Police officer sued over alleged threat to shoot journalist
A journalist in Pailin province yesterday filed a lawsuit against a local police officer for allegedly threatening to kill him if he published a story about a drunken shooting spree the officer went on last week. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-officer-sued-over-alleged-threat-to-shoot-journalist/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-officer-sued-over-alleged-threat-111209/
Nagaworld reaches tax deal
NagaWorld, a subsidiary of a Hong Kong-listed NagaCorp, reached a deal with the Ministry of Economy and Finance to pay a new tax rate on their non-gaming operations, said a ministry official. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/%e1%9e%81%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%98%e1%9f%82%e1%9e%9a-nagaworld-reaches-tax-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29693/nagaworld-reaches-tax-deal/
Activist Tep Vanny makes new bid for release from Cambodia prison
Boeung Kak community land activist Tep Vanny is making another bid for release in a case that sent her to prison over a 2013 protest outside the home of Prime Minister Hun Sen. Vanny’s sister, Huot Chansovann, filed a petition on Monday to Hun Sen’s href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/activist-tep-vanny-makes-new-bid-for-release-from-cambodia-prison/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activist-tep-vanny-makes-new-bid-release-cambodia-prison
Two Killed in Brawl at Thai Seafood Factory
A Cambodian man and a Burmese man were killed on Monday in a mass brawl that broke out between hundreds of migrant workers at a seafood factory in Thailand, a worker and a government official said yesterday. Fighting allegedly broke out between workers at Siam International href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-killed-in-brawl-at-thai-seafood-factory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Government Bank Gives Loan for Rice Milling
The government-backed Rural Development Bank has handed a $4.5 million loan to a company planning to invest in Cambodia’s efforts to export more milled rice. Rural Development Bank chairman Son Kuon Thor said yesterday that the bank was giving the loan to a new company href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-bank-gives-loan-for-rice-milling/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Australian firm bets on Bavet
Australian-listed Cell Aquaculture (CAQ) – a onetime a marine technology company – has purchased a casino on the Cambodia-Vietnam border in a bid to generate much-needed revenue after nearing bankruptcy in 2013. On May 26, CAQ announced in a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange that href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/australian-firm-bets-on-bavet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/australian-firm-bets-bavet
LGBT rights need to be addressed, says report
Due to discrimination, sexual minorities in the country face high poverty, bullying and elevated dropout rates, with the government’s ambiguous stance on LGBT issues worsening the situation, a UN report says. “Laws and policies in Cambodia are silent on LGBT people and rights,” states Being LGBT href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lgbt-rights-need-to-be-addressed-says-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Rollet and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lgbt-rights-need-be-addressed-says-report
China signs 100,000-tonne rice import agreement
The Chinese government-run China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) will today formally agree to import 100,000 tonnes of rice from Cambodia, local officials say. Representatives from COFCO and Green Trade Co, a Cambodian government-owned agriculture firm, today met in Beijing to sign the agreement, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-signs-100000-tonne-rice-import-agreement/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-signs-100000-tonne-rice-import-agreement
Survey says: deported
The government’s countrywide census of foreigners resulted in the first deportations, as six undocumented Vietnamese workers were sent back across the border from Ratanakkiri province last week, officials said yesterday. The move prompted one provincial NGO worker to call for more deportations as part of a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/survey-says-deported/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/survey-says-deported
Audi opens dealership in capital
Automotive Asia (Cambodia), the only authorised dealer of Audi vehicles in Cambodia, opened its first showroom in Phnom Penh yesterday. The 2,000-square-metre showroom on Monivong Boulevard currently holds just two of the German carmaker’s models, the Q7 and the A8L, with prices ranging between $135,000 and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/audi-opens-dealership-in-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/audi-opens-dealership-capital
Parkson's Cambodia expansion seen boosting earnings in the long term
Parkson Holdings Bhd (PHB)’s expansion into Phnom Penh, Cambodia, via its proposed Parkson Mallwould provide it with a steady income stream in the long term, mainly from rental yield, according to Affin Investment Bank. The proposed location of the mall – directly opposite the Phnom Penh International href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/parksons-cambodia-expansion-seen-boosting-earnings-in-the-long-term/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Rights worker summonsed over land fight
A rights group worker has earned a court summons for monitoring villagers who were embroiled in a Preah Vihear land dispute with a Chinese company. Lut Sang, the Khmer Ponlok employee scheduled to appear in provincial court today, said that he was only a passive observer href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rights-worker-summonsed-over-land-fight/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rights-worker-summonsed-over-land-fight
Floods claim two more
Flooding across 12 provinces has killed another two people, bringing the death toll to 29, an official said yesterday. The deaths occurred in Kampong Cham and Prey Veng provinces, according to Keo Vy, cabinet director at the National Committee for Disaster Management. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/floods-claim-two-more/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/floods-claim-two-more
Cambodian land rights activists get year in jail for blocking traffic
A Cambodian court on Tuesday sentenced seven female land rights activists, including a 75-year-old woman, to one year in prison each for blocking traffic during a protest. Judge Mong Mony Sophea of Phnom Penh Municipal Court ruled the women were guilty of “creating a public href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-land-rights-activists-get-year-in-jail-for-blocking-traffic/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
The Strait Times News Staff
http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big-story/asia-report/cambodia/story/cambodian-land-rights-activists-get-year-jail-blocking-traf
CNRP lawmaker says he’ll show up in court
Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday agreed to postpone a meeting with the opposition party’s information department chief, Meach Sovannara, who missed a scheduled meeting in which he was to answer questions regarding his alleged role in a violent protest in July, his lawyer said. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-lawmaker-says-hell-show-up-in-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-lawmaker-says-he%E2%80%99ll-show-court
Five People Released in Kratie Insurrection Case
The Kratie Provincial Court has released on bail five of the eight people charged after a military-style operation by security forces on a small village alleged to be the home of a secessionist movement, a court official said yesterday. On May 16, a 14-year-old girl was href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/five-people-released-in-kratie-insurrection-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Kingdom records over 12M tourists in seven months
Cambodia received approximately 1.1 million tourists in July, which sums up to a total of over 12 million visitors recorded in the first seven months of the year, a press release of the Ministry of Information (MoI) said. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-records-over-12m-tourists-in-seven-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501339214/kingdom-records-over-12m-tourists-in-seven-months/
Working together for better public service delivery
In a collaborative effort to bolster delivery of public services and foster greater citizen participation, the Secretariat of the National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development (NCDD) and World Vision recently convened a forum in Phnom Penh. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/working-together-for-better-public-service-delivery/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501465536/working-together-for-better-public-service-delivery/
SOSORO Museum, ABC sign MoU to promote financial education
In a move to improve financial education in Cambodia, the Preah Srey Içanavarman Museum of Economy and Money (SOSORO) and the Association of Banks in Cambodia (ABC) on Wednesday said that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for collaboration. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sosoro-museum-abc-sign-mou-to-promote-financial-education/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501459548/sosoro-museum-abc-sign-mou-to-promote-financial-education/
Officials on run after journalist reports threats, illegal timber
A reporter in Mondulkiri province who climbed a mango tree to look into a police official’s compound for a rumored stash of illegal timber over the weekend says he was later detained and threatened with a beating. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-on-run-after-journalist-reports-threats-illegal-timber/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-on-run-after-journalist-reports-threats-illegal-timber-115055/