Protest leads to second chance on nat’l exams
Amid strict reforms to guard against rampant cheating on the high-stakes national exam, education officials yesterday showed surprising leniency towards underperforming grade 12 students. In a notice released yesterday, the Ministry of Education instructed upper secondary schools to hold re-examinations for grade 12 students who failed ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protest-leads-second-chance-nat%E2%80%99l-exams
Obama Signs Off on Aid Cuts to Government
A Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) officer and his son-in-law were arrested separately on Thursday and Friday in Battambang and Banteay Meanchey province for producing tens of thousands of dollars of counterfeit U.s. banknotes, officials said sunday. Police arrested Tang Thearith, 35, in Poipet City on ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/obama-signs-off-on-aid-cuts-to-government-50886/
Officers queried on shootings
Military police officers involved in the clash on Veng sreng Boulevard that led to the deaths of at least four protesters earlier this month have been questioned in connection with the shootings, though none will face charges, a military police spokesman said yesterday. The five officers, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officers-queried-shootings
Cambodia needs more British investors: PM
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen said Friday that the country wanted to see more British investors in order to further contribute to developing local economy and reducing poverty. The premier made the remarks during a meeting with visiting British Minister of state at the Foreign and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=197529
Unity appeal follows vitriol
Days after warning that his ruling party was as capable and willing to protest as the opposition, and threatening a barbed-wire fence in Freedom Park to divide the two groups, Prime Minister Hun sen was yesterday talking multi-party reform. speaking at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unity-appeal-follows-vitriol
WWF unveils bid to help Mondulkiri forests
In the latest bid to protect Mondulkiri’s ravaged forests, World Wildlife Fund is rolling out a new project designed to give locals financial incentives to help preserve Mondulkiri Protected Forest and Phnom Prich Wildlife sanctuary. Cultivating small-scale, community-run businesses such as resin tree tapping and beekeeping ss='cambodia-color'>...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wwf-unveils-bid-help-mondulkiri-forests
India pledges millions in loans to Cambodia
Anil Wadhwa, India’s deputy foreign minister, met with Foreign Minister Hor Namhong on Wednesday and promised to honor his request for millions of dollars in loans, a spokesman said. He [Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong] said that Mr. Namhong then requested money to complete ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/india-pledges-millions-in-loans-to-cambodia-56302/
NEC strives for more power
A member of the much-maligned National Election Committee said yesterday he hoped that the body would cease to be merely a “paper tiger” and be granted strong powers to punish political parties for electoral transgressions when future election reforms are put in place. speaking at the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-strives-more-power
Flyovers, subway on the drawing board for Phnom Penh
The Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) and Phnom Penh municipality are cooperating to undertake a study on major new projects for the city – two flyovers and a subway, each of which it is hoped would ease the city’s ever worsening traffic congestion. Touch samnang, project ss='cambodia-color'>...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/flyovers-subway-drawing-board-phnom-penh
Family of Dave Walker says evidence points to murder
Friends and family of Canadian journalist Dave Walker, whose badly decomposed body was found on May 1 in siem Reap province, have issued new statements accusing the Cambodian and Canadian governments of being complicit in what they say was his murder. According to a statement posted ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/family-of-dave-walker-says-evidence-points-to-murder-58443/
ID card grace period nearing end
The Ministry of Interior yesterday reminded Cambodians of their obligation to obtain new or replacement national ID cards, a common piece of documentation required for people over 15 years of age and the validity of which had previously been extended to accommodate last year’s national ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/id-card-grace-period-nearing-end
Villages blocked from delivering complaint
Kompong Chhnang provincial authorities allegedly locked villagers out of the provincial hall after dozens came to deliver a complaint against the wife of Mines and Energy Minister suy sem, before locking out a newly appointed councilor who left the building to talk with them. The villagers ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villages-blocked-from-delivering-complaint-60883/
Half-year protest shutters factory
A six-month protest over unpaid bonuses has seen production at a Por sen Chey district box factory grind to a halt over the past four days, with more than 200 former employees blocking gates and preventing shipments. Former employees at Harta Packaging Industries began barricading gates ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/half-year-protest-shutters-factory
Protest continues as company fills in lake, threatens livelihoods
More than 300 villagers who live around Boeng samraong lake in Phnom Penh’s Prek Pnov district protested for a third day straight sunday against a private company they say has been filling the lake with sand, threatening the livelihoods of local rice farmers and fishermen. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/protest-continues-as-company-fills-in-lake-threatens-livelihoods-63310/
Military police officer accused
A military police officer has been arrested and will be sent to court, while two others remain under questioning, after an unarmed man was shot dead on Wednesday night while travelling in a car through protected forest in Mondulkiri’s O’Raing district, officials said. Two military police ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/military-police-officer-accused
Telecom law outrage
Cambodia’s telecom sector is outraged over a draft law handed down by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC) on Wednesday, which details a government plan to assert control over the industry. In what is being labeled an “unprecedented, draconian” effort to nationalise the industry, the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/telecom-law-outrage
Factory ends strike after compromise
Workers at a Taiwanese-owned sandal factory in Kompong Cham province on strike since last week over an eight-point list of demands agreed to go back to work Tuesday after reaching a deal with management that included a monthly lunch stipend. A few hundred of the Carlington ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kompong-cham-factory-ends-strike-after-compromise-65261/
Battle over river in Svay Rieng
Authorities in svay Rieng town are ignoring locals’ complaints over a Chinese firm that has allegedly been filling in a river in preparation to build a canal, villagers said yesterday. More than 130 families in svay Teu commune, svay Rieng province, have delivered petitions to provincial ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battle-over-river-svay-rieng
Thailand shuts 6 checkpoints in Banteay Meanchey
Six border checkpointS in Banteay Meanchey province were on Saturday cloSed unilaterally and without warning by Thailand, local officialS and border police Said. Lieutenant Colonel So Channry, chief of the 911 border battalion in O&rSquo;Chrov diStrict, Said that Thai authoritieS had cloSed the checkpointS, one of SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thailand-shuts-6-checkpoints-in-banteay-meanchey-53537/
Rainsy leaves for Netherlands as Sokha tours US
Opposition leader sam Rainsy was scheduled to depart for the Netherlands last night to attend a Liberal International conference in Rotterdam with other leaders of liberal parties from around the world. CNRP Vice-President Kem sokha is also out of the country touring Cambodian communities in the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-leaves-for-netherlands-as-sokha-tours-us-56533/