Anti-tank mine injures three
Three people were severely hurt when a tractor in Banteay Meanchey ran over a buried anti-tank mine in a former battlefield on Thursday.
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anti-tank-mine-injures-three
Hospital sued for negligence in stillbirth
A Preah Vihear military police officer filed a court complaint accusing hospital staff of murder after his wife died in hospital during a stillbirth.
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/hospital-sued-negligence-stillbirth
Teenage Girl Shot Dead by Security Forces
Government security forces shot dead a teenage girl in Kratie province yesterday morning in a coordinated operation to arrest protesters locked in a long-running land dispute with a rubber company accused of stealing their land.
The provincial governor said the joint forces opened fire to defend
City Says It Will Provide Land Titles to 33 Boeng Kak Families
Phnom Penh Municipality will provide land titles to 33 more families living in the city’s Boeng Kak neighborhood, a municipal official said Tuesday, roughly a third of those still seeking property rights in the area that has seen some 3,000 forced evictions.
“First, we will solve
Khy Sovuthy and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-says-it-will-provide-land-titles-to-33-boeng-kak-families-45710/
Union says three workers arrested over wing star protest
At least three workers were arrested Tuesday morning outside the Wing Star Shoes factory in Kompong Speu province, where the Free Trade Union (FTU) has been leading a strike calling for benefits and back pay, according to police and a union representative.
An FTU representative said
Mech Dara and Sany Sinary
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/union-says-three-workers-arrested-over-wing-star-protest-58169/
Wetlands clearance stopped
Sa’ang and Kien Svay district authorities in Kandal province stopped a military official from clearing an area of wetland, creating a canal that was siphoning water from a larger canal that served farmers in the area and filling in other canals, seizing a bulldozer in
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wetlands-clearance-stopped
Man arrested for alleged death threat against PM on Facebook
A 28-year-old man was arrested and brought in for questioning at Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday for allegedly insulting and threatening to kill Prime Minister Hun Sen in a social media post, while a soldier was also questioned this week after a Facebook account linked
Phak Seangly, Mech Dara and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-arrested-alleged-death-threat-against-pm-facebook
Minister urges Turkey to launch direct flight
Cambodian Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak yesterday urged Turkey’s ambassador to follow through on a plan announced last year to establish direct flights as part of a push to enlarge bilateral trade to $500 million a year by 2020, from the current $108 million, the ministry
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/minister-urges-turkey-launch-direct-flight
Cambodian villagers ask for missing compensation for confiscated land
Eighteen Cambodian families whose land was confiscated for the construction of a Chinese hydropower dam in a northwestern province on Thursday requested that the local government and Chinese operator of the facility pay them compensation they are owed, said a local resident and an official
Morm Moniroth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/villagers-ask-for-missing-compensation-for-confiscated-land-09172015152530.html
City hall to add 600 security cameras throughout the capital
Despite a slew of global investment banks slashing their oil price forecasts this week, KrisEnergy —the Singaporean oil and gas firm with a controlling stake in Cambodia’s most promising offshore oil reserve, Block A—remains committed to helping Cambodia produce its first drop of oil, a
Tej Parikh
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/krisenergy-committed-to-cambodias-block-a-105341/
Baby bonus extended
Women in the armed forces will receive a $200 bonus when they give birth to a child, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday. Addressing a graduate ceremony, Mr Hun Sen said female public servants have received a baby bonus since 2006, but mothers in the armed
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5085353/baby-bonus-extended/
Preah Vihear land dispute families block tractors
Representatives of 40 families locked in a decade-old land dispute with a Chinese sugar company in Preah Vihear province blocked tractors from clearing land that the villagers say belongs to them, while 50 families in a separate land dispute in Koh Kong took their complaints
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-land-dispute-families-block-tractors
Bail request denied for land activist
The Appeal Court yesterday dismissed a bail request for Tep Vanny, the prominent Boeung Kak land activist charged with intentional violence related to a protest outside Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house in 2013, a case reactivated after she was arrested during a Black Monday protest
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32117/bail-request-denied-for-land-activist/
Mortar shell injures boy
A boy of 11 was seriously injured when a bomb he was playing with exploded on Saturday in Battambang province’s Koas Krala district. Koas Krala district police chief Chhang Vanchhay said yesterday that May Sameth had gone out to take care of a cow in a
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39666/mortar-shell-injures-boy/
Grenade attack kills 1, injures 5
A man, 18, was arrested in Kampong Chhnang province on Friday after a grenade attack killed a 69-year-old man and seriously injured five others.
[Khov] Thim [the suspect] allegedly found the grenade in a field some months ago when tending to his cows and kept
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/grenade-attack-kills-1-injures-5
Embassy asked to intervene
Boeung Kak residents delivered a petition to the Singaporean Embassy yesterday, calling on it to pressure Singapore-listed HLH Group to halt dealings with a controversial development project at the site until a land row is settled.
HLH Group entered a $14.9 million purchase deal in June
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/embassy-asked-intervene
Log stash discovered
Secret storage depots for illegal timber hidden in the forest in Ratanakkiri’s O’Chum district were discovered by ethnic minority villagers on Friday, prompting a rights worker to suggest local officials were involved in the illicit trade.
Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/log-stash-discovered
‘First draft’ of Kampot Museum opens with push from governor
The Kampot Museum opened on January 28 at 8 a.m. with a ribbon cutting and Buddhist blessing for the new venture. It was a hastily planned inauguration – the entrance fee was yet to be decided, and several guests misinterpreted the email invitation and turned
Harriet Fitch Little
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/first-draft-kampot-museum-opens-push-governor
Sen Sok land dispute families butt heads in Municipal court
A representative of 163 families who were awarded a hectare of land four years ago after a lengthy legal battle accused one of the awardees in the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday of inventing a different group of 163 families with claims to the
Soldier pays way out of deadly Thai hit-and-run
A Royal Cambodian Armed Forces soldier arrested last week by Thai authorities over a hit-and-run that killed a man was released from custody on Sunday after compensating the victims and paying money to the court to the tune of $60,000, according to a post on
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/soldier-pays-way-out-of-deadly-thai-hit-and-run-86341/
