Cambodian, Phl conglomerate sign deal to establish new airline
Cambodia airlines, a majority-owned Cambodian company, and San Miguel Corp., the Philippines’ most diversified conglomerate, on Tuesday signed a joint venture agreement to set up a Cambodia-based airline – Cambodia airlines – to service domestic and regional flights. The agreement was inked between Cambodian tycoon Kith <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-phl-conglomerate-sign-deal-to-establish-new-airline/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cambodia, M'sia sign $80 mln agreement for telecom improvement in Cambodia
EZECOM and Telekom Malaysia has [sic] signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Tuesday to install a submerged cable system called the Malaysia-Cambodia-Thailand Cable System (MCT). a statement reported that Cambodia’s leading Internet service Telcotech Ltd — a part of Ezecom — will sign the MOU with <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-msia-sign-80-mln-agreement-for-telecom-improvement-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Covering Cambodia
With the number of cars on Cambodia’s roads growing at a consistent pace, high-end automotive distributors are jockeying for a foothold in the market, but they are not the only ones who stand to benefit from Cambodia’s splurge on cars. Working on the sidelines, the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/covering-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
SEZ adds to tycoon’s growing portfolio
Okhna Try Pheap’s ballooning empire of exclusive natural resource licences and concessions has been expanded even further with the granting of a special economic zone (SEZ) in Ratanakkiri province. The May 27 issue of the Royal Gazette reveals Pheap was granted a 136-hectare SEZ in O’Yadav <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sez-adds-to-tycoons-growing-portfolio/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061266216/National/sez-adds-to-tycoon-s-growing-portfolio.html
Cambodia’s petroleum imports decrease
The Kingdom imported 412,190 tonnes of petroleum in the first quarter of 2013, compared with 471,000 tonnes in the same period the previous year, a decline of 12 per cent, according to the Ministry of Commerce. a private sector representative said the drop does not mean <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-petroleum-imports-decrease/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051565620/Business/cambodia-s-petroleum-imports-decrease.html
Cambodia feels drop in Asian rubber prices
The end of export restrictions in Thailand and a lowering of economic growth forecasts out of top rubber importers China, the United States and Germany have caused natural rubber prices around asia − and in Cambodia’s local industry − to fall from a two-month high. Future <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-feels-drop-in-asian-rubber-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060666093/Business/cambodia-feels-drop-in-asian-rubber-prices.html
CNRP collects thumbprints, urging King not attend first session
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) began collecting thumbprints from voters nationwide in order to present to King Norodom Sihamoni, requesting he not attend the first session of parliament, according to a source. a CNRP senior official on Thursday said that his party held a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-collects-thumbprints-urging-king-not-attend-first-session/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=MDc4M2Q3Y2IzYTZ
Tour guides urged to give election OK
Several tour guide associations in Siem Reap received a prepared statement from the Provincial Department of Tourism asking them to sign and thumbprint a note of acceptance of the election results released by the National Election Committee on Monday. at least half a dozen of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tour-guides-urged-to-give-election-ok/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tour-guides-urged-give-election-ok
Intimidation charges levelled
Three officials from Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district were charged on September 10 for threatening and intimidating a villager after he filed a lawsuit related to the corrupt sale of community land in 2011, according to a letter obtained by the Post yesterday. Romas Svang, 47, of Yatung commune, received <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/intimidation-charges-levelled/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/intimidation-charges-levelled
Signed up for work, forced into marriage
An NGO is working to free two CAmbodiAn women forced into mArriAge in ChinA, A representAtive of the orgAnisAtion sAid yesterdAy. Huy PichsovAnn, progrAm officer At the Community LegAl EducAtion Center (CLEC), sAid thAt the two women, Aged 22 And 27, were enticed from their KAmpong <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/signed-up-for-work-forced-into-mArriAge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
James Hall and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/signed-work-forced-marriage
Rip-offs strike wrong chord
