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One in five students ‘saw gender violence’
More than 60 per cent of Cambodian students have experienced gender-based violence in schools, with staff committing the violence a fifth of the time, according to a new research report from Plan International and the International Center for Research on Women. The Kingdom, however, still had the second-lowest rate of school violence, which includes “emotional violence” such as insults or threats, out of five Asian countries surveyed; only Pakistan fared better.
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Release plan ignores issue: org
Local rights group Licadho yesterday praised the government’s plan to release a number of incarcerated women who are pregnant or have their children with them in prison within the next week, but said deeper reforms are needed. In a statement, the NGO said it welcomed an announcement last week from a newly-established Justice Ministry committee that 15 women with children and one pregnant woman will be released from prison before International Women’s Day on Sunday.
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Areng Valley Activist Denies Illegal Logging Allegations
An environmental activist in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley on Monday denied building an ecotourism information center with illegally logged wood after he was summoned to the local court to answer questions over alleged forestry crimes. Ven Vorn, 36—who is ethnic Chong and worked closely with recently deported Spanish activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson to oppose a planned hydropower dam in the valley—has been summoned to appear before the Koh Kong Provincial Court on March 10.
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Police Deny Arrest of 36 Montagnards
The chief of police in Ratanakkiri province on Monday denied that authorities arrested 36 Montagnards, who the U.N. and local villagers say were deported to Vietnam last week while attempting to reach Phnom Penh to apply for asylum. Wan-Hea Lee, country representative for the U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, said on Sunday that the group was arrested and deported on Wednesday.
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Business Registrations Up 29 Percent in 2014
Nearly 4,000 businesses registered with the Ministry of Commerce in 2014, a 29 percent gain over the year before, figures provided Monday by the ministry show. According to the ministry, 3,850 businesses registered last year, up from 2,986 in 2013. Trademarks registered with the ministry rose from 5,866 in 2013 to 6,075 last year—4,829 of which were foreign.
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Officials silent as Montagnard helper still missing
A Cambodian man, who was allegedly arrested last week because of his efforts to help Montagnard asylum seekers, remained missing for a fifth day yesterday, with officials claiming no knowledge of his whereabouts. Dy Heun was reportedly arrested in Ratanakkiri province in the early hours of Thursday morning, while driving towards Phnom Penh with 36 Montagnards who had fled alleged persecution in Vietnam.
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Raise in store for teachers: PM
Cambodia's lowest-paid teachers will receive a $25 increase to their base monthly salary by the end of May, the government revealed yesterday. Prime Minister Hun Sen announced the raise at the opening of the 2015 National Literacy Campaign yesterday and reiterated his pledge to establish a base teacher salary of $250 by 2018.
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Election Law Drafted; Status of Hun Sen’s Demand Unclear
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday welcomed the end of talks over changes to the national election law and said the opposition CNRP has agreed to include in the law his proposal to strip National Assembly seats from any political party that boycotts parliament after an election. Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said that the draft law was completed Monday evening and does not, to his knowledge, include the rule proposed by Mr. Hun Sen, but added that further discussions about the proposal will be held.
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City Stalls as Chroy Changva Families Demand Intervention
About 50 people with claims to land being developed in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva peninsula protested in front of City Hall on Monday and delivered a petition on behalf of more than 100 families demanding intervention in their dispute with the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC).
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Gov’t issues own dispute data
After heaping criticism on rights group Licadho for allegedly exaggerating the seriousness of Cambodia’s land rights crisis last month, the government has released its own annual report on land disputes. However, the report omits an overall figure for the number of disputes or affected families, making comparisons with Licadho’s findings difficult.
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Study Details KR Abuse of Transgender People
Despite being born female in Takeo province’s Bati district, Sok Yun never felt like a girl growing up. “I started living like a boy from the age of 8…. I wanted to be a strong man and do all the jobs that men would do, not a weak woman,” Mr. Yun said in an interview Monday.
