CSX gets help from Thailand
Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) will partner with the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) to bolster technical knowledge and potential investment into Cambodia’s nascent stock market. an agreement between the two financial institutions was signed in Phnom Penh yesterday at the CSX office, a deal that will <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/csx-gets-help-from-thailand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/csx-gets-help-thailand
Kampuchea Krom forum banned by city
Phnom Penh City Hall on Monday banned Wat Samakki Raingsey from hosting a public forum on Wednesday to mark the 65th anniversary of the official granting of Kampuchea Krom to the State of Vietnam. The Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community (KKKC), which advocates for the ethnic minority <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampuchea-krom-forum-banned-by-city/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mech Dara and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kampuchea-krom-forum-banned-by-city-60320/
Nine inmates die in 1st quarter; drop from same period in 2013
The number of inmates who died in the country’s prisons in the first quarter of the year dipped to nine from 15 during the same period last year, a rights group and the prison department said. From January to april, nine prisoners—five men and four women—reportedly <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nine-inmates-die-in-1st-quarter-drop-from-same-period-in-2013/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nine-inmates-die-in-1st-quarter-drop-from-same-period-in-2013-60719/
Developer ordered to halt work on disputed land
The governor of Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district Wednesday ordered the private firm heading a $3-billion real estate project on the peninsula to temporarily stop pumping sand onto land being contested by about 40 local families, but urged the families to reconsider the compensation on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/developer-ordered-to-halt-work-on-disputed-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sek Odom and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/developer-ordered-to-halt-work-on-disputed-land-63087/
Villagers agree to remeasuring of disputed land
Villagers caught in a land dispute with an agribusiness firm in Kompong Speu province Wednesday attempted to reclaim farmland they say is theirs, but were thwarted by provincial authorities, who appeased them by promising to measure the land again. about 250 families in Phnom Sruoch district <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-agree-to-remeasuring-of-disputed-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-agree-to-remeasuring-of-disputed-land-63077/
Official’s son questioned over hunting photos
The 23-year-old son of the director of rural development in Pailin province is under investigation by police after photos of the young man hunting protected wildlife went viral on social media, police said Monday. Soeu Longdy, deputy Tuol Lvea commune police chief, said his officers questioned <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-son-questioned-over-hunting-photos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-son-questioned-over-hunting-photos-64621/
King Sihamoni hails Cambodia-Vietnam ties
Cambodian people consider Vietnam a big friend that supported and provided valuable assistance for Cambodia during the course of history, the King said while receiving outgoing Vietnamese ambassador Ngo anh Dung in capital Phnom Penh on July 18. He appreciated Dung’s contributions to cementing bilateral relations <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/king-sihamoni-hails-cambodia-vietnam-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
VietNamNet Bridge News Staff
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/government/107889/king-sihamoni-hails-cambodia-vietnam-ties.html
Commerce Minister calls on checkpoint officials to crackdown on expired goods
Commerce Minister asked officials at all border checkpoints to prevent and crackdown on expired products. Son Chanthol, the Commerce Minister, made such comments during a meeting Tuesday with officials from Department of Commerce, Chamber of Commerce, and checkpoints in Banteat Meanchey province. He also asked his officials <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/commerce-minister-calls-on-checkpoint-officials-to-crackdown-on-expired-goods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=OWFjOTZkZjI0OTh
Construction of Belarus tractor assembly plant in Cambodia nearing completion
The progress in the project to build the Belarus tractor assembly plant in Cambodia was discussed in a meeting between Belarusian ambassador to Russia Igor Petrishenko and ambassador of the Kingdom of Cambodia to Russia Thay Vanna, BelTa learnt from the press service of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/construction-of-belarus-tractor-assembly-plant-in-cambodia-nearing-completion/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
BelTA News Staff
http://news.belta.by/en/news/econom?id=739642
US turns to Cambodia rice market
Cambodia’s rice exporters are eager to sell more of their goods in the United States and tap into the world’s largest economy. Speaking at the International Export Market Research for Cambodian Rice seminar in Phnom Penh yesterday, Song Saran, CEO of amru Rice Cambodia, one of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-turns-to-cambodia-rice-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/us-turns-cambodia-rice-market
Trade deficit prompts call to diversify exports
