Cambodia sees 37 percent surge in rice export
Cambodia exported 369,105 tonnes of milled rice in the first nine months of 2015 — a 37 percent rise over the same period last year, according to a report on Wednesday. ...
Business Standard News Staff
http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/cambodia-sees-37-percent-surge-in-rice-export-115093000523_1.html
Reasons differ for the spike in drug busts
Drug cases in Cambodia nearly tripled in the first nine months of 2015 compared to the same period last year, police announced on Friday, though authorities and civil society groups differed on the cause behind the spike.The deputy chief of National Police, Mok Chito, said ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/reasons-differ-spike-drug-busts
A forest disappears in the scramble for land
In the latest twist In a long-runnIng dispute over a protected community forest In Battambang provInce, villagers disgusted by rampant land grabbIng have begun scramblIng for a piece of the action. ...
James Reddick and Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17417/a-forest-disappears-in-the-scramble-for-land/
Mills busy as new rice crop rolls in
Cambodia rice exports saw a small rebound in October, notching up 12 per cent as compared to a year earlier, as harvests from the delayed rainy-season planting began to reach the nation’s rice mills. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mills-busy-new-rice-crop-rolls
The man in the mirror – the Enemy within
Recent politic rhetoric in Cambodia and back-pedaling by some political leaders brings to mind a classic from the late Michael Jackson “Man in the Mirror”. Below, I have inserted one paragraph from his lyrics to put things in perspective before I ramble on the about ...
T. Mohan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17536/the-man-in-the-mirror-----the-enemy-within/
Rainsy urges migrants in Korea to attend events
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Friday urged Cambodians living in South Korea to attend CNRP events being held in Seoul this weekend, despite a warning from the Cambodian ambassador on Thursday that people should stay away. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-urges-migrants-in-korea-to-attend-events-100316/
Hun Sen to join regional summits in Malaysia
Prime Minister Hun Sen will lead a high-level ministerial delegation to Malaysia over the weekend, to attend a number of Asean and Asian regional summits. ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/hun-sen-to-join-regional-summits-in-malaysia/3061814.html
'Room for improvement' in land dispute resolution process
Cambodia continues to lack an effective way to resolve land disputes, which remain a major destroyer of livelihoods for many families, according to a study released by the NGO Forum yesterday.The study examines 26 sample villages in Battambang, Kampong Speu, Pursat and Kampong Chhnang provinces, ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/room-improvement-land-dispute-resolution-process
Rice prices seen gaining ground in Mekong region
A prolonged regional drought is expected to push Thai and Vietnamese rice prices up by 10 to 15 per cent, narrowing the price gap that has kept Cambodian rice exporters from securing major international supply orders, one of the Kingdom’s biggest rice exporters said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-prices-seen-gaining-ground-mekong-region
Voter registration trial praised in spite of setbacks
The Electoral Reform Alliance yesterday held a roundtable discussion to pore over the results of a two-week trial of a new voter registration system. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/voter-registration-trial-praised-spite-setbacks
President confident in ties between Vietnamese, Cambodian legislatures
President Truong Tan Sang has expressed his belief that cooperation between the Vietnamese National Assembly and Cambodian Senate will grow further. ...
Vietnam+ News Staff
http://en.vietnamplus.vn/president-confident-in-ties-between-vietnamese-cambodian-legislatures/86328.vnp
Forum on Chinese TV series held in Cambodia
A forum on Chinese television series kicked off here on Monday, aimed to promote Chinese culture and people-to-people relations between the two countries. “The forum is an important platform to exchange views on cultural cooperation between Cambodia and China,” Cambodian information Minister Khieu Kanharith said ...
Ecns.cn News Staff
http://www.ecns.cn/2015/12-21/193227.shtml
124 candidates vying for top posts in NEC
The National Election Committee (NEC) on Saturday wrapped up its 10-day call for applications for top administrative positions with 124 forms submitted, the agency said in a statement, with one secretary- general and four deputies set to be selected. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/124-candidates-vying-for-top-posts-in-nec-104011/
Cousins die playing with UXO in Kompong Thom
Two children died on Friday afternoon in Kompong Thom province after attempting to open a rocket-propelled grenade they found near their house with an ax, police said on Sunday. ...
Kang Sothear and Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cousins-die-playing-with-uxo-in-k-thom-107689/
Murder suspect of dismembered spaniard arrested in cambodia
A Spanish man who is the prime suspect in the gruesome murder of a fellow Spaniard was arrested in Cambodia, where he is believed to have fled after the victim’s dismembered body was recovered piece by piece from Bangkok’s Chao Phraya River, police said Monday. ...
SOPHENG CHEANG
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/murder-suspect-dismembered-spaniard-arrested-cambodia-36781445
US, ASEAN urged to push rights in Cambodia
Twelve civil society organizations submitted a joint statement asking the US government and heads of democratic ASEAN members to raise issues of human rights violations in Cambodia and the misuse of courts to stifle the opposition at next week’s US-ASEAN Summit in California, in order ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21239/us--asean-urged-to-push-rights-in-cambodia/
Siem Reap tourist traffic dips 9% in 2015
The number of international tourists visiting Siem Reap fell 9 per cent last year compared with 2014, largely on a decline in European visitor arrivals, a tourism official said yesterday. ...
Sor Chandara and Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/siem-reap-tourist-traffic-dips-9-2015
NGOs, military police join forces in logging crackdown
Six prominent conservation groups yesterday vowed to help a military police task force fight illegal logging near the eastern border yesterday. However, scepticism persists that the highly publicised operation, which has resulted in few arrests, is merely for show. ...
Mech Dara and Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-military-police-join-forces-logging-crackdown
Police, NGO search for pedophile in Siem Reap
A task force made up of police and investigators from a child protection organization Thursday began searching in Siem Reap province for wanted Dutch pedophile Pieter Ceulen, according to a member of the team. ...
Buth Kimsay and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/109746-109746/
Fear hinders independent journalism in Cambodia, survey finds
Fear of government interference, legal repercussions and violence remain impediments to free and independent journalism in Cambodia, according to a survey released on Wednesday in a report by the Cambodian Center for independent Media (CCIM). ...
Tej Parikh
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fear-hinders-independent-journalism-in-cambodia-survey-finds-109992/