Special police team to probe violence in Sihanoukville
Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng has sent a team of high-ranking interior Ministry officials to investigate the recent spike in violent crimes involving foreigners in Sihanoukville, the ministry’s spokesman said Thursday. ...
Matt Blomberg and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/special-police-team-to-probe-violence-in-sihanoukville-80217/
Senate passes reformed election laws in quick vote
The Senate unanimously approved the country’s two new election laws in a special session Monday, with the laws now only requiring review by the Constitutional Council and assent by King Norodom Sihamoni to be enacted. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/senate-passes-reformed-election-laws-in-quick-vote-80564/
In logging hotbed, 7 arrested for felling trees
Forestry officials and police on Monday arrested seven men for logging illegally in Stung Treng province’s Sesan district, officials said Tuesday. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-logging-hotbed-7-arrested-for-felling-trees-80657/
Four deny charges in violent Koh Rong robbery
Four Cambodian men were charged by the Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court on Tuesday over the brutal beating and robbery of two expatriates on the holiday island of Koh Rong last week, a court official said. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/four-deny-charges-in-violent-koh-rong-robbery-80655/
Doroshenko jailed on fraud charges in S’ville
Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko was imprisoned Wednesday evening after being arrested at his family’s Snake House restaurant in Sihanoukville for failing to appear in court to be questioned over fraud charges related to a dispute with his rival, fugitive developer Sergei Polonsky. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Ben Woods
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/doroshenko-jailed-on-fraud-charges-in-sville-80724/
Doroshenko jailed on fraud charges in S’ville
Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko was imprisoned Wednesday evening after being arrested at his family’s Snake House restaurant in Sihanoukville for failing to appear in court to be questioned over fraud charges related to a dispute with his rival, fugitive developer Sergei Polonsky. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Ben Woods
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/doroshenko-jailed-on-fraud-charges-in-sville-80724/
Cambodia near bottom in gov't openness index
Cambodia ranks near the bottom of 102 countries surveyed in a new index of government openness, scoring dead last in mechanisms through which complaints can be lodged against government officials and 98th in sanctions for officials’ misconduct. Overall, the Kingdom placed 98th in the World Justice ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/cambodia-near-bottom-govt-openness-index
In Mondolkiri, police return to raze remaining shelters
After overseeing the destruction of all but six of 172 temporary shelters that had been erected on farmland claimed by an ethnic Bunong community in Mondolkiri province on Tuesday, authorities returned to destroy the remaining structures Wednesday, again on the grounds that the land belonged ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-mondolkiri-police-return-to-raze-remaining-shelters-81241/
Construction firm to fortify crack in White Building
A Malaysian construction company building a hotel next to Phnom Penh’s iconic “White Building” has agreed to fortify a four-story crack that appeared in the apartment block in February, deputy municipal governor Chreang Sophan said Thursday. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/construction-firm-to-fortify-crack-in-white-building-81324/
Key post to PM’s son-in-law
Dy Vichea – son of the late National Police chief Hok Lundy and son-in-law to Prime Minister Hun Sen – has been appointed director of the Central Security Department at the Ministry of interior, the National Police said yesterday. National Police spokesman Kirt Chantharith said that ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/key-post-pm%E2%80%99s-son-law
Flood death toll rises to 45 in Cambodia
At least 45 people in Cambodia have died and thousands of families have been evacuated from homes to higher grounds in floods caused by monsoon rains and rivers overflowing their banks, a senior official said Thursday. “in the past three weeks, floods have claimed 45 lives ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-08/21/c_133573898.htm
Tenants of white building in dark on demolition
A sense of panic is growing inside Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building, with residents unsure of their fate after Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong said on Tuesday that the iconic apartment block was condemned and would be torn down. Most residents spoken to Wednesday say they ...
Hul Reaksmey and Chan Cheuk Yin
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tenants-of-white-building-in-dark-on-demolition-67516/
Cambodia's Muslims and minorities in land grants battle
Drive deep enough into Mondulkiri’s Pech Chreada district, and the rubber plantations that dot the roads fall away. Here, there is only mile after mile of lush, dark woodland: An ideal place to bury one’s dead and pay respects to the spirits that reside inside ...
Abby Seiff and Chhorn Chansy
http://www.ucanews.com/news/cambodias-muslims-and-minorities-in-land-grants-battle/71874
Asia-Pacific officials discuss climate change in Cambodia
More than 100 officials from some 20 economies in Asia and the Pacific are meeting with donor institution representatives in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province in a bid to strengthen public financial management systems for climate change adaptation projects, said a news statement on Monday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140915/asia-pacific-officials-discuss-climate-change-cambodia
Cambodia plans to allow locals in national casinos
The government of Cambodia is considering to allow local citizens to gamble in casinos. Currently, only foreigners are allowed to gamble in the country’s local casinos. According to an official from Cambodia’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, the government is considering to lift the restrictions on local residents, since ...
Jason Glatzer
http://www.pokernews.com/news/2014/09/cambodia-to-allow-locals-in-casinos-19284.htm
Police chief accused in $678k corruption case
Hy Narin, the Meanchey district police chief arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Tuesday, was questioned on Thursday by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court over allegations that he stole more than $600,000 from the state and its citizens during his eight years as police ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-chief-accused-in-678k-corruption-case-68996/
Chinese squeeze out tour groups in Siem Reap
Japanese and Korean tourists are being turned away from hotels in Siem Reap City due to an increase in bookings by Chinese visitors, Tourism Minister Thong Khon said on Wednesday. Speaking at the tourism industry’s three-day expo on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich island on Wednesday, Mr. ...
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/chinese-squeeze-out-tour-groups-in%E2%80%88siem-reap-69544/
Rights group claims continued harassment in Oddar Meanchey
NGO workers interviewing evictees in Oddar Meanchey province said police pulled their car over without cause on Saturday and tried to seize one of their cameras, the third reported case of authorities in the area harassing the group’s staff in the past month. ...
Mech Dara and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rights-group-claims-continued-harassment-in-oddar-meanchey-69650/
Trio charged with journalist’s murder in Kratie
The Kratie Provincial Court on Tuesday brought murder charges against three men arrested for the killing on Sunday morning of 49-year-old journalist Taing Try in Snuol district and sent them to the provincial prison to await trial, a court official said. ...
Saing Soenthrith and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/trio-charged-with-journalists-murder-in-kratie-69861/
Gun goes off, killing logger in Veal Veng
An illegal logger in Pursat province accidentally shot a member of his own work group on Monday, according to Veal Veng district police. The loggers were allegedly going after protected timber in the Mount Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary in Veal Veng, a preserve in the Cardamom ...
Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/gun-goes-killing-logger-veal-veng