After Australia protests, Hun Sen vows no more pardons for CNRP
Prime Minister Hun Sen issued a scathing critique of his political opposition on Wednesday, conflating them with fiery protesters in Australia and doubling down on his vow to keep politically sensitive prisoners behind bars. ...
Ben Sokhean and Erin Handley
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/after-australia-protests-hun-sen-vows-no-more-pardons-cnrp
Interfering officials arrested
Military police in Stung Treng province arrested five government officials yesterday after they forcibly stopped student volunteers from measuring property lines as part of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s national initiative to help settle land disputes. ...
Call to stop firms accepting Cambodian land
A Cambodian opposition leader, [Mu Sochua], has urged the federal government to stop Australian companies from accepting land concessions in Cambodia, saying they are contributing to a pressing humanitarian crisis displacing up to one million people. ...
CNRP complaint: Poll station moved from CPP domain
The National Election Committee has moved a Kandal province polling station at the request of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, who complained it was located in an area heavily occupied by Cambodian People’s Party supporters. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-complaint-poll-station-moved-cpp-domain
Cambodia to host 8th ASEAN Social Welfare Ministers meeting next month
The 8th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting for Social Welfare and Development will be held in Cambodia’s Siem Reap City from Sept. 3 to 7, according to a statement of Cambodia’s Ministry of Social Affairs released Thursday. ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-08/15/c_132633368.htm
Floods Bring Another Danger to the Northwest—Landmines
In the past decade, thanks to extensive demining efforts, few residents of Battambang province’s Rokha Kiri district had seen land mines, millions of which once covered Cambodian soil after decades of civil war. ...
Mech Dara and Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/floods-bring-another-danger-to-the-northwest-landmines-45481/
New Ranariddh party approved
Prince Norodom Ranariddh is officially back in the political game. The Ministry of Interior has approved the former prime minister’s Community of Royalist People’s Party (CRPP), Ranariddh’s cabinet chief, Noranarith Anandayath, said yesterday. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-ranariddh-party-approved
Pollution woes: Gov’t meets with locals about mine
Officials from the Ministry of Mines and Energy yesterday met with villagers in Ratanakkiri province’s Taveng district about a gold mine they allege violates the law and introduces toxic chemicals into the nearby Sesan River. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pollution-woes-gov%E2%80%99t-meets-locals-about-mine
Asia-Pacific region needs to join force to fight against corruption: Cambodian PM
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that countries and economies in Asia and the Pacific region needed to work together to fight against corruption. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-09/03/c_133617623.htm
Cambodia says China-proposed "maritime silk road" to benefit ASEAN
The China-proposed “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” will benefit the Southeast Asian nations in term of economy, a senior Cambodian official said Tuesday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-09/16/c_133647940.htm
Poipet city taxi drivers protest new checkpoint
Dozens of taxi drivers in Poipet City protested Monday against the creation of a new checkpoint where they are forced to pay costly bribes to transport goods that have been smuggled across the border from Thailand. ...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/poipet-city-taxi-drivers-protest-new-checkpoint-71112/
Sokha warned ‘Be careful’ on corruption claims: gov’t
A government spokesman yesterday accused opposition deputy leader Kem Sokha of not doing his job properly after the politician claimed the government was bleeding more than $400 million in possible revenue per year due to corruption. ...
Meas Sokchea and Kevin Ponniah
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/sokha-warned-%E2%80%98be-careful%E2%80%99-corruption-claims-gov%E2%80%99t
Rubber cheque bounces electric company boss
The owner of a private electricity firm in Kratie province was convicted at Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday for paying $70,000 owed to a senior police officer and “land businessman” with a cheque that bounced. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rubber-cheque-bounces-electric-company-boss
Mothers could see pardons
In an unanticipated act of leniency yesterday, Prime Minister Hun Sen established a new committee to deliver pardons to mothers jailed with their children, according to several attendees of the conference where the announcement was made. ...
Vong Sokheng and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/mothers-could-see-pardons
Gov’t forms body to monitor Kazantip organizers
Provincial authorities here are closely monitoring the movements of the Kazantip festival’s organizers to ensure that no replica parties are in the pipeline after the cancellation of the famously debauched rave earlier this week. ...
Hul Reaksmey and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-forms-body-to-monitor-kazantip-organizers-78458/
Mystery illness grips 13 as doctors baffled
A contagious mystery ailment has led to 13 hospitalisations in Pursat province since Tuesday, when a family of five began suffering vomiting, diarrhoea and fainting, quickly spreading it to others who came into contact with them. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/mystery-illness-grips-13-doctors-baffled
Customs official’s son quizzed on night club shooting
The son of a high-ranking customs official suspected in a nightclub shooting that left one man injured was questioned at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday but has yet to be charged, officials said. ...
Saing Soenthrith and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/customs-officials-son-quizzed-on-nightclub%E2%80%88shooting-79863/
EDC plans power line linking lake provinces
Electricite du Cambodge (EDC) will spend $167 million to install a 350-km-long high-voltage transmission line connecting four provinces around the Tonle Sap lake, the state-owned utility announced in a press release Monday. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/edc-plans-power-line-linking-lake-provinces-79879/
Assembly passes new election laws
The National Assembly on Thursday unanimously approved the country’s two new election laws, paving the way for the new bipartisan National Election Committee (NEC) to be established before the Khmer New Year in mid-April. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/assembly-passes-controversial-election-laws-80215/
U.S. General Electric to provide electricity grid maintenance services to EDC
US-based multinational conglomerate General Electric (GE) will sign a contract with Cambodia’s state-owned Electricité du Cambodge (EdC) on Thursday, according to a press release issued Monday by the US embassy in Phnom Penh. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/us-general-electric-to-provide-electricity-grid-maintenance-services-to-edc-7862