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Man Charged Over Rape of 3-Year-Old Girl
Koh Kong Provincial Court yesterday charged Horn Pov, 26, over the rape of a 3-year-old girl he lured into his home on Monday to watch television, a rights worker said.
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Villagers Plan to Curse Minister’s Wife Over Dispute
Families locked in a year-long land dispute with Chea Kheng, the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem, said yesterday they paln to hold a two-day cursing ceremony after her company, KDC, failed to adequately compensate them for lost farmland in Kompong Chhnang province’s Kompong Tralach district.
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Couple on Trial for Buying Baby to Use as Beggar in Malaysia
A Cambodian husband and wife who paid $400 to adopt a baby in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district denied accusations in court yesterday that they intended to bring the child with them to Malaysia specifically to help them make money as beggars.
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After Sting, School Boss is ‘Charged’
A school director was charged yesterday with procuring children for the purposes of prostitution by Siem Reap Provincial Court after a raid on his office on Monday allegedly uncovered evidence he operated a pedophile ring from the premises, an investigator said.
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Krom Drop Call for Apology
Khmer Krom youth and other activists backed down yesterday on their demand that a diplomat apologies for saying the former Kampuchea Krom provinces belonged to Vietnam long before France’s official transfer of the land in 1949, but said they will keep protesting until the “true history” is recognized.
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Siem Reap Police Prepare to Send Alleged School Primp to Court
Police in Siem Reap province involved in the arrest of a school director on Monday said yesterday that they were sanding the man to court today recommending a charge of sex trafficking.
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UK Set to Probe Gov’t ‘Sex Abuses’
A soul-searching national inquiry into how authorities may have ignored systematic child abuse in some of Britain’s most eminent institutions was being prepared yesterday by the home secretary.
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Khmer Krom Men Convicted in Land Case
Four Khmer Krom men were convicted by Takeo Provincial Court yesterday of destroying a protected area and occupying and clearing state land, receiving three-year suspended prison sentences and fines of 1 million riel each (about $250), according to the Minority Rights Organization.
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Krom Sentenced for ‘Illegal Occupation’
Takeo Provincial Court yesterday handed out suspended sentences of three years in prison and 1 million riel ($250) fines to four Khmer Krom men charged with occupying and clearing state land and destroying a protected area in Kompong Krasaing commune.
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Activist Takes KDC Buyout
A community representative who has played an active role in the long-running land dispute between residents of Kompong Chhnang province’s Lorpeang village and a politically connected company has agreed to back down after accepting compensation.
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‘Evidence’ Taken From SR School
Investigators from the Child Protection Unit yesterday confiscated a laptop and cameras believed to contain evidence of child abuse at the Underprivileged Children School in Siem Reap.
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Extra Forces Dispatched as KDC Walls Off Disputed Land
A company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem, with the backing of a mounting police force, pushed ahead yesterday with walling off a swath of land in Kompong Chhnang province that has been at the center of a seven-year land dispute, which has erupted into violence three times in the past four day.
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District Guards Violently Disperse Protest at Vietnam Embassy
About 100 nationalists and ethnic Khmer Krom monks were violently dispersed from outside the Vietnam Embassy in Phnom Penh yesterday after protesting a diplomat’s comment that the former Kampuchea Krom province were annexed by Vietnam before 1949.
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Concern for Children as Migrants Being Returning to Thailand
In the wake of a mass exodus of Cambodian migrant workers from Thailand last month, World Vision says that an alarming number of children have found themselves lost and separated from their parents at the border.
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FTU Trio Held at Factory by Rivals in Union Clash
Workers aligned with the collective Union of Movement of workers locked three officials from the Free Trade Union inside the Ocean Garment factory in Phnom Penh for eight hours yesterday after the two unions argued over who would represent workers in a wage dispute.
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Raid on House Finds 84 Workers
Before dawn yesterday Thai military officials raided a house not far from the border, finding dozens of undocumented Cambodian workers crammed into a room awaiting transportation deeper into the country.
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Clash at Vietnam Embassy
In a sharply worded statement, the Vietnamese Embassy in Phnom Penh condemned a protest that took place in front of its building yesterday morning, saying demonstrators interfered with Vietnam’s sovereignty and internal affairs.
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One Logger ‘Kill’ After Border Cross
An illegal logger was shot dead by Thai security forces on Sunday and two others have been reported as missing, police have said.
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Thai Authorities Shoot at 5 Men; 1 Injured, 4 Missing
One man was hospitalized and four remain missing after Thai authorities last week shot at a group of Cambodian men that crossed the border in Preah Vihear province in search of rosewood, police said yesterday.
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Strike Divides Cintri Workers
While Phnom Penh’s garbage truck drivers returned to work yesterday following a brief strike, piles of refuse continued to mount in parts of the city, as trash collectors who had joined the drivers’ cause were continuing the strike alone as of 7pm.
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