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Preah Vihear villagers staying at pagoda march to assembly
Villagers from Preah Vihear province who for the past two months have been staying at Phnom Penh’s Samakki Raingsey pagoda Monday marched to the National Assembly to deliver a petition demanding the return of their farmland. About 70 villagers set off from the pagoda in Meanchey district at about 6:30 a.m. to get a jump on the police that blocked their previous attempts to march to the city center last week, said Thach Ha Sam Ang, the pagoda’s deputy chief monk.
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Court upholds convictions in Monivong bridge clash case
The Appeal Court on Monday upheld the intentional violence convictions against three men over a September 2013 clash between police and civilians on Phnom Penh’s Monivong Bridge during which security forces shot dead a bystander. Va Noeun, 40; Lanh Samoeun, 19; and Nguyen Ti Tek, 20, were all found guilty of intentional violence with aggravating circumstances by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court in March for their role in the clash, which started when police blocked the bridge at the end of the first of a three-day planned protest by the opposition CNRP.
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Chinese Company Guards Raze 21 Homes in Koh Kong
The Chinese-owned Union Development Group (UDG) last week demolished 21 houses on its sprawling $3.8-billion tourism development in Koh Kong province, residents and local officials said Sunday. UDG, which began construction on the 45,000-hectare site inside Botum Sakor National Park in 2010, has so far evicted more than 1,000 families from the land.
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Khmer Rouge Tribunal to Resume Monday; Khieu Samphan’s Team to Boycott
One month after Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan forced the adjournment of their genocide trial by instructing their lawyers to boycott proceedings, the tribunal is scheduled to resume Monday—but with at least one defense team absent. Lawyers for 83-year-old Khieu Samphan, the regime’s former head of state, are planning to continue boycotting the Case 002/02 trial in order to prepare for his appeal against a guilty verdict in the first part of the trial.
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Government defends series of recent arrest
In the face of growing criticism over the arrests of 15 activists and opposition figures last week, the government has released a statement defending their detention and emphasizing its commitment to fighting impunity.
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Union leader takes students on tour of Vietnamese border
Fanning old embers of animosity over land lost to Vietnam, prominent union leader Rong Chhun on Sunday led two busloads of young students and nationalists from Phnom Penh to this rural frontier district to inspect a series of disputed border posts. Acting not in his usual role as president of the Cambodia Independent Teacher’s Association, but as a representative of the Cambodia Watchdog Council, a coalition of student and labor associations, Mr. Chhun led the group on a winding march through rice fields, swamps and brush forest for about three hours.
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Canadian Man dined child sex abuse charges in court
A Canadian man arrested in Siem Reap City in February on suspicion of having sexually abused underage boys denied the allegations during his trial on Friday at the provincial court. Pierre Deslauriers, 70, was arrested on February 23, when police broke down the door to his rented room. Police said the man tried to kill himself upon arrest, stabbing himself in the abdomen and cutting his wrists with a pocketknife. They managed to wrest the knife away and took him to a local hospital, where he was treated.
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Protest held at Prey Sar in support of detainees
Hundreds of people gathered yesterday morning in front of Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison to demand the release of 17 incarcerated activists, monks and opposition members. The detainees include 10 land activists, three monks and four members of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party. Fifteen of them were arrested, charged or convicted last week amid a wave of action that observers and rights groups have dubbed a deliberate attempt to apply pressure on dissenters.
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Evictees preparing complaint
Former residents of two villages in Koh Kong province that were razed last week by security guards for Chinese firm Union Development Group are preparing to file a complaint to Prime Minister Hun Sen. Fourteen homes were destroyed by company security guards Thursday morning, according to villagers and a representative of rights group Licadho. The villagers are now living in an empty pagoda nearby and relying on donations of food and water.
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Unions displaced with wage hike, but not enough to strike
Four of the country’s most prominent unions say they will not strike over the government’s latest rejection of their wage demands for garment workers, making a repeat of the unrest that rocked the garment sector in December and January increasingly unlikely. But they warned that protests could pick up again if landlords around the factories start raising their rents and utility fees, as they usually do whenever wages increase.
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11 members of the Supreme Council of Magistracy for the first term were officially appointed
11 members of the Supreme Council of Magistracy for the first term has been officially appointed accordance with Art 4 of the OFSCM adopted by the National Assembly on Oct 23 2014 and promulgated by the His Majesty the King via Preah Rach Kram No. នស/ រកម/ ០៧១៤/ ០១៧ dated on July 16 ,2014.
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Justice for journalists sought
Local and international NGOs yesterday rallied behind the inaugural United Nation-declared International Day to End impunity for crime against journalists by urging the government to bring perpetrators to justice.
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Union leader to review the VN border
The head of one of Cambodia’s major teachers’ union will lead a group of students near the Vietnamese border to inspect border markers which Cambodian nationalists frequently claim are moved by Vietnam to enlarge its territory.
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Xayaburi dam nearly half done
Construction of the Xayaburi dam on the Makong river in Laos is almost half finished, the developer behind it has said.
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CNRP leaders hammer out party platform
Opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha led a delegation from the CNRP over the weekend in a seminar organized by a pair of German think tanks that have been helping the party develop a coherent political platform. Since its dramatic rise to prominence at the July 2013 election, which came only a year after the party was formed in a merger, the CNRP has been criticized for relying on a narrow set of policies aimed mostly at the ruling CPP’s unpopularity.
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Medicine shop raided
Wildlife Alliance’s Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team raided a shop in Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district on Thursday, finding specimen of 14 rare and endangered species that the shop was embalming in rice wine, which it touted as a medical elixir.
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UDG Guards again accused of violent Eviction
About 40 security guards armed with axes and AK-47s and working for the Chinese-owned Union Development Group yesterday demolished the home of three villagers who claim to own land on UDG’s sprawling $3.8-billion beachside tourist development in Koh Kong province, villagers said
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After Budget released, opposition blasts process
With the release of the government’s 2015 draft national budget Thursday, the opposition CNRP, whose 55 lawmakers joined the National Assembly in August called Cambodia’s budget-drafting process “ disgusting and unbelievable ” on Friday.
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Municipal Court places 2 more Union Heads under supervision
Five of the six union leaders accused of alleged criminal activity during the nationwide garment worker strikes and demonstrations in December and January are now under judicial supervision after two more of the group appeared before the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday.
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Residents Praise Roundup of Illegal Vietnamese
A convoy of police vehicle snaked through Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak II commune yesterday afternoon, stopping at three different location to arrest a total of 12 Vietnamese nationals living illegally in the country, as part of an ongoing nationwide census of foreigners.The two-hour operation was led by Uk Heisela, chief of investigations at the Interior Ministry’s immigration department, and included raids on a garage and a private home on Street 132, and a cafe on Street 598.
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