Official Questioned Over Abuse of Land Project
The Stung Treng Provincial Court yesterday questioned a Council of Ministers official and her husband over accusations that they tried to cheat a land-titling program spearheaded by Prime Minister Hun Sen, a military police commander said. Meas Sokun, who works for the Council of Ministers’ legal <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/official-questioned-over-abuse-of-land-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Yingluck vows to halt Xayaburi
The Thai company set to build Laos’s Xayaburi hydropower dam will not begin construction until a study determines the dam’s environmental effects on the Mekong River, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Friday. Yingluck reaffirmed her commitment to the study, which Mekong River Commission countries <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/yingluck-vows-to-halt-xayaburi/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
About 1,000 Electronics Factory Workers Protest
About 1,000 workers protested yesterdAy morning outside A TAiwAnese electronics fActory in SvAy Rieng province’s MAnhAttAn SpeciAl Economic Zone (SEZ) to demAnd better working conditions, A union representAtive sAid. Among workers’ demAnd is A sAlAry increAse from the current minimum monthly wAge of $61 to $70, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/About-1000-electronics-fActory-workers-protest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Farmers fear deal has strings
Forty Kampong Chhnang villagers embroiled in a long-running land dispute with KDC International, a company owned by the wife of a senior CPP official, farmed contested land without interference on Monday, prompting some to wonder if they were being coaxed to vote for the ruling <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/farmers-fear-deal-has-strings/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Thai government reconsiders deportation
Thailand is rethinking a controversial plan to deport pregnant migrant workers from countries such as Cambodia and instead support them following widespread outrage, a Thai labour ministry official said yesterday. Last month, Thai Labor Minister Padermchai Sasomsap announced plans to send home migrant workers who were <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-government-reconsiders-deportation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Thai Co-Op Seeks To Boost Cambodia’s Market Access
A delegAtion from A ThAi AgriculturAl co-operAtive yesterdAy discussed meAns of improving AgriculturAl products And mArket Access with representAtives of the Ministry of Commerce in Phnom Penh. KAmit LikhitvidhAyAvuth of the ThAi co-operAtive sAid his teAm Aimed to strengthen mArket Access for CAmbodiAn goods. No Agreement <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/thAi-co-op-seeks-to-boost-cAmbodiAs-mArket-Access/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Flooding raises fears of polling problems
A weAther forecAst predicting heAvy rAin in the next five dAys is cAusing some trepidAtion Among election monitors, who feAr flooding might keep some voters from the polls. Minister of WAter Resources And Meteorology Lim KeAn Hor issued A wArning MondAy thAt A low-pressure system hitting <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/flooding-rAises-feArs-of-polling-problems/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flooding-raises-fears-polling-problems
Cambodia to issue new 100,000-riel banknote featuring royal family pictures
Cambodia will launch a new 100,000-riel banknote (in equivalent to 25 U.S. dollars) in order to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of King Norodom Sihamoni on May 14, a central bank official said Wednesday. a sub-decree on the issuance of the new 100,000-riel banknote was signed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-to-issue-new-100000-riel-banknote-featuring-royal-family-pictures/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-05/08/c_132368449.htm
Kingdom, Hong Kong boost ties
Economic cooperation between Cambodia and Hong Kong is on the rise, while the introduction of a new visa extension is also evidence of strengthening relations, officials say. On June 1, Cambodian officials will be able to travel to Hong Kong without a visa and stay <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-hong-kong-boost-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061866316/Business/kingdom-hong-kong-boost-ties.html
Teen killed while logging in state forest
A teenAger wAs killed And A mAn wAs bAdly injured on FridAy while they were illegAlly cleAring forest lAnd for An unidentified businessmAn on the border of Stung Treng And KrAtie provinces, officiAls sAid. KAm Dek villAger Chhoun Pourn, 17, And KAm Yun, 40, were <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/teen-killed-while-logging-in-stAte-forest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Phark Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teen-killed-while-logging-state-forest
Messy strike comes to an end
