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
CNRP ‘focused, quiet’
With members still languishing in jail and under fresh attack via a now two-week-old infidelity scandal, the Cambodia National Rescue Party emerged from a two-day meeting in Manila yesterday to announce it will not be hitting back, instead opting to focus on the upcoming elections. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-focused-quiet
Cambodia's economic status raised to lower-middle income
The World Bank has officially revised the status of Cambodia’s economy, moving it up a rung from the low-income bracket into lower-middle income territory – a reclassification that economists expect will lead to a scale-back of foreign aid and preferential trade access over the coming ...
Cam McGrath and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodias-economic-status-raised-lower-middle-income
CNRP sets sights on changes in assembly
The Cambodia National Rescue Party proposed a bold set of regulations for the National Assembly in an interparty meeting yesterday, calling for, among other things, a larger share of the body’s budget, and minority party control over the assembly’s purse strings, an opposition working group ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-sets-sights-changes-assembly
Preah Vihear temple restoration work delayed
Restoration of the most prominent and photographed gate at Preah Vihear temple has been delayed by the need for further study by the Indian team that has signed up for the work, the head of the Cambodian body that oversees the 12th century sanctuary said ...
Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/preah-vihear-temple-restoration-work-delayed-110295/
Railway families still smarting after 2 years
Efforts by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to restore the living standards of families evicted by its railway rehabilitation project continue to fall far short of expectations, and urgent action is needed if the bank is to comply with its own safeguard policies, according to ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/railway-families-still-smarting-2-years-116519/
Domestic tourists push up Siem Reap visitor count
Tourist visits to Siem Reap province increased slightly during the first half of the year as foreign tourists lined up to see the country’s pre-eminent tourism attraction, Angkor Wat, and Cambodians from across the country flocked to the province for a major national festival in ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/domestic-tourists-push-siem-reap-visitor-count
New US Ambassador in Cambodia
William Heidt will soon become a new US Ambassador in Cambodia, following the departure of William Todd. Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan said the new US ambassador would strengthen the “good relations and cooperation” between the two countries. ...
Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/new-us-ambassador-in-cambodia/2966099.html
Cambodian villagers demand compensation for expected impact of China-backed dam
Villagers in northern Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province on Tuesday urged the government to suspend construction of a Chinese-backed dam until they are promised compensation for flooding they say will inundate area communities, forests and farmland if the project is allowed to proceed. ...
Hang Savyouth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/compensation-10202015164331.html
Delegates ‘concerned’ about climate treaty
Cambodia’s government and civil society yesterday expressed worry over the lack of progress on finalising the draft text for an international climate change treaty set to be adopted at UN climate talks in Paris (COP 21) after the final round of negotiations concluded in Bonn, ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/delegates-concerned-about-climate-treaty
Rubber association to appeal for suspension of export tax
The Association for Rubber Development in Cambodia will submit a letter to the government asking it to suspend export taxes on rubber due to the sharp decline in its price and to prevent more farmers from going out of business, its secretary general, Men Sopheak, ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21034/rubber-association-to-appeal-for-suspension-of-export-tax/
Vietnam, Cambodia both violating border
After four months of study, Sok Touch, the head of a research group from the Royal Academy, announced yesterday that both Cambodia and Vietnam are in violation of each other’s borderlines, but was hesitant to release his team’s exact findings to protect the government from ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21053/---vietnam--cambodia-both-violating-border---/
Hydro standards ‘below par’, study finds
Chinese money accounts for the overwhelming majority of investment in Cambodia’s anaemic energy sector, but while the government has been happy to take Beijing’s loans for the construction of hydroelectric plants, a study published last month found that such investment came with both ecological and ...
Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hydro-standards-below-par-study-finds
Cambodia to bid for Philippines rice contract, for show
Cambodia does not expect to win the contract to supply half million tons of rice to the Philippines during the bidding process that will take place in the upcoming months, citing high production costs as the major constraint in competing with neighboring Vietnam and Thailand, ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23965/cambodia-to-bid-for-philippines-rice-contract--for-show/
CNRP leader diversifies social media playbook
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has waded into the Twittersphere, using his first tweet to congratulate US President-elect Donald Trump on his victory, and later calling on the few Cambodians who use the site to register to vote in next year’s commune elections. ...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-leader-diversifies-social-media-playbook
Forest protection saves village
The story of the Oum Saom forestry community in Kampong Thom province is one that has been told in various forms hundreds of times in Cambodia: local residents locked in a seemingly never-ending battle against a company aiming to cut down their local forest and ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32690/forest-protection-saves-village/
Parties fail legality tests
An Interior Ministry report said yesterday that 45 political parties had registered with the government so far, but 12 did not fulfill the requirements stipulated by the ministry – which include submitting annual activity reports as well as financial documents – and were being sued ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35717/parties-fail-legality-tests/
Beer tops advertising budgets
Beer advertising is one of the fastest growing advertising segments in the Kingdom, though just as people often struggle to keep track of how many beers they have put away, the amount that local breweries and distributors actually spend on media placements is subject to ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/beer-tops-advertising-budgets
Complaint in Koh Kong over destroyed crops
Some 100 villagers in Koh Kong province’s Thma Bang district removed warning posts put up by environmental rangers and a conservation NGO around land that had been allegedly cleared by the residents since 2013 for farming, filing a complaint against the NGO for allegedly destroying ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/complaint-koh-kong-over-destroyed-crops
Hun Sen promises weekly garment factory visits
Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Friday that he will make weekly visits to garment factories across the country to better understand the demands and needs of workers, in what some observers said could be an attempt to appeal to potential voters before next July’s ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-promises-weekly-garment-factory-visits