Light railway raised yet again at JICA meet
Plans for a light railway system in Phnom Penh were discussed at a meeting between Public Works and Transportation Minister Sun Chanthol and Japanese International Cooperation agency (JICa) regional director-general Yasushi Tanaka on Friday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/light-railway-raised-yet-again-at-jica-meet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Jack Davies and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/light-railway-raised-yet-again-jica-meet
Phnom Penh mulling new highway to airport
Phnom Penh is studying the prospect of a toll highway to run from the capital to Phnom Penh International airport, a dangerous stretch of road that kills many people each year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-penh-mulling-new-highway-to-airport/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/phnompenh-penh-mulling-new-highway-to-airport/2975473.html
Cambodia sees 37 percent surge in rice export
Cambodia exported 369,105 tonnes of milled rice in the first nine months of 2015 — a 37 percent rise over the same period last year, according to a report on Wednesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-sees-37-percent-surge-in-rice-export/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Business Standard News Staff
http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/cambodia-sees-37-percent-surge-in-rice-export-115093000523_1.html
Professor puts Khmer Rouge in context of the Cold War
Benny Widyono, a former UN official in Cambodia during its transition period in the 1990s, says the country’s mass killings were in part a result of the Cold War. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/professor-puts-khmer-rouge-in-context-of-the-cold-war/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Fear hinders independent journalism in Cambodia, survey finds
Fear of government interference, legal repercussions and violence remain impediments to free and independent journalism in Cambodia, according to a survey released on Wednesday in a report by the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fear-hinders-independent-journalism-in-cambodia-survey-finds/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Tej Parikh
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fear-hinders-independent-journalism-in-cambodia-survey-finds-109992/
Attack on Prey Lang defender highlights logger brutality
A member of the Prey LAng Community Network (PLCN) in KrAtie province wAs seriously injured After she wAs AttAcked by An unknown AssAilAnt while sleeping in A hAmmock on SundAy night neAr Boeung ChA villAge. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AttAck-on-prey-lAng-defender-highlights-logger-brutAlity/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23301//
Stronger SMEs ‘needed to draw investors’
Building the capacity for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) is vital to attracting investors from the EU, where there is a strong appetite for putting money into Cambodia, a senior government official said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/stronger-smes-needed-to-draw-investors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23285/stronger-smes----needed-to-draw-investors---/
Government approves 133-story skyscraper
The government has given final approval for a planned $3 billion, 133-story twin-tower skyscraper that developers claim will be completed by 2018, a spokesman for the Ministry of Land Management said on Monday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-approves-133-story-skyscraper/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kang Sothear and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-approves-133-story-skyscraper-112063/
Subpoena calls Adhoc activist for questioning
Human rights activist Ny Chakrya has received a subpoena to give evidence at Phnom Penh Municipal Court in the latest development in a defamation case against him that has been heavily criticised by international observers. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/subpoena-calls-adhoc-activist-for-questioning/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Pech Sotheary and Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/subpoena-calls-adhoc-activist-questioning
Sam Rainsy must apologize to Hun Sen, CPP says
The “culture of dialogue” between Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy will be over unless Mr. Rainsy issues a public apology for describing the premier as a fascist, CPP spokesman Sok Eysan said Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sam-rainsy-must-apologize-to-hun-sen-cpp-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sam-rainsy-must-apologize-to-hun-sen-cpp-says-98794/
Hun Sen pledges $250 civil servant salary by 2018
Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Sunday that civil servants and members of the armed forces will receive a minimum monthly salary of about $250 by 2018, the next year a national election is scheduled to be held. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-pledges-250-civil-servant-salary-by-2018/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-pledges-250-civil-servant-salary-by-2018-98954/
Dearth of job security for young workers: org
Employers in the Kingdom need to draw up more contracts with their young workers to keep them from being exploited and left in the dark in case of a dispute, a youth NGO urged yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dearth-of-job-security-for-young-workers-org/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dearth-job-security-young-workers-org
Duty-free shop follows tourism surge on coast
The new duty-free shop opened by China Duty Free Group (CDFG) in Sihanoukville will have a major impact on development of the tourism industry in the coastal resort, a senior provincial official said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/duty-free-shop-follows-tourism-surge-on-coast/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19469/duty-free-shop-follows-tourism-surge-on-coast/
Ministry seeks to arrest photoshopper abroad
The Interior Ministry has asked Interpol to help arrest a “Cambodian living abroad” it believes is responsible for doctoring and circulating an image of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s wife, according to a ministry spokesman. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-seeks-to-arrest-photoshopper-abroad/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Anthony Jensen and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-seeks-to-arrest-photoshopper-abroad-105899/
NGO notes uptick in gov’t ‘threats’ against online posters
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights released a public notice on Monday noting a “substantial increase” in the number of people being charged for making anti-government or anti-Hun Sen comments in social media. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngo-notes-uptick-in-govt-threats-against-online-posters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-notes-uptick-govt-threats-against-online-posters
Police put an end to gathering of farmers in Prey Veng
Police who shut down a gathering of 30 people in a private home in Prey Veng province yesterday justified the action by saying the organisers had failed to notify the district governor in writing beforehand. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-put-an-end-to-gathering-of-farmers-in-prey-veng/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-put-end-gathering-farmers-prey-veng
Testing doctors possible: Ministry
The Ministry of Health (MoH) intends to discuss with Dr. Beat Richner the possibility of organizing a test for doctors in private clinics throughout the Kingdom about their professional knowledge, a spokesman confirmed yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/testing-doctors-possible-ministry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28044/testing-doctors-possible--ministry/
Cambodia lodges complaint over Vietnam border outpost
The government has sent Hanoi a formal letter to complain about an outpost it claims Vietnam is building along a disputed stretch of border where both governments have supposedly agreed to refrain from any development. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/%e1%9e%81%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%98%e1%9f%82%e1%9e%9a-cambodia-lodges-complaint-over-vietnam-border-outpost/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ouch Sony and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-lodges-complaint-vietnam-border-outpost-116486/
Senator’s son-in-law rejects land grab claim
The son-in-law of Senator Kok an has rejected accusations the tycoon is attempting to grab six hectares of land from a plot he sold to a South Korean development company 10 years ago. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/senators-son-in-law-rejects-land-grab-claim/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/senators-son-law-rejects-land-grab-claim
Unlicensed doctor flees after patient dies in Kompong Thom
A doctor is on the run following the deAth of A young womAn in Kompong Thom province, who died on FridAy After receiving An injection from the doctor At An unlicensed clinic, police sAid SundAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/unlicensed-doctor-flees-After-pAtient-dies-in-kompong-thom/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unlicensed-doctor-flees-after-patient-dies-in-kompong-thom-95616/