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Ministry to Open one- Window Service for Migrants
The government has created a one- window information service to help would-be workers avoid illegal migration to Thailand as part of a bilateral agreement with Thailand, Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng said yesterday.
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Teen Murders Neighbor Over Banana Tree Dispute
A 49-year-old man was attacked with an ax and killed by his teenage neighbor on Wednesday over a dispute about the boundary between their lands in Kompong Speu province’s Phnom Sruoch district, local police said.
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UN murder charges expected
The suspect in the murder of a Dutch UN consultant and the brutal attack on her 19-month-old daughter is expected to be charged with murder by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court today, police said yesterday.
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Child buried alived, saved
A newborn baby girl who didn’t even have a name yet was taken out of her hospital on Wednesday morning and buried alive allegedly by her father because he couldn’t bear the site of her cleft lip.
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Violence mars May Day
At least five people were injured yesterday morning when a Labor Day rally next to a heavily fortified Freedom Park was violently broken up by police and security forces – some dressed in civilian clothing – wielding batons and cattle prods.
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Body of Missing Journalist Found in Siem Reap
The body of the Canadian journalist and filmmaker Dave Walker, who disappeared in Siem Reap province more than two months ago, was found yesterday morning in the Angkor Thom temple complex, police and family said.
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May 1 Rallies Marred By Police Violence
An otherwise peaceful International Workers’ Day took a violent turn yesterday morning as authorities attacked passersby and peaceful protesters near Freedom Park without provocation.
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Labor Minister Says Solution to Bavet Strike in the Works
On the sidelines of a government event making International Labor Day, Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng yesterday blamed recent strikes in Bavet City on unnamed provocateurs, but said efforts were underway to resolve the dispute.
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Government Agrees to Review of Railway Evictees
The government has agreed to review its resettlement agreement with families relocated from railways as part of an Asian Development Bank (ADB)- funded rehabilitation project, but has refused a recommendation to set up a debt-relief scheme for the evictees, according to an action plan released by the ADB last week.
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Dutch baby in Thailand for surgery
A toddler who was critically wounded on Monday in an attack that also left her mother dead underwent brain surgery in Bangkok last night after being flown from Phnom Penh in the early hours of yesterday morning.
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Anti-Phanimex Roadblock Causes Traffic Snarl
About 200 villagers blocked National Road 5 in Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district for about two hours yesterday, lighting fires with wood and tires and causing a large traffic jam as they called for authorities to intervene in their ongoing land dispute with the Phanimex company.
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Six Taiwanese Human Traffickers Sentenced to 10 years Each
Six Taiwanese nationals, five who remain at large, were yesterday sentenced to ten years in the prison for their part in trafficking 74 Cambodians to work under slave-like conditions on fishing boats off the coast of Africa.
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FTU Bows Out of May Day Rallies
Chea Mony, president of the opposition-aligned Free Trade Union (FTU), said yesterday that his union, one of the largest in the country, will not be joining other labor groups planning to rally on International Workers’ Day because he has been sick and traveling in the province.
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Let unions register: HRW
The government must stop stalling the registration of labor unions, says a letter from a major rights group sent to Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng and made public yesterday.
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CPP faces isolation: Sokha
Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy president Kem Sokha returned to Phnom Penh late on Monday and hit the ground running, lambasting the ruling party for blaming the recent collapse of talks on his intransigence and inviting his political foes to risk international condemnation by running the country by themselves.
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Anonymous Cambodia Vows to Continue Its Cyber-Crusade
Global hacking group Anonymous continued its attack on Cambodian websites yesterday, this time claiming to have infiltrated and brought down the Anti-Corruption Unit website.
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Maid ‘abused’ in Singapore
At least three Cambodians who have travelled to work as maids in Singapore since August last year as part of a pilot scheme have complained to worker welfare groups there about employer abuse and poor working conditions , including molestation and the slapping of a worker.
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Police Quiet But Details Emerge in Murder of Dutch Woman
Police said yesterday they had no leads in the case of a Dutch woman found stabbed to death along with her critically injured 19-month-old baby in her Phnom Penh home Monday morning. But the victim’s cleaner, who discovered the bloody bodies, revealed a number of observations about the crime scene.
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Gov’t Agrees In Principle to Take Australia’s Refugees
The government has agreed “in principle” to resettle asylum seeker currently being detained by Australia on the South Pacific island nation Nauru, an official at the Foreign Affairs Ministry said yesterday.
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Village stoning breeds fears
Ever since some 500 people laid siege to the home of traditional healer Pov Sovann, dragged him out and brutally stoned him to death over the course of eight hours on Sunday, two opposing sets of fears have gripped members of his community in Takeo province’s Bati district.
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