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Battambang residents protest over land redistribution plans

About 70 villagers representing hundreds of families living in Battambang City’s Prek Preah Sdech commune protested outside the provincial hall Tuesday over fears that local authorities intend to evict them to make way for military families. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/battambang-residents-protest-over-land-redistribution-plans-79474/

No more ADB funding to finish stalled railway project

ប្រធាន​ធនាគារ​អភិវឌ្ឍន៍​អាស៊ី​ដែល​មក​ធ្វើ​ទស្សន​កិច្ច លោក តាកេហ៊ីកុ ណាកាវ (Takehiko Nakao) បាន​មាន​ប្រសាសន៍​កាលពី​ថ្ងៃ​អង្គារ​ថា នឹង​មិន​មាន​ប្រាក់​ថែមទៀត​ពី​ធនាគារ​នេះ​ដើម្បី​បញ្ចប់​គម្រោង​ដែល​ជាប់​ គាំង​និង​ក្ស័យធន ដើម្បី​ស្ថារ​បណ្តាញ​ផ្លូវ​ដែក​ចាស់​របស់​ប្រទេស​កម្ពុជា គឺ​គម្រោង​មាន​ទឹក​ប្រាក់​១៤២​លាន​ដុល្លារ ដែល​ត្រូវ​គេ​ចាត់​ទុក​ថា​ជា​ការ​ផ្តួចផ្តើម​ហេដ្ឋា​រចនា​សម្ព័ន្ធ​ដ៏​ សំខាន់។ ...

Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/no-more-adb-funding-to-finish-stalled-railway-project-79470/

Ashes to ashes: Butts shipment goes awry

A man hired by a purported representative of a fertiliser company to haul 30 tonnes of “natural fertiliser” from Thbong Khmum province to Oddar Meanchey province some three months ago was surprised to learn this week that the load actually consisted entirely of cigarette butts. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/ashes-ashes-butts-shipment-goes-awry

‘I did not interfere’, general tells court

The brigadier general charged by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court with pressuring judicial officials while an aide to ousted court president Ang Maltey maintained his innocence yesterday after being brought in for questioning. ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/i-did-not-interfere-general-tells-court

Villagers spurn firm’s ‘gifts’

A plantation company with its sights set on a community forest long used by local ethnic minority Jarai in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district arranged a meeting with more than 200 villagers this week to try to persuade them to sign over the woodland. Representatives of the Heng ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/villagers-spurn-firms-gifts

In new election body law, room for mischief

The opposition hailed the rewriting of Cambodia’s election laws a success on Monday, with the completion of the bills coming eight months after it ended its parliamentary boycott for pledges of a comprehensive overhaul of the National Election Committee (NEC). ...

Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-new-election-body-law-room-for-mischief-79451/

First Singapore patent recognised in Cambodia: IPOS

The first Singapore patent has been granted protection and recognised in Cambodia, less than two months after the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) and Cambodia’s Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts (MIH). ...

Channel News Asia News Staff
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/first-singapore-patent/1706144.html

Strong criticism, as lawmakers discuss draft election reforms

The ruling party and opposition on Monday held a workshop to discuss two draft laws on election reform, but many civil society groups refused to attend, claiming parts of the bills fall short and are unconstitutional. Koul Panha, executive director for Comfrel, told VOA Khmer on Monday that more ...

Neou Vannarin
http://bit.ly/1NIoIxy

ADB chief pledges continued support to Cambodia for socio-economic development

Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao on Tuesday pledged to provide continued support to Cambodia for socio-economic development, a Cambodian spokesman said. He said the nation’s poverty rate had fallen from 53 percent in 2004 to 18 percent in 2014. ...

The Cambodia Herald​ News Staff
http://bit.ly/1BvKheC

Three Cambodians return home after being cheated to work abroad

Three Cambodian people who were cheated to work abroad returned home on Tuesday, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said. ...

