Cambodian parties pick rights activist as key NEC member
Member of a national election body in a significant move following an agreement on electoral reforms that broke a one-year political deadlock, officials said. Prime Minister Hun Sen agreed to a proposal by the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) that prominent rights group Licadho chief href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-parties-pick-rights-activist-as-key-nec-member/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Parameswaran Ponnudurai
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/activist-07282014195111.html
Supporters of 21 to march to embassies
Activists may find themselves in a showdown with police this morning during a planned vigil on Phnom Penh’s riverside and a march to several embassies. National Military Police spokesman Kheng Tito said yesterday that people supporting the release of 21 people detained during a garment strike href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/supporters-of-21-to-march-to-embassies/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/supporters-21-march-embassies
Villagers in Svay Rieng angry over planned canal
More than 200 villagers from three communes in Svay Rieng province on Saturday protested against a proposal to build a huge irrigation canal through their land, a local official said Sunday. The planned canal would stretch across Kraol Kor, Svay Yea and Chhoeuteal communes in Svay href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-in-svay-rieng-angry-over-planned-canal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-in-svay-rieng-angry-over-planned-canal-58480/
ABC Radio Owner Calls Off Mass Rally at Olympic Stadium
Phnom Penh City Hall has asked the owner of a popular radio station to delay a mass rally in support of King Norodom Sihamoni’s call for the opposition CNRP to attend this morning’s opening session of the National Assembly, asking him to wait until the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/abc-radio-owner-calls-off-mass-rally-at-olympic-stadium/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Injured to file complaints over crackdown
A monk, an opposition lawmaker-elect and a journalist, all assaulted by Daun Penh district security guards near Freedom Park on Friday, said they are in the process of filing legal complaints against the district forces as they recover from their injuries. “I am planning on filing href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/injured-to-file-complaints-over-crackdown/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
George Wright
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/injured-to-file-complaints-over-crackdown-58025/
Ministry outlines procedures for businesses hiring foreigners
The Labor Ministry released a statement Monday with a list of procedures all businesses in Cambodia that hire foreign workers must follow in order to comply with the country’s long-standing Labor Law. According to Monday’s statement, which was signed by Labor Minister Ith Sam href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-outlines-procedures-for-businesses-hiring-foreigners/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Government to probe Preah Sihanouk coastal development
The Ministry of Tourism has formed a special committee to investigate a private company’s involvement in a condominium construction on coastal land at Prek Treng beach in Preah Sihanouk province. This follows a strong backlash from the public against land reclamation involving the project. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-to-probe-preah-sihanouk-coastal-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-probe-preah-sihanouk-coastal-development
Judge calls meeting in US seafood case
A California judge has ordered lawyers representing two US seafood companies to appear in court for a scheduling conference following a lawsuit filed on behalf of seven Cambodians who claim they were duped into a life of servitude working in factories that supply the firms. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/judge-calls-meeting-in-us-seafood-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/judge-calls-meeting-in-us-seafood-case/3472048.html
Police officer, official shot dead by illegal loggers
A police officer and a Forestry Administration official were shot dead by illegal loggers in Preah Vihear province early Saturday morning in an attack that also left a second officer injured, according to a local official who gave two different versions of the incident. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-officer-official-shot-dead-by-illegal-loggers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-officer-official-shot-dead-by-illegal-loggers-99694/
Community sues border police over loggers
A group of villagers in Mondolkiri province filed a lawsuit this week against three local border police officers and a forestry official accusing them of allowing Vietnamese loggers to sneak across the nearby border and illegally log the forests they depend on for a living. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/community-sues-border-police-over-loggers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/104780-104780/
Officials survey Prey Lang from sky
Making a dramatic arrival by helicopter at the Sofitel Hotel in Phnom Penh after a flyover of Prey Lang forest, Environment Minister Say Sam Al and US Ambassador to Cambodia William Heidt discussed a plan to make the Kingdom’s largest forest a protected area. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-survey-prey-lang-from-sky/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-survey-prey-lang-sky
Slowdown in services sector
A slow growth in tourism, and a slowdown in the logistics and real estate sectors could cumulatively have a knock-on effect that will threaten the overall growth of the country’s services sector, a report from the Ministry of Economy and Finance said yesterday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/slowdown-in-services-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34626/slowdown-in-services-sector/
Border row amid state visit by Laos
Lao President Bounnhang Vorachith is expected to arrive in Phnom Penh today for a state visit to the Kingdom. Meanwhile 600 kilometres away, Cambodian and Lao troops remain in a stand-off after a territorial dispute over a Cambodian-built road near the countries’ border. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/border-row-amid-state-visit-by-laos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Shaun Turton and Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/border-row-amid-state-visit-laos
Street vendors kicked off the kerb in Phnom Penh
City Hall yesterday renewed a call to enforce a ban on vendors occupying public streets and parks in the capital, with a group of nearly 40 sellers based near the Council of Ministers headquarters responding with a petition to the municipality opposing the move. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/street-vendors-kicked-off-the-kerb-in-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/street-vendors-kicked-kerb-phnom-penh
Governor ambushed over dispute
About 100 indigenous villagers from Ratanakkiri’s Veun Sai district took the opportunity at a public forum yesterday to demand a solution from the district governor, Chum Ngel, over a land dispute they are locked in with SK Plantation, after protesting several times without getting a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/governor-ambushed-over-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/governor-ambushed-over-dispute
Vietnam exports fall as Thai trust rises
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Vietnam fell marginally by 6 per cent in the first half of this year largely due to a slump in Vietnamese exports, according to data from the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnam-exports-fall-as-thai-trust-rises/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/vietnam-exports-fall-thai-trust-rises
Lor Peang farmers reject assembly’s land swap
After promising in early September to settle a land dispute between farmers in Kompong Chhnang province and a company owned by the wife of a government minister within a week, the National Assembly’s human rights commission has yet to find common ground between the two href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lor-peang-farmers-reject-assemblys-land-swap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lor-peang-farmers-reject-assemblys-land-swap-70267/
ICC told: Cambodia land-grabbing is 'crime against humanity'
A British lawyer has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court, writes Kevin Ponniah, alleging that a wave of violent land-grabbing that has displaced 770,000 people has been carried out by Cambodia’s ruling elite, and that it amounts to a crime against humanity. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/icc-told-cambodia-land-grabbing-is-crime-against-humanity/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/2602209/icc_told_cambodia_landgrabbing_is_crime_against_humanity.html
Fertilizer stored at Chinese man’s home seized
Local authorities investigating a house in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district confiscated more than 260 containers of fertilizer and insecticide Wednesday morning after neighbors of a Chinese man complained of a noxious smell emanating from his house, which they feared might have been a dangerous href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fertilizer-stored-at-chinese-mans-home-seized/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fertilizer-stored-at-chinese-mans-home-seized-77849/
Bus drivers want ruling respected
Former bus drivers are set to stage a protest today outside Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation Company in the capital’s Daun Penh district, calling on its management to respect an arbitration ruling to reinstate most of them. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bus-drivers-want-ruling-respected/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bus-drivers-want-ruling-respected