Election monitor: Sample-based observation most effective
Transparency International has pledged a rapid assessment of potential irregularities in Sunday’s commune elections by sending 1,100 observers across Cambodia—including, if needed, by boat and helicopter. ...
Hannah Hawkins
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/election-monitor-sample-based-observation-most-effective-130668/
New city buses
Phnom Penh municipal officials and Chinese Embassy representatives yesterday commemorated the handover of 98 Chinese buses and two cranes to the city yesterday at a ceremony on Koh Pich. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-city-buses
Sweden Donates $3.97M to Khmer Rouge Tribunal
The international side of the Khmer Rouge tribunal has had its financial woes briefly allayed by a $3.97 million pledge from Sweden to fund operations for the next two years. ...
Timber seized during bust
Mixed security forces led by Kratie province’s court prosecutor yesterday arrested six people in a huge illegal logging bust, confiscating more than 100 cubic metres of protected luxury-grade timber. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/timber-seized-during-bust
Protests in city, province keep going
Thousands of employees from two Taiwanese-owned factories continued striking for better working conditions yesterday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/protests-city-province-keep-going
Indochine protesters attacked
Five striking workers at a Kandal province garment factory were injured yesterday after a group of men allegedly showed up at the protest, attempted to steal equipment and beat several strikers. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/indochine-protesters-attacked
Workers get reinstated after court’s injunction
Hundreds of workers who were fired from a Phnom Penh garment factory returned to work yesterday after Phnom Penh Municipal Court filed an injunction on Monday requiring management to reinstate them. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-get-reinstated-after-court%E2%80%99s-injunction
Funding ‘not misused’
During a defence of his 30-year legacy on Wednesday, Prime Minister Hun Sen also took pains to extricate the nation’s newest, longest and most expensive bridge from corruption allegations. ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/funding-not-misused
More funds to fight climate change
The European Union yesterday pledged an additional €6 million to the Cambodia Climate Change Alliance Programme, as the 10-year plan, first implemented in 2010, entered its second phase of development. ...
Rebecca Moss
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/more-funds-fight-climate-change
Two reporters arrested for extortion in Kratie
Police in Kratie province on Monday arrested two journalists for allegedly extorting $100 from a villager whose stockpile of wood the reporters suspected had been illegally logged, according to local officials. ...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-reporters-arrested-for-extortion-in-kratie-70413/
French agency to offer loans for solar panels
The French Development Agency (AFD) confirmed Wednesday that it will sign $6 million worth of loan agreements with three microfinance institutions (MFIs) to help rural households purchase solar panels and electricity. ...
Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/french-agency-to-offer-loans-for-solar-panels-71345/
Provincial councillor quizzed over land deal
Siem Reap Provincial Court summoned a provincial councillor and his oknha wife in for questioning last week after two businessmen filed a complaint accusing them of fraud amounting to $60,000. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/provincial-councillor-quizzed-over-land-deal
Cambodian army chief visits China to promote friendly relations
Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces Gen. Pol Saroeun left here Sunday for a five-day visit to China to bolster ties and cooperation between the two countries. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141116/cambodian-army-chief-visits-china-promote-friendly-relations
Unionising masseuses to protest alleged firing
Nearly 40 former employees at a Siem Reap province massage parlour will protest in front of its storefront today after management allegedly fired them for trying to introduce a labour union. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unionising-masseuses-protest-alleged-firing
Cambodian parliament's 1st vice-president voices support to Chinese investment
Kem Sokha, first vice-president of Cambodia’s National Assembly, on Wednesday lent his support to Chinese investors in Cambodia and urged them to focus on quality and transparency in their projects. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodian-parliaments-1st-vice-president-voices-support-to-chinese-investment-8263
Two women arrested for trafficking five to China
The Kompong Cham Provincial Court on Wednesday charged two women with human trafficking for allegedly luring five other women to China with promises of jobs, only to force them into marriage. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-women-arrested-for-trafficking-five-to-china-81249/
Firm told to repay clients
The Ministry of Labour has given a recruitment firm 45 days to repay clients who filed a complaint alleging the company collected their money but never delivered promised jobs in Japan. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/firm-told-repay-clients
Guns go up in flames after B’bang amnesty
Nearly 600 guns – most of them crude homemade rifles – were burned in Battambang province on Monday after a campaign to encourage locals to hand their weapons over to the proper officials. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/guns-go-flames-after-bbang-amnesty
Senior Vietnamese officials pay respects to Chea Sim
A Vietnamese Communist Party delegation that included Vietnam’s National Assembly president Wednesday paid their respects to the late CPP President Chea Sim, who died Monday at the age of 82. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/senior-vietnamese-officials-pay-respects-to-chea-sim-85354/
R’kiri land protesters make case for fence
Five local representatives from Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district were questioned in court on Friday, following accusations from a Vietnamese company of unlawful land-grabbing, according to NGO Adhoc and community representatives. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rkiri-land-protesters-make-case-fence