The Cambodia Herald​ News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/three-cambodians-return-home-after-being-cheated-to-work-abroad-8287

Police arrest four smuggling crystal meth from Laos

Police arrested four men in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district on Sunday on suspicion of smuggling drugs from Laos, confiscating more than half a kilogram of crystal methamphetamine in the bust, officials said Monday. ...

Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-arrest-four-smuggling-crystal-meth-from-laos-79356/

Mining prospects ranked low

An index measuring countries on their attractiveness for mining investment has included Cambodia in its results for the first time, with the Kingdom ranking a relatively low 81 out of 122 due to a lack of obvious sites to exploit. The “attractiveness index”, conducted by the ...

Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/mining-prospects-ranked-low

Racial incitement clause in law worries CNRP

The ruling CPP has denied that an article in the new election law that lays down strict penalties for politicians that incite racial discrimination during election campaigning is targeted at the opposition party. However, a CPP source familiar with election reform negotiations has disclosed that ...

Kevin Ponniah and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/racial-incitement-clause-law-worries-cnrp

Hun Sen slaps freeze on new gov’t positions, departments

Prime Minister Hun Sen last week issued a directive ordering all government bodies to hold off on new hires for the rest of the year except to fill existing positions being vacated, in an apparent bid to keep spending in line with the current state ...

Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-slaps-freeze-on-new-govt-positions-departments-79340/

Environment officials to monitor conditions

The Ministry of Environment is set to join the Ministry of Labour in the monitoring of garment factory workplaces, after creating a working group that will probe the environmental safety of all plants in Cambodia. At a press conference at the ministry yesterday, Minister of Environment ...

Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/environment-officials-monitor-conditions

Minister reiterates call for regulation of clinics

The minister of health once again urged his subordinates and local authorities yesterday to shut down the country’s unlicensed clinics and doctors to prevent another HIV outbreak. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/minister-reiterates-call-regulation-clinics

In court, kidney trader denies running transplant enterprise

A woman accused of organ trafficking was tried at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday for allegedly persuading her two cousins and a neighbor to sell their kidneys in Thailand last year. Anti-human trafficking police arrested Nhem Sinuon, 29, in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district ...

Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-court-kidney-trader-denies-running-transplant-enterprise-79338/

Thailand deports monks across border

Thai authorities deported 20 Cambodian monks through the Poipet International Checkpoint on Saturday after they illegally crossed into Thailand to seek alms, an immigration official said Monday. ...

Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thailand-deports-monks-across-border-79346/

$250k stolen in daylight heist

A sleepy village in Kampong Thom province was the unlikely site of a major gold heist over the weekend, as a gang of heavily armed robbers raided a local market in broad daylight, making away with more than $250,000 worth of cash and jewellery before ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/250k-stolen-daylight-heist

NA commission calls ministers over Bokor

The National Assembly’s Seventh Commission, which oversees tourism and culture, summoned four government ministers to answer questions yesterday regarding the development and future of Kampot province’s Bokor Mountain. ...

Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/na-commission-calls-ministers-over-bokor

Journo in court: Cameraman now facing gun charges

A Cameraman for the Ministry of Information’s TVK news channel was charged by the Kandal Provincial Court yesterday with possessing an illegal firearm, among other allegations, police said. ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/journo-court-cameraman-now-facing-gun-charges

DF Fashion staff to get back pay

More than 400 former employees of the abandoned DF Fashion Apparel (Cambodia) in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district will each receive between $500 and $600 in back pay owed to them today. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/df-fashion-staff-get-back-pay

Massive crack in ‘White Building’ widens

A four-story crack in the south-facing side of Phnom Penh’s aging “White Building”—which first appeared in early February as a pile driver broke up earth inside an adjacent construction site—widened over the weekend, shortly after a meeting between worried tenants and the firms behind a ...

Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/massive-crack-in-white-building-widens-79358/

Villagers implicate officials in logging

Three environment officials in Mondulkiri province are being sued by ethnic minority villagers for allegedly using a permit to build two ranger stations as a pretence to illegally log more than 4,000 cubic metres of luxury wood. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/villagers-implicate-officials-logging

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