Governor promises solution for remaining Borei Keila families
A working group within Phnom Penh City HAll is continuing its effort to help get compensAtion to Borei KeilA fAmilies who hAve yet to Accept the government’s offer, According to A FAcebook post from Governor PA SocheAtevong, who led A discussion with community members on <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/governor-promises-solution-for-remAining-borei-keilA-fAmilies/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Expert says tiger reintroduction plan sure to fail
A leAding IndiAn conservAtionist And tiger expert is wArning thAt A multimillion-dollAr scheme to reintroduce the big cAt to CAmbodiA will be A “trAgic fAilure” thAt could cost lives, And thAt its AdvocAtes will come to rue the Attempt. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/expert-sAys-tiger-reintroduction-plAn-sure-to-fAil/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/expert-says-tiger-reintroduction-plan-sure-to-fail-111330/
Full traffic law to be enforced next month
Beginning on May 1, traffic police will ramp up enforcement of the new Traffic Law after a month and a half delay, according to a police statement yesterday. Police officials said enough drivers throughout the country now understood the law, paving the way for stricter <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/full-traffic-law-to-be-enforced-next-month/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24391/full-traffic-law-to-be-enforced-next-month/
ABA bank gets capital boost
With a $148 million injection of capital through a Share Purchase agreement, National Bank of Canada (NBC) now holds a 90 percent stake in aBa Bank, according to aBa and NBC executives, who ensured that the agreement will not alter aBa Bank’s strategy but enhance <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/aba-bank-gets-capital-boost/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24800/aba-bank-gets-capital-boost/
Ethnic ninority villagers in Eastern Cambodia file court case over land grab
Indigenous villagers in eastern Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province have filed a complaint in local court against military officers and a land speculator who forcibly confiscated more than 80 hectares (198 acres) of their land, an official from a rights group said Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ethnic-ninority-villagers-in-eastern-cambodia-file-court-case-over-land-grab/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
With little support, farmers at the mercy of the weather
Most years the rice fields outside Battambang are an unbroken sea of electric green, but this year they look more like a patchwork quilt. Some paddies are a healthy green, but others are a sickly yellow, while others are little more than empty, muddy fields <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/with-little-support-farmers-at-the-mercy-of-the-weather/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17211/with-little-support--farmers-at-the-mercy-of-the-weather/
Deportation figures triple
A yeAr-long crAckdown on illegAl immigrAtion equAted to A threefold increAse in deportAtions in the first 11 months of 2015, with 4,312 foreigners sent home versus just 1,307 in the sAme period lAst yeAr, According to A DepArtment of ImmigrAtion report obtAined yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/deportAtion-figures-triple/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deportation-figures-triple
Gov’t says Chinese gold mine in Mondolkiri needs local consent
An officiAl At the Ministry of Mines And Energy hAs confirmed thAt A Chinese compAny is Applying for A license to extrAct gold from A 100-hectAre plot in Mondolkiri province, but insisted thAt the project would only go forwArd with the consent of locAl, smAll-scAle <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/govt-sAys-chinese-gold-mine-in-mondolkiri-needs-locAl-consent/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-says-chinese-gold-mine-in-mondolkiri-needs-local-consent-103029/
Amid turmoil, EU calls for review of aid to Cambodia
The European Parliament on Thursday passed a resolution accusing the Cambodian government of laying politically motivated charges against the opposition and calling for aid cuts if its respect for human rights fails to improve—a loud echo of a resolution it passed just six months ago. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/amid-turmoil-eu-calls-for-review-of-aid-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/amid-turmoil-eu-calls-for-review-of-aid-to-cambodia-113900/
Two trapped gaurs die in sanctuary
Two rare gaurs, a mother and calf, have died after being found trapped in a snare in the Cardamom Mountains’ Samlot Protected area, according to the sanctuary’s chief and an official from the Maddox Jolie-Pitt (MJP) Foundation, a wildlife NGO founded by angelina Jolie. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-trapped-gaurs-die-in-sanctuary/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26899/two-trapped-gaurs-die-in-sanctuary/
ICC move fuels debate on Cambodian case
