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Rights groups criticize UN as Montagnards return to Vietnam
As 24 Montagnards returned to Vietnam on Thursday after Cambodia refused to process their asylum claims, rights groups criticized the U.N.’s refugee agency for assisting the government in repatriating the group to a country where they claim to have fled from persecution. ...
George Wright and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rights-groups-criticize-un-as-montagnards-return-to-vietnam-97029/
2 more refugees headed to Cambodia from Nauru
Two more refugees detained on the South Pacific island of Nauru are expected to arrive in Cambodia soon as part of a controversial resettlement deal with Australia. ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voanews.com/content/two-more-refugees-headed-cambodia-nauru/2995592.html
After scramble, campaign on Nauru ramps up
Less than two weeks after Australia’s immigration minister met with Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh following media reports that a controversial refugee deal had collapsed, a spokesman for an organization that monitors refugees on Nauru said that asylum seekers there are again being ...
George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-scramble-campaign-on-nauru-ramps-up-94837/
Interior ministry gives promotion to 119 generals
The Interior Ministry held a ceremony to promote 119 generals on Tuesday, according to secretary of state Em Sam An, who presided over the meeting. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/interior-ministry-gives-promotion-to-119-generals-94323/
Cambodia will not investigate protest shooting death, government spokesman says
Cambodian authorities will not pursue inquiries into the shooting death of a man killed during anti-government protests two years ago, a government spokesman said today as a Cambodian rights group slammed the Southeast Asian nation’s “dangerous path” away from democracy. ...
Morm Moniroth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/investigate-09152015173349.html
Cambodian government claims montagnards are trafficked economic refugees
Cambodia declared Tuesday that the Montagnards who have entered the country illegally, claiming to flee repression in Vietnam are economic, not political, refugees, because they were trafficked into the nation, a government spokesman said. ...
Chandara Yang
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/government-claims-montagnards-are-trafficked-economic-refugees-09152015153955.html
Montagnards told to return to Vietnam
Almost a year since the latest wave of Montagnards began arriving in the country, claiming to be fleeing persecution in Vietnam, the Interior Ministry said on Friday that all but 13 of them have been given three months to return home or face forced repatriation. ...
George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/montagnards-told-to-return-to-vietnam-94060/
The National Police establishes a new department
The General Commissariat of National Police has recently established a new department called “Department for Anti-technology Crime”, said Gen. Khieu Sopheak, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staffq
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/the-national-police-establishes-a-new-department-8932
Rohingya refugee picks Burma over Cambodia
A Rohingya refugee wants to go back to Burma—where his people are denied citizenship and subject to deadly pogroms by the Buddhist majority—rather than stay in Cambodia any longer, according to the Ministry of Interior. ...
Mech Dara and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rohingya-refugee-picks-burma-over-cambodia-93543/
1 of 4 asylum seekers resettled in Cambodia under multimillion-dollar deal wants to go home
One of four asylum seekers resettled in Cambodia just three months ago in a multimillion-dollar deal that saw them sent from an Australian-run detention camp on the Pacific island nation of Nauru has decided he wants to go home, a Cambodian official said Sunday. ...
Sopheng Cheang
http://www.startribune.com/nauru-camp-asylum-seeker-in-cambodia-wants-to-go-home/324962481/
CNRP threatens to censure Kheng over Vietnamese migrants
The opposition yesterday threatened to censure Interior Minister Sar Kheng, accusing the government of not being honest about the number of Vietnamese in the country. ...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15212/cnrp-threatens-to-censure-kheng-over-vietnamese-migrants/
Australian ministers deny collapse of refugee deal
Australia’s foreign minister on Monday insisted that a controversial refugee deal with Cambodia was alive and well, dismissing Australian news reports that efforts to resettle more refugees here from Nauru had collapsed. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/australian-ministers-deny-collapse-of-refugee-deal-93037/
No plans for more refugees from Nauru
Almost three months after four refugees arrived in Cambodia from Nauru as part of a controversial resettlement deal with Australia, the Interior Ministry said on Friday that it had no plans to receive more refugees being held in the South Pacific island nation. ...
Colin Meyn
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/no-plans-for-more-refugees-from-nauru-2-92886/
Rector says student was warned against activism
After a Khemerak University student was jailed in Phnom Penh on Saturday over a social media post calling for a “color revolution” in Cambodia, the school’s director Monday claimed that politics had “poisoned” students at his institution. ...
Aun Pheap and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rector-says-student-was-warned-against-activism-92373/
Victims of shooting petition for arrest of their assailant
Three victims injured in a public shooting in early 2012 have called on the prime minister to intervene and find the former governor convicted of the crime. ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/victims-of-shooting-petition-for-arrest-of-their-assailant/2880176.html
CNRP pushes gov’t for unity against Vietnam
Built from the vestiges of the Vietnamese-backed People’s Republic of Kampuchea of the 1980s, the CPP of Prime Minister Hun Sen has long been accused by the opposition of subservience to its old master. ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-pushes-govt-for-unity-against-vietnam-87092/
Montagnards are not asylum seekers, interior spokesman says
There are now 109 Montagnard asylum seekers in Phnom Penh waiting to be registered, according to the U.N., but a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said Monday the government does not recognize any of them as legitimate asylum seekers. ...
Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/montagnards-are-not-asylum-seekers-interior-spokesman-says-85218/
Cambodia refuses asylum to Montagnard refugees from Vietnam
Cambodia is refusing protection for almost 100 Montagnard asylum seekers fleeing persecution in Vietnam as four refugees travel from Nauru to the impoverished nation under a controversial $55.5 million agreement with Australia. ...
Lindsay Murdoch
http://bit.ly/1FV7c50
First refugees from Nauru to arrive Thursday
The first four asylum seekers moving to Cambodia from the South Pacific island of Nauru will arrive Thursday, part of a controversial resettlement deal with Australia. ...
Neou Vannarin and Phorn Bopha
http://bit.ly/1G7vDhd
One refugee on Nauru takes up resettlement offer, says Cambodian official
Just one refugee on Nauru has taken up the Australian government’s offer to settle Cambodia, according to a Cambodian official. A Cambodian interior ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak told the Cambodia Daily that a Rohingya man was so far the only refugee who had taken up the ...
Paul Farrell
http://bit.ly/1DD4nl4
Officials travel to speak with Nauru asylum seekers
Two officials from Cambodia’s Interior Ministry departed for Australia and the Pacific Island of Nauru Monday, to ensure that an initial group of asylum seekers there will move to Cambodia, part of a controversial deal with Australia. ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://bit.ly/1O9GKvp
TV journalist to take senior post at interior ministry
The deputy director of the Cambodian News Channel (CNC), a local 24-hour television news station, has been appointed undersecretary of state at the Interior Ministry, according to a copy of the April 11 royal decree awarding him the position. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tv-journalist-to-take-senior-post-at-interior-ministry-82120/
Gov’t denies refugee arrivals from Nauru imminent
The Ministry of Interior on Sunday said no refugees from Nauru were expected to arrive in Cambodia for the next few days, contradicting recent comments from the International Organization for Migration (IOM). ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-denies-refugee-arrivals-from-nauru-imminent-82118/
Preah Sihanouk police chief removed
The chief of police in Preah Sihanouk province has been removed from his position and will be replaced by Chuon Narin, deputy chief of the Phnom Penh municipal force, according to the Interior Ministry. ...
Matt Blomberg and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/preah-sihanouk-police-chief-removed-81294/