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Man in court for raping 12-year-old girl
Takeo (The Cambodia Herald) -- A teenager was sent to court Monday morning, April 29, after he had raped a 12-year-old girl over the past weekend. The suspect was identified as Prak Cheat, 19, living in the village of Knar, in the Tram Kok District of Takeo. The suspect had raped the girl three times, since Thursday night, at her house, Tram Kok's police inspector said.
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Laos, Cambodia aim to address illegal border issues
Vientiane ( Vientiaine Times/ ANN) -ឥ Illegal border movements, illegal logging, drug trafficking, illegal fishing and unofficial cross border trade are among the issues being confronted by Laos and Cambodia along their shared border at the moment. The report was made during a meeting held between Champassak provincial authorities from Laos and Strung Treng provincial authorities of Cambodia, in order to discuss various cross border issues which are affecting public order and security in the region.
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Bodies of Dead Loggers Still on Thailand
Thailand has still not repatriated the bodies of a group of Cambodians-at least three men but possibly seven to 10-shot dead by Thai security forces last week while illegally logging across the border from Oddar Meanchey province, military and border officials said yesterday.
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Cambodian Court Orders New Probe in Reporter’s Death
A court in Cambodia on Tuesday ordered a renewed probe into the murder of a journalist who had exposed corruption among local elites, saying an earlier investigation had neglected important evidence that could shed new light on the case. Presiding judge Y Sovann told the Ratanakiri provincial court that several sources of information had been overlooked during the investigation into the killing of Hang Serei Oudom, who was found beaten to death in the trunk of his car last September.
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Land dispute Case Involving Minister’s Wife Is Heard
The Court of Appeal yesterday heard the case of a land dispute between a 70-year-old woman from Kompong Chhnang province and a company owned by the wife of the Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy over a 3,000 square meter pared of land.
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City Hall Denies Eviction Family Despite Fencing Off Homes
Three families protesting the fencing-off the Phnom Penh building in which they have lived for decades were assured yesterday by City Hall-which “swapped” the property and the land on which it is built earlier this month –that they will not be evicted from the building until they negotiation compensation with the company who now owns the land.
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Phnom Penh Anti-Eviction Protesters Burn CPP-Donated Sarongs
About 20 protesters from three eviction communities around Phnom Penh tore up and burned sarongs they had received from the ruling party CPP outside the party’s headquarters yesterday, saying they needed land little instead. The protester from Phnom Penh’s Boeung Kak, Borie Keila and Thmar Kaul communities arrived at CPP headquarters at about 8 a.m. and began burning incense and praying to the spirits to prevent the ruling party from winning the upcoming national election.
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Phnom Penh agrees to Union parade on International Labor Day
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Phnom Penh City Hall agreed to allow Unions to congregate at Democratic Park in commemoration of the 127th International Labor Day. In a letter dated Monday, retired Phnom Penh Governor, Kep Chuk Tema, said, Unions and workers could gather and stage a parade from Democratic Park along Preah Sisowat Blvd to the National Assembly to give a petition, but the gathering must end after that.
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In Long Beach, New Opposition Seeks Support
LONG BEACH - Cambodians who go to the polls for July’s parliamentary elections will face two major choices, the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, and the new opposition, the Cambodia National Rescue Party. The new opposition represents a combination of two former party leaders, Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha, both of whom were in Long Beach earlier this month, looking for funding and support ahead of the election.
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National Election Body Says It Refuses to Revise Voter List
The government’s election body said it has no intention of revising the country’s voter list, a request that was delivered in a petition to government representatives at an opposition rally held last week by the Cambodian National Rescues Party (CNRP).
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Press freedom still not living up to the law, seminar told
In Cambodia, while the constitution guarantees press freedom and freedom of expression, freedom of speech is still limited in reality, said Chhay Sophal, editor-in-chief of Cambodia News Online and a board member of the Cambodian Journalists' Council for Ethics. "Legally speaking, the government respects the country's free press and freedom of expression, but in practice, the public voice is sometimes ignored or accused of being backed by the opposition - an excuse for government authorities to crack down."
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Chut Wutty’s death does little to curb Cambodia’s illegal logging
In an article published exactly one year after environmental activist Chut Wutty was killed in Cambodia, Megan MacInnes, Senior Land Campaigner at Global Witness, regrets that “Wutty’s death has not served as a wake-up call for Cambodia’s donors or allies“. On the same day, his brother- in-law, Yong Sokhorn, told Radio Free Asia that, “The government must reconsider and reopen the case in order to find the true killer and determine who was behind the killing.”
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Survey: 74.5% of civil party members approve of ECCC's role
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- According to a recent survey published by Harvard University and the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC), 74.5 percent of civil party members involved in case 002 believes the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) are living up to their duties in finding justice for the victims of the Khmer Rouge. 92.5 percent of the members answered that the ECCC are re-building trust and confidence among the people of Cambodia.
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Three Illegal Loggers Killed In Thailand
Thai security force shot and killed at least three Cambodians Thursday night who were logging illegally in Thailand across the border from Oddar Meanchey province, military and government official said yesterday.
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Thai Navy arrested four Cambodian's for illegal rosewood
Chon Buri (The Nation/ ANN) -- The Thai Navy has seized a Cambodian boat and arrested four Cambodian crew-members for allegedly trying to smuggle Bt10 million worth of processed wood, belonging to a protected tree species. The arrests were made early Sunday morning.
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Preah Vihear Authorities Destroy Airfield Homes
Authorities have demolished the homes of 25 families living on the site of an obsolete airfield in Preah Vihear province’s Choam Ksan district, a rights group said yesterday. The families were ordered to move off the land on Wednesday, with the district governor Sok Hai saying they had no legal rights to the land but declining to say what the area was being cleared for.
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Hun Sen Seeks Garment Factory Workers Vote
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday asked some 4,000 garment factory workers for their votes in July’s national election at a rally in Phnom Penh attended by member of several CPP –aligned unions, according to those in attendance.
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Rights Worker Facing Lawsuit for Comments on Land Dispute
PHNOM PENH - A local official for the ruling party has filed a lawsuit against a prominent rights investigator for remarks made about an ongoing land dispute in Pursat province. Prom Ngoun, chief of Thmor Da commune, Veal Veng district, made the complaint against Chan Soveth, chief investigator for the rights group Adhoc, following a press conference about a land dispute in his area.
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Cambodian court charges Canadian man with child prostitute purchase
PHNOM PENH, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Siem Reap Provincial Court charged a Canadian man Vigai Indra D.Komar, 50, with purchasing child prostitution of a minor under the age of 15 years, officials said Sunday. The suspect was arrested on Friday in a guesthouse's room in the province on the suspicion of sexually abusing an underage girl, said Brigadier General Chea Heng, deputy chief of the provincial anti-human trafficking and juvenile protection police office. "When police raided the room the suspect and a 14-year-old girl were both inside," he said, adding police found several sex utensils, VCDs containing pornographic materials, 1 VCD player, ordinary photos of children, and 1 camera in the room.
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US embassy to host web-chat with CNN journalist
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- The US Embassy will host a global web-chat discussion with CNN journalist, Lila King, on the subject of "Citizen Journalism". In celebration of World Press Freedom Day the event will take place Thursday, May 2, 2013, at 6:00 p.m., on the Embassy grounds.
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