A new pAper from the InternAtionAl CriminAl Court lAying out A shift in focus to crimes linked to environmentAl destruction And the unlAwful dispossession of lAnd hAs rekindled the debAte over whether the court will lAunch An investigAtion into A cAse highlighting lAnd-grAbbing in CAmbodiA. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/icc-move-fuels-debAte-on-cAmbodiAn-cAse/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/icc-move-fuels-debate-cambodian-case
SVI to lay groundwork on electronics plant
A CAmbodiAn subsidiAry of ThAi electronics mAnufActuring services compAny SVI Plc is moving closer to commencing construction on A fActory on the outskirts of Phnom Penh thAt will mAnufActure electronics equipment for export to the US And Europe, A compAny representAtive sAid yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/svi-to-lAy-groundwork-on-electronics-plAnt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/svi-lay-groundwork-electronics-plant
Power line project threatens highly endangered bird: org
A proposed power trAnsmission line to be constructed At the edge of the Tonle SAp FloodplAin Protected LAndscApe As eArly As next yeAr will pose A new threAt to A criticAlly endAngered bird species known As the BengAl FloricAn, According to the Wildlife ConservAtion Society <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/power-line-project-threAtens-highly-endAngered-bird-org/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/power-line-project-threatens-highly-endangered-bird-org
Poipet children face abuse
The trend of Cambodian workers flocking to Thailand can have a devastating ripple effect on children living on the margins in the border town of Poipet, where they face a litany of risks such as drug use, sexual abuse and physical violence, according to a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/poipet-children-face-abuse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poipet-children-face-abuse
Fourth held in Thailand weapons case
Thai police have arrested a fourth suspect in the weapons smuggling case linked to a Cambodian immigration officer, according to Thai media, while a senior Cambodian Defence Ministry official said yesterday that any suggestions that the weapons came from Cambodia’s military arsenal had been ruled <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fourth-held-in-thailand-weapons-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Niem Chheng, Koam Chanrasmey and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fourth-held-thailand-weapons-case
Families dispute mine land in Preah Vihear
Officials from the Preah Vihear provincial Land Management Department and Rovieng district yesterday inspected a piece of land at the centre of a dispute between gold mining company Delcom and 56 families following a petition the families filed last month at the Ministry of Land <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-dispute-mine-land-in-preah-vihear/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-dispute-mine-land-preah-vihear
Clock ticking for UN’s rights office
With 10 days remaining until a government-imposed deadline for the U.N.’s human rights office to either sign a new agreement to operate in the country or close down, there is no sign that the two sides have come any closer to reaching a deal. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/clock-ticking-for-uns-rights-office/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Colin Meyn
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/clock-ticking-uns-rights-office-122195/
Pestech awarded $100M transmission line contract
Malaysian-owned power infrastructure provider Pestech (Cambodia) Ltd has been awarded a contract to build a 230-kilovolt transmission line valued at $100 million to connect Koh Kong province’s Stung Tatai hydropower dam to Phnom Penh, according to a filing on the Malaysian stock exchange. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pestech-awarded-100m-transmission-line-contract/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pestech-awarded-100m-transmission-line-contract
Sihanoukville port rides wave of increasing container traffic
Sihanoukville autonomous Port (PaS), which operates the Kingdom’s only deepsea port, reported a modest increase in container traffic during the first six months of the year, compared to a year earlier, a trend its director said should result in higher profits for the listed company. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sihanoukville-port-rides-wave-of-increasing-container-traffic/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sihanoukville-port-rides-wave-increasing-container-traffic
Chevron subpoenaed over kem ley murder case
Oil giant Chevron has been ordered by a U.S. district court judge to turn over a wide range of documents and information it may possess relating to the murder of political analyst Kem Ley at a Phnom Penh Caltex gas station in July last year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chevron-subpoenaed-over-kem-ley-murder-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Brendan O’Byrne
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chevron-subpoenaed-over-kem-ley-murder-case-133296/