B’bang village heads for border
A villAge of 212 hectAres in BAttAmbAng’s BAvel district hAs neArly become A ghost town After An Alleged lAnd grAb by three tycoons hAs forced hundreds to find work AbroAd, locAls And A rights group sAid yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bbAng-villAge-heAds-for-border/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/b%E2%80%99bang-village-heads-border
RCAF helicopter crashes, killing 5
A ROYAL CAmbodiAn Armed Forces helicopter, one of A group of Z-9 helicopters received from ChinA in 2013, hAs crAshed during A trAining exercise in Phnom Penh’s DAngkor district, killing five people with one seriously injured. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rcAf-helicopter-crAshes-killing-5/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rcaf-helicopter-crashes-killing-5
Monks demand apology from CPP lawmaker after pagoda visit
A group of Activist monks sAy they will force CPP lAwmAker ChheAng Vun to Apologize for A heAted discussion he hAd with A monk on MondAy if he tries to enter one of their pAgodAs in the future. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/monks-demAnd-Apology-from-cpp-lAwmAker-After-pAgodA-visit/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/monks-demand-apology-from-cpp-lawmaker-after-pagoda-visit-71805/
Construction firm to fortify crack in White Building
A MAlAysiAn construction compAny building A hotel next to Phnom Penh’s iconic “White Building” hAs Agreed to fortify A four-story crAck thAt AppeAred in the ApArtment block in FebruAry, deputy municipAl governor ChreAng SophAn sAid ThursdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/construction-firm-to-fortify-crAck-in-white-building/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/construction-firm-to-fortify-crack-in-white-building-81324/
Defamation suit reaches human rights advocate
A lAwyer for prominent rights AdvocAte Ny ChAkryA on WednesdAy confirmed thAt she hAd received A lAwsuit AgAinst her client from A pAir of court officiAls in Siem ReAp province who Accuse him of defAmAtion And other crimes. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/defAmAtion-suit-reAches-humAn-rights-AdvocAte/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/defamation-suit-reaches-human-rights-advocate-85773/
'Geek’ girls prove technology is not just for boys
A smAll group of women technologists mAde the semi-finAl round of A globAl entrepreneurship competition recently, After designing A mobile App thAt could help fArmers get better prices for their goods. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/geek-girls-prove-technology-is-not-just-for-boys/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Ten Soksreinith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/geek-girls-prove-tech-is-not-just-for-boys/2827698.html
Land grabbers back in business
Reinforcing a view that land grabbing is now a business for some rural Cambodians, several villagers who were paid Wednesday for ending their squat on a palm oil plantation reappeared 48 hours later, laying claim to different parts. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-grabbers-back-in-business/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ros Chanveasna and Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13963/land-grabbers-back-in-business/
Vietnamese migrants nabbed at ACLEDA building
Twenty undocumented Vietnamese laborers are being held for deportation after they were arrested Friday during a raid on a construction site for a new acleda Bank branch in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district, an immigration official said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnamese-migrants-nabbed-at-acleda-building/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vietnamese-migrants-nabbed-at-acleda-building-92327/
Rector says student was warned against activism
After A KhemerAk University student wAs jAiled in Phnom Penh on SAturdAy over A sociAl mediA post cAlling for A “color revolution” in CAmbodiA, the school’s director MondAy clAimed thAt politics hAd “poisoned” students At his institution. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rector-sAys-student-wAs-wArned-AgAinst-Activism/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Aun Pheap and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rector-says-student-was-warned-against-activism-92373/
Socially-Responsible Factory to give better deals to workers
Construction is due to start shortly on a socially responsible sun-glass case and cleaning cloth factory in Siem Reap. Pactics produces 40 per cent of cases and cloths for the larget sun-glass factory in the world, Luxottica, which has brands including Ray Ban, Oakley and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/socially-responsible-factory-to-give-better-deals-to-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Carlsberg Unworried by Call for Beer Boycott
Danish beer giant Carlsberg, a partner in Cambodia’s largest brewery, Cambrew, said it is not concerned by a call to boycott its popular angkor Beer brand over a partner company’s investment in a Laos dam. Ben Morton, vice president of Carlsberg’s international media relations and issues <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/carlsberg-unworried-by-call-for-beer-boycott/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Dene-Hern Chen
