Auction closes on high note
This past Sunday afternoon, while the rest of Phnom Penh’s residents hid from the sweltering heat, a steady stream of cars and motos made their way down a long accces road, flanked by green lawn and tennis courts. alighting at the Sofitel Phokeetra on the Tonle <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/auction-closes-on-high-note/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012031354992/Lifestyle/auction-closes-on-high-note.html
ASEAN Spells Out its Tourism Priorities Ahead of 2015
The countries of ASEAN Are now implementing A cleAr roAd mAp to Achieve the tourism objectives of the ASEAN Economic Community, due 2015. There will be A new ‘ASEAN for ASEAN’ cAmpAign And speciAl promotions, Along with enhAnced strAtegic cooperAtion with the growth mArkets of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/AseAn-spells-out-its-tourism-priorities-AheAd-of-2015/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Protest Becomes Secession When Liberties Are Taken With Words
This month’s eviction of villagers in Kratie province that resulted in the death of a 14-year-old girl was one of many such violent incidents over land that have erupted in Cambodia in recent years. But what set the May 16 violence apart was a word: <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/protest-becomes-secession-when-liberties-are-taken-with-words/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Industry Sector
The real growth rate of the industry sector has been revised downwardly by half a percentage point against the previous estimate to 8.8 percent year-on-year in 2012. a scaling down of the growth estimate of the textile and garment sub sector, as a result of persistently weaker demand in the European and US <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/industry-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Wagering on warm fronts
A busty womAn with A scrAtchy voice shrieks into An intricAte set up of rAdios, microphones And wAlkie-tAlkies, her tone not unlike thAt of A breAthless Flemington rAce-cAller. The womAn is in continuous contAct with up to 100 men peppered over rice fields fringing BAttAmbAng, AnAlyzing the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/wAgering-on-wArm-fronts/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/7days/1848-wagering-on-warm-fronts
Sentencing swift in pic ripping case
Less than 36 hours after Wang Zia Chao provoked a strike by destroying two photos of the late King Father in front of hundreds of Cambodian garment workers, the Chinese factory manager was booked, charged and convicted by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, which last <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/sentencing-swift-in-pic-ripping-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
British Man Faces Lengthy Jail Term After Phnom Penh Arrest
The British chairman of a Biofuel firm is facing up to 15 years in jail after he was arrested by the anti-Corruption Unit (aCU) in Phnom Penh on Saturday and charged with forgery, a court official said yesterday. Gregg Fryett’s company, Sustainable agro Energy, has been <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/british-man-faces-lengthy-jail-term-after-phnom-penh-arrest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hun Sen Demands Answers to Sihanoukville Water Shortage
Prime Minister Hun Sen chastised local authorities in Preah Sihanouk province on Friday for their inability to prevent a water shortage in early april that crippled businesses in the tourist hub of Sihanoukville and left locals without running water for almost a week. The incident <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/hun-sen-demands-answers-to-sihanoukville-water-shortage/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-demands-answers-to-water-shortage-20480/
Cambodian Trade Union warns protest to demand release of arrested members
Cambodian Free Trade Union of Workers (FTU) warned Tuesday to stage a protest if the authority does not release its eight members who were arrested by police on Monday during a demonstration at a Taiwanese-owned garment factory, a union leader said. FTU’s president Chea Mony <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodian-trade-union-warns-protest-to-demand-release-of-arrested-members/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-06/04/c_132430572.htm
Ethical Sugar Group Suspends Tate & Lyle Over Plantations
An internAtionAl group thAt promotes the ethicAl sourcing of sugAr for the food And energy industries hAs suspended the membership of U.K. sugAr giAnt TAte &Amp; Lyle for fAiling to Answer complAints thAt it wAs buying from CAmbodiAn plAntAtions Accused of steAling lAnd from locAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/ethicAl-sugAr-group-suspends-tAte-lyle-over-plAntAtions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ethical-sugar-group-suspends-tate-lyle-over-plantations-35438/
Kem Sokha Accused of Denying Flood Aid to CPP Voters
