Sea Clashes Loom Over Southeast Asia Summit
Tiny Cambodia is emerging as a key pawn in the diplomatic struggle over one of the world’s busiest stretches of water: the potentially energy-rich South China Sea. The country of 15 million people is this year hosting a series of regional summits in which China’s claims ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304177104577308972320988892.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Vietnamese President challenges China's Xi over Spratly Islands
Vietnam’s President Truong Tan Sang has publicly rejected sovereignty claims by Chinese President Xi Jinping over disputed islands in the South China Sea. ...
Trung Nguyen
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/vietham-china-spratly-islands/2985477.html
Lower Mekong thirsts for more water
The amount of water that will be released from a Chinese dam until 10 April could be too low to help alleviate drought-stricken South-East Asia. ...
Fatima Arkin
http://www.scidev.net/asia-pacific/water/news/lower-mekong-thirsts-for-more-water.html
Passport pickiness: Nine nations screened at airport: CIA
Travellers from nine South Asian, African and Middle Eastern nations are likely to face increased scrutiny at Phnom Penh’s airport security, according to a new release from Wikileaks. ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/passport-pickiness-nine-nations-screened-airport-cia
KOICA aid program under way
After a kickoff ceremony last Wednesday, a five-year development project in 30 villages, funded and supervised by South Korea’s International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) begins work this week. ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/koica-aid-program-under-way
Police take delivery of new Riot control trucks
The National Police has purchased a pair of armored riot suppression trucks from South Korea that will be used against protesters and in cases of “terrorism,” officials said Monday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-take-delivery-of-new-riot-control-trucks-86886/
Korea opens market to Cambodian mangoes
Mango growers now have access to the South Korean market following an agreement signed on Friday between officials from Korea and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. ...
Sum Mane
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24424/korea-opens-market-to-cambodian-mangoes/
Factory agrees to pay wages to former workers
A South Korean-owned garment factory bowed to union pressure Thursday and agreed to pay its former workers wages they are owed, following a meeting with the Ministry of Labor. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/factory-agrees-to-pay-wages-to-former-workers-87257/
Minister urges graduates to continue studies and be ‘skilful intellectuals’
Minister of Education, Youth and Sport Hang Chuon Naron on Thursday encouraged recent graduates to continue their studies and become “skilful intellectuals”. The minister’s remarks were made during the Limkokwing University graduation ceremony in Phnom Penh’s Tonle Bassac commune. ...
Drug factory found by students
Members of the Environment and Natural Resources Student Network, which is made up of students from six universities, found a factory processing an indigenous vine believed to be used in the production of narcotics in Koh Kong province last week. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32304/drug-factory-found-by-students/
Cambodian mangoes could soon roll to Seoul
The Ministry of Agriculture signed a memorandum of understanding with South Korea yesterday to export Cambodian mangoes and expand its short list of export destinations, a ministry official said. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodian-mangoes-could-soon-roll-seoul
Workers at abandoned factory seek back wages
More than 400 workers at the South Korean-owned Dae Kwang Garment factory protested at the Canadia Industrial Park yesterday demanding unpaid salaries after the factory’s owner disappeared. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-abandoned-factory-seek-back-wages
Angkor confirms 108 mts of 0.53% copper equivalent at Andong Bor, Cambodia
Angkor Resources Corp. has announced Cambodia, assays from its newest copper/gold license in western Cambodia, confirming a copper-gold porphyry system on the Thmei North prospect with similar results on Thmei South prospect. The license is due west of Ratanakiri province and straddles two provinces, Oddar ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501202837/angkor-confirms-108-mts-of-0-53-copper-equivalent-at-andong-bor-cambodia/
Acleda Eyes Expansion Into Burma
Cambodia’s largest bank, Acleda, is looking to get in early on Burma’s economic reawakening with plans to open three microfinance branches in the country as soon as January, the bank’s CEO said yesterday. In Channy said he discussed the plan on Monday with a visiting Burmese ...
China dominates construction
China is the top-ranking foreign investor in the construction and property sectors in Cambodia, with South Korea and Japan coming second and third, according to a new government report. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29552/china-dominates-construction/
Education official Kry Seang Long still on payroll, colleagues say
Disgraced Education Ministry official Kry Seang Long—who was arrested for sexually assaulting his interpreter in South Korea in May—is still employed at the ministry, officials said this week. ...
Kuch Naren and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/disgraced-education-official-still-on-payroll-colleagues-say-115051/
Critics: Cambodia's new Korea envoy has ‘no experience’
A direct phone call from Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen alerted Phnom Penh city hall deputy Long Dimanche to his new role as the country’s envoy to South Korea. ...
Pin Silvan
http://www.voanews.com/content/critics-cambodia-new-korea-envoy-has-no-experience/3294172.html
Copper found at Angkor Gold mining site in Ratanakkiri
Canadian mining firm Angkor Gold Corp has discovered a new copper system during exploratory drilling of its Oyadao South licence in Ratanakkiri province, the company said in a press release. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/copper-found-angkor-gold-mining-site-ratanakkiri
Chinese navy hails Cambodian support
A deputy commander in the Chinese navy has praised Cambodia for supporting Beijing’s negotiations on issues in the South China Sea and the One-China stance on world affairs. ...
Khmer Times
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5084271/chinese-navy-hails-cambodian-support/
First refugees from Nauru to arrive Thursday
The first four asylum seekers moving to Cambodia from the South Pacific island of Nauru will arrive Thursday, part of a controversial resettlement deal with Australia. ...
Neou Vannarin and Phorn Bopha
http://bit.ly/1G7vDhd