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/carlsberg-unworried-by-call-for-beer-boycott-45794/
Official Says ‘Strategic Partnership’ With Japan Won’t Irk China
Returning from a state visit to Japan on Tuesday, a member of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government dismissed the possibility that newly upgraded ties with Japan and Cambodia’s decision to join its asean neighbors in a “freedom of overflight” pact with Tokyo might strain its <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/official-says-strategic-partnership-with-japan-wont-irk-china/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/official-says-strategic-partnership-with-japan-wont-irk-china-49410/
Groups Demand Mandatory Minimum Wage, Threaten Protest
About 100 people, including 20 monks, held A ceremony in Phnom Penh on FridAy in memory of the five people killed A week beforehAnd when militAry police opened fire on protesting gArment workers, And demAnded thAt the government introduce A mAndAtory, sector-wide stAndArd minimum wAge. In <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/groups-demAnd-mAndAtory-minimum-wAge-threAten-protest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Khy Sovuthy and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/groups-demand-a-mandatory-minimum-wage-threaten-to-protest-50428/
Opposition Asks ADB To Suspend Funding to Cambodia
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has asked the asian Development Bank to suspend funding to Cambodia, whose government he says was not formed legally following the July elections. In a letter to aDB President Takehiko Nakao, Sam Rainsy, president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, said the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposition-asks-adb-to-suspend-funding-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/opposition-asks-adb-to-suspend-funding-to-cambodia/1766436.html
Garment protest trial defendants deny charges
Defendants in a mass trial of 25 men and teenagers accused of joining a string of violent garment worker protests continued to profess their innocence during the second day of hearings at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday. Twenty-three of the men were arrested in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-protest-trial-defendants-deny-charges/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khy Sovuthy and Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/garment-protest-trial-defendants-deny-charges-58166/
Court temporarily halts lease transfer for victory beach
Russian businessmen Nikolai Doroshenko and Sergei Polonsky are locked in a legal dispute over Sihanoukville’s Victory Beach following Mr. Polonsky’s release from prison last month, according to copies of court documents obtained Monday. The Preah Sihanouk provincial court has temporarily prevented Mr. Doroshenko from transferring the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-temporarily-halts-lease-transfer-for-victory-beach/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-temporarily-halts-lease-transfer-for-victory-beach-58598/
Deal would send workers to Saudi Arabia
Cambodia is nearing a deal that would open a pipeline of workers to Saudi arabia, a country where Southeast asian migrants have in the past been abused and even executed for crimes that include “sorcery”. Following a meeting in Hanoi last week with Saudi ambassador Salah <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/deal-would-send-workers-to-saudi-arabia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deal-would-send-workers-saudi-arabia
Slow start for joint electoral reform commission
The ruling CPP agreed in principle to two of seven proposals put forth by the opposition CNRP on Monday during the first meeting of a joint electoral reform commission. Emerging from a four-and-a-half hour meeting at the Senate, leaders of the CPP and CNRP working groups <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/slow-start-for-joint-electoral-reform-commission/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mech Dara and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/slow-start-for-joint-electoral-reform-commission-53427/
Protesters rally at ministry over Koh Kong land fracas
A host of protesters rAllied At the Ministry of LAnd MAnAgement, UrbAn PlAnning And Construction yesterdAy to demAnd thAt it intervene to resolve A lAnd dispute involving A compAny And hundreds of fAmilies in Koh Kong province. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/protesters-rAlly-At-ministry-over-koh-kong-lAnd-frAcAs/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protesters-rally-ministry-over-koh-kong-land-fracas
USAID project helps trafficking victims
While human trafficking remains a serious concern in the Kingdom, a project initiated by the US agency for International Development (USaID) helped 108 victims to receive compensation, while a further 1,482 also benefited from the project. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/usaid-project-helps-trafficking-victims/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/usaid-project-helps-trafficking-victims