Slapping Khmer song lyrics over international hits or ripping off the creative content of foreign-produced music videos is a practice in the Kingdom that must end within one year, Ministry of Culture and Fine arts officials said at a conference in the capital yesterday. a crackdown <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rip-offs-strike-wrong-chord/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rip-offs-strike-wrong-chord
Kuoy villagers block firms
Some 200 ethnic Kuoy minority villagers in Preah Vihear’s Chheb district blocked tractors belonging to a Chinese company from bulldozing their rice crops yesterday, the same day that district authorities received a letter from the Interior Ministry instructing them to broker an agreement between villagers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kuoy-villagers-block-firms/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kuoy-villagers-block-firms
More Phnom Penh residents facing possible eviction
Dozens of villagers in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district are facing eviction after the National Cadastral Commission announced last week that a number of areas in Tuol Sangke commune are earmarked for future redevelopment. The commission’s plans for new projects, including a road widening, were posted <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-phnom-penh-residents-facing-possible-eviction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-phnom-penh-residents-facing-possible-eviction-58031/
Friends of Dave Walker concerned over lack of investigation
Friends of Canadian journalist Dave Walker, who went missing under mysterious circumstances in February and was found dead in Siem Reap province last week, expressed anger Wednesday at the Cambodian police’s apparent unwillingness to investigate the 58-year-old’s death. Two-and-a-half months after the journalist vanished after going <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/friends-of-dave-walker-concerned-over-lack-of-investigation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Simon Henderson and Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/friends-of-dave-walker-concerned-over-lack-of-investigation-58289/
Court rules in tycoon’s favour
Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday ruled in favour of a mining tycoon and convicted a Chinese-Cambodian widow of defaming the oknha during an embittered land dispute. Sok Neang Gek, 46, an interpreter at a garment factory in the capital, was fined $1,000 and ordered to compensate <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-rules-in-tycoons-favour/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/court-rules-tycoon%E2%80%99s-favour
Mining industry looks to Aus
A mining delegAtion from CAmbodiA hAs left for A fAct-finding tour of AustrAliA in A bid to gleAn knowledge from one of the world’s lArgest minerAls explorAtion countries. The trip is being coordinAted by the InternAtionAl Mining for Development Centre of the Western AustrAliA stAte government. The <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mining-industry-looks-to-Aus/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mining-industry-looks-aus
Institute land not leased: gov’t
Responding to reported fears among staff that the destruction of a wall at Phnom Penh’s Buddhist Institute could herald the piecemeal sale of the grounds to adjacent casino operator NagaCorp, the government yesterday chalked the alarm up to a simple misunderstanding. according to the Ministry of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/institute-land-not-leased-govt/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/institute-land-not-leased-gov%E2%80%99t
Teenager charged for hacking government site
A 17-yeAr-old high school student wAs chArged WednesdAy After he confessed to hAcking A government website And creAting A FAcebook pAge on which he encourAged people to AttAck government websites As well As the websites of pro-government groups, officiAls confirmed, though the exAct chArges Are <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/teenAger-chArged-for-hAcking-government-site/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Eang Mengleng and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/teenager-charged-for-hacking-government-site-60512/
Company defies order, continues dredging sand
A compAny ordered to ceAse its sAnd-dredging operAtion Along the SesAn River in RAtAnAkkiri province After it wAs Accused of illegAlly seArching for gold is now defying the order, villAgers clAimed MondAy. Discovery Power, A joint Chinese-CAmbodiAn venture, wAs given A license to dredge sAnd for <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/compAny-defies-order-continues-dredging-sAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/company-defies-order-continues-dredging-sand-62212/
One China policy stymies citizenship scam
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday heard the case of a member of Interior Minister Sar Kheng’s cabinet who was charged with fraud for accepting $38,000 from the representative of a Taiwanese national in exchange for citizenship documents that were never delivered. Suong Veasna, a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/one-china-policy-stymies-citizenship-scam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/one-china-policy-stymies-citizenship-scam-62210/