Troops mobilized to ‘disperse’ farmers clearing state forest
The governor of Kompong Speu on Tuesday ordered 10 armed soldiers to help a team of environmental officials confront a group of “anarchic” farmers clearing state forestland in the province. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/troops-mobilized-to-disperse-farmers-clearing-state-forest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/troops-mobilized-disperse-farmers-clearing-state-forest-117983/
Gem miners protest in Ratanakkiri
About 200 villAgers gAthered in RAtAnAkkiri’s provinciAl cApitAl of BAnlung town yesterdAy, cAlling for A resolution to A longstAnding lAnd dispute in the province’s gem-rich BAkeo district. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/gem-miners-protest-in-rAtAnAkkiri/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gem-miners-protest-ratanakkiri
Surge in new product standards as tariffs fall
A recent surge in the development of nAtionAl stAndArds for mAnufActured goods And food products is creAting more opportunities for locAl products in regionAl mArkets, A government officiAl sAid yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/surge-in-new-product-stAndArds-As-tAriffs-fAll/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/surge-new-product-standards-tariffs-fall
NGO criticizes rights report
A civil society group yesterdAy rebuked A recent report by the AseAn PArliAmentAriAns for HumAn Rights (APHR), clAiming the scAthing report on the country’s legislAtive prActices violAted AseAn principles. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ngo-criticizes-rights-report/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36947/ngo-criticizes-rights-report/
Millers shun rice crisis loan fund
Rice millers have taken up less than a quarter of a $27 million emergency loan fund to stabilise prices of the grain, blaming late disbursement for the poor take up. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/millers-shun-rice-crisis-loan-fund/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37927/millers-shun-rice-crisis-loan-fund/
Garment exports surge up EU list
Cambodia’s garment manufacturing industry has eclipsed rival Vietnam as a supplier of products to the European Union and is on course to overtake India, a visiting industry insider said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-exports-surge-up-eu-list/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/garment-exports-surge-eu-list
Authorities seize hundreds of animals
A rAid on MondAy of A womAn’s house in Prey Veng province turned up hundreds of AnimAls, deAd And Alive, set to be sold in the illegAl wildlife trAde. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Authorities-seize-hundreds-of-AnimAls/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079229/authorities-seize-hundreds-animals/
Copper found at Angkor Gold mining site in Ratanakkiri
Canadian mining firm angkor Gold Corp has discovered a new copper system during exploratory drilling of its Oyadao South licence in Ratanakkiri province, the company said in a press release. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/copper-found-at-angkor-gold-mining-site-in-ratanakkiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/copper-found-angkor-gold-mining-site-ratanakkiri
CMAC clears 30 pieces of ordnance
Thirty pieces of unexploded ordnance were found and collected by the Cambodian Mine action Centre yesterday in Pursat province after they were discovered by a villager at a construction site. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cmac-clears-30-pieces-of-ordnance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-clears-30-pieces-ordnance
Government approves plan to relocate Phnom Penh’s airport
The government has signed off on a proposal to build a new airport to serve Phnom Penh and has earmarked land in Kandal province for the $1.5 billion project. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-approves-plan-to-relocate-phnom-penhs-airport/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Siv Meng and Moeun Nhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/supplements-post-property/government-approves-plan-relocate-phnom-penhs-airport
US chemical bombs found in Svay Rieng
The Cambodian Mine action Center (CMaC) found two unexploded bombs containing dangerous chemical substances at a primary school and a pagoda in Svay Rieng province’s Romeas Hek district yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-chemical-bombs-found-in-svay-rieng/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34710/us-chemical-bombs-found-in-svay-rieng/
Monks sell off public land
The chief of a Buddhist pagoda, a village chief and six laymen will appear in Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday after accusations they sold public land worth $50,000. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/monks-sell-off-public-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39143/monks-sell-off-public-land/
PM announces boost to maternity leave salaries
Prime Minister Hun Sen again met with garment sector workers yesterday, adding a boost to maternity leave salaries to a range of promises he had made to them on Tuesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-announces-boost-to-maternity-leave-salaries/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khmer Times
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079681/pm-announces-boost-maternity-leave-salaries/
Sihanoukville to welcome new Marriott hotel
Local real-estate firm Grand Lion Group reached a deal with US-based Marriott group to manage and operate a new five-star hotel in the coastal city of Sihanoukville. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sihanoukville-to-welcome-new-marriott-hotel/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50113798/sihanoukville-to-welcome-new-marriott-hotel/
EU talks ‘election climate’
The EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, Frederica Mogherini, yesterday released a letter outlining Europe’s continued concern with what it perceives as a deteriorating political situation in Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-talks-election-climate/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-talks-election-climate
Minister praises 2013 protest crackdown
The Labor Minister yesterday lauded the government’s crackdown of a garment worker protest back in late 2013 and early 2014, which he claimed was necessary to avoid a war. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-praises-2013-protest-crackdown/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36168/minister-praises-2013-protest-crackdown/
Government vows to tighten control over Kingdom’s pawnbrokers
The government is preparing legislation aimed at ensuring tighter control over the nation’s pawnshops to ensure professionalism in a sector that has grown rapidly and lacks a supervisory framework. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-vows-to-tighten-control-over-kingdoms-pawnbrokers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-vows-tighten-control-over-kingdoms-pawnbrokers
Soldier suing Oddar Meanchey villagers over land dispute
A militAry lieutenAnt is suing 13 fAmilies in OddAr MeAnchey for Allegedly fArming his lAnd, which lies within A protected community forest in Anlong Veng district, locAl Authorities confirmed yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/soldier-suing-oddAr-meAnchey-villAgers-over-lAnd-dispute/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/soldier-suing-oddar-meanchey-villagers-over-land-dispute
Huge fire kills adult and child in Mondulkiri
A mAssive fire killed two people, one of them A child, And destroyed At leAst 220 mArket stAlls in Mondulkiri’s provinciAl cApitAl of Sen Monorom town eArly on SAturdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/huge-fire-kills-Adult-And-child-in-mondulkiri/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Kuoch Masy and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/huge-fire-kills-adult-and-child-mondulkiri
Government acts to end monopolies in abattoir business
In a bid to increase fair competition in the abattoir business, the Ministry of agriculture issued a new directive last week that eradicates exclusive rights to operate abattoirs in Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-acts-to-end-monopolies-in-abattoir-business-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109451/government-acts-end-monopolies-abattoir-business/