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Education ministry sets date for high school re-examination
The Ministry of Education announced that high school students who failed the national exam will get their second chance to pass the test on October 13 and 14 following a decision by Prime Minister Hun Sen to hold a re-sit of the exam amid reports ...
Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/education-ministry-sets-date-for-high-school-re-examination-66697/
Government approves new traffic law
The Council of Ministers on Friday approved a new draft traffic law aimed at improving the safety of Cambodia’s notoriously dangerous roads, with only legislative approval standing in the way of the bill being passed into law. The draft law, which includes changes to 64 articles, ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-approves-new-traffic-law-66675/
Despite police blockade, KDC villagers reach Phnom Penh
A day after three of their community members were arrested following a violent encounter with police, about 50 villagers from Kompong Chhnang province forged ahead with a peaceful march toward Phnom Penh on Wednesday, but were temporarily blocked by police officials in Russei Keo district. The ...
Kuch Naren and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/despite-police-blockade-kdc-villagers-reach-phnom-penh-66465/
UN representative hears minorities’ complaints
The U.N.’s human rights representative in Cambodia visited ethnic Bunong villagers in Mondolkiri province this week, days after local authorities prevented hundreds of them from marching to mark International Day of the World’s Indigenous People. Wan-Hea Lee met with villagers in Pech Chreada district’s Bosra commune ...
Aun Pheap and George Wright
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-representative-hears-minorities-complaints-66362/
Fresh arrests for embattled KDC villagers
Three men embroiled in a land dispute with a company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem were arrested Tuesday while marching with about 50 fellow villagers from Kompong Chhnang province’s Lor Peang village to Phnom Penh. The villagers planned to walk ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fresh-arrests-for-embattled-kdc-villagers-66343/
Police say official had luxury logs
An immigration official at the Ministry of Interior’s office in Ratanakkiri province was arrested yesterday, accused of illegal logging, district police said. O’Yadav police chief Sok Min said provincial court prosecutor Liv Sreng led military and police officials on a car chase that ended with the ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-say-official-had-luxury-logs
Hundreds protest: Land grab feared after posts appear
Five hundred villagers in Preah Vihear province protested yesterday outside the office of FP Malaysia Plantation Company, which they say is attempting to take their land. Rith Sothon, a village representative in Preah Vihear’s Kulen district, said the villagers filed a complaint after the company placed ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-protest-land-grab-feared-after-posts-appear
Police say mistake made, kidney transplants legal
After a two-month investigation, police were confident enough to arrest and interrogate nine people on Saturday over an alleged kidney trafficking ring at the state-run Preah Ket Mealea military hospital, including its director Ly Sovann, a lieutenant general in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). But ...
Khy Sovuthy and Alex Consiglio
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-say-they-made-mistake-kidney-transplants-legal-66261/
Rubber firm to stop marking disputed land
A Vietnamese rubber plantation in Ratanakkiri province repeatedly accused of encroaching on the land of local residents agreed to stop demarcating more land Monday after being confronted by a group of villagers who accused the firm of breaching a deal the two sides reached earlier ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rubber-firm-to-stop-marking-disputed-land-66276/
Chroy Changva families accept OCIC package
Thirty-one families in Chroy Changva district Monday agreed to move off land that has been slated for a $3 billion development project in exchange for an apartment and a market stall nearby, officials said. ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chroy-changva-families-accept-ocic-package-66280/
Students who failed exam get second chance
As more than 90,000 students across the country sweat over results that will rule them in or out of university, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday announced that those who failed the tightly monitored 2014 national exam would be given a second chance to pass. ...
Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/students-who-failed-exam-get-second-chance-66253/
Kratie case exposes flaws in land-titling scheme
The latest case of scores of villagers from Kratie province tied up in a land dispute with an agribusiness firm has once again highlighted failures in the 2012 land-titling scheme launched by Prime Minister Hun Sen to settle unresolved land disputes and distribute hundreds of ...
