NGO alleges bribery over titles
An environmental protection NGO is preparing to file a lawsuit with the Kampong speu provincial court and a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit against an Agriculture Department official who was allegedly paid by a development firm to issue land titles to villagers squatting on state ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-alleges-bribery-over-titles
(English) Cambodia Rejects Rice Contamination Claims by EU
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Oryza News Staff
http://oryza.com/news/cambodia-rejects-rice-contamination-claims-eu
Verdict today in case of jailed land activist
After more than three months in jail, environmental activist Kuch Veng is set to hear his verdict at the Pursat provincial court. The verdict was originally scheduled to be handed down July 10, but the judge ordered it delayed after some 300 people from 11 provinces ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/verdict-today-case-jailed-land-activist
Monks feeling policed
During a small press conference yesterday, the founder of the Independent Monk Network said about 30 police officers came to Wat Botum two nights in one week, asking to search the premises for “bad men” who may be hiding there. The visits occurred on the nights ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan and Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monks-feeling-policed
Lao consultants give dam the thumbs up
The controversial Don sahong hydropower dam, which Laos says it will soon build just a kilometre from the Cambodian border, will not have significant effects on the Mekong River, according to an environmental impact assessment paid for by the dam’s builder. Obtained yesterday, the report – ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lao-consultants-give-dam-thumbs
Gov’t to push rural sanitation
With the vast majority of rural Cambodians still lacking access to a toilet, and suffering the incumbent health risks, Ministry of Rural Development officials on Monday renewed long-standing intentions to improve the country’s sanitation infrastructure. Just days after World Toilet Day, the officials surveyed villages ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-push-rural-sanitation
Tanks sit between villagers, farmland
Villagers in Oddar Meanchey province’s samroang town filed a complaint to Adhoc yesterday after local authorities repeatedly failed to budge a nearby military unit, which the villagers say has stationed six tanks on their farmland and refused to grant residents access to their crops, or ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tanks-sit-between-villagers-farmland
Geopacific Resources to update capital raising for copper project in Cambodia
Geopacific Resources (AsX: GPR) is in pre-open following the AsX granting the company a trading halt, pending an announcement regarding a proposed capital raising in the form of a placement to sophisticated investors. Geopacific is focused on the highly prospective Kou sa copper project in Cambodia, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Opposition tells CPP: Agree, or talks off
Opposition leaders have given the ruling party an ultimatum: Agree to our demands by the end of the year or the talks are over. Kem sokha, Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy president, said yesterday that after discussing the matter with party president sam Rainsy, they had ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/opposition-tells-cpp-agree-or-talks
Long march to capital begins
The long journey on foot from the provinces to Phnom Penh began yesterday for hundreds of villagers and monks who intend to mark December 10’s International Human Rights Day by protesting outside the National Assembly. Parades of people, expected to grow in size the closer they ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/long-march-capital-begins
ប្រទះឃើញឈើប្រណីតជាង ៦០ ម៉ែត្រគុបគ្មានអាជ្ញាធរចុះបង្ក្រាប
ឈើប្រណីតជាង ៦០ ម៉ែត្រគុបតម្លៃរាប់ម៉ឺនដុល្លារត្រូវបានក្រុមអ្នកកាសែតប្រទះឃើញនៅនឹងប៉ុស្តិ៍នគរបាលក្នុងស្រុក សង្គមថ្មី ខេត្ត ព្រះវិហារ កាលពីថ្ងៃសៅរ៍ ខណៈដែលពួកឈ្មួញកំពុងដឹកឈើទំាងនោះចេញទៅលក់នៅប្រទេស វៀតណាម ដោយគ្មានការទប់ស្កាត់ពីអាជ្ញាធរ និងមន្រ្តី ss='cambodia-color'>...
ផាក់ ស៊ាងលី
http://www.postkhmer.com/index.php/national/1-national-news/108205-2013-12-23-03-14-15
(English) Threats as police, WWF officer probe logging
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Phak Seangly and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/threats-police-wwf-officer-probe-logging
(English) Crushing protests, CPP has abandoned constitution
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Colin Meyn and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/crushing-protests-cpp-has-abandoned-constitution-50358/
Exports of rice to fall short of 2013 goal
Cambodia’s rice exports roughly doubled in the first nine months of this year compared with the same period in 2012, according to government data released yesterday. But the figures aren’t big enough to meet official goals for 2013. The numbers show that exports of fragrant rice ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-rice-fall-short-2013-goal
US senator wants military aid tied to election probe
Opposition leader sam Rainsy has scored a late political victory in his whirlwind two-week tour to Europe and the United states to try and ramp up international pressure on the newly formed Cambodian government ahead of his return Tuesday. Last Wednesday, a prominent Republican Party senator, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-senator-wants-military-aid-tied-election-probe
CAMBODIA: H&M calls for annual minimum wage review
The Cambodian government should construct an effective annual review system for the minimum wage to ease worker unrest, according to clothing retail giant H&M. The swedish company’s comments came after CEO Karl-Johan Persson visited the country in mid-October, meeting Cambodia Prime Minister Hun sen and other ss='cambodia-color'>...
Richard Woodard
http://www.just-style.com/news/hm-calls-for-annual-minimum-wage-review_id119576.aspx
A prison by any other name . . .
Prisons across the country will soon be referred to only as “correctional centres” to change a public perception that they are places where people are simply locked up, the Ministry of Interior announced yesterday. Nuth sa An, secretary of state at the ministry, said the change ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prison-any-other-name
Poll Shows Cambodia Ranks High in ‘Global Suffering’
Cambodia ranked third worst in “global suffering” last year—behind Bulgaria and Armenia—a significant increase from 2011, when it ranked 14th worst, ac-cording to the worldwide polling group Gallup. A poll released last week on Gallup’s website says 34 percent of Cambodian respondents rated their lives as ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/poll-shows-cambodia-ranks-high-in-global-suffering-49070/
(English) Expansive Sihanoukville property development on schedule for completion in 2017
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(English) Businesses need help fighting corruption: CAMFEBA
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Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/businesses-need-help-fighting-corruption-camfeba