Kandal district gov comes to aid of 'blacklisted' oknha
Mech Dara, The Phnom Penh PostThu, 12 May 2016The governor of Kandal’s Kien Svay district has come to the defence of Oknha Lok Hour, whose name was the first to be added last week to a Land Management...
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Timber baron vows to forgo the latest bidding
Phak Seangly, The Phnom Penh PostThu, 12 May 2016Timber tycoon Try Pheap announced yesterday that his company would sit out the auction of some of the 70,000 cubic metres of wood seized in anti-logging...
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Gov’t pursuit a waste of time and money, Sokha tells CNRP youth group
Meas Sokchea, Lay Samean and Shaun TurtonThe Phnom Penh Post, Thu, 12 May 2016Besieged by a growing legal firestorm arising from an alleged affair, CNRP leader Kem Sokha yesterday ignored a summons to...
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PM pledges answers on Vietnamese border ELCs
Niem Chheng, The Phnom Penh PostThu, 12 May 2016Prime Minister Hun Sen will assign a team to respond to questions about the Vietnamese army’s alleged control of 40,000 hectares of land in Ratanakkiri...
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ដោយ ជិន ជេដ្ឋា RFA 2016-05-12អាជ្ញាធរខេត្តកំពង់ឆ្នាំង គ្រោងស្នើសុំដីពីប្រមុខរាជរដ្ឋាភិបាលទំហំជាង ៦០០ហិកតារនៅតំបន់ឆ្នុកទ្រូ ឋិតនៅជាប់បឹងទន្លេសាប...
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As Obama Visits Vietnam, Human Rights Become a Fulcrum for the Asia Pivot
2016-05-11 RFAHuman rights issues are emerging as a major sticking point in President Barack Obama’s trip to Vietnam later this month, as activists and some politicians are pushing the administration...
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Vietnam says would welcome U.S. accelerating lifting of arms ban
May 12, 2016HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam would welcome the United States "accelerating" the lifting of a lethal arms embargo, which would reflect trust between the two countries and recognition of its...
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Government Tells Media to Use Honorific Titles
ក្រសួងព័ត៌មានក្រើនរំឭកជាលើកចុងក្រោយអំពីការប្រើគោរមងារ«សម្តេច»Pin Sisovann, VOA Khmer | 13 May 2016Punitive action could include rescinding press credentials and even censorship of local...
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Siem Reap Department Chief Reassigned
Khmer Times/Pav Suy | Thursday, 12 May 2016The new minister of land management in Siem Reap has fired the chief of the provincial department of land management and transferred him back to work at the...
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'Black Monday' protest paused after pardons are dangled
Shaun Turton and Lay Samean, The Phnom Penh PostFri, 13 May 2016Civil society members involved in the “Black Monday” protests on May 9 say they will not stage a follow-up demonstration after Prime...
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Ou Virak requests court to drop case
Niem Chheng, The Phnom Penh PostFri, 13 May 2016After appearing to face a defamation suit filed by Cambodian People’s Party spokesman Sok Eysan yesterday, prominent political analyst Ou Virak called...
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Pig skin to kick off leather industry
Human's desire has no limit... ~JendhamuniCheng Sokhorng, The Phnom Penh PostFri, 13 May 2016Agro-industrial giant Mong Reththy Group is finalising construction on the Kingdom’s first pig skin...
View ArticleLightning fatalities outpace ’15
Khouth Sophak Chakrya, The Phnom Penh PostFri, 13 May 2016Storms and lightning strikes have killed more people in the first five months of this year than in the same period in 2015, an official said...
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Overloaded trucks in crosshairs
Pech Sotheary, The Phnom Penh PostFri, 13 May 2016The new minister of public works and transportation yesterday threatened to introduce tough new measures, including fines, for officials who turn a...
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Kudos for Pheap, then call to end logging
Mech Dara and Igor Kossov, The Phnom Penh PostFri, 13 May 2016Hours after conferring an honorary Doctorate of Economics degree on timber tycoon Try Pheap – who the group Global Witness has accused of...
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Nigerians ‘smuggled cocaine in stomachs’
Bun Sengkong, The Phnom Penh PostFri, 13 May 2016Two Nigerians were arrested at Phnom Penh International Airport on Monday for smuggling 1.27 kilograms of cocaine inside their bodies, according to the...
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Foreigners ‘liking’ PM less
Daniel Nass, The Phnom Penh PostFri, 13 May 2016Two months after revelations that the majority of new fans to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook account were coming from outside Cambodia, the page has...
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