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Group finds judiciary wracked with corruption

The human rights wing of the International Bar Association has found Cambodia’s judiciary is riddled with problems that corrode citizens’ rights to a fair trial, including widespread graft.   ...

Pav Suy and James Reddick
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15863/group-finds-judiciary-wracked-with-corruption/

Gov’t to encourage reading

Cambodia will celebrate an annual day of reading from March 11 in an effort to promote the habit nationally, according to a sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday.The decree calls on ministries, education institutes, local authorities, NGOs and the private sector to ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-encourage-reading

Sok Hour denied bail again by Appeal Court

The Appeal Court has again denied bail to imprisoned Sam Rainsy Party Senator Hong Sok Hour, ruling the lawmaker poses a security and flight risk, according to the defendant’s lawyer. ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sok-hour-denied-bail-again-appeal-court

Most garment workers not expecting new $207 monthly wage

Most garment workers are expecting a new monthly minimum wage between $160 and $180, according to the results of a recent survey, far lower than the $207 some unions say they plan to seek in fast-approaching negotiations with the factories. ...

Mech Dara and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/most-garment-workers-not-expecting-new-207-monthly-wage-94698/

Legal group urges review of Cambodia’s bar

The human rights arm of the International Bar Association (IBA) is recommending that the membership of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) in the IBA be reviewed, raising the prospect of ejection in a scathing new report on the country’s judicial system. ...

Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/legal-group-urges-review-of-cambodias-bar-94684/

HAGL pact hailed as a ‘good step’

A landmark agreement between Vietnamese plantation firm Hoanh Anh Gia Lai and three indigenous communities in Ratanakkiri was reached yesterday, prompting hope for an amicable conclusion to the years-long dispute. ...

Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hagl-pact-hailed-good-step

Bourse softens listing criteria

For companies looking to float shares on Cambodia’s fledgling stock exchange, the rules have just been made easier.After three years and only two listings, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC) has revamped the listing criteria, in a bid to increase the number of ...

Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bourse-softens-listing-criteria

Police in Stung Treng seize ‘tycoon’s timber’

At least 100 cubic metres of luxury timber allegedly belonging to powerful tycoon Na Marady was intercepted in Stung Treng province’s Sesan district yesterday, officials said. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-stung-treng-seize-tycoons-timber

Drivers flee after truck crash injures 75 workers

More than 70 garment workers in Svay Rieng province were injured on Wednesday evening, four seriously, when two trucks transporting them home from work collided during heavy rain, police said Thursday.  ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/drivers-flee-after-truck-crash-injures-75-workers-94682/

Angelina Jolie-Pitt, Hun Sen meet to discuss film

Angelina Jolie-Pitt met with Prime Minister Hun Sen at the Peace Palace on Thursday to discuss her upcoming movie “First They Killed My Father” and a conservation area in Battambang championed by the actress, a spokesman for the prime minister said.  ...

Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/angelina-jolie-pitt-hun-sen-meet-to-discuss-upcoming-film-94690/

Senator’s son-in-law rejects land grab claim

The son-in-law of Senator Kok An has rejected accusations the tycoon is attempting to grab six hectares of land from a plot he sold to a South Korean development company 10 years ago. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/senators-son-law-rejects-land-grab-claim

Three men jailed for swindling hundreds in land scheme

Three men were charged with fraud in Kratie province on Wednesday after they were arrested for convincing more than 400 people from four provinces to give them money to secure pieces of land, police said Thursday.​ ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-men-jailed-for-swindling-hundreds-in-land-scheme-94694/

Floods wreak havoc

Residents of Kampot province continued to feel the devastating effects yesterday of widespread flooding in the area caused by the opening of the Kamchay Hydropower Dam, which has left thousands temporarily homeless and crippled local businesses.Keo Vy, spokesman of the National Committee for Disaster Management ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/floods-wreak-havoc

Lack of IDs could inhibit Cambodian voter registration project

A pilot project in Cambodia to register new voters, set to begin in November, will meet difficulties because many villagers lack simple identification cards, officials say. ...

Neou Vannarin
http://www.voanews.com/content/lack-identification-could-inhibit-cambodian-voter-registration-project/2968050.html

Cambodian villagers ask for missing compensation for confiscated land

Eighteen Cambodian families whose land was confiscated for the construction of a Chinese hydropower dam in a northwestern province on Thursday requested that the local government and Chinese operator of the facility pay them compensation they are owed, said a local resident and an official ...

Morm Moniroth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/villagers-ask-for-missing-compensation-for-confiscated-land-09172015152530.html

India, Cambodia sign two MoUs

Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Wednesday signed two Memorandums of Understanding — on tourism, and on the Mekong-Ganga Cooperation Initiative — with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen following a session of delegation-level talks. ...

TCA Sharad Raghavan
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-cambodia-sign-two-mous/article7660338.ece

Sam Rainsy plans to meet deputy prime minister Sar Kheng next week

Sam Rainsy, president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) plans to meet with deputy prime minister, and minister of interior Sar Kheng next week to discuss on a number of disagreement over the amendment of the commune/Sangakt election law. ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/sam-rainsy-plans-to-meet-deputy-prime-minister-sar-kheng-next-week-8965

Chinese, Cambodian senior officials vow to further enhance ties, cooperation

Arken Imirbaki, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress ( NPC), met separately with Cambodia’s acting-head of state Say Chhum and National Assembly President Heng Samrin on Thursday to discuss ways to further enhance ties and cooperation between the two countries.​ ...

Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6651064/2015/09/17/chinese-cambodian-senior-officials-vow-further-enhance-ties-cooperation

Cambodian forest caretakers confess to illegal logging

Members of a community-based organization in Cambodia responsible for protecting local forest resources have confessed to illegally cutting down trees to sell to local businessmen, prompting the group’s leader to threaten to resign. ...

Ratha Visal
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/logging-09172015144036.html

Climate change ‘leadership needed’

Senior officials from the Environment Ministry have called on the developed world to provide more assistance in the battle against climate change, which they said Cambodia is working hard to address. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/climate-change-leadership-needed

Telecom staff in graft inquiry

The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has appointed a six-man team to investigate corruption allegations involving two Telecom Cambodia employees and some $230,000 missing from the state-owned company’s accounts. ...

Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/telecom-staff-graft-inquiry

Authorities seize logs in K Speu

Over 100 logs of luxury timber from Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary in Kampong Speu province were seized by authorities in Chbar Mon town on Tuesday. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-seize-logs-k-speu

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