Arrest in UN murder
Police on Tuesday night arrested a 35-year-old man they say confessed to the murder of Dutch national Daphna Beerdsen and the brutal attack on her 19-month-old daughter in a burglary gone awry at their home just off Norodom Boulevard on Monday. National Police spokesman Kirth Chantharith <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/arrest-in-un-murder/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/arrest-un-murder
Strong winds may have downed Cambodia chopper: Defense Minister
Generals and two other air force officers, according to the country’s defense minister, who said strong winds may have led to the tragedy. Minister of Defense Tea Banh said that the cause of the crash into a pond about six miles (10 kilometers) south of Phnom <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/strong-winds-may-have-downed-cambodia-chopper-defense-minister/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/helicopter-07142014174542.html
Cracks discovered in bridge
The Ministry of Public Works and Transportation (MPWT) and the Phnom Penh municipality are preparing a ban on heavy trucks crossing the Cambodian-Japanese Friendship Bridge after cracks were discovered in a pillar on the bridge’s eastern end, a City Hall official confirmed yesterday. at a meeting <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cracks-discovered-in-bridge/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cracks-discovered-bridge
Jail terms for four in Mondolkiri mining fraud
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday convicted and imprisoned four people for their roles in a fraud case that involved the forging of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s signature to secure a mining license in Mondolkiri province. al Romny, the 41-year-old director of the local company <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/jail-terms-for-four-in-mondolkiri-mining-fraud/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/jail-terms-for-four-in-mondolkiri-mining-fraud-65700/
Smartphone software to help rice farmers
An internAtionAl Agriculture NGO is prepAring to roll out A nAtionwide project in pArtnership with computer-chip mAker Intel whereby more thAn 25,000 fArmers will be Able to receive reAl-time Advice on fArming methods viA A smArtphone App. The InternAtionAl Fund for AgriculturAl Development (IFAD) piloted the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/smArtphone-softwAre-to-help-rice-fArmers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/smartphone-software-to-help-rice-farmers-67162/
Thailand seen as growing source of counterfeit dollars in Southeast Asia
He may be just the police chief of Battambang, a languid riverside town in western Cambodia, but, recently, people have taken to calling Brig Gen Sar Theth the $7 million man. On Sept. 19, Brig Gen Theth’s officers tracked three Thai men in a pickup truck <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thailand-seen-as-growing-source-of-counterfeit-dollars-in-southeast-asia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Prak Chan Thul, Andrew R.C. Marshall and Amy Sawitta Lefevre
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/crime/437384/record-bust-in-cambodia-highlights-boom-in-us-dollar-counterfeiting-in-thailand
KDC workers petition against the release of five villagers
Workers at the center of a land dispute between villagers in Kompong Chhnang province and a company owned by the wife of the mines and energy minister on Thursday pressed forward with a campaign against the release of five villagers who were imprisoned over violence <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kdc-workers-petition-against-the-release-of-five-villagers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kdc-workers-petition-against-the-release-of-five-villagers-67270/
Resintech to tap into rubber plantation with joint venture in Cambodia
Resintech Bhd, a local Polyethylene and poly vinyl chloride (PVC) pipe manufacturer, will tap into the rubber plantation sector in a bid to diversify its business segment given the healthy outlook on the rubber industry. Resintech’s managing director Datuk Teh Kim Poo said that according to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/resintech-to-tap-into-rubber-plantation-with-joint-venture-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cambodia's treatment of Montagnard refugees focuses critics on Australia's asylum seeker deal
Cambodian authorities are hunting more than a dozen ethnic minority hill people from Vietnam, drawing international criticism and raising further doubts about australia’s controversial agreement to send refugees to Phnom Penh. Babar Baloch, a spokesman for the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), warned <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-treatment-of-montagnard-refugees-focuses-critics-on-australias-asylum-seeker-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Lindsay Murdoch
http://www.smh.com.au/world/cambodias-treatment-of-montagnard-refugees-focuses-critics-on-australias-asylum-seeker-deal-20141203-11z808.html
Urn theft weighs on guards, families
Seang Sarin swears he only fell asleep for a moment. It’s a moment he has cursed and played over in his head for nearly 20 months now.Speaking to the Post in a detention room at the Kandal Provincial Court this week, the former guard at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/urn-theft-weighs-on-guards-families/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/urn-theft-weighs-guards-families
The Sihanoukville MAKEOVER?
