Landmine casualties down
Serei Kosal, vice-president of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority, said on Monday during a workshop in Siem Reap province that there were 43 casualties this year, including nine deaths and 34 injuries. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5085589/landmine-casualties-down/
Garments, handicrafts employ 700,000 people
The garments and handicrafts sector currently employs about 700,000 workers, a government official said. The official said Cambodia now had about 890 factories and 40,000 small businesses producing handicrafts with annual output of about $6 billion. ...
Make park free again, urges CNRP
Elected opposition lawmakers will today call on Interior Minister Sar Kheng to lift the ban on gatherings at Freedom Park and release the results of a government investigation into deadly violence at a garment protest in early January. ...
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/make-park-free-again-urges-cnrp
B’bang village heads for border
A village of 212 hectares in Battambang’s Bavel district has nearly become a ghost town after an alleged land grab by three tycoons has forced hundreds to find work abroad, locals and a rights group said yesterday. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/b%E2%80%99bang-village-heads-border
US military aid to Cambodia to continue, diplomat says
A US diplomat says military aid to Cambodia is necessary to improve the professionalism of the country’s security forces. The US has been criticized for its military aid to Cambodia, following violent crackdowns on demonstrations this year. ...
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/us-military-aid-to-cambodia-to-continue-diplomat-says/1934634.html
ADB, Japan assist grassroots push to reduce disaster impacts in Cambodia
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Japan are supporting a grassroots project to manage risks and reduce impacts from floods and other natural disasters in vulnerable communities in Cambodia. ...
Asian Development Bank
Calls flow for dam to be canned
Ahead of a national consultation meeting about Laos’s Don Sahong hydropower dam later this week, communities that will be affected by the project have made their opinion clear: suspend the dam. ...
Phak Seangly and Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/calls-flow-dam-be-canned
Thailand releases 33 detained Cambodians
A Thai court on Thursday ordered the release of 33 Cambodians who had been held in prison since they were arrested seven weeks ago after crossing the border in Banteay Meanchey province to log valuable rosewood, officials said. ...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thailand-releases-33-detained-cambodians-70265/
Cambodia seeks neighbors'cooperation to hunt for tycoon behind businessman's murder
The Cambodian authorities have asked its neighboring countries to help hunt for real estate tycoon Thong Sarath, who is wanted for ordering the murder of a prominent businessman last month, National Police Chief Gen. Neth Savoeun said Friday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141212/cambodia-seeks-neighborscooperation-hunt-tycoon-behind-busin
Bridge closing for inspection
The Cambodian-Japanese Friendship Bridge – also known as the Chroy Changvar Bridge – will be closed until Friday starting today, to allow a team of Japanese experts to examine damage to support columns discovered last year, the city announced. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bridge-closing-inspection
Ruling party begins conference with an eye toward reform
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party began a three-day conference on Friday, to discuss party policies and restructuring. The party is expected to adopt a new five-year plan at the end of the three-day congress. ...
Kong Sothanarith and Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/ruling-party-begins-conference-with-an-eye-toward-reform/2620638.html
Villagers implicate officials in logging
Three environment officials in Mondulkiri province are being sued by ethnic minority villagers for allegedly using a permit to build two ranger stations as a pretence to illegally log more than 4,000 cubic metres of luxury wood. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/villagers-implicate-officials-logging
Prime minister ramps up threat against Kem Sokha
Prime Minister Hun Sen continued his attack on CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha on Thursday, threatening to arrest him and deploy the military if he leads a protest to demand the release of jailed opposition official Meach Sovannara. ...
Hul Reaksmey and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-ramps-up-threat-against-kem-sokha-80207/
Family, firm still at odds over land
While one of the two Phnom Penh families embroiled in a long-running land dispute with the Khun Sear Import Export Company this week accepted a compensation offer, the other says it has no plans to back down. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/family-firm-still-odds-over-land
Keeping Land Local: Briefing Papers on Land Struggles, No. 3
Announcing “Keeping Land Local,” the third issue of the Briefing Paper Series on Land Struggles by Focus on the Global South, the Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform, and Land Research Action Network. ...
Focus on the Global South
200 strike over unionist’s dismissal
More than 200 striking workers demonstrated in front of Siko Phnom Penh Garment Factory in the capital’s Dangkor district yesterday after management fired an employee who founded a new labour union there, according to a union representative. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/200-strike-over-unionists-dismissal
‘Same faces’ protest against PM’s comments
Incensed by the prime minister’s assertion last week that the “same faces” always show up at protests, a group of Phnom Penh’s most prominent anti-eviction activists picketed City Hall on Monday to vent their anger. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/same-faces-protest-against-pms-comments-81088/
Female passenger dies while boarding cruise ship
A female passenger was killed Wednesday after an accident that occurred as she attempted to board the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship while it was moored off the coast of Sihanoukville, according to a statement from the cruise line. ...
Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/female-passenger-dies-while-boarding-cruise-ship-in-sville-81306/
Cambodia to form new election committee next week
Cambodia’s new National Election Committee (NEC) will be officially formed next Monday after the ruling and opposition parties have agreed on the members of this new independent body, opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Monday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://bit.ly/1H0kpem
City hall shuts roads for Chea Sim’s funeral
The city will close traffic on a few main roads during the funeral procession for former president of the senate Chea Sim on Friday morning from 6 am to 12 pm, according to a City Hall press release. ...
Va Sonyka
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12374/city-hall-shuts-roads-for-chea-sim---s-funeral/