India’s rice dump may impact local exports
With the Indian government set to inject five million tonnes of rice in to its domestic market, Cambodia’s rice producers fear that any spillover into the global rice trade may impact local exports. David Van, acting secretary-general of a newly established Cambodia Rice Federation, said ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/india%E2%80%99s-rice-dump-may-impact-local-exports
Gov’t says it’s ready for floods
The National Committee for Disaster Management said yesterday that the government has made provisions for this year’s rainy season. More than 10,000 tonnes of rice, emergency supplies and rescue vehicles have been prepared ahead of predicted flooding, committee deputy director Nhim Vanda said yesterday at a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-says-it%E2%80%99s-ready-floods
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 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sophat Soeung
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/information-expert-breaks-down-cambodia-cybercrime-law/1960021.html
Union boss’s murder gets day in court
One of the men suspected in the seven-year-old murder of a Phnom Penh garment factory union representative was tried at Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday, nearly two years after his conviction in absentia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/union-boss%E2%80%99s-murder-gets-day-court
King’s role in talks up for debate
King Norodom Sihamoni would welcome a role aS mediator in talkS between the Cambodia National ReScue Party and Cambodian People&rSquo;S Party, an adviSer to the Royal family haS Said. Om Daravuth, an adviSer to the office of Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk, Said that the SS='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/king%E2%80%99s-role-talks-debate
Guards tell vendors it’s time to go
More than 100 vendors from Phe Leu market in Kratie town protested yesterday after they arrived at work to find security guards refusing to let them sell at their usual spots, vendors said. More than 20 unarmed guards blocked the protesters, forcing them to set up ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/guards-tell-vendors-it%E2%80%99s-time-go
Gov’t-aligned union’s strike quietly ended
Workers at Dongdu Textile in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district ended a two-week strike yesterday after their bosses agreed to reinstate 11 union leaders and activists fired in January. Chhin sony, president of the government-aligned Union of Cambodia, said more than 2,000 workers returned to the factory ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-aligned-union%E2%80%99s-strike-quietly-ended
Government responds to Rainsy’s Cambodia, Ukraine comparison
The Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit (PQRU) on Friday published an extended criticism of a speech made by opposition leader sam Rainsy last week in which he promised his supporters that the political change that swept Ukraine’s president from power would soon ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-responds-to-rainsys-cambodia-ukraine-comparison-53401/
CNRP’s first election campaign targets Kandal province
Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party will commence its campaign for municipal, provincial, city and district council election in Koh Thom district of Kandal province on May 2, according to its spokesman on Thursday. Yem Punharith said that the campaign in Kandal province in the morning and ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=ODNjMjYyNmM5OGI
CNRP’s first election campaign targets Kandal province
Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party will commence its campaign for municipal, provincial, city and district council election in Koh Thom district of Kandal province on May 2, according to its spokesman on Thursday. Yem Punharith said that the campaign in Kandal province in the morning and ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=ODNjMjYyNmM5OGI
Wing Star victim’s kin not paid out
When an overloaded and illegally built storage level at the Wing star shoes factory in Kampong speu province collapsed last May 16, officials went into damage control, promising to compensate victims using a relatively new state fund. But one year after teenager Kim Dany and co-worker ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wing-star-victim%E2%80%99s-kin-not-paid-out
Cambodia’s opposition gains ground in council elections
The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) gained ground against Prime Minister Hun sen’s party in local elections over the weekend, initial tallies indicated Monday, in a boost the opposition party’s leader sam Rainsy said would help strengthen democracy at the grassroots level. The ruling Cambodian People’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
RFA’s Khmer Service
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/elections-05192014185200.html
Cambodia’s tobacco tax to go up, slightly
In less than two months, smokers indulging in Cambodia’s inexpensive cigarettes will have to reach a little deeper into their wallets. starting in July, the tax on cigarettes will jump from 20 per cent to 30 per cent of the retail price, with a tax base ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia%E2%80%99s-tobacco-tax-go-slightly
Firm’s Split From Boeng Kak Project Confirmed
The Chinese firm that was financially backing an ambitious project to develop Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood has pulled out, Chinese Embassy and company officials have confirmed, and no other investor appears to have taken its place. That makes the Erdos Hongjun Investment Corporation at least ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/firms-split-from-boeng-kak-project-confirmed-64318/
Anonymous hacked us: Hun Many’s youth group
The Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia (UYFC), led by Hun Many, Prime Minister Hun sen’s son, is claiming that one of its Facebook pages was hacked by international “hactivist” group Anonymous. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anonymous-hacked-us-hun-many%E2%80%99s-youth-group
Clarification sought on government’s fraught NGO Law
A request has been sent to the government’s Human Rights Committee and the interior and foreign affairs ministries seeking clarification on the status and whereabouts of a draft law that will govern associations and non-governmental organizations, asking to see the latest version of the law ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/clarification-sought-on-governments-fraught-ngo-law-52238/
Forum focuses on realizing development triangle’s potential
Building partnerships to realize the potential of the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle was the theme of a forum in Buon Ma Thuot City, the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on April 21. The event, co-hosted by the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Asian Development ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saigon GP Daily News Staff
http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Business/Economy/2014/4/108858/
Prince to run: Ranariddh’s comeback under way
Prince Norodom Ranariddh has officially registered his new political faction, the Community of Royalist People’s Party, as a contender in the next national elections in 2018. The party’s new chief of cabinet, Nop sothearith, yesterday told the Post he submitted the application to run to the Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prince-run-ranariddh%E2%80%99s-comeback-under-way
Monks Protest Developer’s Construction on Disputed Grounds
About 400 monks and villagers protested sunday outside Wat Koh Puthivong pagoda in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district to protest what they say is a real estate company’s encroachment onto the pagoda’s land, including an island that monks consider sacred. During the protest, dozens of young ss='cambodia-color'>...
Helicopter’s black box to be reviewed Friday
A joint committee of Cambodian and Chinese technical analysts will begin reviewing black box data today retrieved from the Chinese-built Z-9 helicopter that crashed early this week, killing four military personnel, officials said on Thursday. The Z-9 helicopter, which the government purchased from China last year ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/helicopters-black-box-to-be-reviewed-friday-64440/