Australia close to Cambodia refugee deal
Australia has signaled that it is about to cut a deal with Cambodia to resettle refugees now in Nauru, media reported Thursday. It comes after both Nauru and Papua New Guinea determined the refugees status of some asylum seekers sent to each country by Australian authorities. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=MjdmYmU2YTNiMmM
Talks between CPP and CNRP remain impossible due to their different positions
Kem Sokha, Vice President of the Cambodian National Rescue Party, hinted about talks with Cambodia People’s Party to find peaceful solution. However, he did not elaborate how to move ahead and what options should be made for the breakthrough. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NmZlZmVmMjA0YWF
Landmines kill 22 people in Cambodia last year, down 49 pct
Landmines had killed 22 people in Cambodia in 2013, down 49 percent compared with 43 deaths in a year earlier, a report of the Cambodian Mine Action Authority showed Tuesday. Besides the deaths, 89 others were injured, down 37 percent from 142 injuries, the report said. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-01/28/c_133080433.htm
CIMB the latest to add local insurer
CIMB Bank, Malaysia’s second-largest, has entered the insurance market via a partnership agreement signed yesterday with Cambodia Life Insurance Company (CLIC). In Meatra, director general of CLIC, said that under the partnership, CIMB had received full access to offer their insurance products to customers. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cimb-latest-add-local-insurer
Sorya bus hullabaloo at an end
A five-month protest aimed at a Phnom Penh bus company came to an end on Thursday when Sorya Transportation Company reinstated three of 17 drivers it fired in April. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/sorya-bus-hullabaloo-end
Lor Peang farmers reject assembly’s land swap
After promising in early September to settle a land dispute between farmers in Kompong Chhnang province and a company owned by the wife of a government minister within a week, the National Assembly’s human rights commission has yet to find common ground between the two ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lor-peang-farmers-reject-assemblys-land-swap-70267/
ICC told: Cambodia land-grabbing is 'crime against humanity'
A British lawyer has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court, writes Kevin Ponniah, alleging that a wave of violent land-grabbing that has displaced 770,000 people has been carried out by Cambodia’s ruling elite, and that it amounts to a crime against humanity. ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/2602209/icc_told_cambodia_landgrabbing_is_crime_against_humanity.html
Cambodian PM to attend 8th CLV Summit in Laos next week
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will lead a high delegation to attend the 8th CLV (Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) Summit on Development Triangle Area slated for Nov. 24 and 25 in Vientiane, the capital city of Laos, a statement from the Cambodian foreign ministry said ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-11/17/c_133795705.htm
Wah Seong inks power deal with Cambodia
Wah Seong Corp Bhd’s indirect subsidiary P.M.T.I Energy (Cambodia) Co. Ltd. has entered into a power purchase agreement with Cambodia’s Baitang (Kampuchea) Plc to sell up to 3.5 megawatt (MW) per hour of any and all electric energy generated and available for sale. ...
The Sun Daily News Staff
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1262066
The Cambodian government decided to allocate $3.7 million from 2015 to 2017 to HIV treatment
Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen has committed to stopping new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections by 2020, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said. The news came following Cambodian government’s decision to allocate $3.7 million from 2015 to 2017 to HIV treatment. ...
Sputnik News Staff
http://sputniknews.com/asia/20141210/1015683350.html
Rights groups ask World Bank to hold meeting with evictees
Rights groups have asked the World Bank to schedule a “special meeting” with evictees before deciding whether to lift a freeze on new loans to Cambodia, and to hold it in Thailand so that participants can speak their minds without fear of reprisal from the ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rights-groups-ask-world-bank-to-hold-meeting-with-evictees-77417/
Forestry officials summoned for meeting over extortion case
Sixteen forestry officials from three provinces were summoned to a meeting in Phnom Penh on Thursday after their names were found on a list of 49 suspected extortionists that police in Kompong Chhnang province seized from a truck that had been transporting illegally logged wood ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/forestry-officials-summoned-for-meeting-over-extortion-case-77405/
Rights groups ask World Bank to hold meeting with evictees
Rights groups have asked the World Bank to schedule a “special meeting” with evictees before deciding whether to lift a freeze on new loans to Cambodia, and to hold it in Thailand so that participants can speak their minds without fear of reprisal from the ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rights-groups-ask-world-bank-to-hold-meeting-with-evictees-77417/
Garment-sector raises hit by falling overtime
Garment workers around the country have started picking up paychecks this month that for the first time include the $28 increase the government added to the sector’s previous minimum wage of $100. But with available overtime hours on the wane, enthusiasm for the raise is ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/garment-sector-raises-hit-by-falling-overtime-77666/
Retail boom at holiday time
As millions of Cambodians prepare for Lunar New Year celebrations, Phnom Penh retailers say residents are spending more on the 2015 festivities than ever before. Independent economist Srey Chanthy told the Post that a dip in petrol prices had helped lower-income Cambodians increase their purchasing ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/retail-boom-holiday-time
Opposition officials demonstrate against Siem Reap party chief
More than 50 CNRP officials seeking the removal of lawmaker Ke Sovannaroth as the party’s head in Siem Reap province carried through with a threat to bring their case to Phnom Penh, demonstrating Monday for two hours outside the opposition’s headquarters in Meanchey district. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-officials-demonstrate-against-siem-reap-party-chief-78929/
Hun Sen muses odds on teacher prize win
Cambodian teacher Neang Phalla stood no chance of winning the Global Teacher Prize when she flew to Dubai earlier this month, Prime Minister Hun Sen reasoned yesterday, as the fact former US President Bill Clinton attended the ceremony signalled the award was going to an ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/hun-sen-muses-odds-teacher-prize-win
S’ville court denies bail to doroshenko
The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court has denied bail to Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko, who was arrested at his family’s restaurant in Sihanoukville last week and jailed on a trio of fraud charges related to a dispute with fugitive developer Sergei Polonsky, the investigating judge said ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sville-court-denies-bail-to-doroshenko-81233/
Bus drivers want ruling respected
Former bus drivers are set to stage a protest today outside Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation Company in the capital’s Daun Penh district, calling on its management to respect an arbitration ruling to reinstate most of them. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bus-drivers-want-ruling-respected
Workers end protest after taking sewing machines
About 200 employees of a Phnom Penh garment factory agreed to go back to work after reaching a deal with the factory Sunday, a day after they walked off the job—with some sewing machines in hand—because the owners could not pay them on time. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/workers-end-protest-after-taking-sewing-machines-66118/