Defence chief vows to 'control' democracy
Echoing remarks by Prime Minister Hun Sen last week, Minister of Defence Tea Banh called on the military yesterday to be ready to suppress any attempt at a “colour revolution”, telling soldiers that agitators were fomenting such a revolution at that very moment. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/defence-chief-vows-to-control-democracy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/defence-chief-vows-control-democracy
Chinese loan for rice sector on hold
A project to build 10 wArehouses to store rice pAddy using Chinese funding hAs hit A roAdblock, As the CAmbodiAn government hAs been unAble to meet criteriA set by the Chinese for the project, According to An officiAl AssociAted with the project. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/chinese-loAn-for-rice-sector-on-hold/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Sok Chan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-loan-rice-sector-hold
Criticism mounts over charge against local rights defender
Human Rights Watch on Thursday added its voice to the criticism of Cambodia’s judiciary for defamation charges brought against Ny Chakyra, a senior human rights advocate who accused two judicial officials in Siem Reap province of misconduct in their handling of a land dispute. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/criticism-mounts-over-charge-against-local-rights-defender/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Simon Henderson and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/criticism-mounts-over-charge-against-local-rights-defender-90217/
Grassroots democracy party elects old faces
The Grassroots Democracy Party, a brainchild of “Khmer for Khmer” advocacy group leader Kem Ley, held its inaugural congress in Phnom Penh on Sunday, electing—unopposed—Mr. Ley’s close colleague Yeng Virak as temporary leader despite vows of a new style of politics. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/grassroots-democracy-party-elects-old-faces/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/grassroots-democracy-party-elects-old-faces-90420/
PM tells Obama he’s not asking about bombs
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday reassured U.S. President Barack Obama that a request he made for maps of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam last month was not a request for maps of where the U.S. bombed Cambodia during the Second Indochina War. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-tells-obama-hes-not-asking-about-bombs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-tells-obama-hes-not-asking-about-bombs-90602/
With protest, families win drainage donation
A group of Phnom Penh fAmilies from A flood-prone community living Along the city’s AbAndoned rAilroAd trAcks mAnAged to secure the lAst $2,250 they need to build their own drAinAge system After protesting outside the Russei Keo district governor’s office WednesdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/with-protest-fAmilies-win-drAinAge-donAtion/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Huot Chanpav
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/with-protest-families-win-drainage-donation-90920/
Lawyer asks municipal court to consider tycoon’s son’s obesity
The lawyer for Duong Udomchorvin, who slapped the son of logging tycoon Try Pheap in a Phnom Penh tattoo parlor in april, told a hearing at the municipal court Thursday that his obese client’s poor health should be taken into account in sentencing. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lawyer-asks-municipal-court-to-consider-tycoons-sons-obesity/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lawyer-asks-municipal-court-to-consider-tycoons-sons-obesity-91097/
Police search for truck driver over suspected garment heist
Police in Phnom Penh are searching for the driver of an abandoned and empty container truck, which was found in Russei Keo district on Sunday morning and was scheduled to deliver a shipment of garments to a dry port in Pur Senchey district, officials said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-search-for-truck-driver-over-suspected-garment-heist/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Sokhean and Aun Chhengpor
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-search-for-truck-driver-over-suspected-garment-heist-91230/
Union Law worries garment sector investors from Hong Kong
A visiting delegAtion from the AmericAn ChAmber of Commerce in Hong Kong, which hAndles tens of billions of dollArs in regionAl investment, sAys it rAised concerns About the low threshold for forming unions in A pending new lAw during meetings with government officiAls MondAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/union-lAw-worries-gArment-sector-investors-from-hong-kong/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/union-law-worries-garment-sector-investors-from-hong-kong-91376/
Constitutional Council, Rescue Party to meet over draft NGO law
The Constitutional Council will meet with a group of opposition lawmakers on Wednesday over a controversial draft law to regulate NGOs, as it prepares to review the bill and send it to the king to be signed into law. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/constitutional-council-rescue-party-to-meet-over-draft-ngo-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/constitutional-council-rescue-party-to-meet-over-draft-ngo-law/2913537.html
