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Car window smashed after dropping off activist monks

A large rock smashed through the side window of a car that had just dropped off members of the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice in Kandal province on Tuesday night, the group’s leader But Buntenh said on Wednesday. ...

George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second2/car-window-smashed-dropping-off-activist-monks-132465/

PM: vote near your work

Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that citizens working far from their homes can register to vote near their places of employment, a change that could save many citizens from a lengthy and costly trip to their home province. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28218/pm--vote-near-your-work/

How Buddhist monks are battling deforestation in Cambodia

Cambodia has one of the world’s highest deforestation rates. But a group of Buddhist monks are stepping up efforts to save forests by publicly revealing wrongdoings and mobilizing local villagers. Ate Hoekstra reports. ...

Ate Hoekstra
http://www.dw.com/en/how-buddhist-monks-are-battling-deforestation-in-cambodia/a-19386396

Monks holding forest demo

Despite a minor car crash on the way to Preah Vihear yesterday, more than 100 environmental activist monks will today march into Prey Lang forest to ordain trees and promote environmental awareness. ...

Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monks-holding-forest-demo

Monks to march to save Prey Lang forest

More than 100 monks from across the Kingdom will gather in Prey Lang forest on July 2 for four days before travelling to Phnom Penh to protest against illegal logging and other environmental threats to the forest, activist monk Venerable But Buntenh said. ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12714/monks-to-march-to-save-prey-lang-forest/

Mass patrol of Prey Long forest begins

About 400 community activists on Thursday set out on a five-day patrol of Cambodia’s sprawling— and unprotected—Prey Long forest to root out illegal loggers and the illicit clearing of the area’s commercial farms, making for the largest patrol by the Prey Long Community Network in ...

Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mass-patrol-of-prey-long-forest-begins-81318/

Phnom Penh governor wants separation of pagodas, politics

Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong used an inauguration ceremony for new buildings at Wat Sras Chak on Tuesday to call on politicians and civil society groups to stop distracting Buddhist monks with activities unrelated to religion. Speaking to hundreds of people at a ceremony to inaugurate ...

Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-governor-wants-separation-of-pagodas-politics-76833/

Activist monk summoned over alleged attack

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has summoned activist monk Keo Somaly, for questioning over an alleged attack on a fellow monk at the city’s Wat Neakavorn last month. ...

Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/activist-monk-summoned-over-alleged-attack-74357/

Monks demand apology from CPP lawmaker after pagoda visit

A group of activist monks say they will force CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun to apologize for a heated discussion he had with a monk on Monday if he tries to enter one of their pagodas in the future. ...

Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/monks-demand-apology-from-cpp-lawmaker-after-pagoda-visit-71805/

Activists call for transparency at Buddhist Institute

The activist Independent Monk Network has called on the Ministry of Cult and Religion to release paperwork proving that an agreement it struck with NagaCorp to help construct an electricity substation at Phnom Penh’s Buddhist Institute does not involve the selling of any of the ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-call-transparency-buddhist-institute

Chong villagers put festive spin on dam protest

Villagers from an ethnic minority community in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley continued their blockade over the Khmer New Year holiday of an access road leading to the site of a proposed dam they say would destroy their way of life. Members of the ethnic ...

Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chong-villagers-put-festive-spin-on-dam-protest-56708/

Media-Savvy Monks to Launch Weekly Radio Show

As Buddhist monks across the country don saffron robes and leave pagodas in search of donations to fill alms bowls each morning, seven monks based in Dangkao district on the dusty outskirts of Phnom Penh are thinking only of feeding the country’s growing appetite for ...

Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/media-savvy-monks-to-launch-weekly-radio-show-51192/

Ceremony Held for Workers Killed at Veng Sreng

Dissident monks and political activists hosted a ceremony Thursday for the protesting garment workers killed by military police during their repression of stone-throwing demonstrators on Veng Sreng Street two weeks ago. The hourlong ceremony, held at the home of housing rights activist Tep Vanny in the ...

Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ceremony-held-for-workers-killed-at-veng-sreng-50795/

Activist Monks, NGO Workers Held After Preah Vihear Protest

Prominent activist monk But Buntenh, head of the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice, was arrested in Preah Vihear province on Thursday, along with another monk and three NGO staffers who had traveled to the province to support a group of ethnic Kuoy villagers protesting ...

Julia Wallace and Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/activist-monks-ngo-workers-held-after-preah-vihear-protest-49962/

An unsettling prospect

Resettlement studies are being carried out at the site of the proposed Stung Cheay Areng hydropower dam in Koh Kong province, officials said yesterday, amid suggestions that yet another Chinese company is now involved in the controversial project.Tou Savuth, Thma Bang district governor, said staff ...

Shane Worrell and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unsettling-prospect

Monks on ‘Peace Walk’ Block National Road to Protest Ill-Treatment

Monks marching toward Phnom Penh to mark International Human Rights Day on Tuesday in front of the National Assembly have continued to receive a cold reception from some pagodas along their way and blocked a national road Thursday afternoon in protest. About 100 marchers, including several ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/monks-on-peace-walk-block-national-road-to-protest-ill-treatment-48724/

Human rights trek for monks

Monks will spend days marching hundreds of kilometres to Phnom Penh from five provinces in the lead-up to Human Rights Day on December 10, the head of a dissident monk group said yesterday. Departing in groups of 20 from Kampong Speu, Kampong Thom, Kampot, Pursat and ...

Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/human-rights-trek-monks

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 ...

Sean Teehan and Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monks-feeling-policed

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