Cambodia PM starts to 'like' Facebook as opponents woo voters online
<p>Cambodia’s prime Minister Hun Sen is taking a belated leap into the digital age in a bid to court young, urban voters as he tries to fend off unprecedented competition from the opposition after three decades in power. Hun Sen’s Facebook, which how has 1.2 ...p>
Prak Chan Thul
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/20/us-cambodia-socialmedia-idUSKCN0SE2RW20151020
Scholars say empathy, forgiveness key to reconciling Khmer Rouge crimes
<p>Empathy and forgiveness should be at the heart of efforts to heal the wounds of Cambodia’s tragic history, according to academics attending a recent symposium. Kosal of Brooklyn College added that the tribunal might not be an effective mechanism to achieve reconciliation and healing for ...p>
Change of the guard
<p>With the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) expected to intensify business competition across the region, Thailand’s biggest industrial conglomerate expects to rise to the challenge under a new leader.Kan Trakulhoon is retiring as president and chief executive of Siam Cement Group (SCG) after a decade at ...p>
Nareerat Wiriyapong
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/news/808916/change-of-the-guard
Mong Rethy group given deadline to pay ELC back taxes
<p>The government has warned Mong Reththy Group (MRT), an investor in agro-industrial crops such as palm oil and cassava, that it must pay all outstanding back taxes on its economic land concession in Sihanoukville’s prey Nop district within three months, according to a document received ...p>
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20867/mong-reththy-group-given-deadline-to-pay-elc-back-taxes/
Water supply authority director shoots back at corruption charges
<p>The General Director of the phnom penh Water Supply Authority (ppWSA) yesterday denied a slew of corruption allegations published by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU), including one that he hired 500 employees after they paid $3,000 apiece for a job. The ppWSA – once a beacon ...p>
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21429//
Joint statement of the U.S.-Asean special leaders’ summit: Sunnylands declaration
<p>We the Heads of State/Government of the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the United States of America gathered in Sunnylands, California, on February 15-16, 2016, for a Special Leaders Summit. This Special U.S.-ASEAN Leaders Summit was the first ever ...p>
The White House
An IPO with a value approach
<p>phnom penh SEZ plc, which operates a 357-hectare industrial park on the outskirts of the capital, held a bookbuild last month to determine the share price for its upcoming initial public offering on the Cambodian stock market. The private company aims to raise between $8.1 ...p>
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ipo-value-approach
New ISP aims to compete on quality, not low pricing
<p>Cambodia’s newest internet service provider (ISp), Today Communication, will join a busy market when it begins offering its services in phnom penh on Saturday. However, the company hopes that its focus on providing quality service, especially to businesses, will distinguish it from more than 30 ...p>
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-isp-aims-compete-quality-not-low-pricing
Ten migrant workers repatriated from Malaysian prison
<p>Ten migrant workers, including four women, were repatriated to Cambodia this week after being arrested and imprisoned in Malaysia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. They join six others who were also repatriated from a Malaysian prison earlier this month. The ministry issued a statement ...p>
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/brief/ten-migrant-workers-repatriated-malaysian-prison-117227/
Vietnamese families leave the Tonle Sap
<p>Ethnic Vietnamese residents of Tonle Sap Lake are continuing to head back to Vietnam in droves due to overbearing and costly rules being strictly enforced by local authorities, robbing many of them of the only homeland they have ever known. Minority Rights Organization (MIRO) official Seorn ...p>
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29279/vietnamese--families-leave-the-tonle-sap/
Unilever eyes Cambodian palm sugar
<p>Unilever is looking to source 2,000 tons of organic palm sugar a year from Cambodia, a senior manager said yesterday. Monica Soy, senior external affairs manager at Unilever Cambodia, told Khmer Times yesterday that Unilever requires about 2,000 tons a year, to be exported from Cambodia ...p>
Sok Chan
http://bit.ly/2c8BbNn
Local goods replacing imports
<p>The value of imports from neighboring Thailand has decreased by almost $500,000 in the first seven months of this year, a possible sign of health of Cambodia’s domestic production capabilities. According to figures released by the Thai embassy, the value of imports dropped by 16 percent ...p>
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29638/local-goods-replacing-imports/
No voting rights for Cambodians abroad
<p>Ry Sovanna is a Cambodian citizen, but in 2013 he was not able to exercise one of his most basic rights – voting. Mr. Sovanna was living in Thailand at the time, and there was no way for him to file his ballot in the ...p>
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16892/no-voting-rights-for-cambodians-abroad/
Cambodia poised to arrest opposition leader, violence feared
<p>Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy was stripped of his lawmaker status and parliamentary immunity Monday, paving the way for his arrest in connection with a defamation case that the opposition says is politically motivated. The prospect of Rainsy’s arrest has sparked fears of unrest in ...p>
The Associated Press News Staff
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/ap-cambodia-poised-to-arrest-opposition-leader-violence-feared/3059829.html
Turkish brands seek expansion in Cambodia
<p>Turkish cosmetics brands looking to push further into the Southeast Asian market have met in the Cambodian capital, an embassy official said Wednesday. A joint economic commission was also set up that month by Cambodian Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol and Turkey’s Minister for Science, Industry ...p>
Lauren Crothers
http://aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkish-brands-seek-expansion-in-cambodia/484526
Gov’t prepares labor court for 2017
<p>Government officials said the country’s Labor Court will be established in early 2017 while relevant officials study the technicalities of the court and get information as well as expertise from similar courts in other countries. Of all potential stakeholders, unions say they are the most ...p>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19350/gov---t-preps-labor-court-for-2017/
Japan lobbies for joint meeting with ASEAN ministers of defense
<p>A high official from the Japanese Defense Ministry (JDM) has lobbied for Cambodia and another ASEAN members to support the creation of a meeting between their defense ministers and the JDM to be held next year in Laos, according to officials at a meeting at ...p>
Ban Sokrith and Phun Chan Ousaphea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21309/japan-lobbies-for-joint-meeting-with-asean-ministers-of-defense/
Embassy rescues maid from Saudi Arabia
<p>The Cambodian Embassy in Kuwait successfully rescued a Cambodian woman working as a maid in Saudi Arabia who complained of abusive working conditions, lack of food and of having pay withheld. Him Srey, a Cham Muslim from Kampong Cham province who went to Saudi Arabia ...p>
Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21681/embassy-rescues-maid-from-saudi-arabia/
Ministry hopes to end old dispute
<p>A working group from the Ministry of Land Management yesterday went to investigate a land dispute between 147 families and the Koh Kong Sugar Industry and Koh Kong plantation on 782 hectares in Koh Kong province. The move to resolve the land dispute was made folowing ...p>
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28708/ministry-hopes-to-end-old-dispute/
Waste management challenge
<p>A delegation of Cambodian officials told attendees at seminar at the Global Green Growth Institute’s Green Growth Week conference yesterday that waste management was the biggest environmental challenge facing phnom penh. The seminar heard examples from 10 countries – Cambodia, Columbia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Mongolia, the philippines, ...p>
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29499/waste-management-challenge/
