Plantations and families set rules for IFC-mediated talks
A year after some 2,000 families filed a complaint with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) for financing rubber plantations they accuse of grabbing their farms and logging their sacred forests, all sides have finally agreed to a set of ground rules for negotiations and hope href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/plantations-and-families-set-rules-for-ifc-mediated-talks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/plantations-and-families-set-rules-for-ifc-mediated-talks-80222/
Six cambodian military police detained over violence
Six Cambodian military police were placed in pretrial detention Friday, charged by the Prey Veng Provincial Court over a police pursuit in March in which a truck driver and his assistant were allegedly shot at, beaten and hog- tied after blowing through a pair of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/six-cambodian-military-police-detained-over-violence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald team
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/six-cambodian-military-police-detained-over-violence-8418
Chinese economic fugitive arrested, deported after hiding in Cambodia for 6 years
A Cambodian senior police officer confirmed Wednesday that Chinese economic fugitive Sun Xin, 46, and a former cashier of the Beijing municipal bureau of press, had worked in a factory in west Cambodia’s Kampong Speu province for six years before being arrested and sent back href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-economic-fugitive-arrested-deported-after-hiding-in-cambodia-for-6-years/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://bit.ly/1e4Rawv
In search of export market for mangoes
Cambodia is seeking to export its mangoes to South Korea, according to a senior official at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Contacted yesterday, deputy MAFF director Hean Vanhorn said that a ministry representative would meet with a South Korean agriculture delegation today to discuss href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-search-of-export-market-for-mangoes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/search-export-market-mangoes
CPP lawmaker visits factory after protest
After about 200 workers protested in Phnom Penh on Tuesday morning, a CPP lawmaker said she traveled to a Chinese-owned garment factory in Kandal province to lobby management to rehire seven workers, including six who say they were fired earlier this month for taking part href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cpp-lawmaker-visits-factory-after-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Chhengpor
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-lawmaker-visits-factory-after-protest-88348/
Mondulkiri road blocked by private development, residents say
Mondulkiri villagers say a local road has been blocked by a private landowner, but they are not sure who is behind the development and a commune chief says he is unaware of the dispute. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mondulkiri-road-blocked-by-private-development-residents-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Phin Rathana
https://vodenglish.news/mondulkiri-road-blocked-by-private-development-residents-say/
Development Could Mean Loss of EU Trade Preference, Ambassador Says
Cambodia could see less preferential economic treatment by Europe in coming years, as it graduates as a more developed country, the EU’s ambassador to Cambodia says. In an interview with VOA Khmer in Phnom Penh, Ambassador Jean-Francois Cautain said Cambodia currently enjoys tariff exemptions under a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/development-could-mean-loss-of-eu-trade-preference-ambassador-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/development-could-mean-loss-of-eu-trade-preference/1631336.html
Cambodian factory deaths shine spotlight on conditions
The deaths of at least two Cambodian workers and injuries sustained by 10 colleagues at a shoe factory southwest of Phnom Penh once more shine a light on conditions in the global garment manufacturing industry. Thursday’s accident at the Wing Star Shoe factory in the Cambodian href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-factory-deaths-shine-spotlight-on-conditions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.dw.de/cambodian-factory-deaths-shine-spotlight-on-conditions/a-16819017
USAID Review of Health NGO Finds Litany of Irregularities
A financial review by USAID, the U.S. government’s development arm, into local health NGO Reproductive and Child Health Alliance (RACHA) has found financial mismanagement coupled with a lack of transparency and oversight within the organization that may point to evidence of fraudulent activity. Well-known for its href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/usaid-review-of-health-ngo-finds-litany-of-irregularities/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/usaid-review-of-health-ngo-finds-litany-of-irregularities-49464/
Sar Kheng Says Armored Vehicles Sent to Maintain Security
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Friday confirmed that the deployment of armored personnel carriers (APCs) to Phnom Penh from the Thai-Cambodian border is part of a concerted security operation in response to the opposition’s plans to hold protests against the outcome of the July 28 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sar-kheng-says-armored-vehicles-sent-to-maintain-security/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and Lauren Crothers -
