King’s CPP stand-in enacts party law changes
Senate PreSident Say Chhum Signed controverSial amendmentS to the Law on Political PartieS on Friday, effectively preventing former CNRP PreSident Sam RainSy from Supporting hiS former party from overSeaS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kings-cpp-stand-in-enacts-party-law-changes-133040/
Locals told to leave dam before PM’s visit
Stung Treng provincial authoritieS held a meeting with the MineS and Energy MiniStry on WedneSday to find wayS to convince people refuSing to leave their homeS near the Lower SeSan II hydropower dam to accept compenSation and vacate their land before Prime MiniSter Hun Sen SS='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5083085/locals-told-leave-dam-pms-visit/
Analysis: Cambodia’s government learns the art of ‘lawfare’
On Friday, all the pieces fell into place. The Ministry of Interior, a day prior, had primed the media, instructing them on how to report the day’s events. The government’s investigation and filing to the supreme Court that called for the main opposition party to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Erin Handley and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/analysis-cambodias-government-learns-art-lawfare
Cambodia’s economic freedom down slightly last year: report
Cambodia’s economic freedom score dropped seven ranks in the annual Economic Freedom Index released by the Heritage Foundation, a Us-based, conservative-leaning think tank. The 0.8 point dip in the score from last year put Cambodia’s economy in the “Mostly Unfree” category, ranking 101 out of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodias-economic-freedom-down-slightly-last-year-report
Battambang, Siem Reap and Kampot among nation’s cleanest
The cities of Battambang, Kampot, sihanoukville, siem Reap, Kep, Kampong Cham, in addition to Doun Penh, a district of Phnom Penh, all received the top accolade, three romdul flowers, in the second edition of the country’s Clean City Contest. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50111141/battambang-siem-reap-kampot-among-nations-cleanest/
Group aims to construct world’s longest wood boat
Cambodia is preparing to construct the longest wooden boat to break a world record currently held by China by making a boat about 85 metres long that can hold nearly 200 people. sar sokha, vice president of the Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia, said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50114121/group-aims-to-construct-worlds-longest-wood-boat/
Jolie’s film reopens wounds, brings catharsis to survivors
Watching the premiere of Angelina Jolie’s new film “First They Killed My Father” in the shadows of the ancient ruins of Angkor on saturday night, Riem Vet was transported back to his teenage years living under the Pol Pot regime. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/jolies-film-reopens-wounds-brings-catharsis-to-survivors-125415/
Armed illegal miners resist ministry’s efforts for regulation
Illegal miners in the remote reaches of Cambodia are repelling government inspectors with armed middlemen, the Mines and Energy Ministry said on Wednesday as it hosted its annual meeting in Phnom Penh. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Government’s ‘late’ UNESCO bid draws social media outcry
The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts yesterday announced that they have submitted the Khmer martial art Bokator, as well as Lakhon Khol – the traditional masked dance theatre – to be considered for recognition on UNEsCO’s intangible cultural heritage list. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Rinith Taing
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/governments-late-unesco-bid-draws-social-media-outcry
Government vows to tighten control over Kingdom’s pawnbrokers
The government is preparing legislation aimed at ensuring tighter control over the nation’s pawnshops to ensure professionalism in a sector that has grown rapidly and lacks a supervisory framework. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-vows-tighten-control-over-kingdoms-pawnbrokers
Cambodia’s citric acid exports prompt investigation in Europe
The European Commission has announced it is investigating the potential laundering of Chinese shipments of citric acid through Cambodia, allowing Chinese manufacturers to flout export restrictions. The European Commission (EC) imposed duties on Chinese citric acid in early 2015 after determining that the chemical was being ss='cambodia-color'>...
Robin Spiess and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodias-citric-acid-exports-prompt-investigation-europe
Australia debates motion to condemn Cambodia’s political crackdown
The Australian Parliament is considering a motion to condemn Cambodia’s political crackdown, with lawmaker Mark Butler declaring Australia has “a solemn duty” to take action to defend Cambodia’s “fledgling democracy”. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/australia-debates-motion-condemn-cambodias-political-crackdown
Germany supports land titling for Mondulkiri’s indigenous communities
The German Ambassador to Cambodia supports the government giving land titles to indigenous groups in Mondulkiri province as a means of protecting natural resources. According to a press release from the German embassy, German Ambassador Ingo Karsten and Math Mara, secretary of state at the Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...
Few S'pore-owned businesses in Cambodia: business owners
PHNOM PENH: There are about a hundred Singapore-owned buSineSSeS in Cambodia, mainly located in the capital, Phnom Penh. Many, who Set up Shop there, feel the numberS have Stayed low becauSe there iS a perception that the country iS not Safe. In 2011, Singapore inveSted cloSe SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/economicnews/view/1254251/1/.html
Third time’s lucky for a new paper (9)
Government officials are finally letting Ros sokhet publish his newspaper, and he only had to change the name – twice. The Khmer Nation, called Revelation-Corruption News in a former life, and Anti-Corruption News in the life before that one, is supposed to hit newsstands today in ss='cambodia-color'>...
S'ville Port Likely to Miss Bourse Registration Date
An official at the Sihanoukville AutonomouS Port yeSterday Said the State-owned firm would miSS itS target of regiStering with the SecuritieS and Exchange CommiSSion of Cambodia (SECC) next month, a key Step before liSting on the country&rSquo;S naScent bourSe. Ho HongSik, director of SBI Royal SS='cambodia-color'>...
Land activists welcome Hun Sen’s position on outsiders
About 60 land activists including children marched to the Peace Palace Monday to welcome Prime Minister Hun sen’s position on outside involvement in land disputes. The residents of two property development sites and Thmor Kol community near Phnom Penh International Airport also presented a list of ss='cambodia-color'>...
World Bank Ups Cambodia’s Ranking Over Better Logistics
Cambodia has moved up 27 places on a biennial World Bank list that ranks the ease of importing, exporting and transporting goods in different countries. Cambodia was ranked 101 out of the 155 countries included in the World Bank’s report titled Trade Logistics in the Global ss='cambodia-color'>...
Critics dismiss Hun Sen’s pledge as empty promises
Prime Minister Hun sen made a bold pledge to the hundreds of thousands of Cambodian villagers fighting companies for their homes yesterday, ordering that in every economic land concession across the country, space must be provided for those they would displace. But last month’s royal book ss='cambodia-color'>...
Paths to Parliament Cleared for CPP’s Powerful Sons
Despite failing to win enough votes in the July 28 election to become lawmakers, at least three sons of some of the ruling CPP’s most high-ranking members will still take up seats in Parliament when the next government is formed, senior CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap ss='cambodia-color'>...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/paths-to-parliament-cleared-for-cpps-powerful-sons-38716/