UK trade envoy pushes FDI, British brands
The United Kingdom sees Cambodia as a strategic location at the heart of a transportation network through Thailand, Vietnam and Laos to reach China and other countries in the region and the world, a senior UK trade official said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/uk-trade-envoy-pushes-fdi-british-brands/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17898/uk-trade-envoy-pushes-fdi--british-brands/
Industrial park to install solar energy system
Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) has signed an agreement with a Singaporean clean energy firm to install and operate a solar panel system inside the 357-hectare industrial park, the company said yesterday in a press release. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/industrial-park-to-install-solar-energy-system/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/industrial-park-install-solar-energy-system
Interior ministry admits to prison drug problem
In what one commentator described as “a bold step”, the Interior Ministry’s prisons department has seemingly admitted it has a drug problem, and last week sent a letter requesting the Health Ministry’s assistance in tackling it. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/interior-ministry-admits-to-prison-drug-problem/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/interior-ministry-admits-prison-drug-problem
Chinese firm seeks funding for Sihanoukville expressway
Officials from China’s Export-Import Bank are expected to visit Cambodia this week to study granting a loan to a Chinese construction firm to build a $1.6 billion, 190-kilometer long expressway from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-firm-seeks-funding-for-sihanoukville-expressway/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24197/chinese-firm-seeks-funding-for-sihanoukville-expressway/
Absent MPs salaries to be cut
The National assembly (Na) yesterday approved a proposal by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) to punish politicians who are absent from parliamentary meetings without a “reasonable” explanation, the assembly spokesman said, after a boycott by the opposition. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/absent-mps-salaries-to-be-cut/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31325/absent-mps-salaries-to-be-cut/
Company owners, employees arrested over huge timber raid
The owners of Hong Sopheap Development Company in Preah Vihear have been arrested days after military police carried out a massive raid on a 4,000 hectare social land concession (SLC) that the company holds a licence to log. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/company-owners-employees-arrested-over-huge-timber-raid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/company-owners-employees-arrested-over-huge-timber-raid
Villagers, soldiers in land battle
Villagers involved in a long-running land dispute in Kratie province’s Sambor district have prevented soldiers from building a fence around disputed land that the army intends to use as a sniper training ground. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-soldiers-in-land-battle/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-soldiers-land-battle
Trader sought truck with illegal wood impounded
More than a tonne of rosewood and the plateless car carrying it were seized in Oddar Meanchey province yesterday after authorities received a report about a Vietnamese woman and her workers trying to set the vehicle on fire. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trader-sought-truck-with-illegal-wood-impounded/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trader-sought-truck-illegal-wood-impounded
Oknha linked to timber bust
Police officers, gendarmes and Forestry administration officials yesterday discovered a large cache of valuable, illegally felled wood – which locals say was destined for Vietnam – after raiding a house in Stung Treng province linked to a prominent timber trader. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/oknha-linked-to-timber-bust/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/oknha-linked-timber-bust
Loggers busted in Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary
More than 400 pieces of luxury thnong wood suspected to be felled by a local community were seized by authorities in Pursat province’s Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary on Thursday following a tip-off from a local reporter. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/loggers-busted-in-phnom-samkos-wildlife-sanctuary/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/loggers-busted-phnom-samkos-wildlife-sanctuary
Cambodia, Laos to seek French help on border
Cambodia’s foreign affairs minister and his Laotian counterpart will hold a two-day meeting in Phnom Penh this week to draft a letter to France requesting detailed maps to resolve a border dispute that flared up last month. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-laos-to-seek-french-help-on-border/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-laos-seek-french-help-border
Decline in transfers linked to rice prices
International fund transfers to Cambodia through acleda Bank, which claims to handle a quarter of all inbound fund transfers to the country, decreased slightly last year as a result of lower rice prices, a bank executive said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/decline-in-transfers-linked-to-rice-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/decline-transfers-linked-rice-prices
City hall to measure land of lake families fearing eviction
Phnom Penh will begin measuring the homes of hundreds of families seeking land titles to stave off potential eviction by a massive real-estate project filling in a pair of lakes, a municipal government spokesman said on Tuesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-hall-to-measure-land-of-lake-families-fearing-eviction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sand facility allowed to operate
A Koh Kong environmentAl officiAl yesterdAy sAid A compAny with A sAnd-wAshing fAcility in An AreA where the Ministry of Mines And Energy lAst month bAnned sAnd dredging would be Allowed to keep And operAte its fAcility. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sAnd-fAcility-Allowed-to-operAte/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Phak Seangly and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sand-facility-allowed-operate
New firm takes over for Cintri to tackle trash in Sihanoukville
Move over, Cintri – there’s a new garbage collector in town. For the first time in a dozen years, Sihanoukville has a new waste management company, and it has already started collecting trash ahead of the Pchum Ben holiday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-firm-takes-over-for-cintri-to-tackle-trash-in-sihanoukville/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-firm-takes-over-cintri-tackle-trash-sihanoukville
Nest plan must expand to protect rare river bird, say environmental groups
A river bird thAt wAs once A common sight Along the Mekong River is now down to A populAtion of just 50 to 60 individuAls due to humAn interference And dAm construction, conservAtionists And Environment Ministry officiAls sAid yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/nest-plAn-must-expAnd-to-protect-rAre-river-bird-sAy-environmentAl-groups/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nest-plan-must-expand-protect-rare-river-bird-say-environmental-groups
Ex-Beehive leader Sonando called in Kem Sokha case
Radio broadcaster and former Beehive Party President Mam Sonando was served a summons last week by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to appear as a witness in relation to a “treason” case filed against former opposition President Kem Sokha. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ex-beehive-leader-sonando-called-in-kem-sokha-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/ex-beehive-leader-sonando-called-kem-sokha-case
Hun Sen lashes out at journos, analysts over comments on reform record
The prime minister lashed out at journalists and analysts today for questioning the current government’s reform record, a seeming reference to a Post article from December about a speech in which he touted his administration’s progress. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-lashes-out-at-journos-analysts-over-comments-on-reform-record/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-lashes-out-journos-analysts-over-comments-reform-record
Vendors to protest for border fee reductions
The Cambodia Economy Reinforced association has submitted a letter to Banteay Meanchey provincial authorities asking permission to hold a massive demonstration for four days to demand a reduction in the price of crossing the Thai border. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vendors-to-protest-for-border-fee-reductions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50100579/vendors-protest-border-fee-reductions/
Garment Staff Resume Work After Deal is Struck
Garment workers from Phnom Penh’s Lim Line factory will resume work today after reaching an agreement with the factory following 11 days of protest that culminated in a violent strike Friday, a union and a factory representative said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-staff-resume-work-after-deal-is-struck/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>