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Chevron dials 911 over strike
Caltex’s parent company Chevron Cambodia sent a letter to the National police calling on the authorities to intervene after earning that its petrol station employees would go on strike, it was revealed yesterday.
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Observers approved for poll
The National Election Committee has approved more than 800 observers from political parties and civil society to monitor the nearly 200 polling stations to be set up for the May 18 district, provincial and municipal council elections, the election body said on Monday.
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Caltex Strike Continues as Other Grow Envious
On the third day of the citywide strike, about 100 Caltex employees protested yesterday at the petrol giant’s station on the corner of Monivong and Mao Tse Toung Boulavardes.
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Education Official Promises to Repay Shortchanged Teachers
A technical error caused 57 teachers in Oddar Meanchey province to be shortchanged when collecting overtime salaries, said an education official who promised the problem will be rectified by the end of May.
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17 Families Reject Payout From Minister’s Wife
A special committee set up in March to settle a long-running land dispute between 52 families in Kompong Chhnang province and the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem has finished its work, leaving 17 families without a deal.
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For KNLF, a life in the shadows
Another alleged member of the Khmer National Liberation Front (KNLF), a Denmark-based dissident group labeled as a terrorist organization by the government, was arrested on Monday, police said yesterday.
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KNLF Member Arrested With Banned Books
Police said yesterday they arrested a 33-year-old man in Banteay Meanchey on Monday for his alleged involvement with the Khmer National Liberation Front (KNLF) and seized several hundred copies of a banned manifesto written by the group’s founder.
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Women Targeted at Protests, Rapporteur Says
The U.N’s special rapporteur on freedom of assembly and association, Maina Kiai, has sent his third thematic report to the U.N. Human Rights Council following trips to various countries, including a three-day visit to Cambodia in February.
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Not child’s play; Two soldiers probed over boy’s arrest
A mother has lodged a complaint against two Battambang military official for allegedly shooting at and kidnapping her 12-year-old son after he was caught fishing in a protected lake, police said yesterday.
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Nearly 850 protests this year: police
Almost 850 demonstrations or strikes have occurred nationwide since the year begin – a seemingly anarchic average of more than six a day, the General Commissariat of National Police announced this week, blaming politicians, NGOs and trade unions for helping to incite demonstrators and “complicating the security situation” in the country.
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Rainsy Sends CPP Senator Warning at Rally
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy met yesterday with families locked in a long-running land dispute with two sugar plantations as part of his campaign swing through Koh Kong province ahead of Sunday’s council elections
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Summonses for three in dispute with tycoon
Three Phnom Penh residents embroiled in a land dispute with tycoon Khun Sear, who boasts high-level connections to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, have been summoned to appear in court next week.
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Campaign looks beyond poll
Since the sub-national councilor election campaign kicked off on May 2, leaders of the Cambodian national rescue party have embarked on a whirlwind tour of the kingdom, drawing large crowds that will come nowhere near a polling booth this Sunday.
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Caltex staffers stick to guns
Caltex petrol stations will remain closed for now after negotiations between the company and staff, many of whom went on strike on Monday demanding better pay, ended in disagreement yesterday.
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Officials Accused of Embezzling Teachers’ Salaries
A teachers’ union has accused education officials in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district of stealing 21 million riel, or about $5,200 that had been slated as overtime payments for primary school teachers.
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Workers to S Arabia; Can the gov’t protect them?
Cambodai is nearing a deal that would open a pipeline of workers to Saudi Arabia, a courty where Southeast Asian migrants have in the past been abused and even executed for crimes that include “sorcery”.
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Stung Treng Authorities Seize Illegal Thnong Wood Shipment
Authorities in Stung Treng province discovered and confiscated a haul of luxury wood that was being transported in three trucks on Sunday night from the protested Virachey National Park, officials said yesterday.
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Rights Worker Threatened by Khun Sear Guards
Guards employed by real estate magnate Khun Sear who have allegedly been terrorizing three families at the center of a land dispute in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district threatened last week to kill a human rights worker, the victim and rights groups said.
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Peace Walkers Dispersed By Daun Penh Security
Daun Penh district security guards broke up about 20 people who had gathered at Wat Phnom intending to march to the Royal Palace to celebrate Visak Bochea yesterday morning.
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Sexual abuse among claims against HAGL
Sexual assualt and the annihilation of sacred graveyards are among the many claims leveled at Vietnamese Rubber giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) by villagers in Ratanakkiri province, a report by the World Bank’s investment arm reveals.
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