Developer, soldiers ‘destroyed 29 homes’
Representatives of Chinese company Tianjin Union Development Group, backed by soldiers, annihilated crops and burned the homes of 29 families in Koh Kong’s Botum Sakor district last week, rights groups say. According to a report given to the Post yesterday, a two-day fact-finding mission spearheaded by ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/developer-soldiers-%E2%80%98destroyed-29-homes%E2%80%99
Ministry to ‘examine’ probe results
Officials from the Ministry of Interior will meet tomorrow to review the results of an investigation into a crackdown that left four dead on Veng Sreng Boulevard in Phnom Penh last month, a police spokesman said. After saying on Tuesday that a report on the investigation’s ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-%E2%80%98examine%E2%80%99-probe-results
Sam Rainsy to write a letter to Hun Sen
Sam Rainsy is preparing a letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen to seek negotiation between the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), an opposition official told The Cambodia Herald on Wednesday. The political deadlock in Cambodia has been lasting for ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NzExZmM1MTNiNWU
Cambodia opposition party plans fresh protest
Cambodia’s main opposition party plans to resume mass demonstrations against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government by holding a “people’s congress” in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on Sunday to gauge public feedback on stalled election reform negotiations. Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) President Sam Rainsy said his ...
Rachel Vandenbrink
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/cnrp-03262014161005.html
‘Fatal shooting’ did not happen, Thailand says
While Cambodian officials say the Thais have not responded to a request for an inquiry into the shooting death of a man they say illegally crossed the border, Thailand is denying the incident even occurred. Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs last month called for an investigation ...
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98fatal-shooting%E2%80%99-did-not-happen-thailand-says
Cambodia estimates 50,000 people facing high risks of HIV infections: health official
Approximately 50,000 people are facing high risks of HIV/AIDS infections in Cambodia, a health official said Wednesday. Dr. Mean Chhi Vun, director of Cambodia’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STDs, said the high-risk groups of HIV/ AIDS infections are among female entertainment workers, drug users, ...
People's Daily Online Staff
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/8627420.html
Cambodian ruling party sweeps elections for municipal, provincial, district councilors
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) of Prime Minister Hun Sen swept 2,543 out of the country’s 3,333 seats in the 2nd elections for municipal, provincial, and district councilors on Sunday, according to the preliminary results issued by the CPP. The main opposition Cambodia National Rescue ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-05/18/c_133342997.htm
New province Tbong Khmum officially launched
The new province of Tbong Khmum, which has been carved out of Kompong Cham, was officially launched Monday at a ceremony presided over by Interior Minister Sar Kheng. The ceremony was held at the new provincial capital of Suong City and also announced the appointments of ...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-province-tbong-khmum-officially-launched-60322/
Gov’t to meet recruitment firms over migrants
Labor Ministry officials are set to meet today with about 40 local recruitment agencies to talk about formalizing the procedure for sending migrant workers to Thailand, an agency director said. The meeting will focus on how the agencies can help migrants obtain work permits and other ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-to-meet-recruitment-firms-over-migrants-62202/
Cintri drivers strike for second time this year
Phnom Penh’s trash collectors have again gone on strike over salaries and conditions in a move that could see them stop clearing the city’s streets of garbage for an extended period for the second time this year. About 100 employees of the waste disposal firm Cintri ...
Ben Sokhean and Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cintri-drivers-strike-for-second-time-this-year-63462/
Sokha Hotel expected to open by september
The $100 million Sokha Hotel and Residence on Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva peninsula will be ready to receive its first guest by September, and recruitment is under way for more than 1,000 employees, the hotel’s owner said Monday. “We plan to open in September as a ...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/sokha-hotel-expected-to-open-by-september-63481/
Transport minister defends self-granted bonuses
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Wednesday posted to its website a four-page document giving Public Works and Transport Minister Tram Iv Tek’s response to complaints of corruption within his ministry, including that the minister had awarded himself exorbitant bonuses. The ACU said in the document that ...
Hul Reaksmey and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/transport-minister-defends-self-granted-bonuses-63726/
Cambodian military visits Thai junta
Deputy Prime Minister General Tea Banh, who is also Cambodia’s defence minister and led the delegation of senior commanders, said Thailand under the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) was addressing the country’s problems in a clear manner and with the aim of restoring ...
The Nation News Staff
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Cambodian-military-visits-Thai-junta-30239706.html
PM says BRICS bank to ease dependency
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday applauded the recent creation of the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB), saying it could ease Cambodia’s dependence on institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). BRICS member nations Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa announced ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pm-says-brics-bank-ease-dependency
Russia pledges duty-free trade
Russia is set to approve duty- and quota-free imports for up to 3,000 Cambodian agricultural products, according to local government officials. A statement issued by Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce on Friday states that Russia’s Minister for Economic Development, Alexey Ulyukaev, agreed in principal to increase the ...
Chan Muyhong and Charles Rollet
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/russia-pledges-duty-free-trade
Cambodia holds construction, property expo as construction sector booms
An international construction and property exhibition kicked off here, in the capital city of Cambodia, on Wednesday as the country’s construction continued enjoying strong growth, officials said. Andrew Siow, chief executive officer of AMB Event-Cambodia, which organized the expo at the capital’s Diamond Island Exhibition Center, ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-09/10/c_133632913.htm
Laos, Cambodia enhance legislative cooperation
Lao National Assembly and the National Assembly of Cambodia have vowed to continue the exchange and mutual support between the two legislative bodies. The vow was made at a meeting held in Vientiane between the high-level parliamentary delegations led by the Lao National Assembly President Ms ...
Somxay Sengdara
http://www.vientianetimes.org.la/FreeContent/FreeConten_Laos.htm
Sonatra takes one-year hiatus
Local stock brokerage company Sonatra Securities has announced it will completely dilute its books and put a halt on all business activities from October 1. In a press release posted on Sonatra’s website last week, the firm stated without an explanation that it was suspending all ...
Hor Kimsay
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/sonatra-takes-one-year-hiatus
Anti-refugee protest dogged by xenophobia
Hundreds of demonstrators marched through central Phnom Penh yesterday morning calling for a controversial refugee resettlement deal between Australia and Cambodia to be scrapped. While the protesters echoed human rights concerns that have been repeatedly made about the scheme, an undercurrent of xenophobia was also present. After ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/anti-refugee-protest-dogged-xenophobia
Ebola risk relatively low: govt
The risk of Ebola coming into Cambodia remains low despite a recent Ebola scare in Thailand, officials from the Ministry of Health’s Communicable Diseases Control said at a conference yesterday, while still noting that the Kingdom remains vulnerable to other, lesser-known diseases. CDC head Ly ...
Charles Rollet
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/ebola-risk-relatively-low-govt