Activist takes KDC buyout
A community representative who has played an active role in the long-running land dispute between residents of Kampong Chhnang province’s Lorpeang village and a politically connected company has agreed to back down after accepting compensation.
In a deal reached with KDC Company on Monday, Reach Seyma
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activist-takes-kdc-buyout
Shake-up may move judicial figures to new positions
Twenty judges and prosecutors may soon find themselves pulling up stakes and tackling new jurisdictions, according to a draft list detailing a wide-ranging judicial reshuffling obtained by thePost yesterday.
In the proposed shake-up, Phnom Penh Municipal Court president Chiv Keng will be moved into a position as
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/shake-may-move-judicial-figures-new-positions
Foreign policy challenged by regional conflicts, expert says
ambodian leaders are facing a very uncertain Asean in recent weeks, with anti-Chinese protests in Vietnam pitting two of the country’s standards allies against each other and a Thai coup sealing the western borders and leaving a neighbor in the hands of military control.
Both issues
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/foreign-policy-challenged-by-regional-conflicts-expert-says/1921175.html
Kompong Thom police arrest 7 in illegal checkpoint racket
Police in Kompong Thom province Wednesday arrested seven people allegedly involved in an illegal checkpoint racket, while an eighth escaped with handcuffs on and is at large.
Shortly before 7 a.m., a joint task force of police and military police descended on an illegal checkpoint staffed
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kompong-thom-police-arrest-7-in-illegal-checkpoint-racket-60508/
Hun Sen’s cabinet accepts petition of villagers
The cabinet of Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday accepted a petition from villagers from Kratie province’s Snuol district who are requesting intervention in a land dispute with a plantation owner.
Kong Chamroeun, a secretary in the prime minister’s cabinet, met about 100 villagers at Phnom
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sens-cabinet-accepts-petition-of-villagers-64812/
Push to transform bright female students into future gov’t leaders
As a child growing up in a poor family in Banteay Meanchey, Yang Leaphea struggled to imagine a world outside her province. She turned to her desperately under-resourced local library, but found few books there to expand her horizons.
All that changed when the intelligent daughter
Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/push-to-transform bright-female-students-into-future-govt-leaders-66806/
Vocational training to get $30M ADB boost
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced last week a $30 million loan aimed at overhauling Cambodia’s technical and vocational education system (TVET).
According to a September 26 statement issued by the ADB, the new funding will go towards launching a “competency-based” assessment and certification process, and
Eddie Morton
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/vocational-training-get-30m-adb-boost
Protected wetlands urged
A new wetland protected area may be implemented in Battambang province following talks between scientists, Asian governments and conservation groups held in Siem Reap this week.
The message seems to have been heard, at least by the Ministry of Environment, which yesterday said it would
Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/protected-wetlands-urged
Arrests continue as another CNRP activist detained
Police arrested another opposition activist Thursday morning for his alleged involvement in the violent July 15 protest at Freedom Park that the courts have labeled an attempted insurrection, a party official and police said.
Tep Narin, a CNRP activist in his 30s, was arrested at the
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/arrests-continue-as-another-cnrp-activist-detained-72287/
Police seize wood destined for brigade commander’s office
Police in Kandal province on Tuesday confiscated a haul of wood, including a few pieces of precious rosewood, that was being unlawfully transported to Phnom Penh by the military for the construction of a Brigade 90 commander’s office.
The commander has appealed to Royal Cambodian Armed
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-seize-wood-destined-for-brigade-commanders-office-75600/
NA puts brakes on rent hikes
Lawmakers yesterday passed a rent control law for low-income earners and students, prohibiting landlords from increasing rent for two years once a contract is signed and allowing tenants to scrap a lease agreement without notice.
The law, which sailed through the National Assembly with 102 of
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/na-puts-brakes-rent-hikes
Group slams maid program
A pilot scheme to send Cambodian domestic workers to Singapore has been described as a “failure” by a worker welfare group due to concerns over poor working conditions.Speaking at a conference in Singapore over the weekend, John Gee, spokesman for Singapore-based Transient Workers Count Too
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/group-slams-maid-program
Tractor hits anti-tank mine, Preah Vihear’s sixth death this year
A landmine killed a man on May 22 while he was operating a power tiller to plough a rice field in Sro Em commune’s Stung Khieu Techo village of Preah Vihear province’s Choam Ksan district.
Kim Sarom
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tractor-hits-anti-tank-mine-preah-vihears-sixth-death-year
Land disputes settled through mediation
A long-term land dispute between indigenous villagers in Mondulkiri and a private company over community forests has been resolved in a ground-breaking mediation settlement – a first for Cambodia.
Thai Sothea
https://kiripost.com/stories/land-disputes-settled-through-mediation
Ministry institutes new permanent secretariat to prevent forest crimes
A forestry administration spokesman on Thursday said the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries had recently created a new permanent secretariat to prevent all types of forestry crimes, with a particular focus on illegal rosewood trading.
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-institutes-new-permanent-secretariat-prevent-forest-crimes
Schoolroom slap gets three months
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced a father who slapped a high school student across the face in a fit of rage to one year in prison, reduced to three months, with the rest suspended.
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/schoolroom-slap-gets-three-months
US army looks to store field hospital in Cambodia
The U.S. Army is looking to store a mobile emergency field hospital in Cambodia to be used in the case of a regional disaster, a defense industry news website reported last week.
Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-army-looks-to-store-field-hospital-in-cambodia-110166/
Vietnam building in no-man’s land
Provincial officials in Rattanakiri rejected a request by the Vietnamese government to allow them to construct buildings and a border checkpoint in O’Yadav district after a meeting between both sides in Banlung City on Tuesday.
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28709/vietnam-building-in-no-man---s-land/
Alleged wildlife meat seller busted in B’bang
Authorities in Battambang province arrested a man on Wednesday for possession of 30 kilograms of illegal wildlife meat and body parts, after a raid on a property turned up pieces of bear, muntjac deer and civet.
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/alleged-wildlife-meat-seller-busted-bbang
Kampong Speu locals protest in long-running dispute
Several hundred villagers protested outside the Kampong Speu Provincial Hall yesterday, demanding the return of thousands lost to economic land concessions (ELCs) in a years-old land dispute with a Chinese company and a prominent tycoon.
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-speu-locals-protest-long-running-dispute
