Ambassador to South Korea grilled over corruption
Cambodia’s ambassador to South Korea was summoned to appear before the Anti-Corruption Unit on Monday morning for questioning over allegations of corruption, and was expected to be arrested later in the day, the unit’s chief said. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ambassador-to-south-korea-grilled-over-corruption-110855/
Hun Manet sued in US for torture, terrorism
Imprisoned CNRP official Meach Sovannara has filed a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s eldest son, Hun Manet, and the Cambodian government, accusing them of “terrorism” and “torture through arbitrary, extra-legal, and long-term detention.” ...
Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-manet-sued-in-us-for-torture-terrorism-111204/
CNRP prohibited from erecting TV Antenna
Authorities in Kandal province’s Takhmao City have banned the opposition CNRP from erecting a television antenna on land they purchased there for what is meant to be Cambodia’s first opposition-aligned station—a key element of the July 2014 political deal. ...
Kuch Naren and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-prohibited-from-erecting-tv-antenna-111850/
One logging standoff, two differing accounts
Soldiers allegedly protecting an illegal logging operation in Oddar Meanchey threatened to shoot a group of forest patrollers that stumbled across their logging site on Sunday, Rattanak Rokha community forest patrol leader Chea Chuong said yesterday, though an RCAF commander denied the account. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/one-logging-standoff-two-differing-accounts
Hun Sen orders timber sale because teachers can’t move it
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday retracted an order to use all illegally logged wood seized by the government to build schools and housing for teachers, arguing that they would struggle to carry the wood out of the forest. ...
Kuch Naren and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-orders-timber-sale-because-teachers-cant-move-it-112430/
Asian responses to Sino-US rivalry: Cambodia’s perspective
The Asian strategic environment is being overturned by a radical shift in the distribution of wealth and power between the major powers and the corresponding shift in their strategic expectations as well as by responses from smaller powers to those shifts. ...
Cheunboran Chanborey
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24971/asian-responses-to-sino-us--rivalry--cambodia---s-perspective/
Government asks for more funds as EU mulls cuts
Lawmakers on Thursday sought additional funding from the E.U. to benefit tourism, mining and exports of rice and garments, despite calls last month by the European Parliament for aid cuts unless Cambodia shows greater respect for human rights. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-asks-for-more-funds-as-eu-mulls-cuts-116035/
Refugee deal dead in the water
The new Australian ambassador to Cambodia praised the Kingdom yesterday for taking in refugees from the island nation of Nauru, where Australia has controversially held refugees against their will in appalling living conditions in an effort to stop others from seeking asylum there. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28112/refugee-deal-dead-in-the-water/
Government orders search for prisoners in Malaysia
Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn has ordered Cambodian Embassy staff in Malaysia to find out whether more nationals are being held in any of the country’s detention facilities after 18 Cambodians were released from a prison in Kuala Lumpur last week. ...
The Cambodia Daily
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/brief/government-orders-search-prisoners-malaysia-116588/
Opposition supporters in Banteay Meanchey defect
Almost 100 opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) supporters and several dozen members of the Royalist Funcinpec Party in Svay Chek district, Banteay Meanchey province, defected yesterday to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. Among them were provincial and village-level leaders. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16929/opposition-supporters-in-banteay-meanchey-defect/
CNRP lawmakers return to capital after turbulent week
A few hundred CNRP supporters welcomed opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha back to Cambodia last night after a week of political turmoil in which two lawmakers were beaten by pro-government thugs and Mr. Sokha was ousted from his parliamentary leadership position. ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmakers-return-to-capital-after-turbulent-week-99241/
King Sihamoni calls for climate action at COP21
King Norodom Sihamoni delivered an impassioned plea for a legally binding international climate change treaty in an address to the delegates of 195 nations and the world’s civil society on Monday night as the UN Climate Talks in Paris (COP21) opened. ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/king-sihamoni-calls-climate-action-cop21
Cambodian Human Rights Day events canceled amid state crackdown
A leading rights group in Cambodia, LICADHO, said it was forced to cancel its annual International Human Rights Day events in the country’s prisons for the first time in 20 years because of prohibitive conditions imposed by the government. ...
Aljazeera America News Staff
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/12/7/cambodian-group-cancels-human-rights-event-amid-state-crackdowns.html
New traffic law hurts the poor, citizens say
The introduction of the new traffic law has hit a few potholes, with some citizens complaining that it is too tough on poor families, while analysts say people in rural areas have been left in the dark about the new law’s requirements. ...
Mom Kunthear and Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19443/new-traffic-law-hurts-the-poor--citizens-say/
Business group airs union law concerns
Some of the country’s top business leaders laid out their main concerns with a controversial draft union law during a meeting with CPP lawmakers on Monday, including a stipulation that would let only 10 people form a union at a workplace. ...
Sek Odom and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/business-group-airs-union-law-concerns-105839/
Timberland parent company investigating cleaver attack claims
The parent company of U.S. apparel giant Timberland has launched an investigation into claims that security guards at a special economic zone in Kandal province viciously attacked the workers that make the brand’s clothing and footwear, a company representative said Wednesday. ...
George Wright and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/timberland-parent-company-investigating-cleaver-attack-claims-107414/
Plans afoot for new $100m terminal at Sihanoukville deep sea port
The government will ask for more than $100 million in concessional loans from the Japanese government to begin building a new container terminal inside Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (SAP) early next year to handle the surging volume of containers passing through the port. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24542/plans-afoot-for-new--100m-terminal-at-sihanoukville-deep-sea-port/
Preah Vihear replica commander transferred
The Thai commander who was the mastermind behind the scale replica of the Preah Vihear temple complex on Pha Mor E-Daeng cliff has been transferred following concerns aired by the Thai Foreign Ministry about the structure’s effect on relations with Cambodia. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24722/preah-vihear-replica-commander-transferred/
South Korean cargo line aims to double shipments
The volume of goods shipped has grown steadily in the three months since South Korean sea shipping line Hyundai Merchant Marine began calling at Sihanoukville port, and cargo sizes are expected to double in the coming month, a local company representative said yesterday. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/south-korean-cargo-line-aims-double-shipments
City land prices stay stable
Land prices in central Phnom Penh’s Tonle Bassac and Boeung Keng Kang (BKK) districts remained stable in the first half of the year due to overdevelopment and a slowdown in new investments, according to research by a local real estate agent. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27268/city-land-prices-stay-stable/