Cambodia’s eight-month political deadlock shows hints of ending
Talks between Cambodia’s ruling party and the opposition to resolve the impasse over last year’s election have been deadlocked for months. The two sides disagree on a number of issues, most significantly reform of the National Election Committee (NEC). But signs of a thaw have ss='cambodia-color'>...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodias-eight-month-political-deadlock-shows-hints-of-ending/1884765.html
Complaints filed against city official for last week’s violence
Three people have filed separate complaints against a Phnom Penh district official, accusing him of ordering violence in a clash between security forces and bystanders near Freedom Park last week. At least 10 people were injured in clashes last Monday, as opposition member Mu sochua staged ss='cambodia-color'>...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/complaints-filed-against-city-official-for-last-weeks-violence/1904463.html
Cambodia’s top court denies bail to 21 jailed protesters
Cambodia’s supreme Court on Friday upheld a decision refusing bail to 21 people arrested during a deadly worker strike crackdown, a defense lawyer said, as dozens of supporters protested outside, calling the charges against them politically motivated and demanding their release. The top court upheld the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/bail-05092014170039.html
Violence breaks out in land dispute with minister’s wife
A long-simmering land dispute between a group of villagers and a high-ranking minister’s wife turned violent this weekend as 10 people were injured while trying to block the KDC company from building a warehouse on contested land in Kompong Chhnang province, villagers and police said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/violence-breaks-out-in-land-dispute-with-ministers-wife-63298/
City hall calls out Cintri’s rubbish collecting efforts—again
Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong on Monday Slammed municipal waSte diSpoSal company Cintri for itS poor performance in collecting the city&rSquo;S garbage after a Strike by traSh collectorS laSt week once again left the StreetS a meSS. Cintri&rSquo;S traSh collectorS ended their Second Strike of the SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-calls-out-cintris-rubbish-collecting-efforts-again-64048/
U.S., Cambodia release life skills manuals for Cambodian schools
The United states and Cambodian governments on Tuesday released an educational guide that will help Cambodian schools improve the way their students learn, according to a media statement from the U.s. Embassy. The Life skills Curriculum is the culmination of an extensive collaboration between the Cambodian Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-01/28/c_133081282.htm
More than 20 police surround RCAF general’s Mondolkiri home
In the weeks that 17-year-old garment worker Yon Chea languished in prison, he spent hours staring out of the window at a concrete wall, certain that he would never see his home or his family again. “I never thought I would get out. There was a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-20-police-surround-rcaf-generals-mondolkiri-home-51769/
Phnom Penh Governor tells officials to monitor city’s markets
Acting on direct orders from Prime Minister Hun sen, Phnom Penh Municipal Governor Pa socheatvong on Tuesday called on municipal officials to strictly monitor the companies that collect daily fees from the city’s market vendors. Mr. Hun sen called out the governor in a speech on ss='cambodia-color'>...
Japan’s small, medium companies see business opportunity in Cambodia
Many small and medium companies of Japan are showing their interest in doing business in Cambodia, according to an assistant of Prime Minister Hun sen. 99 percent of Japanese small and medium companies are interested in investing in Asia, especially in Cambodia, which is located ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ZmRkYzBiYWVjZWR
Funding boost for Cambodia’s hero mine-detecting rats NGO
The Belgian demining NGO APOPO, which is pioneering the use of mine-detecting rats in the former battlefields of Cambodia, has received funding from the German government to expand its mine-clearance work in the country. In November, the government gave the green light for APOPO to begin ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/funding-boost-for-cambodias-hero-mine-detecting-rats-ngo-54308/
City’s third overpass shoots for ahead-of-schedule completion
Phnom Penh’s third overpass, or flyover, bridge is now close to completion, some eight months ahead of schedule, and its planners say it will not only greatly improve traffic congestion in the southwest of the city but will also lead to price increases for property ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/city%E2%80%99s-third-overpass-shoots-ahead-schedule-completion
Cambodia-U.S. trade up 11 pct in Q1
Bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and the United StateS had amounted to 845 million U.S. dollarS in the firSt three monthS of 2014. The number Saw a 11-percent riSe from 758 million U.S. dollarS over the Same period laSt year, figureS releaSe by the U.S. Department SS='cambodia-color'>...
Shanghai Daily
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=216833
Tenants begin occupation of Phnom Penh’s ‘tower of glass’
Vattanac Capital Tower, a long-anticipated gleaming tower that dominates the city’s skyline from Monivong Boulevard, continues to attract tenants to its commercial office space. The most recent tenants to occupy the building are Qatar Airways and investment company One Asia Capital, with Qatar occupying 180 square ss='cambodia-color'>...
Scraping out a living in Pailin’s spent gem mines
Late last month, Nhem Bunna, a retired government soldier, struck it lucky here like few have since Ieng sary led his Khmer Rouge rebels to defect to Phnom Penh in 1996. Clutching his index finger below the top joint, his feet still in the silt of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/scraping-out-a-living-in-pailins-spent-gem-mines-61043/
Fire-ravaged factory’s former owner to give workers loans
The former owner of a Phnom Penh garment factory gutted by a fire on Monday has agreed to provide loans to about 900 out-of-work employees until the current owner decides whether and how to pay them due wages and severance. Authorities, meanwhile, said they still did ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fire-ravaged-factorys-former-owner-to-give-workers-loans-65259/
Hun Sen’s student volunteer land-titling program under fire
More than a year after Prime Minister Hun sen’s land-titling program was suspended in the lead-up to the 2013 national elections, it has still not begun again despite government claims that the program would resume following the poll. The unfinished work left by student volunteers, who ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean and Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sens-student-volunteer-land-titling-program-under-fire-65503/
Japan, U.S. to help empower women in Cambodia, Myanmar
The Japanese and U.s. governments are set to launch a joint project to help empower women in developing countries in Asia, including Cambodia and Myanmar, as well as Africa, officials of both governments said saturday. The two governments came up with the project as both Prime ss='cambodia-color'>...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/140209/japan-us-help-empower-women-cambodia-myanmar
Hor Namhong’s Son denies nepotism or abuse of power
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) released a statement Tuesday in which Hor sothoun, the eldest son of Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong, defended himself against complaints of nepotism, abuse of power and mishandling of overtime bonuses in his position as permanent secretary-general in his father’s ministry. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hor-namhongs-son-denies-nepotism-or-abuse-of-power-54451/
Beeline to launch 4G network by year’s end
Mobile network operator Beeline announced on Monday that it will launch a 4G service by the end of the year. Hout Vanthan, the chairman of parent company sotelco, said the 4G network will be available in Phnom Penh by the fourth quarter of 2014. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/beeline-launch-4g-network-year%E2%80%99s-end
Cambodia’s ruling, opposition parties resume talks to end standoff
Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties resumed talks Thursday in a bid to end a nearly 10-month political standoff, with the two sides still remaining far apart on how to reform the electoral body which oversees the ballot. Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) lawmaker Kuy Bunroeun, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/talks-05222014142726.html