Cambodian legislature strips detained opposition senator of immunity
Cambodia’s legislature voted to strip an opposition senator in police custody of his immunity Monday, prompting criticism from rights groups, after Prime Minister Hun Sen accused him of treason for posting a disputed diplomatic document online relating to the country’s border with neighboring Vietnam. ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/immunity-08172015150909.html
Condo sales up but glut looms
Some 13,730 condominium units were sold in Phnom Penh in the first half of this year compared to 13,050 units in the same period last year representing an approximate five percent increase in sales, according to figures from a real estate company. However, insiders believe ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27004/condo-sales-up-but-glut-looms/
Road blocked as strike escalates
Thousands of workers from factories owned by Tai Yang Enterprise in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district blocked National Road 4 for more than seven hours yesterday to push the company to meet their demands. May Sopheaktra said workers decided to block the road after the companytried ...
Fishing disputes turning deadlier
Vietnam has accused Thailand of violating international law after the shooting of four Vietnamese fishermen, one of whom was killed, by Thai maritime police in the Gulf of Thailand. ...
Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16103/fishing-disputes-turning-deadlier/
Families claim intimidation in land dispute
Twelve families locked in a land dispute in Kampot province blocked a construction company on Wednesday from dumping earth onto fields they maintain are theirs, villagers and a rights worker said Thursday. The villagers say the company began encroaching on their land in 2011, when they ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-claim-intimidation-in-land-dispute-60595/
Mondulkiri gets new protected communities
The Ministry of Environment has recognised nine new natural protected communities in Mondulkiri province. The purpose of these communities is to ensure the stability of local ecosystems and the protection of the natural habitat in the region. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5093479/mondulkiri-gets-new-protected-communities/
Six montagnards seek refugee status in Cambodian capital
Six ethnic Montagnard Christians who fled Vietnam and illegally entered Cambodia to seek refugee status have arrived safely in the capital Phnom Penh, an official from a local human rights group said Monday. ...
Ratha Visal
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/six-montagnards-seek-refugee-status-in-cambodian-capital-07202015144307.html
Strengthening the implementation of measures to prevent transmission of Covid-19 (including new Covid-19 virus variant)
On 28 June 2021, the Ministry of Health issued a press release on strengthening the implementation of measures to prevent the transmission of Covid-19 (including new Covid-19 virus variant), especially individuals needed to participate properly, consistently, and thoroughly.The Ministry of Health has detected several cases ...
Ministry of Health
Smuggled turtles discovered in Kampong Chhnang province
A driver’s assistant has been arrested for smuggling 18 turtles hidden in mattress covers in a truck from Thailand on Saturday in Kampong Chhnang’s Toul Kralanh village, according To officials. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23814/smuggled-turtles-discovered-in-kampong-chhnang-province/
Thais keep eyeing Cambodia
The Thailand government will consider tapping into 50 emerging cities, including those in Cambodia, for investment opportunities based on information provided by Japan External Trade Organization (Jetro), according to the Bangkok Post. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27095/thais-keep-eyeing-cambodia/
Four maids rescued from Malaysia
Four Cambodian maids have been rescued from Malaysia after being detained by Malaysian authorities in Balantik camp in Kedah state for crossing the border illegally, according to the Ministry of foreign Affairs. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22077/four-maids-rescued-from-malaysia/
Cambodia calls EU trade threat 'extreme injustice'
Cambodia’s foreign ministry on Thursday said a decision by the European Union to ramp up trade pressure on the country over human rights concerns was an “extreme injustice”, adding it risked destroying decades of development in the country. ...
Tonle bassac dredging necessary, say officials
In order to aid waterway transport, sand-dredging – largely banned since a 2011 decree – will soon begin reappearing at dozens of locations along the tonle Bassac river, a spokesman from the Ministry of Mines and Energy confirmed yesterday. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tonle-bassac-dredging-necessary-say-officials
Remains hostage in spat with US
Prime Minister Hun Sen hit back yesterday in response to United States visa sanctions by saying Cambodia would no longer assist in finding and repatriating the remains of American soldiers who lost their lives during the Vietnam War. ...
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แแถแแแถ แแทแ Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/remains-hostage-spat-us
CNRP lawmaker accuses police of stopping border post trip
CNRP lawmaker Mao Monyvann on Wednesday said his delegation of opposition lawmakers and party supporters was once again thwarted in their efforts to visit a disputed border post along Cambodia’s contentious frontier with Vietnam, this time by Cambodian police. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmaker-accuses-police-of-stopping-border-post-trip-85360/
Cambodia's ruling party lawmakers say opposition staging coup against Hun Sen gov't
Cambodia’s ruling party lawmakers said the opposition’s calls for Prime Minister Hun Sen’s resignation and a re-vote are a “clear and undeniable act of coup” against the current legitimate government, according to a statement released to the media on Monday. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-12/23/c_132989140.htm
Private firms plan CSX IPOs
A logistics firm and two garment manufacturers planned to list on the Cambodia Securities Exchange during the second half of 2012, underwriter Phnom Penh Securities said yesterday. The companies are the first known private businesses to confirm their intentions of listing on the Kingdom’s still-dormant bourse. Manufacturing ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011110352509/Business/private-firms-plan-csx-ipos.html
Cambodia Joins Stocks Party
Cambodia tapped into the growing global interest in Southeast Asia with the start of trading in the sole stock at its gleaming new stock exchange on Wednesday. Ordinary Cambodians and local businesses scrambled to buy into the country’s first initial public offering—of shares in a local ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304331204577351551608365784.html
Sesan locals set up โillegalโ village
Families living in a commune flooded by the Lower Sesan II dam have set up a new village on their community forest without the permission of local authorities. Residents of Sre Ko commune were offered new homes in a different area and compensation to leave ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5090324/sesan-locals-set-illegal-village/
National Audit Authority moves after land swap
The National Audit Authority (NAA), located on prime real estate on Phnom Penh’s Street 240, is in the midst of moving to a new location in Sen Sok district after a property swap with a company owned by a military general, according to officials at ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/national-audit-authority-moves-after-land-swap-67586/