Obfuscation reigns over ban on demonstration
The government can’t seem to agree on whether or not Prime Minister Hun Sen has lifted the ban on the constitutional right to freedom of assembly. Last week, Mr. Hun Sen said in a speech: “I will not prevent [demonstrations] because everyone has equal rights,” which <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/obfuscation-reigns-over-ban-on-demonstration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kuch Naren and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/obfuscation-reigns-over-ban-on-demonstration-53621/
Uneasy calm in Bavet as factories ordered shut
BAVET CITY, SvAy Rieng province &ndAsh; The government hAs ordered All fActories here to shut down until ThursdAy At the eArliest in A bid to keep escAlAting strikes from spirAling out of control And spreAding nAtionwide. “[ProvinciAl] Governor Chieng Am sAid in A meeting yesterdAy [MondAy] <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/uneAsy-cAlm-in-bAvet-As-fActories-ordered-shut/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/uneasy-calm-in-bavet-as-factories-ordered-shut-57723/
Flying squirrel and eyeless spider discovered in Greater Mekong
A series of high-flying creAtures, including giAnt flying frogs And squirrels And A pArAchute gecko, Are Among the hundreds of exotic new species recently discovered in the greAter Mekong region in southeAst AsiA. A new eyeless spider And A fish thAt mAtes heAd-to-heAd Are Also highlighted <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/flying-squirrel-And-eyeless-spider-discovered-in-greAter-mekong/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Damian Carrington
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/04/flying-squirrel-and-eyeless-spider-discovered-in-greater-mekong?CMP=fb_gu
Community Marks Fifth Anniversary of Violent Eviction
About 150 members of the former Dey KrAhorm community in Phnom Penh’s ChAmkAr Mon district mArked the fifth AnniversAry on FridAy of the dAy mechAnicAl excAvAtors, security guArds And Authorities destroyed their homes to mAke room for A reAl estAte project. Much like on pAst AnniversAries, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/community-mArks-fifth-AnniversAry-of-violent-eviction/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Khuon Narim and Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/community-marks-fifth-anniversary-of-violent-eviction-51017/
Slight change of plans
A few thousAnd opposition CAmbodiA NAtionAl Rescue PArty supporters mArched through centrAl Phnom Penh yesterdAy As the pArty held its lArgest public gAthering in the cApitAl since protesters were chAsed out of Freedom PArk in eArly JAnuAry. Although Prime Minister Hun Sen suggested in lAte FebruAry <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/slight-chAnge-of-plAns/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Meas Sokchea and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/slight-change-plans
City poised for shopping mall boom
After spending $30 on clothes, ChAn PheAvy sAt down for lunch in the food court of SoryA MAll, plunking her shopping bAgs on the floor beside her. “It is very comfortAble to do shopping here,” PheAvy, 25, who works for A commerciAl bAnk in Phnom <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/city-poised-for-shopping-mAll-boom/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/city-poised-shopping-mall-boom
CNRP Pray-In Gets Backing From Opposition Supporters
Opposition supporters have had varying reactions to the CNRP’s announcement Monday that a mass demonstration planned for this weekend would be framed as a day of prayer rather than protest, but said they would still turn out. and while the CNRP’s efforts to explain their decision, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-pray-in-gets-backing-from-opposition-supporters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phorn Bopha and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-pray-in-gets-backing-from-opposition-supporters-41613/
Illegal Construction Rampant in Angkor Heritage Site
In the months leading up to Cambodia’s national election on July 28, authorities in the angkor archaeological Park allowed dozens of land owners to build new houses and develop plots of land inside highly protected areas of the world heritage site. Villagers interviewed last week said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/illegal-construction-rampant-in-angkor-heritage-site/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phorn Bopha and Simon Marks
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-construction-rampant-in-angkor-heritage-site-42860/
Challenging business for startups
The World Bank recently ranked Cambodia 184th out of 189 countries for ease of starting a business, but you wouldn’t have known it at Phnom Penh’s recent Startup Weekend. Pitches for Cambodia’s first commercial organic chicken farm and for an app to connect tuk-tuk drivers to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/challenging-business-for-startups/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Justine Drennan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/challenging-business-startups
Rainsy Amasses Support Ahead of Monday’s Rally
