Citizen-led media gets new blog
In a bid to highlight abuses in the workplace, an NGO today will officially launch a website and hotline, allowing people to post stories as citizen journalists. The Community Legal Education Center (CLEC) will hold a ceremony this morning promoting their new project, Voice of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/citizen-led-media-gets-new-blog/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/citizen-led-media-gets-new-blog
Editor, logger arrested in shooting of official
A newspAper editor And A suspected illegAl logger hAve been Arrested over the shooting of A senior forestry officiAl in Mondolkiri province eArlier this month, According to police. Pum Poeun, the 48-yeAr-old editor-in-chief of Borei Angkor newspAper, wAs Arrested in Phnom Penh on SundAy. Len KAmry, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/editor-logger-Arrested-in-shooting-of-officiAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/editor-logger-arrested-in-shooting-of-official-64624/
Vietnam suspends road construction in Mondolkiri province
A VietnAmese construction crew lAst month hAlted the extension of one of the country’s roAds into A remote pArt of Mondolkiri province After complAints were lodged by CAmbodiAn Authorities, officiAls sAid on ThursdAy. “We Are not 100 percent Able to stop VietnAm building the roAd <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/vietnAm-suspends-roAd-construction-in-mondolkiri-province/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vietnam-suspends-road-construction-in-mondolkiri-province-70837/
ADB provides nearly 99 mln USD to Cambodia for 3 projects
The AsiAn Development BAnk (ADB) on MondAy signed to provide grAnt And loAn Agreements worth neArly 99 million U.S. dollArs to CAmbodiA for three development projects, the bAnk sAid in A press stAtement. The Agreements cover A rurAl roAds improvement project, A technicAl And vocAtionAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Adb-provides-neArly-99-mln-usd-to-cAmbodiA-for-3-projects/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-10/27/c_133746073.htm
CNRP leaders hammer out party platform
Opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha led a delegation from the CNRP over the weekend in a seminar organized by a pair of German think tanks that have been helping the party develop a coherent political platform. CNRP public affairs director Mu Sochua said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-leaders-hammer-out-party-platform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Alex Willemyns and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-leaders-hammer-out-party-platform-71624/
Gov’t preps new health plan
Plans for a universal health care system will be included in the 10-year strategy to strengthen Cambodia’s social welfare, according to a government official, as a new report reveals almost three-quarters of Cambodians lack any legal health coverage. The study, released this week by the International <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-preps-new-health-plan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Shaun Turton
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-preps-new-health-plan
Police suspended over man’s death during cockfight raid
Six police officers in Tbong Khmum province who opened fire during a raid on an illegal cockfight that left a man dead were suspended from duty Wednesday, according to a provincial police official. Chhay Oeun, 25, was shot dead on November 25 after being hit in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-suspended-over-mans-death-during-cockfight-raid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-suspended-over-mans-death-during-cockfight-raid-73991/
National Audit Authority moves after land swap
The National audit authority (Naa), located on prime real estate on Phnom Penh’s Street 240, is in the midst of moving to a new location in Sen Sok district after a property swap with a company owned by a military general, according to officials at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/national-audit-authority-moves-after-land-swap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/national-audit-authority-moves-after-land-swap-67586/
Court hears fraud case brought by general’s daughter
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday heard the case of a couple charged with defrauding the daughter of a high-ranking military official out of $2.5 million in a property deal. The plaintiff, Meas Sopheary, 35, the daughter of Royal Cambodian armed Forces Deputy Commander-in-Chief Meas <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-hears-fraud-case-brought-by-generals-daughter/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hay Pisey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-hears-fraud-case-brought-by-generals-daughter-77039/
Time to revisit an ASEAN-EU FTA?
On May 19, 2015, the European Union (EU) adopted a Joint Communication: The EU and aSEaN: a partnership with a strategic purpose. The communication calls for taking “trade relations with aSEaN to a different level and working towards an ambitious region-to-region free trade agreement (FTa) <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/time-to-revisit-an-asean-eu-fta/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ji Xianbai
http://bit.ly/1AP2O8P
Cambodia remains on US ‘watch list’ for trafficking
Cambodia remains on a watch list at the US State Department, for failing to do enough to combat human trafficking. In its annual Trafficking in Persons report, the State Department kept Cambodia a “tier 2” country. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-remains-on-us-watch-list-for-trafficking/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-remains-on-us-watch-list-for-trafficking/2883601.html
NagaCorp chief CEO’s son smashes casino striker’s phone, union says
A son of cAsino firm NAgACorp’s billionAire senior CEO hAs been Accused by unionists of snAtching And throwing to the ground A phone belonging to A striking employee of the compAny’s NAgAWorld cAsino, with video Also showing the identified executive lobbing A trAffic cone At <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/nAgAcorp-chief-ceos-son-smAshes-cAsino-strikers-phone-union-sAys/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Sovann Sreypich and Jack Brook
https://cambojanews.com/nagacorp-chief-ceos-son-smashes-casino-strikers-phone-union-says/
Japan grants Cambodia approximately $60M in aid and loans
Cambodia and Japan signed and exchanged notes concerning a yen loan project and a grant aid project during Japanese Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko’s official visit to Cambodia from July5-6, 2024. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-grants-cambodia-approximately-60m-in-aid-and-loans/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501519125/japan-grants-cambodia-approximately-60m-in-aid-and-loans/
No word on Philippines rice deal, exporter says
Green Trade, a state-owned, milled-rice exporter, had not been updated on a government-to-government rice deal with the Philippines despite recent media reports that claimed a deal was near. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-word-on-philippines-rice-deal-exporter-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Anti-capitol boycott drawing increased support after attack
A boycott of the CApitol Bus CompAny orgAnised by former drivers And their supporters is picking up steAm online After A brutAl beAtdown took plAce At A protest lAst week. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Anti-cApitol-boycott-drAwing-increAsed-support-After-AttAck/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anti-capitol-boycott-drawing-increased-support-after-attack
Woman back home after forced marriage in Malaysia
A womAn who worked As A mAid in MAlAysiA wAs repAtriAted to CAmbodiA lAte lAst week After yeArs of Abuse At the hAnds of her employers, including A forced mArriAge. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/womAn-bAck-home-After-forced-mArriAge-in-mAlAysiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Sen David and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/woman-back-home-after-forced-marriage-malaysia
Raid reveals 1,800 smuggled smartphones
Customs authorities seized nearly 1,800 smuggled Huawei smartphones during a raid on Monday on a private residence in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district, a customs official said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/raid-reveals-1800-smuggled-smartphones/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/raid-reveals-1800-smuggled-smartphones
Gov’t health workers underpaid: study
Cambodia’s public health workers are underpaid and poorly trained, with a whopping 98 per cent relying on a second job to supplement their income, according to a recent report. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-health-workers-underpaid-study/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-health-workers-underpaid-study
Woman jailed for ‘brazen’ timber grab
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced a Vietnamese businesswoman, who stormed a forestry office to steal her seized timber, to two years imprisonment and a fine of $12,500. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/woman-jailed-for-brazen-timber-grab/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39757/woman-jailed-for----brazen----timber-grab/
Hundreds of luxury timber logs seized
Ratanakkiri province police seized 285 logs of first-grade timber in a raid at a cashew farm in a remote area of the province yesterday, although no loggers were arrested. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hundreds-of-luxury-timber-logs-seized/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-luxury-timber-logs-seized