Gov’t launches industrial policy
Prime Minister Hun Sen said the Council of Ministers would review and pass the Industrial Development Policy 2015-2025 today, setting out a roadmap that aims to boost investment and broaden the Kingdom’s manufacturing base. The policy framework will consist of four pillars: attracting FDI to ...
Chan Muyhong and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/govt-launches-industrial-policy
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
Death toll from floods rises to 8 in 4 provinces
Four more people were confirmed dead Tuesday due to rising flood waters in several provinces, bringing the total number of fatalities in this year’s rainy season flooding to eight, while some 4,000 families have now had to evacuate their homes. National Committee for Disaster Management vice ...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/death-toll-from-floods-rises-to-8-in-4-provinces-65821/
Cambodia economy bucks regional trend
Driven by garment and improved agricultural export markets, Cambodia has bucked the wider trend of slowing Southeast Asian economies, according to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). ESCAP’s semi-annual Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific, published ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-economy-bucks-regional-trend
First buses, now trains could come to capital
As part part of its multibillion-dollar Urban Transport Master Plan, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) unveiled a modern rail system for Phnom Penh yesterday that could begin operation as soon as 2023. The trains would thin out traffic on the capital’s choked-up roads, which currently lack ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/first-buses-now-trains-could-come-capital
Released CNRP youth called back to court
Three CNRP Youth activists facing charges of taking part in an insurrection for their alleged roles in a violent opposition protest near Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park in July have been summonsed back to court early next month. A summons signed by Investigating Judge Keo Mony calls ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/released-cnrp-youth-called-back-to-court-67654/
Facing cuts, gov’t pressured to take lead in fight against AIDS
Two of the major donors who have supported Cambodia’s highly successful fight against HIV/AIDS are set to make significant cuts to their funding, putting pressure on the government to increase its own spending, officials and experts said. Both the Global Fund, which has contributed more than ...
Paula Brito
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/facing-cuts-govt-pressured-to-take-lead-in-fight-against-aids-72788/
Rady Mom not allowed to visit detained activists at Prey Sar
Rady Mom, Cambodian-American state representative in Massachusetts, U.S.A, was not allowed yesterday to meet with 17 activists who are currently being detained at Prey Sar prison. Rady Mom and his colleagues as well as Members of Parliament and Senators of opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party went ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/rady-mom-not-allowed-to-visit-detained-activists-at-prey-sar-7713
Cambodia PM, opposition leader finalize election reform
Cambodian prime minister and his political opponent have finalized the details of an electoral reform plan, but some were met with criticism Saturday amid fears the election body will remain stacked with employees loyal to the ruling party. The Cambodia Daily reported that both Premier Hun ...
World Bulletin News Staff
http://www.worldbulletin.net/news/149520/cambodia-pm-opposition-leader-finalize-election-reform
Vietnamese in Mekong Delta object to Lao dam on Cambodia border: report
Vietnamese living in the Mekong Delta have raised objections to a proposed Lao dam on the mainstream of the river next to Cambodia, Thanh Nien News reported. The report Monday said the objections followed a two-week survey in five delta provinces by the Hanoi-based Green Innovation ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/vietnamese-in-mekong-delta-object-to-lao-dam-on-cambodia-border:-report-7765
UN refugee agency joins search for Montagnards in Cambodia
A team from the United Nations refugee agency traveled to northeast Cambodia Wednesday to meet with 13 ethnic Montagnards seeking asylum in the country after fleeing alleged persecution in Vietnam, according to an agency spokesperson and a member of a local rights group. United Nations High ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/search-12032014184633.html
Peaceful protest turned away from Freedom Park
Some 50 Daun Penh district security guards and about as many riot police prevented 100 anti-eviction protesters from gathering at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on Tuesday after the city deemed the gathering illegal. The protesters were from a number of eviction-hit communities, including the Boeng Kak ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/peaceful-protest-turned-away-from-freedom-park-76437/
Gov’t boots out family
A family of Montagnard asylum seekers, including two young children and a 9-month-old baby, has been deported to Vietnam, where the father was reportedly beaten by authorities for attempting to escape. But Moeng Sineath, spokesman for Ratanakkiri Provincial Hall, confirmed for the first time yesterday ...
Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-boots-out-family
Group to mull rent controls
The ruling and opposition parties announced on Saturday the creation of a new working group to discuss a bipartisan plan to table a rent control law that will regulate rising housing prices and sudden rental hikes for all tenants in the Kingdom. Originally, the plan ...
Sarah Taguiam and Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/group-mull-rent-controls
‘One-way’ or the other Sothearos expansion will alleviate congestion
The ever congested part of Samdach Sothearos Boulevard between the Chamkar Mon traffic lights and the Russian Embassy is getting a much needed expansion. Especially since Aeon Mall opend in June 2014 the major arterial road was used beyond capacity. Long Dimanche, City Hall spokesman, said ...
Rail rivals China, Japan compete for high-speed track in Asia
In many parts of northeast Asia and Europe train travel in the 21st century is a safe and fast cross-country mode of transport. In South and Southeast Asia, riding the rails is frequently frustrating and sometimes dangerous with derailments and fiery crashes. Impoverished Cambodia has ...
Steve Herman
http://bit.ly/1aXwYKw
Prince calls for 3-party coalition
Funcinpec party president Prince Norodom Ranariddh has called on the opposition and ruling parties to form a tripartite coalition with the royalists after Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy and Prime Minister Hun Sen embarked on a “honeymoon” after years spent at each others’ ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prince-calls-3-party-coalition
CNRP TV raises $1.5M, abandons share sales model
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Thursday that he had secured pledges of at least $1.5 million in funding for the opposition’s planned television station, but had been forced to abandon a share-selling model to raise the funds. A private company created by the CNRP last year ...
Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-tv-raises-1-5m-abandons-share-sales-model-85448/
The operator aims to invest $400M in the next two to three years
South East Asia Telecom has partnered with Chinese infrastructure provider ZTE to deploy a FDD-LTE network in Cambodia. Earlier this year, the operator announced plans to invest $400 million over the next two to three years to deploy its 4G LTE network across Cambodia, and ...
Juan Pedro Tomás
http://www.rcrwireless.com/20150623/carriers/seatel-zte-to-deploy-fdd-lte-network-in-cambodia
CNRP's Um Sam An sustains rhetoric on map
As the government threatens to prosecute those who speak out against the maps it uses to demarcate the border with Vietnam, one opposition lawmaker says he has found a map in the United States’ Library of Congress that he claims could shine new light on ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrps-um-sam-sustains-rhetoric-map