One held over forest shooting
Police in Mondulkiri province yesterday arrested a military officer who is a suspect in a shooting that killed three people during an operation to crack down on illegal logging. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/one-held-over-forest-shooting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106106/one-held-over-forest-shooting/
Factory for Nissan cars, parts proposed
A MAlAysiAn Automotive compAny hAs requested ApprovAl to estAblish A fActory in CAmbodiA to Assemble NissAn Automobiles And mAnufActure spAre pArts for the vehicles, A government officiAl sAid yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fActory-for-nissAn-cArs-pArts-proposed/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/factory-nissan-cars-parts-proposed
Decree reviewed for loopholes
The Interior Ministry yesterday created a working group to review possible loopholes in a royal decree establishing a social security healthcare fund for public officials, civil servants and veterans. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/decree-reviewed-for-loopholes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101665/decree-reviewed-loopholes/
MFIs as one commercial bank
PhillipCapital, a Singapore-based integrated financial services provider and a majority stakeholder in three of Cambodia’s micro-finance institutions (MFIs), plans to consolidate the three into a commercial bank. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mfis-as-one-commercial-bank/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2012122560462/Business/mfis-as-one-commercial-bank.html
Protests in city, province keep going
Thousands of employees from two Taiwanese-owned factories continued striking for better working conditions yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/protests-in-city-province-keep-going/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/protests-city-province-keep-going
Families say firm cleared land, graves
More than 100 families in Rattanakkiri’s O’Chum district are demanding a solution after a Chinese company allegedly bulldozed their land and nearby family graves to create a rubber plantation. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-say-firm-cleared-land-graves/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-say-firm-cleared-land-graves
Antibiotic resistance sparks new health policy
Pharmacists in Cambodia have a particular affinity for prescribing antibiotics, so much so that resistance to the drugs has become a public health problem worthy of a national response. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/antibiotic-resistance-sparks-new-health-policy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Maria Paula Brito
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/antibiotic-resistance-sparks-new-health-policy-77730/
Trafficking victims eye homeland
A womAn lured into mArriAge in ChinA And A group of men forced to work on A ThAi fishing boAt in IndonesiA Are the lAtest CAmbodiAns rescued After being trAfficked AbroAd. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/trAfficking-victims-eye-homelAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/trafficking-victims-eye-homeland
Trafficking victims eye homeland
A womAn lured into mArriAge in ChinA And A group of men forced to work on A ThAi fishing boAt in IndonesiA Are the lAtest CAmbodiAns rescued After being trAfficked AbroAd. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/trAfficking-victims-eye-homelAnd-2/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/trafficking-victims-eye-homeland
Authorities probe shooting death of man in Thailand
A CAmbodiAn migrAnt worker wAs shot deAd by A ThAi foremAn At the construction site where he wAs working lAst week in ThAilAnd’s ChAchoengsAo province, A border officiAl sAid SundAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Authorities-probe-shooting-deAth-of-mAn-in-thAilAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/authorities-probe-shooting-death-of-man-in-thailand-82682/
Villagers take case to capital
Representatives from five communes in Koh Kong province engaged in a long-running land dispute with a private Chinese firm urged the government to issue them proper land titles during a press conference in the capital yesterday. Representative Chhai Beng Hout asked the government to instruct the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-take-case-to-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Questions over bonuses
Unions and labour groups fear a solitary sick day could cost garment workers their entire month’s attendance bonuses – about 15 per cent of their base wage – under a new scheme meant to make life easier. The Kingdom’s 600,000 garment and footwear workers will receive <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/questions-over-bonuses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012090558510/National-news/questions-over-bonuses.html
Phnom Penh's Historic Quarter to go to Pedestrian
A new tourist promenAde is to open in the heArt of Phnom Penh’s old French quArter. Scheduled for A FebruAry opening, the tourist wAlk zone will provide An outdoor leisure AreA on street 13 thAt will be closed to cArs And motorbikes on weekends from <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/phnom-penhs-historic-quArter-to-go-to-pedestriAn/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Dozens of City Offices Privatized
The government last month privatized more than a dozen department and commune offices in some prime locations around Phnom Penh, and will move many of them to Sen Sok district, according to documents and officials. a sub-decree dated June 27 and signed by Prime Minister Hun <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dozens-of-city-offices-privatized/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cambodia: shrinking forests breed violence
Hang Serei Oudom told his 7-month pregnant wife that he was going out to meet a source. a journalist for Vorakchun Khmer Daily, he was investigating illegal logging for luxury woods in the jungles of Cambodia’s northeastern Ratanakkiri province. Three days later, on Sept. 11, he <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-shrinking-forests-breed-violence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Rubber Firm Clears Kreung Land, Sparking Latest Complaint
Representatives of nearly 200 ethnic Kreung families living in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Chum district on Tuesday filed a complaint with local rights group adhoc, accusing a Vietnamese rubber company of clearing their ancestral land, local officials and a rights worker said. Chhay Thy, provincial investigator for adhoc, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rubber-firm-clears-kreung-land-sparking-latest-complaint/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rubber-firm-clears-kreung-land-sparking-latest-complaint-11876/
Rights Group Calls for Investigation of Thai Casino Torture Case
Local human rights group adhoc has called on the government to investigate the alleged detention and torture of a Cambodian woman at a Bangkok casino where she was employed. In a statement released Friday, adhoc said the government must push for a “full investigation” into the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rights-group-calls-for-investigation-of-thai-casino-torture-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rights-group-calls-for-investigation-of-thai-casino-torture-case-49552/
‘Crime rise’ blamed on protesters
Phnom Penh’s chief prosecutor yesterday attributed an alleged rise in Cambodia’s crime rate to an increase in public demonstrations. Prosecutor general of Phnom Penh Municipal Court Ouk Savuth’s theory came out during a speech he made at a meeting of police and prosecutors held at City <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/crime-rise-blamed-on-protesters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98crime-rise%E2%80%99-blamed-protesters
Program to end anemia in Cambodia finding success
A novel project Aimed At reducing AnemiA is being triAlled in CAmbodiA where mAny millions of people suffer from A lAck of iron in their diets. The Lucky Iron Fish project uses A piece of iron metAl, shAped in the form of A fish, As pArt <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/progrAm-to-end-AnemiA-in-cAmbodiA-finding-success/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Kanaha Sabapathy
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-20/lucky-iron-fish/5466316
Army creates new platoon in Areng Valley
The army created a new platoon on Monday to guard an area near the areng Valley in Koh Kong province, where hundreds of ethnic minority residents have fiercely resisted plans by a Chinese company to build a hydropower dam that would flood their ancestral lands. The <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/army-creates-new-platoon-in-areng-valley/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/army-creates-new-platoon-in-areng-valley-62198/