Gov’t hands down ruling in market dispute
A bitter dispute over the development of the main market in Ratanakkiri province’s Banlung City, which has pitted the city’s governor against a well-connected CPP lawmaker, was resolved by the Council of Ministers earlier this month in favor of the complainant, a wealthy businessman who ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-hands-down-ruling-in-market-dispute-95810/
Two arrested along new drug route in Pursat
A kilogram of methamphetamine was confiscated and two men were apprehended in Pursat province on Tuesday by police who said the arrests had uncovered a new drug supply route in the country. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-arrested-along-new-drug-route-in-pursat-96052/
Big ambitions for model school program in Cambodia
On a leafy campus near Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, a group of 50 schoolchildren are benefiting from a bold educational experiment with a dual aim: to turn out youngsters who can improve the country, and to develop a model program that can be replicated internationally. ...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/big-ambitions-for-model-school-program-in-cambodia/2991893.html
Alleged wildlife meat seller busted in B’bang
Authorities in Battambang province arrested a man on Wednesday for possession of 30 kilograms of illegal wildlife meat and body parts, after a raid on a property turned up pieces of bear, muntjac deer and civet. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/alleged-wildlife-meat-seller-busted-bbang
Two more Rohingya Muslims seek resettlement in Cambodia
Two Muslim Rohingya refugees have volunteered to resettle in Cambodia as part of a controversial deal in which Australia has promised to pay more than U.S. $40 million in costs and aid to the Southeast Asian country for taking refugees off its hands, a Cambodian ...
Yeang Sotheameta and Chandara Yang
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/two-more-rohingya-muslims-seek-resettlement-in-cambodia-10132015141643.html
Kampong Speu locals protest in long-running dispute
Several hundred villagers protested outside the Kampong Speu Provincial Hall yesterday, demanding the return of thousands lost to economic land concessions (ELCs) in a years-old land dispute with a Chinese company and a prominent tycoon. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-speu-locals-protest-long-running-dispute
3 arrested in beatings of Cambodian opposition lawmakers
Three men have turned themselves into Cambodian police, claiming they were involved in the beatings of two opposition lawmakers last week.The Ministry of interior announced late Tuesday Chay Sarith, Mao Hoeurn, and Suth Vanny had turned themselves in earlier in the day. But little more ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voanews.com/content/three-arrested-in-beatings-of-cambodian-opposition-lawmakers/3035258.html
Project aims to spur compliance in tourism sector
With the government placing tourism at the center of efforts to diversify and grow the country’s economy, a French development organization launched a project on Tuesday to encourage companies operating in the sector to comply with labor laws. ...
Meghan Tribe
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/project-aims-to-spur-compliance-in-tourism-sector-100665/
Group of fifteen illegal loggers arrested in Thailand
A group of 15 Cambodians was arrested in Thailand on Tuesday for illegal logging in the country’s Sa Kaeo province, a Cambodian official said on Wednesday. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/group-of-fifteen-illegal-loggers-arrested-in-thailand-100806/
A fresh water dolphin found dead in Kratie
A freshwater Mekong dolphin was found dead yesterday morning on a river bank Prek Prosob district, Kratie province, where only only about 80 Mekong dolphins remain, according to officials. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18066/a-fresh-water-dolphin-found-dead-in-kratie/
Cambodia announces 17% increase in 2016 defence budget
The National Assembly of Cambodia approved on 30 November a 2016 defence budget of USD383 million, a 17% increase against spending in 2015. The defence allocation amounts to around 9% of total government expenditure for the year and about 2% of GDP. ...
Jon Grevatt
http://www.janes.com/article/56333/cambodia-announces-17-increase-in-2016-defence-budget
28 arrested after mob attack in Phnom Penh
Twenty-eight warehouse workers, including some known gang members, were arrested by military police in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district on Wednesday night for their involvement in the severe beating of a garment worker, officials said on Thursday. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eccc-hears-more-about-vietnamese-treatment-102014/
Increase in conservation work planned for Angkorian temple
Banteay Chhmar, the expansive Angkorian temple in Banteay Meanchey province noted for its elaborate bas-reliefs, is set to see a significant increase in conservation work over the next five years following an agreement between the Ministry of Culture and the London-based School of Oriental and ...
Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/increase-in-conservation-work-planned-for-angkorian-temple-103583/
Villagers in land dispute say IDs were denied
More than 100 family representatives yesterday filed complaints at Ratanakkiri Provincial Hall and the interior Ministry, claiming that requests to be issued with identity cards so they could vote in upcoming elections were denied by local police officials. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-land-dispute-say-ids-were-denied
Poipet customs director removed in riot’s wake
Banteay Meanchey provincial authorities yesterday promoted a new director of Provincial Customs and Excise to replace his predecessor, seven months after an office under his jurisdiction was at the centre of a riot. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poipet-customs-director-removed-riots-wake
Kingdom’s union law ‘a work in progress’
Lawmakers from both the ruling Cambodia People’s Party (CPP) and the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) were able to reach consensus and move forward on several aspects of the draft union law yesterday, revising seven of 21 articles that had been flagged by union groups ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19968/kingdom---s-union-law----a-work-in-progress---/
Appetite for investment in agriculture rising, forum told
South Korean investment in Cambodia’s agricultural industry, especially its food-processing sector, could result in the export of more value-added products that could help transform the Kingdom’s economy, a senior official at the Council for the Development of Cambodia and Korean officials told an investment forum ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20905/appetite-for-investment-in-agriculture-rising--forum-told/
Researcher says border posts misplaced in Eastern Cambodia
Presenting the initial findings of months of research trips along Cambodia’s eastern border, academic Sok Touch said on Thursday that a stretch of land in Tbong Khmum province had been occupied by Vietnam due to border posts being misplaced during the French colonial era. ...
World bank project in trouble before it starts
Between 2008 and 2015, the World Bank and German aid agency GIZ spent $13 million setting up eight social land concessions for thousands of the poorest Cambodians, doling out small farms they could use to pull themselves out of poverty and, after a few years, ...
Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/world-bank-project-in-trouble-before-it-starts-108700/
Ministry says arsenic levels in rice 'no problem'
The Ministry of Agriculture has played down the results of a study that found high levels of arsenic in some samples of locally grown rice. ...
Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-says-arsenic-levels-rice-no-problem