‘Development Triangle' growth up 10 percent
The Cambodia-Laos-Vienam (CLV) Development Triangle Area has achieved an average economic growth of 10 percent in 2011 and 2012 period, meeting the target set for the period. The CLV Development Triangle Area comprises four provinces in Cambodia , four in Laos and five in Vietnam. Delegates from ...
ASEAN Post Ministerial Conference Focuses On Mutual Benefits
The ASEAN Post Ministerial Conference (PMC) 10 + 1 Session with 10 ASEAN’s Dialogue Partners, namely, Australia, Canada, China, the European Union (EU), India, Japan, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America were held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on 11 July 2012. They focused on cooperation ...
Senator Offers Cash Compensation to Evictees
CPP Senator and business tycoon Ly Yong Phat last week continued to offer families in Koh Kong province cash compensation to get them to drop out of a lawsuit against two sugar cane plantations he once owned, according to villagers. But villager Phann Khly yesterday ...
Workers Blame Mass Fainting on 'Angry Spirit'
After pounding on her chest and demanding a pig’s head, fruits and flowers to be offered to the angry spirit that she believed had taken over her body, garment worker Srey Mom collapsed on the floor of the Global Factory in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol ...
NGOs query Lao’s telco promotion
Four NGOs asked the government yesterday to explain the decision to promote Lao Saroeun to an undersecretary of state position in the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, even though he has not been cleared of alleged corruption. “In proper practice, people under investigation for alleged corruption ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032062034/Business/ngos-query-lao-s-telco-promotion.html
US calls for review of election ‘irregularities’
The US Department of State on Monday called on Cambodian authorities to carry out a full investigation into “all credible reports” of election malfeasance, saying that it was “concerned” by various issues taking place both on, and leading up to, last Sunday’s vote. At a press ...
The Phnom Penh Post
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-calls-review-election-%E2%80%98irregularities%E2%80%99
Rice exports already surpass last year’s total
Cambodia exported about 31,000 tonnes of rice in July, a 40 per cent seasonal increase from the average of 22,000 tonnes for first five months of this year. Official data show that Cambodia exported 207,000 tonnes from January through July, an amount surpassing the 205,000 tonnes ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-exports-already-surpass-last-year%E2%80%99s-total
Election gag: Calls made for overturn of media ban
Civil society organisations and local communities yesterday called on the government to cancel an order banning all media from broadcasting foreign election-related reports in the five days before the election. The joint statement, signed by 21 civil society groups, comes after the government on Saturday rescinded ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/election-gag-calls-made-overturn-media-ban
Sar Kheng orders an end to CPP support petitions
The Interior Ministry has ordered local authorities to stop collecting thumbprinted letters of election support, echoing NGOs who alleged earlier this week that the practice amounts to intimidation. “Municipal and provincial governors shall stop immediately making petitions to support the results of the fifth mandate of ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-orders-end-cpp-support-petitions
CPP, CNRP second meeting produces three point agreements
Monday morning’s meeting held at the National Assembly between the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) leaders ended around 1:30 in the afternoon, producing a joint agreement by both parties. After the meeting the two opposing party senior officials announced ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=M2I5NDNkMTg5NWE
CNRP collects thumbprints, urging King not attend first session
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) began collecting thumbprints from voters nationwide in order to present to King Norodom Sihamoni, requesting he not attend the first session of parliament, according to a source. A CNRP senior official on Thursday said that his party held a ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=MDc4M2Q3Y2IzYTZ
Government orders capital pipe clear-up
A city-wide campaign to clear drainage pipes inundated with garbage build-up aggravated by seasonal rains will begin on Saturday, the municipality announced. All nine districts are to report the number of pipes in need of service, according to a statement released on Friday, which adds that ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-orders-capital-pipe-clear
Cambodian needs effective policy measures for power sector: report
Cambodia requires effective policy measures to accelerate its development plans for the power sector, according to the summary of a market research report distributed Saturday. UK-based PR Carbon said the report noted that Cambodia’s power sector comprise targets for developing a national power grid to distribute ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=MTNkZjkxMjU2OTc
US urges 'Restraint' in Cambodia after violence
The United States on Friday appealed for peaceful dialogue and denounced violence in Cambodia after police opened fire on protesting garment workers, killing three people. “The United States deeply regrets the recent loss of life in Cambodia during violent clashes between protesters and government security forces,” ...
AFP News Staff
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iy83VmwV8EjDuptYbUme3o9-vdPw?docId=a4c09c59-b109-4dc0-9015-bbce4fa08a63
U.N. official calls for end to political gridlock in Cambodia
A United Nations official Friday urged Cambodian government and opposition officials to keep negotiating in an effort to end a political impasse. At the end of a five-day visit to Cambodia, Surya P. Subedi, the U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the country, ...
Dalje News Staff
http://dalje.com/en-world/un-official-calls-for-end-to-political-gridlock-in-cambodia/495827
Kandal Court may release men charged with Odong relic theft
The Kandal Provincial Court will question five prisoners next month over the theft of 2,500-year-old relics of the Buddha from the top of Odong mountain in December to ascertain if they were actually involved, a court official said Monday. Lim Sokuntha, an investigating judge at the ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kandal-court-may-release-men-charged-with-odong-relic-theft-58602/
Constitutional council approves judicial laws, sends to king
The approval of King Norodom Sihamoni is all that is needed for three controversial judicial bills to be passed into law after they were declared constitutional this week by the CPP-stacked Constitutional Council of Cambodia (CCC). Despite an outcry from rights and legal advocacy groups over ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/constitutional-council-approves-judicial-laws-sends-to-king-63282/
More than 20 police surround RCAF general’s Mondolkiri home
In the weeks that 17-year-old garment worker Yon Chea languished in prison, he spent hours staring out of the window at a concrete wall, certain that he would never see his home or his family again. “I never thought I would get out. There was a ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-20-police-surround-rcaf-generals-mondolkiri-home-51769/
11,000 families refile old land dispute complaints nationwide
Rights group Adhoc on Wednesday helped 105 communities locked in long-running land disputes across the country refile their complaints with local courts and other state agencies in a concerted effort to push the government to finally resolve their cases. Covering a broad cross-section of the country’s ...
Minister calls for old car ban
Imports of older cars and vans should be banned to help reduce pollution, Minister of Industry and Handicrafts Cham Prasidh said on Monday. Speaking to Cambodia’s business community at a Green Industry workshop in Phnom Penh on Monday, Prasidh said all countries had a role to ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/minister-calls-old-car-ban