CPP touts Hun Sen’s attendance at US summit
Sitting in a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama and fellow Asean leaders in California on Tuesday, Prime Minister Hun Sen seemed to have his mind on what Cambodians would think of his participation in this week’s U.S.-Asean Summit. ...
Anthony Jensen and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-touts-hun-sens-attendance-at-us-summit-108697/
Panama papers link Justice minister to fraudsters
Two convicted Cambodian-American fraudsters were named among five shareholders, including Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana, in a shadowy offshore company based in the British Virgin Islands in the latest trove of “Panama Papers,” which were released on Tuesday. ...
Taylor O'Connell and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/panama-papers-link-justice-minister-to-fraudsters-112429/
Cambodian Human Rights Day events canceled amid state crackdown
A leading rights group in Cambodia, LICADHO, said it was forced to cancel its annual International Human Rights Day events in the country’s prisons for the first time in 20 years because of prohibitive conditions imposed by the government. ...
Aljazeera America News Staff
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/12/7/cambodian-group-cancels-human-rights-event-amid-state-crackdowns.html
Conservation NGO blamed for death of endangered crocodile
An environmental group has been accused of complicity in the decline of the critically endangered Siamese crocodile in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley, mainly due to traps that are believed to have killed the last breeding-age female in the area. ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/conservation-ngo-blamed-for-death-of-endangered-crocodile-113521/
City land prices stay stable
Land prices in central Phnom Penh’s Tonle Bassac and Boeung Keng Kang (BKK) districts remained stable in the first half of the year due to overdevelopment and a slowdown in new investments, according to research by a local real estate agent. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27268/city-land-prices-stay-stable/
US to issue visa sanctions against Cambodian officials ‘undermining democracy’
The US State Department will issue visa restrictions on individuals “involved in undermining democracy in Cambodia”, the Trump administration announced overnight yesterday, following the dissolution of the main opposition party last month and the arrest in September of former opposition leader Kem Sokha. ...
Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/us-issue-visa-sanctions-against-cambodian-officials-undermining-democracy
Villagers suspect protesters were sent by sugar company
Following protests against land rights NGO Equitable Cambodia (EC) on Friday, several villagers in affected communities in Kampong Speu’s Oral district voiced concern yesterday that the protests might have been staged by the company that the communities stand in conflict with. ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-suspect-protesters-were-sent-sugar-company
Rural access to water, sanitation improves
According to the report, the number of people living in rural areas who had access to clean water increased from half in 2015 to 53 percent in 2016, while access to sanitation, such as proper toilets, increased nearly 10 percent to 56 percent. ...
‘Anarchist’ activist flees village for UN, alleging harassment
An environmental activist branded an “anarchist” by a government spokesman said he fled to the U.N. human rights office in Phnom Penh on Monday after police harassed him for becoming involved in a dispute between sand dredgers and villagers in Kandal province. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anarchist-activist-flees-village-un-alleging-harassment-131288/
‘Seiha’ releases Sokha video
Material apparently aimed at incriminating jailed opposition leader Kem Sokha continued to flow in over the weekend, with pro-government leaker “Seiha” releasing another video of Sokha expressing his gratitude to the US government for its assistance in building democracy in Cambodia. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/seiha-releases-sokha-video
Denmark’s Damco launches new head office
The Embassy of Denmark in Cambodia has encouraged more Danish companies and investors to explore investment opportunities in the kingdom, arguing that in an increasingly competitive global market, it is crucial that national governments and individual businesses cooperate to increase business activity. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5085157/denmarks-damco-launches-new-head-office/
Chinese market widening for Cambodian exports
Cofco, China’s largest food processor, manufacturer and trader, will set up a working group in the kingdom to explore the possibilities available in the local agricultural market, including expanding the number of products it imports from Cambodia and investing in local infrastructure. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098014/chinese-market-widening-cambodian-exports/
Fewer Pig Imports Send Pork Prices Upward
Growing demand for pork on the Thai market since March has lead to an increase in the price of live pigs in Cambodia, as Thai farmers reduce the amount of live pigs exported to Cambodia in order to fuel local demand, officials said yesterday. ...
Philippines seeks closer ties with Cambodia
Philippines Vice President Jejomar Binay says Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen supports the signing of agreements between Manila and Phnom Penh in rice trading and in fighting transnational crime. Cambodian officials have also expressed interest in launching direct flights between Manila and Phnom Penh. ...
NTT Communications to extend Asia Submarine-Cable Express to Cambodia
The Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE) will be extended to Cambodia to provide reliable, high-capacity communication infrastructure for the increasing number of multinational companies operating in the Mekong region, said NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) in a statement issued Friday in Tokyo, Japan. ...
Bernama News Staff
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/bu/newsbusiness.php?id=1045901
Interior Ministry cabinet member jailed for fraud
A member of Interior Minister Sar Kheng’s cabinet was on Tuesday sentenced to one year in jail for fraud after he was found guilty of accepting $38,000 in 2011 from a Taiwanese-Canadian national in exchange for citizenship documents that were never delivered. ...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/interior-ministry-cabinet-member-jailed-for-fraud-62952/
City Hall follows through on drone ban, arrests two foreigners
Two foreign filmmakers were arrested Tuesday morning after their drone was seen filming in the skies near Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house in Phnom Penh—a flight that provided a litmus test for February’s ban on unauthorized drone operation in the city. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Simon Henderson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-follows-through-on-drone-ban-arrests-two-foreigners-86333/
Cambodian police detain activists, rights monitor at sand dredging protest
Authorities in Cambodia on Thursday briefly detained three activists who protested in front of parliament, and a local rights group official who monitored the demonstration, calling on the government to stop a Vietnamese sand dredging company from polluting the environment in Koh Kong province. ...
Um Raingsy
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/detention-06252015181117.html
Villagers petition Cambodian lawmakers for help with land dispute cases
About 200 villagers involved in land disputes in three provinces protested Monday outside Cambodia’s parliament building in Phnom Penh, demanding that lawmakers resolve their cases and threatening not to vote for those who turn down their requests. ...
General gets life for murdering wife, daughter
A former two-star military general who confessed to murdering his wife and daughter, stuffing their bodies in a cooler and having two relatives dump them in the forest was sentenced to life in prison by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/general-gets-life-for-murdering-wife-daughter-89441/