Subedi Protest Linked to CPP-Aligned Youth Group
Despite the apparent spontaneity of a protest against U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi at a university in Phnom Penh on Tuesday night, it emerged Wednesday that one of the apparent leaders of the demonstration is associated with a youth organization aligned with the ruling ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/subedi-protest-linked-to-cpp-aligned-youth-group-26156/
Cambodia aiming for road connectivity in 2015
Cambodia says it hopes to have road connectivity to Vietnam and Thailand by 2015. The connection would be part of Asean integration, a process where Cambodia lags behind its neighbors. Six countries of the Mekong River delta have worked toward linking by road since 1998, in an ...
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-aiming-for-road-connectivity-in-2015/1924443.html
Acleda, PPCBank granted listing eligibility
Two of Cambodia’s leading commercial banks – locally owned Acleda Bank Plc (Acleda) and South Korean-owned Phnom Penh Commercial Bank Plc (PPCBank) – have been granted listing eligibility from the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX). This paves the way for the banks to move forward with plans ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/acleda-ppcbank-granted-listing-eligibility
New Research Presented to Help Locals Understand Violence
New research on the cultural causes of and solutions to violence against women was presented in Phnom Penh on Friday in a bid to help those interested in ending violence understand what fuels it, specifically in a Cambodian context. The research is 25 years in the ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-research-presented-to-help-locals-understand-violence-61415/
Misconceptions an obstacle to contraception use: study
The greatest obstacle to increased contraception use in Cambodia isn’t the price of birth control or the social stigma around using it, a new study has found, it is fear of side effects. What’s more, this fear may arise from the many disparate medical systems operating ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/misconceptions-obstacle-contraception-use-study
Information expert breaks down Cambodia’s ‘Cybercrime’ Law
Cambodia’s cybercrime law was leaked earlier this year. Cambodian officials have denied the existence of such a draft law, but local and international rights group have criticized the secret draft process, as well as some stipulations that might affect freedom of speech online. VOA Khmer ...
Sophat Soeung
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/information-expert-breaks-down-cambodia-cybercrime-law/1960021.html
UN asked to ‘address crisis’
Amnesty International and rights group Licadho in a joint statement yesterday called on UN member states to “address the country’s human rights crisis” at a UN Human Rights Council hearing in Geneva on Tuesday. The statement, which was sent to foreign embassies, the Cambodian government and ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-asked-%E2%80%98address-crisis%E2%80%99
Myanmar urges closer ties with military
Myanmar’s army chiefs want to increase cooperation with Cambodia in a bid to build closer bilateral ties, according to a senior military official. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36280/myanmar-urges-closer-ties-with-military/
Students Protest At UN Envoy’s University Lecture
U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi on Tuesday received a thorny reception from hundreds of students at a Phnom Penh university, who angrily questioned his impartiality and unfurled banners calling for him to end his work in Cambodia. Special rapporteur Subedi delivered a lecture to about ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/students-protest-at-un-envoys-university-lecture-25855/
PM ends exile gov’t talk
Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that his government will work with the Thai junta that came to power in a coup last week, and quashed speculation that the ousted Shinawatra clan may be allowed to set up a government in exile in Cambodia. In a ...
Vong Sokheng and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-ends-exile-gov%E2%80%99t-talk
ICRC offers prisons help
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is willing to offer assistance in future prison building projects, and in the preparation of prison management policies that are in line with international standards, the National Police website said on Tuesday. According to the website, the ICRC ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30054/icrc-offers-prisons-help/
Fit for the future
As Cambodia continues to develop, information technology skills are increasingly in demand, especially as the government seeks to diversify the economy and bring in companies which will need staff with strong high-tech skills. To that end, last month the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), in cooperation with the Cisco ...
Microsoft translation project to tackle business jargon
American software giant Microsoft announced yesterday that it would jointly implement a project with Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce to create a translation program to simplify complex English and Khmer business terminology in order to help businesses better understand commonly used jargon. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/microsoft-translation-project-tackle-business-jargon
Tax exemption offered to SMEs
A two-year income tax exemption is being offered to small and medium-sized enterprises that register with the Ministry of Economy and Finance before the end of 2018. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35749/tax-exemption-offered-to-smes/
Youth seek tobacco curbs: org
A survey has found that while only 12 per cent of young Cambodians smoke cigarettes, more than four times that number are exposed to passive smoke every day, and a broad majority back tougher regulation of tobacco products. Mom Kong, executive director at the Cambodian Movement ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/youth-seek-tobacco-curbs-org
Gov’t, USAID criticized for inaction over severe forest loss at Prey Lang sanctuary
The University of Copenhagen’s open letter used data from the University of Maryland’s Global Forest Change dataset and other data points to show that 7,510 hectares of forestland were lost at the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary in 2019, the worst loss since 2016 when the ...
Work Remains for Cambodia After UN Rights Hearing
Though Cambodia had four years to implement 91 recommendations on how to improve its human rights record, U.N. member states still had to push for action in a number of key areas during its second Universal Periodic Review hearing in Geneva on Tuesday. In a speech ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/work-remains-for-cambodia-after-un-rights-hearing-51129/
Foreign policy challenged by regional conflicts, expert says
ambodian leaders are facing a very uncertain Asean in recent weeks, with anti-Chinese protests in Vietnam pitting two of the country’s standards allies against each other and a Thai coup sealing the western borders and leaving a neighbor in the hands of military control. Both issues ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/foreign-policy-challenged-by-regional-conflicts-expert-says/1921175.html
Flying squirrel and eyeless spider discovered in Greater Mekong
A series of high-flying creatures, including giant flying frogs and squirrels and a parachute gecko, are among the hundreds of exotic new species recently discovered in the greater Mekong region in southeast Asia. A new eyeless spider and a fish that mates head-to-head are also highlighted ...
Damian Carrington
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/04/flying-squirrel-and-eyeless-spider-discovered-in-greater-mekong?CMP=fb_gu
Telecom tax in pipeline
Future growth of telecom networks in rural Cambodia will be funded by a three percent tax on gross revenue for the country’s telecom operators, due to begin within the first half of 2017. Im Vutha, spokesperson for the Telecom Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) told Khmer Times ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31245/telecom-tax-in-pipeline/