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Three men arrested, one shot by Thai forces
A Cambodian national was shot and two others arrested in Thailand last week while allegedly smuggling drugs across the border, officials said yesterday. Ho Sakun, director of the Interior Ministry’s Central Border Department, said the shooting – which came just days after the Interior Ministry released a report revealing that nine Cambodians were shot dead by Thai soldiers in 2014 alone, and 19 arrested – took place in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province at around 5pm on Wednesday.
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Women Saved From Sex Work Before Boarding Plane for Malaysia
Phnom Penh anti-human trafficking police prevented an accused sex trafficker from boarding a plane on Saturday along with five women—including a teenager—she was planning to sell into the sex trade in Malaysia, officials said Sunday. Keo Thea, municipal anti-human trafficking police chief, said police received a complaint from the parents of the 16-year-old girl on Thursday and began investigating.
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Montagnards Attempting to Reach Capital Deported
A group of 36 Montagnard asylum seekers who went missing last week after they left their hiding places in the forests of Ratanakkiri province have been arrested and deported back to Vietnam, the U.N. and local villagers said Sunday. Wan-Hea Lee, country representative for the U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in an email that the group, who attempted to leave Ratanakkiri for Phnom Penh on Wednesday night, were deported on the same day.
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Refugee helper missing
A Cambodian national who was allegedly arrested on Thursday alongside dozens of Montagnard asylum seekers remained missing yesterday, while those sent back to Vietnam were reportedly abused by authorities for their attempted escape. Forty-two-year-old Dy Heun, an ethnic Jarai from Ratanakkiri province, was officially reported missing yesterday to local rights group Adhoc.
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Parties finish draft electoral law
Putting a cap on months of negotiations, representatives from the Cambodian People’s Party and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party finalised a draft election reform law on Saturday, dodging a threat from Prime Minister Hun Sen to take the dispute over the law’s provisions to the floor of parliament.
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Parties Officially Form Group to Draft New Rent Control Law
The country’s two major political parties officially formed a working group on Friday to hammer out a new law meant to stop landlords from hiking rents every time migrant workers—mainly in the garment sector—get a pay rise, according to a statement. Interior Minister Sar Kheng, a CPP lawmaker, and CNRP President Sam Rainsy agreed on the formation of an eight-member group with four parliamentarians from each party, according to joint statement released following talks between the two on Friday. CPP lawmaker Pen Panha has been appointed to chair the group.
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Villagers Call on Spirit to Curse Officials, Company Behind Dam
Villagers in Stung Treng province displeased local authorities on Saturday by holding a traditional ceremony calling upon a powerful local spirit to curse those behind the construction of the Lower Sesan 2 dam. During the ceremony, some 300 members of the Lao and Bunong ethnic minorities marched about 10 km to a shrine dedicated to the local deity Neak Ta Krahomkor, or “Red Neck Spirit,” in Sesan district’s Srekor commune, asking him to protect the villagers from harm and curse the officials and investors behind the dam.
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Charges for rape, murder of 8-year-old
Police have charged a plantation guard who allegedly raped and killed an 8-year-old girl in Kampong Chhnang province last week. So Sim, 40, appeared yesterday at Kampong Chhnang Provincial Court where he was charged with aggravated murder involving torture, cruelty or rape, according to Child Protection Unit’s James McCabe, who assisted local authorities on the case.
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Areng Activist Summoned Over Deforestation Complaint
The Koh Kong Provincial Court has summoned an environmental activist living in the Areng Valley for questioning over allegations that he felled trees in a forest in order to build a community center, rights workers said Sunday. The summons, dated February 25 and signed by prosecutor Bou Bun Hang, orders Ven Vorn, 36—an ethnic Chong villager who worked closely with recently deported Spanish activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson—to appear before the court on March 10 to answer questions over a complaint filed against him by the Forestry Administration’s Koh Kong cantonment in January.
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