Key CHRAC donor suspends funding
A key donor to the Cambodian Human Rights Action Coalition (CHRAC) has suspended its funding, citing operational concerns even as other revenue sources are seemingly drying up for the organisation. ...
Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/key-chrac-donor-suspends-funding
Vattanac launches internet banking
Following the recent trend in Cambodian banks starting online banking services for their customers, Vattanac Bank announced last week that it was also now offering the service. ធនាគារវឌ្ឍនៈសម្ភោធកម្មវិធីសេវាធនាគារតាមអ៊ិនធឺណែត ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31472/vattanac-launches-internet-banking/
Temporary means to be constructed when Chroy Changvar bridge is under rehabilitation
Phnom Penh capital hall has planned to construct a temporary steel bridge crossing the Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh to address traffic issue when the Cambodian-Japanese Friendship Bridge is under rehabilitation. ...
Mom Chandara Soleil
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=108244
Voter registration slow: NEC
The National Election Committee yesterday said voter registration was progressing slower than expected, largely due to migrant workers not registering – an issue that advocates have urged The electoral body to remedy for months. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/voter-registration-slow-nec
Sesan locals win right to stay
Local authorities have agreed to allow the last families refusing to relocate from their homes near the Lower Sesan II dam to establish a new village on their community forest and ancestral lands. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5094169/sesan-locals-win-right-stay/
Families alerted as large US bomb found
About 100 families are to be evacuated from their village in Prey Veng province while authorities remove a big bomb dropped by the American air force during the Vietnam War. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35020/families-alerted-as-large-us-bomb-found/
Electricity access is growing, but divide persists
Cambodia has been quickly turning on the lights for more households, but access to electricity remains significantly lower in rural areas than in cities, according to a new report from the World Bank. ...
Matt Surrusco
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/electricity-access-is-growing-but-divide-persists-127606/
Political parties can distribute leaflets inside markets, NEC says
The National Election Committee (NEC), in an effort to avoid complaints that dogged past elections, has issued specific rules allowing political parties to distribute leaflets inside markets during The commune election campaign period. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/political-parties-can-distribute-leaflets-inside-markets-nec-says-130262/
Lake protestors take ‘homes’ to City Hall
Nearly 100 Boeung Kak lake villagers took to city hall yesterday carrying mattresses, umbrellas and food to protest what they called government inaction on the long-standing land dispute over their eviction from the lake. ...
Lightning strikes kill 100 people in Cambodia in 9 months
Lightning strikes have killed at least 100 people in Cambodia in the first nine months this year, down 3 percent from 103 deaths in the same period last year, a disaster control official said Tuesday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-10/08/c_132779811.htm
Cambodian opposition barred from park in capital
Cambodia (AP) Cambodian authorities say they won’t permit the opposition to hold a gathering this Sunday at a park in the capital, retaining a ban on demonstrations imposed three months ago after political violence. ...
New Zealand Herald News Staff
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11227821
Sokimex closes down hotel on Norodom Boulevard
The Sokha Hotel on Norodom Boulevard in Phnom Penh has closed down and will be converted into office space for The hotel’s parent company, local conglomerate Sokimex, Sokimex CEO Sok Kong said Friday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sokimex-closes-down-hotel-on-norodom-boulevard-76347/
Police official denies involvement in trucker beating
The only police officer recognized by a trucker who was allegedly beaten by police and military police along with his assistant last week in Prey Veng province denied Wednesday he was involved in The attack. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-official-denies-involvement-in-trucker-beating-80743/
Funcinpec leaders visit china communist party benefactors
Funcinpec leader Prince Norodom Ranariddh and second vice president Nhiek Bun Chhay left for China on Sunday to meet with officials from the Chinese Communist Party, the Cambodian royalist party’s longtime benefactor and supporter. ...
Alex Willemyns and Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/funcinpec-leaders-visit-china-communist-party-benefactors-82142/
UN expert urges senate to reject NGO law
U.N. human rights expert Maina Kiai on Thursday urged Cambodia’s Senate not to pass a controversial NGO law that the National Assembly approved this week, warning that the legislation could have “disastrous” effects. ...
Kuch Naren and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-expert-urges-senate-to-reject-ngo-law-88701/
Land rights protesters arrested
Six activists from Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila and Boeung Kak communities were arrested on Saturday morning while handing out leaflets denouncing the controversial NGO law, passed by the National Assembly last week. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-rights-protesters-arrested
New asylum seekers in Phnom Penh
Just days after a dozen Montagnard asylum seekers returned to Vietnam having given up on being granted refugee status, 11 more arrived in Phnom Penh over the weekend, according to the United Nations. ...
May Titthara and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-asylum-seekers-phnom-penh
Border talks with King
King Norodom Sihamoni may soon intervene in the ongoing dispute over border issues between the government and opposition by calling their leaders to a meeting, according to former prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/border-talks-king
Border issue ‘big’ because no other problems
Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong said Sunday that the opposition CNRP has only been enjoying so much success in its recent campaign against Vietnamese incursions into Cambodia because no other problems exist in the country. ...
Aun Chhengpor
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/border-issue-big-because-no-other-problems-92923/
Cambodia and China pledge to enhance bilateral friendship to a much higher level
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has reaffirmed the Kingdom’s commitment to enhance more cooperation, especially the iron-clad friendship with China. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50933962/cambodia-and-china-pledge-to-enhance-bilateral-friendship-to-a-much-higher-level/