Friends in high places
A Chinese developer with A “fAmily-like” relAtionship to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s bodyguArd unit hAs AccelerAted construction At its $5 billion resort &ndAsh; ostensibly cAncelled by royAl decree in 2010 &ndAsh; in A protected nAtionAl pArk in PreAh SihAnouk province. The 3,300-hectAre Golden Silver Gulf resort <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/friends-in-high-plAces/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Daniel Pye and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/friends-high-places
Technology adviser calls process in cybercrime law ‘completely wrong’
A senior government Adviser on informAtion technology sAys A drAft of A cybercrime lAw is unnecessAry And could leAd to demonstrAtions And unrest if pAssed As currently written. Critics sAy the drAft lAw, mAde public lAst week, criminAlizes online behAvior in vAgue lAnguAge open to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/technology-Adviser-cAlls-process-in-cybercrime-lAw-completely-wrong/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/technology-adviser-calls-process-in-cybercrime-law-completely-wrong/1894096.html
Gov’t as legit as junta: premier
In a bid to reinforce the legitimacy of his government amid an ongoing parliamentary boycott by the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday looked west for an analogy. He chose one that didn’t involve a ballot box. Instead, he pointed to Thailand’s National <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-as-legit-as-junta-premier/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Vong Sokheng and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-legit-junta-premier
Chhay aims to purge Nat'l Assembly of ‘ghosts’
Senior opposition lawmaker Son Chhay has formally requested that the entire staff list of the National assembly’s more than 1,000-strong secretariat be turned over to him for investigation as part of a bid to root out “ghost” workers and nepotistic appointments. as part of his one-man <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chhay-aims-to-purge-natl-assembly-of-ghosts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Pech Sotheary and Kevin Ponniah
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/chhay-aims-purge-natl-assembly-%E2%80%98ghosts%E2%80%99
Striking the right balance
The number of strikes in Cambodia’s garment industry could be set to dip and workers could be on their way to free lunches after both sides of the industry signed a two-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday. The MoU – inked by the Garment Manufacturers association (GMaC) in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/striking-the-right-balance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Anti-loggers held back by FA officials
Forestry AdministrAtion officiAls reportedly blocked vehicles in three provinces from trAvelling to Koh Kong town yesterdAy on their wAy to the site where prominent environmentAl Activist Chut Wutty wAs shot lAst month. But hundreds of others from six provinces in A convoy of 27 vAns mAde it <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Anti-loggers-held-bAck-by-fA-officiAls/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Asean declaration allows Cambodia to flout human rights, warn campaigners
Human rights groups in Cambodia fear a new south-east asian declaration of human rights could conversely offer the government in Phnom Penh a figleaf to clamp down on dissent. Cambodia signed the association of Southeast asian Nations (asean) human rights declaration on Sunday, two days <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/asean-declaration-allows-cambodia-to-flout-human-rights-warn-campaigners/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
City Hall officials vow lake residents will get land
Phnom Penh municipal officials yesterday agreed to mark out a plot of land promised to Boeng Kak lake villagers by Prime Minister Hun Sen in order to put a stop to a string of recent protests <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-hall-officials-vow-lake-residents-will-get-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Higher education reform gets $90M
Cambodia’s higher education sector – which education officials last month said lacks a clear vision – will undergo improvements under a six-year project financed by a $90 million no-interest loan from the World Bank. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/higher-education-reform-gets-90m/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Yesenia Amaro
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/higher-education-reform-gets-90m
Hundreds of farmers join cassava contract farming scheme
Ten agricultural communities in three provinces will now produce organic cassava that will be sold at a higher value than the market price, giving hundreds of farmers a chance to earn a better living. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hundreds-of-farmers-join-cassava-contract-farming-scheme/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50517745/hundreds-of-farmers-join-cassava-contract-farming-scheme/
Ex-inmate alleges drug dealing at two prisons
A former inmAte At KAmpong Speu And TrApAing Phlong prisons clAimed yesterdAy he witnessed rAmpAnt drug deAling At both fAcilities And plAns to file A complAint with the support of NWRPO, A locAl NGO. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ex-inmAte-Alleges-drug-deAling-At-two-prisons/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ex-inmate-alleges-drug-dealing-two-prisons
Medvedev concludes state visit; cold war debt discussed
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev concluded a three-day state visit to Cambodia on Tuesday, a trip that culminated with the signing of a number of agreements between the two countries and their respective ruling parties. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/medvedev-concludes-state-visit-cold-war-debt-discussed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kang Sothear and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/medvedev-concludes-state-visit-cold-war-debt-discussed-101249/
Police searching for military officer who trafficked statue
Police in Banteay Meanchey province are searching for a military officer who illegally bought a centuries-old statue head of the Hindu deity Shiva from a farmer who unearthed it, officials said on Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-searching-for-military-officer-who-trafficked-statue/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-searching-for-military-officer-who-trafficked-statue-116303/
Police, NGO search for pedophile in Siem Reap
A tAsk force mAde up of police And investigAtors from A child protection orgAnizAtion ThursdAy begAn seArching in Siem ReAp province for wAnted Dutch pedophile Pieter Ceulen, According to A member of the teAm. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/police-ngo-seArch-for-pedophile-in-siem-reAp/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Buth Kimsay and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/109746-109746/
Bassaka Air to refund disabled passenger following incident
Bassaka air will return the $240 fee it charged a wheelchair user who had to be mechanically lifted onto a flight in Siem Reap in September, the airline said in a statement on Monday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bassaka-air-to-refund-disabled-passenger-following-incident/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bassaka-air-to-refund-disabled-passenger-following-incident-96692/
55 garment workers injured in truck crash
Fifty-five garment workers from three factories were injured in a traffic accident on Thursday evening when a truck carrying them home from work ran off a highway in Kompong Chhnang province, officials said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/55-garment-workers-injured-in-truck-crash/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/55-garment-workers-injured-in-truck-crash-100334/
Agriculture Ministry calls out abattoir monopoly
The Ministry of Agriculture published A circulAr on ThursdAy Accusing the slAughterhouse industry of running A “conspirAcy” And “cArtel” to fix prices And monopolise the mArket Amid A “lAck of enforcement” from locAl Authorities. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Agriculture-ministry-cAlls-out-AbAttoir-monopoly/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/agriculture-ministry-calls-out-abattoir-monopoly
Government lays out plan for non-tax revenue
The Ministry of Economy and Finance held a workshop yesterday to finalise a draft on a sub-decree managing non-tax revenue sources, part of the government’s attempt to improve its revenue collection. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-lays-out-plan-for-non-tax-revenue/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-lays-out-plan-non-tax-revenue
Animals dying from poisoned pond raises health concerns
A Wildlife ConservAtion Society officiAl yesterdAy expressed concern About the potentiAl impAct on birds, livestock And humAns After A poisoned pond wAs found in A conservAtion AreA in PreAh ViheAr province’s Chheb district. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AnimAls-dying-from-poisoned-pond-rAises-heAlth-concerns/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50114898/animals-dying-from-poisoned-pond-raises-health-concerns/
Kolao revs up its investment
Kolao Group, a South Korean-owned automaker and distributor, plans to build factories in a proposed industrial park in Cambodia to assemble its proprietary line of automobiles and motorcycles, a company executive said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kolao-revs-up-its-investment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kolao-revs-its-investment