For Health Care, Cambodians Choose Vietnam
“I trust the Cambodian doctors with a simple problem. But if it’s a serious illness, and I need an operation or something, I don’t really trust them,” said Ly Molina, 31, a businesswoman from Phnom Penh. Ms. Molina spoke as she waited for a bus to ...
Election officers defend training
When ballot boxes from Battambang are opened today as part of an ongoing Constitutional Council investigation, any unsealed documents will likely be attributed to insufficient training. That is the excuse National Election Committee secretary-general, Tep Nytha, gave on Sunday amid concerns over the documents’ integrity. But ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/election-officers-defend-training
CNRP Sets Date for Mass Protests Against Election Results
The opposition CNRP announced Wednesday that it will hold a mass demonstration on September 7 against the preliminary results of what it claims was a rigged national election, one day before final results are expected to be released by the Constitutional Council of Cambodia. Unless the ...
Khy Sovuthy and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-sets-date-for-mass-protests-against-election-results-41253/
Protest to include marches: Rainsy
Marches through the capital will take place as part of the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s days-long sit-in, scheduled to begin on Sunday, opposition leader Sam Rainsy said. “We will march through Phnom Penh. We will stay [at Freedom Park] day and night,” Rainsy told thousands of ...
Meas Sokchea, Shane Worrell and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protest-include-marches-rainsy
Cambodia's ruling party expresses regret for opposition's talk suspension
The Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party on Thursday night expressed regret for the opposition party’s decision to suspend talks over ongoing political dispute, which was scheduled on Friday. “The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) has used a clash ( between the authorities and striking ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/835566.shtml#.UsYgeNIW2ls
Grenade Found Near Opposition Rally Site in Siem Reap
Activists for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party in Siem Reap have found an unexploded grenade, near a site where opposition leaders were expected to hold a meeting Thursday. The rusty grenade was found less than 50 meters from where Rescue Party leaders Sam Rainsy ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/grenade-found-near-opposition-rally-site-in-siem-reap/1748718.html
Japan’s Premier Criticized After Visiting Cambodia
Japan’s prime minister failed to address major issues, by leaving aside Cambodia’s political deadlock and its poor human rights record on a visit last week, rights activists say. “It was a missed opportunity for the government of Japan, which has a great deal of leverage with ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/japan-premier-criticized-after-visiting-cambodia/1795737.html
Gambit by CNRP an ‘all-in’ move
In its switch to a strategy of nonstop demonstrations calling for a new election, the opposition party has made a calculated decision to go “all-in” and toughen its stance in a bid to ramp up domestic pressure on the ruling party, political analysts said yesterday. Since ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gambit-cnrp-%E2%80%98all-%E2%80%99-move
Australia asks Cambodia to take asylum seekers amid violent crackdown
The Abbott government wants to send some asylum seekers to Cambodia, at a time when the country’s strongman prime minister, Hun Sen, is overseeing a brutal crackdown on dissent in one of south-east Asia’s poorest nations. Facing growing opposition after decades of authoritarian rule, Hun Sen ...
Lindsay Murdoch
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australia-asks-cambodia-to-take-asylum-seekers-amid-violent-crackdown-20140223-33amf.html
‘Workplace inequality pervasive’
Discussions about salaries on the factory floor led worker Channa, 22, to begin feeling jealous of her male counterparts. She learned, through talking with a number of co-workers, that the men working around her were doing the same amount of work as she was, but being ...
Shane Worrell and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98workplace-inequality-pervasive%E2%80%99
In condom market, a growing private sector
When Phnom Penh was flooded with free condoms during the Water Festival last week—a public health push to ensure revelers who came for days of debauchery did so safely—the city’s condom vendors weren’t happy about it. The global health organization Population Services International (PSI), whose ...
George Styllis and Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/in-condom-market-a-growing-private-sector-72352/
Mr. BUN Tharum
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Mr. BUN Tharum is currently a communications lead at InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia, a locally run innovation lab focused on the sustainable design and development of technologies for social good. A blogger and self-claimed digital diplomat in Cambodia since 2004, Tharum initiated the first technology ...
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new profile page on "Foreign investment in Cambodia”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new page on “Foreign investment in Cambodia”. On the new bilingual page, the public can access map layers which display the total number of investment projects with more than 5 million USD of investment capital and additional information of ...
ODC participated in BarCamp ASEAN 2018
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Barcamp ASEAN 2018 took place on October 20-21, at Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This BarCamp ASEAN 2018 broke the world’s largest BarCamp record having over 8,000 participants, 60 exhibitors, over 95 speakers on 85 topics and 1,000 companies and organizations. ...
Borei Keila residents start fire, stone district office
About 200 residents of Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila community burned tires and threw rocks at the Prampi Makara district office yesterday, demanding that the district governor solve a long-running housing dispute between them and powerful construction firm Phanimex, which they say has failed to abide ...
Human Rights Watch slams government for poor rights record
With a focus on the NGO draft law and allegations of government interference in the Khmer Rouge tribunal, international rights group Human Rights Watch blasted Cambodia’s rights record in its annual report yesterday. The government was quick to hit back at the criticism, saying that HRW ...
US Says Money Laundering, Drugs Still Major Challenges
Money laundering and drug-related crimes continue to be a major challenge in Cambodia due to a lack of enforceable legislation, endemic corruption and limited resources, according a new report by the US State Department. According to the 2012 International Narcotics Strategy Report, Cambodia continues to be ...
Announcement No.068 on the 20 accredited political parties running for the national election 2018
On 23 May 2018, the National Election Committee (NEC) has accredited a total of 20 political parties which are registered for the national election in July with the number of provincial and capital constituencies. The two more political parties accredited by NEC on 23 May ...
National Election Committee
CPP sees voter turnout higher than 80 percent
A Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) official said the process for the upcoming elections is going “smoothly” and predicted that those who had registered to cast their ballots will do so. He said as it stands, over 80 percent of those who are registered to vote ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-sees-voter-turnout-higher-80-percent
Mekong region leaders envision interference-free future
Leaders of Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand agreed on a common vision to push for the region’s true potential while at the Asean World Economic Forum in Vietnam this week. Prime Minister Hun Sen said during his closing remarks that each country in the ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50533271/mekong-region-leaders-envision-interference-free-future/