Briefs: CPP Plans March With Tens of Thousands, Kung Raiya Fine Dropped
The ruling CPP will hold a large roadshow on Friday to end the two-week election campaign period, with the party expecting in excess of 50,000 supporters.
The ruling CPP will hold a large roadshow on Friday to end the two-week election campaign period, with the party expecting in excess of 50,000 supporters.
Around 100 indigenous residents gathered outside the Preah Vihear Provincial Court as five community members were questioned by court prosecutors for alleged threats to kill and damage property.
Protections on thousands of hectares of Tonle Sap lake’s biosphere reserve are being relaxed to allow farming, in the wake of a crackdown on illegal land use that retook vast tracts as state property.
More than 400 investors in GoldFX — a troubled investment firm linked to ruling party scions — last week accepted a deal to recover 30% of the money they lost, a company lawyer said.
SYHJ Garment, a Chinese-owned factory in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district, fired three leaders of a newly emerging union in April, leading to a Labor Ministry directive that the terminations violated Trade Union Law protections for shop steward and union leaders. But the factory has remained defiant.
For as many as 2 million Cambodians living and working in Thailand, making a trip back to their communes to vote will be too difficult in the coming days. Workers and organizers there say obstacles and lack of absentee voting only breeds mistrust.
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