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/sar-kheng-says-armored-vehicles-sent-to-maintain-security-39046/
In Siem Reap, Rainsy Again Calls for Hun Sen to Step Down
SIEM REAP CITY – Opposition leader Sam Rainsy was greeted Tuesday by 15,000 supporters and a small dust storm at the CNRP’s first post-election rally in Siem Reap, where he once again called on Prime Minister Hun Sen to stand down. Arriving on a scheduled flight href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-siem-reap-rainsy-again-calls-for-hun-sen-to-step-down/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-siem-reap-rainsy-again-calls-for-hun-sen-to-step-down-49065/
Courts Resurrect Land Disputes After Election
The Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court has summoned for questioning three villagers accused of torching in May a shed on disputed land granted to the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem. The case is another example of courts resurrecting longstanding land disputes that had gone href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/courts-resurrect-land-disputes-after-election/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/courts-resurrect-land-disputes-after-election-49671/
Ethnic Minorities File Illegal Logging Complaint
A group of 12 ethnic minority villagers in Ratanakkiri province have filed a complaint with the provincial court over what they claim is collusion between other villagers and local authorities to illegally log luxury timber from 193 hectares of land inside a community forest. The Prov href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ethnic-minorities-file-illegal-logging-complaint/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ethnic-minorities-file-illegal-logging-complaint-42145/
Cobras Thrown Into Land Dispute Family’s Home
Three highly venomous cobras were thrown early Tuesday morning into the Phnom Penh home of a family locked in a dispute with a private company that wants to develop the family’s land in Tuol Kok district. Ly Sreang Kheng, 58, his wife Mok Siv Hong, 51, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cobras-thrown-into-land-dispute-familys-home/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-cobras-thrown-into-land-dispute-familys-home-46359/
Killing of Journalist May Not Be Linked to Illegal Fishing Reports
Police in Kompong Chhnang province on Tuesday said they were looking for three suspects in the murder of a local journalist on Friday night and may soon add more names to the list, but still had no motive for the attack. However, the provincial coordinator for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/killing-of-journalist-may-not-be-linked-to-illegal-fishing-reports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/killing-of-journalist-may-not-be-linked-to-illegal-fishing-reports-51448/
Property rights threatened, NGOs claim
A draft agricultural land law threatens to eliminate property rights and effectively remove all limitations on the size of economic land concessions, a coalition of civil society groups said in a statement released.The draft of The Law on the Management and Use of Agricultural Land, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/property-rights-threatened-ngos-claim/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
David Boyle and May Titthara, P. 1
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012072457586/National-news/property-rights-threatened-ngos-claim.html
Law on accounting and audits approved by cabinet
The Cabinet approved a Law on Accounting and Audits at a meeting Friday morning. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/law-on-accounting-and-audits-approved-by-cabinet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong and Muny Sithyna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13103/law-on-accounting-and-audits-approved-by-cabinet/
CNRP’s Next Challenge—How to Compromise
Over the past three days, the CNRP conducted one of the most significant campaigns of mass demonstrations against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government in years. For three days, more than 20,000 people packed into Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park for daily appearances from opposition leaders Sam Rainsy href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrps-next-challenge-how-to-compromise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrps-next-challenge-how-to-compromise-42580/
Evicted railway families await ADB’s help
In 2011, Oeun Phirun took out a $450 loan from the Asian Development Bank, using half to buy a used motorbike and spending the rest on a small flock of ducks and chickens he hoped to raise. His family and about 1,000 others have been evicted href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/evicted-railway-families-await-adbs-help/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/evicted-railway-families-await-adbs-help-56128/
Renewable energy to power Takeo milling plant
A Japan energy company yesterday said it planned to build a rice mill fuelled by rice husks in Cambodia’s Takeo province. New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Kingdom’s Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy (MIME) confirming cooperation href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/renewable-energy-to-power-takeo-milling-plant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...