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Newspaper editor and partner face three years in jail
PHNOM PENH ( The Cambodia Herald) -- Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced Thursday a newspaper editor and his partner to three years in prison and a six million riel fine for forgery and defamation. The Anti-Corruption Unit arrested Ponleu Samki's editor in chief Hong Sakhorn, also known as Hong Chamroeun, and Phai Bunthoeurn last year.
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Land Dispute Body Blame Concession Troubles on Ministries
The head of the country’s National Authority for Land Dispute Resolution yesterday said his authority was unable to resolve land disputes and that the responsibility for setting such disputes rested with the ministries responsible for hearing out economic land concession (ELCs) in the first place.
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Bundith Admits Shooting ,but Unaware Where Bullets Went
At time smiling and coolly confident , Bavet’s former governor Chhouk Bundith yesterday attended at an Appeal court hearing to decide if he will be finally charged with shooting and injured three women during a violent strike protest last year.
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SRP to Ask Government to Scrap Plane Contract
The opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) said yesterday that it intended to formally request that the government scrap the contract to acquire its new private airline , and also explain its decision to procure the French-made Airbus A320
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Naga World Workers Reinstate After Protest
Following six straight days of protests by hundred of staff at Naga World Casino, casino management yesterday agreed to reinstate four senior workers and said they would consider increasing the entire staff’s minimum wage.
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Appeals Court Picks Up Shooting Case Against Former Bavet Governor
PHNOM PENH - The Cambodian Court of Appeals held a hearing Wednesday in a case against a former city governor accused of shooting into a group of demonstrators, injuring three, last year. Chhouk Bandith, the former governor of Bavet town, Svay Rieng Province, is being charged in the shooting. Rights workers say he was not prosecuted by a lower court because of his powerful government connections. He was removed from his post following the February 2011 shooting incident. Three women were injured after Chhouk Bandith allegedly fired shots into a demonstration of around 1,000 workers who were demanding better conditions and pay at a factory in the province.
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Unions, bosses fail to agree on minimum wage
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Garment manufacturers and trade union groups failed to reach agreement on wage increases in a second round of talks on Wednesday. Unions lowered their demand from $120 a month to $100, up from the current minimum wage of $61, but employers remained firm with their offer of $72.
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Corruption Unit Investigate Telecom Cambodia Chief.
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) will launch an investigate into corruptions made by staff at Telecom Cambodia against its director-general Lao Sarouen, official said yesterday.
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Preah Vihear Families’ Land Issue Go Unheard
About 50 families living in on the side of the long-disused Preah Vihear airport went to the provincial hall yesterday to request that local official reconsider their earlier decision to refuse that land titles on the grounds that the air strip would soon be rebuilt.
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Call for Flexibility in Cambodian Wage Talks
The Cambodian government on Wednesday called on unions and employers to be flexible in their negotiations over an increase in the minimum wage for garment and footwear workers as the two sides remained poles apart following a second straight day of tense talks. Ministry of Labor Under Secretary of State Sat Samouth urged the two parties to “soften their stances,” calling on the unions to lower their demand and representatives of the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) to raise their offer for a fair compromise. At a press conference during a break in talks, he told reporters that the government is optimistic the parties could agree by April for an increase in the minimum wage from its current rate of U.S. $61 per month. Union representatives had asked for the minimum wage to be doubled to U.S. $120 per month in negotiations on Tuesday, but reduced their bid to U.S. $100 on Wednesday, while GMAC representatives held fast on their offer of U.S. $72.
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Hearing for ex-governor over shooting to resume Thursday
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Former Bavet governor Chhouk Bandith appeared in the Court of Appeal Wednesday over the shooting of protesting workers in the border town last year. The three victims, 21-year-old Bun Chinda, 16-year-old Keo Nea and 23-year-old Nout Sakhorn also attended the hearing along with many human rights activists. After questioning the former governor and two of the three victims, the court adjourned the hearing until Thursday. Chhouk Bandith was first accused of unintentionally injuring the three workers from the Manhattan Special Economic Zone when he opened fire in February last year.
