Money laundering fight stepped up
The Anti-Corruption Unit is to launch a 15-month campaign against money laundering to keep Cambodia off an international blacklist. The ACU held a workshop yesterday on ways to fight money laundering with 48 of its own officials, along with police and court officials. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5087807/money-laundering-fight-stepped/
Pheapimex ties ‘cause for concern’
Alex Corporation, the firm behind a proposal for an ambitious Mondulkiri mining project, appears to be ultimately owned by ruling party Senator Lao Meng Khin and his wife, Choeung Sopheap, the Post has discovered, a scenario rights groups say should give cause for concern. ...
Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pheapimex-ties-cause-concern
MFI credit firm to push deeper into Cambodia
Micro-Credit Ratings International Ltd (M-CRIL), an Indian provider of rating and advisory services to the microfinance industry, has secured a $1.5 million equity investment agreement from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to push into emerging markets including Cambodia, the ADB said in an announcement last ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mfi-credit-firm-push-deeper-cambodia
Troubled road project along Cambodia-Laos border rolls on
Work by military engineers on a contentious road skirting Cambodia’s border with Laos – which has prompted a military stand-off in the area – has quietly resumed, local officials say, even as run-ins between Cambodian and Lao military patrols in the disputed area have further ...
Shaun Turton and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/troubled-road-project-along-cambodia-laos-border-rolls
Kem Ley lives on for Grassroots Democracy Party in elections
After Grassroots Democracy Party (GDP) candidates for the upcoming commune elections took their seats inside the leafy grounds of the party headquarters in Phnom Penh for a pre-election congress on Thursday, they rose to their feet and bowed their heads in remembrance of their founding ...
George Wright and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kem-ley-lives-grassroots-democracy-party-elections-130233/
CPP plans to reallocate legislative, local council seats get assembly nod
With the fate of the CNRP still in the Supreme Court’s hands, the National Assembly yesterday paved the way for all of the main opposition party’s seats to be handed over to a smattering of smaller parties and, at the local level, to the ruling ...
Mech Dara and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-plans-reallocate-legislative-local-council-seats-get-assembly-nod
Bird flu detected in Prey Veng
A moratorium on the movement of chickens, dead or alive, has been put into effect in a commune of Prey Veng’s Ba Phnom district after a chicken sample tested positive for A1H5N1 bird flu, the provincial Department of Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries said today. ...
Kuoch Masy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bird-flu-detected-prey-veng
Drive to register wraps for NEC
An official from the National Election Committee said yesterday the body was pleased to have registered more than 80 percent of Cambodia’s estimated 9.6 million eligible voters over the past three months, blaming overzealous estimates of available eligible voters, deaths and the weather for coming ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drive-register-wraps-nec
CNRP, Observers put election ink to test
Representatives from the E.U., CNRP and civil society organizations put newly delivered election ink to the test on Wednesday, a week after a spokesman for the country’s top election body warned that a sample batch of the ink could be washed off using a hair ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/129896-129896/
New NEC members insist they are neutral
Nuth Sokhom, former Funcinpec lawmaker; Hel Sarat, formerly of the Cambodian Nationality Party; and Dim Sovannarom, former deputy director of the government’s human rights body, were all confirmed to the NEC, replacing three CNRP-nominated members who resigned in protest of the party’s dissolution in November. ...
Ben Sokhean and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/new-nec-members-insist-they-are-neutral
Hun Manet talks colour revolution
Senior military official and son of the prime minister Hun Manet yesterday joined his father in using an event to commemorate the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge as an opportunity to voice authorities’ commitment to thwarting any attempts to topple the current government through a ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-manet-talks-colour-revolution
CPP spokesman touts one-party rule, points to China’s example
Fresh off a clean sweep in the Senate elections on Sunday, a ruling party spokesman and newly elected senator yesterday espoused the benefits of one-party rule in Cambodia, pointing to the example of chief patron China while glossing over longstanding concerns about the superpower’s human ...
Ben Sokhean and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/cpp-spokesman-touts-one-party-rule-points-chinas-example
Migrants stuffed into two homes
More than 100 Cambodian migrant workers were discovered in rented houses this week near Rong Kleu market in Thailand’s Sakaeo province, officials said yesterday. Banteay Meanchey provincial spokesman Ouk Keo Ratanak said Thai authorites found the workers on Wednesday crammed into two houses, and sent them ...
Opposition maintains call for reform of National Election Committee
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy told supporters on Tuesday that his Cambodia National Rescue Party is sticking to demands that the National Election Committee be reformed. But he did appear to back away from a previous demand that would have the NEC voted on and approved in ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/opposition-maintains-call-for-reform-of-national-election-committee-/1888820.html
Youth told demo can’t be on street
A youth demonstration planned for Sunday has been downgraded to a press conference after the government refused to lift its ban on public assemblies. Five hundred youth intended to deliver petitions calling for an amended election law that would allow for the direct election of district, ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/youth-told-demo-can%E2%80%99t-be-street
Opposition Maintains Call for Reform of National Election Committee
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy told supporters on Tuesday that his Cambodia National Rescue Party is sticking to demands that the National Election Committee be reformed. But he did appear to back away from a previous demand that would have the NEC voted on and approved in ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/opposition-maintains-call-for-reform-of-national-election-committee-/1888820.html
Right activist says freedom of assembly is hostage of politicians
Ny Chakriya, senior official from human rights group ADHOC, said that freedom of assembly is hostage in hand of politicians. When they get along well with each other, the freedom of expression and assembly is widely opened. Chakriya said Thursday during a ceremony held to announce ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=Yzk2YmFjMmYyNDk
Evictees sign payout deal they can’t read
Some of the families in a protracted land dispute with a pair of Thai-owned sugar plantations in Koh Kong province say they were pressured over the weekend into signing compensation deals with the firms they could not read, because they were written in Thai, and ...
Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/evictees-sign-payout-deal-they-cant-read-without-lawyers-70997/
Kem Sokha was unhappy with July 22 political deal
CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha said in a speech in the U.S. last week that he was unhappy with the opposition party’s decision to end its boycott of the National Assembly last year but was prepared to “swallow gravel and rocks” to maintain unity with ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kem-sokha-was-unhappy-with-july-22-political-deal-79855/
Labour day: Unions, CPP promote factory ties
About 3,000 union representatives, teachers and senior officials from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party gathered at a ceremony on Koh Pich yesterday to mark the 129th International Labour Day – as well as to bolster support for the ruling party, one official noted. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://bit.ly/1P3pXHC