Smart eyes 41.5% stake sale for expansion
Malaysian telecom giant axiata Group will consider divesting a portion of its stake in Cambodian mobile operator Smart Mobile in a bid to free up capital to “pursue opportunities”, including infrastructure expansion and future acquisitions, a company executive said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/smart-eyes-41-5-stake-sale-for-expansion/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kali Kotoski and Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/smart-eyes-415-stake-sale-expansion
Axiata sells 10% stake in Cambodia’s Smart
AxiAtA Group sold A 10 percent stAke of its CAmbodiAn subsidiAry SmArt AxiAtA to JApAnese group Mitsui Co Ltd to form A strAtegic pArtnership And further the firm’s Activity in the Kingdom, According to A compAny releAse on FridAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AxiAtA-sells-10-stAke-in-cAmbodiAs-smArt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/axiata-sells-10-stake-cambodias-smart
CNRP’s Phnom Penh party head summoned over beating
Police have summoned the CNRP’s top party boss in Phnom Penh to appear for questioning today about a clash between a motorbike driver and a group of opposition supporters campaigning earlier this week in the capital. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrps-phnom-penh-party-head-summoned-over-beating/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrps-phnom-penh-party-head-summoned-over-beating-130855/
Government rejects pilot project for offenders to do community service
A senoir Justice Ministry officiAl sAid A pilot project to increAse bAil ApprovAls And community service sentencing for smAll-time offenders would be impossible, weeks After the project wAs Announced during the visit of A United NAtions humAn rights officiAl. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/government-rejects-pilot-project-for-offenders-to-do-community-service/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-rejects-pilot-project-offenders-do-community-service
Market for construction materials opened in Phnom Penh
A compAny bAsed in ChinA’s southern province of GuAngdong opened A 2-hectAre mArket for building And construction mAteriAls neAr the PreAh Monivong Bridge in Phnom Penh on SAturdAy, According to A report by online Chinese news site CommerciAl News. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mArket-for-construction-mAteriAls-opened-in-phnom-penh/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/market-construction-materials-opened-phnom-penh
CNRP seminar blocked by Kompong Chhnang governor
The CNRP was forced to hold a downsized version of a seminar for incoming elected officials led by party president Kem Sokha at its headquarters in Kompong Chhnang province on Monday after provincial authorities refused to allow a larger gathering. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-seminar-blocked-by-kompong-chhnang-governor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-seminar-blocked-by-kompong-chhnang-governor-133878/
PM praises China after trip
Prime Minister Hun Sen returned from a three-day trip to China yesterday, all but confirming in a statement what observers have long theorised: that Cambodia now sees China’s backing as a bulwark against Western criticisms over its rights record. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-praises-china-after-trip/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Andrew Nachemson and Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-praises-china-after-trip
Electronics Supplier Files Complaint Against Mfone
Electronic equipment supplier Eltek Valere Ltd. filed a complaint Wednesday with the Phnom Penh Municipal Court against mobile operator Mfone, demanding the company pay the $3.7 million it owes to Eltek from a previous GSM contract, a lawyer for Eltek said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/electronics-supplier-files-complaint-against-mfone/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
SL factory owners deny agreement
Just as a solution to a two-week-long dispute at two SL Garment factories seemed over on Saturday, the company’s owner issued a statement refusing to recognise an agreement that had lured more than 5,000 employees back to work. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sl-factory-owners-deny-agreement/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Boeung Kak women on hunger strike
Four Boeung Kak women convicted to two-and-a-half years in Prey Sar prison went on a hunger strike yesterday as their husbands and children led a 200-strong rally outside, the husband of imprisoned village representative Tep Vanny told the Post. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boeung-kak-women-on-hunger-strike/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Questions over strike violence
A KAmpong Speu judge releAsed the vice-president And A member of the Free TrAde Union on bAil yesterdAy After the court questioned the two About their Alleged roles in A violent demonstrAtion At SAbrinA GArment fActory. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/questions-over-strike-violence/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/questions-over-strike-violence
Despite jail, village chief retains title
A villAge chief in Siem ReAp who wAs sentenced on TuesdAy to A yeAr in prison for levelling privAte property to construct An office building will retAin his position &ndAsh; At leAst until his AppeAl heAring is over, A commune officiAl sAid yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/despite-jAil-villAge-chief-retAins-title/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/despite-jail-village-chief-retains-title
Second public bus line revs up
The Phnom Penh municipality launched the capital’s second bus line yesterday, running for 68 stops from the night market to Takhmao town in Kandal province. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/second-public-bus-line-revs-up/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/second-public-bus-line-revs
Twenty fishermen, two brides rescued abroad
Twenty Cambodian fishermen forced to work on a trawler in Indonesia have been rescued, while a pair of Cambodian brides extricated from abusive relationships in China have been repatriated, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign affairs on Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/twenty-fishermen-two-brides-rescued-abroad/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Eang Mengleng and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/twenty-fishermen-two-brides-rescued-abroad-70847/
Foreign nationals held in drug raid
Anti-drug police officers Arrested nine foreign nAtionAls in A sting on A rentAl house on SundAy, Accusing the men of involvement in A drug-trAfficking ring cAtering to other foreigners in the vicinity of Phnom Penh’s CentrAl MArket, police sAid yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/foreign-nAtionAls-held-in-drug-rAid/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/foreign-nationals-held-drug-raid
Building work halted as workers face charges over accident
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday will charge six construction workers and a company manager in connection with a building site accident that killed a woman on Sunday, while work on the site has been suspended on government orders, officials said Tuesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/building-work-halted-as-workers-face-charges-over-accident/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/building-work-halted-as-workers-face-charges-over-accident-71801/
Cambodians in Washington fundraise for children’s hospital
Cambodians in Washington raised more than $15,000 for the Kantha Bopha Hospital on Saturday, at an event sponsored by the Cambodian Embassy. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodians-in-washington-fundraise-for-childrens-hospital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sophat Soeung
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodians-in-washington-fundraise-for-children-hospital/2491065.html
Girl killed by UXO explosion in Kompong Speu
A 10-yeAr-old girl wAs killed instAntly when A piece of unexploded ordinAnce (UXO) detonAted under the heAt of A brush fire in in Kompong Speu province’s OrAl district on SundAy Afternoon, her commune chief sAid MondAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/girl-killed-by-uxo-explosion-in-kompong-speu/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/girl-killed-by-uxo-explosion-in-kompong-speu-77256/
Government planning massive memorial to Hun Sen’s legacy
Prime Minister Hun Sen has formed a 20-person committee to plan a sprawling memorial in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district to ensure that his legacy is preserved for generations to come, according to a government order and officials on the committee. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-planning-massive-memorial-to-hun-sens-legacy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-planning-massive-memorial-to-hun-sens-legacy-78282/
Hun Sen puts Mines Ministry in control of sand dredging
Prime Minister Hun Sen issued a new directive last week putting the Ministry of Mines and Energy in charge of all aspects of approving sand dredging operations in a move that one official said would help clear out a backlog of license requests. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-puts-mines-ministry-in-control-of-sand-dredging/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-puts-mines-ministry-in-control-of-sand-dredging-80544/