Geopacific’s mine purchase terms amended
An Australian mining firm exploring a significant copper and gold deposit in northern Cambodia has reached an agreement with the tenement’s former owner to amend the terms of its 2013 acquisition of the project, it said this week. ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/geopacifics-mine-purchase-terms-amended
US lawmakers create ‘Cambodia caucus’ in congress
The creation of a bipartisan Congressional Caucus on Cambodia was announced by two United States lawmakers earlier this week, with both men hoping the US takes more of a role in the country’s growth economically and socially. ...
Ros Chanveasna and Jonathan Greig
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23135/us-lawmakers-create----cambodia-caucus----in-congress/
PM raises doubts on ASEAN Economic Community
Prime Minister Hun Sen questioned yesterday the extent of the ASEAN Economic Community’s (AEC) commitment towards forming an inclusive economic region as countries continue to compete with each other for agricultural exports and inflows of foreign direct investment. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pm-raises-doubts-asean-economic-community
Life sentence in child murder
Koh Kong provincial court yesterday handed a life sentence to a man who murdered a toddler in April, with investigators saying the killing was an act of revenge following a disagreement with one of the child’s parents. ...
Charles Parkinson and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/life-sentence-child-murder
Top opposition leader loses Cambodia parliament post in unexpected vote by ruling party
A senior leader of Cambodia’s opposition party has been removed as the vice-president of parliament in an unexpected vote that was attended only by the ruling party and boycotted by his supporters. ...
AP News Staff
http://neurope.eu/wires/top-opposition-leader-loses-cambodia-parliament-post-in-unexpected-vote-by-ruling-party/
UN, Gov’t move to end violence against women
The United Nations and the Cambodian Ministry of Women’s Affairs will organize four major events across the country to raise awareness of the need to end violence against women and girls, according to a UN Women’s statement on Wednesday. ...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18114/un--gov---t-move-to-end-violence-against-women/
Cambodia has 6.27 mln internet users by last year
Cambodia reported 6.27 million internet users in 2015, a 25 percent rise from 5 million users in the year before, according to the figures of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications on Thursday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6716027/2016/01/07/cambodia-has-627-mln-internet-users-last-year
Life begins for health sciences lab
The Kingdom’s first clinical skills and simulation laboratories were inaugurated yesterday at the University of Health Sciences in Phnom Penh along with computerised exam rooms – part of the public university’s strategic four-year plan launched in 2014. ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/life-begins-health-sciences-lab
Banks to shift from growth to efficiency
Since its launch in 2005, ANZ Royal Bank has grown to become one of the top-end banks in Cambodia, and has increased its focus on core areas of e-banking, corporate clients and introducing efficiencies in its operations. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banks-shift-growth-efficiency
First eco-park set to open
An ecologically-friendly satellite town called Le Urban Eco Park, a $50 million joint venture between Singaporean and local investors, is expected to be completed in the next couple of months after the more than two years of construction. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25179/first-eco-park-set-to-open/
Election rules under discussion
The National Election Committee and election monitoring groups have been discussing regulations including permission for the taking of photographs and videos at polling stations ahead of local elections scheduled for June 2017 and a general election slated for 2018. ...
Hean Socheata
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/election-rules-under-discussion/3437146.html
Prosecutor drops rape case against district police chief
The lawyer of a 19-year-old high school student who has accused a district police chief in Kompong Chhnang province of raping her says her client will appeal a prosecutor’s decision to close the case without explanation. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prosecutor-drops-rape-case-against-district-police-chief-98231/
Cambodia: Unions discuss garment wages, workers’ rights
Union and clothing brand representatives from around the world met in Cambodia’s capital Wednesday, aiming to address the country’s minimum wage and push for the establishment of a proper system of collective bargaining. ...
Lauren Crothers
http://aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/cambodia-unions-discuss-garment-wages-workers-rights/488146
Sting targeting ancient statue dealers winds up with fakes
Police in Kompong Thom province on Monday arrested three men in a sting targeting sellers of looted, ancient statues, only to find that seven statues seized in the operation were in fact worthless copies of Buddhist artifacts, officials said. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sting-targeting-ancient-statue-dealers-winds-up-with-fakes-104117/
Construction law may be enacted by mid-year: Gov’t advisor
A draft construction law has been completed, will soon be submitted to the Council of Ministers and may be enacted by the middle of the year, Sok Siphana, a senior advisor to the government, told Khmer Times yesterday. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21038/construction-law-may-be-enacted-by-mid-year--gov---t-advisor/
Russian firm exploring potential rail deal
A visiting representative of JSC Russian Railways, the state-run firm that manages rail infrastructure and operates passenger and freight services in Russia, met executives of Cambodia’s railway operator yesterday to discuss possible cooperation between the two companies. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/russian-firm-exploring-potential-rail-deal
Hot weather shakes up local salt sector
Unusually high yields of salt production in Kep and Kampot province have surpassed the market’s low demand, filling the nation’s salt storage facilities to capacity, the head of a local industry body said yesterday. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hot-weather-shakes-local-salt-sector
CARDI raises climate change concerns in report
A report from the Cambodia Agriculture Research and Development Institute (CARDI), a semi-autonomous organisation, showed that 83 per cent of farmers surveyed in Kampong Speu, Kampot and Kampong Cham provinces had noticed the effects of climate change. ...
Kali Kotoski and Sorn Sarath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cardi-raises-climate-change-concerns-report
NGO head apologises to NEC
The Victory Intelligent Standard Association issued an apology on Wednesday to the National Election Committee for accusing the body’s senior staffers of corruption during the transfer of its employees from independent contractors to the government’s fold. ...
Niem Chheng and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-head-apologises-nec
Wood trafficker arrested, but where is she?
Military police said they arrested a well-known timber trafficker in Stung Treng province on Thursday after she and a group of stick-wielding thugs attempted to retrieve a pile of wood officers had seized a day earlier. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/wood-trafficker-arrested-119276/