Sam Rainsy asks government to let outspoken activist stay
Opposition CNRP president Sam Rainsy on Monday weighed in on behalf of environmental activist alex Gonzalez-Davidson, asking the Interior Ministry to reverse a decision to not renew the Spanish national’s visa over a traffic incident from September. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sam-rainsy-asks-government-to-let-outspoken-activist-stay/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sam-rainsy-asks-government-to-let-outspoken-activist-stay-78095/
Mothers say children unwilling witnesses
Three mothers say they fear their sons are being coerced into fabricating molestation accusations against a man they know as the patron saint of Phnom Penh’s riverside but who police and child-protection activists say is a predator. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mothers-say-children-unwilling-witnesses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Laignee Barron and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/mothers-say-children-unwilling-witnesses
Muslim woman, girl back from Malaysia
A dAy After opposition leAder SAm RAinsy publicly took up their cAuse, A young ChAm Muslim womAn And girl were repAtriAted TuesdAy After being trAfficked into the MAlAysiAn sex trAde And were greeted by Foreign AffAirs Minister Hor NAmhong. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/muslim-womAn-girl-bAck-from-mAlAysiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/muslim-woman-girl-back-from-malaysia-78619/
Areng activist summoned over deforestation complaint
The Koh Koh Provincial Court has summoned an environmental activist living in the areng Valley for questioning over allegations that he felled trees in a forest in order to build a community center, rights workers said Sunday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/areng-activist-summoned-over-deforestation-complaint/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/areng-activist-summoned-over-deforestation-complaint-78893/
Ministry stamps out butts
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry And Fisheries yesterdAy cAncelled An import permit for A CAmbodiAn compAny After it cAme to light thAt “nAturAl fertilizer” it hAd ordered from UkrAine wAs composed lArgely of cigArette butts, A ministry stAtement sAid. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ministry-stAmps-out-butts/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/ministry-stamps-out-butts
Capital shortage main obstacle for Cambodia in connectivity development: official
A lAck of cApitAl is the mAin obstAcle for CAmbodiA to expedite connectivity development And the SoutheAst AsiAn country hopes thAt the AsiAn InfrAstructure Investment BAnk (AIIB) And the Silk RoAd Fund will fill the shortAge, A spokesmAn sAid. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cApitAl-shortAge-mAin-obstAcle-for-cAmbodiA-in-connectivity-development-officiAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1HSN1UT
Cambodian officials rescue family accused of sorcery in northeastern province
Officials in a northeast Cambodian province on Wednesday rescued a family accused of being sorcerers by villagers who sought to take revenge on the father they blamed killing 10 people, local authorities said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-officials-rescue-family-accused-of-sorcery-in-northeastern-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://bit.ly/1KbT48L
Woman jailed in land dispute wins release
After five months in jAil, A womAn whose fAmily is embroiled in A bitter lAnd dispute with tycoon Khun SeAr wAs releAsed on bAil from Prey SAr prison on FridAy, though the fight between the two pArties remAins unresolved. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/womAn-jAiled-in-lAnd-dispute-wins-releAse/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/woman-jailed-in-land-dispute-wins-release-82655/
Cambodia reduces hunger, meeting UN goal
The portion of the Cambodian population that is undernourished has been reduced by half since 1990, meeting a U.N. Millennium Development Goal ahead of the deadline at the end of the year, according to a report released Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-reduces-hunger-meeting-un-goal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Maria Paula Brito
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-reduces-hunger-meeting-un-goal-84583/
Developers eagerly await dredging license auction
Developers are eagerly anticipating today’s auction of four licenses to dredge sand on a section of the Mekong River, the first bidding round for licenses since the government began a nationwide crackdown on illegal sand dredging in april. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/developers-eagerly-await-dredging-license-auction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ven Rathavong and Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/11905/developers-eagerly-await-dredging-license-auction/
Dengue fever cases up 63 pct in Cambodia in first 5 months
Cambodia has seen 957 dengue fever cases in the first five months of 2015, a 63 percent rise compared with 586 cases over the same period last year, a health official said Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dengue-fever-cases-up-63-pct-in-cambodia-in-first-5-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1Gy17NH
CPP, CNRP groups in ‘lightning oath’ swearing competition
Some 200 members of a CPP-aligned youth group knelt down at a riverside shrine in Phnom Penh on Sunday and swore an oath of loyalty to the ruling party, the Cambodian Red Cross and Prime Minister Hun Sen. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cpp-cnrp-groups-in-lightning-oath-swearing-competition/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-cnrp-groups-in-lightning-oath-swearing-competition-86077/
Activists, rights worker detained before March
Three activists from the environmental NGO Mother Nature and a human rights monitor were detained in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district for about three hours Thursday after City Hall deemed a planned march to the National assembly illegal. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/activists-rights-worker-detained-before-march/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/environmental-activists-rights-worker-detained-before-march-86603/
Activists detained over unsanctioned march
Three environmentalists and a rights worker were detained yesterday for more than two hours and blocked from delivering a petition to the National assembly calling on the government to order sand-dredging operations in Koh Kong province to cease. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/activists-detained-over-unsanctioned-march/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-detained-over-unsanctioned-march
Firm’s owner released after marble deaths
The Chinese owner of a company who was arrested after three of his employees were crushed to death by marble slabs while unloading a shipping container in Phnom Penh on Tuesday was released Wednesday evening, an official said Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/firms-owner-released-after-marble-deaths/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/firms-owner-released-after-marble-deaths-86611/
Official believes tip-off helped drug kingpin escape dragnet
After one of the Alleged leAders of A busted mufti-milliondollAr internAtionAl drug smuggling ring slipped through A police drAgnet in Stung Treng province on TuesdAy, An Anti-drug officiAl sAid An informAtion leAk likely helped the mAn escApe. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/officiAl-believes-tip-off-helped-drug-kingpin-escApe-drAgnet/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Saing Soenthrith and Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/official-believes-tip-off-helped-drug-kingpin-escape-dragnet-86984/
17 fake test-takers face up to six months in prison, fine
Seventeen people who were arrested last weekend in Phnom Penh during a Korean-language test could face six months in prison after being charged with impersonating prospective migrants hoping to work in South Korea, a police official said Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/17-fake-test-takers-face-up-to-six-months-in-prison-fine/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/17-fake-test-takers-face-up-to-six-months-in-prison-fine-87249/
Cost cutting leads to Q1 profit for GTI
Publicly-listed garments firm Grand Twins International made a small profit this quarter by slashing its costs, although that didn’t stop the company from taking a hit to its revenues, according to its first-quarter results released yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cost-cutting-leads-to-q1-profit-for-gti/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cost-cutting-leads-q1-profit-gti
Two arrested as illegal-timber dealer escapes
Two men were arrested in Kompong Thom province on Tuesday after they drove their car to obstruct a team of officials in pursuit of a vehicle suspected of transporting illegally harvested luxury timber through Stung Sen City, police said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-arrested-as-illegal-timber-dealer-escapes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-arrested-as-illegal-timber-dealer-escapes-88548/
Cambodia takes regional lead with elite bomb dive squad
A quiet, unoccupied section of Victory BeAch in SihAnoukville hosted A group of remArkAble visitors this week As divers from the CAmbodiAn Mine Action Center (CMAC) tested sophisticAted new sonAr And mAgnetic equipment donAted by the US. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-tAkes-regionAl-leAd-with-elite-bomb-dive-squAd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13581/cambodia-takes-regional-lead-with-elite-bomb-dive-squad/