The Phnom Penh Post - ENGLISH: “Different takes on NGO law” plus 9 more |
- Different takes on NGO law
- Preah Vihear exit talks on agenda
- Officer fired gun in restaurant: police
- Villagers fear arrest over land dispute
- Premier’s letter proves border point: Rainsy
- Court date to draw crowd
- Effects of eviction run deep
- Farmland face-off: Weekend land protest draws 100
- Strike ends with failed bonus bid
- Factory owners will negotiate
Posted: 18 Dec 2011 09:02 PM PST AHEAD of a half-day meeting today between the Royal Government and NGOs that will introduce the fourth generation of the draft Law on Associations and NGOs, a divergence of opinion on the law's latest version has emerged between two prominent Cambodian NGOs. |
Preah Vihear exit talks on agenda Posted: 18 Dec 2011 09:02 PM PST HIGH-RANKING military officials from Cambodia and Thailand will discuss an International Court of Justice verdict ordering the withdrawal of troops from a demilitarised zone around Preah Vihear temple at a long-awaited meeting of the General Border Committee in the capital on Wednesday, officials said yesterday. |
Officer fired gun in restaurant: police Posted: 18 Dec 2011 09:02 PM PST A PROVINCIAL military police commander's driver was arrested early yesterday morning for firing a gun in a restaurant in Siem Reap after being asked to leave because it was closing, police said. |
Villagers fear arrest over land dispute Posted: 18 Dec 2011 09:02 PM PST FOUR representatives of villagers locked in a land dispute in Banteay Meanchey fear they have been summonsed to district police headquarters to be arrested, although police said they only want to warn them against protesting violently. |
Premier’s letter proves border point: Rainsy Posted: 18 Dec 2011 09:01 PM PST A LETTER from Prime Minister Hun Sen has sparked a fresh accusation from opposition party leader Sam Rainsy that the Royal Government convicted him without any basis on charges relating to his uprooting of border posts in Svay Rieng in 2009. |
Posted: 18 Dec 2011 09:01 PM PST IN THE latest chapter of a long-running land dispute between a company owned by CPP senator Ly Yong Phat and villagers in Kampong Speu's Thpong district, a 37-year-old woman summoned to appear in court today will be accompanied by more than 100 protesting villagers. |
Posted: 18 Dec 2011 09:01 PM PST THE latest report on forced evictions from Phnom Penh is unlikely to be the last, as it notes that more than 32,000 residents of 74 communities face the threat of joining the estimated 85,000 people who have been evicted from the capital over the past decade. |
Farmland face-off: Weekend land protest draws 100 Posted: 18 Dec 2011 09:01 PM PST ABOUT 100 villagers in Kratie province's Sambor district embroiled in a land dispute with a local company yesterday continued a roughly 200-strong protest held over the weekend to demand that company representatives stop clearing their farmland. |
Strike ends with failed bonus bid Posted: 18 Dec 2011 09:01 PM PST STRIKING workers at a Dangkor district garment factory were back on the job on Saturday after Phnom Penh Municipal Court gave them 48 hours to return to work or forfeit their jobs. |
Posted: 18 Dec 2011 09:01 PM PST UNION representatives and executives from footwear manufacturer Huey Chuen will meet with labour ministry officials today to negotiate an end to a dispute that led to a protest by about 30 staff at the ministry on Friday. |
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