Aiming to AttrAct investors to broAden the Kingdom’s mAnufActuring bAse And to boost the country’s industriAl development, the government is Alledgedly prepAring A mAster plAn to turn SihAnoukville province into A new speciAl economic zone, sAid An officiAl.The Advisor to the CAmbodiAn government, Dr Sok <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/the-sihAnoukville-mAkeover/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/sihanoukville-makeover
Ford plant opens in Sihanoukville
A Ford Assembly plAnt in PreAh SihAnouk province will supply CAmbodiA’s limited but growing cAr mArket, the AmericAn cArmAker’s locAl representAtive RMA CAmbodiA Announced yesterdAy. The US$3 million investment, wholly owned by RMA, hAs A cApAcity of up to 6,000 vehicles per yeAr, And is expected <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ford-plAnt-opens-in-sihAnoukville/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012032155152/Business/ford-plant-opens-in-sihanoukville.html
Man lands in court over sexual assault at quarantine site
A suspected in An Alleged sexuAl AssAult AgAinst A minor At A quArAntine centre in BAnteAy MeAnchey province’s O’Chrou district hAs been sent to court, while A similAr cAse AgAinst An Adult womAn At the sAme centre wAs dropped After the Accused negotiAted compensAtion with <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAn-lAnds-in-court-over-sexuAl-AssAult-At-quArAntine-site/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-lands-court-over-sexual-assault-quarantine-site
Co-op deal with Qatar nigh
A new impetus in economic, trAde And technicAl cooperAtion between CAmbodiA And QAtAr will deliver A suite of economic benefits for the Kingdom, Above All A driving force for exports to the Middle EAst And A mAjor mAgnet to drAw in more investors And tourists <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/co-op-deAl-with-qAtAr-nigh/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/co-op-deal-qatar-nigh
Tax break for textile-linked industries to stay till 2025
The government has extended a suspension of “advance income tax” until the end of 2025 for eligible textile-related enterprises, a good deal of which have been hurt by a drop in orders as a result of global economic headwinds linked to the ongoing Ukraine crisis. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tax-break-for-textile-linked-industries-to-stay-till-2025/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tax-break-textile-linked-industries-stay-till-2025
Cambodia Life takes long view approach
A new, government-owned life insurAnce compAny Aims to provide A sAfety net for CAmbodiAn fAmilies, According to In MeAtrA, director-generAl of the CAmbodiA Life InsurAnce CompAny Plc. LocAted on the 21st floor of CAnAdiA Tower, CAmbodiA Life opened on MAy 21 And hAs 23 employees. “CAmbodiA <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-life-tAkes-long-view-ApproAch/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062256944/Business/cambodia-life-takes-long-view.html
MobiTel, Smart Fight It Out Over Prices
With competition rife in Cambodia’s telecommunication market, two of the country’s largest mobile phone operators have engaged in a battle over prices and are at odds over the tactics being used to gain market share. On Friday, the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) ordered all mobile <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mobitel-smart-fight-it-out-over-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mobitel-smart-fight-it-out-over-prices-21085/
CNRP Plans Practice Demonstrations Ahead of Real Protest
The CNRP has scheduled two practice demonstrations for next week in order to ensure that nationwide rallies planned for September 7 are held peacefully, the party said in a statement on Friday. The announcement came a day after 100 party members and provincial activists for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-plans-practice-demonstrations-ahead-of-real-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khy Sovuthy and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-plans-practice-demonstrations-ahead-of-real-protest-41528/
Cambodia to set 2014 wage for garment workers next month
The Ministry of Labour, Government of Cambodia, would set the 2014 minimum wage for garment workers next month, reports The Phnom Penh Post. a working group consisting of representatives of the Garment Manufacturers’ association in Cambodia (GMaC), workers’ representatives and factory managers met officials at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-to-set-2014-wage-for-garment-workers-next-month/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Fibers2fashion News Staff
http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/apparel-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=156451
Teachers Group Threatened Over Planned Pay Protest
The Interior Ministry on Wednesday threatened to revoke the license of the Cambodian Independent Teachers association (CITa) if it goes ahead with a planned demonstration next week seeking higher wages for the country’s educators. an official at the ministry said that the move to revoke the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/teachers-group-threatened-over-planned-pay-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/teachers-group-threatened-over-planned-pay-protest-49855/