Land-grab complaint against ANZ filed with OECD
NGOs have filed a new complaint against Australia’s ANZ Bank claiming it owes compensation to 681 Cambodian families who say their farms were illegally grabbed by a sugarcane plantation the bank helped to finance. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/land-grab-complaint-against-anz-filed-with-oecd-69444/
Judges need regulations: legal expert
Following days of high-profile convictions and charges dealt at breakneck speed, based on little evidence and little investigation, a prominent legal expert said yesterday that the law “needs to be updated” to change Cambodia’s widely decried court system. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alice Cuddy
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/judges-need-regulations-legal-expert
NA commission member visits K Chhnang KDC site
After promising in september to quickly resolve a years-long land dispute involving villagers and the politically connected development company KDC International, a member of the National Assembly’s human rights commission visited affected families in Kampong Chhnang province yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/na-commission-member-visits-k-chhnang-kdc-site
Siem Reap police chief named as conspirator in corruption case
Siem Reap provincial police chief Sorth Nady haS been named aS a conSpirator in a complaint to the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) that accuSeS the provincial force&rSquo;S perSonnel chief of Soliciting bribeS for promotionS and embezzling money from Salary bookS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hun Sen knocks Obama visit
Prime Minister Hun sen took aim at Michelle Obama yesterday, accusing the Us first lady of making false promises, while suggesting her visit last weekend was more about hopeful rhetoric rather than implementing concrete improvements in the country’s education sector. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tat Oudom and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/hun-sen-knocks-obama-visit
Hun Sen knocks Obama visit
Prime Minister Hun sen took aim at Michelle Obama yesterday, accusing the Us first lady of making false promises, while suggesting her visit last weekend was more about hopeful rhetoric rather than implementing concrete improvements in the country’s education sector. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tat Oudom and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/hun-sen-knocks-obama-visit
Biodiversity gathering kicks off
The ninth annual conference of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation’s Asia-Pacific chapter commenced in Phnom Penh yesterday, assembling a host of academics, conservation workers and policymakers to address local and global challenges facing biodiversity in tropical Asia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/biodiversity-gathering-kicks
Justice minister seeks briefing over years-old land dispute
The justice minister on Wednesday wrote to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court requesting that the judge in charge of a case surrounding a long-running land dispute report to the ministry, following intervention from the National Assembly’s human rights commission. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/justice-minister-seeks-topic-over-years-old-land-dispute-81308/
Cease and desist: Firm ordered to stop filling Kandal lake
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology has ordered provincial authorities to stop Vattanac Properties, a land developer, from filling in a lake in Kandal’s Kien svay district because it would affect water supplies to farms of nearby residents. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cease-and-desist-firm-ordered-stop-filling-kandal-lake
King OKs judiciary laws
Three widely condemned laws concerning the operation of the Kingdom’s judiciary were officially signed into effect by King Norodom sihamoni last month, according to recent copies of the Royal Book. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/king-oks-judiciary-laws
Boeung Chhouk locals protest
About 100 residents of a community in the capital’s Russei Keo district yesterday rallied outside City Hall, demanding that authorities issue them land titles and end court action against six of their representatives. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/boeung-chhouk-locals-protest
Protesters clash with security guards in capital
Eighteen land rights protesters from Preah Vihear province were injured during a clash with district security guards in Phnom Penh on Monday after they attempted to deliver a petition at Prime Minister Hun sen’s house, a rights group said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/protesters-clash-with-security-guards-in-phnom-penh-70393/
Illegal loggers complain to police over wages
About 20 villagers who were employed in an illegal logging racket in Pailin province’s sala Krao district have submitted a report to the provincial police accusing their two ringleaders of failing to pay their “service fee,” an official said Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-loggers-complain-to-police-over-wages-70538/
Advisory group begins minimum wage talks
A new group that will advise the committee that advises the government on the minimum wage in the country’s garment sector began talking numbers Tuesday following a meeting Monday that laid out a code of conduct for the negotiations. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/advisory-group-begins-minimum-wage-talks-70548/
Swap deal struck: Families to move for city development
More than 130 families will be relocated to make way for a multibillion-dollar development project in the capital’s Chroy Changva district after an agreement was signed yesterday by villagers, district officials and the Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC ) said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kim Sarom
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/swap-deal-struck-families-move-city-development
Mondolkiri villagers seek cancellation of rubber concession
Representatives of 273 ethnic Bunong families from Mondolkiri province submitted a petition on Thursday to Prime Minister Hun sen’s cabinet in Phnom Penh, seeking the cancellation of an economic land concession they say has infringed on their ancestral lands. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mondolkiri-villagers-seek-cancellation-of-rubber-concession-71463/
Federal job awaits Pailin chief accused of corruption
The former governor of Pailin province, Y Chhien, has been removed from his positions as provincial council president and president of the Pailin chapter of the Cambodian People’s Party following allegations he was involved in embezzling $400,000 in expenses. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/federal-job-awaits-pailin-chief-accused-corruption
Summons arrives one year later
A Kampong Cham Provincial Court summons over a protest shocked a former local union president and his wife yesterday, since the event in question occurred more than a year ago and the union leader’s wife had no involvement in it. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/summons-arrives-one-year-later
Unlicensed doctors ordered to cease operations in Battambang
Battambang provincial authorities have ordered nine unlicensed doctors to shut down their home-care practices in the province, including six in sangke district’s Roka commune, where more than 230 residents have tested positive for HIV over the past three months. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unlicensed-doctors-ordered-to-cease-operations-in-battambang-78008/
Six pythons emerge as plot of land cleared in Phnom Penh
An excavator operator clearing a patch of land in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district had a surprise run-in on Friday with six pythons, which broke cover as his machine moved onto their wetland habitat, according to a local official. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hay Pisey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/six-pythons-emerge-as-plot-of-land-cleared-in-phnom-penh-78010/