Young Cambodians launch campaign to combat violence against women
About 400 young Cambodians and members of the armed forces have launched a campaign calling for an end to violence against women and girls in response to a brutal attack by a real estate tycoon on a former female TV presenter. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/young-cambodians-launch-campaign-to-combat-violence-against-women/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/young-cambodians-launch-campaign-to-combat-violence-against-women-07102015135041.html
Street seller charged for beating Thai tourist to death
A street seller who beat a Thai tourist to death with a pole outside a restaurant in Koh Kong province’s Khemara Phoumint City on Tuesday night was charged with murder by the provincial court on Wednesday, officials said Thursday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/street-seller-charged-for-beating-thai-tourist-to-death/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/street-seller-charged-for-beating-thai-tourist-to-death-90219/
Ministry slams NGOs for criticism of Prime Minister
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs released a statement Thursday expressing its “grave regret” at a joint NGO statement that criticized Prime Minister Hun Sen for a speech in which he referred to an unnamed female protester as a female animal. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-slams-ngos-for-criticism-of-prime-minister/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Chhengpor and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-slams-ngos-for-criticism-of-prime-minister-91093/
Political forum builds Cambodia’s discussion culture
Every Saturday afternoon, in a room in the Phnom Penh offices of a German political foundation, chairs are arranged in a u-shape. About 50 people, from a range of backgrounds, gather and chit-chat. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/political-forum-builds-cambodias-discussion-culture/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sun Sokhen
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/political-forum-builds-cambodia-discussion-culture/2918069.html
Victim of police beating files court complaint
An opposition Sam Rainsy Party activist who was badly beaten on September 16 by riot police during a protest against the demolition of homes at Boeng Kak lake filed a complaint yesterday with the Phnom Penh Municipal Court against developer Shukaku Inc and the officers href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/victim-of-police-beating-files-court-complaint/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Maid’s Death Believed Linked to Abuse
A Cambodian maid who recently returned home from work in Malaysia fell ill and died over the weekend, highlighting ongoing concerns over the treatment of impoverished Southeast Asian women who seek work abroad but are often abused by their employers. Kuy Lyda, 17, died at a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maids-death-believed-linked-to-abuse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Serey
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/maid-06252012155226.html
Land row trial delayed
Four villagers accused of masterminding the theft and intentional damage of property belonging to Cheat Aphiwat Co Ltd in a land dispute will have another month to prepare for trial after right groups Adhoc garnered them a delay yesterday. A village chief and three other villagers href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-row-trial-delayed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Court Upholds Verdict for Minister's Wife's Firm
The Court of Appeal yesterday upheld a verdict by Kompong Chhang Provincial Court over a land dispute in Konmpong Tralach district between a 70-year old woman and a company owned by the wife of the Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy over a 3,000-square-meter parcel href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-upholds-verdict-for-minsters-wifes-firm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Economic official in K Cham Hit and run
A car belonging to Ly Thida, the director of the Kompong Cham provincial department of economy and finance, was involved in a fatal hit-and-run collision Thursday in the province’s Choeung Prey district, a police official said. District deputy police chief Cheang Se said two people were href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/economic-official-in-k-cham-hit-and-run/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/economic-official-in-k-cham-hit-and-run-59440/
Kratie land dispute goes on
Hundreds of families from Kratie province’s Snuol district who were promised new plots of land after a Vietnamese rubber firm evicted them last month have complained that provincial officials are allowing hundreds of interlopers to stake a claim instead. The 405 families were evicted from the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kratie-land-dispute-goes-on/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-land-dispute-goes
Fisherman files Anti-Corruption Unit complaint
A fisherman who survived a deadly collision after his boat smashed into a towboat off the south coast earlier this year filed a complaint Tuesday with the Anti-Corruption Unit, accusing a Koh Kong Provincial Court judge and his clerk of corruption after the judge allowed href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fisherman-files-anti-corruption-unit-complaint/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha and Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fisherman-files-anti-corruption-unit-complaint-54197/
Cambodian woman dies, 5 others injure after old mortar shell explodes
A war-left mortar round exploded on Friday morning, killing an old woman and seriously injuring five others in northern Kampong Thom province, a provincial military police chief said. “The explosion occurred at 7:40 a.m. local time in Kampong Svay district when a man was hitting href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-woman-dies-5-others-injure-after-old-mortar-shell-explodes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-05/23/c_133355659.htm
Gov’t releases data on timber baron’s deal
Tycoon Try Pheap has collected an estimated 1,500 cubic metres of timber from Forestry Administration offices since the government in July issued his companies permission to confiscate “waste wood” from their offices and from the Ministry of Environment, according to preliminary government figures obtained by href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-releases-data-on-timber-barons-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel Pye
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-releases-data-timber-baron%E2%80%99s-deal
Greens will try to force Senate vote on plans to settle refugees in Cambodia
The Greens will attempt to force a vote in the Senate on plans to resettle in Cambodia refugees whose claims for protection are recognised on Nauru and is challenging Labor to block any deal. The party’s immigration spokesperson, Sarah Hanson-Young, is confident any deal with the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/greens-will-try-to-force-senate-vote-on-plans-to-settle-refugees-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Workers turn models on political catwalk
About 150 garment workers turned out to the Phnom Penh offices of the United Sisterhood Alliance NGO on Sunday to watch a politically charged fashion show entitled “Beautiful Clothes, Ugly Reality.” Aimed to highlight “the income gap between Cambodian garment workers and the selected CEOs of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-turn-models-on-political-catwalk/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/workers-turn-models-on-political-catwalk-59540/
Prince Thomico denies Fresh News story that he is leading group to destroy polls
Prince Sisowath Thomico, a cousin of King Norodom Sihamoni, strenuously denied a Fresh News report that he was the mastermind behind a group of opposition activists planning to disrupt the July 29 national elections. The report on Monday said that on a recent evening, a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prince-thomico-denies-fresh-news-story-that-he-is-leading-group-to-destroy-polls/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prince-thomico-denies-fresh-news-story-he-leading-group-destroy-polls
Microfinance success stories from the countryside
When Chheung Rattana was married a few years ago, the only thing she and her new husband inherited from their families was a small plot of land to grow rice on. It was a tough start for the newlyweds, who decided that the only way href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/microfinance-success-stories-from-the-countryside/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22923/microfinance-success-stories-from-the-countryside/
Land rights activists want royal pardon for Tep Vanny
Residents of the Boeung Kak community yesterday submitted a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet, asking the premier to seek a royal pardon to release their jailed representative Tep Vanny, and also solve their outstanding land dispute. According to the petition by eight Boeung Kak href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-rights-activists-want-royal-pardon-for-tep-vanny/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50112023/land-rights-activists-want-royal-pardon-tep-vanny/
Microfinance deal applauded
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and a microfinance industry insider applauded one of Cambodia’s top 10 MFIs Sathapana Limited, for changing the majority shareholder to a commercial bank. They said it proves a positive and strong funding source is essential for MFIs to peruse their href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/microfinance-deal-applauded/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Accident rocks garment industry again
For the second time in five days, Cambodia’s garment industry has been rocked by another partial collapse of a structure at a factory. Garment workers are reporting that at least 10 people, including a pregnant woman, have been injured after a concrete platform collapsed into a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/accident-rocks-garment-industry-again/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065721/National/accident-rocks-garment-industry-again.html