Companies in Talks to Build Helicopter Factory
A U.S.-KoreAn joint venture is in tAlks with the government to build A helicopter mAnufActuring plAnt And A trAining fAcility for helicopter pilots And mechAnics, An AviAtion officiAl And A compAny representAtive sAid this week. RichArd PAk, A representAtive of South KoreAn firm SAmik Bio Energy <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/compAnies-in-tAlks-to-build-helicopter-fActory/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/companies-in-talks-to-build-helicopter-factory-5362/
Logging Reporter Arrested
Cambodian authorities arrest a journalist who exposed the illegal smuggling of timber. Taing Try, a reporter affiliated with the Khmer Democratic Journalists’ association, was taken into custody on Friday, police in Kratie’s Snoul district told RFa on Sunday. But Ing Savoeun, a representative from the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/logging-reporter-arrested/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/reporter-12102012174729.html
Villagers Restart Prey Long Forest Patrol for Illicit Activity
About 100 villAgers in Kompong Thom province set out yesterdAy on A three-dAy pAtrol of Prey Long forest in seArch of illegAl logging, their second since the April 26 shooting deAth of conservAtionist Chut Wutty. who wAs the orgAnizer of the first pAtrols. Soem SeAn, A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/villAgers-restArt-prey-long-forest-pAtrol-for-illicit-Activity/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Thai-Cambodia buses ready to roll
Thailand and Cambodia will launch the first bus services linking Bangkok with Siem Reap and Phnom Penh in the next two weeks. The first bus service between the two countries will debut on Dec 29, said The Transport Co, a state enterprise under the Transport Ministry. The <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-cambodia-buses-ready-to-roll/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/326227/thailand-to-launch-bus-routes-to-cambodia
Major Cineplex comes to Cambodia
Thai-based movie theatre company Major Cineplex said it will build “a high-end lifestyle and entertainment complex” at the aeon mall in Phnom Penh, hoping to capture Cambodia’s youth market in what it believes is a stable business environment for its entertainment products. While it sees prospects in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/major-cineplex-comes-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013021461365/Business/major-cineplex-comes-to-cambodia.html
Ethnic villagers, firm battle over Ratanakkiri plot
A locAl officiAl And four ethnic minority Tompuon villAgers AppeAred in A RAtAnAkkiri court on FridAy to fAce AccusAtions of lAnd-grAbbing And protesting AgAinst A privAte compAny thAt purchAsed their lAnd in 2007, Authorities sAid yesterdAy. RochAm Pheun, An AssistAnt to the chief of Keh Chung <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ethnic-villAgers-firm-bAttle-over-rAtAnAkkiri-plot/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Hong Leong Bank Cambodia gets banking licence
Hong Leong Bank Bhd’s (HLB) subsidiary Hong Leong Bank (Cambodia) PLC (HLBC) has clinched a banking licence for its operations in the country from the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC). HLBC, a commercial bank with a capital of RM119.25mil, would begin operations on July 8, the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hong-leong-bank-cambodia-gets-banking-licence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sokha given chance to debate CPP on TV
Acting opposition leAder Kem SokhA will hAve A rAre chAnce to fAce off AgAinst A ruling pArty opponent in A nAtionAlly televised debAte before the election. The debAte will be one of two broAdcAst on TVK on July 20 And 21 in A series orgAnised by <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sokhA-given-chAnce-to-debAte-cpp-on-tv/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
The Phnom Penh Post
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sokha-given-chance-debate-cpp-tv
Journos claim officials are involved in logging
A group of locAl journAlists in PreAh ViheAr province Allege, in A complAint filed with A rights group, thAt Authorities Are involved in the sAle of illegAlly logged timber. Seven journAlists, who Asked thAt their nAmes And respective outlets not be identified for feAr of retribution <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/journos-clAim-officiAls-Are-involved-in-logging/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/journos-claim-officials-are-involved-logging
Threats as police, WWF officer probe logging
Seven police officers and an NGO staffer in Mondulkiri province escaped a potentially violent confrontation with illegal loggers on Wednesday, while a soldier who was accompanying the group claimed he received death threats from military police connected to the logging operation. Khleuv Krak, 40, a Royal <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/threats-as-police-wwf-officer-probe-logging/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/threats-police-wwf-officer-probe-logging
CNRP thumbprints confiscated in Poipet
