’s Union Development Group and villagers in Koh Kong province.
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American Gets 2 Years for Sexually Assaulting Girls
The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court on Tuesday sentenced 56-year-old U.S. national Robert Hays to two years in prison for sexually abusing two underage girls and ordered that he be deported upon his release, court officials said.
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UN Agency Concerned Over More Montagnard Asylum Seekers
PHNOM PENH— UN officials say they remain concerned over the wellbeing of Vietnamese Montagnard asylum seekers who flee to Cambodia, including a new group reportedly in hiding near the border. Wan Hea Lee, country representative for the UN rights office in Cambodia, said in an email Friday her agency “is very concerned about Cambodia’s compliance with its obligations under international refugee and human rights law, as we are for the well-being of those still in Ratanakkiri (province).”
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After Long Wait, Families From ‘Bird’s Nest’ Begin Move
About ten families on Monday moved into their new homes at a relocation site on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, nearly a decade after being forcibly evicted from the city center along with nearly 1,000 others and having spent the past three years living in squalor along an open sewer.
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Civil society renews calls for input on NGO law
Nearly 300 local and international NGOs yesterday held a press conference to petition the Cambodian government to suspend its adoption of a controversial draft law on NGOs that would curb organisations’ freedom of movement. They said the state should first consult with stakeholders to ensure the law’s effectiveness.
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‘Contradicting’ laws limit access
To ensure transparency in the Kingdom, NGOs and journalists urged the government yesterday at a World Press Freedom Day event to revise current contradicting legislation on information disclosure and include the media’s input in the drafting of the upcoming access to information law.
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