Hundreds of Villagers Block Road to Protest Land Clearing
About 400 villagers in Kratie province’s Snuol district blocked national road 76A for three hours yesterday to demand that authorities release a villager who had been arrested earlier in the day for allegedly inciting villagers embroiled in a land dispute, villagers and a district official href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hundreds-of-villagers-block-road-to-protest-land-clearing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Chinese Firm to Invest $100M in Rice Mill
A Chinese company from Yunnan province will invest $100 million to build a rice mill and processing plant in Cambodia with a local firm and export 200,000 tons of milled rice to China beginning this year, officials said yesterday. The Yunnan Pan-Asia Agricultural Cooperation and Development href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-firm-to-invest-100m-in-rice-mill/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Monitoring group blames rise in forest crimes on authorities turning blind eye
A prominent forest monitoring group on Monday urged the government to combat illegal logging and poaching in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, which it claimed had seen a drastic increase in forestry crimes during the first five months of this year. The Prey Lang Community href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/monitoring-group-blames-rise-in-forest-crimes-on-authorities-turning-blind-eye/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Rural Cambodians attack court over land dispute jailings
Dozens of protesters in rural Cambodia broke through a gate and tried to push their way into a provincial court, which had detained three villagers in a land dispute in the northeastern part of the country. More than 170,000 families across the country were adversely href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rural-cambodians-attack-court-over-land-dispute-jailings/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-land-disputes/3085844.html
Court Questions Officials Over Slain Journalist
The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday questioned four people- including a military police official and a police officer- in relation to the killing of journalist Hang Serei Odom, whose body was discovered hacked to death last month in the trunk of his car,a court official and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-questions-officials-over-slain-journalist/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Firm to Develop Gold Mine in Ratanakkiri
A subsidiary of Indian firm Mesco Steel has arrived in Cambodia to begin developing a gold mine in Ratanakkiri province, according to an investor involved in the deal. Mesco Gold has paid a fee of $1.2 million to Canada-listed exploration firm Angkor Gold to develop a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/firm-to-develop-gold-mine-in-ratanakkiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/firm-to-develop-gold-mine-in-ratanakkiri-19319/
Locals seeking justice after ‘broken deal’
Villagers in Ratanakkiri’s O’Chum district are demanding their land back, claiming buyers from a local company failed to uphold a 2007 deal. The 66 ethnic Kreung families filed a complaint on Friday after workers from a nearby rubber plantation started to slash and burn the 400 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/locals-seeking-justice-after-broken-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/locals-seeking-justice-after-%E2%80%98broken-deal%E2%80%99
Kratie farmers offered land, but many remain defiant
A group of villagers who were evicted from Kratie province to make way for a Vietnamese rubber company were given a 750-hectare social land concession by the government Thursday, but many said they would hold out for a better offer. A letter signed by Kratie Governor href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kratie-farmers-offered-land-but-many-remain-defiant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/kratie-farmers-offered-land-but-many-remain-defiant-60025/
NGOs seek ex-PMs’ support
Civil society advocates – who last week called on parliament to consider amending the constitution to limit prime ministers to two terms in office – are now trying to enlist former premiers to back their proposal. The group, which includes well-known political analysts and representatives of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngos-seek-ex-pms-support/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-seek-ex-pms%E2%80%99-support
Microsoft's Super Wi-Fi could change game
A technology called “Super Wi-Fi” that uses the frequency spectrum between television channels called “white spaces” could be a game-changing force in how people connect to the internet, especially in places like Cambodia. The technology, which requires specialised equipment costing about US$2,000 for a base station href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/microsofts-super-wi-fi-could-change-game-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Opposition Gives Hard Deadline for Political Negotiations
The Cambodia opposition says it is holding firm to a threat to boycott the Sept. 23 opening session of parliament, potentially stalling the formation of a new government, if a political solution is not found by Sept. 22, as leaders from both sides met for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposition-gives-hard-deadline-for-political-negotiations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
VOA Khmer Staff
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/opposition-gives-hard-deadline-for-political-negotiations/1751659.html
Govt may sell medical services to Cambodia
The government will likely sell a Japanese-style medical service to Cambodia in a package that includes an emergency care center, a medical graduate school and an insurance system. The government has decided to seek a market for the medical service in emerging nations in the Association href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-may-sell-medical-services-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
The Japan News Staff
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0000762523
Sonando Continues to Seek TV License, Radio Relay Station
Though the Ministry of Information has repeatedly rejected independent radio station owner Mam Sonando’s requests to obtain a television station license and a radio relay station, saying that there was “no space” for him, the government has approved at least three new TV licenses and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sonando-continues-to-seek-tv-license-radio-relay-station/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sonando-continues-to-seek-tv-license-radio-relay-station-51335/
Cambodia and China Ink Aid, Trade Deals
Prime Minister Hun Sen and a visiting top Chinese official on Saturday presided over the signing of 29 letters and memoranda covering a broad range of business and military deals, including a $195.5 million loan for Cambodia to purchase Chinese-made military helicopters. A summary of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-and-china-ink-aid-trade-deals/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
False alarms trigger fainting
Three false alarms at a garment factory triggered another mass fainting incident yesterday morning, sending 59 female staff, including one security guard, to hospitals and clinics, according to a statement from the Ministry of Labour. The first alarm went off about 7:40am in a sewing section, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/6425/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sinking feeling on river's edge
About 50 villagers in Kandal province protested yesterday in an attempt to halt the activities of a Vietnamese sand-dredging company, which they said has caused a huge swath of their land to slide into the Mekong River. Residents of Kien Svay district’s Koh Prak village said href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sinking-feeling-on-rivers-edge/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Deported home in disgrace
A Chinese woman found guilty of intentionally causing damage after tearing up photos of the late King Father was deported yesterday morning – a mere two days after the crime occurred. Wang Zia Chao, 43, who on Tuesday was given a suspended one-year prison sentence, left href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/deported-home-in-disgrace/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012102559412/National-news/deported-home-in-disgrace.html
‘Secession’ Leader Says He Will Return to Cambodia, Stage Protest
The convicted ringleader of a so-called secessionist movement in May in Kratie province, who is currently in self-imposed exile to avoid a 30-year prison sentence, has said that he will soon return to Cambodia to organize a large-scale demonstration against the government. Bun Ratha—who was sentenced href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/secession-leader-says-he-will-return-to-cambodia-stage-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
PM urges factories to up wages
As the lure of Thailand grows increasingly attractive for cash-strapped and under-employed Cambodians, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday made a public appeal for workers to stay in the country, simultaneously urging the Cambodian market to up its competitive edge. In a speech at the inauguration of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-urges-factories-to-up-wages/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/National/pm-urges-factories-to-up-wages.html
Hun Sen Moves Ahead With ‘Reform’ Plan, Minus Opposition
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday laid out more details in his plan to introduce a series of political reforms after a narrow win for his long-ruling CPP at the polls in July, including creating a new national working group and establishing public forums to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-moves-ahead-with-reform-plan-minus-opposition/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-moves-ahead-with-reform-plan-minus-opposition-51126/