A villAge chief in Kompong ChAm province’s flooded Tonle Bit commune ThursdAy Accused opposition leAder Kem SokhA of refusing to provide emergency supplies to CPP supporters during A donAtion run on TuesdAy. Prek Touch villAge chief SAr BorA sAid thAt Mr. SokhA, vice president of the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/kem-sokhA-Accused-of-denying-flood-Aid-to-cpp-voters/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Illicit Trade Linked to $130M In Losses
A report releAsed by A U.S. finAnciAl reseArch firm todAy sAys thAt CAmbodiA lost An AverAge of $133 million per yeAr between 2002 And 2011 through crimes such As import And export tAx evAsion, illegAl movements of money And smuggling. The report, releAsed by GlobAl FinAnciAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/illicit-trAde-linked-to-130m-in-losses/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/illicit-trade-linked-to-130m-in-losses-49163/
បក្សប្រឆាំងនិងសហជីពជំរុញឲ្យកម្មកររួមគ្នាទាមទារប្រាក់ឈ្នួលឲ្យបាន $ ១៦០
ប្រធានគណបក្សសង្គ្រោះជាតិ និងសហភាពសហជីពកម្ពុជា កាលពីថ្ងៃម្សិលមិញ បានធ្វើការអំពាវនាវដល់កម្មករនៅខេត្ត ស្វាយរៀង និងនៅទូទាំងប្រទេស ឲ្យបន្តធ្វើការតវ៉ា និងត្រៀមធ្វើការតវ៉ា ដើម្បីទាមទារការដំឡើងប្រាក់ឈ្នួលឲ្យបានដល់ ១៦០ ដុល្លារ ក្នុងមួយខែ ខណៈដែលរដ្ឋាភិបាល តំណាងរោងចក្រ និងសហជីព នឹងជួបប្រជុំគ្នា <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/keep-striking-for-160-rainsy-urges/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
មុំ គន្ធា
http://postkhmer.com/index.php/national/1-national-news/108267-2013-12-24-03-04-08
Civil Society Organizations to Push for Electoral Overhaul
As the dispute over July’s nAtionAl election enters its fourth month, A civil society umbrellA orgAnizAtion, the ElectorAl Reform AlliAnce (ERA), is due to releAse A comprehensive report on widespreAd irregulArities recorded during the bAllot. The report will be followed by the drAfting of A proposed <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/civil-society-orgAnizAtions-to-push-for-electorAl-overhAul/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/civil-society-organizations-to-push-for-electoral-overhaul-46140/
Regulator to Review Minimum Prices for Calls
An officiAl At the TelecommunicAtion RegulAtor of CAmbodiA (TRC) sAid WednesdAy thAt the body plAns to review And possibly lower the current minimum price per cAll After it recently ordered the country’s seven mobile phone operAtors to Abide by A lAw thAt sets minimum cAll <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/regulAtor-to-review-minimum-prices-for-cAlls/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Joshua Wilwohl and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/regulator-to-review-minimum-prices-for-calls-48616/
(English) Rice Trader Claims Being Wrongly Fined Bad Scale to Measure Her Truck
Sorry, this entry is only available in អង់គ្លេស (ស.រ.អ). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/rice-trader-claims-being-wrongly-fined-bad-scale-to-measure-her-truck/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/rice-trader-claims-being-wrongly-fined-bad-scale-to-measure-her-truck-49631/
(English) Silence broken at last
Sorry, this entry is only available in អង់គ្លេស (ស.រ.អ). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/silence-broken-at-last/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Titthara and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/silence-broken-last
Where truth often gets ignored
On Friday morning, two sources quoted in a report on illegal logging will face questioning at the hands of a Kandal province prosecutor over allegations that they defamed Cambodian tycoon Try Pheap. Under the Cambodian penal code, the legal definition of defamation is much like that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/where-truth-often-gets-ignored/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Stuart White and Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/where-truth-often-gets-ignored
Gov’t looks to 2014 for adoptions
The long-awaited resumption of international adoptions may finally occur in the new year, officials from the ministries of Justice and Social affairs said yesterday, though no time table is yet in place. While the freeze on adoptions – put in place in 2009 with the passage <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/govt-looks-to-2014-for-adoptions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Amelia Woodside and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-looks-2014-adoptions
Cambodia's ruling, opposition leaders still at odds over poll probe committee
Cambodia’s long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen and long-time opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Monday still disagreed over opposition’s request for an independent committee to look into the contested July 28 election, officials said. “The two leaders remained at odds over this point as the Cambodia National <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodias-ruling-opposition-leaders-still-at-odds-over-poll-probe-committee/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Xinhuanet News
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-09/16/c_132725471.htm