Preah Vihear border checkpoint to go international
A delegation of Cambodian officials including Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong will meet with Thai counterparts in Bangkok next week to sign off on an agreement that will open an international border checkpoint in Preah Vihear province, the ministry said Friday. ...
Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/preah-vihear-border-checkpoint-to-go-international-87338/
CNRP commemorates 1997 factional fighting
The opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party yesterday held a religious ceremony to commemorate the lives lost in two days of factional fighting that saw then-second prime minister Hun Sen wrest power from then-first prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh in 1997. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-commemorates-1997-factional-fighting
Cambodia's Hun Sen asks for UN map to help end domestic dispute over border with Vietnam
Hoping to settle internal arguments over alleged territorial encroachment by Vietnam, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen asked the U.N. on Monday for the loan of a map prepared decades ago by France to compare with maps currently used to demarcate the border. ...
Sek Bandith
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/map-07062015173648.html
Cambodian opposition party senators to boycott vote on draft law on NGOs
Opposition lawmakers in Cambodia’s Senate said Thursday that they would boycott an upcoming vote in the upper house of parliament on a draft law that regulates nongovernmental organizations working in the country if senators failed to amend the legislation. ...
Yeang Socheameta
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/opposition-party-senators-to-boycott-vote-on-draft-law-on-ngos-07162015165844.html
Farmer arrested for fighting police officers
Police in Kratie province on Sunday arrested a farmer—accused of trying to squat on a new social land concession for poor families—after he allegedly struck the officers when they arrived to tell him and his wife to leave. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/farmer-arrested-for-fighting-police-officers-89122/
Paychecks aplenty as ghosts haunt Cambodia's lax bureaucracy
Borith has been on the payroll of Cambodia’s parliament for 15 years but rarely shows up for work. He is busy with his other job at a non-governmental organization, and no one notices his absence. ...
Prak Chan Thul
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/23/us-cambodia-corruption-idUSKCN0PX2MI20150723
Angelina Jolie to direct khmer rouge tragedy for Netflix
Actress Angelina Jolie Pitt is set to direct an adaptation of bestselling memoir “First They Killed My Father” by Khmer Rouge survivor Loung Ung, as an original feature film for Netflix, the online streaming company said in a statement on Friday. ...
Simon Henderson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/angelina-jolie-to-direct-khmer-rouge-tragedy-for-netflix-89455/
Six arrested, released over NGO law protest
Authorities in Phnom Penh on Sunday arrested and released six people dressed in prison uniforms and chained together by their legs for protesting outside the National Assembly against a recently approved law that threatens to muzzle NGOs critical of the government ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/six-arrested-released-over-ngo-law-protest-89467/
ADB report says solar good fit for Kingdom
A report released this month by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) suggests that due to Cambodia’s high suitability to solar power, energy from solar panels is a viable and sustainable source of power that could lead to energy independence. ...
Alessandro Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/adb-report-says-solar-good-fit-kingdom
Cambodia urged to act on plans to reintroduce tigers
The Cambodian arm of the World Wildlife Fund has called on the government to move forward with plans to reintroduce wild tigers in the country’s eastern forests, but reiterated concerns over possible development in the area. ...
Worldbulletin News Staff
http://www.worldbulletin.net/news/162548/cambodia-urged-to-act-on-plans-to-reintroduce-tigers
Two political monks arrested over drugs
Two monks were arrested in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district on Saturday for possessing a small amount of crystal methamphetamine, police said Sunday, but fellow monks and pagoda residents claimed the arrests were retaliation for the two taking part in political rallies. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-political-monks-arrested-over-drugs-90416/
Lawsuits threatened over maps
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday threatened legal action against those who have accused him of using incorrect maps to plant posts along the Kingdom’s border with Vietnam, and called on parties claiming to have the true maps to present them. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lawsuits-threatened-over-maps
TI calls for reforms at polls
Low-income factory workers and illiterate citizens risk being left behind in the country’s voter registration process if current policies remain unchanged, Transparency International Cambodia warned yesterday, as it forwarded a list of recommendations to the National Election Commission. ...
Vong Sokheng and Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ti-calls-reforms-polls
Senior gov’t official pays official visit to UDG site
The senior government official in charge of land dispute resolution visited more than 300 Koh Kong province families who are threatened with eviction by China’s Union Development Group to compile a report on the issue for Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/senior-govt-official-pays-official-visit-udg-site
Fish shortage stirs ethnic rivalry
Their boats began disappearing from the banks of the Tonle Sap and Mekong rivers near Phnom Penh a few months ago, according to Cham fishing families still living in the area. By the weekend none were left, Cham fishermen told Khmer Times. ...
Chea Takihiro and Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14223/fish-shortage-stirs-ethnic-rivalry/
Viet Nam shares budget problems with Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar
Budget decisions and oversight were among the subjects discussed by representatives from Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar together with foreign experts at a joint workshop that opened in the central coastal city of Da Nang yesterday. ...
Viet Nam News Staff
http://vietnamnews.vn/society/274625/viet-nam-shares-budget-problems-with-laos-cambodia-myanmar.html
Bus depots will move to city outskirts in bid to ease traffic
Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong held a meeting with the city’s bus companies Thursday to inform them that starting next year, their depots and pickup points must be located outside the city center as part of efforts to ease worsening traffic congestion. ...
Thai cement giant to invest $300m in Cambodia
Thailand’s largest cement producer, Siam Cement Group (SCG), plans to invest up to $300 million to increase its production capacity in Cambodia over the next five years in a bid to take advantage of booming domestic demand, a company official said Monday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/thai-cement-giant-to-invest-300m-in-cambodia-92400/
Untaxed alcohol seized at border
Border police in Tbong Khmum’s Memot district near the Cambodian-Vietnamese border seized more than 900 cases of top-shelf booze on Sunday after a truck tried to smuggle in a large chunk without paying tax, police confirmed yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/untaxed-alcohol-seized-border
With maps, border tension defused—for now
At the height of the CNRP’s campaign to draw attention to illegal Vietnamese incursions into Cambodia, the opposition party in June shifted its offensive toward an old claim—that the government has been complicit in planting border markers well inside Cambodian territory. ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/with-maps-border-tension-defused-for-now-92648/