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Farmers Threaten ANZ With Protest, Demand Help
Farmers from Kompong Speu province handed ANZ Royal Bank a petition on Friday insisting it still had a responsibility to help mend the damage done by a sugar plantation recently parted ways.
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Deposit for Brides in China Called Into Question
Human rights groups yesterday criticized as inadequate a government proposal, announced on Friday, to require single women to deposit $10,000 into a Chinese bank before they are allowed to visit China as tourists, a move meant to curb the trafficking of Cambodian woman to marry Chinese men.
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An Act of ‘Intimidation’
Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party leaders yesterday labeled the arrests of three members of the party’s youth wing on Saturday an act of “intimidation” contrary to the spirit of the July 22 agreement to end the CNRP’s boycott of parliament.
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Civil Societies Propose to Amend Internal Regulations of National Assembly
PHNOM PENH, August 5, (Khmer Times) – The head of the monitoring section of the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC), Ny Chakrya, said today that they will focus on the internal regulations of the National Assembly.
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Monk Claims Demotion Over Support for Land Protest
The chief monk of a pagoda in Svay Rieng province was removed from his position yesterday by local religious authorities, and claims the demotion is retaliation for his political activism and assistance to villagers protesting the construction of a new canal across their land.
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Scorn Heaped on Plan to Bar ‘China Brides’
The government’s request for China to no longer grant visas to single Cambodian women was lambasted by rights groups yesterday as discriminatory and misguided.
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Asset Freeze ‘Not Serious’
Land rights advocates and evictees are calling on the government to be more aggressive in its pursuit of four prominent business owners whose assets the Ministry of Economy and Finance has asked the National Bank of Cambodia to freeze over outstanding payment for land swaps involving state-owned property.
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Guards Questioned for Alleged Rape, Confinement
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday questioned two security guards for the alleged rape and confinement of an 11-year-old girl, before remanding them in municipal police custody, a police official said.
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Staff of Suspended Factory Demand Wages
About 70 workers from the Xing Chang Sin factory marched to the Ministry of Labor on Friday to demand intervention after the factory allegedly failed to pay wages for the past two months.
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Villagers Summoned to Court Over KDC Clashes
Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court has summoned eight villagers locked in a land dispute with a powerful development company for questioning next week over allegations of aggravated violence and the destruction of property during a series of clashes with workers at the site last month.
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Ministry Says It Is Making Efforts to Stop Abuse
The Foreign Affairs Ministry on Friday defended the Cambodian Embassy and consulates in China, which have been accused of ignoring female citizens in peril there, and said it has made efforts to cut off the flow off women being sold into brothels or forced marriages.
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Villagers Blocked From Marching to Hun Sen’s House
About 160 villagers from Kratie province’s Snuol district were blocked Friday from marching on Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house to call for intervention in their ongoing land dispute.
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Cracking Down 101
A deal to end political deadlock may reduce demonstrations in the streets, but the authorities are leaving nothing to chance – Daun Penh’s notorious district security guards are finally receiving proper government training.
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Workers Protest for Speedy Pay After Fire Destroys Factory
The roughly 900 employees of a Phnom Penh garment factory gutted by a fire that killed a Chinese supervisor on Monday protested in front of their old workplace yesterday to demand a quick payout of their final paychecks and severance.
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Recruitment Agencies Operate Without Oversight
In June, after about a quarter million migrant workers returned from their jobs in Thailand fearing the military junta’s crackdown on illegal labor, Cambodia’s government announced it had slashed the cost of emigration, and would charge workers only $49 to legally returned to work across the border.
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Dead Worker’s Family Promised Compensation
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) said yesterday that it would compensate the family of a man who died on their job last month at a factory in Kandal province that produces clothing for H & M.
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Migrants in ‘Hurry’ to Get Back to Work
A survey of 10 Cambodian provinces is studying the whereabouts and plans of migrant workers who were recently repatriated from Thailand, fearing crackdowns on foreign workers there after the coup.
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Family Free After Alleged Abuse of Child Workers
Three members of a wealthy family accused of abusing and holding captive and 18-year-old girl for eight years and her 12-year-old brother for two years in their Tuol Kok villa remain free yesterday as police said they are waiting for the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to decide whether to issue arrest warrants.
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Electoral Alliance Calls for Greater Transparency in Reform Talks
Members of the Electoral Reform Alliance (ERA) yesterday decried a lack of transparency from the CPP and CNRP working groups that are hammering out the detail of an agreement reached last week to end a nearly yearlong boycott of parliament by the opposition.
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Two Busted for Alleged Rape, Detention of Girl
Two private security guards will be send to Phnom Penh Municipal Court today after being arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of raping a child, police said yesterday.
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