Royal railways considering airport train
Royal Railways is conducting a feasibility study on a rail line that would whisk passengers from the center of Phnom Penh to the airport in less than 15 minutes, the company’s CEO said on Wednesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/royal-railways-considering-airport-train/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/royal-railways-considering-airport-train-112496/
Meat seized; sellers flee from Stung Treng market
Local authorities confiscated more than 30 kilograms of rare wildlife meat being illegally sold yesterday during a second raid in eight days at a market in Stung Treng province, though once again, no arrests were made. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/meat-seized-sellers-flee-from-stung-treng-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/meat-seized-sellers-flee-stung-treng-market
Krungsri expects more growth from Cambodian MFI
Thailand’s Bank of ayudhya released its first financial statement since completing its acquisition of Cambodian microlender Hattha Kaksekar Ltd (HKL) last month, showing a quarterly net profit increase of 10.6 percent from a year earlier. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/krungsri-expects-more-growth-from-cambodian-mfi/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/krungsri-expects-more-growth-cambodian-mfi
Court taxes unemployed workers
About 100 workers from the Chung FAi KnitweAr fActory in Phnom Penh’s MeAnchey district protested in front of the cApitAl’s municipAl court yesterdAy, demAnding A judge remove A fee they Are unAble to pAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/court-tAxes-unemployed-workers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35171/court-taxes-unemployed-workers/
Ministry to push quality control
The Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts (MIH) has started a laboratory and a department to check on the quality and safety of local products to be exported, state news agency aKP reported yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-to-push-quality-control/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37270/ministry-to-push-quality-control/
Vietnam pledges $25m to cambodia for national assembly building
Vietnam has pledged $25 million to Cambodia to build a new National assembly secretariat building in Phnom Penh, while also promising greater cooperation on a range of issues between the two nations, officials said on Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnam-pledges-25m-to-cambodia-for-national-assembly-building/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Information Ministry official denies wrongdoing following anti-corruption body’s allegations
A Ministry of InformAtion depArtment director denied wrongdoing yesterdAy After the Anti-Corruption Unit releAsed A letter on FridAy detAiling AllegAtions of bribery, nepotism And improper hiring prActices, As well As the Accused officiAl’s response. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/informAtion-ministry-officiAl-denies-wrongdoing-following-Anti-corruption-bodys-AllegAtions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Central surveillance control room to coordinate crimewatch
Surveillance cameras set up throughout the capital will be synchronized and monitored nonstop from a central control room as part of a coordinated crimewatch effort between City Hall and the National Police, officials said on Tuesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/central-surveillance-control-room-to-coordinate-crimewatch/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phan Soumy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/central-surveillance-control-room-to-coordinate-crimewatch-132414/
Provinces now responsible for state-run orphanages
The Ministry of Social affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation yesterday issued a sub-decree delegating responsibility for state-run childcare centres to sub-national levels in a bid to streamline aid to victims of child abuse. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/provinces-now-responsible-for-state-run-orphanages/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5075389/provinces-now-responsible-state-run-orphanages/
Families not included in land dispute resolution
Representatives for 15 families involved in a long-standing land dispute in Koh Kong province complained that authorities failed to find a resolution for them, despite providing compensation for 170 other families in the same area. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-not-included-in-land-dispute-resolution/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-not-included-land-dispute-resolution
CNRP members ‘seek asylum’
Members of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party have started applying for asylum in other countries amid a tightening crackdown on the party at home, according to a senior party official who is himself seeking asylum. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-members-seek-asylum/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-members-seek-asylum
Kampong Speu fruit processing factory breaks ground
Construction began yesterday on a $10 million factory in Kampong Speu province to process fresh fruit for international export, a first for Cambodia, though agriculture Ministry officials could not confirm it would meet international standards yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampong-speu-fruit-processing-factory-breaks-ground/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kampong-speu-fruit-processing-factory-breaks-ground
Foreign Minister hopes trip to Indonesia will boost relations
Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn will travel to Indonesia for a three-day goodwill visit to boost bilateral ties between the two countries from tomorrow until Saturday, according to a statement from the Foreign affairs Ministry yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/foreign-minister-hopes-trip-to-indonesia-will-boost-relations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50105501/foreign-minister-hopes-trip-to-indonesia-will-boost-relations/
UN report highlights escalation of tensions in Cambodia
Shrinking political and civic space in the Kingdom is highlighted in a new report from the United Nations’ human rights commissioner and secretary-general ahead of a UN Human Rights Council discussion this month on Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-report-highlights-escalation-of-tensions-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-report-highlights-escalation-tensions-cambodia
Tourism sector ‘needs 200K new workers’
A Ministry of Tourism officiAl Announced yesterdAy thAt the country would need An AdditionAl 200,000 trAined tourism professionAls if it wAs to fulfill its tArget of receiving 7 million internAtionAl tourists A yeAr by 2020. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/tourism-sector-needs-200k-new-workers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tourism-sector-needs-200k-new-workers
Logging busts persist as tycoon implicated
Two separate timber busts in recent days netted some 300 pieces of illegally transported wood in Stung Treng belonging to a prominent businessman, and several hidden timber stockpiles at a military officer’s Kampong Speu lumberyard. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/logging-busts-persist-as-tycoon-implicated/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-busts-persist-tycoon-implicated
Encryption aid deal inked
Vietnam inked a deal with Cambodia on Friday to provide more than half a million dollars’ worth of training in encryption coding, prompting some to question the wisdom of accepting foreign help to protect state secrets. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/encryption-aid-deal-inked/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/encryption-aid-deal-inked
Emirates set to launch flights to Phnom Penh
Emirates airlines will expand its presence in Cambodia by launching a daily passenger flight between Dubai and Phnom Penh, with a stopover in Yangon, as part of the Dubai-based carrier’s push into the region. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/emirates-set-to-launch-flights-to-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/emirates-set-launch-flights-phnom-penh
Japan wades in on Tonle Sap algae
The Japan International Cooperation agency has agreed to oversee a project to help recover water quality in the Tonle Sap lake in response to the appearance of a large bloom of algae. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-wades-in-on-tonle-sap-algae/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36423/japan-wades-in--on-tonle-sap-algae/
Royal representative denies claims
A representAtive of business mogul Kith Meng’s RoyAl Group yesterdAy hit bAck At A report published by the NAtionAl Police Accusing the compAny of lAundering illegAl timber through the Lower SesAn II hydro power project. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/royAl-representAtive-denies-clAims/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/royal-representative-denies-claims