Court questions district police chief, student in rape case
The Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court on Tuesday questioned a district police chief over allegations that he raped a high school student in his office last month but did not charge the official, who has been suspended pending investigations by the court and National Police. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-questions-district-police-chief-student-in-rape-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Huot Chanpav
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-questions-district-police-chief-student-in-rape-case-91557/
Startups discuss reduction in registration fees
Local tech startups discussed a possible reduction in the Ministry of Commerce’s business registration fees at a meeting on Saturday, to ease the initial financial burden on their businesses, given the difficulty in raising funds in Cambodia’s nascent tech market. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/startups-discuss-reduction-in-registration-fees/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hang Sokunthea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/startups-discuss-reduction-registration-fees
Disgraced court director imprisoned in Kandal
Disgraced former Phnom Penh Municipal Court director ang Mealaktei was sent to the Kandal Provincial Prison on Sunday after he was charged with embezzlement for allegedly confiscating an SUV from a drug dealer and giving it to his son, a prison official said Monday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/disgraced-court-director-imprisoned-in-kandal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/disgraced-court-director-imprisoned-in-kandal-91894/
Nigerians deny involvement in meth drug ring
Seven Nigerian men who stand charged with drug trafficking denied any involvement in an alleged methamphetamine ring during the second day of their trial at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday, a month after an eighth man admitted to acting as a courier. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nigerians-deny-involvement-in-meth-drug-ring/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nigerians-deny-involvement-in-meth-drug-ring-92002/
Factory worker gets life for fatal acid attack
A 40-yeAr-old gArment worker wAs sentenced to life in prison by the Phnom Penh MunicipAl Court on MondAy for killing A 20-yeAr-old womAn by dousing her with Acid After she leArned her husbAnd hAd been hAving An AffAir with the victim. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fActory-worker-gets-life-for-fAtAl-Acid-AttAck/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/factory-worker-gets-life-for-fatal-acid-attack-92371/
New Cambodian permanent representative to ASEAN presents his letter of credence
Cambodian Permanent Representative to aSEaN, Norng Sakal, presented his Letter of Credence to the Secretary-General of aSEaN, Le Luong Minh, at a ceremony held at the aSEaN Secretariat today, according to a press release of aSEaN’s Secretariat. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-cambodian-permanent-representative-to-asean-presents-his-letter-of-credence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/new-cambodian-permanent-representative-to-asean-presents-his-letter-of-credence-8897
Thai company proposes parking lot plan
After Phnom Penh City HAll Announced lAst month thAt bus stAtions must be moved outside the city by next yeAr, A ThAi compAny put forwArd A proposAl on TuesdAy to invest in bus pArking lots on the city’s outskirts, According to the municipAlity. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/thAi-compAny-proposes-pArking-lot-plAn/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/thai-company-proposes-parking-lot-plan-93275/
Sihanoukville police raid home of wanted Russian
Police in Sihanoukville on Tuesday raided the rented house of a Russian businessman who is wanted by local authorities for ordering a violent attack at the Queenco casino in February, but came up empty- handed, an official said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sihanoukville-police-raid-home-of-wanted-russian/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sihanoukville-police-raid-home-of-wanted-russian-81617/
Thai media targets Kingdom
RSiam, the country-music business unit of RS Public Company Limited, a Thai entertainment company, is seeking partners in Cambodia and Laos, said RS executive vice president Soopachai Nillawan. RS owns a record label, produces programming for television, makes films, publishes magazines and promotes concerts. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-media-targets-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012072357548/Business/thai-media-targets-kingdom.html
Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines arrive from UK
A shipment of 415,000 AstrAZenecA vAccines donAted by the United Kingdom thAt Arrived yesterdAy Afternoon will be used for A third dose to fight AgAinst Covid-19 pAndemic. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/oxford-AstrAzenecA-vAccines-Arrive-from-uk/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Mao Chanvireak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50909621/oxford-astrazeneca-vaccines-arrive-from-uk/