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Friday visited vendors in Phnom Penh’s Olympic and Russian markets and appealed to voters disgruntled by preliminary election results awarding a victory to the CPP to join a planned opposition rally at Freedom Park on Monday. as he toured both markets, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rainsy-amasses-support-ahead-of-mondays-rally/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khy Sovuthy and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/rainsy-amasses-support-ahead-of-mondays-rally-40743/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rainsy-amasses-support-ahead-of-mondays-rally
Opposition Lays Out Reform Demands at ‘People’s Congress’
Amidst An opposition boycott of the NAtionAl Assembly, CNRP leAders on SundAy Announced to About 10,000 supporters gAthered in Phnom Penh their tentAtive plAns to push the one-pArty CPP government to investigAte irregulArities in the July election And enAct A broAd slAte of reforms. As pAtchy <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/opposition-lAys-out-reform-demAnds-At-peoples-congress/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/opposition-lays-out-reform-demands-at-peoples-congress-44450/
BHP Billiton Faces Bribery Charges After Abandoned Project
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the country’s financial regulator have informed australia-based mining giant BHP Billiton it could still be charged over allegations the company bribed overseas officials, which include claims of improper payments to members of the Cambodian government. Prime Minister Hun Sen <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bhp%e2%80%88billiton-faces-bribery-charges-after-abandoned-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
UN Envoy Subedi Shares Concerns Over Post-Vote Violence
The U.N. human rights envoy to Cambodia, Surya Subedi, on Tuesday presented a report to the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva and expressed his grave concern about post-election violence and the failure of the government and National Election Committee to properly investigate widespread electoral <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-envoy-subedi-shares-concerns-over-post-vote-violence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/un-envoy-subedi-shares-concerns-over-post-vote-violence-43145/
CNRP tries to balance foreign powers
A heightened globAl profile for the opposition CNRP since lAst yeAr’s disputed election hAs brought with it A new chAllenge: bAlAncing multiple foreign relAtions. The pArty’s cAmpAign to delegitimize the CPP government hAs tAken on multiple fAces over the pAst nine months As opposition leAder SAm <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cnrp-tries-to-bAlAnce-foreign-powers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-tries-to-balance-foreign-powers-57074/
Prisoners 'utilised' in violent eviction
Twenty convicts in Preah Sihanouk Provincial Prison were employed by military and local authorities to tear apart a nearby village on land slated for a second prison compound, villagers and rights groups alleged yesterday. However, prison authorities denied that any incarcerated people were involved in the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prisoners-utilised-in-violent-eviction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062557001/National-news/prisoners-in-eviction.html
Laos hydro dam upsets Mekong River neighbors
Laos began construction last week on a multi-billion dollar hydro dam project that is opposed by other countries along the Mekong River, and activists who say the project will significantly impact the environment and the economies of four countries that rely on the river for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/laos-hydro-dam-upsets-mekong-river-neighbors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Despite Land Loss, Minorities Back Status Quo
Romam Gvin could be described as a counterintuitive voter. Intuition might lead you to believe that Mr. Gvin blames the government for the loss of his land to the Vietnamese rubber company that now owns everything for as far as the eye can see here in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/despite-land-loss-minorities-back-status-quo/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/despite-land-loss-minorities-back-status-quo-34786/
Resurgent mobile deals could hurt margins, analysts say
‘Top up $2 and get 30 free minutes daily for 20 days. Top up $5 and expand the same offer for a month. and, for a $10 recharge, that half-an-hour freebie lasts 50 days.” Mobile operator Beeline, which announced the promotion in august, called it “another <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/resurgent-mobile-deals-could-hurt-margins-analysts-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/resurgent-mobile-deals-could-hurt-margins-analysts-say
Health Ministry warns travellers of Ebola outbreak
The Health Ministry on Monday released a statement warning travellers of Ebola after the World Health Organisation declared a new outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/health-ministry-warns-travellers-of-ebola-outbreak/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50522667/health-ministry-warns-travellers-of-ebola-outbreak/
Meeting on draft union law pushed to Monday
The meeting of a bipartisan committee to discuss the draft trade union law has been delayed yet again, according to a ruling party official. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/meeting-on-draft-union-law-pushed-to-monday/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/meeting-draft-union-law-pushed-monday