CNRP calls a timeout
After garment workers swelled turnout at the opposition’s ongoing demonstrations yesterday to what some estimated to be double the number seen at any previous rally, party leadership announced a weeklong moratorium on the marches. Demonstrators will continue to assemble at Freedom Park each day, said Cambodia href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-calls-a-timeout/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear, Sean Teehan and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-calls-timeout
A raft of complications
Riun Pau ran out of food last week. For the 13-year-old and her family, that moment was the culmination of weeks of distress caused by flooding that had already ravaged their Battambang home and farmland. Pau’s neighbours are experiencing similar problems. In Battambang, 67.3 per cent href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-raft-of-complications/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/raft-complications
Flooding takes a toll
Ten days ago, Loun Somaly, 33, left his house to deliver a deposit to the glass workers he hired to replace a window on his rickety sheet metal-panelled house. Ly Sophal, Somaly’s tenacious three-year-old son, followed him outside, asking if he could join. But with floodwater href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/flooding-takes-a-toll/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
A big thumbs-down
A Phnom Penh municipal official said yesterday that they would investigate mounting complaints that authorities have been forcing the capital’s residents to thumbprint letters supporting the preliminary election results and promising not to join demonstrations. Residents in Daun Penh and Tuol Kork districts told the Post href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-big-thumbs-down-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Fighting a different battle
Sok Ren’s eyes dart from side to side as he explains in a hushed tone why he’s been detained at military barracks in Preah Vihear province, rarely allowed to leave and under near constant surveillance, since July 31. While casting his ballot for the Cambodian People’s href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fighting-a-different-battle/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fighting-different-battle
A protest economy emerges
By 10am, Siv Lin, the owner of a mobile food stall facing Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park, had prepared all the rice, pork, eggs and vegetables needed to serve yesterday’s regular lunch crowd. It was a normal day. But on September 7, when thousands of opposition Cambodia href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-protest-economy-emerges/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay and Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/protest-economy-emerges
Reforestry Claim ‘A Stretch’
The government reforested 80,693 hectares of land between 2008 and 2012 as part of its efforts to combat deforestation, a recent agriculture ministry report says, but these seemingly impressive statistics were reached by counting rubber trees and other agricultural crops as adequate replacements for forests. The href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/reforestry-claim-a-stretch/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/reforestry-claim-%E2%80%98-stretch%E2%80%99
A burden to bear
Among the exotic wildlife that prowls Cambodia’s forests are large furry creatures that may be far more familiar to European and North American visitors than the ever-dwindling populations of large cats and beastly elephants. The Kingdom’s bears climb trees and devour honey just like their href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-burden-to-bear/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Bennett Murray
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/7days/burden-bear
A recipe for disaster
Small plastic packets filled with a mix of pills of various sizes, shapes and colours sit piled on the counter of a pharmacy in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, home to several large garment factories. At 2,000 riel a pop, about 50 cents, these packs are sold href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-recipe-for-disaster/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/recipe-disaster
A failure to communicate
At the beginning of the school year, Mony Vutha was handed a new, mandatory addition to the grade four curriculum that neither he nor any of his colleagues were trained to teach: English. Vutha’s two years of English lessons more than a decade ago made him href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-failure-to-communicate/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/failure-communicate
Dam ‘redesign’ a mystery
Amid a lawsuit and a chorus of dissent, developers of the first lower Mekong mainstream hydropower project, the massive Xayaburi dam, have quietly submitted a long-anticipated, multimillion-dollar redesign plan, the Post has learned. What exactly has been changed about the 1,260-megawatt dam, which environmentalists contend will href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dam-redesign-a-mystery/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-%E2%80%98redesign%E2%80%99-mystery
Cambodia bond a possibility
The launch of an unrated Laotian government bond on Thailand’s bond market could pave the way for Cambodia to issue its own government bond denominated in Thai baht. The Bangkok Post reported yesterday that Thailand’s Finance Ministry and Public Debt Management Office had allowed Cambodia, Vietnam href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-bond-a-possibility/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-bond-possibility
A road changes course
The rules of Sothearos Boulevard are once again shifting. After recently converting the road to a one-way street – a move that was largely ignored by the motos and cars that use the busy thoroughfare – the Phnom Penh Municipality released a new statement on Saturday href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-road-changes-course/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Rice competitiveness a worry
The executive committee of the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) will meet with two ministries today to explore the possibility of reducing the logistical and energy costs of transporting rice, a key factor to keeping Cambodian rice exports competitive compared to neighbouring countries, a CRF official href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rice-competitiveness-a-worry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-competitiveness-worry
A prisoner’s heartbreak
Holding her husband’s hand through prison bars yesterday, Tith Narin delivered the heartbreaking news – their eldest son was dead.Narin’s husband, Ouk Pich Samnang, was one of 11 Cambodia National Rescue Party activists convicted on Tuesday for his alleged role in a protest that turned href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-prisoners-heartbreak/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prisoners-heartbreak
A ‘unique Khmer family’
In an apparent defence of his frequent absence from the Kingdom, opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy said that visiting Cambodians in wealthy Western countries such as France or Australia was just as important as visiting them in Cambodia itself. A recent war href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-unique-khmer-family/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Rollet and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unique-khmer-family
Former Anti-Drugs Chief Says He Is a Victim, Not a Criminal
At his appeal hearing yesterday, former anti-drug police chief Moek Dara railed against what he said was injustice of his incarceration for a slew of drug-related crimes, for which he continues to deny his guilt. Mr. Dara, former chief of the National Authority for Combating Drugs, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/former-anti-drugs-chief-says-he-is-a-victim-not-a-criminal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
A Year On, Cambodia’s Role as Asean Chairman a Bitter Memory
Resentment is still simmering toward Cambodia for its handling of the contentions South China Sea issue last year, which fractured the unity of Asean, analysts from around the region said Thursday. During the first day of a two-day regional conference in Phnom Penh organized by the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-year-on-cambodias-role-as-asean-chairman-a-bitter-memory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey and Dene-Hern Chen
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/a-year-on-cambodias-role-as-asean-chairman-a-bitter-memory-42812/
Villagers Petition Against Crematorium’s Removal
More than 1,000 villagers in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district have signed a petition protesting the removal of a crematorium that is currently on land slated for a large development project. According to a letter from the Council of Ministers addressed to the Ministry of Cults href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-petition-against-crematoriums-removal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-petition-against-crematoriums-removal-27487/
In Washington, ‘Mekong Days’ Puts River in Focus
Advocacy groups, environmentalists and policy-makers have wrapped up five days of events surrounding Mekong River issues in Washington. “Mekong Days,” a series of talks, films and other forums that ended Tuesday, highlighted issues in the region, where some 60 million people live. The Mekong River, a major href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-washington-mekong-days-puts-river-in-focus/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/in-washington-mekong-days-puts-river-in-focus/1630640.html