Dismissed protests in S'ville over sacked staff
Dozens of workers in Preah sihanouk province marched on the local labour department yesterday after three days of protests against the sacking of seven employees. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com
Protesters Clash With Police Outside Premier’s Home
Hundreds of housing rights protesters and evictees clashed with security forces outside Phnom Penh on Monday, leaving at least nine people with minor injuries. The clash was one of the first since major violence over Freedom Park in the capital in July. Protesters gathered outside the National ss='cambodia-color'>...
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/protesters-clash-with-police-outside-premier-home/2417160.html
Villagers pushed back from Hun Sen’s house
About 70 residents from Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district were blocked on saturday from marching to Prime Minister Hun sen’s Phnom Penh villa, where they planned to appeal for support in a long-running land dispute. The residents were representing 134 families from four villages in Chhvang ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-pushed-back-from-hun-sens-house-67107/
Cash-strapped S’ville casino looks to expand
The Israeli gaming firm behind sihanoukville’s Queenco Casino is seeking investors to expand its operations in the seaside town, according to a report released by the company last week, but after six months of “cash flow distress” and losses of more than $1 million, those ss='cambodia-color'>...
George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/cash-strapped-sville-casino-looks-to-expand-67596/
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 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lor-peang-farmers-reject-assemblys-land-swap-70267/
Heng Pov’s conviction affirmed by high court
The Supreme Court yeSterday upheld the murder convictionS of former Phnom Penh Municipal Police chief Heng Pov and three otherS in the caSe of the 2003 killing of Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge Sok Sethamoni. DefendantS Pov, Ly RaSy, Hang Vutha and Prum Sophearith have been SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kim Sarom
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/heng-pov%E2%80%99s-conviction-affirmed-high-court
Koh Kong community rep’s bail request denied
More than 100 demonstrators continued to stage an anti-eviction protest in front of Koh Kong province’s city hall after a jailed community leader was denied bail yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-community-rep%E2%80%99s-bail-request-denied
Cambodian PM to visit S. Korea next week
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen plans to visit seoul next week for talks with south Korean President Park Geun-hye on furthering their economic partnership, Park’s office said Friday. The two leaders are set to hold talks on saturday on how to boost bilateral cooperation in such ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Korea Herald News Staff
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20141205000401
Records refute city’s claim of hospital visits
Staff at the Phnom Penh Municipal Referral HoSpital Said TueSday that they had no record of a recent viSit from a man who died late laSt month at the Prey Speu Social affairS center, contradicting claimS made by a city official. Both a file Search by SS='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/records-refute-citys-claim-of-hospital-visits-73915/
Police seize weapons from fugitive general’s homes
A day after the Appeal Court denied bail to the parents of fugitive defense ministry official Thong sarath, municipal police and court officials Wednesday searched three residences belonging to the family and seized three AK-47 rifles at one of the homes. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hay Pisey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-seize-weapons-from-fugitive-generals-homes-76515/
New minister cleans up Cambodia’s education system
Cambodia’s Grade 12 students took their final test in August 2014. Only 26% of them passed. The new Minister of Education had ordered extra security around the testing places. students taking the test in 2015 know they will have to study hard in order to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Robert Carmichael
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/cambodia-education-system-cleanup/2599977.html
New minister cleans up Cambodia’s education system
Cambodia’s Grade 12 students took their final test in August 2014. Only 26% of them passed. The new Minister of Education had ordered extra security around the testing places. students taking the test in 2015 know they will have to study hard in order to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Robert Carmichael
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/cambodia-education-system-cleanup/2599977.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 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fertilizer-stored-at-chinese-mans-home-seized-77849/
Fund intended to improve country’s urban sanitation
The government will set up a $5 million fund to allow Cambodia’s 26 provinces and municipalities to take responsibility for waste management in their cities, it was announced recently. With a focus on garbage management, the decentralisation initiative, revealed at a two-day workshop in Phnom Penh ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/fund-intended-improve-countrys-urban-sanitation
Arrest warrant issued for Takhmao governor’s wife
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Thoy Kimsean, the wife of Takhmao town Governor Eam samay, over allegations she issued a fake cheque worth $185,000 in 2013. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/arrest-warrant-issued-takhmao-governors-wife
Doroshenko jailed on fraud charges in S’ville
Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko was imprisoned Wednesday evening after being arrested at his family’s snake House restaurant in sihanoukville for failing to appear in court to be questioned over fraud charges related to a dispute with his rival, fugitive developer sergei Polonsky. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Ben Woods
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/doroshenko-jailed-on-fraud-charges-in-sville-80724/
Court delays trial of fugitive tycoon’s parents
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday delayed the trial of fugitive Defense Ministry official Thong sarath’s parents, who are facing charges of possessing illegal firearms. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-delays-trial-of-fugitive-tycoons-parents-81399/
NGO blasts roundup of Phnom Penh’s beggars
An NGO partnered with Phnom Penh’s municipal government in a scheme to help poor children get off the street Wednesday blasted the city’s ongoing catch-and-release strategy. In June, City Hall partnered up with two NGOs in a campaign to remove beggars from Phnom Penh’s streets. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Alex Consiglio
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-blasts-roundup-of-phnom-penhs-beggars-65912/
Key post to PM’s son-in-law
Dy Vichea – son of the late National Police chief Hok Lundy and son-in-law to Prime Minister Hun sen – has been appointed director of the Central security Department at the Ministry of Interior, the National Police said yesterday. National Police spokesman Kirt Chantharith said that ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/key-post-pm%E2%80%99s-son-law
Sam Rainsy Assures Supporters of Opposition’s Dedication
Opposition leader sam Rainsy told supporters Friday that the goal of his party remains the same: to change the current regime. The president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party has worked to assure his supporters that the party is working for change, following a political deal ss='cambodia-color'>...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/sam-rainsy-assures-supporters-of-opposition-dedication/2414505.html