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Education Ministry, ADB to Probe Textbook Theft
The Education Ministry and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said yesterday that they had begun a joint investigation into the misappropriation of textbooks intended for secondary school students under and ADB-founded scheme.
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Woman Found Murdered in Hotel Room in Phnom Penh
Police said yesterday that they are looking for a 48-year-old Dutchman as a suspect in the murder of a 20-year-old Cambodian woman whose body was found with her throat slashed under a bed in Phnom Penh hotel on Sunday.
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Protesters Unite Around Demand For Hun Sen’s Resignation
Five separate protests in Phnom Penh came to a crescendo yesterday in front of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s office building—the Peace Palace—with an estimated 50,000 protesters marching down Russian Boulevard and calling for the long-serving CPP leader to step down.
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UN Rights Envoy Urges Calm Amid Protests
The U.N.’s human rights envoy to Cambodia has urged restraint on all sides as public demonstrations increase across Phnom Penh, and called for a “realistic” wage for garment workers and for political parties to return to the negotiation table.
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Royal Palace Ministry Denounces Fake Letter Opposing Hun Sen
The Ministry of the Royal Palace on Friday denounced a fake letter attributed to the palace that was posted on Facebook, calling on Cambodians to “stand up” against Prime Minister Hun Sen.
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Factories Closed Until Safety Guaranteed
The Garment Manufactures Association of Cambodia (CMAC) yesterday said all of the country’s 400-plus garment factories will remain closed until the government and striking trade unions can guarantee the safety of the factories and all employees who want to work.
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Striking Garment Factory Workers Join CNRP Protest Again
More than 10,000 striking garment factory workers again streamed into Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park throughout the day yesterday, joining opposition supporters on their 12th straight day of demonstrations and marches to demand that Prime Minister Hun Sen resign, and call a new election.
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Eviction Activists End Four-Day Demonstration at City Hall
Anti-eviction activists call an early end to their fourth straight day of demonstrations in front of City Hall yesterday, saying they were tired and disappointed that opposition CNRP President Sam Rainsy had broken a promise to bring thousands of protesting garment workers to join them.
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Factories Advised to Close as Wage Strike Swell
Cambodia’s garment manufactures were advised to temporarily shut down operations yesterday as tens thousands of workers at hundreds of factories joined nationwide strike over wages, disrupting a $5 billion industry that accounts for about 80 percent of the country’s exports.
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At Appeal Court , Ex-Soldiers Deny Violent 2012 Land Grab
Two disable former soldiers convicted of razing the homes and grabbing the land of 30 rice farmers in Kampot province last year denied the charges during their hearing at the Appeal Court yesterday. Touch Soeuly, 57, and 11 other members of his Cambodian Disable Rescue Association were convicted by the Kampot Provincial Court last year.
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Recall Election Technically Possible, Analysts Say
WASHINGTON — Analysts say a recall election is possible within Cambodian law, despite statements to the contrary by Prime Minister Hun Sen. The opposition is calling for a new election, as Cambodia’s political crisis deepens following July polls the opposition says were marred by fraud.
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Striking Factory Workers Join CNRP Protests
More than 10,000 garment factory workers joined opposition CNRP protesters yesterday in Phnom Penh, while tens of thousands more wnt on strike at factories across the country, following the government’s decision on Tuesday to raise the minimum wage to $95, a figure that fell well short of workers’ demands.
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Courts Resurrect Land Disputes After Election
The Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court has summoned for questioning three villagers accused of torching in May a shed on disputed land granted to the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem.
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Eviction Activist Stage Roadblock at City Hall
About 50 anti-eviction demonstrations blocked all traffic up and down Monivong Boulevard in front of City Hall for most of yesterday, trying to force a meeting with governor Pa Socheatvong. Most of the protesters were among the approximately 3,000 families who have been evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak area and wanted to meet with the governor to demand that the city supplement the modest compensation.
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Lax Traffic Law Enforcement Hinders Safety
Handicap International Belgium (H.I), an NGO that assists disabled people in developing national, said yesterday that the failure of police to enforce traffic laws since before the national election in July has reversed its efforts to improve road safety.
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Khieu Kanharith Says No Need to Correct False Facebook Post
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said yesterday that he would not issue a correction for a post to his Facebook page that falsely claimed to show a prominent activist monk, But Buntenh, kissing a woman. The image, which was shared by Mr. Kanharith after he received it from another Facebook user, show a superimposed portrait of But Buntenh in the top-left corner of a picture of a saffron-robed monk kissing a woman.
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Witness Tells of Plot to Murder Timber Exporter
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday heard the final evidence in the case of a broker accused of conspiring to murder his well-connected timber-exporting boss. San Dicham, 40 a dual Cambodia-Lao citizen, was arrested in 2011 for defrauding and plotting to murder his former boss, Khai Narin
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KRT Issues Work Plan for Next Mini-Trial
The Trial Chamber at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday asked defense teams to report on the fitness of their clients to stand trial in the second phase of the court’s present case by January 15, and asked all parties to suggest what the scope of the next mini-trial should be by January 31.
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Monks to March to Odong Over Stolen Relics
Dissident monks will march from Phnom Penh to Odong mountain early next month as part of a protest against the failure of authorities to recover the country’s only relics of the Buddha, which were stolen earlier this month, prominent monk But Buntenh said yesterday.
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City Hall Denies Rainsy’s Claim of Mistreating Monks
The Phnom Penh municipal government has denied claims by opposition CNRP President Sam Rainsy that city officials have mistreated Buddhist monks. Mr. Rainsy, who made his remarks during a large protest against Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh on Sunday, cited a threat made by city governor Pa Socheatvong to strip monks of their right to vote.
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