Defamation suits follow NGO report
Tycoon Try Pheap has filed a defamation complaint against two people quoted in an NGO report released last week that accused him of illegal logging and widespread land grabbing, summonses obtained yesterday reveal. The documents, bearing the signature of Kandal Provincial Court prosecutor Sam Rithy Veasna, ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/defamation-suits-follow-ngo-report
Families Protest Eviction by Chinese Company
Forty-two families from Preah Vihear province’s Chheb district on Sunday held a demonstration to protest their pending eviction in favor of a Chinese company that plans to establish a sugarcane plantation on the land the families have occupied for almost three years. Local authorities have told ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-protest-eviction-by-chinese-company-47808/
Government Pushes Ahead With NGO Law
After nearly two years of silence on its draft NGO Law, the Ministry of Interior on Sunday said it was aiming to have the highly contentious piece of legislation ready for the Council of Ministers early next year and voted on by July. Meas Sarim, deputy ...
Phorn Bopha and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-pushes-ahead-with-ngo-law-48245/
Complaint Filed With UN Over Police Shooting of Civilians
A law student who filed a complaint with the Phnom Penh Municipal Court against the city’s police and military police chiefs over the fatal shooting of a bystander by authorities during a protest last month took his complaint to the U.N.’s human rights office on ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/complaint-filed-with-un-over-police-shooting-of-civilians-48961/
What does the future hold?
Officials, business professionals and political analysts have mixed opinions on the leadership of the single-party Cambodian government and what the future hold for the next five years. Sok Touch, a professor of political science at Khemarak University, said the political deadlock won’t help the nation become ...
Kay Kimsong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/analysis-and-op-ed/what-does-future-hold
Myriad flood challenges remain
As the flood levels recede in most of the 20 affected provinces, victims continue facing scores of recovery challenges including sanitation, food security, health and shelter concerns, as well as a lack of potable water. In its fourth report on the flood situation, released yesterday, the ...
Mom Kunthear, Amelia Woodside and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/myriad-flood-challenges-remain
Plans to Reform Economy for Asean Integration
Cambodia’s newly appointed minister of commerce said Thursday that he plans to reform the country’s economy ahead of Cambodia’s entrance into the Asean Economic Community (AEC) 2015, though he and other officials did not say how they plan to accomplish that goal. Speaking to reporters on ...
Hul Reaksmey and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/plans-to-reform-economy-for-asean-integration-46469/
Police Deny Responsibility for Shooting Civilians
Police on Wednesday denied any responsibility for the shooting death of a street food vendor after they fired live rounds during clashes with garment factory workers in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district on Tuesday, with a government spokesman saying the security forces can use “any means” ...
Lauren Crothers and Phann Ana
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-deny-responsibility-for-shooting-civilians-46937/
Collusion alleged in logging
Ethnic Jarai villagers in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district have accused border officials of not only allowing illegal ViEtnamese loggers to cross the border unimpeded, but also of taking their side in negotiations with a community forest patrol. Members of the patrol in Paknhai commune’s Lam village said ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/collusion-alleged-logging
Can’t see the forest …
The percentage of Cambodia covered in forest has fallen from about 72 per cent in 1973 to only about 46 per cent in 2013, satellite image data released yesterday shows. A series of animated maps that Open Development Cambodia (ODC) produced from NASA satellite images detail ...
Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/can%E2%80%99t-see-forest-%E2%80%A6
(English) NGOs ask PM to axe Koh Kong dam plans
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Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-ask-pm-axe-koh-kong-dam-plans
(English) Lawyers Prevented From Seeing Protest Detainees at CC3
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Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lawyers-prevented-from-seeing-protest-detainees-at-cc3-50395/
Mu Sochua to restart Freedom Park campaign
Mu Sochua, a lawmaker-elect for the opposition CNRP, announced Thursday that she will on Sunday morning resume her campaign to enter Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park. Last month, Ms. Sochua appeared at the park alone for four straight days—each day being physically barred by authorities—in an effort ...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mu-sochua-to-restart-freedom-park-campaign-56712/
(English) Cambodia Should Produce More Quality Human Resources, Rather Than Quantity
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The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=ZDRmY2U4YzZmMWQ
មេដឹកនាំសហជីពខ្វែងគំនិតក្នុងការប្រជុំស្តី ពីប្រាក់ឈ្នួលកម្មករ
មេដឹកនាំសហជីព និងក្រុមអ្នកឃ្លាំមើលវិស័យកាត់នៅកម្ពុជា គឺជាអ្នកតំណាងមិនច្បាស់របស់សហជីព និងអង្គការក្រៅរដ្ឋាភិបាលដែលមានរហូតដល់ទៅ ៥០ នឹងសម្រេចកិច្ចព្រមព្រៀងមួយនៅក្នុងកិច្ចប្រជុំមួយស្តីពីប្រាក់ឈ្នួលអប្បបរមាឆ្នាំ ២០១៥ ...
Sean Teehan
http://bit.ly/1sdmxsV
(English) Restore Free Assembly, UN Rights Council Says
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Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/restore-free-assembly-un-rights-council-says-51097/
(English) Rights Groups Want Access to 23 Detained Prisoners
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Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rights-groups-want-access-to-23-detained-prisoners-51194/
(English) Mixed message to UN
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Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mixed-message-un
(English) Worse off than before
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Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/worse
(English) Two Siblings from Kratie Die From Bird Flu on Same Day
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Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-siblings-from-kratie-die-from-bird-flu-on-same-day-51979/