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Cambodia cracks down on rights day march
Celebrations were closed down, an NGO worker was briefly detained and security forces were accused of stomping on a protester’s stomach on International Human Rights Day.
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Cambodia's claim to statue 'far-fetched': Sotheby's
Representatives of the international auction house Sotheby’s say they have found one key flaw in the case to repatriate a highly valuable Angkorean-era sculpture: the statue wasn’t stolen in the first place.
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Play guns, real arrests
Police arrested three alleged “armed” robbers after they used plastic pistols to steal $70 and a mobile phone from an elderly woman in Phnom Penh.
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Pension scheme ramps up
More than 700,000 workers at private companies and factories across 19 provinces have registered to join a nationwide pension scheme that goes into effect in 2015.
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PM urges North Korea to call off rocket launch
Speaking as ASEAN chair, PM Hun Sen appealed to North Korea to permanently postpone a highly criticised planned rocket launch.
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Union representatives summonsed
Union leaders representing workers on strike at the Tropicana Casino and Resort were served with a summons by the Banteay Meanchey provincial court after a complaint by the casino’s management.
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Scant resolution for blaze victims
Officials remain unsure whether victims of the deadly fire that destroyed the Siem ReapNight Market and took the lives of eight people would receive any compensation for their losses.
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Ethnic group press for communal title
Economic land concessions granted to a pair of Vietnamese companies in Ratanakkiri are endangering the traditional lifestyles of as many as 200 ethnic-minority families.
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Family honours fallen journalist
Marjolaine Caron stood in front of the last picture ever taken of her father, Gilles Caron, whodisappeared while covering the opening salvos of the civil war in 1970.
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Police Blotter: 11 Dec 2012
A 22-year-old man is behind bars after attacking a trio of bystanders with a cleaver; a woman's call was cut short when thieves snatched her iPhone mid-sentence.
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Tribunal betrays the ideal of justice
There is a pressing need for justice in Cambodia.
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The jobs equation doesn’t add up
The number of jobs is rising slightly.
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Blaze in Siem Reap market claims eight
SIEM REAP: A deadly blaze rips through a popular Siem Reap night market killing eight people and leaving two hospitalised with serious injuries.
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Worker expulsion looming for migrant workers
More than 160,000 Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand stand to be deported if they have not registered by a December 14 deadline.
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Families make plea to PM Hun Sen over eviction
More than 160 families in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district watched excavators rip apart their homes at the behest of two district deputy governors.
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Lethal grenade attack at wedding
A man suspected of throwing a grenade into a Kampot province wedding, killing one guest and injuring eight others, was arrested.
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Soldiers die from suspected poisoning
Three soldiers had died and seven remained in a critical condition after eating food and home-made rice wine suspected to have been poisonous.
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Rights abuses mounting: Licadho
Elected and appointed officials have been complicit in a catalogue of human rights abuses over the past two years, rights group Licadho says.
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Driver killed in Naga Casino winnings robbery
An armed robbery in Phnom Penh's Tuol Kork district ended in tragedy when a chauffeur was shot to death.
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Officials target Vietnamese-owned salons
Vietnamese-run beauty and barber shops in Phnom Penh will be the target of wider police investigations.
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