Primary report: More than 3,600 families affect by flood in Kampot
More than 3,600 families and 1,500 hectares of farmland have been affected by flooding in ten communes, in Kampot province. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/primary-report:-more-than-3600-families-affect-by-flood-in-kampot-8966
Police arrest, release activist in Koh Kong
Police in Koh Kong province arrested and released an activist on Saturday who helped families organize a roadblock against a Chinese company they accuse of stealing their farms. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-arrest-release-activist-in-koh-kong-94857/
Land grabs often driven by investors seeking land, Global Witness says
Global Witness says Cambodia’s ongoing land crisis is part of a larger global trend, one driven by economics and resource shortages. ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/land-grabs-often-driven-by-investors-seeking-land-global-witness-says/3073371.html
Not enough women in NA: report
Election watchdog Comfrel criticised National Assembly President Heng Samrin for a lack of commitment to creating a quota for female parliamentarians in a report presented yesterday. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/not-enough-women-na-report
Ethnic forest patrol ambushed in Preah Vihear
Four members of a forest patrol were ambushed in Preah Vihear’s Cheam Pen community forest on Tuesday afternoon, according to deputy forest chief Ros Lim. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ethnic-forest-patrol-ambushed-preah-vihear
One dead, seven hurt after lightning strikes
A fisherman and his brother were struck by lightning on Sunday – one of them fatally – while six others were injured in storms, local police said yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/one-dead-seven-hurt-after-lightning-strikes
New airport to be constructed next year
Royal Government of Cambodia’s plan to construct an international airport in Siem Reap province will be carried out next year, according to local media report. ...
Phal Sophanith
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=107909
Three who sold land for veterans arrested
Authorities in Banteay Meanchey province on Sunday arrested three people accused of inciting villagers to occupy state land slated for use by retired armed forces members. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109478/three-sold-land-veterans-arrested/
Garment workers again target $177 minimum wage
Cambodia’s garment workers will renew their campaign for a monthly wage of $177 next month, when talks start for a new minimum wage, labor leaders said yesterday. ...
Va Sonyka
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12352/garment-workers-again-target--177-minimum-wage/
Police seek grave smashers after video goes viral
Police in Kandal province are seeking to arrest three men after footage emerged last week of them running through a Vietnamese graveyard in Sa’ang district damaging headstones. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-seek-grave-smashers-after-video-goes-viral-88168/
Workers due to end walk-out
Some 300 garment workers were due to end their strike today following three days of protest and negotiations with GIN-SOVAN Fashion Cambodia Limited factory management. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-due-end-walk-out
Cambodia’s Sky Angkor wet-leases SSJ100 from Red Wings
an agreement to wet lease a Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co. (SCAC) Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) to Sky Angkor Airlines of Cambodia. ...
Polina Montag-Girmes
http://atwonline.com/leasing/cambodia-s-sky-angkor-wet-leases-ssj100-red-wings
22 Chinese arrested in Cambodia over telephone scams
Cambodian police arrested 22 Chinese, who were suspected of transnational telephone fraud, in southeast Cambodia’s Svay Rieng Province on Saturday, August 29. ...
CRI English News Staff
http://english.cri.cn/12394/2015/08/30/2281s893775.htm
Police in Stung Treng seize ‘tycoon’s timber’
At least 100 cubic metres of luxury timber allegedly belonging to powerful tycoon Na Marady was intercepted in Stung Treng province’s Sesan district yesterday, officials said. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-stung-treng-seize-tycoons-timber
One dead, 1 injured after thwarted gun sale
Police in Tbong Khmum province on Friday shot one man dead and injured another—both suspects in a string of robberies—during a thwarted gun sale, an officer said. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/one-dead-1-injured-after-thwarted-gun-sale-100355/
CNRP official arrested in ‘fight’
A Cambodia National Rescue Party council member from Banteay Meanchey’s Thma Puok district has been arrested on suspicion of attacking a food vendor, officials said yesterday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-official-arrested-fight
Timber truck seized in Kratie
A police squad working with government officials in Kratie province stopped a truck loaded full of luxury wood in Chet Borei’s Changkrang village on Saturday afternoon. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27871/timber-truck-seized-in-kratie/
More firms sign on to anti-corruption pact
Cambodia’s national corruption watchdog has added two more firms to its list of private sector companies committed to stamping out corruption, a government news source said yesterday. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/more-firms-sign-anti-corruption-pact
Deal to end Phnong’s five-year land dispute
A community of ethnic Phnong people in Mondulkiri’s Keo Seima district has accepted a settlement from a Vietnamese rubber firm ending a five-year land dispute. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deal-end-phnongs-five-year-land-dispute
Thais eye appliances market
Thailand expects exports of electrical and electronic components and devices to Cambodia to grow to about $50 million this year due to high demand. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36510/thais-eye-appliances-market/
