As prices fall, rat hunting’s few charms fade
Just after sunrise in the slums surrounding the stung Meanchey dump, Lak Han, 45, sits in the dirt outside his home methodically chopping up a large pile of rodents. For many years, like hundreds of others at the dumpsite, Mr. Han made a paltry living collecting ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-prices-fall-rat-huntings-few-charms-fade-64042/
Villagers blocked from marching to Hun Sen’s house
About 160 villagers from Kratie province’s snuol district were blocked Friday from marching on Prime Minister Hun sen’s house to call for intervention in their ongoing land dispute. More than 20 Meanchey district security guards met the group at the gates of samakki Raingsey pagoda, where ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-blocked-from-marching-to-hun-sens-house-65565/
Koh Kong villagers seek PM’s help in capital
Villagers from Koh Kong province have descended on the capital, ready to petition Prime Minister Hun sen and the government today to intervene in their long-running land dispute with prominent businessman Heng Huy. Phav Nhoeung, a representative of 15 families in sre Ambel district’s Chi Khor ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-villagers-seek-pm%E2%80%99s-help-capital
Gov’t releases data on timber baron’s deal
Tycoon Try Pheap has collected an estimated 1,500 cubic metres of timber from Forestry Administration offices since the government in July issued his companies permission to confiscate “waste wood” from their offices and from the Ministry of Environment, according to preliminary government figures obtained by ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel Pye
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-releases-data-timber-baron%E2%80%99s-deal
Murdered reporter’s wife asks court to expand investigation
The wife of slain journalist Taing Try filed a complaint with the Kratie Provincial Court on Tuesday urging judicial officials to bring charges against two more men, including a local military police chief, for her husband’s murder on sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/murdered-reporters-wife-asks-court-to-expand-investigation-69986/
Pailin’s ex-governor denies $400,000 corruption claim
Pailin province’s ex-governor and provincial council president Y Chhien yesterday denied corruption allegations against him, describing the claims as politically motivated. The two opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party members on the nine-seat provincial council accused Chhien in mid-October of misusing $400,000 in state funds and exploiting ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/pailin%E2%80%99s-ex-governor-denies-400000-corruption-claim
Official outlines CPP’s stance in stalled reform negotiations
A senior CPP official on Monday night outlined the ruling party’s stance in its stalled negotiations with the opposition CNRP on the creation of the new bipartisan election commission. The CPP is insisting that NEC members not be allowed to hold foreign passports and that ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns and Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/official-outlines-cpps-stance-in-stalled-reform-negotiations-71803/
Assembly’s finance commission requests more details on budget
The National Assembly’s banking and finance commission met Monday to discuss the proposed $3.8-billion budget for 2015, with lawmakers from both parliamentary parties agreeing that more specific details are needed before they can evaluate the plan, according to the commission’s deputy chairman, son Chhay. Mr. Chhay, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/assemblys-finance-commission-requests-more-details-on-budget-72034/
CNRP registers company to run party’s television station
CNRP spokesman Yim sovann said Thursday that a group of businessmen close to the opposition has successfully registered a company with the Ministry of Commerce that will hold the television license promised to the party. Mr. sovann said that the CNRP received notice in the past ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-registers-company-to-run-partys-television-station-72344/
Police suspended over man’s death during cockfight raid
Six police officerS in Tbong Khmum province who opened fire during a raid on an illegal cockfight that left a man dead were SuSpended from duty WedneSday, according to a provincial police official. Chhay Oeun, 25, waS Shot dead on November 25 after being hit in SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-suspended-over-mans-death-during-cockfight-raid-73991/
Tycoon’s widow says police have ‘asked us nothing’
The wife of slain businessman Eng Meng Cheu, Tang Kim Chheng, has barely been involved in the investigation of her husband’s murder, despite police having charged multiple suspects, she said in an interview yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/tycoons-widow-says-police-have-asked-us-nothing
Kem Sokha blasts Hun Sen’s era of destruction
CNRP Vice President Kem sokha on sunday assured supporters that the opposition party is still working to oust Prime Minister Hun sen from power, claiming that no other Cambodian leader has overseen the level of environmental destruction that has taken place during his time in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kem-sokha-blasts-hun-sens-era-of-destruction-76353/
Phnom Penh’s trash problem bigger than Cintri: company
Cintri, Phnom Penh’s sole trash-collection company, said on Tuesday that the firm was not to blame for the capital’s trash-strewn streets and that the government was using it as a scapegoat to avoid accepting responsibility for the problem. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penhs-trash-problem-bigger-than-cintri-company-78180/
Government planning massive memorial to Hun Sen’s legacy
Prime Minister Hun sen has formed a 20-person committee to plan a sprawling memorial in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district to ensure that his legacy is preserved for generations to come, according to a government order and officials on the committee. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-planning-massive-memorial-to-hun-sens-legacy-78282/
Judge’s past offers little hope for real reform
In the highest-profile sacking since Prime Minister Hun sen promised to rid the government of corruption after the CPP’s shock losses in the July 2013 election, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s chief judge was removed this week amid claims that millions of dollars had reversed ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/judges-past-offers-little-hope-for-real-reform-78371/
Funcinpec party’s feud over Secretary-General post continues
Prince Norodom Ranariddh, the newly elected president of the royalist Funcinpec party, and Nhiek Bun Chhay, its new second vice president, continued to spar Tuesday over the validity of former Preah sihanouk provincial governor say Hak’s appointment as the party’s secretary-general. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/funcinpec-partys-feud-over-secretary-general-post-continues-78633/
Political commentators, NGO slam Cambodia’s electoral reform deal
Cambodian political commentators and a civil society group have criticized a deal between the ruling and opposition parties which finalized a draft national electoral reform law, as being nontransparent and only serving the two parties themselves. ss='cambodia-color'>...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/draft-electoral-reform-law-deal-reached-03022015165113.html
Court orders family off khun sear’s land: lawyer
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday sided with real estate tycoon Khun sear and his eponymous company in a longstanding land dispute with a family living adjacent to an apartment block he obtained in a land swap, the family’s lawyer said Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean and Alex Consiglio
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-orders-family-off-khun-sears-land-lawyer-says-79667/
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. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/customs-officials-son-quizzed-on-nightclub%E2%80%88shooting-79863/
SRP leader slams Sam Rainsy over senator’s mandate
Sam RainSy Party (SRP) leader Kong Korm haS rebuked the party&rSquo;S former leader and nameSake Sam RainSy for annulling a deciSion to replace Senator Thak Lany midway through her term. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/srp-leader-slams-sam-rainsy-over-senators-mandate-80675/