US Ambassador Seeks to Clarify Need for Debt Repayment
The U.S. ambaSSador to Cambodia haS Sought to clear up SuppoSed miSinformation about Cambodia&rSquo;S debt to the U.S., which waS racked up during the early 1970S by the U.S.-backed military government of Lon Nol and haS become a contentiouS iSSue between the country. Cambodia haS refuSed SS='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia prepares for new round of UN development goals
Cambodia has failed to meet a number of UN Millennium Development Goals, which were set out years ago and aimed at halving global poverty. Ros sopheap, executive director for Gender and Development for Cambodia, said gender equality and the empowerment of women have not been ss='cambodia-color'>...
Oum Sonita
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-prepares-for-new-round-of-un-development-goals/2913609.html
Toll Royal to Restart Rail Services Next Month
Less than four months after suspending work on Cambodia’s dilapidated railway network, Toll Royal Railways (TRR), the network’s operator, has informed the government that it will recommence transporting construction materials needed to build the southern line on Aug. 1, company officials said yesterday. The decision to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia Finally Starts Stock Trading
Nine months after Cambodia’s stock exchange was officially launched, the country’s first share started trading Wednesday, with the initial public offering of state-owned Phnom Penh Water supply Authority. PPWsA’s stock, priced at 6,300 riel (Us$1.57), jumped 48% to 9,300 riel, according to the data from the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/04/18/cambodia-finally-starts-stock-trading/
‘Disabled people worst hit by natural disasters’
Speaking at a workShop entitled DiSability IncluSion into Climate Change in Phnom Penh on TueSday, Jolly, who iS the climate change adaptation conSultant at the United NationS Development Programme (UNDP), requeSted the government to conSider the difficultieS facing people with diSabilitieS when drafting government policy SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/disabled-people-worst-hit-natural-disasters
Hun Sen formally appointed as PM
King Norodom Sihamoni on Friday appointed Hun Sen aS prime miniSter with the duty of organiSing a government for approval by the National ASSembly. On hiS re-appointment, Mr Hun Sen pledged to do hiS beSt to Serve the whole nation for another five-year term after SS='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524420/hun-sen-formally-appointed-as-pm/
CPP: ‘Behave or Sokha suffers’
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) spokesman warned Kem Monovithya on Thursday that her attempt to damage “national reputation and prestige” would lead to her father, Kem sokha, receiving even harsher punishment. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-behave-or-sokha-suffers
Cambodia to benefit substantially from China’s BRI: Moody’s
Moody’s Investors service Inc sees Cambodia, which has a B2 stable rating, as one of the countries that stand to benefit the most from China’s Belt and Road Initiative. In its latest report, Moody’s analyses the potential long-run economic gains and near-to-medium term macro-stability risks ss='cambodia-color'>...
Poovenraj Kanagaraj
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50600312/cambodia-to-benefit-substantially-from-chinas-bri-moodys/
Labor leaders call for more discussion on union law
In a joint statement, civil society and labor leaders urged the government to accept changes to the law as they continue to discuss it. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hean Socheata
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/labor-leaders-call-for-more-discussion-on-union-law/3154489.html
Outrage over boarding charges
A government minister has threatened legal action, and disability groups are up in arms, after a small Cambodian airline forced a disabled passenger to pay $240 on top of her ticket price for help getting on and off an aircraft.Bassaka Air has admitted demanding the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/outrage-over-boarding-charges
Chair of ASEAN audit board goes to Kingdom
Som KimSour, the chairwoman of Cambodia&rSquo;S National Audit Authority, waS appointed to chair the ASEAN Supreme Audit InStitutionS (ASEANSAI), a collaborative body of public Sector auditorS, during a Summit on ThurSday in Phnom Penh, according to State media outlet AKP. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chair-asean-audit-board-goes-kingdom
Gov’t moves to attract IT firms
Technological innovation is playing a critical role in the development of the country’s economy by making business operate faster, a senior official at the Ministry of Commerce told a seminar last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18058/gov---t-moves-to-attract-it-firms/
Cambodia, Japan exchange views on Korean Peninsula issue
Cambodian Foreign Minister, Hor Namhong, and visiting Japanese Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Masakazu Hamachi, on Monday in Phnon Penh exchanged views on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue. កម្ពុជា, ជប៉ុនផ្លាស់ប្តូរទស្សនៈគ្នាលើបញ្ហានៅឧបទ្វីបកូរ៉េ ss='cambodia-color'>...
Agency Report
http://leadership.ng/news/510972/cambodia-japan-exchange-views-korean-peninsula-issue
Nauru refugee decries kingdom's medical facilities
After fleeing religious persecution in Myanmar, Mohammed Rashid found himself on a circuitous route to Phnom Penh. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Erin Handley and Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nauru-refugee-decries-kingdoms-medical-facilities
Women encouraged to enter politics
In the lead-up to the upcoming elections, three provinces have been selected to participate in a three-year project designed to encourage women, first-time voters and the youth to actively participate in politics. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24873/women-encouraged-to-enter-politics/
Millions given for waste management
The government has allocated $5 million across the Kingdom’s 46 sub-districts and towns to help with waste management by national and local institutions. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25476/millions-given-for-waste-management/
US congressman urges CPP to drop party-busting bill
A U.S. congreSSman on WedneSday called on the CPP to abandon an imminent vote on legiSlation that would give the Cambodian government Sweeping new powerS to aboliSh itS political rivalS, the Same day the U.S. ambaSSador met with CNRP acting PreSident Kem Sokha to diScuSS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-congressman-urges-cpp-to-drop-party-busting-bill-125317/
Minister demands loyalty to CPP from civil servants, warns protesters they will be ‘hit with bamboo’
Social AffairS MiniSter Vong Soth Said on Monday that all civil ServantS muSt Support the Cambodian People&rSquo;S Party or reSign from their jobS, and warned that the government will uSe bamboo rodS to bludgeon anyone who proteStS after next year&rSquo;S election. SS='cambodia-color'>...
‘No protest, no change’ for CNRP, deputy says, placing CPP in bind
The Cambodia National Rescue Party will refuse to appoint a new president following the arrest of current leader Kem sokha on sunday, Deputy President Mu sochua said yesterday, a decision she acknowledged may lead to the dissolution of the party should sokha be convicted of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Andrew Nachemson and Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-protest-no-change-cnrp-deputy-says-placing-cpp-bind
U.S. Congressmen, Asean MPs, express concern over Cambodia crackdown
A group of eight U.S. congreSSmen haS called on the State Department to continue itS public condemnation of the continuing crackdown on diSSent and arreSt of the leader of the oppoSition in Cambodia. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/us-congressman-asean-mps-express-concern-over-cambodia-crackdown/4037054.html