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Parties set to make history
Some 270,000 supporters of competing political parties will participate in rallies in Phnom Penh on Friday when campaigning ends – the largest such gathering in the Kingdom’s history. It will be the final push as the 20 parties taking part in the July 29 national ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parties-set-make-history
Capital airport train vexes residents
The residents of Street 105K can hear the train before they see it – a low rumble, a blaring horn, an incessant whistle. Motorists swerve out of the way, parting like a school of fish. Children scamper to the side. A railway employee, sitting on ...
Kong Meta and Daphne Chen
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-airport-train-vexes-residents
Spared eviction, airport families ask government for land titles
Families living next to Phnom Penh International Airport filed a petition with the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Wednesday to find out why City Hall has not yet issued them land titles now that Prime Minister Hun Sen had promised to protect them from eviction. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/spared-eviction-airport-families-ask-government-for-land-titles-115993/
‘Black Monday’ will move to appeal court
Activists behind the “Black Monday” protests said on Sunday they would demonstrate yet again today despite the threat of more arrests, this time in front of the Appeal Court, where four employees of rights group Adhoc and an election official will have their bail hearing ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/black-monday-will-move-to-appeal-court-114008/
Arrests continue on latest ‘black monday’
Seven activists arrested in Phnom Penh on Monday morning for attempting to demonstrate against the recent arrests of four human rights workers and an election official were released by nightfall, a familiar conclusion to the latest “Black Monday” demonstration. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/arrests-continue-on-latest-black-monday-113616/