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Rights group slams Cambodian government over land dispute death

Try Chamroeun, a 19-year-old student, was planting soybeans on Sunday along with fellow villagers on a two-hectare (half-acre) plot in Preah Vihear province, when soldier Poeun Tash demanded that he stop, claiming the land belonged to his military boss, according to London-based environmental advocacy group ...

Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/death-07312014185132.html

Crops pulled: Locals and NGO staffer questioned

About 150 ethnic Kuoy villagers gathered outside Preah Vihear Provincial Court yesterday to protest the questioning of eight villagers and an NGO staff member for allegedly inciting villagers in Tbeng Meanchey district to destroy 36 tonnes of sugarcane. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/crops-pulled-locals-and-ngo-staffer-questioned

Demonstrators say jobs in Japan promised

Hundreds of Cambodians hoping to migrate to Japan to work in the electronics industry yesterday protested outside an NGO that they claim conned them out of up to $200 each with promises of jobs. About 100 protesters – out of a total of 300 who are ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/demonstrators-say-jobs-japan-promised

Cambodia’s ongoing human trafficking problem

Svay Pak is an internationally known district for child sex in Cambodia’s capital of Phnom Penh, where foreign men come to seek sex with young girls. According to a 2011 study by ECPAT Cambodia, around 75 percent of the victims of sex trafficking within Cambodia were children. The study also ...

Kyla Ryan
http://thediplomat.com/2014/07/cambodias-ongoing-human-trafficking-problem/

Companies squabble, villagers protest in Kandal

A company that villagers say owns land that was illegally grabbed from them in Kandal province asked more than 100 residents of Ponhea Leu commune to leave the firm out of their dispute and focus their ire on Phanimex, which is owned by powerful businesswoman ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/companies-squabble-villagers-protest-in-kandal-65067/

Boeng Kak’s best teach villagers protest 101

When two middle-aged novices emerged with signs protesting the development of disputed land near the tip of the Chroy Changva peninsula on Thursday, one of the country’s foremost anti-eviction activists was there to tell them they were doing it all wrong. Ms. Vanny, who was ...

Matt Blomberg and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/boeng-kaks-best-teach-villagers-protest-101-64920/

Minister meets NGOs over ongoing UDG dispute

Environment Minister Say Sam Al on Thursday met with U.N. and NGO representatives to discuss the ongoing dispute between the powerful Chinese-owned Union Development Group (UDG) and villagers in Koh Kong province who say they were kicked off their land and had their shelters torched. In ...

Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-meets-ngos-over-ongoing-udg-dispute-64952/

Villagers seek refuge in Phnom Penh pagoda again

About 160 villagers from Kratie province’s Snuol district embroiled in a land dispute with a plantation owner are the latest evictees to take residence in Phnom Penh’s Samakki Raingsey pagoda. A spokesman for City Hall, which has made repeated efforts in recent months to prevent the ...

Aun Pheap and George Wright
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-seek-refuge-in-phnom-penh-pagoda-again-64942/

On the march: Days-long strike shifts to district HQ

After striking for more than a week, employees at Phnom Penh’s Sun Well Shoes yesterday marched to Por Sen Chey district hall, demanding their voices be heard. Some 300 people marched from their Veng Sreng Boulevard factory with a list of seven demands, including the ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/march-days-long-strike-shifts-district-hq

After jailing, Mu Sochua ‘more determined’ print share

Mu Sochua, the outspoken lawmaker of the opposition who just spent a week in jail, says she is going to continue pushing for democratic reforms in Cambodia. “I’m not intimidated by arrest,” she told “Hello VOA” on Wednesday. “Instead, my will to defend the people and ...

Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/after-jailing-mu-sochua-more-determined/1964382.html

Minister lauds controversial sugar industry

Environment Minister Say Sam Al on Wednesday lauded the country’s controversial sugar industry and the jobs it has created, saying that companies operating in the sector need to be defended against the widespread criticism they have been receiving. Rights groups and the opposition CNRP have undertaken ...

