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Try Pheap Concessions Among 26 Canceled by Ministry in 2014
The Environment Ministry announced Tuesday it had canceled 26 economic land concessions covering 117,000 hectares last year, including two held by timber magnate Try Pheap in Ratanakkiri province’s Virachey National Park.
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Villagers Arrested at Siem Reap Protest Charged With Incitement
Two villagers arrested in Siem Reap province on Monday during a protest over a land dispute were charged with incitement by the provincial court Tuesday, their lawyer said.
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Police Step In to Stop Land Dispute Scuffle
About 50 protesters faced off Tuesday against one of their former allies in a yearslong dispute over less than a hectare of land in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district, scuffling briefly before local authorities promised to help resolve the conflict.
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Villagers: road blocked on way to PM’s speech
Nearly 300 villagers in Tbong Khmum province locked in a land dispute with the Memot Rubber Plantation Co were blocked by authorities yesterday from taking their case to Prime Minister Hun Sen, who was giving a speech in the area, village representatives said.
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UN panel to review children’s rights issues
Next week, Cambodia’s record on child rights will be scrutinised by a United Nations panel in Geneva. As one of 193 states to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Cambodia undergoes a record review by experts and member states periodically. Its first review was in 2000.
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Case Against Villagers Delayed as Mysterious Accuser Absent
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday postponed the trial of four villagers from Russei Keo district accused of using violence against a landowner, after the mysterious plaintiff in the case failed to appear in court.
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ILO Urges Global Brands to Help Pay for New Minimum Wage
The International Labor Organization is urging global brands to help absorb the costs Cambodia’s garment factories will have to bear owing to a $28 jump in the monthly minimum wage for garment workers that takes effect this month.
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Two Villagers Detained During Roadblock Protest in Siem Reap
Two villagers were detained in Siem Reap province on Monday as they participated in a large protest that blocked the main road leading to Kulen Mountain, a popular tourist attraction in Banteay Srei district, villagers and an official said.
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Montagnards Still in Hiding; Authorities Remain Silent
Five Montagnard asylum seekers who crossed into Ratanakkiri province from Vietnam on Saturday remained in hiding Monday, a villager looking after the group said.
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Brands urged to step up
n an open letter to global apparel brands that buy from factories in Cambodia, the International Labour Organization urges the companies to “play their part” in absorbing the financial strain local garment factories expect from the Kingdom’s new minimum wage.
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CNRP Lawmakers Summoned in Insurrection Case
At least four opposition CNRP lawmakers have been summoned to appear at the Supreme Court on January 19 for questioning over their role in an alleged “insurrection” at a protest they held at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on July 15.
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NEC voter list sees big changes
The National Election Committee has updated its voter list for the 2018 national elections, so far adding 177,805 voters and deleting 108,800, according to the NEC’s website. But talks between the Cambodian People’s Party and the Cambodia National Rescue Party about the voter list update are ongoing, Kuoy Bunroeun of the CNRP said yesterday.
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Police Retake Hijacked Tractor From Angry Farmers in Mondolkiri
Ethnic Bunong farmers in a land dispute with a Vietnamese-owned rubber plantation in Mondolkiri province gave up control of a company bulldozer they seized last week after dozens of armed police and military police showed up on Saturday to take it back.
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Changing river: Resources of Mekong to be studied
Heeding calls for more study of the Mekong, Cambodia and Laos have launched a project to monitor transboundary fisheries resources.
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New Montagnards cross
More Montagnard asylum seekers arrived in Ratanakkiri province last week, two of whom were immediately deported, just days after 13 others were given safe passage to claim asylum from religious persecution, villagers and activists said yesterday.
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Police Prevent Veng Sreng Slaying Commemorations
About 300 monks, workers and activists were prevented from marching along Phnom Penh’s factory-lined Veng Sreng Street on Saturday to mark the slaying of five striking workers there by military police a year before.
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Military Police Commander Accused of Extortion, Torture
Military police in Stung Treng province said Sunday they were searching for the person responsible for anonymously distributing hundreds of leaflets Saturday in Stung Treng City accusing the provincial military police commander of being an extortionist, drug kingpin and thief.
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Answers sought for Veng Sreng
Families of those shot dead on Veng Sreng Boulevard in January last year have called on National Assembly President Heng Samrin to summon Defence Minister Tea Banh and Interior Minister Sar Kheng for questioning over the brutal crackdown in a letter obtained yesterday.
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Police Bar Borei Keila March on Eviction Anniversary
About 100 military police, riot police and government security guards on Saturday blocked a roughly equal number of protesters from Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila community from marching to the National Assembly to deliver a petition protesting their evictions three years ago.
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CNRP Lawmaker to Examine Vietnamese Graves in Kampot
Opposition CNRP lawmaker Yem Ponhearith, who chairs the National Assembly’s committee on education, sport and religion, said Sunday that he will lead an expedition to Kampot province’s Bokor Mountain next month to inspect Vietnamese graves said to be drawing Vietnamese tourists.
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