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Hun Sen signs off on Siem Reap land dispute
Prime Minister Hun Sen has signed two decrees handing more than 225 hectares of land held by a luxury resort in the tourist hot spot of Siem Riep to villagers who have lived there for decades. The decrees, signed on Friday and yesterday, pass 115.41 hectares of land from the Borey Angkor Siem Reap resort to 727 families from Siem Reap’s Slakram commune, and a further 111 hectares held by the resort to families from Ampil commune.
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Two Men Arrested for Raping 15-Year-Old Girl in Rice Field
Police arrested two men in Kep City’s O’Krasar commune on Saturday night after catching them in the act of raping a 15-year-old girl, city police chief Kol Sinath said Sunday.
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Network bust doesn’t stop logging
Villagers in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district last week seized several logs of illegal timber, ending what they said had been a lull in illegal logging since the arrests of two officials accused of colluding with loggers. Lam villager Romas Svat, 50, said yesterday that he and two local forest patrollers in O’Yadav’s Pak Nhai commune spotted six loggers – believed to have crossed over from Vietnam – carrying six logs. “When they saw us, they unloaded the timber and escaped,” Svat said.
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Labour day: Unions, CPP promote factory ties
About 3,000 union representatives, teachers and senior officials from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party gathered at a ceremony on Koh Pich yesterday to mark the 129th International Labour Day – as well as to bolster support for the ruling party, one official noted. The gathering – which was part celebration and part meeting – was presided over by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who called for players in the Kingdom’s industrial sector to improve living and workplace conditions for workers.
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Gov’t Settles Land Dispute After Hun Sen’s Visit
Just two days after Prime Minister Hun Sen promised to resolve a 20-year-old land dispute in Siem Reap City, the government on Friday issued a subdecree that divides 115 hectares of the contested plot between more than 700 families.
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CNRP’s Sovannara on trial
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court today is scheduled to hear the trial of opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party activist Meach Sovannara, who was charged with leading a violent “insurrection” after an opposition demonstration turned violent last July. Observers have long asserted that Sovannara’s case was being used by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party to exert pressure on the opposition during the long negotiations over new laws governing elections.
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UK Study Warns of Rubber Market’s Impact on Local Wildlife
A booming natural rubber market fueled by the global tire industry is proving “catastrophic” for endangered species in Cambodia and the rest of Southeast Asia, U.K. researchers argue in a new paper.
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Jarai Minder Tells Montagnards to Stop Coming
An ethnic Jarai man who has assisted the more than 90 Montagnards who have fled Vietnam since October said Thursday that he has started warning the asylum seekers not to attempt to cross into Cambodia, explaining that they will likely be arrested and deported.
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With One Visit, Hun Sen Ends Twenty-Year Land Dispute
A 20-year-old land dispute effectively came to an end Wednesday for hundreds of families in Siem Reap City after Prime Minister Hun Sen announced that the government would grant them the plot, which it awarded to the Apsara Authority in 1995.
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Jailed Protest Leaders Claim Police Tried to Cut Deal
A man who was jailed on child sex charges in Mondolkiri province on Saturday told a group of his neighbors on Monday that police said they would help get his sentence reduced if he promised to stop protesting against a Vietnamese rubber plantation, the villagers said Tuesday. Police arrested Yan Mao, 31, in Keo Seima district on Friday after the Mondolkiri Provincial Court ordered that he be taken into custody for allegedly having sex with an underage girl—now 14—on multiple occasions over the past two years.
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Activists, Monks Feted by CNRP After Release
CNRP faithful massed outside the party’s Phnom Penh headquarters Monday afternoon to welcome five opposition figures and three monks who were imprisoned in recent months on charges widely seen as political and released on bail following court hearings Monday morning. During the hearings, judges agreed to release the activists before the Khmer New Year holiday, which begins today, because their detention was not necessary to continue proceedings against them.
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World Bank Says Growth to Slow in Coming Years
Falling rice production and rising labor costs will continue to drag down the pace of economic growth in Cambodia over the next three years, the World Bank said Monday—a relatively gloomy counterpoint to the coming rebound the Asian Development Bank (ADB) predicted only last month. In its East Asia and Pacific Economic Update released Monday, the World Bank said the growth rate of Cambodia’s gross domestic product (GDP) will drop from 7 percent in 2014 to 6.9 percent in 2015 and 2016, and to 6.8 percent the year after that. According to the Bank, the country’s economy has been slowing since 2013.
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Man Arrested for Murder, Attempted Rape of 15-Month-Old Girl
A 36-year-old man was arrested in Koh Kong province on Sunday night after he allegedly attempted to rape and then murdered his friend’s 15-month-old daughter by grabbing her by the legs and smashing her head against stones on the ground, local police said Monday.
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New NEC Chairman Praises ‘Good Example’ of Predecessors
Upon officially taking the helm of the country’s revamped National Election Committee (NEC) on Monday, Sik Bunhok promised to follow in the footsteps of the outgoing committee members, most of whom were widely lambasted as tools of the ruling CPP. Since the government created the NEC 17 years ago and stacked it with old CPP hands, opposition parties, rights groups and election monitors have regularly accused the committee of running the country’s elections in the ruling party’s favor.
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Fishermen Claim Victory Against Sand Dredgers
An environmental activist and a fisherman said Sunday that about 70 residents of Koh Kong province had worked together over the past few days to chase away sand-dredging barges they accused of operating illegally around Koh Kapi island and damaging vital fishing grounds.
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Mondolkiri Protest Leader Jailed Over Alleged Sex With Minor
The Mondolkiri Provincial Court on Saturday charged a man with having sex with an underage girl, but a rights worker and the girl’s father said Sunday that the allegations were fabricated in retaliation for the man’s involvement in recent protests against a Vietnamese rubber plantation.
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Rong Chhun ready to scrap
Newly appointed election monitor Rong Chhun has come out swinging ahead of today’s official swearing in of the nine new National Election Committee members, saying he is “sharpening his spurs” for a potential showdown. The longtime president of the Cambodian Independent Teachers Association yesterday said that he would not follow the lead of previous under-the-radar NEC appointees, but would instead voice his concerns to the media whenever possible.
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With Election Talks Over, Jailed Activists Freed
Ten imprisoned land-rights activists celebrated at CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha’s villa in Phnom Penh on Saturday afternoon after being released from jail following the end of political negotiations between the CPP and CNRP.
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Cambodian Activists Released
After a lawyer and lawmaker for Cambodia’s opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) announced that negotiations between the ruling party and the CNRP had taken place over the release of imprisoned activists and opposition politicians, ten land rights activists from Phnom Penh’s Boeung Kak Lake received a royal pardon and were released from prison on Saturday afternoon.
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Cambodian Authorities Free Opposition Party Members, Land Activists
Five Cambodian opposition party activists and three monks were released from jail on bail on Monday, two days after 10 imprisoned land-rights activists were granted amnesty and released from the same notorious detention center. The release of the prisoners from Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison followed successful negotiations last week between the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) on the approval of members to the National Election Committee (NEC), which oversees elections in the country.
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