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Opposition parties commemorate grenade attack
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Lawmakers from the Sam Rainsy and Human Rights parties, gathered Saturday to commemorate the 1997 grenade attack, 16 years ago, that killed at least 16 people and injured over 100 others.
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Government Denies Reports on Mining Corruption and Hun Sen
The Cambodian government on Thursday dismissed media reports in Australia linking Prime Minister Hun Sen to a mining company under investigation there for corruption. Earlier this week, The Age newspaper reported on Australian documents that described officials from BHP Billiton seeking a special meeting with Hun Sen prior to being given mineral exploration rights in 2006.
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Government Threatens RFA With Potential Lawsuit Over Border Report
PHNOM PENH — A government spokesman on Thursday warned US broadcaster Radio Free Asia against potentially inciting reporting on land loss along the Thai border, calling it a “national security” issue that could prompt legal action. RFA, a US-funded broadcasting agency, aired an interview earlier this week with a former Khmer Rouge soldier in the border province of Battambang who said the Cambodian boundary had lost around 10 kilometers to Thailand in recent decades.
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Little Hope for Justice 16 Years After Grenade Attack
A few hundred members and supporters of the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) and relatives of the 16 men, women and children killed in a grenade attack on a protest rally in 1997 will gather on Saturday at the scene of the blasts in Phnom Penh. They will mourn of the dead, have a few monks bless their departed spirits and call for justice. But there will be none.
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Government Warns Journalists Reporting on Border Issue
The government yesterday warned journalists to be carful when reporting on highly sensitive border issues as their reports could negatively impact national security. Earlier this week, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported that land in Pailin and Battambong province was being occupied by the Thai military, a claim official vehemently rejected at a news conference at the Council of Ministers yesterday, warning assembled media that they could be punished if they published inflammatory articles about the border.
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Hun Sen Warn Heath Officials to Uphold Ethnic
Speaking at the Minstry of Health’s annual conference yesterday, Prime Minister Hun Sen warned nurses and doctors across the country to uphold ethical standards in their work. Mr. Hun Sen used the example of two high-profile cases in which a 7-year-old boy died of a snake bite after health official in Banteay Menchey province refused to give him the hospital’s last anti-venom injection, and a 27-year-old woman who was forced to give birth on the rail road in Phnom Penh after she was denied care a district referral hospital.
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Cambodia: Supreme Court Keeps Activist Jailed
(New York) – The Cambodian Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the trumped-up imprisonment of a land-rights activist should prompt Cambodia’s donors to demand her unconditional release, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Cambodia war crimes court averts strike over wages
Cambodia's cash-strapped war crimes tribunal has staved off a strike by local staff over unpaid wages that would have further delayed the trial of two Khmer Rouge leaders, officials said on Friday.
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Government ‘Clarifies’ Suspicious BHP Billiton Mining Deal
The government has hit back at media reports Australia diplomatic cables that highlighted Prime Minister Hun Sen’s involvement in a massive mining exploration deal that is now under investigation in the U.S for possible corruption.
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Unpaid KRT Staff to Start Strike Again on Monday
Some 30 translators and interpreters at the Khmer Rouge tribunal said yesterday that they would be going on strike again on Monday over months of unpaid salaries and no renewed contracts.
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Garment Staff Receive $200,000 Severance Pay
More than 200 workers from the Kingsland Garment Cambodia Co.Ltd factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district yesterday finally received their severance pay after three months of ongoing protests, officials said.
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Court Denies Anti-Eviction Activist’s Last Chance at Bail
Supporters of anti-eviction activist Yorm Bopha flew into a fit of rage, burning an effigy of the scales of justice, yesterday at news that the Supreme Court had turned down the 29 year-old mother’s request for bail over her conviction for encouraging the beating of two motorcycle-taxi drivers last year.
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Initial Mapping for Communal Titles Under Way in Mondolkiri
Initial mapping of three ethnic minority Banong communities in Mondolkiri province got under way yesterday, a critical step in their plans to gain much coveted communal titles to their ancestral lands.
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Land was never lost to Thailand
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- A senior government official said, Cambodia didn’t lose any territorial land to Thailand, not even one millimeter. The comment was made Thursday following a recent broadcast of Free Radio Asia.
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Housing Activist To Remain in Jail, Supreme Court Rules
PHNOM PENH - The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the detention order of a housing activist named Yorm Bopha, who is serving a three-year sentence in what supporters say is a threat against the freedom of assembly.
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Police Charge Orphanage Director With Abusing Minors
Siem Reap City police have charged the director of an orphanage in Siem Reap with sexually abusing two minors and have sent him to the provincial to await trail, an official said yesterday.
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European Lawmakers Press for Probe of Land Concessions
Lawmaker from the European Union (E.U) are again urging the block’s trade commissioner to investigate Cambodia’ economic land concession (ELCs) over a raft of alleged rights abuses and to consider revoking the duty free access their owners currently enjoy to member states.
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Parliamentary Group Backs Rainsy Return to Cambodia
A group of parliamentarians from 162 countries is studying a resolution calling on the government of Cambodia to drop a conviction against opposition leader Sam Rainsy and allow him to return to the country to contest national elections in July. The Committee on Human Rights of Parliamentarians in the Geneva-based Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) proposed the resolution on Wednesday.
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Anti-Trafficking NGO and Police Clarify Orphanage Raid
Police and anti-trafficking NGO Sisha released a joint statement yesterday that sought to bring together their conflicting accounts of operation that removed 21 children from a Christian-run orphanage in Phnom Penh on Friday.
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Cambodia: Refusal by the Supreme Court to grant bail to Ms. Yorm Bopha
The Observatory has been informed by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) and the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) about the Supreme Court's decision not to grant bail to Ms. Yorm Bopha, a pivotal figure in the protests against forced evictions of residents from the Boeung Kak Lake community in Phnom Penh.
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