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With Floods Come a Crime Wave, Officials Say
Police and human rights groups say violent crime has spiked in the period since severe flooding began in August, as criminals take advantage of a distracted security force. Continue reading
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In US, a Fellowship for Better Transparency
Thy Heang, who grew up in Phnom Penh, is currently a communications officer at Cambodians for Resource Revenue Transparency, which monitors the country’s oil and gas industry. She has a master’s in journalism from Hong Kong Baptist University and is currently on a four-month fellowship for the Community Solutions Program, which is sponsored by the leadership nonprofit IREX Continue reading
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More Fiscal Monitoring Expected from Donors: Watchdog
[Editor’s note: Officials of the UK government said recently the donor country could start withholding future funding from countries that don’t detail how they spend foreign aid. The potential new conditions come as many developed countries are looking for ways to tighten budges and deal with the ongoing effects of the global financial crisis. The UK policy would be attached its $13.2 billion annual aid budget. Continue reading
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Long Hours, Low Wages Hurt Working Voters: Unionist
A leading union representative says Cambodian workers need help organizing ahead of polls as the country gears up for local elections next year. Election processes are difficult for factory laborers because of the amount of days and hours they work and the low wages they earn, Chea Mony, president of the Free Trade Union, told “Hello VOA” Thursday. “We have all obviously seen that workers’ wages are very low…so they need to work overtime to fulfill all the tasks in feeding their lives each month,” he said. Continue reading
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UN Rights Envoy Cautions Against NGO Law
The UN’s special envoy for human rights, Surya Subedi, has added his voice to growing concerns that a government law to regulate NGOs should not go forward as currently drafted. Continue reading
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Sam Rainsy Sentence Slightly Reduced in Map Case
The Cambodian Court of Appeals on Tuesday reduced by three years the prison sentence for exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy on criminal charges of disinformation. Sam Rainsy was facing a 10-year sentence for allegedly publishing a map of the border with Vietnam in 2009 that the government said was fraudulent. Sam Rainsy has said that Cambodia is losing land to Vietnamese encroachment, a politically sensitive claim the government denies. Continue reading
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