Official’s son questioned over hunting photos
The 23-year-old son of the director of rural development in Pailin province is under investigation by police after photos of the young man hunting protected wildlife went viral on social media, police said Monday. soeu Longdy, deputy Tuol Lvea commune police chief, said his officers questioned ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-son-questioned-over-hunting-photos-64621/
‘A threat to Cambodia’s sacred forests’
In southwest Cambodia, at the foot of the Cardamom Mountains, is a single dirt road that meanders through the heart of the pristine Areng valley. Ten miles down this road, villagers have set up an encampment to stop a hydroelectric dam project that they fear ss='cambodia-color'>...
New York Times News Staff
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/opinion/a-threat-to-cambodias-sacred-forests.html
AEON tenants target Cambodia’s middle class
An ice-skating rink, bowling alley, seven-screen cinema and a proverbial catwalk of high-end European and Us labels will start vying for a slice of Cambodia’s rising middle class inside the soon-to-open AEON Mall, management with the firm overseeing it confirmed on saturday. The Japanese-owned shopping centre’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay and Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/aeon-tenants-target-cambodia%E2%80%99s-middle-class
CNRP’s wish list for NEC narrows
The opposition is eyeing two leading civil society figures and deputy party leader Kem sokha’s daughter to fill the three remaining slots the party holds on the nine-member National Election Committee, according to a high-level party source. Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker-elect Kuoy Bunroeun has already ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea, Kevin Ponniah and David Boyle
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp%E2%80%99s-wish-list-nec-narrows
Troops to join UN’s CAR effort
Cambodia will send a detachment of 216 peacekeepers to the United Nations stabilisation mission in the Central African Republic (MINUsCA), the Information Ministry has said. The Kingdom already sent a delivery of tanks, trucks and other materiel there on Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/troops-join-un%E2%80%99s-car-effort
Foreign minister defends Cambodia’s rights record
Shortly after a Speech in New York by US PreSident Barack Obama, in which he applauded the effortS of human rightS defenderS, Cambodian Foreign MiniSter Hor Namhong SayS hiS country iS making progreSS. Obama acknowledged the work of two Cambodian rightS activiSt during a Speech at SS='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/foreign-minister-defends-cambodia-rights-record/2468925.html
CNRP reveals Kem Sokha’s monthly salary
An opposition official has hit back at claims made by “Khmer for Khmer” founder Kem Ley last week that CNRP Vice President Kem sokha has collected a salary of $15,000 per month since the opposition joined parliament in August. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-reveals-kem-sokhas-monthly-salary-71701/
Workers get reinstated after court’s injunction
Hundreds of workers who were fired from a Phnom Penh garment factory returned to work yesterday after Phnom Penh Municipal Court filed an injunction on Monday requiring management to reinstate them. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-get-reinstated-after-court%E2%80%99s-injunction
PM’s sister officially out of job
After issuing an extraordinarily public resignation announcement on her Facebook page last week, Prime Minister Hun sen’s sister Hun sinath has officially left her job at the Ministry of National Assembly-senate Relations and Inspection. According to a Royal Decree that was signed on Monday, King ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/pm%E2%80%99s-sister-officially-out-job
Pagoda rejects city’s claims of violence
The head monks of Phnom Penh’s Wat samakki Raingsey on Tuesday drafted a letter rebutting City Hall’s claims of illicit and immoral behavior at the pagoda, which has drawn the government’s ire over the past year by supporting evicted villagers from across the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mench Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pagoda-rejects-citys-claims-of-violence-77350/
S’ville court denies bail to doroshenko
The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court haS denied bail to RuSSian buSineSSman Nikolai DoroShenko, who waS arreSted at hiS family&rSquo;S reStaurant in Sihanoukville laSt week and jailed on a trio of fraud chargeS related to a diSpute with fugitive developer Sergei PolonSky, the inveStigating judge Said SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sville-court-denies-bail-to-doroshenko-81233/
Cambodia’s Opposition MPs Take Parliamentary Oath
Cambodia’s King Norodom sihamoni swore in opposition leader sam Rainsy and 54 others from his party as lawmakers Tuesday, bringing to an end their 10-month boycott of parliament following disputed national elections. The ceremony at the Royal Palace in the capital Phnom Penh came two weeks ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/oath-08052014172933.html
Mine found buried near S’ville road
Officials are requesting the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) to destroy an anti-tank mine unearthed last week next to a sihanoukville town street. According to village chief Heng Bunly, Commune 4 is rife with UXO because it was a former military base during the Lon ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/mine-found-buried-near-s%E2%80%99ville-road
Hun Sen’s sister resigns in protest
Prime Minister Hun sen’s sister Hun sinath has resigned from her job as a secretary of state over what she said was her colleagues’ fear of investigating a land dispute between villagers in Kampong speu province and tycoon Ly Yong Phat. sinath revealed her resignation ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen%E2%80%99s-sister-resigns
Bunong villagers upset at industrialist’s silence
Ethnic Bunong communities in Mondulkiri’s Bousraa commune will soon hold protests that will call on French industrialist Vincent Bollore to honour promises his firm made during a meeting with them in Paris in October, a representative has said. His Bollore investment group is a shareholder in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bunong-villagers-upset-industrialists-silence
Report exposes Cambodia’s failure of children
A report based on interviews with 54 children has exposed critical failings in Cambodia’s judicial system, recounting stories of unpleasant experiences in the presence of police, doctors and court rooms. UNICEF and Hagar, a child rights NGO based in Cambodia, released Wednesday “A system Just for ss='cambodia-color'>...
Worldbulletin News Staff
http://www.worldbulletin.net/news/153988/report-exposes-cambodias-failure-of-children
Pagoda rejects city’s claims of violence
The head monks of Phnom Penh’s Wat samakki Raingsey on Tuesday drafted a letter rebutting City Hall’s claims of illicit and immoral behavior at the pagoda, which has drawn the government’s ire over the past year by supporting evicted villagers from across the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mench Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pagoda-rejects-citys-claims-of-violence-77350/
Village chief’s release demanded by crowd
A recently elected village chief in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district, who was forced into another election by his rival, was arrested on Wednesday during the second poll. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/village-chiefs-release-demanded-crowd
Turkish target arrested after S’ville shooting
Police in Sihanoukville arreSted a TurkiSh buSineSSman Friday&nbSp;afternoon, leSS than 24 hourS after gunmen fired up to 10 ShotS at hiS car from a paSSing vehicle, leaving a Cambodian man wounded outSide KampongSom City CaSino on ThurSday night, officialS Said. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/turkish-target-arrested-after-sville-shooting-78846/
‘Same faces’ protest against PM’s comments
Incensed by the prime minister’s assertion last week that the “same faces” always show up at protests, a group of Phnom Penh’s most prominent anti-eviction activists picketed City Hall on Monday to vent their anger. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/same-faces-protest-against-pms-comments-81088/