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/
Japan, U.S. to help empower women in Cambodia, Myanmar
The Japanese and U.s. governments are set to launch a joint project to help empower women in developing countries in Asia, including Cambodia and Myanmar, as well as Africa, officials of both governments said saturday. The two governments came up with the project as both Prime ss='cambodia-color'>...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/140209/japan-us-help-empower-women-cambodia-myanmar
Hor Namhong’s Son denies nepotism or abuse of power
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) released a statement Tuesday in which Hor sothoun, the eldest son of Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong, defended himself against complaints of nepotism, abuse of power and mishandling of overtime bonuses in his position as permanent secretary-general in his father’s ministry. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hor-namhongs-son-denies-nepotism-or-abuse-of-power-54451/
Beeline to launch 4G network by year’s end
Mobile network operator Beeline announced on Monday that it will launch a 4G service by the end of the year. Hout Vanthan, the chairman of parent company sotelco, said the 4G network will be available in Phnom Penh by the fourth quarter of 2014. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/beeline-launch-4g-network-year%E2%80%99s-end
Cambodia’s ruling, opposition parties resume talks to end standoff
Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties resumed talks Thursday in a bid to end a nearly 10-month political standoff, with the two sides still remaining far apart on how to reform the electoral body which oversees the ballot. Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) lawmaker Kuy Bunroeun, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/talks-05222014142726.html
Cambodia’s Defense of Rights Record at UN Review Slammed
Foreign donors should push Cambodia’s government to end its human rights abuses as part of its bid to maintain political control of the nation, a rights group said Wednesday, after Phnom Penh allegedly snubbed recommendations by foreign governments to improve the country’s rights record. Representatives of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/review-07022014161641.html
Sam Rainsy defends opposition deal with Cambodia’s ruling party
With Prime Minister Hun sen’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), saying it was in the interest of implementing key electoral reform and bringing greater freedom to the country. speaking in a video posted to his Facebook account, the president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/deal-07232014180806.html
As Cambodia’s financial sector grows, so do its challenges
The National Bank of Cambodia on Wednesday hosted its first annual macroeconomic conference, outlining the need to ensure Cambodia’s rapidly growing financial sector supports sustainable and inclusive economic growth while managing greater risks. Cambodia’s banking and microfinance sectors have seen enormous growth in recent years with ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/as-cambodias-financial-sector-grows-so-do-its-challenges-65414/
U.S. renewable energy developer eyes investment opportunity in Cambodia
The Willowbrook Company, a New York-based renewable energy development company, is seeking support from Cambodia to build a 250-megawatt solar power plant, the Cambodian Ministry of Commerce said in a statement Friday. Edward J.sappin, visiting chief executive officer of the Willowbrook Company, urged the support from ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-08/22/c_133576584.htm
Police hunt for more people behind a tycoon’s death
Phnom Penh police are hunting for another four suspects for being behind the assassination of tycoon Ung Meng Cheu who was gunned down on November 22 in Chamkar Morn district. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/police-hunt-for-more-people-behind-a-tycoon%E2%80%99s-death-7822
Government standing by decision to not renew activist’s visa
The Ministry of Interior on Wednesday said it was standing by its decision to not renew the visa of outspoken environmental activist Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson in the face of mounting pressure from fellow activists, NGOs, unions, students and monks—even opposition leader sam Rainsy—to reverse course. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-standing-by-decision-to-not-renew-activists-visa-78270/
Cambodia agrees to support Malaysia’s proposed Asean Peacekeeping Force
Cambodia has agreed to support Malaysia’s proposed establishment of an Asean Peacekeeping Force, comprising of personnel from all 10 Asean member states to serve the United Nations. ss='cambodia-color'>...
M. Kumar
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/02/23/Asean-Hisham-Peackeeping/
Election law drafted; status of Hun Sen’s demand unclear
Prime Minister Hun sen on Monday welcomed the end of talks over changes to the national election law and said the opposition CNRP has agreed to include in the law his proposal to strip National Assembly seats from any political party that boycotts parliament after ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/election-law-drafted-status-of-hun-sens-demand-unclear-78927/
After ministry’s intervention, families ask Hun Sen for help
A representative of Prime Minister Hun sen’s Cabinet yesterday advised 163 families involved in a 6-year land dispute with a businesswoman in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district to seek the Justice Ministry’s expertise after the Agriculture Ministry said on Wednesday it had swapped the contested ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-ministrys-intervention-families-ask-hun-sen-for-help-79793/
At unveiling of s-21 Stupa, ambassador calls on youth
At a ceremony to inaugurate a new stupa at Phnom Penh’s Tuol sleng Genocide Museum on Thursday, German Ambassador Joachim Baron von Marschall urged young Cambodians to be less reluctant to speak openly about the Khmer Rouge era, noting that it was Germany’s youth in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Maria Paula Brito
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/at-unveiling-of-s-21-stupa-ambassador-calls-on-youth-80841/
ANZ refuses to help evictees of senator’s sugarcane farm
About 100 villagers who lost land to a sugarcane plantation, which was until recently financed by ANZ Royal Bank, traveled to Phnom Penh to protest in front of the bank’s headquarters Thursday, but failed to convince the bank to help them. several hundred families in Kompong ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anz-refuses-to-help-evictees-of-senators-sugarcane-farm-66579/
Japan to Install “Smart” Traffic Lights Throughout Cambodia’s Capital
As Cambodia’s economy has boomed over the last decade, the broad French-built boulevards and leafy backstreets of Phnom Penh have become bottlenecks, with giant sUVs parked two- or three- deep, clogging the roads. At peak hour, the center of town turns into a Hobbesian crush of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sebastian Strangio
http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/japan-jica-install-smart-system-of-traffic-lights-phnom-penh
Cambodian parties expect draft election law by month’s end
Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties expect to finalize a draft of the nation’s new election law by the end of the month as the centerpiece of key reforms promised in a July agreement that ended a nearly one-year political crisis, an official said Monday. “The two ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/draft-09082014171348.html
New arbitration center president calls for court system’s support
The newly established National Commercial Arbitration Center (NCAC) may have been set up to al­low businesses to settle disputes outside the court system, but it still needs support from judges and court officials to do its work effectively, its president said on Friday. speaking at ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/new-arbitration-center-president-calls-for-court-systems-support-72408/