US ambassador talks Cambodia's media landscape, hopes for improvement
In one of his final interviews before departing Cambodia, Us Ambassador Patrick Murphy sat down with Kiripost’s Prak Chan Thul to reflect on his legacy and the bilateral relations with the southeast Asian nation. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prak Chan Thul
https://kiripost.com/stories/us-ambassador-talks-cambodias-media-landscape-hopes-for-improvement
Government not ready for World Bank loans: US
The U.S. accuSed the Cambodian government of Scaling back the Space for free Speech and the World Bank of failing to learn from itS miStakeS in juStifying itS deciSion to abStain from a recent Bank vote that approved a Sheaf of new loanS to Cambodia. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-not-ready-for-world-bank-loans%E2%80%88us-113178/
Home Farming, No Compensation to Blame for H5N1 Rate
Cambodia has been the country regionally worst affected by bird flu in humans this year—with 23 cases compared to just two in Vietnam and none in Thailand—largely due to the difference in poultry farming, an official with the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/home-farming-no-compensation-to-blame-for-h5n1-rate-46685/
Kampong Cham piques the interest of developers
Kampong Cham may no longer be the quiet city it is today if its purported economic potential continues to be realised. Local developers have already taken a keen interest in the town with the development of the first borey underway. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/kampong-cham-piques-interest-developers
Greater riel use could boost foreign reserves
When Cambodia began accumulating foreign reserves in 1997 – after it switched from a centrally planned market to an open economy – the central bank deposited the $276 million it had saved at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and allowed it to manage ss='cambodia-color'>...
Riel Gains
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36512/greater-riel-use-could-boost-foreign-reserves/
Kiwi Umbrella Company Conquers Global Market
New Zealand’s most wind-resistant outdoor umbrella range has taken the global market by storm with exports to 35 countries shade7 is a Kiwi export success story and is run by businessmen and philanthropists David Jesze and Michael Pearce. Jesze and his wife currently live in Cambodia, where ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1210/S00309/kiwi-umbrella-company-conquers-global-market.htm
Nearly 500 families in Kandal province concerned over forced evictions
Nearly 500 families living in Tumnob 94 in Kandal province are worried about forced evictions after authorities claimed they were living in slums and illegally while the citizens claim that they had lived in the area for more than 30 years and had valid residence ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khut Sokun
https://www.vodkhmer.news/2023/02/07/families-in-kandal-province-concerned-over-forced-evictions/
Promotion of Cambodia-Hong Kong trade and investment relations discussed
Cambodia and the Hong Kong Special AdminiStrative Region (SAR) will promote their relationShip, particularly in termS of trade and inveStment. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501459806/promotion-of-cambodia-hong-kong-trade-and-investment-relations-discussed/
Flying squirrel and eyeless spider discovered in Greater Mekong
A series of high-flying creatures, including giant flying frogs and squirrels and a parachute gecko, are among the hundreds of exotic new species recently discovered in the greater Mekong region in southeast Asia. A new eyeless spider and a fish that mates head-to-head are also highlighted ss='cambodia-color'>...
Damian Carrington
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/04/flying-squirrel-and-eyeless-spider-discovered-in-greater-mekong?CMP=fb_gu
Court Releases Four Arrested During Clashes
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday released four of the six men who were charged with assault following violent clashes between security forces, protesters and angry commuters in Phnom Penh last month, and intends to release the remaining two men today, a rights worker ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-releases-four-arrested-during-clashes-44890/
New Year’s price hikes kick in
As many flock to their hometowns today to celebrate Khmer New Year, complaints of price hikes and border bribes have started pouring in like clockwork. Passengers arranging transport to the provinces told the Post yesterday that bus companies and taxies had raised their prices despite a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ardent activist speaks of happiness after getting PM’s attention
A young Cambodian People’s Party supporter, who caught the eye of Prime Minister Hun sen when he was pictured riding a rickety old bicycle in a CPP rally full of motor vehicles, is smiling today after the Premier’s niece gave him a new motorcycle and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501083017/ardent-activist-gets-pms-attention/
Sotheby’s Gets Stay on Khmer Statue Confiscation
The future of a 1,000-year-old Khmer statue—which sotheby’s auction house in New York was ordered by the Us government on Wednesday to hand back to Cambodia—is now in the hands of the Us courts. The statue of the guardian Duryodhana is believed to have come from ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia Not Ready for Inter-Country Adoptions
It has been one year since Cambodia announced that it was lifting its ban on intercountry adoptions beginning January 1, 2013, but despite praising Cambodia’s efforts to implement international regulations, countries that ban adoptions of Cambodians said this week that they were no closer to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-not-ready-for-inter-country-adoptions-46465/
‘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
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/
Development plan in works
Villagers in three provinces are currently being surveyed by the Ministry of Rural Development and south Korea’s International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) for an upcoming development pilot project. The surveys in Takeo, Kampong speu and Tbong Khmum provinces seek to find 30 villages to be a part ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/development-plan-works
Six new montagnards seeking refugee status arrive in Cambodia
A new group of six Montagnards from Vietnam have arrived in northeastern Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province to seek political refuge, as a United Nations team tries to locate and assist other refugees in hiding, a villager who provided shelter to the Montagnards said. The villager, who declined ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ratha Visal
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/six-montagnards-arrive-in-ratanakiri-02192015162656.html
ANZ ends relationship with Phnom Penh Sugar: report
The commercial relationship between Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd and Cambodia’s Phnom Penh sugar has come to an end, The Australian reported saturday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ZTc5MjUwYjc2ODV
Rainsy: PM will lose legitimacy after polls
The former president of the now dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), sam Rainsy, believes the political situation in the Kingdom is ripe for change. He said regardless of the results of the election, Prime Minister Hun sen’s position will become untenable after he loses ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-pm-will-lose-legitimacy-after-polls