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$35 Million Budget Approved for Khmer Rouge Tribunal
PHNOM PENH - International donors have approved the 2013 budget for the UN-back Khmer Rouge tribunal. Donors agreed on a budget of $35 million, about $5 million less than the court had asked for, court officials said Tuesday. The international side of the hybrid court will be budgeted for $26 million, with the rest going to the Cambodian side, according to a decision made at a Feb. 21 meeting, officials said. The court is currently undertaking the trial of three former Khmer Rouge leaders—only its second case since its 2006 inception.
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Appeals Court To Hear Suit Against Opposition Leader
Opposition members of the Sam Rainsy Party say they want a delay in an upcoming hearing in a lawsuit brought against the party leader by a top ruling party official. Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong is suing Sam Rainsy for comments he made that linked the minister to the Khmer Rouge, during a speech in 2008. Sam Rainsy was found libel in the suit, which carries criminal penalties, by a lower court, which sentenced him to two years in jail and a fine of $2,000, The Appeals Court announced last week it would hold a hearing on that decision on March 12. SRP spokesman Yim Sovann told VOA Khmer that the party has been unable to find a lawyer to represent Sam Rainsy, who remains in exile abroad, and has requested from the Appeals Court a postponement of the hearing.
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Police Accuse Teacher of Defamation Over Face book Post
Police in Phnom Penh have summoned for questioning a schoolteacher who they accused of defaming officers in a post on the social networking site Face book about the confiscation of his monitor bike last month.
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Crackdown in illegal checkpoints in Svay Rieng
SVAY RIENG (The Cambodia Herald) - Military Police Commander Soa Sokha has vowed to take action against illegal checkpoints in Svay Rieng province. "Police, military police and illegal checkpoints along the border in Romeas Hek district must urgently stop their actions from now on or otherwise face arrest," he told a workshop on Sunday. He also urged local authorities to collect taxes according to the law and said parents should stop their children from emigrating to work abroad.
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Logger Reported Dead as Rosewood Trade Directive Announced
Amid reports that a second Cambodia has been killed this year by Thai armed forces while illegally logging in Thai border territory, officials had little detail yesterday on government directive that aimed at the international demand for rosewood from Cambodia.
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Campaign Promotes Ethics in Cambodian Reporting
A media group in Cambodia has launched a campaign to promote ethical journalism with the aim of improving reporting standards in the country, but rights groups say the organization lacks independence from the ruling government party and seeks to clamp down on the freedom of expression. The Cambodian Journalist Council for Ethics (CJCE) implemented the two-year campaign last week, saying it will focus on improving journalism at the country’s leading five newspapers and nine television stations. Media organizations targeted by the campaign, the first of its kind in Cambodia, are newspapers Raksmey Kampuchea, Koh Santepheap, Kampuchea Thmei and opposition party-affiliated journal Khmer Conscience, as well as television stations Cambodian Television Network (CTN), Apsara, Bayon, TV3 and TV9. Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith, speaking at the campaign’s launch last week in Phnom Penh, said it was needed to improve the skills of non-professional journalists and to curb “corruption” amongst journalists and the practice of “writing stories to provoke a problem.”
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Rights Groups Decry Bar Association Gag Order
“Neither the BAKC nor the Ministry of Information have any place determining who can and cannot appear in the Cambodian media—a free and independent media being a cornerstone of any democratic society,” local rights groups Adhoc, Licadho and the Cambodian Center for Human Rights said in a joint statement.
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Cambodia: Election List May Widen Divide In Hun Sen’s Party
Ou Virak, the president of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said that nominating only the rich and powerful children within the CPP to become lawmakers would discourage other CPP members’ children sidelined from the polls. “Children of other CPP leaders will think they don’t have any chance like those of the rich and powerful,” he told RFA’s Khmer Service. Ou Virak believes that Hun Sen, prime minister since 1985 and Southeast Asia’s longest serving government leader, is paving the way for his oldest son Hun Manet, currently a two-star general, to replace him in the future. “Hun Manet is holding a very crucial position in the military. I think during Hun Sen’s regime, the military will play an important role in controlling the country. I think this is what Hun Sen is thinking,” Ou Virak said.
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Court Sentences 4 Men to 7 years for Rape of Teen
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced four young men-one in absentia-to seven years in jail each for gang raping a 15 year-old girl in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district in April, official said. Horn Hong, 20; Pich Sideth,22;Tith Sokthy,20; and Chea Chhunly,21, were charged May 1 with gang rape after the teenager’s parents filed a complaint with the local authorities the day after the attach.
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