Cambodia sends 4th batch of troops to Lebanon for U.N. peacekeeping mission
Cambodia on Tuesday dispatched the fourth batch of 184 soldiers to Lebanon to replace the third batch’s forces, whose one-year United Nations peacekeeping duties have come to an end. The civil engineering group would perform their one-year duties by clearing landmines, constructing roads, bridges, shelters and ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-12/17/c_132974000.htm
Singapore Invests in New Cambodian Bank
An investment company owned by the Singaporean government is a minority partner in a fully licensed commercial bank set to open later this month in cooperation with Canadia Bank PLC and the country’s postal service, a source familiar with the deal confirmed Tuesday. Fullerton Financial Holdings, ...
Joshua Wilwohl and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/singapore-invests-in-new-cambodian-bank-42137/
NGOs, Sar Kheng talk investigation
Interior Minister Sar Kheng sat down with representatives from 10 civil society organisations on Friday for what Cambodian Center for Human Rights president Ou Virak described as a “very frank discussion” of how to handle the investigation into the multitude of alleged irregularities in last ...
The Phnom Penh Post
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-sar-kheng-talk-investigation
No criminal charges against hit-and-run officer
Police said Sunday that they will not pursue charges against Ek Sovannara—the son of a former Kandal provincial police chief—whose Lexus SUV on April 12 crashed into a motorbike carrying three men, killing one and causing the other two to have their left legs amputated. The ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/no-criminal-charges-against-hit-and-run-officer-58992/
Shooting probe urged
UN rights envoy Surya Subedi wrapped up his six-day fact-finding mission to Cambodia yesterday by calling for a thorough investigation into security forces’ role in the deadly crackdown on garment workers early this month. He also offered to act as a mediator between the ruling Cambodian ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/shooting-probe-urged
RDB opens new round of ‘emergency’ loans
With the rice harvest season beginning soon, state-owned Rural Development Bank (RDB) has started disbursing loans to local rice millers under its emergency fund, according to a high-ranking official. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50643674/rdb-opens-new-round-of-emergency-loans/
UN program to help disabled
The ninth session of the Conference of the State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) took place at UN headquarters in New York last week. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26286/un-program-to-help-disabled/
Chinese firm signs deal with Cambodia's electricity supplier to build rural power grids
China National Heavy Machinery Corporation (CHMC) reached a contract with Cambodia’s state-owned Electricité du Cambodge (EdC) on Wednesday to build rural power transmission lines, which will cover 13 provinces. ...
huaxia
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-03/30/c_135237839.htm
Vehicle registration revving up
The number of registered vehicles surged this year due to rapid economic expansion and rising incomes this year, according to Ministry of Public Works and Transport secretary of state Min Meanvy. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17596/vehicle-registration-revving-up/
US to fund project preserving clothes of S-21 victims
The United States Embassy has pledged $55,500 to the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts in part to preserve the clothes worn by victims of atrocities at S-21 prison. ...
Cindy Co
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-fund-project-preserving-clothes-s-21-victims
Chinese patent deal to come into effect this month
The validation agreement between China’s State Intellectual Property Office (Sipo) and Cambodia will enter into force by the end of this month, helping protect Chinese invention patents in the kingdom. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50113909/chinese-patent-deal-to-come-into-effect-this-month/
Exporter says unaffected by its partner’s debt woes
Rice exporter Cambodia-Vietnam Food Company said joint venture partner and Vietnamese state-owned Vinafood 2’s possible bankruptcy over $40 million of debt will not hurt its business prospects in the Kingdom. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/exporter-says-unaffected-its-partners-debt-woes
Five men arrested for posing as police to extort, rob civilians
Five men who regularly masqueraded as members of the state security services to extort cash and belongings from civilians were arrested in Phnom Penh on Friday and Saturday, a police official said Monday. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/five-men-arrested-for-posing-as-police-to-extort-rob-civilians-79865/
Corruption charges upheld against cop
Former Meachey district police chief Hy Narin has had corruption charges against him upheld by Phnom Penh Municipal Court after he allegedly misappropriated almost $700,000 from the state budget over eight years. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/corruption-charges-upheld-against-cop
Electricity company says weather to blame for exhorbitant bills
State power provider Electricite du Cambodge released a Statement Tuesday claiming that soaring electricity bills were due to hot weather, and not because of any changes in the rates being charged to customers. ...
Buth Kimsay and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/electricity-company-says-weather-to-blame-for-exhorbitant-bills-87651/
Corporate social responsibility in Cambodia
Frontier and emerging economies such as Cambodia present companies with a specific set of challenges and risk, both real and perceived, beyond those found in more developed markets. A risk category getting ever- increasing attention is that of “social risk”, roughly defined as the risk of ...
Cambodia records 973 critically endangered white-shoulder ibis: survey
Cambodia has recorded some 973 white-shoulder ibis in its wild, making the country the stronghold for this critically endangered species, the conservationists group said Thursday. BirdLife International and its partners including Cambodian Forestry Administration, People Resources and Conservation Foundation, Wildlife Conservation Society and Worldwide Fund for ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2013-11/07/c_132868146.htm
Study charts AIDS progress
Cambodia’s decline in HIV/AIDS mortalities has made it a regional anomaly, according to a new study published today by a global health research centre at the University of Washington. While HIV/AIDS remains a leading cause of disease burden in Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, and mortality ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/study-charts-aids-progress
Investigation Into Man Shot Dead During Protest Yields Nothing
A week after one man was shot dead and several others injured during a standoff between the armed forces and protesters, an investigation into who was responsible is no closer to conclusion, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Sunday. Security experts last week said the armed ...
Kuch Naren and Dene-Hern Chen
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/investigation-into-man-shot-dead-during-protest-yields-nothing-42911/
Twenty-Two Years On, Paris Peace Agreement Far From Realized
More than two decades after the Paris Peace Agreement, which was meant to open the way for peace and multiparty democracy in Cambodia, legal experts and human rights advocates said Tuesday the government has largely abandoned the vision of the accord. Speaking at a conference on ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/twenty-two-years-on-paris-peace-agreement-far-from-realized-45702/