Trio charged with journalist’s murder in Kratie
The Kratie Provincial Court on Tuesday brought murder charges against three men arrested for the killing on Sunday morning of 49-year-old journalist Taing Try in Snuol district and sent them to the provincial prison to await trial, a court official said. ...
Saing Soenthrith and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/trio-charged-with-journalists-murder-in-kratie-69861/
Lor Peang protesters demand commission chair step down
More than four months after first taking their complaint over a land dispute to the National Assembly’s human rights commission, 50 villagers from Kompong Chhnang province on Thursday protested in front of the assembly, calling for the commission’s head to resign for failing to resolve ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lor-peang-protesters-demand-commission-chair-step-down-75704/
CNRP set to ‘reshuffle lawmakers’: officials
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party is about to undergo a significant reshuffle of elected members, according to party sources. According to a senior party official, who asked not to be named, several elected lawmakers will change jobs, leaving their constituents without the representatives who ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-set-reshuffle-lawmakers-officials
Drunken RCAF soldier accidentally shoots 12-year-old boy
A major in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) was arrested in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district on Saturday night after he accidentally shot a 12-year-old boy in a drunken attempt to “clean the barrel of his gun” with a live round, officials said Sunday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/drunken-rcaf-soldier-accidentally-shoots-12-year-old-boy-79830/
Cambodian PM says AIIB very attractive to countries in Europe
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that the China-proposed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is very attractive to rich countries, particularly in Europe. The prime minister’s remarks came after Germany, France and Italy followed the suit of Britain in deciding to join AIIB as founding ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1AE7EzM
Vietnamese soldiers ‘threaten to kill’ Cambodians monitoring disputed border
A group of opposition officials and indigenous villagers from northeastern Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province claimed Thursday that guards from Vietnam threatened to shoot and kill them as they inspected disputed border territory, in the latest land squabble between the two neighboring nations. ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://bit.ly/1KPNrQG
Post-election work ‘diplomacy at its best’: US
The U.S. State Department said in congressional testimony on Thursday that its involvement in ending the political deadlock following the 2013 election was “diplomacy at its best,” and also claimed partial credit for this year’s raise in garment worker wages and the release of activists ...
Colin Meyn and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/post-election-work-diplomacy-at-its-best%E2%80%88us-85492/
Men questioned in ‘fraud’
Takeo provincial police yesterday sent seven men arrested for disturbing the peace – but suspected of fraud – to the provincial court, after they were arrested on Friday in Kiri Vong district’s Kiri Chung Koh commune where they had been trying to persuade people to ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-rebukes-hrw-director
Vietnamese river dwellers in Cambodia ask for hold on eviction
Dozens of Vietnamese families illegally residing in floating homes on the Mekong River in southeastern Cambodia’s Kandal province have urged local authorities to postpone their eviction by eight months so they can sell the fish they are raising and avoid financial ruin. ...
Sirey Muny
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/eviction-06152015175601.html
Cambodian forest activists urge authorities to tackle illegal logging
A group of activists in northwestern Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province said Tuesday that their forest is under threat from illegal loggers in neighboring provinces and could be completely cleared within months if authorities do not step in to deal with the problem. ...
Savyouth Hang
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/logging-06162015131714.html
Daimler India exports trucks to Cambodia from Chennai facility
Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. (DICV), a 100 per cent wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler AG, Stuttgart, Germany along with Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation, Japan (MFTBC), a Daimler Company, started exporting its DICV-made FUSO trucks to Cambodia, making it the 13th market ...
Business Standard News Staff
http://bit.ly/1K93glr
Cambodia tells foreign countries not to interfere in affairs over NGO, trade union draft bills
Ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) President and Prime Minister Hun Sen on Sunday appealed to foreign countries not to interfere in his country’s internal affairs over the establishment of the draft laws on Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Associations and on Trade Unions. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodia-tells-foreign-countries-not-to-interfere-in-affairs-over-ngo-trade-union-draft-bills-8724
Lawmaker urges more cooperation to prevent force fishing labor
Cambodian authorities must cooperate with Thailand to reform illegal fishing practices there, a lawmaker says. The governments of Cambodia and Thailand “have not been talking seriously to put strict conditions” on labor practices, she said. “They tend to deal with the problem case by casewith ...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/lawmaker-urges-more-cooperation-to-prevent-force-fishing-labor/2850581.html
Cambodian homeless detainees beg opposition lawmaker for help
About 100 homeless and mentally ill Cambodians who are being detained in a center on the outskirts of Phnom Penh implored an opposition lawmaker on Tuesday to request that the facility serve them better quality food and stop torture and other rights abuses. ...
Sek Bandith
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/homeless-detainees-beg-opposition-lawmaker-for-help-07082015161310.html
CNRP lawmaker punished over Facebook post
Opposition lawmaker Um Sam An has been suspended from the next 15 sessions of parliament and will have his salary cut as punishment for critical comments he posted to Facebook earlier this month, according to a statement issued Friday by the National Assembly’s Secretariat General. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmaker-punished-over-facebook-post-89443/
Soldier was ‘trading timber’
A vehicle transporting 18 cubic metres of illegally logged timber was stopped on Saturday night by the Wildlife Alliance’s Wildlife Rapid Response Team (WRRT) in Kampong Speu province and is believed to belong to a military officer currently involved in a prior lawsuit over contraband ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/soldier-was-trading-timber
Police exchange fire with convoy carrying luxury wood
Police from Takeo province came under fire in neighboring Kampot province early Sunday morning as they pursued a truck transporting a load of luxury wood while four other cars tried to protect the truck carrying the timber, according to officials, who said police managed to ...
Mech Dara and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-exchange-fire-with-convoy-carrying-luxury-wood-91355/
KNLF denied bail again
Ten members of the Khmer National Liberation Front charged with treason for their role in handing out anti-Vietnamese propaganda last year were denied bail at the Supreme Court yesterday.Judge Khem Punn presided over the hearing, with prosecutor Nov Monychut also in attendance. ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/knlf-denied-bail-again
New global development agenda lacks accountability, activists say
A new global plan for sustainable development was adopted at the United Nations in New York earlier this month, but questions are already being raised over whether goals intended to help raise people in countries like Cambodia out of poverty will be effective. ...
Police promise more arrests if Koh Kong protests persist
A deputy police chief of Koh Kong province on Thursday defended the decision by authorities to arrest four human rights workers and 13 other people during a peaceful protest on Wednesday and said they were prepared to do so again—and next time would not let ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-promise-more-arrests-if-koh-kong-protests-persist-93374/