National Assembly Chairman holds talks with Cambodian Senate President
National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung held talks with visiting President of the Cambodia Senate Samdech Say Chhum in Hanoi on December 16, dealing with an array of important contents of comprehensive cooperation between the two legislatures. ...
Vietnamnet News Staff
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/government/148864/national-assembly-chairman-holds-talks-with-cambodian-senate-president.html
Rainsy pledges to return home before 2018 national election
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who went into exile after a warrant for his arrest was handed down last month, said on Friday that he would return to Cambodia before the next national election in July 2018. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-pledges-to-return-home-before-2018-national-election-103536/
Prime Minister Hun Sen calls for local televisions to increase sign languages broadcasting for deaf-and-mute persons
Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen and his spouse, Samdach Bun Rany Hun Sen, this morning paid a visit to NGO Krousar Thmey in Phnom Penh, where he called for the public not discriminate people with disabilities. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/prime-minister-hun-sen-calls-for-local-televisions-to-increase-sign-languages-broadcasting-for-deaf-and-mute-persons-9116
Hun Many says goal is to be prime minister
Hun Many, the youngest son of Prime Minister Hun Sen and a CPP lawmaker, revealed during a radio show on Wednesday his ambition to follow in his father’s footsteps and become the future prime minister. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-many-says-goal-is-to-be-prime-minister-104231/
Trear 4 villagers affected by sewage water logging demand for compensation from lake filling company
4 families living in Trear 4 village, Stung Meanchey commune, Mean Chey district, asked the local authority for providing compensation due to lake filling by a private company that caused sewage water and mud logging, also house and other properties damaging. ...
Sereymony
http://www.rfa.org/khmer/news/land/villager-demands-compensate-02072016033412.html
Cluster-bomb seminar will aim to push for global ban
Cambodia is set to host a seminar by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in May to encourage other countries to sign a treaty banning the use of cluster bombs and brief military officials on international conventions and laws. ...
Ban Sokrith
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22629/cluster-bomb-seminar-will-aim-to-push-for-global-ban/
PM dispatches sons to handle land dispute arrests
Two village representatives in Kampong Speu who were detained for protesting against the actions of their provincial authority were released yesterday by the provincial court after Prime Minister Hun Sen sent two of his sons to help deal with the situation. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22816/pm-dispatches-sons-to-handle-land-dispute-arrests/
Preah Vihear land grant illegal: Adhoc
Local rights group Adhoc has cried foul after roughly 1,200 square metres on 2 hectares of land that used to be home to an airport in Preah Vihear province have been granted to a local official to build a house. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-land-grant-illegal-adhoc
Commuting accident sends 18 garment workers to hospital
Eighteen garment workers were sent to the hospital on Wednesday when the truck they were riding to work overturned in Kompong Speu province after its two back tires blew out, according to police, who arrested the driver. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/commuting-accident-sends-18-garment-workers-to-hospital-111851/
Government sets dates for auction of final lots of seized timber
The government has set the dates to auction off the last of the 71,000 cubic meters of illegally logged timber seized by authorities this year, carrying on a practice riddled with signs of corruption in the past. ...
Government wage hikes depend on cost cutting
Slashing unnecessary spending by ministries will allow the government to guarantee a monthly minimum wage of $250 for civil servants in time for the 2018 national election, a secretary of state at the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday. ...
Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-wage-hikes-depend-on-cost-cutting-114142/
PM: no customs privatization
In his speech to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Customs and Excise Department, he said the proposal to privatize the collection of customs and excise duties was politically motivated to put pressure on the government. ...
Chea vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26679/pm--no-customs-privatization/
More Cambodians struggling to repay MFI loans
Banking industry insiders expressed concern yesterday over a spike in the amount of delinquent debts reported by microfinance institutions (MFIs) across the Kingdom, which they attributed to farmers struggling to repay their loans after adverse weather conditions affected their crops. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/more-cambodians-struggling-repay-mfi-loans
Mobile services often first step to banking
The rapid growth in the number of Cambodians using mobile money services to transfer remittances is a positive step towards greater financial inclusion, and is serving as a gateway to financial services for the largely unbanked rural population, experts said yesterday. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mobile-services-often-first-step-banking
Animal deaths from pesticide spark fears
Evidence that a deadly pesticide is being used to kill wildlife at watering holes in two provinces has raised fears of widespread poisoning that could jeopardize biodiversity and the health of rural communities, according to a new report. ...
Kang Sothear and Sonia Kohlbacher
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/animal-deaths-from-pesticide-spark-fears-116162/
Salt imports spoil market
Though the Kingdom’s existing salt farms in Kampot and Kep produce enough salt to support domestic consumption, industry experts, however, are worried that a flood of the vital commodity from neighboring countries will spoil the market for Cambodian producers. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27907/salt-imports-spoil-market/
Phnom Penh rated one of the world’s least livable cities
Widespread corruption, poor health care and a lack of adequate infrastructure continue to make Phnom Penh one of the least livable major cities in the world, according to the annual Global Livability Ranking, released on Thursday by the Economist Intelligence Unit. ...
Sonia Kohlbacher and Hang Sokunthea
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-rated-one-worlds-least-livable-cities-116895/
UN Rights review ‘Not business as usual’
With rebuke raining down on the ruling CPP for its judicial assault, arrests and intimidation of the political opposition and other critics, Cambodia’s annual assessment by the U.N. Human Rights Council will be held next week in Geneva. ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-rights-review-not-business-usual-117790/
Eight Nigerians get 10 years for trafficking meth
Eight Nigerians were sentenced to 10 years in prison for drug trafficking by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday following a sting operation last year that culminated with an undercover officer purchasing 100 grams of crystal methamphetamine from one of the eight. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eight-nigerians-get-10-years-for-trafficking-meth-94835/
Cambodia begins minimum wage talks after Myanmar Government approves salary for garment workers
Cambodia’s 700,000 garment and footwear workers currently earn a minimum wage of $128 a month. Last year, the lowest legal salary for Cambodian workers in the $5.7 billion industry was only $100 per month. ...