Activist scion claims firms broke rules
Almost three years after his father’s sudden killing, the son of late forest activist Chut Wutty has returned from a fact-finding mission to Ratanakkiri province, where he identified four companies as having stockpiled luxury timber on a large scale. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/activist-scion-claims-firms-broke-rules
Two foreigners attacked on Koh Rong
A British national and a Finnish national were checked into Calmette Hospital in Phnom Penh on Friday after being attacked with knives and batons on Koh Rong island off the coast of Sihanoukville late Thursday night, according to police. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-foreigners-attacked-on-koh-rong-80494/
In the dock: CNRP case to finally see court
After several stops and starts, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday will finally hear the case against 11 opposition officials and activists arrested last July on charges of insurrection following a political protest at Freedom Park that turned violent. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/dock-cnrp-case-finally-see-court
IFC gives Acleda a $110M loan boost
The International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank, and the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) announced Thursday that they will provide Acleda Bank with a $110 million loan to finance rural and micro-businesses, especially agricultural enterprises. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ifc-gives-acleda-110m-loan-boost
Prison refuses to release woman despite order from court
Despite an order from the Supreme Court, officials at Prey Sar prison Thursday refused to release a woman on bail who has been jailed since November as part of a bitter land dispute with tycoon Khun Sear, her lawyer said. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prison-refuses-to-release-woman-despite-order-from-court-82544/
Prison officials ‘ignoring’ bail order
Officials at Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison have ignored a Supreme Court order permitting the bail Of activist Ly Seav Minh, whose family is embroiled in a long-running land dispute with a politically connected company, her lawyer said yesterday. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prison-officials-ignoring-bail-order
ASEAN chief sees 'urgent' need to engage China over sea spat
Actions by some claimant countries in the South China Sea dispute are further complicating Asean’s diplomatic efforts to draw up a binding Code of Conduct (CoC) to help defuse the ongoing spat. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1OugA6S
PM rebuffs calls for Areng to serve as Eco-tour site
Prime Minister Hun Sen has dismissed calls from opposition lawmakers to ensure that Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley is turned into an eco-tour destination, saying in a letter that he had already twice addressed the future of the valley. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-rebuffs-calls-for-areng-to-serve-as-eco-tour-site-84976/
Cambodia gets its first LGBT magazine
The land of Cambodia is so far removed from our world, that the southeast Asian nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community is only now getting its first publication aimed at LGBT readers: Q Cambodia. ...
Thom Senzee
http://bit.ly/1KPZ7Tx
Monk from KNLF gets 7 years in prison
A monk who is a member of the Khmer National Liberation Front (KNLF) – a dissident group branded a terrorist organisation by the government – was sentenced to seven years in prison yesterday on treason charges for distributing KNLF literature in Phnom Penh. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monk-knlf-gets-7-years-prison
Police free garment workers locked in at night by factory
Police in Phnom Penh were called up Friday night to order a Chinese-owned garment factory to release a group of employees it had locked inside in a failed attempt to make them work late into the night, officials said Sunday. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-free-garment-workers-locked-in-at-night-by-factory-85157/
CNRP to try to cancel VN border pact
Opposition lawmakers will propose the cancellation of a 2005 amendment to a border treaty with Vietnam in the National Assembly. Speaking yesterday, Sam An said the CNRP is calling for the border map deposited at the United Nations to be enforced. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-try-cancel-vn-border-pact
Cambodia sees 35 pct drop in landmine casualties in Q1
Cambodia reported 39 landmine casualties in the first three months of 2015, a 35 percent drop compared with 60 casualties over the same period last year, according to the latest report released on Thursday. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1Mv3MI8
Police make seven more arrests in ponzi ‘empire’ scheme case
Seven more people believed to be involved in a large-scale Ponzi scheme have been arrested and were questioned by a prosecutor in Takeo province Sunday, bringing to 14 the total number of suspects apprehended in connection with the racket. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-make-seven-more-arrests-in-ponzi-empire-scheme-case-85540/
EU diplomat welcomes Cambodia's disputed draft NGO bill
Outgoing ambassador of the European Union to Cambodia Jean-Francois Cautain on Tuesday welcomed the Cambodian government’s decision to establish a law on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Associations, according to a Cambodian government official. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=287873
RCAF soldier detained in thailand over deadly hit-and run
A Royal Cambodian Armed Forces soldier was arrested by Thai authorities Wednesday on suspicion of a hit-and-run that killed a man across the border and was being detained Friday at a courthouse in Thailand’s Chonburi province, officials said. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rcaf-soldier-detained-in-thailand-over-deadly-hit-and-run-86045/
Cambodian PM to attend Mekong-Japan Summit in Tokyo
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will lead a high delegation to attend the 7th Mekong-Japan Summit, to be held from July 2 to 6 in Tokyo, Japan, said a press statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today. ...
Khmer Times News Staff
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12652/cambodian-pm-to-attend-mekong-japan-summit-in-tokyo/
Gov’t: Montagnards not welcome
The government will not accept more Montagnard asylum seekers from Vietnam because it lacks the resources to do so and does not want to provoke Hanoi, Council of Ministers’ Phay Siphan told Khmer Times yesterday. ...
Donald Lee
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12696/gov---t--montagnards-not-welcome/
UN Secretary-General encourages bilateral talks over border
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been following developments on the Cambodia-Vietnam border and “welcomes the agreement of both countries to establish a Joint Working Group to examine and clarify recent incidents,” his spokeswoman, Eri Kaneko, told VOA Khmer. ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/un-secretary-general-encourages-bilateral-talks-over-border/2847792.html
NGO director arrested by Vietnamese authorities
A Cambodian NGO director who on Saturday took about 40 of his primary- and high-school students on a trip to a disputed border area in Svay Rieng province was beaten by Vietnamese civilians and imprisoned overnight, officials said Sunday. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-director-arrested-by-vietnamese-authorities-87341/