Six arrested, released over NGO law protest
Authorities in Phnom Penh on Sunday arrested and released six people dressed in prison uniforms and chained together by their legs for protesting outside the National Assembly against a recently approved law that threatens to muzzle NGOs critical of the government ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/six-arrested-released-over-ngo-law-protest-89467/
ADB report says solar good fit for Kingdom
A report released this month by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) suggests that due to Cambodia’s high suitability to solar power, energy from solar panels is a viable and sustainable source of power that could lead to energy independence. ...
Alessandro Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/adb-report-says-solar-good-fit-kingdom
Cambodia urged to act on plans to reintroduce tigers
The Cambodian arm of the World Wildlife Fund has called on the government to move forward with plans to reintroduce wild tigers in the country’s eastern forests, but reiterated concerns over possible development in the area. ...
Worldbulletin News Staff
http://www.worldbulletin.net/news/162548/cambodia-urged-to-act-on-plans-to-reintroduce-tigers
Two political monks arrested over drugs
Two monks were arrested in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district on Saturday for possessing a small amount of crystal methamphetamine, police said Sunday, but fellow monks and pagoda residents claimed the arrests were retaliation for the two taking part in political rallies. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-political-monks-arrested-over-drugs-90416/
Lawsuits threatened over maps
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday threatened legal action against those who have accused him of using incorrect maps to plant posts along the Kingdom’s border with Vietnam, and called on parties claiming to have the true maps to present them. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lawsuits-threatened-over-maps
TI calls for reforms at polls
Low-income factory workers and illiterate citizens risk being left behind in the country’s voter registration process if current policies remain unchanged, Transparency International Cambodia warned yesterday, as it forwarded a list of recommendations to the National Election Commission. ...
Vong Sokheng and Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ti-calls-reforms-polls
Senior gov’t official pays official visit to UDG site
The senior government official in charge of land dispute resolution visited more than 300 Koh Kong province families who are threatened with eviction by China’s Union Development Group to compile a report on the issue for Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/senior-govt-official-pays-official-visit-udg-site
Fish shortage stirs ethnic rivalry
Their boats began disappearing from the banks of the Tonle Sap and Mekong rivers near Phnom Penh a few months ago, according to Cham fishing families still living in the area. By the weekend none were left, Cham fishermen told Khmer Times. ...
Chea Takihiro and Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14223/fish-shortage-stirs-ethnic-rivalry/
Viet Nam shares budget problems with Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar
Budget decisions and oversight were among the subjects discussed by representatives from Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar together with foreign experts at a joint workshop that opened in the central coastal city of Da Nang yesterday. ...
Viet Nam News Staff
http://vietnamnews.vn/society/274625/viet-nam-shares-budget-problems-with-laos-cambodia-myanmar.html
Bus depots will move to city outskirts in bid to ease traffic
Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong held a meeting with the city’s bus companies Thursday to inform them that starting next year, their depots and pickup points must be located outside the city center as part of efforts to ease worsening traffic congestion. ...
Thai cement giant to invest $300m in Cambodia
Thailand’s largest cement producer, Siam Cement Group (SCG), plans to invest up to $300 million to increase its production capacity in Cambodia over the next five years in a bid to take advantage of booming domestic demand, a company official said Monday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/thai-cement-giant-to-invest-300m-in-cambodia-92400/
Untaxed alcohol seized at border
Border police in Tbong Khmum’s Memot district near the Cambodian-Vietnamese border seized more than 900 cases of top-shelf booze on Sunday after a truck tried to smuggle in a large chunk without paying tax, police confirmed yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/untaxed-alcohol-seized-border
With maps, border tension defused—for now
At the height of the CNRP’s campaign to draw attention to illegal Vietnamese incursions into Cambodia, the opposition party in June shifted its offensive toward an old claim—that the government has been complicit in planting border markers well inside Cambodian territory. ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/with-maps-border-tension-defused-for-now-92648/
Foreign minister calls on opposition to end its border ‘campaign’
Ruling party officials say the opposition is playing a “bad trick” on Cambodians, inciting nationalistic anger with claims of Vietnamese encroachment and accusations that the government is not using the proper maps to demarcate the border. ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/foreign-minister-calls-on-opposition-to-end-its-border-campaign/2933067.html
Marketing at ‘The Bay’ eats into Teho’s bottom line
Teho International, developer of the $500 million “The Bay” real estate project in Phnom Penh, reported $5.3 million in losses for the year ending June 2015, in part due to marketing and promotional activities relating to the Cambodian project. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/marketing-bay-eats-tehos-bottom-line
Healthy profit for Acleda in first half
Cambodia’s largest bank, Acleda Bank, announced its half-yearly results on August 26, reporting a 40 per cent increase in net profits as compared to the same period last year, on the back of strong loan and deposits growth. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/healthy-profit-acleda-first-half
Police arrest 17 at protest in Koh Kong
Police in Koh Kong province on Wednesday arrested 17 people—including four rights workers—near the provincial courthouse as protesters continued to call for the release of three jailed environmental activists, according to officials. The group was released shortly after 6 p.m. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-arrest-17-at-protest-in-koh-kong-93241/
CNRP tells donors to retrieve their funds
A district official with the Cambodia National Rescue Party has offered a group of disgruntled donors in Kandal their money back after they lodged a complaint with local police over the opposition’s fundraising efforts for its Sun TV station. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-tells-donors-retrieve-their-funds
Vultures ‘needed in north’
The role played by vultures in maintaining the environment by stripping the carcasses of dead animals was celebrated yesterday at an event in Preah Vihear province, where conservationists and officials pledged to do more to protect the species’ dwindling numbers. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vultures-needed-north
Clean energy microgrid in pipeline for Koh Rong Sanloem
A new private-sector energy development is in the pipeline for Koh Rong Sanloem Island with the goal of bringing clean and reliable electricity 24 hours a day to the remote location. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/clean-energy-microgrid-pipeline-koh-rong-sanloem