Hun Sen, Sam Rainsy ring in new year together
The last time opposition leader Sam Rainsy joined such a crowd in this town, he chided Prime Minister Hun Sen for being “weaker than a female” for not calling a snap election amid mass anti-government protests, as Thailand’s Yingluck Shinawatra had done days earlier.
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-sam-rainsy-ring-in-new-year-together-82010/
Cambodian activists, villagers petition lawmakers over Koh Kong sand dredging
A group of activists and villagers from southwestern Cambodia’s Koh Kong province petitioned outside the country’s parliament Thursday, calling on lawmakers to intervene against a sand dredging company they say is operating in the area without a license.
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://bit.ly/1KbKEOD
Kampot police may arrest protest leader
Military police in Kampot province on Monday said they would arrest a vocal member of a Chhuk district community locked in a land dispute with the provincial government if he failed to produce land titles for the hundreds of families claiming part of the contested
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kampot-police-may-arrest-protest-leader-84800/
Firm says it may turn taps off in Poipet homes
Residents of Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet City have been warned to brace themselves for a major water shortage over the next two weeks as the company contracted to supply the border town’s clean water scrambles to build a new reservoir amid a localized drought.
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/firm-says-it-may-turn-taps-off-in-poipet-homes-85285/
CNRP slams gov’t refusal to share border map
Opposition lawmaker Mao Monyvann on Thursday rebuked the government over its repeated refusals to publicly release a copy of a map of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam, saying he would push ahead with a banned press conference to publicize the lack of transparency on the issue.
Kuch Naren and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-slams-govt-refusal-to-share-border-map-85887/
Cambodian villagers block Chinese developer from clearing grazing land
Around 150 villagers in northwestern Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province have blocked a Chinese concession holder from clearing land they say was reserved for grazing their cattle, an official from a nongovernmental organization and a local commune chief said Wednesday.
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/developer-06242015162632.html
Man who slapped schoolgirl claims he has mental illness
A man who entered a Phnom Penh high school and slapped a teenager who had been fighting with his daughter told the municipal court on Friday that he was mentally ill and had lied about working at the Council of Ministers, hoping it would protect
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/man-who-slapped-schoolgirl-claims-he-has-mental-illness-87334/
Opposition walks out of NGO law workshop
CPP lawmakers and officials continued to defend their controversial draft of a proposed law aiming to regulate the country’s non-government groups at a workshop at the National Assembly on Wednesday, despite a boycott from some NGOs and the opposition, which dismissed the event as “rubbish.”
Kuch Naren and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/opposition-walks-out-of-ngo-law-workshop-87637/
Loggers claim NGO extortion
A loacal NGO director and a village chief in Battambang’s Samlot district were summoned for questioning by district police today over a complaint filed by six loggers, who claim the men attempted to extort $6,000 from them under the threat of violence.
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/loggers-claim-ngo-extortion
Property tycoon Sok Bun accused of rape
A former TV hostess savagely beaten by property mogul Sok Bun after intervening to stop his unwanted advances on her friend appeared in court yesterday as it emerged the friend has now filed a rape complaint against the tycoon for a previous alleged assault.
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/rape-claim-hits-tycoon
In year since political accord, an awkward and uneasy truce
Emerging from a five-hour meeting in the Senate on this day last year, Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy struck a pose remarkable for its warmth after a year of growing protests demanding that the long-serving premier step down.
Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-year-since-political-accord-an-awkward-and-uneasy-truce-89107/
After effigy burning, governor raises prospect of arrests
After about 100 villagers on Sunday burned effigies of officials involved in a land dispute in Kompong Chhnang province that has dragged on for nearly a decade, the provincial governor said the protest was “contrary to the law” and gave authorities a reason to arrest
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-effigy-burning-governor-raises-prospect-of-arrests-90429/
Cambodia's indigenous people discuss health care issues
Around a thousand people from Cambodian government institutions, experts and aid workers as well as community members gathered Sunday to shine a light on a variety of issues faced by the country’s indigenous peoples — including access to modern health care.
Denise Hruby
http://www.aa.com.tr/en/health/571181--cambodias-indigenous-people-discuss-health-care-issues
After two-year lull, dengue fever bites
The sidewalk near Wat Phnom resembles the line outside a popular amusement park. Toy sellers walk by hawking plastic helicopters and rattles, as a line of more than a hundred parents and children sit and wait for the gates to open, cooling themselves with plastic
Jonathan Cox and Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14256/after-two-year-lull--dengue-fever-bites/
Informal workers find jobs easy, conditions poor
Young workers employed in Phnom Penh’s expansive informal economy may find it easy to get a job, but they face a high likelihood of labor abuses and receive significantly less pay than their peers in the formal sector, according to a study released over the
Aun Chhengpor and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/informal-workers-find-jobs-easy-conditions-poor-93174/
CNRP lawmaker denies border incitement, predicts arrest
Opposition lawmaker Um Sam An on Tuesday denied claims by the government that he was inciting instability in a Facebook post last week in which he boasted about finding a copy of a map of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam at the U.S. Library of Congress.
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmaker-denies-border-incitement-predicts-arrest-93161/
Ministry to study Licadho report on rape by relatives cases
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs yesterday said it is studying a Licadho report that found that nearly one in three cases of rape or attempted rape of a woman were perpetrated by a relative of the victim.
Buth Sela
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50793601/ministry-to-study-licadho-report-on-rape-by-relatives-cases/
'Separatist' farms replaced by RCAF base
A track of land once farmed by 1,000 families in Kratie province — families violently evicted amid claims they were part of a separatist movement — is now home to a military base.
Unit 9 Royal Cambodian Armed Forces base, which will be finished later this
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020661212/National/separatist-farms-replaced-by-rcaf-base.html
IMF’s Cambodia outlook upbeat
Tokyo: The International Monetary Fund has upgraded its outlook on Cambodian GDP growth in 2011 from 6.5 per cent to 6.7 per cent just days after government officials announced a full percentage-point reduction in economic expectations.
Stabilisation in the real estate sector, as well as strong increases
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011101752154/Business/imfs-cambodia-outlook-upbeat.html
US Senate calls for delay of Mekong dams
As Mekong River Commission (MRC) countries prepare for a crucial meeting next week to debate Laos’ proposal to build the first Lower Mekong River dam, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has called for a delay of the controversial project.
The US Senate’s concern was echoed
