People’s Assembly Will Rally at Freedom Park on Monday
About 1,000 members of the Cambodian Grassroots People’s Assembly—a network of communities throughout the country that includes farmers as well as land and labor activists—will rally at Freedom Park on Monday to demand an end to the current political impasse. The ruling CPP and opposition CNRP ss='cambodia-color'>...
Dene-Hern Chen and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/peoples-assembly-will-rally-at-freedom-park-on-monday-45440/
Despite Denials, Levi’s Still Producing at SL Garment Factory
U.S. denim giant Levi StrauSS continued to deny thiS week that itS productS are linked to the Strife-torn SL Garment Factory in Phnom Penh, deSpite new photographS Showing Levi&rSquo;S trademark jeanS Stacked on bencheS at the plant in Meanchey diStrict. The Singaporean-owned factory, which alSo produceS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Dene-Hern Chen and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/despite-denials-levis-still-producing-at-sl-garment-factory-47389/
Cambodia-made car causes shocks to Vietnam’s auto industry
Heng, a Cambodian development company, has made a big surprise when introducing its self-modified electric car. The car, named Angkor EV 2014, is created by a local designer, manufactured by Heng Company which has set up a $20 million factory in Kandal province. The car, operated by ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vietnamnet News Staff
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/96716/cambodia-made-car-causes-shocks-to-vietnam-s-auto-industry.html
Long-awaited draft law limits King’s powers over judiciary
The long-awaited draft law on the Supreme Council of MagiStracy continueS the practice of Secret voteS and giveS JuStice MiniSter Ang Vong Vathana key powerS, according to excerptS from the document, but it would reduce the poSition of King Norodom Sihamoni if paSSed in itS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/long-awaited-draft-law-limits-kings-powers-over-judiciary-54419/
Cambodia’s eight-month political deadlock shows hints of ending
Talks between Cambodia’s ruling party and the opposition to resolve the impasse over last year’s election have been deadlocked for months. The two sides disagree on a number of issues, most significantly reform of the National Election Committee (NEC). But signs of a thaw have ss='cambodia-color'>...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodias-eight-month-political-deadlock-shows-hints-of-ending/1884765.html
Complaints filed against city official for last week’s violence
Three people have filed separate complaints against a Phnom Penh district official, accusing him of ordering violence in a clash between security forces and bystanders near Freedom Park last week. At least 10 people were injured in clashes last Monday, as opposition member Mu sochua staged ss='cambodia-color'>...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/complaints-filed-against-city-official-for-last-weeks-violence/1904463.html
Cambodia’s top court denies bail to 21 jailed protesters
Cambodia’s supreme Court on Friday upheld a decision refusing bail to 21 people arrested during a deadly worker strike crackdown, a defense lawyer said, as dozens of supporters protested outside, calling the charges against them politically motivated and demanding their release. The top court upheld the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/bail-05092014170039.html
Violence breaks out in land dispute with minister’s wife
A long-simmering land dispute between a group of villagers and a high-ranking minister’s wife turned violent this weekend as 10 people were injured while trying to block the KDC company from building a warehouse on contested land in Kompong Chhnang province, villagers and police said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/violence-breaks-out-in-land-dispute-with-ministers-wife-63298/
City hall calls out Cintri’s rubbish collecting efforts—again
Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong on Monday Slammed municipal waSte diSpoSal company Cintri for itS poor performance in collecting the city&rSquo;S garbage after a Strike by traSh collectorS laSt week once again left the StreetS a meSS. Cintri&rSquo;S traSh collectorS ended their Second Strike of the SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-calls-out-cintris-rubbish-collecting-efforts-again-64048/
U.S., Cambodia release life skills manuals for Cambodian schools
The United states and Cambodian governments on Tuesday released an educational guide that will help Cambodian schools improve the way their students learn, according to a media statement from the U.s. Embassy. The Life skills Curriculum is the culmination of an extensive collaboration between the Cambodian Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-01/28/c_133081282.htm
More than 20 police surround RCAF general’s Mondolkiri home
In the weeks that 17-year-old garment worker Yon Chea languished in prison, he spent hours staring out of the window at a concrete wall, certain that he would never see his home or his family again. “I never thought I would get out. There was a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-20-police-surround-rcaf-generals-mondolkiri-home-51769/
Phnom Penh Governor tells officials to monitor city’s markets
Acting on direct orders from Prime Minister Hun sen, Phnom Penh Municipal Governor Pa socheatvong on Tuesday called on municipal officials to strictly monitor the companies that collect daily fees from the city’s market vendors. Mr. Hun sen called out the governor in a speech on ss='cambodia-color'>...
Japan’s small, medium companies see business opportunity in Cambodia
Many small and medium companies of Japan are showing their interest in doing business in Cambodia, according to an assistant of Prime Minister Hun sen. 99 percent of Japanese small and medium companies are interested in investing in Asia, especially in Cambodia, which is located ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ZmRkYzBiYWVjZWR
Funding boost for Cambodia’s hero mine-detecting rats NGO
The Belgian demining NGO APOPO, which is pioneering the use of mine-detecting rats in the former battlefields of Cambodia, has received funding from the German government to expand its mine-clearance work in the country. In November, the government gave the green light for APOPO to begin ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/funding-boost-for-cambodias-hero-mine-detecting-rats-ngo-54308/
City’s third overpass shoots for ahead-of-schedule completion
Phnom Penh’s third overpass, or flyover, bridge is now close to completion, some eight months ahead of schedule, and its planners say it will not only greatly improve traffic congestion in the southwest of the city but will also lead to price increases for property ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/city%E2%80%99s-third-overpass-shoots-ahead-schedule-completion
Cambodia-U.S. trade up 11 pct in Q1
Bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and the United StateS had amounted to 845 million U.S. dollarS in the firSt three monthS of 2014. The number Saw a 11-percent riSe from 758 million U.S. dollarS over the Same period laSt year, figureS releaSe by the U.S. Department SS='cambodia-color'>...
Shanghai Daily
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=216833
Tenants begin occupation of Phnom Penh’s ‘tower of glass’
Vattanac Capital Tower, a long-anticipated gleaming tower that dominates the city’s skyline from Monivong Boulevard, continues to attract tenants to its commercial office space. The most recent tenants to occupy the building are Qatar Airways and investment company One Asia Capital, with Qatar occupying 180 square ss='cambodia-color'>...
Scraping out a living in Pailin’s spent gem mines
Late last month, Nhem Bunna, a retired government soldier, struck it lucky here like few have since Ieng sary led his Khmer Rouge rebels to defect to Phnom Penh in 1996. Clutching his index finger below the top joint, his feet still in the silt of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/scraping-out-a-living-in-pailins-spent-gem-mines-61043/
Fire-ravaged factory’s former owner to give workers loans
The former owner of a Phnom Penh garment factory gutted by a fire on Monday has agreed to provide loans to about 900 out-of-work employees until the current owner decides whether and how to pay them due wages and severance. Authorities, meanwhile, said they still did ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fire-ravaged-factorys-former-owner-to-give-workers-loans-65259/
Hun Sen’s student volunteer land-titling program under fire
More than a year after Prime Minister Hun sen’s land-titling program was suspended in the lead-up to the 2013 national elections, it has still not begun again despite government claims that the program would resume following the poll. The unfinished work left by student volunteers, who ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean and Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sens-student-volunteer-land-titling-program-under-fire-65503/