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Stung Treng Villagers Caught in Forestry Racket
Siem Pang district, Stung Treng province – For the elite few granted the right to level swathes of woodland in the north of this remote province, the timber trade is worth a fortune.
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Kratie Villagers Reject Land Offer
Protesters from Kratie province who have spent more than a week in a Phnom Penh pagoda while demanding authorities resolve their land row yesterday rejected an offer from the government of 750 hectares.
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K Speu Families Threaten to Take Back Farms
Representatives for about 250 families involved in a long-running dispute with an agri-business firm in Kompong Speu province have filed a complaint with rights group Adhoc and say they will attempt to retake land that was stolen from them.
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Khmer Rouge Tribunal Judgment Due in August
A judgment in the first phase of the case against Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan is to be rendered at 9 a.m. on August 7, according to a statement issued by the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday.
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Groups Demand Fair Court Verdict for 23 Cambodian Workers, Activists
Workers' unions, rights groups and a consortium of international clothing brands have called for a fair verdict for 23 textile workers and activists charged over their links to a deadly strike ahead of a court decision Friday.
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ILO Says Gov’t Moving Backward With Draft Union Law
The U.N.’s International Labor Organization (ILO) said yesterday that the latest draft of a controversial Trade Union Law was worse than earlier versions, ignored the ILO’s recommendations, and still posed major risks to labor rights in the country.
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Electronics Workers Call for Child Care
About 700 workers at a Svay Rieng province electronics factory were to demonstrate for the third day today after management refused their demands for access to child care and the reinstatement of five union leaders.
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VOD Files Complaints Over Attack on Reporter
The Voice of Democracy (VOD) yesterday file complaints against Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong and two Daun Penh district officials over the beating of one of its reporters near Freedom Park on May 2.
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Ocean Garment Workers On Strike After Factory Halts Operations
About 1,000 workers protested outside Ocean Garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district yesterday to demand compensation for being out of work while the factory suspends its operations for a month due to flagging demand from buyers, a union leader said.
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Police Arrest Seven in Chinese Brides Case
Six Chinese nationals and a Cambodian woman were arrested in the capital on Tuesday after allegedly trying to sell eight local women as brides in China, an anti-trafficking representative said yesterday.
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Journalist Sues for Damages
The Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) filed a lawsuit for damages yesterday against three government officials on behalf of a Voice of Democracy journalist who was badly beaten by security guards at the site of a planned demonstration in the capital earlier this month.
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Boy Caught Up in Protests Faces 11 Years in Jail
As several hundred garment workers from the SL Garment factory pelted police with rocks during a protest near the Stung Meanchey pagoda in November, Men Sok Sambath, a 14-year-old scrap collector, decided to join the crowd.
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Refugees Must Ask to Move Here
Cambodia will take refugees from Australia’s detention center on the Pacific atoll of Nauru, but only if those seeking refuge volunteer to be resettled here, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong said yesterday.
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Progress, But No ‘Final Decision’ on Australian Immigration Deal
Cambodian officials say they have not yet confirmed whether they will accept a request from Australia to receive rejected immigrants. But they do say the request is moving forward.
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‘Remains’ Activist in Hiding
Kompong Speu provincial police, having scoured the site where human remains were allegedly found on Saturday by an opposition activist and discovered no evidence, are calling on him to come out of hiding to clear things up.
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Villagers Vow to Defy Fresh Ban on Marches
More than 1,500 villagers plan to march to the Anti-Corruption Unit and National Assembly in Phnom Penh today in defiance of a fresh ban issued by City Hall prohibiting them from doing so.
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ILO Attacks Trade Union Law
An International Labor Organization official yesterday called the draft of a Minister of Labor trade union law “a step backwards” during the opening of a two-day workshop meant to hear concerns of both labor unions and employers.
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Group Urge Construction Be Stopped
Opposition of the Lower Sesan II hydropower dam in Stung Treng province has called on the companies and the Chinese government to halt construction at the site.
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New Law Will Stifle Us: Unions
While trade union laws are typically written to expand organized labor rights, labor leaders said yesterday that they oppose portions of a new draft union law they believe will stifle their ability to organize.
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Global Brands Say Unrest Putting Garment Sector at Risk
Major global clothing brands that source from Cambodia said yesterday that supply disruptions and consumer reaction to the arrests; beatings and fatal shootings of garment workers could hurt future growth and put the country’s status as a “strategic sourcing market” at risk.
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