Lotteria opens first store in Cambodia
South Korean fast food restaurant Lotteria opened its first outlet in Phnom Penh on June 30. Situated inside the Aeon Mall, the restaurant is focusing on chicken and beef dishes, reflecting Cambodian tastes, including a general avoidance of pork. ...
The Korea Herald News Staff
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140708001136
Rubber firm destroys homes
The Swift Rubber Company demolished three homes in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Chum district last week without compensation, telling about 120 families to leave immediately or face the destruction of more houses, according to villagers and rights group Adhoc. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rubber-firm-destroys-homes
Five families accept flats in Chroy Changva
Five families among a community of 40 that have been fighting a powerful developer for land they live on in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district accepted compensation packages on Monday, the first cracks in a previously united community. ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/five-families-accept-flats-in-chroy-changva-65420/
Prison time for garment heist
A former chief security guard at the Roo Hsing Garment Co factory was sentenced yesterday to four years in prison for conspiring with two thieves to steal more than 1,000 items of clothing from the factory in April. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/prison-time-garment-heist
Update on Borei Keila requested
The National Assembly’s anti-corruption commission submitted a letter to the Phnom Penh Municipal Hall last week requesting an update on the resolution of the long-running dispute between evicted Borei Keila villagers and development firm Phan Imex. ...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/update-borei-keila-requested
Corruption reform remains slow, expert says
Anti-corruption groups say Cambodia needs to do more to curb the practice. Preap Kol, executive director of Transparency International Cambodia, told “Hello VOA” on Thursday that Cambodia is going the “right way,” but it needs to do more. ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/corruption-reform-remains-slow-expert-says/2556771.html
Signing up: Poll monitors try out digital registration
A coalition of election watchdogs and rights groups known as the Electoral Reform Alliance (ERA) have tested a new “modernised voter registration” system that they hope the soon-to-be overhauled National Election Committee will use during forthcoming elections. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/signing-poll-monitors-try-out-digital-registration
Climate change costs growing
The economic impact of climate change in Cambodia could be highly damaging to rural areas and worker productivity, according to a report from American development agency USAID, which applied climate projections for 2050 to today’s Mekong Basin economies. ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/climate-change-costs-growing
Villagers, police face off in dispute over road expansion
About 100 villagers from Boeng Chhouk village in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district blocked officials and workers on Tuesday from bringing in heavy machinery to begin work on a road expansion that would destroy some of their homes. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-police-face-off-in-dispute-over-road-expansion-79974/
District police chief stands trial on graft charges
The trial of disgraced former Meanchey district police chief Hy Narin, who was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) in October and charged with embezzlement, extortion and unlawful exploitation, began at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday. ...
District police chief stands trial on graft charges
The trial of disgraced former Meanchey district police chief Hy Narin, who was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) in October and charged with embezzlement, extortion and unlawful exploitation, began at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday. ...
Marijuana crops burned
Military police destroyed more than 500 marijuana plants with an estimated value of $30,000 in Kampot province on Friday, an official said. ...
Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/marijuana-crops-burned
Long wait over: Two Boeung Kak protesters to get land
Two protesters from the Boeung Kak lake community are weeks away from long-awaited land titles after City Hall officials yesterday measured plots for them amid a small crowd of angry former residents. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/long-wait-over-two-boeung-kak-protesters-get-land
Deportations in K Chhnang go on
Another 17 people are to be deported for living illegally in Kampong Chhnang province, bringing the total number of deportations to more than 500 nationwide since a foreigner census began in late August. ...
Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/deportations-k-chhnang-go
Assembly to question Phanimex director
The National Assembly’s bipartisan Anti-Corruption Commission will today question Phanimex Development director Suy Sophan, who has been at the center of a bitter land dispute with more than 150 families in Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila neighborhood. ...
KUCH NAREN
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/assembly-to-question-phanimex-director-70002/
SCH in talks to form JV in Cambodia
Quarry machinery supplier SCH Group Bhd (SCH) is in negotiations to form a US$50,000 (RM178,000) joint venture (JV) with a local company in Cambodia to expand its distribution and supply of industrial products business there. ...
Wan Ilaika Mohd Zakaria
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1325479
Signing up: Poll monitors try out digital registration
A coalition of election watchdogs and rights groups known as the Electoral Reform Alliance (ERA) have tested a new “modernised voter registration” system that they hope the soon-to-be overhauled National Election Committee will use during forthcoming elections. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/signing-poll-monitors-try-out-digital-registration
Mothers say children unwilling witnesses
Three mothers say they fear their sons are being coerced into fabricating molestation accusations against a man they know as the patron saint of Phnom Penh’s riverside but who police and child-protection activists say is a predator. ...
Laignee Barron and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/mothers-say-children-unwilling-witnesses
Two more test positive for HIV in Roka commune
Two more people have tested positive for HIV in Battambang province’s Roka commune this month, bringing the total number infected to 272 since an outbreak of the virus was first detected in December, a health official said Wednesday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-more-test-positive-for-hiv-in-roka-commune-82447/
China, Cambodia further cement relations
Prime Minister Hun Sen met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the 60th Asian-African Conference Commemoration in Bandung, Indonesia, on Thursday, announcing further cooperation between the two countries, local media reported Friday. ...
Sek Odom and Maria Paula Brito
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/china-cambodia-further-cement-relations-82669/