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Can Cambodian Deal End Year-Long Standoff?
The Cambodian government and opposition have struck a deal to end a year of post-election political fighting that has left at least seven people dead and many more injured, in jail, and before the courts.
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Down to the Power of One
One person will hold the balance of power on the overhauled National Election Committee when the political agreement signed by the opposition and ruling parties on Tuesday is implemented.
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Police Identify Suspect in Year’s Second Acid Attack
Police in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet City said yesterday that they have identified the suspected perpetrator of an acid attack on Monday afternoon that left a 30-year-old woman hospitalized, and that they are looking to make an arrest as soon as possible.
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Deal Making Waves Abroad
With the country’s longest post-election deadlock now over and the opposition parliamentarians ready to take their seats, at least some of the CNRP’s most lucrative supporters – those overseas – are struggling to swallow the new concessions.
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Protests Continue for 4th Day Over Land Dispute
About 250 villagers protested against development firm Phanimex yesterday as their commune chief faced questioning in Kandal provincial court over an ongoing land dispute.
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Villagers Seek Refuge in Phnom Penh Pagoda Again
About 160 villagers from Kratie province’s Snuol district embroiled in a land dispute with a plantation owner are the latest evictees to take residence in Phnom Penh’s Samakki Raingsey pagoda.
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Sex Trafficker Asks Court for Leniency
A Cambodian woman convicted of pimping three underage Vietnamese girls appealed her sentence in court yesterday, claiming she made relatively little money from the girls and had obtained their mothers’ consent to be sold for sex.
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Extortion Charges for Journalists
The lawyer for three journalists arrested for allegedly attempting to export military police officers in Stung Treng province filed a request for bail yesterday to Stung Treng Provincial Court, which charged the trio on Wednesday.
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Minister Meets NGOs Over Ongoing UDG Dispute
Environment minister Say Sam Al yesterday met with U.N. and NGO representatives to discuss the ongoing dispute between the powerful Chinese-owned Union Development Group (UDG) and villagers in Koh Kong province who say they were kicked off their land and had their shelters torched.
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After NEC Reform, Rainsy Says Higher Wages Are Top Priority
CNRP leader Sam Rainsy said yesterday that a higher minimum wage for garment workers and civil servants would be the opposition’s top legislative priority – after reconstituting the National Election Committee (NEC) – when it takes the 55 National Assembly seats it has been boycotting for the past year.
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After Deal, Unions Expect Support
News of an end to a year-long political deadlock has labor union leaders believing the opposition party can bring their interests to parliament, but a lack of follow-through could cost the Cambodia National Rescue Party vital support from one of its key interest groups.
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A Justice System ‘Rotten to the Core’
When seven Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers-elect and a party activist were released on bail from Prey Sar prison on Tuesday, it was to the cheers of supporters and the general approval of civil society.
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General Allegedly Shoots Employee in Pay Dispute
A major general with the Royal Cambodian Armed Force bodyguard unit who operates his own private transport company allegedly pulled a gun on one of his employees on Monday and shot him in the leg for requesting a pay raise, military police officials said.
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Court Rules That Journo Has to Pay
A journalist and British national were hit with steep financial penalties in court yesterday for remarks made on his blog last year.
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Journalist Convicted of Defamation for Blog Post
A British journalist has been convicted of defaming a French property developer in a blog post in an unprecedented ruling that has been described as a blow to freedom of expression in Cambodia.
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Officials Raid Villager’s Home in KDC Dispute
Police and court officials yesterday searched the home of villager Oum Sophy, who has been outspoken opponent of the well-connected KDC company as it has tried to push her and dozens of her neighbors off their land in Kompong Chhnang province.
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Hun Sen’s Cabinet Accepts Petition of Villagers
The cabinet of Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday accepted a petition from villagers from Kratie province’s Snuol district who are requesting intervention in a land dispute with a plantation owner.
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Back to your seats
AN INTENSE political deadlock, played out against a backdrop of protests and deadly state violence, has come to an end. For nearly a year Cambodia’s national assembly was without an opposition; struggle in the streets had replaced normal politics and was starting to look like a permanent feature of the capital, Phnom Penh.
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Ministry Vows to Take Some ELC Land Back
Amid promises reiterated by the government yesterday that it will take a tougher stance on economic land concessions, logging tycoon Try Pheap minimally reduced his sweeping natural resource empire, returning more than 20,000 hectares of undeveloped forestry.
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Bodyguard ‘Shoots His Own Driver’
Police are searching for a member of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s bodyguard unit who is accused of shooting an employee of his company after an argument, a senior police official said.
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