Gov’t bans alcohol ads to reduce traffic deaths
Television and radio stations will be barred from broadcasting advertisements for alcohol during the primetime 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. slot beginning next month, as part of the government’s effort to reduce the number of fatalities resulting from drunk driving, officials at the Ministry of ...
PM calls out US again for bombs
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday used a speaking slot at a children’s rights conference to once again castigate the United States, urging the UN to “increase its volume” in condemning the US for dropping bombs that maimed and killed children. ...
Touch Sokha and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-calls-out-us-again-bombs
CNRP’s wish list for NEC narrows
The opposition is eyeing two leading civil society figures and deputy party leader Kem Sokha’s daughter to fill the three remaining slots the party holds on the nine-member National Election Committee, according to a high-level party source. Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker-elect Kuoy Bunroeun has already ...
Meas Sokchea, Kevin Ponniah and David Boyle
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp%E2%80%99s-wish-list-nec-narrows
Wife of Pailin Governor Reaps Benefits From Casino Deal
Venturing into Cambodia’s casino market in May 2011, Macau-backed gambling firm Entertainment Gaming Asia (EGA) promised tens of thousands of dollars to the wife of Pailin’s provincial governor in order to lease land for the construction of a new casino, documents filed with the U.S. ...
Simon Lewis and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/wife-of-pailin-governor-reaps-benefits-from-casino-deal-40660/
Troubling contrasts in ASEAN
Some of these ASEAN economies are not like the others. Singapore is 80 times richer than Myanmar and its population lives 20 years longer than Cambodia’s, while Myanmar ranks 50 places behind Cambodia in terms of global competitiveness, according to a wide-ranging analysis from the World ...
Joe Freeman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/troubling-contrasts-asean
Hunger Reduced, Malnourishment Next Issue
Cambodia has reached its millennium development goal of reducing by half the number of people who suffer from hunger, but more needs to be done to make sure that the population now receives the right nutrients, officials said on World Food Day Wednesday. Making the announcement ...
Denise Hruby and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hunger-reduced-malnourishment-next-issue-45363/
Two Years In, Kampot Casino Downsizes
The Ha Tien Vegas Entertainment Resort and casino in Kampot Province along the Vietnamese border announced yesterday that it has sacked 500 employees and shut down its 130-room resort less than two years after it became the first casino to open in the province. The company said ...
Cambodia low on energy ranking
Low electrification rates and over-dependence on fossil fuel imports have contributed to Cambodia’s abysmally low ranking in the new World Economic Forum’s Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report for 2014. Cambodia ranked 120 out of 124 nations, with a so-called Energy Architecture Performance Index (EAPI) score ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-low-energy-ranking
Casinos flush with locals
At 7am, the border crossing from Vietnam to Svay Rieng’s Bavet town is already buzzing with the activity of foreign gamblers arriving for a day at the casinos along National Highway 1. But throughout the day, a steady trickle of Cambodian players make their way ...
Insurance claims through the roof
Partly triggered by recent flood damage and an increase in road accidents, claims filed with the six general insurance companies in Cambodia spiked more than 160 per cent in the nine months through to September compared with the same time last year, the latest data ...
Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/insurance-claims-through-roof
TVK director resigns, apparently in response to gov’t criticism
Kem Gunawadh, the long-serving director-general of TVK who helped set up the state broadcaster in 1983, resigned abruptly on Saturday in what his successor said was a reaction to government criticism over his decision not to broadcast live that morning’s annual Royal Plowing Ceremony. The resignation ...
Phann Ana and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tvk-director-resigns-apparently-in-response-to-govt-criticism-58980/
Wagering on warm fronts
A busty woman with a scratchy voice shrieks into an intricate set up of radios, microphones and walkie-talkies, her tone not unlike that of a breathless Flemington race-caller. The woman is in continuous contact with up to 100 men peppered over rice fields fringing Battambang, analyzing the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/7days/1848-wagering-on-warm-fronts
Gaming outfit reports loss
Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc (EGA), a NASDAQ-listed company that supplies NagaWorld Casino with slot machines and operates casinos in Poipet town and Pailin province, reported a net loss of $385,000 from continuing operations in the second quarter of 2013, according to a statement from the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gaming-outfit-reports-loss
Media-Savvy Monks to Launch Weekly Radio Show
As Buddhist monks across the country don saffron robes and leave pagodas in search of donations to fill alms bowls each morning, seven monks based in Dangkao district on the dusty outskirts of Phnom Penh are thinking only of feeding the country’s growing appetite for ...
Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/media-savvy-monks-to-launch-weekly-radio-show-51192/
Don’t bet on elections
The house always wins, except when there’s a disputed election scaring gamblers away from the tables. That’s the message from Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc, which operates casinos in Poipet town and Pailin province as well as supplying NagaWorld casino with slot machines. According to the company, Cambodia’s ...
Daniel de Carteret and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/don%E2%80%99t-bet-elections
CNRP Pray-In Gets Backing From Opposition Supporters
Opposition supporters have had varying reactions to the CNRP’s announcement Monday that a mass demonstration planned for this weekend would be framed as a day of prayer rather than protest, but said they would still turn out. And while the CNRP’s efforts to explain their decision, ...
Phorn Bopha and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-pray-in-gets-backing-from-opposition-supporters-41613/