Eviction fears: Villagers on notice over flood remedy
The filling in of a canal in the capital’s Chbar Ambpov district has prompted local villagers to push back against looming displacement, district officials and community representatives have told the Post. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eviction-fears-villagers-notice-over-flood-remedy
Two-day drug raid snares 30
A two-day drug crackdown in Kampong Thom province on Tuesday and Wednesday led to the arrests of 30 alleged drug users and dealers – including two police officers who were later released. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-day-drug-raid-snares-30
Cambodia rice exporters hope to clinch philippines rice import deal
Cambodian rice exporters are keen on winning the Philippines government’s latest rice import tender for 500,000 tons of 25% broken white rice slated for August 27, 2014, according to local sources. ...
Oryza News Staff
http://www.oryza.com/news/rice-news/cambodia-rice-exporters-hope-clinch-philippines-rice-import-deal
Heng Pov conviction upheld
The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a conviction against former Phnom Penh Police chief Heng Pov and three other men for the attempted murder of Military Police chief General Sao Sokha in 2003. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/heng-pov-conviction-upheld
Mercedes fire latest incident in restive Sihanoukville
Police are probing a suspected arson attack on a Mercedes-Benz coupe in Sihanoukville, which caught fire shortly after its driver, a Turkish national, stepped out of the vehicle early Tuesday morning. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mercedes-fire-latest-incident-in-restive-sihanoukville-79967/
City authority rejects water quality claim
The Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority has released a statement dismissing a media report suggesting that it had been using unhealthy amounts of iron in its water purification processes as an “exaggeration.” ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-authority-rejects-water-quality-claim-80535/
Vietnam, Cambodia jointly renovate monuments
Vietnam and Cambodia have agreed to implement guidelines of the two countries’ Prime Ministers to examine and determine Vietnam-Cambodia friendship monuments to be repaired, renovated and restored, reports Vietnam News Agency. ...
Bernama News Staff
http://bit.ly/1zJIdwy
After days without power, electricity restored to Siem Reap
After a storm damaged utility poles in Siem Reap province last week, leading to nearly four days of power outages, officials said Sunday that electricity had been fully restored to the area. ...
NGOs irate over gov’t ‘hijack’
Members of Cambodia’s civil society are rebuking their representation at the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples’ Forum last week, alleging the Kingdom’s civil society representatives were disproportionately government-aligned. ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-irate-over-govt-hijack
Cambodian PM expresses condolences over capsized ship tragedy in central China
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday expressed his deepest sympathy to China and members of the bereaved families in a passenger ship mishap in central China’ s Hubei province on Monday. ...
UK pledges to provide more scholarships
The UK Government pledged to increase the number of scholarships to Cambodian students. They also promised to give more assistance to the Khmer Rouge Court trials and help solve the mine problem. ...
Ban Sokrith and Phun Chan Ousaphea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12155/uk-pledges-to-provide-more-scholarships/
One-year sentence cut short for tycoon
Tycoon Sok Rathorn, who was in the midst of a one-year prison sentence on fraud charges, was provisionally released from detention yesterday after a deal was struck in a separate case. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/one-year-sentence-cut-short-tycoon
Rainsy and CPP: from enemies to ‘negotiating partners’
Despite his jet-black hair, Sam Rainsy turned 66 in March. And it was clear in an interview with Khmer Times this week that the leader of Cambodia’s opposition is mellowing. ...
Pierre Gillette and Emmanuel Scheffer
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12416/rainsy-and-cpp--from-enemies-to----negotiating-partners---/
Boat scrap halts votes over ticket earnings
Five people from Kampong Phluk village were injured after a violent protest erupted over the election of a new committee to support boating tourism in Siem Reap’s Bakong district on Saturday. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/boat-scrap-halts-votes-over-ticket-earnings
Vietnam hopes to develop peaceful, friendship borderline with Cambodia: spokesperson
Vietnam attaches great importance to the relationship with Cambodia and hopes to develop a peaceful and friendship borderline with the country, said Le Hai Binh, spokesperson of Vietnamese foreign ministry on Tuesday. ...
Vietnam hopes to develop peaceful, friendship borderline with Cambodia: spokesperson
Vietnam attaches great importance to the relationship with Cambodia and hopes to develop a peaceful and friendship borderline with the country, said Le Hai Binh, spokesperson of Vietnamese foreign ministry on Tuesday. ...
Lawmaker says NGO law must pass now
Despite government assurances that the controversial NGO draft law was still undergoing review, committees of the National Assembly said yesterday that the only revisions will be minor corrections to spelling and wording. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lawmaker-says-ngo-law-must-pass-now
Notorious detention center to be renovated – city hall
After abysmal conditions were exposed at the Por Sen Chey Social Affairs Center, City Hall admitted yesterday that the center was not equipped to detain and care for large numbers of people. ...
Donald Lee and Som Panha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13033/notorious-detention-center-to-be-renovated-----city-hall/
Opposition lawmaker to revisit Vietnamese border
Opposition lawmaker Real Camerin is set to revisit a contested area of the Cambodia-Vietnam border in Svay Rieng province on July 19, despite being injured during a brawl there last month. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13246/opposition-lawmaker-to-revisit-vietnamese-border/
Sam Rainsy: “change is irreversible”
Two years after his return from exile in France, the president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party says the changes that have occurred in Cambodia since then are dramatic, widespread, and irreversible. ...
Vincent MacIsaac
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13508/sam-rainsy-----change-is-irreversible---/