Renewables start to gain traction
Solar power is slowly gaining momentum in Cambodia as a viable source of electricity for the country’s growing energy needs, though stakeholders are anxious to see a real government commitment to establish a beneficial regulatory framework. ...
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/renewables-start-gain-traction
After protest, farmers’ unrest spreads to neighboring districts
After about 500 protesting farmers blockaded a national road in Battambang province last week, local authorities in neighboring districts are now making efforts to placate hundreds of other farmers also restless over depressed corn and cassava prices. ...
Leng Len
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/protest-farmers-unrest-spreads-neighboring-districts-132586/
Kingdom sees drop in natural disaster deaths
An annual National Committee for Disaster Management report shows that natural disasters have killed at least 103 people, injured 120 people, and affected 2,000 families while also damaging thousands of houses, crops and infrastructure this year. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098124/kingdom-sees-drop-natural-disaster-deaths/
Hunton & williams advises on commercial close for $1.8 billion Cambodian expressway project
Hunton & Williams LLP is pleased to announce its role as lead transaction counsel to China Road and Bridge Corporation in a $1.8 billion public-private partnership (PPP) development of a 190-kilometer expressway in Cambodia. ...
Business Wire
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180130005036/en/Hunton-Williams-Advises-Commercial-Close-1.8-Billion
CNRP to meet NEC over voter registration ‘problems’
The opposition party will meet with the National Election Committee this morning to discuss a number of “problems” with the voter registration process, highlighting that 2 million people could lose their right to vote at upcoming elections. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-meet-nec-over-voter-registration-problems
NGO calls out rangers
The director of an anti-logging NGO has called on the Anti-Corruption Unit to investigate seven government rangers for alleged involvement in forestry crimes in the Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary from February to August this year. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-calls-out-rangers
IT sector stumbles on skills gap
Cambodia’s nascent information technology (IT) sector faces an enormous skills gap that is slowing the industry’s development, increasing costs for businesses and affecting the competitiveness of firms in the Kingdom, according to a report released yesterday. ...
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/it-sector-stumbles-skills-gap
Oranges struggle with disease
Orange farmer Say Samoeurth has been battling an invisible foe. He rarely sees his adversary, a tiny insect known as the Asian citrus psyllid, but wherever it goes this winged pest leaves behind a trail of destruction. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/oranges-struggle-disease
Human rights watch slams ‘neither free nor fair’ elections
Human Rights Watch (HRW), long one of the government’s harshest critics, on Tuesday condemned the June 4 commune elections as “neither free nor fair” and called for urgent reforms to safeguard next year’s national election. ...
Chhorn Phearun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/human-rights-watch-slams-neither-free-nor-fair-elections-131317/
NEC backs down on plans for legal action against Facebook critics
The National Election Committee (NEC) on Monday said it would not pursue immediate legal action against Facebook page owners it accused of spreading “inciting” news about its work, but would take unspecified action if false accusations continued. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nec-backs-plans-legal-action-facebook-critics-131534/
Embassy in Malaysia sheltering nationals amid crackdown
The Cambodian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur has seen an influx of nationals seeking help securing work documents—along with food and shelter—amid a crackdown on unregistered workers in the country, an embassy official said on Thursday. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/embassy-malaysia-sheltering-nationals-amid-crackdown-132519/
New era looms for Kantha Bopha
During the first six months of this year, the hospitals recorded $7.7 million in private donations from Switzerland, compared to $7.4 million during the first six months in 2016, according to Laurent. ...
Yesenia Amaro and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-era-looms-kantha-bopha
Tests verify parasite deaths
The Ministry of Health yesterday issued a warning for citizens not to eat raw or undercooked meat after tests confirmed that eight people who died from eating undercooked wild hog in Kampong Thom province had contracted trichinosis. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5083636/tests-verify-parasite-deaths/
Three activists charged for allegedly misappropriating funds meant for Ley funeral
Three prominent civil society members have been charged with “breach of trust” for allegedly misappropriating funds raised for slain political activist Kem Ley’s funeral, despite the fact that nobody in Ley’s family filed a complaint. ...
Andrew Nachemson and Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-activists-charged-allegedly-misappropriating-funds-meant-ley-funeral
Swiss aid gives $4.6M for farmers
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) yesterday pledged $4.6 million over three years for phase two of an agriculture assistance program that is intended to help small-scale Cambodian farmers in four northern provinces. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/swiss-aid-gives-46m-farmers
Villagers protest over Kandal development
About 300 villagers from Kandal province’s Kandal Stueng district who are locked in a land dispute with the Heng Development Company gathered in front of the provincial hall yesterday asking for help in solving their case. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109479/villagers-protest-kandal-development/
Timber inspection halted in Ratanakkiri
Authorities in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district were thwarted in their attempt to inspect an ethnic Jarai community’s timber stocks on Tuesday, with some officials and observers ascribing the incident to a clash of cultures. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/timber-inspection-halted-ratanakkiri
Luxury time-share resort
A Japan-based firm plans to invest $3 million to develop a time-share resort built to five-star hotel standards on Kirirom Mountain – about 110 kilometers northwest of Phnom Penh – with construction to start next year. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32625/luxury-time-share-resort/
Hundreds called in to defend voting rights
Hundreds of registered voters are being called in to a tribunal set up at the Interior Ministry compound in Phnom Penh this week to face questioning about whether they are Cambodian enough to participate in upcoming elections. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hundreds-called-in-to-defend-voting-rights-123609/
PM: No questions for the ministers
Prime Minister Hun Sen said he will not allow members of the opposition to question government ministers in the National Assembly (NA), telling a pro-government news outlet that the opposition had to “respect the law first.” ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35026/pm--no-questions-for-the-ministers/