The Ministry of Land Management approved some 1,600 construction projects in 2012, worth $2 billion, an increase of nearly 70 percent over the year before.
‘Lost Loves,’ a feature film by Chhay Bora that describes daily life under the Khmer Rouge, screened this weekend at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
In a letter to the ministry, the union says Mfone intends to prevent them from working, which is a breech of the labor law.
Those cases—003 and 004—are strongly opposed by Prime Minister Hun Sen and other senior government officials, because they would require five more indictments of former Khmer Rouge cadre.
An estimated 50,000 Cambodian workers, legal and illegal, are thought to be working in Malaysian households, factories and restaurants, earning between $135 and $200 per month.
The anniversary is a divisive day in Cambodia, with some celebrating the ouster of the brutal regime and others marking the beginning of a 10-year Vietnamese occupation.
Sam Rainsy lives in exile, facing criminal charges he says are politically motivated and are preventing his return to the country.
The US stock market rebounded with the news of last week’s agreement, but Duch Darin said that kind of unsteady growth won’t last forever.
This is the fifth such scheme to be broken up in Cambodia in recent years, with cooperation from Chinese authorities, who are having to track extortion operations outside the country after a crackdown within it.
The new film is an attempt to inform Cambodians, especially those in rural areas, about the dangers of sending their daughters to work in Phnom Penh or abroad.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court ruled in December to jail Yorm Bopha, an activist from the embattled neighborhood of Boeung Kak lake, for three years.
Over the last year, families that were evicted from the neighborhood have lived in tents outside the city, far from businesses, health care, schools and clean water.
Sam Rainsy faces 12 year in prison on the charges if he returns to Cambodia.
Cambodian politics are bitterly divided between the ruling party and the opposition, with opposition lawmakers complaining they do not have their say on the floor of the National Assembly.
The refugee office has seen its operations vastly reduced after the influx of Montagnard refugees tapered off in recent years, following a change in the way the US grants asylum.
Despite the improved relations, the US still has concerns with Cambodia’s human rights abuses and flawed electoral system.
The height of the violence came in the early 1990s, as rival gangs vied for power and newly immigrated Cambodians sought to find security in their new American home.
The government has said it plans to make 2013 a year in which it tackles corruption—ahead of a elections to be held in July.
National parliamentary elections are scheduled for July 28, and Cambodia’s land problems are emerging as a key issue.
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