Herbalife to operate in capital
Herbalife Ltd, a global nutrition company whose business practices are being challenged in a US court and whose marketing strategies have been the subject of public criticism, will officially open a six-storey distribution centre in Phnom Penh today, according to the New York Stock Exchange-listed ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/herbalife-operate-capital
ADB funds tourism development in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a 100 million USD aid package to support the development of tourism infrastructure in the three Mekong River countries of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The decision was made at the annual meeting on tourism development of the Greater Mekong ...
Vietnamnet Bridge News Staff
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/travel/91098/adb-funds-tourism-development-in-vietnam--laos--cambodia.html
Police beat Borei Keila activists blocking road
Yet another clash between protesters and police resulted in at least three women being knocked unconscious in the capital yesterday. A Post reporter saw police punch and use batons to quell protesters after a group of about 250 people, including many from the Borei Keila community ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-beat-borei-keila-activists-blocking-road
Cambodia investment scams rising
The National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan and related bodies are warning of a rise in fraudulent investment schemes involving real estate in Cambodia, where economic growth is boosting foreign investment. The center received 1,312 inquiries between October 2011 and early this month from consumers who ...
The Japan Staff News Staff
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/27/national/cambodia-investment-scams-rising/#.Uh1Rq9KBmN8
Death Threat Made Against CNRP’s Social Media Activist
Thy Sovantha is accustomed to being threatened on Facebook. But the 19-year-old CNRP youth activist, who became something of an online celebrity through the popular opposition Facebook page “I Love Cambodia Hot News,” says the latest threat against her, in which a copy of her passport ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/death-threat-made-against-cnrps-social-media-activist-51124/
Cambodia sees rise of Asean tourists in Q1
Cambodia received 424,300 visitors from Asean countries in the first quarter of the year, up 4 per cent year-on-year. Data from the Tourism Ministry showed tourist arrivals from Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) accounted for 33 per cent of 1.27 million overseas arrivals from January ...
Bernama News Staff
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=1039613
Cambodia's oil imports up 10 pct in Q1
Cambodia imported 453,000 tons of petroleum in the first three months of 2014, up 10 percent from 412,190 tons over the same period last year, the data of the Ministry of Commerce showed Tuesday. During the January-March period this year, the country spent 442 million U.S. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=MjhiNWFmMjgwODB
Reporter, ‘witnesses’ tell different stories
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said that radio journalist Lay Samean, who was badly beaten by district security guards on May 2 while covering a planned opposition rally, may have provoked the violence by calling the guards “yuon’s dogs”, among other insults. The minister added, however, that ...
Kevin Ponniah and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/reporter-%E2%80%98witnesses%E2%80%99-tell-different-stories
Ongoing woes for Cambodian workers in Thailand
Thailand’s political crisis could create ongoing problems for Cambodian migrant workers, especially night time curfew, a development expert says. Ya Navuth, executive director of Caram Cambodia, said undocumented Cambodian workers in Thailand may not know about the curfew and could be arrested when they travel. ...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/ongoing-woes-for-cambodian-workers-in-thailand/1928562.html
Migrants flee Thai instability
Thousands of Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand are rushing back across the border, voluntarily repatriating themselves in the face of increasingly hostile rhetoric towards undocumented labourers. In the wake of Thailand’s coup d’état last month, army chief General Prayuth Chan-o-Cha urged better regulation of the workforce ...
Cheang Sokha and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/migrants-flee-thai-instability
Officials protect private company’s machines
Chroy Changva district security guards Thursday stopped villagers from preventing a private company from pumping sand onto the wetlands behind their homes. The Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC) is building a $3-billion real estate project, known as “Chroy Changva City, City of the Future,” on the ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-protect-private-companys-machines-61335/
Japan-Cambodia cultural festival begins tonight
During the 10th annual Japan-Cambodia Kizuna Festival, the focus will be on the “kizuna,” or bond in Japanese, between the two countries. The opening ceremony begins at 6 p.m. tonight, and the festival runs until Sunday evening. Admission is free, and more than 10,000 people are ...
Emily Wilkins
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/japan-cambodia-cultural-festival-begins-tonight-52722/
Officials show Areng families relocation plan
Hundreds of families due to be displaced by the planned 108-MW Stung Chhay Areng dam were called to a meeting Tuesday with provincial authorities, who presented a plan for relocation and then distributed gifts of shrimp paste and MSG. Heng Samnang, a staffer for local NGO ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-show-areng-families-relocation-plan-distribute-food-62348/
Cambodia will put refugees at risk: academics
Dangerous political instability in Cambodia could put asylum seekers at grave risk, a leading academic has warned, as Immigration Minister Scott Morrison gave his strongest indication yet that refugees may be resettled there. University of NSW emeritus professor Carl Thayer said he was shocked the government would ...
Sarah Whyte
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/cambodia-will-put-refugees-at-risk-academics-20140407-zqrv5.html
Pilot project to recruit Cambodian maids struggles to take off
A pilot project to recruit maids from Cambodia is struggling to take off as workers are turned off by high recruitment fees, and the fear of not being able to adapt to life here. Under a Ministry of Manpower (MOM) pilot scheme that began last August, ...
Commerce minister, US Ambassador swap praise after trade trip
U.S. Ambassador William Todd and Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol praised each other for their dedication to the development of the Cambodian economy at a press conference in Phnom Penh on Monday, following a joint trade mission last month to the U.S. Mr. Todd and Mr. Chanthol, ...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/commerce-minister-us-ambassador-swap-praise-after-trade-trip-63458/
Students to protest Australia refugee deal
Students, activist monks and land rights demonstrators will hold a march in Phnom Penh on Friday in protest of a controversial refugee resettlement agreement between Australia and Cambodia. ...
Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/students-protest-australia-refugee-deal
Draft law could mean a crackdown on online freedom, expert says
A draft telecommunications law is causing concern from rights groups, who say it threatens freedom of speech online, one of the few spaces open to political discussion. ...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/draft-law-could-mean-a-crackdown-on-online-freedom-expert-says/2624768.html
After ministry’s intervention, families ask Hun Sen for help
A representative of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cabinet yesterday advised 163 families involved in a 6-year land dispute with a businesswoman in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district to seek the Justice Ministry’s expertise after the Agriculture Ministry said on Wednesday it had swapped the contested ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-ministrys-intervention-families-ask-hun-sen-for-help-79793/
Thirty-six still ill after eating tainted sandwiches
Thirty-six villagers remained hospitalized Monday afternoon after about 800 fell ill on Saturday from eating tainted sandwiches distributed at a World Vision event in Siem Reap province’s Chi Kreng district, officials said. ...
Mech Dara and Maria Paula Brito
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thirty-six-still-ill-after-eating-tainted-sandwiches-81086/