Phnom Penh’s sanitation workers are expected back on the job today after a two-day strike that saw garbage beginning to pile up in neighbourhoods across the city. The decision by employees of Cintri, the private firm contracted to remove the capital’s garbage, came after a four-hour <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/messy-strike-comes-to-an-end/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/messy-strike-comes-end
‘Cambodian’ workers die in Thailand
Two Cambodian nationals are among those reported dead following the collapse of a beam at a construction site yesterday on the outskirts of Bangkok. The death toll stood at 11 as of 4pm yesterday, while another 17 were reported injured. a concrete beam fell down at the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-workers-die-in-thailand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98cambodian%E2%80%99-workers-die-thailand
Leaflets get unionist in hot water
Police in Svay Rieng province yesterday afternoon arrested a union worker who was delivering flyers supporting a stay-at-home strike scheduled to begin after Khmer New Year. While delivering about 1,100 fliers to union members at Full Fortune Knitting, Kem Chamroeun, a 25-year-old Collective Union of Movement <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/leaflets-get-unionist-in-hot-water/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mom Kunthear and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/leaflets-get-unionist-hot-water
Joint venture to embark on SoHo twin-tower project
Singaporean investors will invest $300 million to erect a twin-towered commercial building called The Bridge, in downtown Phnom Penh. The Bridge, which is a joint venture between Singapore Oxley Holdings and Cambodia World Bridge Land, aims to make its mark on the city landscape by constructing <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/joint-venture-to-embark-on-soho-twin-tower-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sum Manet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/joint-venture-embark-soho-twin-tower-project
‘Tornado-like storm’ kills two
A mother And child were killed on TuesdAy in whAt Russey Keo district residents described As A tornAdo-like storm thAt stripped off roofs, split trees And swept chAirs And bAby chicks into the skies. According to villAgers, the unprecedented weAther stArted with clouds thickening And turning <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/tornAdo-like-storm-kills-two/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98tornado-storm%E2%80%99-kills-two
Platoon commander removed for alleged wood smuggling
Military officials in Banteay Meanchey province have removed a local platoon commander from his post for alleged wood smuggling after he evaded detention by fellow soldiers earlier in the week, but it remained unclear whether he would be fired or prosecuted. Phork Sambath, a deputy military <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/platoon-commander-removed-for-alleged-wood-smuggling/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/platoon-commander-removed-for-alleged-wood-smuggling-65505/
UN asked to ‘address crisis’
Amnesty InternAtionAl And rights group LicAdho in A joint stAtement yesterdAy cAlled on UN member stAtes to “Address the country’s humAn rights crisis” At A UN HumAn Rights Council heAring in GenevA on TuesdAy. The stAtement, which wAs sent to foreign embAssies, the CAmbodiAn government And <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/un-Asked-to-Address-crisis/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-asked-%E2%80%98address-crisis%E2%80%99
Cambodian judge sued for threatening to shoot villagers in land disputes
Over 100 families, who live in Kampong Chhnang, filed complaints against a provincial court judge and his group for allegedly threatening to shoot them in land disputes. The residents sued San Sophat, a judge at Kampong Chhnang Provincial Court, his bodyguard, and Hem Dara, a lawyer, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-judge-sued-for-threatening-to-shoot-villagers-in-land-disputes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=ZWY2MTI3MmE0YmV
Khmer Krom families face sanctuary eviction
A wildlife sAnctuAry in TAkeo province mAy provide refuge for birds, but it’s A source of contention for 68 Khmer Krom fAmilies who stAnd to lose their livelihood. The locAl fisheries AdministrAtion wAnts to evict villAgers from the stAte-owned sAnctuAry in Borei CholsAr district, but the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/khmer-krom-fAmilies-fAce-sAnctuAry-eviction/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Chhay Channyda and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/khmer-krom-families-face-sanctuary-eviction
Cambodian gov't mulls strict measure against opposition chief over King insult
The Cambodian government said Saturday that it is going to take a firm measure against the country’s main opposition leader Sam Rainsy over his offensive remarks on the nation’s King Norodom Sihamoni. “The government will consider a firm measure against Sam Rainsy, president of the Cambodia National Rescue <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-govt-mulls-strict-measure-against-opposition-chief-over-king-insult/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
New Europe
http://www.neurope.eu/article/cambodian-govt-mulls-strict-measure-against-opposition-chief-over-king-insult