World Bank debars Cambodian construction firm for fraud
The World Bank has debarred Cambodia’s CDW Construction Co Ltd for three years for fraudulent practices relating to the Ketsana Emergency Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Project. Announced in 2010, the $40 million project aimed to restore transport as well as water and sanitation services to the tens ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ODE4YTMwMzBjNzV
Court to question lawmakers over ‘insurrection’
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court will question three opposition CNRP lawmakers this morning over a street brawl at a July 15 protest that the authorities have described as an “insurrection” against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government. Three CNRP youth organizers remain in prison over the ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-to-question-lawmakers-over-insurrection-66120/
Government approves new traffic law
The Council of Ministers on Friday approved a new draft traffic law aimed at improving the safety of Cambodia’s notoriously dangerous roads, with only legislative approval standing in the way of the bill being passed into law. The draft law, which includes changes to 64 articles, ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-approves-new-traffic-law-66675/
Aus live cattle bound for Cambodia
AUSTRALIAN live cattle exporters today warmly welcomed news that Cambodia is the latest market to open for Australian live cattle exports. Australian and Cambodian government veterinary authorities have reached agreement on animal health certification requirements, paving the way for the start of trade in feeder and ...
Penelope Arthur
http://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/news/agriculture/cattle/beef/aus-live-cattle-bound-for-cambodia/2709179.aspx
World Bank wants ‘task force’ to fix Cambodia logistics
Weak logistics have stood in the way of Cambodia’s trade progress for years with its export costs at least 30 percent higher than those of Southeast Asian neighbours Thailand and Vietnam. Getting the goods from farmers to markets remains difficult, and exporters struggle to supply overseas ...
Greg Knowler
http://www.joc.com/international-logistics/world-bank-wants-%E2%80%98task-force%E2%80%99-fix-cambodia-logistics_20140904.html
KrisEnergy formally takes over as operator of Cambodia's offshore Block A
Singapore-based KrisEnergy Ltd. (KrisEnergy or the Company), an independent upstream oil and gas company, referred to the announcement dated Aug. 11 in relation to the acquisition of the entire issued and paid up share capital of Chevron Overseas Petroleum (Cambodia) Limited (COPCL) and announces the ...
Rigzone News Staff
http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/135266/KrisEnergy_Formally_Takes_Over_as_Operator_of_Cambodias_Offshore_Block_A
Cambodia completes '90 percent' of draft of electoral body reform law
Cambodia’s opposition and ruling parties have completed 90 percent of a draft law to reform the country’s electoral body, officials said Monday following talks. Revamping the National Election Committee (NEC), which oversees the country’s elections, was a key component of a deal struck in July between ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/draft-10272014172013.html
Rainsy plans for imprisoned official to become freed lawmaker
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Friday that the CNRP would attempt to secure the release of detained CNRP official Meach Sovannara by promoting him to become a lawmaker so that he can enjoy parliamentary immunity. Mr. Sovannara, the head of the CNRP’s information department, was arrested ...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-plans-for-imprisoned-official-to-become-freed-lawmaker-72843/
Striking Juhui staff look for new jobs
Between 700 and 800 workers from the Juhui Footwear factory in Kampong Cham province have given up on trying to get their jobs back and are looking for work at other factories, while hundreds of others are still waiting for a resolution, a union official ...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/striking-juhui-staff-look-new-jobs
Disability benefits to be broadened by gov’t
A Ministry of Social Affairs official yesterday announced that, starting next year, the government would offer regular payments of 20,000 riel (about $5) to all disabled Cambodians, a benefit that so far has only been available to retired disabled soldiers. In an announcement that coincided with ...
Sen David
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/disability-benefits-be-broadened-gov%E2%80%99t
Cambodia's Buddhist patriarchs say monks should be forbidden from voting
The great supreme patriarchs of Cambodia’s two Buddhist sects yesterday urged the government to enact a legal “procedure” that would not only forbid monks from participating in political activities, but would also forbid them from exercising their right to vote. At the 23rd National Monk Congress ...
UCANEWS.com
http://www.ucanews.com/news/cambodias-buddhist-patriarchs-say-monks-should-be-forbidden-from-voting/72655
Cambodian PM calls for calm over HIV infections
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen called for calm Thursday, saying it was not certain that an unlicensed medical practitioner is responsible for infecting 106 people, including 19 children, with HIV in Battambang province. A joint statement from Cambodia’s Health Ministry and the World Health Organization said ...
Bopha Phorn
http://asiancorrespondent.com/129230/cambodian-pm-calls-for-calm-over-hiv-infections/
Reformed election commission likely to be delayed by stalled talks
The electoral reform working groups from the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP have canceled both their scheduled meetings this week and are now unlikely to complete talks in time for the new election commission to be created next month, CNRP lawmaker Eng Chhay Eang said ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/reformed-election-commission-likely-to-be-delayed-by-stalled-talks-76749/
Tourist rushed to Bangkok after falling from Siem Reap temple
A Chinese tourist visiting Angkor Wat was rushed to a Bangkok hospital on Saturday after falling off a staircase at the temple complex in Siem Reap City while taking photos of the iconic monument, officials said Monday. Chau Sun Kerya, spokeswoman for the Apsara Authority—the government ...
Ruling party hires spin doctors to deflect criticism
As part of ongoing reforms to improve its image ahead of elections in 2017 and 2018, the ruling Cambodian People’s Party has appointed three official spokesmen to rebut its critics and publicly defend the party. The letter states that Phal Virun and two CPP lawmakers ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/ruling-party-hires-spin-doctors-deflect-criticism
Claims by Global Witness rejected
Minister of Agriculture Ouk Rabun yesterday dismissed allegations of large-scale illegal timber smuggling by the Try Pheap Group published in a report by UK-based corruption monitor Global Witness last week. Global Witness’s report, The Cost of Luxury, identified Pheap, a prominent tycoon and former adviser to ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/claims-global-witness-rejected
China signs 100,000-tonne rice import agreement
The Chinese government-run China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) will today formally agree to import 100,000 tonnes of rice from Cambodia, local officials say. Representatives from COFCO and Green Trade Co, a Cambodian government-owned agriculture firm, today met in Beijing to sign the agreement, ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-signs-100000-tonne-rice-import-agreement
‘Kidney ring’ generals back on job at hospital
The two top officials in what was first reported as a kidney-trafficking ring based out of a military hospital, then later dismissed as a “training program”, have returned to work, a doctor employed there said. Lieutenant General Ly Sovan, 54-year-old director of Preah Ket Mealea hospital, ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98kidney-ring%E2%80%99-generals-back-job-hospital
Survey says: deported
The government’s countrywide census of foreigners resulted in the first deportations, as six undocumented Vietnamese workers were sent back across the border from Ratanakkiri province last week, officials said yesterday. The move prompted one provincial NGO worker to call for more deportations as part of a ...
Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/survey-says-deported
Y Chhien quits Pailin council despite show of support
Y Chhien, the three-star military general and former bodyguard of Pol Pot, has resigned from his position as chief of the Pailin Provincial Council, an Interior Ministry official confirmed on Thursday. Rumors had circulated for days that Lieutenant General Chhien, the first governor of Pailin, would ...
Matt Blomberg and Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/y-chhien-quits-pailin-council-despite-show-of-support-69520/