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Deal finally ends kratie row
UNDER growing pressure from prime Minister Hun Sen, the government on Saturday offered official land villagers, putting an end to their long-running dispute with a South Korean agricultural company.
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Koh Kong gov to bring petition to Say Sam Al
KOH Kong governor Bun Least has promised villagers evicted from their land by Chinese owned Union Development Group that he will give their petition to Minister of Environment say Sam Al today.
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Unions Must Have Factory Sign-Off to Register New Branches
Several major unions say their representatives must to authorization from factory management before garment workers can form a new union or branch within the factory representative to prove that they have notified the factory of their intention to organize workers.
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After Prolonged Protest, Villagers Win Back Land
Land Management Minister Im Chhun Lin intervened in a high-profile land dispute between villagers from Kratie province’s Snuonl district and a South Korean agribusiness firm over the weekend, announcing Saturday that the contested 1,562-hectare tract would be taken back from the company and awarded to local residents.
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CNRP official to skip court
FOUMER parliamentary candidate and opposition information chief meach Savannara said yesterday that he would not appear in court today for questioning related to charges stemming from a violent opposition protest in July.
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Gov’t Must Probe ‘Enforced’ Disappearance: UN
The UN and human rights groups called on the government Friday to honor its obligations as party to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and thoroughly investigate the
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KDC protests to go on
ONE of five villagers arrested in a land dispute with politically connected company KDC International told the post after their release on Friday that he would keep protesting ”until our community obtains a resolution from the government”.
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CNRP and Comfrel Call For Delay to New Voter List
The committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) and the opposition CNRP yesterday called on the National Election Committee (NEC) to suspend its annual update of the voter list until the new bipartisan election committee is created.
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Need to Improve Knowledge of Arrest Rights, Lessen Use of Force
On April 3, during a confrontation with security forces after she attempted to gain access to Phnom Penh’s cordoned-off Freedom Penh’s CNRP lawmaker Mu Sochua whipped out a small yellow card and began to read out loud her rights in the event of an arrest.
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Land Dispute Victims Continue to Press Case in Phnom Penh
Despite government efforts this week to land protesters from flooding into the capital to seek help from nationaHevel authorities, dozens of aggrieved villagers involved in land disputes protested once again in Phnom Penh on Friday.
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Lor Peang Villagers Bailed After CPP Lawmaker’s Intercession
Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court on Friday released on bail five villagers at the center of a high-profile land dispute with the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem.
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Court Charges Brothers With Torture of Thief
The prey Veng Provincial Court charged two brothers with torture and acts of cruelty Saturday for holding a 14-year-old boy’s head underwater in an outdoor cistern after he stole four coconuts from their property, officials said yesterday.
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Villagers Protest Against Businesswoman’s Gifts
About 70 families living Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district protested outside their commune office Friday, accusing a business woman of attempting to bribe them to stop protesting over land they say she stole from them.
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Workers in Kompong Chhnang End Protest
About 3,000 workers at the Chinese-owned Jiun Ye garment factory in Kompong Chhnang province have agreed to return to work after two weeks of strikes and protests against what they claim was a deliberate effort by management to withhold part of their last paycheck
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Land Dispute Victims Continue to Press Case in Phnom Penh
Despite government efforts this week to land protesters from flooding into the capital to seek help from nationaHevel authorities, dozens of aggrieved villagers involved in land disputes protested once again in Phnom Penh on Friday.
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Two Found Guilty of Sex Trafficking Deaf Girl
Two people were found guilty of trafficking a 13-year-old deaf and mute girl into a brothel and handed 15-year jail sentences at Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday.
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KDC Workers Petition Against the Release of Five Villagers
Workers at the center of a land dispute between villagers in Kompong Chhnang province and a company owned by the wife of the Mines and Energy minister yesterday pressed forward with a campaign against the release of five villagers who were imprisoned over violence and property damage.
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Singaporean Embassy Condemns Egging by Protesters
The Singaporean Embassy in Phnom Penh yesterday issued a statement condemning the egging of its front gate on Wednesday by anti-eviction protesters, calling the act “unacceptable.”
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Sleeping Migrant Workers Miss Payout
Seeking to appease more than 200 migrant workers who say they were scammed out of promised jobs in Thailand, employment agency Koun Khmer Training Center yesterday doled out compensation to some of the jilted workers they had recruited.
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KDC Workers Counterprotest
While residents of Kampong Chhnang province’s Lorpeang village continue to push for community representatives to be released from jail, 28 workers from the politically-connected KDC International company petitioned for them to be kept under lock and key and to be prosecuted.
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