Opposition officials in Poipet have requested the provincial government intervene after a village chief on Monday confiscated a book of Cambodia National Rescue Party supporters’ thumbprints. Mean Sarith, chief of the CNRP working group in the border town, said Seng Long, the Cambodian People’s Party village <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-thumbprints-confiscated-in-poipet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-thumbprints-confiscated-poipet
Council elections will lack democracy: NGOs
The National Election Committee yesterday announced a date for the election of district and city-provincial council members, a vote that will only be open to current commune council members, a vote that will only be open to current commune council members. NEC Secretary-General Tep Nytha took <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/council-elections-will-lack-democracy-ngos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com
Court charges four Pailin villagers for violating state property
Pailin Provincial Court on Wednesday charged four villagers with infringing on public property because they cultivated 684 hectares of land that the court says belongs to the state, but which villagers claim to have farmed legally since 1999, a rights worker said. The villagers were arrested <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-charges-four-pailin-villagers-for-violating-state-property/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
KDC families want compensation deal revoked
Twenty-two families who have been locked in a bitter, seven-year dispute over 145 hectares of land in Kompong Chhnang province with a company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem claim they were illegally pressured into accepting compensation and filed a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kdc-families-want-compensation-deal-revoked/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kdc-families-want-compensation-deal-revoked-62215/
Cambodia sends 13 to prison for insurrection plot
A CAmbodiAn court on FridAy sentenced 13 men to prison terms rAnging from five to nine yeArs for plotting to overthrow the government in A cAse thAt wAs criticized by A humAn rights group As A politicAl setup. The men were members of A self-styled Khmer <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-sends-13-to-prison-for-insurrection-plot/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cambodia-sends-13-prison-insurrection-plot-23286155
Mysterious bones stoke conspiracy
A pAckAge contAining chArred humAn remAins wAs delivered to the CAmbodiA NAtionAl Rescue PArty office in Phnom Penh yesterdAy morning. Despite A seeming complete Absence of hArd evidence, some Are convinced the remAins &ndAsh; found on SAturdAy At A mountAin in KAmpong Speu &ndAsh; belong to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mysterious-bones-stoke-conspirAcy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mysterious-bones-stoke-conspiracy
Japan firm buys share of new power plant
In what looks to be a concerted push into the Southeast asian energy sector, Japanese import and export conglomerate Marubeni Corporation has acquired a large stake of Cambodia’s power generation infrastructure. In a Tokyo Stock Exchange filing dated June 2, Marubeni announced it had purchased a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-firm-buys-share-of-new-power-plant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/japan-firm-buys-share-new-power-plant
Villages blocked from delivering complaint
Kompong Chhnang provincial authorities allegedly locked villagers out of the provincial hall after dozens came to deliver a complaint against the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem, before locking out a newly appointed councilor who left the building to talk with them. The villagers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villages-blocked-from-delivering-complaint/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villages-blocked-from-delivering-complaint-60883/
Battle over river in Svay Rieng
Authorities in SvAy Rieng town Are ignoring locAls’ complAints over A Chinese firm thAt hAs Allegedly been filling in A river in prepArAtion to build A cAnAl, villAgers sAid yesterdAy. More thAn 130 fAmilies in SvAy Teu commune, SvAy Rieng province, hAve delivered petitions to provinciAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bAttle-over-river-in-svAy-rieng/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battle-over-river-svay-rieng
UN refugee agency slams Cambodia-Australia deal
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has distanced itself from australia’s still unsigned deal to transfer refugees from the Nauru refugee detention center for resettlement in Cambodia, one of Southeast asia’s poorest nations. First raised in February, the cash-for-refugees deal is believed to be imminent. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-refugee-agency-slams-cambodia-australia-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Michael Sainsbury
http://www.ucanews.com/news/un-refugee-agency-slams-cambodia-australia-deal/71943