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B’bang Man Held Over Rape of Girl, 6
A suspected child rapist has been arrested in Battambang province on suspicion of assaulting a 6-year-old girl, according to police, who say he had admitted to raping another girl.
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Villagers Hold Ceremony to Curse Minister’s Wife, Officials
Villagers in Kompong Chhnang province involved in a long-running land dispute with a minister’s wife took their grievances to the spirit world this weekend, staging a two-day ceremony during which they cast traditional curses on company officials and local authorities they say have wronged them.
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Ocean Fight Looks to the Government
Days after a Phnom Penh garment factory refused to abide by an Arbitration Council decision in favor of its employees, more than 1,000 workers are expected to demonstrate in front of the Ministry of Labor today.
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At Border, Authorities Get in Way of Activists
Soldiers and police blocked a group of activists and monks in Kandal province’s Koh Thom district from visiting a section of the Cambodia-Vietnam border on Friday, activists said yesterday.
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Getting on the Same Page
In what is shaping up to be the first of several pivotal garment wage talks, unions will meet for the first time today to discuss the amount they should request for next year’s minimum wage – but labor leaders and observers say coming to a consensus will be difficult, if not impossible.
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Work Continues At Contested KDC Site
A company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem forged ahead with its construction of a concrete wall around a swath of disputed land in Kompong Chhnang province Friday, despite a call from the U.N. envoy on Thursday that building be delayed until a settlement is reached with evicted farmers.
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Factory Wage Rallies Heat Up
More than 1,000 workers held a demonstration in front of Ocean factory in the capital yesterday, burning tyres and blocking the road in protest against the management’s refusal to abide by a ruling that workers be paid in full for a one-month closure.
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Villagers Refuse to Give Up Land, Protest Court Action
More than 60 people in Kandal province yesterday protested the provincial court’s questioning of seven villagers who refused the thumbprint document handing over their land to a dealer who claims to own it.
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Land Concession Woes Aired
Villager representatives in Ratanakkiri yesterday shared their land grievances with the European Union ambassador, requesting he relay to the government their appeal that no further 99-year land concessions be granted to private companies.
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B Kak Factions File Competing Lawsuits Over June Clash
Rival factions in the increasingly bitter dispute over land in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood filed lawsuits against each other at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday over a clash late last month.
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Thais Detain ‘Large Number’
A large group of Cambodian migrants were rounded up and detained in a Bangkok prison at the end of May, where many still remain, Thai officials told the Post Yesterday.
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Subedi Call on KDC to Halt Development
U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi yesterday called on KDC International, which is owned by Chea Kheng, the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem, to put a hold on its development of a dispute plot of land until a resolution can be reached with the villagers who claim the land.
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Couple that ‘Bought’ Girl Faces Court
The trial of a Cambodian couple accused of trafficking young and elderly Cambodians, including a baby, to Malaysia to glean money begging began yesterday.
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Companies Regrow ‘Forests’
More than 100,000 hectares of forest have been replanted across the country since 2008, according to a government report – but about 90 percent of that amount can be chalked up to private plantations.
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Dissident’s Case Has Day in Court
A US-Based Cambodian dissident, who has been labeled a terrorist by the government, was tried in absentia by Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday over allegations he incited a military coup.
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Gender Course to Be Piloted at Royal University
Gender studies will be incorporated into the curriculum at Cambodia’s largest university in an effort to shape the country’s top students’ views on the role of women in society, educators and experts said yesterday at a workshop on the course.
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Bosses Told to Pay Out Lost Wages
The Arbitration Council Foundation yesterday ruled that a Phnom Penh garment factory that announced it was closing for a month must pay employees 100 per cent of the wages they would have earned during that period.
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Cintri Strike Ends in Cash Bonuses
A strike by hundreds of employees of Phnom Penh’s sole refuse collection company ended yesterday after workers were offered a financial incentive to return to the job.
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Cintri Back to Work in Time for Royal Ceremony
Phnom Penh’s trash collectors ended their strike yesterday after being promised increased salaries – leaving two days to clean the streets before Friday’s ceremony to inter the ashes of the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk.
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Court Charges School Director For Pimping Out Students
The Siem Reap provincial Court yesterday charged the director of an unlicensed English language school with procurement of child prostitution for allegedly pimping out his teenage students to foreigners volunteering at his school.
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