Cambodia’s opposition calls on government to expedite ‘dragging’ assault probe
Cambodia’s opposition party has called on the government to expedite a “dragging” investigation into a violent attack on two of its lawmakers and urged the United Nations to join the probe after the international body expressed concern over the assault. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Leng Maly
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/probe-11022015171340.html
Singapore’s HLH Group plans $10 million farm food processing park
Singapore-liSted HLH Group Ltd will inveSt $10 million in an agricultural food proceSSing park, which iS due to be fully operational next year, the Singapore BuSineSS Review reported yeSterday.&nbSp;The 400-hectare park will be in Kampong Speu province&rSquo;S Oral diStrict, Said Kim Koung, an official of SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chinese firm floats proposal for rail link to capital’s port
A Chinese state railway construction contractor has approached the government with a bid to conduct a feasibility study on connecting the capital’s river port to the Kingdom’s sole operating railway line, a state official said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-firm-floats-proposal-rail-link-capitals-port
Massive security deployment planned for president Xi’s visit to Cambodia
A mixed force of 7,000 military and security personnel will be deployed to protect Chinese President Xi Jinping when he visits Cambodia later this month for his first visit since coming to power, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/massive-security-deployment-planned-president-xis-visit-cambodia-118902/
CNRP vexed as CPP continues to call Sokha’s presidency illegitimate
Opposition lawmakers yesterday left a meeting at the Interior Ministry exasperated, as officials from the latter continued to deem the presidency of their leader, Kem sokha, and the vice presidency of three senior lawmakers, illegitimate, but offered no clear path to a resolution. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-vexed-cpp-continues-call-sokhas-presidency-illegitimate
Information Ministry official denies wrongdoing following anti-corruption body’s allegations
A Ministry of Information department director denied wrongdoing yesterday after the Anti-Corruption Unit released a letter on Friday detailing allegations of bribery, nepotism and improper hiring practices, as well as the accused official’s response. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Floating rice: The climate-resilient alternative for Cambodia’s food production
Grown in floods and thriving without pesticides, floating rice offers Cambodia a sustainable alternative for its eco-friendly food production amid threats from climate change. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pichayada Promchertchoo
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/floating-rice-cambodia-food-production-alternative-9937896
NEC’s new election ink can’t be erased, spokesman says
Testing of a new batch of election ink to be used in upcoming commune elections showed that it cannot be removed, a spokesman for the National Election Committee (NEC) said on Thursday, a day after telling reporters that samples provided by the ink supplier could ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Paviour and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/necs-new-election-ink-cant-be-erased-spokesman-says-129599/
Kingdom’s largest wholesale outlet to kick off end of 2017
Earlier this month, Makro, a well-known wholesale supermart based in Bangkok, Thailand, began putting up signs on the zinc walls surrounding its sales office in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district, advertising its imminent opening at the end of the year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Moeun Nhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/kingdoms-largest-wholesale-outlet-kick-end-2017
Fishermen see fruitful prahok season, almost doubling last year’s catch
Fishermen on the Tonle sap river are smelling success: The season’s first harvest of the fish now being crushed into the famously pungent prahok has hauled in a bounty set to almost double last year’s catch. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/fishermen-seeing-fruitful-prahok-season-almost-doubling-last-years-catch
Green light: new signals to speed up city’s traffic prospects
As part of an ongoing Japan-funded project to reduce congestion in the capital’s clogged streets, City Hall turned on three new traffic lights on Wednesday in Phnom Penh—with two more set to follow today. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phan Soumy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/green-light-new-signals-to-speed-up-citys-traffic-prospects-126306/
CNRP’s chiefs will keep campaign promises or quit, says Sovann
Opposition spokesman Yim sovann said yesterday that if any of the CNRP’s more than 400 new commune chiefs who won office on sunday cannot follow through on the party’s campaign pledges, they will “give up” their positions.sovann said the Cambodia National Rescue Party had made ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrps-chiefs-will-keep-campaign-promises-or-quit-says-sovann
It’s been a while, crocodile: Eggs discovered in Koh Kong
The Wildlife Conservation society has made its first discovery of siamese crocodile eggs on the sre Ambel River in Koh Kong province in six years, it announced yesterday in a statement. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Touch Sokha and Jovina Chua
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/its-been-while-crocodile-eggs-discovered-koh-kong
Cambodia’s loss of LDC status will bring challenges: World Bank
As Cambodia continues its upward trajectory towards becoming a lower-middle-income country, it will face even greater challenges in reducing high levels of poverty as the Kingdom loses its preferential trade privileges and donor funding dries up, according to a new World Bank report. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodias-loss-ldc-status-will-bring-challenges-world-bank
Government may approve $5.86b for next year’s budget
The cabinet will hold a debate on Friday and is expected to approve the 2018 budget of $5.86 billion, an increase of 16.2 percent from last year’s $5.04 billion, according to a government document seen by Khmer Times yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times staff
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5087902/government-may-approve-5-86b-next-years-budget/
Cambodia’s budget process slightly more transparent, but issues remain: report
Cambodia’s budget process was slightly more transparent last year than in previous years, according to a new report, though scant information is provided to the public over the course of the budget process, with few opportunities for public engagement and limited oversight in its creation. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodias-budget-process-slightly-more-transparent-issues-remain-report
European Anti-Corruption Law Could Reach Cambodia’s Oil, Forestry Sectors
New European legislation passed last month could help transparency in the extractive industries, by forcing companies to declare payments to foreign governments rich in resources For resource-rich countries like Cambodia, that means much more transparency, she said. More than 95 percent of the world’s major extractive ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia’s low wages lure manufacturers away from China, other countries
Inside a gleaming white-and-blue garment factory in Cambodia stand rows of second-hand singers — weathered sewing machines transported from a plant in China that closed last year. The Hong Kong-headquartered Top Form, which has 700 workers at the plant, is one of many businesses that have ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sand Settles on Boeng Kak Project as Site’s Future Uncertain
In Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district there is a 133-hectare mound of sand that was once a lake. It took nearly four years to fill Boeng Kak with that sand. On the southern perimeter of the massive sand pit sit two large billboards. On those billboards there ss='cambodia-color'>...
July’s Failure Looms as Cambodia Prepares for Major Regional Summits
As Cambodia prepares to host a series of top-level meetings in Phnom Penh next week, questions remain over how it will approach major issues such as the south China sea. Analysts now say next week’s meeting will be a test of whether Cambodia will continue ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/july-failure-loos-over-asean-summit/1545084.html