Travel group calms visitors
In an apparent bid to reassure jittery visitors watching the country’s political scene, the Cambodia Association of Travel Agents (CATA) said in a statement yesterday that post-election tensions would not harm tourists. Addressing its members – tour operators and travel agencies – as well as national ss='cambodia-color'>...
Anne Renzenbrink and Laura Ma
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/travel-group-calms-visitors
Justice Ministry to keep track of courts’ case lists
The Ministry of Justice yesterday held the first of what it said would be regular forums soliciting the input of civil society on judicial reforms, and promised a new measure that it maintained would streamline the courts’ workflow. Citing widespread frustration among citizens, Justice Minister Ang ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/justice-ministry-keep-track-courts%E2%80%99-case-lists
(English) Three New Districts in Phnom Penh Approved
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Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-new-districts-in-phnom-penh-approved-49424/
Housing Activist in Washington To Push for Cambodian Policy Reforms
Cambodian housing rights activist Tep Vanny is in Washington this week, seeking to increase international pressure on Cambodian authorities to end forced evictions and find resolutions to longstanding land disputes. Tep Vanny, a housewife who has emerged as a leader for Cambodian victims of forced evictions, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/housing-activist-in-washington-to-push-for-cambodian-policy-reforms/1760036.html
Doing Business in Cambodia Becoming More Difficult
Cambodia ranked 137 out of 189 countries in the World Bank’s Doing Business 2014 report released Tuesday, the first drop in at least two years that shows conducting business in the country is becoming more difficult. The report ranks countries in 10 categories, including starting a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Wilwohl and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/doing-business-in-cambodia-becoming-more-difficult-46243/
Governor Tells Cintri to Clean Up Its Act or Lose Contract
Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong haS iSSued an ultimatum to Cintri, the city&rSquo;S waSte diSpoSal company: Clean the StreetS, and keep them clean, or loSe your contract. At a meeting between Cintri, City Hall and all levelS of Phnom Penh officialS on Monday, Mr. Socheatvong told SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/governor-tells-cintri-to-clean-up-its-act-or-lose-contract-46246/
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 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Stuart White and Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/where-truth-often-gets-ignored
(English) Koh Pich: diamond in the rough slowly comes together
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Chris Horton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/koh-pich-diamond-rough-slowly-comes-together
NGOs, Sar Kheng talk investigation
Interior Minister sar Kheng sat down with representatives from 10 civil society organisations on Friday for what Cambodian Center for Human Rights president Ou Virak described as a “very frank discussion” of how to handle the investigation into the multitude of alleged irregularities in last ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Phnom Penh Post
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-sar-kheng-talk-investigation
Microsoft decries pirated software
Microsoft Cambodia has found that an overwhelming majority of computer retailers surveyed earlier this year failed to offer customers the option to purchase licensed, as opposed to pirated, software. Out of the 54 Cambodian computer retailers included in the May survey, the results of which were ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/microsoft-decries-pirated-software
Days-long sit-in planned by CNRP
Opposition leader sam Rainsy yesterday told supporters in Kandal province to pack up their bed mats, pillows and rice and prepare for the long haul as he and deputy Kem sokha outlined plans for a sit-in at Freedom Park that could drag on for days ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea and Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/days-long-sit-planned-cnrp
Anti-Corruption Unit Head Tells Donors to Stop Asking Questions
Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) chief Om Yentieng on Wednesday told donor countries to keep their noses out of how the institution goes about its work while at the same time informing the public that he was powerless to stop the courts from dropping corruption cases. In a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anti-corruption-unit-head-tells-donors-to-stop-asking-questions-44781/
Authorities ‘ignoring’ children behind bars
Eight-year-old Sokun* Spent almoSt the firSt Seven yearS of hiS life in priSon. Unlike other Cambodian children who have the freedom to play and run free, countleSS hourS of hiS early life were Spent in a hot, Squalid and teeming cell in the priSon where hiS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-%E2%80%98ignoring%E2%80%99-children-behind-bars
Twenty-Two Years On, Paris Peace Agreement Far From Realized
More than two decades after the Paris Peace Agreement, which was meant to open the way for peace and multiparty democracy in Cambodia, legal experts and hu­man rights advocates said Tuesday the government has largely abandoned the vision of the accord. speaking at a conference on ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/twenty-two-years-on-paris-peace-agreement-far-from-realized-45702/
Thousands Join Opposition Rally in Phnom Penh
Thousands of opposition supporters made their way to Freedom Park in Phnom Penh on Wednesday morning to begin the first of a three-day demonstration designed to urge signatories of the Paris Peace Agreement to intervene in the country’s current political deadlock. Unlike at the previous protests ss='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn and Simon Marks
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thousands-join-opposition-rally-in-phnom-penh-45722/
Try Pheap Bulldozers Return to Clear Land, Stopped by Protesters
About 100 villagers in Preah Vihear province’s Rovieng district on saturday turned out in protest for the second time this week to prevent a bulldozer that belongs to well-known businessman Try Pheap from clearing their land next to his rubber plantation, local officials and residents ss='cambodia-color'>...
UK Pedophile Came to Cambodia to Teach in Schools
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday charged convicted British pedophile Richard Fruin, 36, with sexually abusing two brothers, aged 8 and 11, at a guesthouse in Phnom Penh, court officials said. While the court has yet to decide Fruin’s fate, his case—and many similar ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/uk-pedophile-came-to-cambodia-to-teach-in-schools-46353/
តុលាការខេត្តកំពង់ស្ពឺលើកយករឿងក្តីវិវាទដីធ្លីពាក់ព័ន្ធនឹងសមាជិកព្រឹទ្ធសភាម្នាក់មកជំនុំជម្រះ
តំណាងសហគមន៍ម្នាក់បាននិយាយថា សាលាដំបូងខេត្តកំពង់ស្ពឺ បានកោះហៅប្ដីប្រពន្ធពីរនាក់ដែលជាប់ចោទ ពីបទទន្ទ្រានយកដីដែលកាត់ចេញពីដីចម្ការរបស់លោក លី យ៉ុងផាត់ សមាជិកព្រឹទ្ធសភាមកពីគណបក្សប្រជាជន ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadailykhmer.com/news/8441/
(English) Anti-Corruption Unit Reports on Health Sector Bribe Case
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Khy Sovuthy and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anti-corruption-unit-reports-on-health-sector-bribe-case-49863/
(English) Cambodia election ranked 5th most flawed in survey
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Alex Willemyns and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-election-ranked-5th-most-flawed-in-survey-53518/