Miners encroaching: villagers
Hun Sen&rSquo;S army of Student land meaSurerS may have marked ground for them in 2012, but repreSentativeS of about 20 ethnic familieS in Ratanakkiri province Said yeSterday that their combined 50 hectareS of land haS now been invaded by hordeS of familieS digging for gemS. Chhay SS='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/miners-encroaching-villagers
Police officer called to face logging allegations
A commune police officer has been summonsed to appear at Ratanakkiri’s provincial court on Friday after 10 villagers filed lawsuits against him in september for his alleged involvement in illegal logging in a community forest and for threatening them with a rifle, villagers and the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-officer-called-face-logging-allegations
Cambodia's banks see robust growth in recent years: PM
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen said Tuesday that the country’s banking sector has enjoyed strong growth in recent years and urged the banks to increase their lending to agriculture. According to the report of the National Bank of Cambodia, lending at the kingdom’s 34 commercial banks ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=204458
Be up front with NEC plans, CNRP tells CPP
A day after opposition leader sam Rainsy said election reform talks were being “cut off” due to ruling party intransigence on the issue of National Election Committee reform, the opposition has asked the Cambodian People’s Party to officially declare its stance on the matter. senior CPP ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/be-front-nec-plans-cnrp-tells-cpp
Prisoners queue up for possible New Year's pardons
More than 600 of the Kingdom’s inmates could be released or see their sentences reduced this Khmer New Year if the King responds favourably to a request made yesterday by the Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Prisons, officials said. Kuy Bunsorn, director general of the ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prisoners-queue-possible-new-years-pardons
Year-on-year dengue cases drop sharply
Dengue fever deaths and infections have fallen dramatically during the first two-and-a-half months of this year compared to the same period in 2013, according to the government’s latest figures. Nhan Chantha, head of the Health Ministry’s national dengue control program, said his staff recorded one death ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/year-on-year-dengue-cases-drop-sharply-58664/
Villagers shoot slingshots in land dispute battle
A bloody slingshot battle broke out in Kompong speu province yesterday when villagers who have sold their land to a private company defended the firm’s machinery as it attempted to bulldoze the homes of neighbors who have refused to sell. The dispute, in Thpong district’s Ya ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-shoot-slingshots-in-land-dispute-battle-62582/
Activists deny property damage charge in court
Nine environmental activists on trial for the destruction of private property in Kompong Thom province denied allegations in court Monday that they ravaged a local farmer’s cassava field in 2011. The nine members of the Prey Long People’s Network, a group of activists dedicated to protecting ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/activists-deny-property-damage-charge-in-court-64613/
Cambodia inaugurates China-funded Senate buildings
The Cambodian Senate on Monday inaugurated three office buildingS, which were conStructed under the ChineSe grant aid of 7.7 million U.S. dollarS. The inauguration waS preSided over by Say Chhum, Acting- PreSident of the Cambodian Senate, and ChineSe AmbaSSador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo, and waS attended SS='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-01/20/c_133058978.htm
Ranariddh to re-enter politics with new party
Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who became first prime minister of Cambodia after the 1993 U.N.-sponsored elections, will form a new party and re-enter the political arena, according to his cabinet chief. “The prince has a plan to create a new party,” said Naranarith Anandayath, chief of Prince ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ranariddh-to-re-enter-politics-with-new-party-53156/
To honour Chut Wutty
Nearly two years have passed since Cambodia’s leading forestry activist, Chut Wutty, was gunned down in the Cardamom Mountains. After a long wait, more than 100 activists, supporters and monks will finally make the pilgrimage on saturday to the spot where he was killed to pay ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/honour-chut-wutty
Failing to sew up support
Cambodian stockbrokers yesterday admitted to a disappointing level of investor interest in Grand Twins International’s (GTI) initial public offering. Garment industry unrest, distrust in the private sector and a lack of liquidity in the market were all said to be discouraging investors from buying into the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/failing-sew-support
Ex-KR soldiers lock in land-dispute meeting
Seventy-four former Khmer Rouge SoldierS fighting for land they claim the government granted them in the 1990S have agreed to meet with the military commanderS who allegedly Sold the parcelS for perSonal profit. The meeting, Scheduled for TueSday, followS a week after a pair repreSentativeS for SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ex-kr-soldiers-lock-land-dispute-meeting
NGOs say input and transparency are key
In the wake of a speech by Prime Minister Hun sen denouncing civil society’s criticism of the way that three judiciary laws sailed through the Council of Ministers without outside input or transparency, NGOs released an open letter yesterday calling for the Kingdom’s renewed commitment ss='cambodia-color'>...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-say-input-and-transparency-are-key
For communities, threats routine
Two disputes involving a land developer with ties to the highest ranks of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party have once again exposed the lack of justice faced by impoverished communities in the capital, affected residents and rights groups have said. In Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel Pye and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/communities-threats-routine
Border chaos claims 2 more
A second deadly car accident in as many days has claimed the lives of more Cambodian migrant workers fleeing Thailand in the wake of last month’s military takeover. At least two undocumented Cambodian workers were killed while driving through Thailand’s Chonburi province to get to the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/border-chaos-claims-2-more
Gov’t continues to seek new markets
The Ministry of Commerce has vowed to uncover more markets for Cambodian products to help buffer against price fluctuations caused by the Kingdom’s dependency on neighboring countries. In a response to concerns raised on social media, Commerce Minister sun Chanthol wrote on the ministry’s official Facebook ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gov%E2%80%99t-continues-seek-new-markets
New wolf snake discovered in Cambodia
A distinctive new wolf snake species discovered in Cambodia has been named in honour of Zoos Victoria, recognising their support provided to Fauna & Flora International’s (FFI) studies in the Cardamom Mountains over the last few years. The wolf snake is the latest species to be ss='cambodia-color'>...
AsianScientist News Staff
http://www.asianscientist.com/in-the-lab/wolf-snake-discovered-cambodia-2014/
Justice and Soul Opens 1st Cosmetology School in Cambodia
The Justice and soul Foundation has opened its first cosmetology school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The Kate Korpi salon has been built to teach sustainable cosmetology skills to survivors of the sex trafficking industry. What started as an idea discussed over a cup of coffee five ss='cambodia-color'>...
Stacey Soble
http://www.salontoday.com/news/salon-business/Justice-and-Soul-Opens-1st-Cosmetology-School-in-Cambodia-270327121.html
Protesting families demand answers from ADB
Phnom Penh families who face losing a part of their land to a railway rehabilitation project being funded primarily by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) protested in front of the bank’s country headquarters Monday over what they say has been a lack of transparency about ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/protesting-families-demand-answers-from-adb-66271/