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/
Cambodian university wins prize for firefighting robots
Cambodia’s beleaguered fire department may have a future high-tech solution to its problems after a team of young scientists from Norton University competing in the 4th Malaysian International Robot Competitions (MIRoC) last week placed third in the Fire Fighting Robot category. The annual event, held this ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodian-university-wins-prize-for-firefighting-robots-56792/
CPP faces isolation: Sokha
Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy president Kem sokha returned to Phnom Penh late on Monday and hit the ground running, lambasting the ruling party for blaming the recent collapse of talks on his intransigence and inviting his political foes to risk international condemnation by ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-faces-isolation-sokha
Women targeted at protests, Rapporteur says
The U.N.’s special rapporteur on freedom of assembly and association, Maina Kiai, has sent his third thematic report to the U.N. Human Rights Council following trips to various countries, including a three-day visit to Cambodia in February. The report focuses on groups that Mr. Kiai, a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/women-targeted-at-protests-rapporteur-says-58735/
Out of jail, garment worker sees uncertain future
When Pang Vunny walks around his rented room just off of Veng sreng Boulevard, he waves his hand from side to side in front of him, like a man feeling his way in the dark. Ever since he was arrested and badly beaten on January 2 ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/out-jail-garment-worker-sees-uncertain-future
Nutrition projects ‘need funds’
Despite sustained levels of high economic growth, most people in Cambodia are still eating rice at every meal, with little meat, fish or vegetables, meaning undernutrition will remain high and stunting common among children if the government does not scale up targeted health programs, a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nutrition-projects-%E2%80%98need-funds%E2%80%99
At border, gov’t bill mounts
The financial burden inflicted by hundreds of thousands of returning Cambodian migrant workers has already reached $5 million in government-mobilised emergency services alone, according to official estimates. In less than two weeks, nearly 200,000 mostly undocumented Cambodian migrants have spilled through the Thai-Cambodia border, fleeing what ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/border-gov%E2%80%99t-bill-mounts
Journalists need not apply for border trip
As part of the ongoing effort to create agreed-upon border posts between Cambodia and Vietnam, officials from both countries will demarcate land in svay Rieng province this month, setting the stage for a possible confrontation with an opposition lawmaker-elect who intends to visit the same ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/journalists-need-not-apply-border-trip
Laos will consult with neighbors over dam
The Lao government has agreed to a lengthy public consultation process with its neighbors before building a controversial hydropower dam on the Mekong River, within 2 km of the Cambodian border, according to the environmental group WWF. Laos announced the 256-MW Don sahong dam last year ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/laos-will-consult-with-neighbors-over-dam-62740/
EU gives park protection
A huge area of Ratanakkiri province’s Virachey National Park has been declared a protected area under a European Union-funded plan that government officials say will shift forest communities away from dependence on depleted forest byproducts. Chhay samith, head of protected natural areas at the Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-gives-park-protection