China donates to encourage Chinese language education at Cambodian schools
The Chinese government on Thursday donated 203,000 U.S.dollars to the Chinese Association in Cambodia to support schools offering Chinese language courses in Cambodia. Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo handed over the money to Duong Chhiv, the president of the Chinese Association in Cambodia. ...
Kong Defang and Liang Jun
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/8601478.html
Seven injured as Opposition leader attempts to enter Freedom Park
Seven people were injured Monday when opposition lawmaker-elect Mu Sochua clashed with security forces outside Freedom Park in the Phnom Penh. Mu Sochua is leading a non-violent campaign by attempting to enter the park in protest of the government’s current ban on public gatherings. ...
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/seven-injured-as-opposition-leader-attempts-to-enter-freedom-park-/1897755.html
Talks between CPP and CNRP remain impossible due to their different positions
Kem Sokha, Vice President of the Cambodian National Rescue Party, hinted about talks with Cambodia People’s Party to find peaceful solution. However, he did not elaborate how to move ahead and what options should be made for the breakthrough. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NmZlZmVmMjA0YWF
Landmines kill 22 people in Cambodia last year, down 49 pct
Landmines had killed 22 people in Cambodia in 2013, down 49 percent compared with 43 deaths in a year earlier, a report of the Cambodian Mine Action Authority showed Tuesday. Besides the deaths, 89 others were injured, down 37 percent from 142 injuries, the report said. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-01/28/c_133080433.htm
CIMB the latest to add local insurer
CIMB Bank, Malaysia’s second-largest, has entered the insurance market via a partnership agreement signed yesterday with Cambodia Life Insurance Company (CLIC). In Meatra, director general of CLIC, said that under the partnership, CIMB had received full access to offer their insurance products to customers. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cimb-latest-add-local-insurer
Sorya bus hullabaloo at an end
A five-month protest aimed at a Phnom Penh bus company came to an end on Thursday when Sorya Transportation Company reinstated three of 17 drivers it fired in April. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/sorya-bus-hullabaloo-end
Lor Peang farmers reject assembly’s land swap
After promising in early September to settle a land dispute between farmers in Kompong Chhnang province and a company owned by the wife of a government minister within a week, the National Assembly’s human rights commission has yet to find common ground between the two ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lor-peang-farmers-reject-assemblys-land-swap-70267/
ICC told: Cambodia land-grabbing is 'crime against humanity'
A British lawyer has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court, writes Kevin Ponniah, alleging that a wave of violent land-grabbing that has displaced 770,000 people has been carried out by Cambodia’s ruling elite, and that it amounts to a crime against humanity. ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/2602209/icc_told_cambodia_landgrabbing_is_crime_against_humanity.html
Cambodian PM to attend 8th CLV Summit in Laos next week
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will lead a high delegation to attend the 8th CLV (Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) Summit on Development Triangle Area slated for Nov. 24 and 25 in Vientiane, the capital city of Laos, a statement from the Cambodian foreign ministry said ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-11/17/c_133795705.htm
Wah Seong inks power deal with Cambodia
Wah Seong Corp Bhd’s indirect subsidiary P.M.T.I Energy (Cambodia) Co. Ltd. has entered into a power purchase agreement with Cambodia’s Baitang (Kampuchea) Plc to sell up to 3.5 megawatt (MW) per hour of any and all electric energy generated and available for sale. ...
The Sun Daily News Staff
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1262066
Forestry officials summoned for meeting over extortion case
Sixteen forestry officials from three provinces were summoned to a meeting in Phnom Penh on Thursday after their names were found on a list of 49 suspected extortionists that police in Kompong Chhnang province seized from a truck that had been transporting illegally logged wood ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/forestry-officials-summoned-for-meeting-over-extortion-case-77405/
Garment-sector raises hit by falling overtime
Garment workers around the country have started picking up paychecks this month that for the first time include the $28 increase the government added to the sector’s previous minimum wage of $100. But with available overtime hours on the wane, enthusiasm for the raise is ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/garment-sector-raises-hit-by-falling-overtime-77666/
Opposition officials demonstrate against Siem Reap party chief
More than 50 CNRP officials seeking the removal of lawmaker Ke Sovannaroth as the party’s head in Siem Reap province carried through with a threat to bring their case to Phnom Penh, demonstrating Monday for two hours outside the opposition’s headquarters in Meanchey district. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-officials-demonstrate-against-siem-reap-party-chief-78929/
Hun Sen muses odds on teacher prize win
Cambodian teacher Neang Phalla stood no chance of winning the Global Teacher Prize when she flew to Dubai earlier this month, Prime Minister Hun Sen reasoned yesterday, as the fact former US President Bill Clinton attended the ceremony signalled the award was going to an ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/hun-sen-muses-odds-teacher-prize-win
S’ville court denies bail to doroshenko
The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court has denied bail to Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko, who was arrested at his family’s restaurant in Sihanoukville last week and jailed on a trio of fraud charges related to a dispute with fugitive developer Sergei Polonsky, the investigating judge said ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sville-court-denies-bail-to-doroshenko-81233/
Bus drivers want ruling respected
Former bus drivers are set to stage a protest today outside Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation Company in the capital’s Daun Penh district, calling on its management to respect an arbitration ruling to reinstate most of them. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bus-drivers-want-ruling-respected
Workers end protest after taking sewing machines
About 200 employees of a Phnom Penh garment factory agreed to go back to work after reaching a deal with the factory Sunday, a day after they walked off the job—with some sewing machines in hand—because the owners could not pay them on time. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/workers-end-protest-after-taking-sewing-machines-66118/
Men confess to killing journalist
The three men arrested for the murder of 49-year-old journalist Taing Try in Kratie province on Sunday morning confessed to murdering the reporter after he threatened to tell authorities about their illegal logging activities, a police official said. ...
Saing Soenthrith and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-recount-killers-confession-in-slaying-of-journalist-69750/
Woman arrested for attempted human trafficking
Police arrested a woman on suspicion of human trafficking in Tbong Khmum province’s Suong City on Monday, after the woman was found with a teenage girl whose parents had raised the alarm with local authorities once she went missing in Ratanakkiri province, officials said Tuesday. ...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/woman-arrested-for-attempted-human-trafficking-71794/
Phnom Penh SEZ plans to list on Stock Exchange
The operator of Cambodia’s largest industrial park, the Phnom Penh SEZ, plans to list on the Cambodian Securities Exchange (CSX) next year in an attempt to raise $15 million to set up another economic zone in Poipet City, according to the company and media reports. ...
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/phnom-penh-sez-plans-to-list-on-stock-exchange-74433/