Cambodian opposition seeks top-level meeting as reform talks flounder
The main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) has suspended its participation in election reform talks with the ruling party at the senior officials level, calling instead for a meeting between opposition chief Sam Rainsy and Prime Minister Hun Sen to break an eight-month stalemate. The ...
Rachel Vandenbrink
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/cnrp-cpp-03242014190700.html
Democratization in Cambodia in retreat following violent 2013
Democracy is in retreat since July’s national election as the ruling CPP has increasingly used armed forces to protect its grip on power and stubbornly refused to reform state institutions, the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) said in a new report ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/democratization-in-cambodia-in-retreat-following-violent-2013-56145/
Change airport plans: villagers
Familes living near Phnom Penh’s airport yesterday again called on civil aviation officials to drop an expansion plan that would cut into their property. Following a press conference in Por Sen Chey district’s Choam Chao commune, community leader Kao Sovann said members of 63 families will ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/change-airport-plans-villagers
As Oz proposal nears, opposition mounting
Opposition to Australia’s proposal to send refugees to Cambodia is growing, with the Australian Greens’ immigration spokeswoman yesterday saying the party would try to block it in the Senate. Sarah Hanson-Young told The Sydney Morning Herald that Cambodia would be “a fundamentally unacceptable place for Australia to dump ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/oz-proposal-nears-opposition-mounting
Cambodian deputy PM urges opposition to join parliament
Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said Friday that the country’s main opposition party should join the National Assembly if it really wants to debate on an electoral reform or a re-election. The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), led by longtime opposition ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-01/31/c_133086875.htm
Sam Rainsy to write a letter to Hun Sen
Sam Rainsy is preparing a letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen to seek negotiation between the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), an opposition official told The Cambodia Herald on Wednesday. The political deadlock in Cambodia has been lasting for ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NzExZmM1MTNiNWU
Sokha Hotel expected to open by september
The $100 million Sokha Hotel and Residence on Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva peninsula will be ready to receive its first guest by September, and recruitment is under way for more than 1,000 employees, the hotel’s owner said Monday. “We plan to open in September as a ...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/sokha-hotel-expected-to-open-by-september-63481/
One missing, four injured after shooting at thai border
Thai soldiers shot and seriously injured at least four illegal loggers who crossed into Thailand from Oddar Meanchey province’s Trapaing Prasat district last week, a rights worker said Sunday. A group of about 10 loggers were searching for luxury rosewood across the border in Thailand’s Sisaket ...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/one-missing-four-injured-after-shooting-at-thai-border-69654/
Japan bank to join hands with Cambodia
Japanese regional bank Shiga Bank said that it will join hands with major Cambodian bank Canadia Bank Plc by the end of the month to gain access to economic information in the Southeast Asian country to provide to Japanese companies. It will be the first partnership ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/news/446702/japan-bank-to-form-tie-up-with-cambodia-bank
Police block villagers’ march to Hun Sen’s house
About 100 villagers locked in a land dispute with an agribusiness firm from Kratie province were blocked from marching to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house Tuesday by hundreds of military police and municipal security guards after walking from Phnom Penh’s Samakki Raingsey pagoda. The villagers, who ...
Aun Pheap and George Wright
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-block-villagers-march-to-hun-sens-house-65804/
Shangdong Air expands to Cambodia
China’s Shandong Airlines is planning to launch direct flights between Shandong province and Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodia’s State Secretariat for Civil Aviation spokesman, Sin Chansereyvutha, told local media that the flights are pending approval from the SSCA. If approval is granted in time, the airline will link ...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/09/shangdong-air-expands-to-cambodia/
Workers storm factory, attack managers
Thousands of unionists protesting their dismissal clashed with managers at a footwear factory in Kompong Cham province Monday morning, leaving at least two Taiwanese supervisors with head injuries. About 2,000 workers—who were fired from the Juhui footwear factory in Choeung Prey district last month over demonstrations ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/workers-storm-factory-attack-managers-69209/
Strong criticism, as lawmakers discuss draft election reforms
The ruling party and opposition on Monday held a workshop to discuss two draft laws on election reform, but many civil society groups refused to attend, claiming parts of the bills fall short and are unconstitutional. Koul Panha, executive director for Comfrel, told VOA Khmer on Monday that more ...
Neou Vannarin
http://bit.ly/1NIoIxy
Rainsy lauds late Chea Sim
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy yesterday praised former ruling party president Chea Sim, who died on Monday, calling him a national hero and comparing his patriotic ideals to those of the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk. Speaking to reporters after paying his respects at the former Senate ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-lauds-late-chea-sim
Coke betting big on Cambodia
Coca-Cola held the ground-breaking ceremony for its new $100 million production facility at the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone yesterday, which when completed in 2016 will double the beverage behemoth’s Cambodian output over the next six years.The new facility, which was announced last November after ...
Ayanna Runcie and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/coke-betting-big-cambodia
Investment on ‘waste to energy’ boosted
Investment on converting waste to energy in Cambodia has been boosted as part of urban garbage management in what officials said would help to keep the country clean and generate power for the grid. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50679839/investment-on-waste-to-energy-boosted
Public bidding for mining licences starts
The Ministry of Mines and Energy announced public bidding for mine exploration, calling on local and foreign companies to apply. The move is made as the first commercial gold mine extraction is scheduled this year. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50679846/public-bidding-for-mining-licences-starts
Cambodia plans to export rice to Kuwait
Cambodia plans to export milled rice to Kuwait, according to senior officials at the Ministry of Commerce, in what was described as market diversification. The ministry announced the purchase agreement has been scheduled for signing next month. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50688095/cambodia-plans-to-export-rice-to-kuwait
District where WASH project implemented by NGOs
![district_where_wash_implemented_by_ngos_2018](https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/district_where_wash_implemented_by_ngos_2018-150x150.jpeg)
This dataset shows the 3W (who, what, where) of the NGOs such as Action Against Hunger, World Vision, Caritas, and Oxfam which are working to support the WASH sector in Cambodia. ...
GMAC: Pulling rug from under workers’ feet not way to proceed
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has expressed disappointment at the European Commission’s (EC’s) recent decision to suspended one-fifth of the Everything But Arms (EBA) scheme awarded to Cambodia. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/gmac-pulling-rug-under-workers-feet-not-way-proceed