Inmates to return to soaked cells
All 842 prisoners evacuated from Banteay Meanchey provincial prison after water pressure caused a wall to collapse in early October will be sent back there next week – despite only minimal repairs having been undertaken to the flood-damaged building, a rights worker said yesterday said ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/inmates-return-soaked-cells
Profits peeled at new centre
A pilot cashew-peeling factory in Kampong Thom province aims to make business easier for farmers who have traditionally relied upon sending their raw harvest elsewhere for processing. With $130,000 from the Asia Development Bank, the building went up in May on 3,600 square metres in Kampong ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/profits-peeled-new-centre
Missing boy presumed dead after protest shooting
The father of a 16-year-old boy who went missing during last month’s labor protest crackdowns says he now presumes his son dead. The boy, Khim Sophat, was caught up in demonstrations at the Canadia Industrial Zone in early January. He was not listed among the four ...
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/missing-boy-presumed-dead-after-protest-shooting/1845735.html
CNRP official ejected from Freedom Park
Opposition lawmaker-elect Mu Sochua and five CNRP youth supporters were ejected Tuesday from Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park after they gathered to film a video for a foundation named after Free Trade Union founder Chea Vichea, who was assassinated in 2004. “We did not come to ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-official-ejected-from-freedom-park-55551/
CNRP request rejected, again
Phnom Penh City Hall once again rejected the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party’s bid to hold campaigns for the coming council elections in Freedom Park yesterday but said the final decision is beyond its reach. After its first request was rejected on Tuesday for going against ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-request-rejected-again
Water flow ‘still weak’ after pipe installation
After blocking a river for months, a construction project’s recently installed water pipes are delivering relief to only some of Battambang’s drought-stricken fields. More than 400 farmers in Bavel district blamed the Asian Development Bank-funded bridge for choking the river since construction began in December, leaving ...
Laignee Barron and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/water-flow-%E2%80%98still-weak%E2%80%99-after-pipe-installation
Union leader violates protest law: Phnom Penh official
Phnom Penh official on Wednesday said that union leader Chea Mony violated the protest law and protest ban which was imposed by the government recently for the security concern. The Deputy Governor made the comment after Chea led march along the streets to mark the ...
The Cambodian Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=M2MxNjBiZGRhZWU
Residential property prices see steady growth
A property expert and investor in the construction sector says that home prices have increased between 10 and 20 per cent so far this year compared to last year. Kim Heang, president of Khmer Real Estate, says that demand for property in boreys is healthy. Most ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/residential-property-prices-see-steady-growth
Cambodia not to interfere in Thai internal affairs: PM
Cambodia saw the military coup in Thailand last week as Thai internal affairs and the country would not meddle in Thai affairs, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday. The prime minister said Cambodia shares border with Thailand, so it is vital to continue maintaining relations ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-05/27/c_133365232.htm
Key demand lingers: Rainsy
While the opposition and ruling parties have been shuffling negotiating proposals back and forth to break the political deadlock over recent weeks, one main contentious point remains unresolved: an early election, Cambodia National Rescue Party leader Sam Rainsy said yesterday. The CNRP responded affirmatively to a ...
Vong Sokheng and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/key-demand-lingers-rainsy
Police officer killed in crash, timber falls out
A 25-year-old police officer in Mondulkiri’s Sen Monorom commune was killed in a car crash while transporting timber to sell in a nearby district on Sunday, police and authorities confirmed yesterday. Un Sokim was driving a Toyota Camry sedan loaded with timber to Keo Seima district ...
Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/police-officer-killed-crash-timber-falls-out
A lending alternative to MFIs
Oxfam said it will expand its savings-led community-lending model in Cambodia as an alternative to traditional credit-based microfinance services, which it says are ineffective in reaching the Kingdom’s poorest. Oxfam’s Saving for Change project, which trains rural communities to form savings groups, now has $5 million ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/lending-alternative-mfis
Roxy Casino made ‘modest profit’ since soft opening
Roxy Casino in Cambodia has made a “modest profit” since its soft opening on May 26, parent company Cell Aquaculture Ltd said in a filing to the Australian Securities Exchange. It did not provide figures. The profit was attributed to its sports betting activities during FIFA World Cup 2014 ...
GGRAsia News Staff
http://www.ggrasia.com/roxy-casino-made-modest-profit-since-soft-opening/
ANZ says no to evicted Cambodian farmers
ANZ has ruled out helping hundreds of poor Cambodian families forcibly evicted from their land to make way for sugar-cane plantations that involved child labour and led to food shortages. Fairfax Media this year revealed confidential audits that disclosed that ANZ’s Cambodian subsidiary, ANZ Royal Bank, ...
Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/anz-says-no-to-evicted-cambodian-farmers-20140819-105sib.html
Experts say let bird fly
Wildlife experts fear for the health of a migratory vulture from Central Asia after it was captured by villagers in Kampot province’s Teuk Chhou district and taken to a notorious private zoo. The Himalayan vulture, also known as the Himalayan griffon, which rarely visits Cambodia, was ...
Mom Kunthear and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/experts-say-let-bird-fly
Downsized After Revocation
![ELC](https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ELC-150x150.jpeg)
The Concession Has Been Subjected To Reduction(S) In Size Although It Had Been Cancelled Previously. Publicly Available Information On Land Area Cut From ELCs Does Not Include Maps Or Spatial Data Of Excisions. Thus, ODC Cannot Present Land Area Cut In Shapes. As A Result, ...
CPP sets goals for this year
The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) on Saturday held its 42nd congress at the Koh Pich Convention and Exhibition Centre in the capital to review its achievements for last year and set this year’s targets. Presided by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who is also CPP president, ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/cpp-sets-goals-year
Five new solar farms to be connected to the national grid
Solar farms across five provinces are being launched this year, according to the Ministry of Mine and Energy. In its annual report, the ministry stated five solar parks are having their construction works accelerated so they can be connected to the national grid as soon ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50692029/five-new-solar-farms-to-be-connected-to-the-national-grid
Electricity investment exceeds $6B
The government attracted more than $6 billion in electricity investment between 2006 and the end of last year. This is in response to rising electricity demands and is in line with government goals to reduce its cost for both commercial and residential users. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/electricity-investment-exceeds-6b
Regional appeal courts set in motion
King Norodom Sihamoni has issued a royal decree ordering the opening of three regional appeal courts in Preah Sihanouk, Battambang and Tbong Khmum provinces. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/regional-appeal-courts-set-motion