Land feuds get top-level airing
Fifteen national and international organizations representing 38 civil society groups met with the National Assembly’s first commission yesterday to discuss eight major land dispute cases in an effort to find a solution for those affected. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35763/land-feuds-get-top-level-airing/
Chinese sign real estate partnership
The Cambodia Valuers and Estate Agents Association (CVEA) and Emerald Plus Property Service Management (EPPSM) struck a deal with Dae Yang Constructor and Real Estate Association from Sichuan Province to help each oTher find investment, development and trading opportunities. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37800/chinese-sign-real-estate-partnership/
Water plant gets efficiency boost
Japan-based company Metawater will provide its power-saving inverter technology to a water treatment plant in Cambodia’s capital through an arrangement that will help the Japanese government earn carbon reduction credits, according to a Nikkei Asian Review report. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38104/water-plant-gets-efficiency-boost/
Ex-Beehive leader Sonando called in Kem Sokha case
Radio broadcaster and former Beehive Party President Mam Sonando was served a summons last week by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to appear as a witness in relation to a “treason” case filed against former opposition President Kem Sokha. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/ex-beehive-leader-sonando-called-kem-sokha-case
Chainsaws destroyed by M’kiri minorities
More than 100 villagers from eight ethnic communities in Mondulkiri province on Friday symbolically burned two chainsaws allegedly used to illegally log community forest before delivering four others they had confiscated to the provincial forestry administration, participants and Adhoc said yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chainsaws-destroyed-m%E2%80%99kiri-minorities
Military Continues to Cut Down Forest–And Carbon Credits
Cambodian soldiers are continuing to cut into community forests in Oddar Meanchey province that are meant to anchor what is intended to be the country’s first forest-based carbon credit trading scheme, local villagers and NGOs said Wednesday. ...
Phorn Bopha and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/military-continues-to-cut-down-forest-and-carbon-credits-50964/
Villagers questioned over dispute with senator
The Koh Kong Provincial Court questioned four villager representatives Tuesday over alleged violence and property damage in an ongoing land dispute with CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat’s Koh Kong Special Economic Zone company. ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-questioned-over-dispute-with-senator-67200/
Land-grab complaint against ANZ filed with OECD
NGOs have filed a new complaint against Australia’s ANZ Bank claiming it owes compensation to 681 Cambodian families who say their farms were illegally grabbed by a sugarcane plantation the bank helped to finance. ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/land-grab-complaint-against-anz-filed-with-oecd-69444/
Cambodia’s NGOs say measures proposed by parties would curtail free speech
Nine nongovernmental organizations on Wednesday slammed Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties for considering measures that would ban them from giving interviews or making statements deemed “insulting” to political parties during election periods, saying the restrictions would violate free speech. ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/ngos-02042015175755.html
Government to promote private investment in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam
Hoping to give more teeth to its Act East Policy, the Modi government has decided to expand India’s economic links with Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) by promoting private sector investments in these countries through a project development company. ...
Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury
http://bit.ly/1AZyVz1
Farmer says Montagnards crossed river
An ethnic Jarai villager in Ratanakkiri province said Monday that two men claiming to be Montagnard asylum seekers approached him on his farm on Sunday looking for help after swimming across the Sesan River to escape Vietnamese police three days earlier. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/farmer-says-montagnards-crossed-river-85627/
Ruling party MP slammed for blocking press briefing on Cambodia NGO law
A rights group and journalist organization on Thursday slammed a lawmaker from Cambodia’s ruling party for barring an opposition MP from addressing the media with his concerns over a controversial draft law on nongovernmental organizations currently under review by parliament. ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/lawmaker-07022015153933.html
Despite jail for opposition activists, political cooperation remains
Cambodian officials from the ruling party and opposition say they will continue to work together in political dialogue, despite a court ruling this week that delivered major jail sentences to 11 pro-opposition activists. ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/despite-jail-for-opposition-activists-political-cooperation-remains/2875693.html
Families fear eviction in dispute with Try Pheap
Twenty-three families in a village in Pursat province currently embroiled in a land dispute with a company owned by tycoon Try Pheap have claimed that authorities are putting pressure on locals in an attempt to quash the issue. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-fear-eviction-dispute-try-pheap
Street seller charged for beating Thai tourist to death
A street seller who beat a Thai tourist to death with a pole outside a restaurant in Koh Kong province’s Khemara Phoumint City on Tuesday night was charged with murder by the provincial court on Wednesday, officials said Thursday. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/street-seller-charged-for-beating-thai-tourist-to-death-90219/
New Zealand FM to visit Cambodia next week, air services pact expected to be signed
New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully will pay a two-day visit to Cambodia from Aug. 18 to 19, where he will sign an agreement on air services, according to a press statement from the Cambodian Foreign Ministry on Thursday. ...
MPs ‘hastily’ approved laws, new report says
Lawmakers have hastily approved key legislation with little or no meaningful debate, according to a mid-year report on the National Assembly’s performance, which criticised opposition president Sam Rainsy for stifling discussion prior to two important votes. ...
Vong Sokheng and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mps-hastily-approved-laws-new-report-says
38 traffic accidents, 11 fatalities during New Year
Eleven people died in traffic accidents in the Kingdom during this year’s Khmer New Year. ...
Som Kanika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50714018/38-traffic-accidents-11-fatalities-during-new-year/
Official says ‘joking’ about ousted judge arrest
A day after making—and quickly retracting—claims to the media that disgraced Phnom Penh Municipal Court director Ang Mealaktei had been arrested, national military police spokesman Kheng Tito said Thursday that his comments had been made in jest. ...
Aun Pheap
ttps://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/official-says-joking-about-ousted-judge-arrest-81786/
NEC expects to register over 300,000 new voters in 2020 list
The National Election Committee (NEC) has estimated There will be over 300,000 new registrants, and 123,251 names removed from its voter list this year. ...
Kuch Nithatevy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50765618/nec-expects-to-register-over-300000-new-voters-in-2020-list/