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Migrant Kids’ schooling at risk
A Plan floated in Thailand to cut state educational support to migrant worker’s children has drawn the ire of rights groups, which say thousands of Cambodian youths could be denied their basic right to education.
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Activist Monk to Be Tried Along With alleged Terrorist
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has added activist monk Luon Sovath to the list of accused in the sedition trial of Cambodian-American dissident Sourn Serey Ratha, whose hearing on charges of incitement and plotting to commit an attack beings September 18.
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Animus amid a sacred forest
DRIVE deep enough into Mondulkiri’s Pech Chreada district, and the rubber plantations that dot the roads fall away.
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Seven Unions Plan Campaign for $177 Wage as Revision Looms
With the government set to decide on a new minimum wage next month, a group of seven unions say they are set to launch a campaign to rally support around their demand for a $77 increase to the current floor wage of $100.
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Mondukiri police to investigate shooting
Rights group adhoc has released a statement condemning an alleged attack on three ethnic minority villagers who were injured by a company’s security guard in Mondukiri’s Pech Chreada district on Saturday,
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Trapped fishermen returned
Seven Cambodian fishermen were repatriated from Brunei yesterday after they were allegedly sold into slavery by a Thai broker and imprisoned for illegally fishing in the sultanate’s territory.
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Mass firing at Xin Fang factory
IN A mass firing the scale of which has not been seen since January, Phnom Penh’s Xin Fang garment factory yesterday terminated 106 employees for protesting in front of the factory.
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Rubber Firm Guard Sought Over Shooting
Military police in Mondolkiri province say they are searching for a guard working for a local rubber company who allegedly injured three villagers Saturday when he fried a bullet in their direction that ricocheted off a rock,
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Sokha wants to boot out old officials
Opposition deputy leader and parliamentary first vice president Kem Sokha promised on Saturday to use his party’s status in parliament to summons and vote out long-serving corrupt government ministers with the help of the ruling party.
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Firm Calls Fraud Case a ‘Misunderstanding’
The director of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court last week formally accused a property developer of attempting to defraud him of more than $200,000 he paid for a villa in Tuol Kok district when his name was not transferred to the land title,
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Villagers Say Dredging a Danger, Disturbance
About 50 villagers living along the Mekong River in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district protested outside their local pagoda yesterday to demand that authorities lake action against a company illegally dredging sand from the riverbed.
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Majority of Fired Bus Drivers Strike a Deal
After months of protests, most of the 17 drivers who were fired by the Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation company in April have reached a settlement with the country, who sacked the drivers after they attempted to lead a strike by taking the keys to the company’s buses.
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Ministry offers reply to criticism
The government this weekend hit back at criticism of its embassies in China, Malaysia and Thailand, insisting that they are helping migrants in need.
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Caught up in middle of logging
Some of the protected wood help as evidence in illegal logging cases from their rangers just days after permission was given for him to collect the remaining timber.
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Two-Star General Calls for Hun Sen to Censure Keo Remy
A two-star general has appealed for Prime Minister Hun Sen to intervene in a dispute over $50,000 that Council of Ministers Secretary of State Keo Remy loaned to friends of the general in 2009, according to documents obtained Friday.
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US Official Denies Knowledge of Alleged Fraud
William Nojay, a New York state assemblyman who has been summonsed for questioning by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court over accusations of his involvement in a $1 million fraud case, denied knowledge of the legal dispute on Thursday, according to the Rochester-based Democrat and Chronicle newspaper.
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Borei Keila Reps Want In On Housing Talks
Evictees from the Borei Keila community protested in front of City Hall on Friday to demand their inclusion in a working group that has been tasked with resolving the long-running dispute in which a development firm failed to provide decent housing for hundreds of people who were forcibly evicted in 2012 to make way for its planned project.
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About 100 Protesters Take Khmer Krom Cause to Freedom Park
In the biggest demonstration at Phnom Penh’s Park since it was reopened to the public in August, about 100 nationalist protesters gathered Saturday for a day of singing,
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Proposal Aims to Bring Workers’ Voices to Negotiating Table
A proposed project hopes to channel the widespread use of mobile phones among factory workers to bring the voice of the 600,000 Cambodians employed in the crucial garment sector into future wage negotiations
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A Busy Week at Court Expected for Union Leader Ath Thorn
The Phnom Penh Municipal court will be seeing a lot of union leader Ath Thorn next week.
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