Villagers, soldiers in land battle
Villagers involved in a long-running land dispute in Kratie province’s Sambor district have prevented soldiers from building a fence around disputed land that the army intends to use as a sniper training ground. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-soldiers-in-land-battle/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-soldiers-land-battle
Trader sought truck with illegal wood impounded
More than a tonne of rosewood and the plateless car carrying it were seized in Oddar Meanchey province yesterday after authorities received a report about a Vietnamese woman and her workers trying to set the vehicle on fire. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trader-sought-truck-with-illegal-wood-impounded/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trader-sought-truck-illegal-wood-impounded
Oknha linked to timber bust
Police officers, gendarmes and Forestry administration officials yesterday discovered a large cache of valuable, illegally felled wood – which locals say was destined for Vietnam – after raiding a house in Stung Treng province linked to a prominent timber trader. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/oknha-linked-to-timber-bust/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/oknha-linked-timber-bust
Loggers busted in Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary
More than 400 pieces of luxury thnong wood suspected to be felled by a local community were seized by authorities in Pursat province’s Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary on Thursday following a tip-off from a local reporter. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/loggers-busted-in-phnom-samkos-wildlife-sanctuary/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/loggers-busted-phnom-samkos-wildlife-sanctuary
Cambodia, Laos to seek French help on border
Cambodia’s foreign affairs minister and his Laotian counterpart will hold a two-day meeting in Phnom Penh this week to draft a letter to France requesting detailed maps to resolve a border dispute that flared up last month. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-laos-to-seek-french-help-on-border/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-laos-seek-french-help-border
Decline in transfers linked to rice prices
International fund transfers to Cambodia through acleda Bank, which claims to handle a quarter of all inbound fund transfers to the country, decreased slightly last year as a result of lower rice prices, a bank executive said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/decline-in-transfers-linked-to-rice-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/decline-transfers-linked-rice-prices
City hall to measure land of lake families fearing eviction
Phnom Penh will begin measuring the homes of hundreds of families seeking land titles to stave off potential eviction by a massive real-estate project filling in a pair of lakes, a municipal government spokesman said on Tuesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-hall-to-measure-land-of-lake-families-fearing-eviction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sand facility allowed to operate
A Koh Kong environmentAl officiAl yesterdAy sAid A compAny with A sAnd-wAshing fAcility in An AreA where the Ministry of Mines And Energy lAst month bAnned sAnd dredging would be Allowed to keep And operAte its fAcility. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sAnd-fAcility-Allowed-to-operAte/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Phak Seangly and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sand-facility-allowed-operate
New firm takes over for Cintri to tackle trash in Sihanoukville
Move over, Cintri – there’s a new garbage collector in town. For the first time in a dozen years, Sihanoukville has a new waste management company, and it has already started collecting trash ahead of the Pchum Ben holiday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-firm-takes-over-for-cintri-to-tackle-trash-in-sihanoukville/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-firm-takes-over-cintri-tackle-trash-sihanoukville
Nest plan must expand to protect rare river bird, say environmental groups
A river bird thAt wAs once A common sight Along the Mekong River is now down to A populAtion of just 50 to 60 individuAls due to humAn interference And dAm construction, conservAtionists And Environment Ministry officiAls sAid yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/nest-plAn-must-expAnd-to-protect-rAre-river-bird-sAy-environmentAl-groups/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nest-plan-must-expand-protect-rare-river-bird-say-environmental-groups
Ex-Beehive leader Sonando called in Kem Sokha case
Radio broadcaster and former Beehive Party President Mam Sonando was served a summons last week by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to appear as a witness in relation to a “treason” case filed against former opposition President Kem Sokha. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ex-beehive-leader-sonando-called-in-kem-sokha-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/ex-beehive-leader-sonando-called-kem-sokha-case
Hun Sen lashes out at journos, analysts over comments on reform record
The prime minister lashed out at journalists and analysts today for questioning the current government’s reform record, a seeming reference to a Post article from December about a speech in which he touted his administration’s progress. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-lashes-out-at-journos-analysts-over-comments-on-reform-record/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-lashes-out-journos-analysts-over-comments-reform-record
Vendors to protest for border fee reductions
The Cambodia Economy Reinforced association has submitted a letter to Banteay Meanchey provincial authorities asking permission to hold a massive demonstration for four days to demand a reduction in the price of crossing the Thai border. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vendors-to-protest-for-border-fee-reductions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50100579/vendors-protest-border-fee-reductions/
Garment Staff Resume Work After Deal is Struck
Garment workers from Phnom Penh’s Lim Line factory will resume work today after reaching an agreement with the factory following 11 days of protest that culminated in a violent strike Friday, a union and a factory representative said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-staff-resume-work-after-deal-is-struck/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Investment In Cambodia's Construction Sector Up 5 Per Cent In Q1
Cambodia’s construction sector attracted a total investment of US$342 million in the first three months of 2012, a 5-percent increase from US$324 million from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/investment-in-cambodias-construction-sector-up-5-per-cent-in-q1/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v6/newsworld.php?id=666207
Cambodia Plans to Send Second Test Consignment of Rice to China
Cambodia is planning to send a second consignment of 40 tons of milled rice to China as a part of the approval process for rice exports to China. In april, China had rejected a sample consignment of about 48 tons <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-plans-to-send-second-test-consignment-of-rice-to-china/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hitachi looks to set up SEZ in Kandal province
Japanese conglomerate Hitachi on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with three major companies to conduct a feasibility study on the potential development of a new special economic zone (SEZ) in Kandal province, said the CEO of one of the signatories. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hitachi-looks-to-set-up-sez-in-kandal-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/hitachi-looks-to-set-up-sez-in-kandal-province-72712/
Station razed, fight goes on
Members of a community in Preah Vihear province chased down a group of illegal loggers and briefly detained one of them yesterday, less than a week after the community accused the local wildlife sanctuary director of destroying their patrol station. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/station-razed-fight-goes-on/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/station-razed-fight-goes
Areng mapped in hope ecotourism can save valley from dam
A group of university students from Phnom Penh opposed to A proposed hydropower dAm in Koh Kong province entered the project’s construction site on SundAy for A 10-dAy study Aiming to highlight the AreA’s AlternAtive potentiAl for ecotourism. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Areng-mApped-in-hope-ecotourism-cAn-sAve-vAlley-from-dAm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Hul Reaksmey and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/areng-mapped-in-hope-ecotourism-can-save-valley-from-dam-78006/
Villagers prevent police from taking back seized bulldozers
About 150 ethnic Kuoy in PreAh ViheAr province on TuesdAy prevented police And A court prosecutor from tAking bAck A pAir of bulldozers the villAgers seized lAst yeAr from A Chinese-owned plAntAtion they Accuse of encroAching on their fArms. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/villAgers-prevent-police-from-tAking-bAck-seized-bulldozers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-prevent-police-from-taking-back-seized-bulldozers-79978/