NEC calls for neutrality on Facebook
An election official warned Facebook users not to make any politically charged posts the day before the election yesterday during a three-day training session on campaign monitoring, with observers accusing him of overstepping the bounds of a rule forbidding parties from campaigning on that day. ...
Andrew Nachemson and Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-calls-neutrality-facebook
Hun Sen promises free hospital treatment, checkups for workers
In yet another potentially major new benefit to Cambodian workers ahead of next year’s national election, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Sunday announced that employees in some of the country’s key industries would soon be able to receive free checkups and treatment at state hospitals. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-promises-free-hospital-treatment-checkups-for-workers-134079/
Ministry gets told off over bad road quality
Interior Minister Sar Kheng publicly chided the Transportation Ministry yesterday over the poor quality of National Road 8 and the ministry’s failure to maintain the eastbound highway that cuts across Prey Veng province, where Kheng is the head of the ruling CPP’s working group. ...
Mech Dara and Kuoch Masy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-gets-told-over-bad-road-quality
Illegal timber found in raid
The forestry administration in cooperation with Stung Treng Provincial Court raided a house on Wednesday, yielding hundreds of pieces of illegal timber. Provincial court spokesman Chhum Seanghak confirmed the raid, but said no arrests were made. He declined further comment, referring questions to deputy prosecutor Kim ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50103161/illegal-timber-found-in-raid/
Forestry Officials Investigate Vietnamese Firm
Amid mounting calls for government intervention to stop the destruction of indigenous land by a Vietnamese rubber company in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district, the Forestry Administration has begun investigating claims that the firm is logging illegally and clearing land outside of its concession, officials said ...
Aun Pheap and Ben Woods, P.19
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/forestry-officials-investigate-vietnamese-firm-7450/
Confiscated bulldozer rejected
Hundreds of people from 10 villages in Svay Rieng province’s Krasaing commune claim that Mittapheap Rubber Tree Company has been clearing parts of their community-owned forest illegally for more than a year. On Tuesday, residents involved in the land dispute took matters into their own hands. ...
Cambodia launches first 24-hour news station
The Cambodian Broadcasting Service launched the Kingdom’s first 24-hour news channel, Cambodian News Channel, to great fanfare last night at its new studios. During the launch, Kith Meng, chairman of both Royal Group and the new channel, said this news channel would further the development of ...
Chevron drilling delay caused by US slowdown: lawmaker
Chevron Oil and Gas Co has delayed offshore oil drilling in Cambodia until 2016 mainly because of the economic slowdown in the United States, a senior lawmaker says. Cheam Yeap, chairman of the National Assembly Commission on Economy, Finance, Banking and Audit, said inadequate human resources ...
The Asian Development Bank marks 20 years in Cambodia
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is marking 20 years of operations in Cambodia with the release of a book today celebrating its achievements in the Kingdom. The 67-member ADB says that over 20 years it has given Cambodia $1.8 billion in loans, grants and technical assistance. ...
Stung Treng looks to revamp jungle airport
Officials in the northeastern province Of Stung Treng hope future travellers will trade their bus seats for plane tickets. No fuctional airport exists in the province, but local Officials are demarcating, and looking to revamp, a landing strip that was installed when Cambodia was a protectorate ...
Posthumous award for slain environmentalist
The Prey Lang Community Network of anti-logging activists announced yesterday that late last month it had accepted the Alexander Soros Foundation’s $25,000 Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Environmental and Human Rights Activism on behalf of slain environmental crusader Chut Wutty. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/posthumous-award-slain-environmentalist
More Youth Involvement Needed To Settle Land Disputes, Groups Say
Local NGOs on Friday urged more participation in land dispute resolution by the nation’s youth. Youth participation can mean better laws, better application of those laws and greater respect for citizens, “especially for farmers and the poor,” said Chhit Sam Ath, executive director of the NGO ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/more-youth-involvement-needed-to-settle-land-disputes-groups-say/1795721.html
Floods worsen as water levels rise in Kratie
Hundreds of families have now been evacuated due to flooding as water levels continue to rise in Kratie province, a provincial official said Monday. Large swaths of National Road 73, which runs through the province, have been affected by the flooding, according to provincial police chief ...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/floods-worsen-as-water-levels-rise-in-kratie-65717/
Families to rejoin protests against sugar farms
Villagers in Koh Kong province left out of compensation deals that some of their neighbors are receiving for land lost to sugar plantations have gathered about 300 signatures on a petition demanding to be included in the payouts and hope to gather more before submitting ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-to-rejoin-protests-against-sugar-farms-77251/
Court official to enforce verdict in long-running land dispute
A court prosecutor and a squadron of police will today descend on a hectare of land in Phnom Penh in order to properly divide it among 163 families who claim that one woman monopolized the plot after they won it in a land dispute, an ...
Families to rejoin protests against sugar farms
Villagers in Koh Kong province left out of compensation deals that some of their neighbors are receiving for land lost to sugar plantations have gathered about 300 signatures on a petition demanding to be included in the payouts and hope to gather more before submitting ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-to-rejoin-protests-against-sugar-farms-77251/
Minor party head denies claims
Following charges by the Appeal Court alleging that he swindled a former supporter out of $70,000 between 2009 and 2011, League for Democracy Party (LDP) president Khem Veasna yesterday criticised the Cambodian judiciary, saying that the courts were under the control of “powerful people” and ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minor-party-head-denies-claims
World bank expecting economic slowdown to persist
The World Bank is forecasting a continued slowdown of Cambodia’s economy over the next three years because of rising local production costs, sluggish global rice prices and other headwinds. The prediction is a gloomy counterpoint to the coming rebound the Asian Development Bank (ADB) forecast ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/world-bank-expecting-economic-slowdown-to-persist-81956/
Unity again the focus for opposition leaders
Following a month in which Prime Minister Hun Sen publicly sang the praises of opposition leader Sam Rainsy only weeks after threatening to unleash the military on Mr. Rainsy’s deputy, Kem Sokha, the opposition party was back on the road this week promoting an image ...
Kuch Naren and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unity-again-the-focus-for-opposition-leaders-82451/
Rights groups seek consultation with Cambodian parliament on NGO draft law
Rights groups want Cambodia’s parliament to hold a consultation with civil society about a controversial draft law on nongovernmental organizations approved Friday by the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, which has long demonstrated animosity toward organizations outside of state control. ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://bit.ly/1B2pPVJ