Khuon Narim and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-lauds-controversial-sugar-industry-64810/

Officials raid villager’s home in KDC dispute

Police and court officials on Wednesday searched the home of villager Oum Sophy, who has been outspoken opponent of the well-connected KDC company as it has tried to push her and dozens of her neighbors off their land in Kompong Chhnang province. The raid came after ...

Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-raid-villagers-home-in-kdc-dispute-64802/

Hun Sen’s cabinet accepts petition of villagers

The cabinet of Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday accepted a petition from villagers from Kratie province’s Snuol district who are requesting intervention in a land dispute with a plantation owner. Kong Chamroeun, a secretary in the prime minister’s cabinet, met about 100 villagers at Phnom ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sens-cabinet-accepts-petition-of-villagers-64812/

Garment workers demand district intervention

About 200 garment workers on Wednesday marched from the Sun Well Shoe Factory on Veng Sreng Street to the Pur Senchey district office, demanding intervention in an ongoing dispute over their wages, a union representative said. At 7 a.m., the workers left the factory, marching out ...

Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/garment-workers-demand-district-intervention-64820/

Easing sex trade laws ‘could lower’ HIV rate

Decriminalising sex work could slash the world’s HIV infections by a third or more, according to a new study. Published yesterday in health journal The Lancet, the paper says that punitive treatment of sex workers can “elevate HIV acquisition and transmission risks”. In Cambodia, which has Southeast Asia’s ...

Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/easing-sex-trade-laws-%E2%80%98could-lower%E2%80%99-hiv-rate

Farmers ask Hun Sen for help, told to go home

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet on Tuesday refused to accept a petition from some 200 farmers who traveled from Kratie province to Phnom Penh to ask for help in settling their land dispute with a plantation owner, urging them to try settling the case with ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/farmers-ask-hun-sen-for-help-told-to-go-home-64716/

Villagers charged with destruction of property in KDC clashes

Two villagers embroiled in a long-running land dispute with the well-connected KDC company were charged Tuesday with intentional destruction of property and causing injuries during clashes with workers at the disputed development site in Kompong Chhnang province last week. On Monday, provincial police arrested 30-year-old Mang ...

Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-charged-with-destruction-of-property-in-kdc-clashes-64707/

Release quickly follows deal

A jubilant crowd of opposition supporters burst into cheers yesterday afternoon as seven Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers-elect and one party activist were released on bail just hours after an announced rapprochement between the CNRP and the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. They walked free through exits ...

Joe Freeman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/release-quickly-follows-deal

Villagers in court: Prey Lang land activists deny charge

Forest activists accused of destroying private property told a court hearing in Kampong Thom province yesterday that they were acting to protect mainland Southeast Asia’s largest evergreen forest from illegal logging. ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-court-prey-lang-land-activists-deny-charge

Sochua ‘off limits to US Embassy’

Despite multiple requests, the US Embassy has not been given access to visit dual citizen Mu Sochua since her arrest last Tuesday, officials said yesterday. “Consular officers attempted to visit Mu Sochua the evening she was arrested but were not permitted to see her and multiple ...

Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sochua-%E2%80%98-limits-us-embassy%E2%80%99

Acid attack leaves 3 injured

After more than half a year with only one acid attack recorded in Cambodia, police in Banteay Meanchey’s Poipet town are at a loss to explain an incident yesterday in which three women were allegedly doused with the chemical while eating noodles at a local ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/acid-attack-leaves-3-injured

Strike for a song: Employees ‘waste time on phones’

About 500 garment workers whose bosses have complained that they spend too much of their working day talking on the phone and listening to music protested outside their Kampong Speu factory yesterday, demanding better working conditions. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strike-song-employees-%E2%80%98waste-time-phones%E2%80%99

In Cambodia, fake orphanages soak up donations by duping tourists

Just before the sun sets over the enchanting Angkor temples in northern Cambodia, a group of children gets ready for their big show. Every day, according to fliers at restaurants and hotels around town, the children perform an hour-long “charity show” for tourists visiting the ...

Denise Hruby
http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20140721/in-cambodia-fake-orphanages-soak-up-donations-by-duping-tourists

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