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Lawmaker Blasts Logging in S Treng
Two draft laws on judicial reform were easily passed by the single-party National Assembly yesterday but the session was overshadowed by a rookie lawmaker’s attack on lax enforcement of forestry laws in Stung Treng province.
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Man in Pursat Charged With Indecent Assault
Pursat Provincial Court yesterday charged a man with indecent assault after he touched a six-year-old girl’s genitals while the two slept in close proximity at her home in Krakor district, police and court officials said.
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A Reality Check for Top Brands
Ahead of this afternoon’s planned talks between government representatives and international fashion labels, garment workers toting riot gear and fake guns yesterday staged a re-enactment of January’s lethal crackdown on protesting workers at the start of the year.
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Orphanage Director in Court
American national and orphanage director Daniel Stephen Johnson was tried on Friday at the Municipal Court on charges that he sexually abused five boys last year.
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More Unionists Charged on Eve of Brand Meeting
The Takeo Provincial Court charged eight union representatives with incitement yesterday for taking part in a garment factory strike, bringing to 17 the number of unionists charged this month alone.
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Woman Set Alight by Boyfriend in Border Casino
A 21-year-old woman has been hospitalized with critical injuries after two men doused her in alcohol and set her alight at a casino in Kompong Cham province in the early hours of Friday morning, police said yesterday.
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‘Deforestation Plagues ASEAN’
Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have never been higher, but Association of Southeast Asian Nations member countries are still failing to curb emissions created by heavy deforestation, according to a new report.
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Activist ‘Threatened With Knife’
A forest activist in Kompong Thom province yesterday claimed to have been threatened with a knife by a soldier after reporting that the officer was behind a number of forest crimes in the area.
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Stay Away From Factory, Court Tells Unionists
Eight numbers of Cambodia’s largest independent union were released on bail yesterday after being tried at Takeo Provincial Court over their alleged involvement in a factory protest last week, officials said.
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Journalists in CPP Firing Line Over ‘1-Party’ Tag
The single-party National Assembly sat for the third day of its third plenary session yesterday, with a senior ruling party lawmaker calling on Information Minister Khieu Kanharith to examine whether journalists who call the Assembly “single party” call be punished under law.
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Court Concludes Two Trials Against 23 Garment Protesters
Two high-profile trials involving 23 men accused of taking part in a pair of violent garment worker protests in early January ended yesterday after five days of hearings at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, with verdicts due next week.
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New Charges as Trial Wraps
Despite presenting no hard evidence against defendants throughout the two trials of 23 men arrested during a strike that turned deadly in early January, a prosecutor used his closing statement yesterday to up the charges against union leader Vorn Pov.
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First of Three Contentious Laws Passes
The National Assembly yesterday passed in a landslide vote the first of three judicial draft laws – the law on the Organization and Functioning of the Courts – in a move that signaled to observers that passage of the remaining two was practically a fait accompli.
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Ieng Thirith Dependent on Feeding Tube: Son
The health of former Khmer Rouge minister of social affairs and former war crimes tribunal defendant Ieng Thirith has deteriorated to the point that she requires oxygen and a feeding tube just to stay alive, her son said on Wednesday.
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Villagers in R’kiri Dispute Block Road
Villagers in Ratanakkiri province blocked National Road 78A yesterday for than three hours as authorities tried to push through to evict them in favor of a rubber company, police and villagers said.
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Striking Garment Workers Foil Leaders’ Arrests
Garment workers at the South Korean-owned Cambo Handsome Ltd. Factory in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district managed to foil the arrest of two union leaders yesterday, workers and official said.
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City Hall Offers Final Warning to Displaced Kratie Farmers
A group of about 200 farmers from Kratie province refused yesterday to leave a pagoda in Phnom Penh their home base for protests against their eviction at the hands of a Vietnamese rubber company as the city’s dispute government would “implement the law” if they did not head back to their homes by this morning.
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Union Leaders Evade Arrest, Co-Workers Say
Two union leaders narrowly escaped arrest yesterday morning when employees on strike at a Phnom Penh garment factory forced their release from police and security guards, fellow union officials said.
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Rights Worker Summonsed Over Land Fight
A Rights group worker has earned a court summons for monitoring villagers who were embroiled in a Preah Vihear land dispute with a Chinese company.
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Judiciary Laws Moving Forward with ‘Debate’
The National Assembly yesterday opened debate for the first time on the first of three controversial judicial draft laws, approving in principle the first two chapters of the law on the Organization and functioning of the Courts in the continued absence of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party.
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