SISHA internal audit identifies no wrongdoing
Anti-human trafficking NGO SISHA announced the results of its internal audit yesterday, attempting to clear financial misconduct allegations made earlier this year. Retired police detective and founder of the NGO Steve Morrish came under fire in August after two of the charity’s former employees leaked information href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sisha-internal-audit-identifies-no-wrongdoing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sisha-internal-audit-identifies-no-wrongdoing
Cambodian top diplomat visits troops at Preah Vihear temple to explain World Court's ruling
Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong on Saturday visited troops stationed at Preah Vihear temple territory to explain the interpretation of the recent World Court’s ruling over disputed land with Thailand. Addressing more than 1,000 soldiers at a military headquarters about 20 km href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-top-diplomat-visits-troops-at-preah-vihear-temple-to-explain-world-courts-ruling/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-12/07/c_132949389.htm
Disenfranchised Votes Point to Potentially Different Election Result
The Washington-based National Democratic Institute (NDI) on Tuesday shared initial findings from a survey carried out across the country in the wake of July’s national election, which found that one-third of the country’s eligible voters could not vote on election day. Laura Thornton, the NDI’s country href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/disenfranchised-votes-point-to-potentially-different-election-result/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/latest/disenfranchised-votes-point-to-potentially-different-election-result-46254/
EU to ban fish imports from Belize, Guinea and Cambodia
Fish imports from Belize, Guinea and Cambodia are to be banned from the European Union, and three more countries have been warned their imports are in danger, in the first major sanction against countries that allow illegal fishing operations to carry on under their countries’ href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-to-ban-fish-imports-from-belize-guinea-and-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Fiona Harvey
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/26/eu-ban-fish-import-belize-guinea-cambodia-illegal-fishing
Facebook safe: government
Although some of its users have made a habit of posting content critical of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, Facebook will be not be banned or restricted in any way, Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith said on Saturday. Just days after Metfone customers were not able href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/facebook-safe-government/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/facebook-safe-government
Rainsy Lays Out Demands for Next Round of Negotiations
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Sunday said that the CNRP would formally appeal to the CPP this week to resume negotiations to end the ongoing political deadlock, but said that the CPP would have to meet the CNRP’s conditions for a new round of talks. “Now href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rainsy-lays-out-demands-for-next-round-of-negotiations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/rainsy-lays-out-demands-for-next-round-of-negotiations-45990/
Local Groups Say They Must Protect Forest, as Government Fails
Local watchdog groups say they have been forced to take forest protection into their hands, due to a failure of government to do so. “As we have seen: the National Assembly, the Senate and the government do not work,” Ouch Leng, head of the Cambodian Human href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/local-groups-say-they-must-protect-forest-as-government-fails/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/local-grouos-say-they-must-protect-forest-as-government-fails/1800429.html
Cambodia's progress cannot be separated from China's support: PM
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that the country’s development in all fields could not be detached from China’s aid and vowed to further deepen ties between the two countries. According to the figures recorded by the Cambodian Finance Ministry, to date, China has href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-progress-cannot-be-separated-from-chinas-support-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/829836.shtml#.Up_pgtIW2ls
High hopes for fishing season
The largest fish harvest of the year is approaching, and Phnom Penh’s fish markets are about to get busy. In short, it’s December and so prahok season is upon us. A traditional Cambodian fish paste, prahok is made from fermented Siamese mud carp called trey riel in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/high-hopes-for-fishing-season/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/high-hopes-fishing-season
Judicial Reform Drafts Still Need Work, Experts Say
Cambodia is preparing three long-awaited laws aimed at restoring its widely criticized judicial system. However, two of the three draft laws obtained by VOA Khmer still need a lot more improvement, according to legal experts. The laws focus on codifying court jurisdiction, laying out guidelines for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/judicial-reform-drafts-still-need-work-experts-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/judicial-reforms-drafts-still-need-work-experts-say/1840254.html
