New community-based drug program to launch
Municipal officials on Tuesday announced a new initiative to help rehabilitate Phnom Penh’s drug addicts by offering discreet treatment services at local health centers.
The initiative will encourage commune-level officials to visit known drug addicts in their community and tell them about the treatment options available at
Khy Sovuthy and George Wright
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-community-based-drug-program-to-launch-68130/
CSX moves from Canadia Tower to new building
The Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) last week made its long awaited move from the 25th floor of Phnom Penh’s Canadia Tower to its new home in a $4-million French colonial-era building on Street 106.
The CSX officially moved into the two-story building on September 8, according
George Styllis and Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/csx-moves-from-canadia-tower-to-new-building-68091/
Cambodia, China's Yunnan province ink deal on information cooperation
Cambodia and China’s Yunnan province signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) here on Monday on media cooperation and exchanges.
The deal was inked by Buth Bovuth, chief of the Cambodian Information Ministry’s General Department of Information and Broadcasting, and Wu Jingbo, deputy chief of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China’s Yunnan Provincial Committee, with the presence of Cambodian Information Minister Khieu Kanharith and Ge Guangzhi, deputy director of Department No. 6 of the Information Office of China’s State Council.
People's Daily Online News Staff
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/n/2014/0922/c90883-8786134.html
As PM ‘brags’, scammers try to strike gold
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday sang the praises of Cambodia’s first gold medallist in 44 years – suggesting Sorn Seavmey’s achievement was the “only thing Cambodia can brag about” – as the Kingdom’s Olympic Committee warned of bogus Facebook accounts in her name soliciting money.
After
Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-%E2%80%98brags%E2%80%99-scammers-try-strike-gold
Heng Pov’s conviction affirmed by high court
The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the murder convictions of former Phnom Penh Municipal Police chief Heng Pov and three others in the case of the 2003 killing of Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge Sok Sethamoni.
Defendants Pov, Ly Rasy, Hang Vutha and Prum Sophearith have been
Kim Sarom
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/heng-pov%E2%80%99s-conviction-affirmed-high-court
CNRP lawmaker to visit site of proposed dam
Opposition CNRP lawmaker Pol Ham on Monday said he will visit the site of a proposed hydropower dam in Koh Kong province on Monday with colleagues from his parliamentary commission before they quiz government officials about the controversial project later this month.
If built, the 108-megawatt
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmaker-to-visit-site-of-proposed-dam-72038/
Authorities warn union leader
Police on Friday warned labour union leader Pav Sina that if he continues to lead protests – thereby violating the rules of a court order – he will be arrested.
The Collective Union of Movement of Workers leader was called to the Choam Chao commune police
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-warn-union-leader
Companies stripped of ELCs
The government has seized more than 50,000 hectares of economic land concessions from a number of powerful companies across the Kingdom, putting the areas under the control of the Ministry of Environment, according to sub-decrees signed last week.
One decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/companies-stripped-elcs
Cambodian police scour jungle for Vietnamese 'Montagnards' refugees
Cambodian police said Wednesday they were scouring remote northeastern jungles for a group of Vietnamese Montagnards who crossed the border in an apparent attempt to seek asylum.
Rights groups say 13 of the hill tribe people, including one woman, fled persecution in Vietnam late last month
The Sun Daily News Staff
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1258248
Two promotions in shake-up of Phnom Penh police force
In a shake-up of Phnom Penh’s police force, the chief of the city’s anti-drug trafficking office was promoted to deputy municipal police chief in charge of intervention while the deputy police chief of Chbar Ampov district was made the new Meanchey district police chief.
“Mr. Born
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-promotions-in-shake-up-of-phnom-penh-police-force-74274/
CNRP to screen banned film on slain union leader Chea Vichea
The opposition CNRP plans to screen the banned documentary film “Who Killed Chea Vichea?” this week to mark the 11th anniversary of the Free Trade Union (FTU) leader’s assassination in front of a newspaper stall in Phnom Penh on January 22, 2004.
CNRP public affairs director
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-to-screen-banned-film-on-slain-union-leader-chea-vichea-76452/
Rainsy takes credit for falling energy prices
CNRP President Sam Rainsy on Friday told supporters that the opposition party was responsible for recent government efforts to lower gasoline and electricity costs and said he would work to keep alive the new “culture of dialogue” with the CPP, despite Prime Minister Hun Sen calling
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/opposition-leader-takes-credit-for-falling-energy-prices-76617/
Myanmar garment workers threaten further strikes if demands are not met
Garment workers in Myanmar protesting over pay and factory conditions threatened to continue strikes Tuesday unless their demands are met and authorities release two of their representatives detained earlier this month.
As many as 200,000 people work in garment factories in Myanmar, according to the
Thiha Tun
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/strikes-02242015130920.html
The Asian University for Women readies students for leadership roles
Nobel Peace laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai was barely of school age in 2001 when Kamal Ahmad came up with the idea of establishing a tertiary institution for women in Asia.
The university hosts about 600 students from 15 countries, compared with 120 in
Linda Yeung
http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/family-education/article/1724988/asian-university-women-readies-students-leadership-roles
Gov’t issues own dispute data
After heaping criticism on rights group Licadho for allegedly exaggerating the seriousness of Cambodia’s land rights crisis last month, the government has released its own annual report on land disputes.
In a letter the following day, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/govt-issues-own-dispute-data
China hugely contributes to world economy, says Cambodian scholars
China has greatly contributed to the development of the world economy, even though it is still a developing country, scholars in Cambodia said Sunday.
“China helped other Asian economies to recover from the Asian financial crisis in 1997, assisted the Eurozone to recover from the
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1O1mABr
Japanese firms look to expand
Japanese companies in the Kingdom are looking at expanding local operations as business confidence for 2015 is expected to rise on account of higher projected sales and operating profits, according to a survey conducted by the Japanese External Trade Organization.
The survey, which looked at Japanese
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/japanese-firms-look-expand
Vietnam to link China & Bavet
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung last Monday approved plans to build a new economic corridor linking China, along Vietnam’s northern border, to the Bavet International checkpoint in Cambodia, in order to facilitate increased flow of goods between the three countries.
The corridor, which will take
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/vietnam-link-china-bavet
UN concerns plentiful in Geneva postmortem
A UN rights panel that grilled government delegates in Geneva last month yesterday handed down its concluding observations on how Cambodia has implemented the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which it acceded to more than two decades ago.
The only positive aspects outlined by
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-concerns-plentiful-geneva-postmortem
Hun Sen issues warning to CNRP as activists refused bail
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday warned the CNRP that the political deal he cut with the party last month could come undone if its 55 elected lawmakers do not turn up to this morning’s sitting of the National Assembly, the first to be scheduled
Hul Reaksmey and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-issues-warning-to-cnrp-as-activists-refused-bail-65979/
