New highway to run through Boeung Tompong

A new highway that is being built is expected to not only reduce traffic jams, but to also open up a large area for real estate development. The new highway, called Samdech Techo Hun Sen Blvd, runs from the intersection of Road 271 and Monivong Blvd ...

Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/new-highway-run-through-boeung-tompong

International Support Growing for Cambodian Polls Probe: Sam Rainsy

growing behind his party’s call for an independent probe into claims of fraud and other irregularities in the country’s recent elections. Speaking in Washington following his visit to Europe, Sam Rainsy said that governments and parliamentarians in the European Union, the United States and several other ...

Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/probe-10172013183118.html

Demolition Order for 2 Buildings Near Royal Palace

Government officials have ordered the immediate demolition of two buildings located within blocks of the Royal Palace because the structures are taller than the allowed limit for buildings surrounding the palace, officials said Wednesday. One building, owned by Vat­tanac Properties, is located a block from the ...

Aun Pheap and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/demolition-order-for-2-buildings-near-royal-palace-45306/

Sick children swamp hospital

As flood victims surge to the capital to receive medical treatment, doctors at Phnom Penh’s Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital say they’ve never seen such overcrowding. Parents holding their sick children and infants line the perimeter of the complex, spending up to seven hours crouched on hot ...

Laignee Barron and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sick-children-swamp-hospital

Youths to march for justice over shooting

More than 300 youth from around Cambodia plan to rally on Friday to demand justice for the man killed during the opposition party’s three-day demonstration last month. Participants from a variety of universities, high schools, youth clubs, civil societies and other groups will march from Wat ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/youths-march-justice-over-shooting

Conditions Worsening at Siem Reap and Battambang Prisons

Conditions are deteriorating for hundreds of inmates that were forced by flooding to move to the already overcrowded Battambang and Siem Reap prisons from Banteay Meanchey prison, and human rights groups are not sure how long it will be before the prison is operational again, ...

Ben Sokhean and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/conditions-worsening-at-siem-reap-and-battambang-prisons-45102/

Activists Demand Interior Ministry Lead Wat Phnom Attack Probe

Dozens of anti-eviction activists on Monday held a rally in Phnom Penh and submitted a petition to the Ministry of Interior, demanding the arrests of Daun Penh district officials they claim conspired to viciously attack them during a peaceful protest at Wat Phnom last month. On ...

Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/activists-demand-interior-ministry-lead-wat-phnom-attack-probe-45111/

Cambodia Wants Sinopec to Build Oil Refinery by 2018

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday urged China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, or Sinopec Corp, the Asia’s largest oil refining and petrochemical enterprise, to expedite its process to build an oil refinery in Cambodia by 2018, Xinhua reported on October 15, citing a spokesman. ...

Oil and Gas Industry Latest News Staff
http://www.oilandgaseurasia.com/en/news/cambodia-wants-sinopec-build-oil-refinery-2018

Appeal Court to Try Stalled Case of Murdered Journalist

The case of journalist Hang Serei Odom, who was found hacked to death and stuffed into the trunk of his Toyota Camry in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Chum district on September 11 last year, will be heard by the Appeal Court in Phnom Penh, a senior court ...

Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/appeal-court-to-try-stalled-case-of-murdered-journalist-45107/

Armed Man at Rally Claimed to Be ‘Samdech Bodyguard’

A man apprehended by participants at a rally in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on Sunday after he was spotted carrying a concealed pistol, signed himself into Calmette Hospital by listing his occupation as “Samdech Bodyguard,” in apparent reference to one of the three leaders of ...

Mech Dara and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/armed-man-at-rally-claimed-to-be-samdech-bodyguard-45091/

Labour Ministry told to keep SL talks alive

In a letter sent to the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training last week, the Council of Ministers encourages the ministry to facilitate talks between garment factory management and the union representing thousands of workers on strike for nearly two months. The letter, written by Council ...

Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/labour-ministry-told-keep-sl-talks-alive

France, Australia Congratulate Hun Sen on Win

France and Australia have congratulated Prime Minister Hun Sen on his official re-election in July’s contested vote, with their endorsement coming as opposition leader Sam Rainsy visits Europe urging donors to suspend ties with the new government. While many other countries—mostly in Asia—were quick to congratulate ...

Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/france-australia-congratulate-hun-sen-on-win-45001/

Chaotic Scene as Gun Seized During Teachers’ Rally

A small gathering to mark World Teachers’ Day at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park briefly descended into chaos Sunday when a crowd of rally-goers wrested a concealed gun from a man working for the Ministry of Information after he forced his way to the front of ...

Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chaotic-scene-as-gun%E2%80%88seized-during-teachers-rally-44997/

Cambodia's Angkor greets 1.57 mln foreign visitors in 9 months

Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temples, one of the world heritage sites, attracted 1.57 million foreign tourists in the first nine of the year, up 6 percent compared with the same period in a year earlier, a tourism report showed Monday. South Korea, China, Vietnam, Japan and Thailand ...

Global Times
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/817619.shtml#.Ul0inVBgd8E

Cambodia floods hit northwestern prison, 842 prisoners evacuated

Floods have submerged a prison in northwestern Banteay Meanchey province on Thursday, forcing the authorities to evacuate all 842 prisoners to detention centers in other provinces. “The prison is badly inundated and we are moving the prisoners to prisons in neighboring provinces,” Phin Sophal, chief of ...

Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/816874.shtml#.UldsRNKBlxI

Cambodia to host Asia-pacific region on tourism development in cultural and natural heritage in November

In cooperation with UN world tourism organization, Cambodia will host the tourism conference of Asia- Pacific region on tourism development in cultural and natural heritage in November in Siem Reap province. “There will be 40 countries from Asia- pacific region and 200 delegates will participant in ...

The Southeast Asia Weekly News Staff
http://www.thesoutheastasiaweekly.com/?p=7750

Court Releases Four Arrested During Clashes

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday released four of the six men who were charged with assault following violent clashes between security forces, protesters and angry commuters in Phnom Penh last month, and intends to release the remaining two men today, a rights worker ...

Saing Soenthrith and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-releases-four-arrested-during-clashes-44890/

Anti-Eviction Protesters Clash With Security Forces

Protesters, including a band of angry monks, clashed with military and riot police on Thursday in Phnom Penh as authorities tried to prevent a local housing rights group from carrying out a rally against forced evictions. Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF), a coalition of five local ...

Alex Willemyns and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anti-eviction-protesters-clash-with-security-forces-44882/

City Hall Denies Teachers’ Day, International Habitat Day Rallies

Phnom Penh City Hall has turned down two requests by non-governmental groups to hold rallies and marches to mark both International Teachers’ Day and the international day for housing rights. Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF), a local NGO, was denied permission to organize a rally at ...

Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-denies-teachers-day-international-habitat-day-rallies-44785/

Phnom Penh Bans Cambodia Opposition’s Thumbprint Campaign

Authorities in Phnom Penh on Wednesday banned Cambodia’s opposition party from using public spaces to collect thumbprints  for a petition calling for U.N. and foreign intervention in the country’s political crisis following disputed polls. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) plans to collect at least 3 million ...

Radio Free Asia Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/petition-10092013174335.html

Rainsy’s reasoning questioned

While the opposition party steps up its efforts to persuade the international community to cut ties with a government it says was formed by a “constitutional coup”, lawyers and analysts yesterday questioned whether the party’s reasoning has any legal basis. In a letter sent to the ...

Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy%E2%80%99s-reasoning-questioned

Sewage canal bursts its banks

Raw sewage spewed onto Street 105 from the antiquated discharge canal running parallel to it yesterday as heavy rains continued to create headaches in the capital. The putrid water lipped homes and local business on the street in Chamkarmon’s Boeung Trabek commune, alarming residents. Togo Uchida, ...

Phak Seangly and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sewage-canal-bursts-its-banks

Canadia Bank’s Credit Chief Aided $2.3M Embezzlement

One of the four suspects who have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the theft of $2.3 million from Canadia Bank was the head of the bank’s credit section during the time that the embezzlement scheme was carried out, according to a senior adviser ...

Colin Meyn and Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/canadia-banks-credit-chief-aided-2-3m-embezzlement-44777/

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