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Migrant sweep ongoing
Police from the Ministry of Interior yesterday arrested more than 100 Vietnamese people suspected of illegally living and working in Cambodia in the second such mass roundup in the capital this week.
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NGO boss out on lack of evidence
The director of a Phnom Penh children’s NGO arrested over allegations of abuse was released from police custody on Wednesday due to a lack of evidence, police said yesterday. Mao Soeuth, deputy police chief in Chbar Ampov district, confirmed that Soy Srey On, 23, director of Bethel Children’s Home of Cambodia, was “released and returned home”.
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Close Detention Center, Human Rights Watch Says
Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey Vocational Training Center, better known as Prey Speu, has once again come under fire, with officials admitting Thursday that many of the vagrants detained there ahead of former CPP President Chea Sim’s funeral last week have yet to be released.
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Warehouse mangement freed
A day after three workers at a Phnom Penh marble warehouse were crushed to death, the owner and supervisor of the business were both released from police custody, warehouse employees said yesterday. A member of Xin Yong Thai (Cambodia) Group Co Ltd’s staff, who declined to be named, yesterday said police released the pair on Wednesday evening.
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Activists, Rights Worker Detained Before March
Three activists from the environmental NGO Mother Nature and a human rights monitor were detained in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district for about three hours Thursday after City Hall deemed a planned march to the National Assembly illegal.
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Cold-case union killings to be probed
The government has formed a special inter-ministerial commission to investigate the murders of three union leaders, including the slaying of former Free Trade Union (FTU) president Chea Vichea, whose brother and successor was yesterday among voices cynical of the move.
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Racism on Display in Scrapyard Immigration Raid
Police from the Interior Ministry’s general department of immigration Thursday detained more than 100 Vietnamese men working at a metal scrapyard in Phnom Penh to assess the legitimacy of their employment in Cambodia. What the officers left behind was a community of confused and frightened families.
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Let Prey Speu detainees go: HRW
A major rights group yesterday called for the immediate release of dozens of people “arbitrarily detained” in Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey Speu Social Affairs Centre, after being forcibly rounded up from the streets last week.
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Gov’t to Reinvestigate Union Leaders’ Slayings
An interministerial committee has been established to once again investigate the assassinations of Free Trade Union leaders Chea Vichea, Hy Vuthy and Ros Sovannareth between 2004 and 2007, according to a government decree obtained Thursday.
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Woman Charged With Pimping Out Seven Teenagers
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday charged a 37-year-old woman with aggravated procurement of prostitution for allegedly facilitating the sale of seven teenagers for sex, police and court officials said.
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Hundreds of Workers in Takeo Block Road Over Wage Dispute
Hundreds of workers at an electronics factory who have been on strike for almost two weeks calling for wages equal to their peers in the garment sector blocked National Road 3 in Takeo province on Wednesday after the provincial court ordered them to return to work, officials said.
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Mekong body risks losing funds: donors
The Mekong River Commission must “urgently” clarify how it will restructure and fund itself in the future or risk donors pulling out, development partners said yesterday, as it emerged funding for the intergovernmental body would likely be “much lower” than the MRC had anticipated.
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Program ‘failed to deliver’
As the World Bank mulls fresh funding for land concessions in Cambodia, a scathing new report has shed light on major failures with the first phase of the project. The study released yesterday by local rights group Licadho, On Stony Ground: A Look Into Social Land Concessions, explores issues with the seven-year Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development (LASED) project funded by the bank and Germany’s foreign aid agency, GIZ.
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Orphanage Closed Following Accusations of Sex
Three boys and a girl, one of whom is disabled, were removed from a Phnom Penh orphanage on Tuesday after its main donor accused its director of physical abuse and sexual misconduct.
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Social media can be a tool in support of conflict resolution: global media forum
Empower women through hashtags – new ways to sustainable conflict resolution? This was the central question of an interactive workshop during the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum in Bonn, Germany on Wednesday. Along with the participants, panelists from media, politics and NGOs discussed the potential of social media as a tool to actively involve women in the process of conflict prevention and resolution, as demanded by the landmark Resolution 1325 adopted by the member states of the United Nations Security Council 15 years ago.
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For Families, World Bank Project Falls Short
Hang Sal has 2 hectares of fertile land he cannot farm. His family was among the 3,000-plus awarded private plots on social land concessions set up by the Ministry of Land Management with help—and $12.7 million—mostly from the World Bank.
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Hor Namhong, Vietnamese Official Meet Over Border Issue
Vietnam’s Deputy Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung on Tuesday met with Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong to inform him that local Vietnamese authorities had been ordered to compile reports on the use of land on disputed stretches of the border following recent diplomatic notes from Cambodia.
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New Commerce Ministry Website Lacks Facts
As the only finalist in its category at Thursday’s Cambodia Information and Communications Technology awards, the Commerce Ministry looks likely to take home first prize for its newly overhauled website. But two months after the website went live, not everyone is singing its praises.
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VN gov’t to respond to border allegations
The Vietnamese government has ordered border authorities on its end to make a report responding to allegations that Vietnamese forces have encroached onto Cambodian territory by digging ponds and constructing a military post inside Ratanakkiri and Kandal provinces, respectively.
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Families seek their daughters’ safe return
Five families whose daughters were illegally trafficked to Malaysia to serve as domestic workers earlier this year are seeking their safe return after receiving word of the mistreatment they are being made to endure, rights group Adhoc said yesterday.
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