World Bank to re-engage after five-year absence
The World Bank has approved $130 million in developmental aid aimed at reducing poverty in Cambodia, signalling its first direct re-engagement with the Kingdom since it left in protest in 2011 after one of the largest forceful evictions led by the government displaced more than ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/world-bank-re-engage-after-five-year-absence
Kampong Speu disputants ‘pressured’ to take sugar firm deal
Despite earlier statements by company representatives that $500 compensation packages being offered to land disputants at Ly Yong Phat’s Kampong Speu economic land concession (ELC) were negotiable, attendees of a meeting between company representatives and residents yesterday said they felt pressured to take the offer. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-speu-disputants-pressured-take-sugar-firm-deal
Hun Sen says no discussions with the CNRP
Prime Minister Hun Sen told a local media outlet on Sunday that the ruling CPP would not engage in any talks with the opposition CNRP over the jailing of its officials and supporters or recent moves by police to arrest deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha. ...
Ben sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-says-no-discussions-with-cnrp-114010/
Self-exiled ‘terrorist’ sets date for return, plans border trip
Political hopeful and self-exiled dissident Sourn Serey Ratha said Monday that he will make his return to Cambodia after spending years abroad on October 1, in time to mark the anniversary of the Paris Peace Agreement with a trip to the country’s contentious border with ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/self-exiled-terrorist-sets-date-for-return-plans-border-trip-93596/
Prime Minister Hun Sen says French experts may need for border verification
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Cambodia and Vietnam may request French expert for border verification. “On some disagreed points, Cambodia and Vietnam may request the border experts from France to verify or hire any independent experts to help in case of need”, he added. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/prime-minister-hun-sen-says-french-experts-may-need-for-border-verification-8935
Cambodian PM heads for UN summit in New York
From September 25 to 27, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will attend the UN Summit for the adoption of the Post 2015 Development Agenda and the Global Leaders’s Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, where he will deliver his remarks at the two submits. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=303105
Medic in HIV outbreak case to be tried next week
The trial of an unlicensed medic who was charged with murder after allegedly infecting more than 270 people with HIV will begin on Tuesday, a court official said on Friday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/medic-in-hiv-outbreak-case-to-be-tried-next-week-97461/
Cambodia revenue drives profit surge at casino supplier
Entertainment Gaming Asia, a Nasdaq-listed company that supplies electronic gaming machines, posted a an 88 percent year-on-year rise in its third-quarter profit, citing higher sales in Cambodia as a major driver of its growth, according its filing to the Nasdaq on Monday in New York. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17676/cambodia-revenue-drives-profit-surge-at-casino-supplier/
Cambodia’s Hun Sen threatens to withhold electricity from ‘environmental extremists’
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday threatened to cut off electricity from the homes of “environmental extremists” who oppose development projects in the country, drawing condemnation from critics who said his government should focus on sustainability and providing services to the people. ...
Vuthy Tha
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/electricity-12232015173731.html
US trade treaty to aid kingdom's TPP ambitions
As Prime Minister Hun Sen attends the US-ASEAN Summit in California today, government officials are in the midst of ongoing negotiations with their American counterparts to formulate a trade and investment agreement, which analysts say could be a stepping stone towards one day joining the ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/us-trade-treaty-aid-kingdoms-tpp-ambitions
Capital residents protest airport expressway
Roughly 100 Phnom Penh residents who believe they will be affected by a planned expressway leading from the airport to the city centre protested again at the Ministry of Public Works yesterday, demanding that community representatives be included on the committee that settles such matters ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-residents-protest-airport-expressway
UN promises to improve Cambodian agricultural production
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will continue its support for the Kingdom’s food security and agricultural sector, while also helping with market research to assist the export of Cambodian milled rice and geographically-protected pepper products, Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Chum Sounry said ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23418//
ILO congratulates Cambodia’s consensus on workers’ monthly minimum wage
The International Labor Organization (ILO) has expressed its appreciation for Cambodia’s decision to increase the minimum wage of garment, textile and footwear workers to US$140 per month, according to an ILO’s statement received by the state news agency-AKP this afternoon. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/ilo-congratulates-cambodia%E2%80%99s-consensus-on-workers%E2%80%99-monthly-minimum-wage-9026
Kem Sokha spells out path to victory in 2018
Acting opposition leader Kem Sokha told supporters over the weekend that they must identify the strengths and weaknesses of the Cambodian People’s Party if they hope to claim victory in the 2018 election, and called on voters to keep a watchful eye when they go ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kem-sokha-spells-out-path-victory-2018
‘Busy’ CPP pols in no rush to meet with CNRP
Reversing a statement he made on Sunday, CPP lawmaker and spokesman Sok Eysan said a tentatively scheduled meeting between party leaders, including Interior Minister and senior CPP official Sar Kheng and CNRP acting president Kem Sokha, set for either yesterday or today had been cancelled ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/busy-cpp-pols-no-rush-meet-cnrp
City hall plans to build two new dump sites
Phnom Penh City Hall will build two new waste management sites in order to to alleviate traffic congestion exacerbated by the need to transport all of the city’s garbage to a single dump in Dangkao district, municipal governor Pa Socheatvong announced on his Facebook page ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-plans-to-build-two-new-dump%E2%80%88sites-103581/
Court will summon workers, owners over Bavet city riots
Factory owners and four jailed garment workers will be summoned today to appear at the Svay Rieng Provincial Court in the coming days to provide “clarification” over a series of walkouts and riots that struck two special economic zones (SEZs) in Bavet City last month, ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-will-summon-workers-owners-over-bavet-city-riots-104397/
Deadline passes but beachside eviction still imminent
The two-kilometer stretch of white sand that curves along translucent sea in an idyllic bay near Sihanoukville was still living up to its picture-perfect mystique on Sunday, with couples strolling hand-in-hand beneath the cloudless sky as others slouched in cushioned chairs soaking up the sun. ...
Maddy Crowell
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22815/deadline-passes-but-beachside-eviction-still-imminent/
PPSEZ sets timeline for delayed IPO launch
After numerous delays, industrial park operator Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone announced yesterday that it had finalised a timeline for the launch of its upcoming initial public offering, and would kick off a five-day bookbuilding session starting on April 18 and hold a public roadshow ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppsez-sets-timeline-delayed-ipo-launch
Little promise in union law debate, says SRP senator
Following the National Assembly’s passage of the draft trade union law last week, the Senate is set to take up the law today, with the permanent committee scheduled to discuss it followed by a vote on Tuesday, said the Senate’s secretary-general Oum Sarith. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/little-promise-union-law-debate-says-srp-senator