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Gov’t ignored arrest warrant for accused war criminal

Judicial police ignored an arrest warrant for former Khmer Rouge navy commander and accused war criminal Meas Muth, putting the government in breach of the rules of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, declassified documents released by the tribunal Wednesday show. ...

Holly Robertson and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-ignored-arrest-warrant-for-accused-war-criminal-85795/

Resident of HIV village dies at 76

Another HIV-positive resident of Battambang province’s Roka commune passed away this week, marking the latest fatality in a locale where hundreds have been infected with the virus. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/resident-hiv-village-dies-76

Evictees ask gov’t for return of abandoned Thai plantations

A half-dozen villagers from Oddar Meanchey province traveled to Phnom Penh on Wednesday to ask the highest levels of government to return the farmland that thousands of families say they had stolen from them by a trio of Thai-owned sugarcane plantations. ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/evictees-ask-govt-for-return-of-abandoned-thai-plantations-85783/

Cambodia renews call for Vietnam to stop building military post at undemarcated border area

Cambodia on Wednesday renewed its call for Vietnam to cease immediately the construction of a military post at an undemarcated border area between Cambodia’s Kandal province and Vietnam’s An Giang province. ...

Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=288096

This simple trick helped fix a wildlife water shortage in Cambodia

It is a simple solution to a wildlife water shortage. During the annual dry season [November through April] in a protected forest in eastern Cambodia, wildlife scientists hired local workers with shovels to dig out accumulated sediment from six remote and dried-up waterholes. The result: During ...

John Barrat
http://smithsonianscience.si.edu/2015/06/this-simple-trick-helped-fix-a-wildlife-water-shortage-in-cambodia/

Hun Sen to take CPP presidency after Friday ceremony

Prime Minister Hun Sen is set to take over the presidency of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, following the death of party leader Chea Sim last week. The move will shore up solidarity in the party, which has become increasingly united, party members say. ...

Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/hun-sen-to-take-cpp-presidency-after-weekend-ceremony/2826046.html

NGOs meet with opposition lawmaker over controversial law

Representatives of pro-democracy and human rights groups met with the National Assembly’s vice president, opposition lawmaker Kem Sokha, on Wednesday, repeating calls that a controversial law to regulate NGOs be tabled. ...

Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/ngos-meet-with-opposition-lawmaker-over-controversial-law/2826073.html

Thai entrepreneurs enjoy high street-food sales in Cambodia

This month numerous Thai entrepreneurs came to Sihanoukville, in Cambodia to privately organize a week long Street Food Fair. They were invited to set up along the Sopheak Mongkol road or Happiness Road in the seaside city. The event started on 12th June and ends ...

NNT News Staff
http://thainews.prd.go.th/CenterWeb/NewsEN/NewsDetail?NT01_NewsID=WNFOR5806170010001

Despite IOM deal, residency eludes refugees

When the International Organization for Migration agreed to help Cambodia with a controversial refugee resettlement plan earlier this year, it did so on the condition that the government furnish the refugees already in the country with the paperwork they need to find employment. ...

Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/despite-iom-deal-residency-eludes-refugees-85689/

Border dash for asylum seekers

A total of 23 Montagnard asylum seekers, including one female, were transported to Phnom Penh between late April and mid June after hiding out in the forests of Ratanakkiri for months, an anonymous source said yesterday. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/border-dash-asylum-seekers

Release of convicted child abuser an ‘outrage’: NGOs

Seventeen NGOs involved in child protection yesterday released a joint statement expressing their “outrage” over the impending release of former Enfants du Cambodge director Philippe Broaly, who was convicted last month of sexually abusing five boys over a period of several years. ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/release-of-convicted-child-abuser-an-outrage-ngos-85691/

‘Press pause’ on border

Opposition lawmakers said they will demand that Prime Minister Hun Sen halt ongoing efforts to demarcate Cambodia’s border with Vietnam until after the 2018 election to guarantee a consensus on the controversial boundary. This came as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday again moved to ...

Meas Sokchea and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/press-pause-border

Rangers in Seima report three busts

Rangers in eastern Cambodia’s Seima Protected Forest have reported seizing 32 animals in three separate busts over the past week, including more than a dozen endangered tortoises. ...

Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rangers-seima-report-three-busts

Primary schools in spotlight at funding talks

Less than a week after Unicef announced that primary school enrollment in Cambodia had reached a high of 94.5 percent, government officials and foreign donors met Tuesday to discuss ways to improve the quality of the education those students are getting. ...

Maria Paula Brito and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/primary-schools-in-spotlight-at-funding-talks-85710/

NEC’s communication breakdown: 4 groups

The National Election Committee has created a pair of new commissions, with one aimed at keeping relevant stakeholders informed of the reformed body’s activities and another coordinating electoral activities with Provincial Election Committees. ...

Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/necs-communication-breakdown-4-groups

City hall shuts roads for Chea Sim’s funeral

The city will close traffic on a few main roads during the funeral procession for former president of the senate Chea Sim on Friday morning from 6 am to 12 pm, according to a City Hall press release.  ...

Va Sonyka
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12374/city-hall-shuts-roads-for-chea-sim---s-funeral/

French police to revisit botched murder cases

French police will arrive in Cambodia in October to reinvestigate two separate murders of French nationals that have yet to be solved by Cambodian police, an Interior Ministry official said Tuesday. ...

Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/french-police-to-revisit-botched-murder-cases-85687/

EU to raise climate change awareness in Kingdom

The European Union in Cambodia held a panel discussion about climate change on Wednesday in coordination with a United Nations-led global climate change conference to be held in Paris at the end of the year. ...

Donald Lee
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12369/eu-to-raise-climate-change-awareness-in-kingdom/

Logger shot dead in Thailand, official says

A Cambodian man who had been illegally logging rosewood across the border in Thailand was shot dead by Thai soldiers on Friday, a village chief in Oddar Meanchey province said Tuesday. ...

Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/logger-shot-dead-in-thailand-official-says-85715/

Cambodia’s ranking drops in peace index but score goes up

Cambodia slid five places down the annual Global Peace Index released Tuesday, ranking 111th out of 162 countries surveyed. But despite ceding five of the seven spots it gained in last year’s index—which measures safety, security, conflict and militarization—the country received a slightly higher score ...

Simon Henderson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodias-ranking-drops-in-peace-index-but-score-goes-up-85703/

Over 14 tons of smuggled items found on buses from Vietnam

A police search of three buses that were smuggling goods from Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh has turned up more than 14 tons of clothes, paint thinner and other materials, officials said Tuesday. ...

Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/over-14-tons-of-smuggled-items-found-on-buses-from-vietnam-85705/

Child garment workers not a problem, minister says

The labor minister said Tuesday there were so few underage workers in the garment industry that “we can count them on our fingers,” but a unionist and an NGO countered that child labor was still rife in the country’s smaller garment factories. ...

Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/child-garment-workers-not-a-problem-minister-says-85699/

Striking teachers call for principal’s ouster

Teachers at a Takeo province high school who began striking yesterday said they will not return to work until the principal, who allegedly embezzled school budget funds, is removed. Nearly 30 of 50 teachers at Sok An Kdey Tontoem High School in Takeo’s Samrong district walked ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/striking-teachers-call-principals-ouster

PPSEZ shores up land deal prior to CSX listing

Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone, the Kingdom’s most-developed SEZ, says the land deal for its planned SEZ in Poipet will be concluded before PPSEZ lists on Cambodia’s stock exchange. Hiroshi Uematsu, CEO of PPSEZ, said that 53 hectares of land near the Thai border had already ...

Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppsez-shores-land-deal-prior-csx-listing

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