Two of 23 jailed protesters granted bail; release date unknown
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday morning granted bail to two of the 23 union activists and protesters jailed following the lethal suppression of garment worker strikes by military police on January 3. Municipal court presiding Judge Leang Samnatt held an unscheduled hearing on Friday href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-of-23-jailed-protesters-granted-bail-release-date-unknown/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-of-23-jailed-protesters-granted-bail-release-date-unknown-51734/
Housing loans up in 2013, growth expected to continue in ’14
Last year across Cambodia’s cities, more and more people decided to take the plunge and invest in housing. This should be obvious to anyone who lived in Cambodia last year. The sounds of construction or renovation were more noticeable than before in cities across the Kingdom. Data href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/housing-loans-up-in-2013-growth-expected-to-continue-in-14/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/housing-loans-2013-growth-expected-continue-%E2%80%9914
Military police asked to answer for protest deaths
Richard Rogers, the lawyer retained by the opposition CNRP to potentially submit a case against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government with the International Criminal Court at The Hague, said Thursday that letters were hand-delivered to two military police chiefs requesting information about the fatal shooting href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/military-police-asked-to-answer-for-protest-deaths/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/military-police-asked-to-answer-for-protest-deaths-51633/
Trash collectors battling with mounds of garbage
Trash collectors were working overtime Thursday to clean the vast piles of garbage that had accumulated in Phnom Penh this week after their four-day strike for higher wages. Although workers returned to their duties after agreeing to a pay rise of between $20 and $25 per href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trash-collectors-battling-with-mounds-of-garbage/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean and Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/trash-collectors-battling-with-mounds-of-garbage-51646/
For Union Leader on Run, Militant Attitude Prevails
Tax revenue increased 9.5 percent to $353.46 million in the first quarter of the year, compared to the same period last year, according to a statement released Friday by the Ministry of Finance’s general department of taxation. Kong Vibol, general director of the taxation department, said href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/for-union-leader-on-run-militant-attitude-prevails/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/tax-revenue-up-9-5-percent-in-first-quarter-58489/
Cambodia to diversify
Cambodia Ministry of Tourism hopes to encourage international tourists to visit coastal areas and ecotourism destinations to take pressure off Siem Reap. The ministry’s marketing & promotion department representative, Hou Sokhom, told TTR Weekly that the country needs to encourage tourists to travel more to other href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-to-diversify/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/06/cambodia-to-diversify/
Appeal Court upholds controversial convictions
The Court of Appeal on Monday upheld the protest-related convictions handed down to 11 activists in November, but reduced the prison sentences of all but the most high-profile members of the group. Seven of the defendants were arrested in mid-November for blocking traffic during a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/appeal-court-upholds-controversial-convictions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/appeal-court-upholds-controversial-convictions-76728/
‘Stop all checks on Chinese venues’
Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Kouch Chamroeun has called on provincial and town police to stop the unwarranted inspections of businesses run by foreigners, especially Chinese nationals.Chamroeun was speaking at a provincial administration meeting last week that discussed encouraging further foreign investment in legitimate businesses in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/stop-all-checks-on-chinese-venues/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/stop-all-checks-chinese-venues
Officials declare assets, debts
As of January 4, nearly 8,000 of some 20,000 government officials have declared their assets and debts and submitted the relevant documents to the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU). This follows an ACU notice on October 17, last year, to nearly 50 ministries and institutions in the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-declare-assets-debts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-declare-assets-debts
Man held, timber, motorbikes seized in Dak Dam commune
Mondulkiri provincial joint forces detained a man for questioning, confiscated seven motorbikes and seized 178 timber logs in O’Raing district’s Dak Dam commune on Saturday. Provincial department of Agriculture director Song Kheang said officials from his department, the forestry administration, provincial police, Military Police and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/man-held-timber-motorbikes-seized-in-dak-dam-commune/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-held-timber-motorbikes-seized-dak-dam-commune