George Wright and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kratie-case-exposes-flaws-in-land-titling-scheme-66131/
Nationwide flood death toll reaches 20
The death toll as a result of this year’s seasonal floods has continued to rise with officials now putting the number at 20. Keo Vy, cabinet chief at the National Committee for Disaster Management, said eight are confirmed dead in Kompong Cham province, three from Stung ...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nationwide-flood-death-toll-reaches-20-66135/
Sihanoukville struggles to shake its seedy image
This tourist town counts itself among the Most Beautiful Bays in the World Club and more than 1 million tourists each year are drawn to its tropical water and sandy shore. Yet when the U.S. Embassy last month warned its citizens to avoid some beaches ...
Ouch Sony and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sihanoukville-struggles-to-shake-its-seedy-image-66108/
Gov’t lifts farming ban on K Thom floodplains
The Council of Ministers has granted farmers in Kompong Thom province permission to start farming on the floodplains of the Tonle Sap lake in an area previously off limits and home to flooded forests that provide a critical fish breeding habitat. The Council of Ministers’ notice, ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-lifts-farming-ban-on-k-thom-floodplains-66008/
M’kiri villagers seize wood from rubber firm
Villagers in Mondolkiri province this week seized four trucks transporting luxury-grade timber out of a plantation they accuse of logging outside its government-granted land concession and turned the haul over to local authorities. The ethnic minority Banong villagers accuse Villa Development, which owns a local rubber ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mkiri-villagers-seize-wood-from-rubber-firm-66002/
K Chhnang villagers protest arrests for 3rd day
Villagers caught in a land dispute with a minister’s wife gathered outside Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court for a third consecutive day on Thursday, demanding the release of two men jailed over a clash with workers from the well-connected agriculture firm KDC. ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/k-chhnang-villagers-protest-arrests-for-3rd-day-66010/
Representatives to meet over factory fire
Representatives for the employees and owners of a Phnom Penh garment factory gutted by a fire last month will meet at the Ministry of Labor today to try and hammer out a pay package for the workers, though a factory official said they would not ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/representatives-to-meet-over-factory-fire-65988/
Villagers protest arrests over land dispute
About 90 villagers continued to demonstrate outside the Kompong Chhnang provincial court Wednesday, calling for the release of two men from prison and protesting the summoning of another eight over clashes last month with workers from the powerful KDC company. The rally came after about 200 ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-protest-arrests-over-land-dispute-65916/
NGO blasts roundup of Phnom Penh’s beggars
An NGO partnered with Phnom Penh’s municipal government in a scheme to help poor children get off the street Wednesday blasted the city’s ongoing catch-and-release strategy. In June, City Hall partnered up with two NGOs in a campaign to remove beggars from Phnom Penh’s streets. The ...
Khuon Narim and Alex Consiglio
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-blasts-roundup-of-phnom-penhs-beggars-65912/
Police chief questioned about smuggling rosewood
A provincial police officer appeared for questioning at the Pailin Provincial Court on Tuesday after military police, led by a local wildlife NGO founded by U.S. actress Angelina Jolie, caught him transporting more than 177 kg of illegally logged rosewood on Sunday. Sor Phalla was arrested ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-chief-questioned-after-caught-smuggling-rosewood-65801/
Villagers take KDC protest to court
About 200 villagers and monks marched to the Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court on Tuesday to call for the release from jail of two villagers and protest the summoning of eight more to appear before the provincial court. The villagers are embroiled in a long-running land dispute ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-take-kdc-protest-to-court-65806/
Partner NGOs again in the dark over city’s street sweep
Rin Ren thought that her grandchildren had gone to study English with NGO Mith Samlanh and would return to their home along the railroad in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak II commune by nightfall, just as they had done many times before. Instead, friends of the children ...
Khuon Narim and Alex Consiglio
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/partner-ngos-again-in-the-dark-over-citys-street-sweep-65799/
Police block villagers’ march to Hun Sen’s house
About 100 villagers locked in a land dispute with an agribusiness firm from Kratie province were blocked from marching to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house Tuesday by hundreds of military police and municipal security guards after walking from Phnom Penh’s Samakki Raingsey pagoda. The villagers, who ...
Aun Pheap and George Wright
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-block-villagers-march-to-hun-sens-house-65804/