Tycoon’s ex-partner denied bail over rape-murder plot
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday denied bail to the former common-law wife of one of Cambodia’s richest men, who was extradited from Thailand on Tuesday over her alleged involvement in a plot to rape and murder Commerce Minister sun Chanthol’s wife and daughter. Lay ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tycoons-ex-partner-denied-bail-over-rape-murder-plot-76254/
Meaning of valentine’s day lost in translation, minister warns
With Valentine’s Day just days away, the Ministry of Education on Tuesday entreated the nation’s teachers to put their students through a crash course to dispel what it believes is a widely held misconception among Cambodian youth that the holiday is a pretext for sex. ss='cambodia-color'>...
S. Korea provides USD 56 million loan for road projects
South Korea haS granted Cambodia USD 56.1 million loan for reStoration of National Road number two from Kandal&rSquo;S Takmao town to Daun Keo town, and National Road number 22 from Ou Chambork to Ang TaSourm. SS='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/s-korea-provides-usd-56-million-loan-for-road-projects-8188
First lady’s visit could inspire attitude change, lawmaker says
The impending visit of First Lady Michelle Obama to Cambodia will serve as an opportunity for people and officials to revisit their attitude towards girls’ education, a lawmaker says. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Men Kimseng
http://bit.ly/1Lh2u7h
Hun Sen praises Cambodia’s new era of political cooperation
Prime Minister Hun sen said Tuesday that Cambodia is at a new political stage in its history and called for the continuation of the “culture of dialogue” and putting “an end to the culture of revenge” between politicians from the ruling and opposition parties. ss='cambodia-color'>...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/hun-sen-praises-new-era-of-political-cooperation-04142015145104.html
Gov’t settles land dispute after Hun Sen’s visit
Just two days after Prime Minister Hun sen promised to resolve a 20-year-old land dispute in siem Reap City, the government on Friday issued a subdecree that divides 115 hectares of the contested plot between more than 700 families. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-settles-land-dispute-after-hun-sens-visit-82132/
Doroshenko’s son hits out in defence of jailed father
Ostap Doroshenko, the son of jailed Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko, has spoken out on his father’s recent detainment, blaming it on a plot orchestrated by a predictable family foe. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/doroshenkos-son-hits-out-defence-jailed-father
In coverage of land dispute, a publisher’s interests served
In this sparsely populated area along the eastern fringe of Bokor National Park in Chhuk district, villagers are scrambling to claim sandy, arid land as an international company surges ahead with its palm oil plantation. As in many of the hundreds of unresolved land disputes playing ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matt Blomberg and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-coverage-of-land-dispute-a-publishers-interests-served-82523/
KPPM says it’s one step closer to party-hood
A dissident group, which was unexpectedly given the green light last month to form a political party, claims it has already exceeded the number of signatures necessary to register. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kppm-says-its-one-step-closer-party-hood
NGO gives Hun Sen’s land titling project mixed marks
In perhaps the most comprehensive review to date of Prime Minister Hun sen’s 2012 land titling project, the NGO Forum on Tuesday said the campaign has yielded major benefits, but not without some serious costs—particularly for the country’s beleaguered indigenous communities. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-gives-hun-sens-land-titling-project-mixed-marks-85297/
Scavengers cut solid waste in country’s lone recycling progam
The day ends late for Cambodian waste pickers. Darkness does not stop them. They walk through the night wearing small miners’ lights announcing their presence by shouting “et chay,” which means “scavenger.” ss='cambodia-color'>...
Marina Shafik
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12915/scavengers-cut-solid-waste-in-country---s-lone-recycling-progam/
Authorities to deport convicted British pedophile by week’s end
A British national and convicted pedophile, who served about three quarters of his two-year sentence for child sex abuse, will be deported to the U.K. by the end of the week, an immigration official said sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/authorities-to-deport-convicted-british-pedophile-by-weeks-end-87986/
1,800 Cambodians barred from intruding into Vietnam’s territory
Vietnamese and Cambodian border authorities prevented about 1,800 Cambodian from illegally crossing the border into the southern Vietnamese province of Long An on sunday, a senior border guard official has said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tuoitrenews.vn News Staff
http://tuoitrenews.vn/society/29344/1800-cambodians-barred-from-intruding-into-vietnams-territory
Lawmaker asks PM for probe of Try Pheap’s SEZ
CNRP lawmaker Un Sam An Sent a letter to Prime MiniSter Hun Sen on Monday aSking for an inveStigation of Try Pheap&rSquo;S Special Economic Zone in Ratanakkiri province, Saying that the timber magnate iS miSuSing the Site to export illegally logged treeS to Vietnam. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lawmaker-asks-hun-sen-for-probe-of-try-pheaps-sez-89251/
Plenty of paychecks for ghosts haunting Cambodia’s lax bureaucracy
Borith has been on the payroll of Cambodia’s parliament for 15 years but rarely shows up for work. He is busy with his other job at a non-governmental organization, and no one notices his absence. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Reuters team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13721/cnrp-lawmaker-capitulates--apologizes-to-assembly-president/
Hun Sen’s comments draw criticism from Cambodian rights groups
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen’s public use of derogatory terms when discussing an unnamed woman accused of injuring a security guard after allegedly kicking him prompted rebukes from rights groups in the country on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia’s royal turtle back from the brink of extinction
The southern river terrapin is among the lesser-known of Cambodia’s many globally endangered species, which also include the Asiatic black bear, the Asian elephant and the Indochinese tiger. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sun Sokhen
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-royal-turtle-back-from-the-brink-of-extinction/2900647.html
China to prepare master plan for Cambodia’s new roads
The Transportation Ministry this week inked a $644,000 deal with a Chinese firm for a master plan to lay out Cambodia’s needs for new roads over the next several years. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/china-to-prepare-master-plan-for-cambodias-new-roads-91107/
King’s signature brings much criticized NGO law into force
King Norodom Sihamoni Signed the NGO law on WedneSday, according to a government official, bringing into effect a piece of legiSlation that haS been internationally rebuked aS a SeriouS threat to free Speech and aSSociation. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kings-signature-brings-much-criticized-ngo-law-into-force-91643/
Marketing at ‘The Bay’ eats into Teho’s bottom line
Teho International, developer of the $500 million “The Bay” real estate project in Phnom Penh, reported $5.3 million in losses for the year ending June 2015, in part due to marketing and promotional activities relating to the Cambodian project. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/marketing-bay-eats-tehos-bottom-line