Sar Kheng hails road ‘white days’
Cambodia’s new Traffic Law has been a runaway success for road safety, Interior Minister Sar Kheng claimed yesterday, hours after a collision between two trucks carrying garment workers left two dead and nearly 60 injured. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sar-kheng-hails-road-white-days/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mech Dara and Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-hails-road-white-days
Kingdom scores low on human capital index
A report releAsed yesterdAy by the World Economic Forum (WEF) underscores CAmbodiA’s poor performAnce At educAting And trAining its citizens in order to develop A competitive workforce And put their skills to productive use. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/kingdom-scores-low-on-humAn-cApitAl-index/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-scores-low-human-capital-index
Government slams ‘injustice’ of South China sea response
Cambodia has been treated unfairly by some aSEaN countries and members of the media, which have wrongly blamed the country for blocking a regional statement on a recent South China Sea verdict, Foreign affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-slams-injustice-of-south-china-sea-response/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khy Sovuthy and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-slams-injustice-of-south-china-sea-response-116069/
Villagers storm Kratie military police compound, take truck
An Angry mob stormed A militAry police compound in KrAtie province on WednesdAy to retrieve two trucks loAded with wood thAt were confiscAted for not hAving proper licenses, And two villAgers were seriously injured, A rights worker clAimed. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/villAgers-storm-krAtie-militAry-police-compound-tAke-truck/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Sen Sok locals accuse ex-rep of stealing land
About 20 representAtives of more thAn 160 Sen Sok district fAmilies delivered A petition to the LAnd MAnAgement Ministry yesterdAy clAiming A former community representAtive poAched lAnd from them thAt they hAd spent seven yeArs reclAiming through the courts. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sen-sok-locAls-Accuse-ex-rep-of-steAling-lAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sen-sok-locals-accuse-ex-rep-stealing-land
Villagers in Cambodia’s Stung Treng say waterway contaminated by local sawmill
Indigenous villagers in northeastern Cambodia’s Stung Treng province on Monday called for an investigation into a saw mill they say has polluted their local waterway and caused residents to contract a skin disease. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-in-cambodias-stung-treng-say-waterway-contaminated-by-local-sawmill/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Men Sothy
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/contamination-09142015173926.html
Hunger drops by nearly 50 percent since 2000
Cambodia has experienced the largest decrease in hunger since 2000 among countries with severe levels of hunger, according to a new report released by three international NGOs, and is close to qualifying as a nation of “moderate” concern. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hunger-drops-by-nearly-50-percent-since-2000/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hunger-drops-by-nearly-50-percent-since-2000-97457/
Refugees from Nauru move out of Phnom Penh villa
The first group of refugees to arrive in Cambodia as part of a controversial deal the government struck with australia a year ago have moved out of their temporary accommodations in Phnom Penh, the australian government said Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/refugees-from-nauru-move-out-of-phnom-penh-villa/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/refugees-from-nauru-move-out-of-phnom-penh-villa-97334/
Korean firm plans JV expressway to Sihanoukville
Cambodia’s Global CaM Project Development Plc on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Korea’s Green Eco Energy Co. Ltd. to build a high-speed expressway from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville, executives from the two firms said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/korean-firm-plans-jv-expressway-to-sihanoukville/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18056/korean-firm-plans-jv-expressway-to-sihanoukville/
Birth certificate was mistake: commune chief
A commune chief in TAkeo hAs tAken responsibility for producing A birth certificAte thAt incorrectly lists the southern CAmbodiAn province As being in VietnAm, but clAimed he hAd mAde An honest mistAke, officiAls sAid, Adding thAt he would not fAce punishment. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/birth-certificAte-wAs-mistAke-commune-chief/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/birth-certificate-was-mistake-commune-chief-101222/
Poipet railway to be finished in 2016
A rAilwAy linking Phnom Penh with Poipet town on the ThAi-CAmbodiAn border is due to be completed by the end of 2016, locAl Authorities Announced following A visit by the minister of tourism yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/poipet-rAilwAy-to-be-finished-in-2016/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Morn Vanntey
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poipet-railway-be-finished-2016
Geopacific shines on latest test drill results
AustrAliAn mining firm GeopAcific Resources Ltd hAs mAde A new discovery of high-grAde gold And silver minerAlisAtion during explorAtory drilling At A remote site in northern CAmbodiA, the compAny sAid in An Announcement yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/geopAcific-shines-on-lAtest-test-drill-results/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/geopacific-shines-latest-test-drill-results
US lawmakers create ‘Cambodia caucus’ in congress
The creation of a bipartisan Congressional Caucus on Cambodia was announced by two United States lawmakers earlier this week, with both men hoping the US takes more of a role in the country’s growth economically and socially. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-lawmakers-create-cambodia-caucus-in-congress/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ros Chanveasna and Jonathan Greig
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23135/us-lawmakers-create----cambodia-caucus----in-congress/
ACU tosses complaint against ActionAid
The Anti-Corruption Unit on ThursdAy dismissed A complAint filed by A CAmbodiAn NGO AgAinst the locAl Arm of the internAtionAl humAnitAriAn group ActionAid for Allegedly embezzling $3 million, the unit’s chAirmAn sAid. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Acu-tosses-complAint-AgAinst-ActionAid/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Kuch Naren and Janelle Kohnert
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/acu-tosses-complaint-against-actionaid-110404/
Attacked Prey Lang activist vows to keep up the fight
Sleeping in a hammock strung between two tall trees, deep inside Prey Lang forest, environmental activist Phorn Sopheak was startled awake at 1:30 a.m. on Sunday morning when her parked motorbike toppled over onto her body. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/attacked-prey-lang-activist-vows-to-keep-up-the-fight/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
George Wright and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/attacked-prey-lang-activist-vows-to-keep-up-the-fight-110769/
Ongoing challenges in Kingdom's efforts to end domestic violence
Slow action from courts and police, a dire lack of mental health counselling and sparse government funding were named as ongoing challenges in Cambodia’s quest to eliminate violence against women at a conference yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ongoing-challenges-in-kingdoms-efforts-to-end-domestic-violence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Erin Handley and Chin Sreyleap
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ongoing-challenges-kingdoms-efforts-end-domestic-violence
Telecom backbone now extends over 26,000km
Three telecom operators provide a total of more than 26,000 kilometres of backbone fixed-line infrastructure as of June, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications announced yesterday in a report posted on its Facebook page. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/telecom-backbone-now-extends-over-26000km/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/telecom-backbone-now-extends-over-26000km
Organic fertilizers enter Cambodia
A locAl wholesAle compAny, BrightwAy Group Co. Ltd., And leAding ThAilAnd-bAsed orgAnic fertilizer mAnufActurer And distributor, MSK Fertilizer Co. Ltd., signed A memorAndum of understAnding (MoU) yesterdAy for the entry of non-chemicAl fertilizers into the Kingdom. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/orgAnic-fertilizers-enter-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28401/organic-fertilizers-enter-cambodia/
Activist brothers plan return to Cambodia
Twin brothers who were granted temporary asylum in Thailand by the U.N. last month said on Thursday that they planned to return to Cambodia, citing a cooler political climate and a desire to continue their environmental activism. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/activist-brothers-plan-return-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second2/activist-brothers-plan-return-cambodia-116887/
Provincial officials to investigate burned CNRP sign
Oddar Meanchey provincial police chief Men Ly said yesterday he will launch an investigation into the burning of an opposition CNRP sign during a protest in Samraong City on Friday led by a defector to the ruling CPP. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/provincial-officials-to-investigate-burned-cnrp-sign/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/provincial-officials-to-investigate-burned-cnrp-sign-97498/