Cambodia’s trade deficit expanded to almost half a billion dollars during the first three months of the year, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Commerce. Between January and March, Cambodia’s exports reached $1.99 billion, up 19 per cent compared to the same period <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trade-deficit-prompts-call-to-diversify-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/trade-deficit-prompts-call-diversify-exports
Planning delays oil refinery’s progress
Construction on Cambodia’s $2.3 billion oil refinery has been set back again, this time due to planning delays, the project’s local partner, Cambodia Petrochemical Company (CPC), confirmed yesterday. The landmark oil refinery was slated to begin construction in December 2013 following a $1.67 billion loan from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/planning-delays-oil-refinerys-progress/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/planning-delays-oil-refinery%E2%80%99s-progress
Vietnamese funding curbs will not delay hospital development
Despite Vietnamese state-owned companies withdrawing funding from projects outside of their core business, the $20 million expansion of the Vietnamese-backed Cho Ray Phnom Penh Hospital remains on track, the hospital’s head said yesterday. In July 2012 the Vietnamese government requested that state-owned enterprises withdraw investment in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnamese-funding-curbs-will-not-delay-hospital-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/vietnamese-funding-curbs-will-not-delay-hospital-development
Cambodia may present safer base for Taiwanese businesses
Cambodia is a promising target for Taiwanese entrepreneurs seeking cheap labor without risking the social unrest that has surged through Vietnam, according to an economics professor in Taiwan cited in our Chinese-language sister paper China Times. Riots have broken out in Vietnam against China’s oil rig <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-may-present-safer-base-for-taiwanese-businesses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hong Kai-yin, Huang Tsung-yuan, Tang Yu-lin and Staff Reporter
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20140521000069&cid=1202
Former Mfone employees demand severance pay
About 30 former employees of now-defunct mobile operAtor Mfone protested TuesdAy outside the office of the compAny’s liquidAtor, demAnding pAy promised to them And more thAn 1,000 other employees After the operAtor collApsed lAst yeAr. Mr. DArin sAid he wAs pAid 70 percent of his <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/former-mfone-employees-demAnd-severAnce-pAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/former-mfone-employees-demand-severance-pay-60454/
Nearly all illegal Cambodian migrants working in Thailand return home: labor minister
Cambodian Minister of Labor Ith Samheng said Friday that nearly all illegal Cambodian migrant laborers working in Thailand have returned home in fears of a junta’s crackdown on illegal foreign workers. Major Gen. Pich Vanna, chief of Cambodian-Thai Border Relation affairs Office, said the Thai <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nearly-all-illegal-cambodian-migrants-working-in-thailand-return-home-labor-minister/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-06/20/c_133424234.htm
Worker registration centres open on border
Three border provinces with Cambodia opened offices to document Cambodian workers entering Thailand on Thursday, to combat human trafficking and illegal labour, with a fourth to open on Monday. Three new one-stop centres were opened at the border in Sa Kaeo, Chanthaburi and Trat provinces, to issue temporary <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/worker-registration-centres-open-on-border/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Wassana Nanuam and Nopparat Kingkaew
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/417526/registration-centres-for-cambodians-open-at-border
Ministry vows to take some ELC land back
Amid promises reiterAted by the government yesterdAy thAt it will tAke A tougher stAnce on economic lAnd concessions, logging tycoon Try PheAp minimAlly reduced his sweeping nAturAl resource empire, returning more thAn 20,000 hectAres of undeveloped forestry. It wAs uncleAr whAt kind of ArrAngement prompted PheAp <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ministry-vows-to-tAke-some-elc-lAnd-bAck/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-vows-take-some-elc-land-back
NA, CPP asked to maintain Khuon Sodary as parliament second vice president
The Committee to Promote Women in Politics (CPWP), and civil society groups in Cambodia have asked the National assembly and ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) to keep Mrs. Khuon Sodary as second vice president of the National assembly. In a statement issued on Monday, the groups <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/na-cpp-asked-to-maintain-khuon-sodary-as-parliament-second-vice-president/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=YWZmZGJkNDBjYzB
Sam Rainsy expresses disappointment after Mu Sochua, Yim Sovann fail in votes
Opposition party leader Sam Rainsy on Wednesday expressed disappointment after his two leading lawmakers failed in votes for the posts of chairpersons of the National assembly’s eighth and tenth commissions. He said he would push for proper solution in accordance with July 22 agreement. “It is rights <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sam-rainsy-expresses-disappointment-after-mu-sochua-yim-sovann-fail-in-votes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NzZmZTE4NmFhOTc