Courts ban beach sale in latest Polonsky-Doroshenko dispute
Officials in Preah Sihanouk province last week moved to bar prominent Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko from selling Sihanoukville’s Victory Beach after the Appeal Court ruled that he had violated a contract to transfer the property to fugitive Russian oligarch Sergei Polonsky, court officials said Wednesday. ...
Loggers held in Thailand sent home after 1 year
Three Cambodian men who were arrested in Thailand more than a year ago after venturing across the border to illegally log rosewood were on Monday released from prison and sent back home, border officials said. You Sothearith, chief of the immigration police at the checkpoint, ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/loggers-held-in-thailand-sent-home-after-1-year-77264/
Anti-Corruption Unit probing 49 officials in extortion case
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) says it has opened an investigation into a suspected extortion case but urged the media to refrain from reporting on it after a list of the suspects and their phone numbers was posted online by a number of news outlets. ...
Six unionists arrested, released in Bavet City over incitement
Six union organizers were arrested in Svay Rieng province Wednesday while distributing letters to workers in an attempt to refute rumors that their union had taken cash in exchange for not protesting over the firing of eight of their members, according to the union and ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/six-unionists-arrested-released-in-bavet-city-over-incitement-77403/
Nine Montagnard asylum seekers join 23 others in Ratanakkiri
Nine more Montagnard asylum seekers crossed into Ratanakkiri on Tuesday, bringing the total number hiding in the province’s O’Yadaw district to 32, a police official said Wednesday. ...
Aun Pheap and Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nine-montagnard-asylum-seekers-join-23-others-in-ratanakkiri-77831/
Int'l investments top $1.7b in 2014
Vietnamese businesses invested more than US$1.78 billion abroad last year, according to the Planning and investment Ministry’s Foreign investment Agency (FIA). Among them, Tanzania was the leading investment destination for Vietnamese investors, in terms of registered capital and accounted for 34 per cent of Viet ...
Viet Nam News Staff
http://vietnamnews.vn/economy/266508/intl-investments-top-17b-in-2014.html
Beverage companies wary of ‘blood sugar’ in supply chain
Two major US beverage companies say they are mindful of alleged human rights abuses amid sugar plantations in Cambodia and will not do business with those proven to be involved in them. Representatives from Coca-Cola and Pepsi both said in emails to VOA Khmer that they ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/beverage-companies-wary-of-blood-sugar-in-supply-chain/2647451.html
Cambodia seeks to pardon women in jail with children
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that his government will seek the pardon and release of female convicts who are pregnant or have children living with them inside prisons, following a report by a human rights group which took authorities to task for neglecting ...
Morm Moniroth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/pardons-for-jailed-women-with-children-02232015165148.html
Cambodia's trade with France up 29 pct in 2014
Trade between Cambodia and France increased to 520 million U.S. dollars last year, up 29 percent year-on-year, according to figures released by the French Embassy here on Wednesday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/150304/cambodias-trade-france-29-pct-2014
Cambodia targets 7 pct economic growth in 2015: PM
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday that the country’s economy is predicted to grow by 7 percent this year–the same growth rate as last year. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodia-targets-7-pct-economic-growth-in-2015:-pm-8266
Woman gravely injured in suspected ‘love triangle’ acid attack
A 20-year-old woman suffered serious burns to her face and body after being doused with acid in Phnom Penh on Friday in an attack allegedly carried out by a jealous wife who suspected the victim was sleeping with her husband. ...
In the dock: CNRP case to finally see court
After several stops and starts, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday will finally hear the case against 11 opposition officials and activists arrested last July on charges of insurrection following a political protest at Freedom Park that turned violent. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/dock-cnrp-case-finally-see-court
New $2.9m mosque inaugurated in Phnom Penh
At the edge of a sand-filled Boeng Kak lake in Phnom Penh on Friday, Prime Minister Hun Sen inaugurated the country’s newest—and largest—mosque, which was privately funded by a Dubai-based businessman at a cost of $2.9 million. ...
Khuon Narim and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-2-9m-mosque-inaugurated-in-phnom-penh-80904/
Fewer airport arrests lead to drop in drug seizures
Despite a 72 percent increase in the number of drug-related arrests last year compared to 2013, 50 percent less drugs were seized during the same period, an official from the National Authority for Combating Drugs’ (NACD) said Tuesday. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fewer-airport-arrests-lead-to-drop-in-drug-seizures-81147/
Police arrest another Russian over casino brawl in Sihanoukville
A Russian man wanted for his involvement in a violent brawl at Sihanoukville’s Queenco casino in February was arrested and jailed Tuesday evening after leading more than 20 police on an hour-long motorbike chase through the coastal town, officials said. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-arrest-another-russian-over-casino-brawl-in-sihanoukville-81138/
Chinese influence in Cambodia grows with army school, aid
When Defense Minister Tea Banh addressed graduates last month at Cambodia’s prestigious Army institute, he directed his thanks to the guests who made it all possible: a group of crisply dressed officers from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). ...
Aubrey Belford and Prak Chan Thul
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/02/us-cambodia-china-military-idUSKBN0MT0SW20150402
Illegal tools of fishing trade go up in smoke
Fishery Administration officials in Kampong Chhnang province burned nearly 1,000 electric fishing nets and other devices yesterday morning in a ceremony capping off a provincial crackdown on illegal fishing equipment. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-tools-fishing-trade-go-smoke
No end date in sight for oil plant completion
Cambodia Petroleum Company says its $2.3 billion oil refinery is still in the early stages of construction, after being delayed twice since it announcement in 2013. The landmark oil refinery, to be built on 365 hectares across Kampot and Sihanoukville provinces, was first expected to be ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/no-end-date-sight-oil-plant-completion
More than 100 illegal slot machines seized in capital
More than 100 slot machines worth over $1 million in total were seized in a police raid on a warehouse in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district on Monday, an interior Ministry official said. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-100-illegal-slot-machines-seized-in-capital-81548/
Cambodian students trapped in Yemen capital as battles rage
Eight Cambodian nationals studying in Yemen remained trapped in the capital of Sanaa on Monday as sectarian violence continued to consume the country, officials said. ...
Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodian-students-trapped-in-yemen-capital-as-battles-rage-81530/