China, Cambodia to share credit reports
The central banks of Cambodia and China are in talks to share customers’ credit reports in an effort to boost bilateral private investment, as a response to rising trade between the two countries. The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) director general Chea serey told Khmer Times ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32409/china--cambodia----to-share-credit-reports/
Wives bearing brunt of HIV
A toxic culture of masculinity in Cambodia is contributing to the spread of HIV from husbands to wives, according to a study in the American Journal of Men’s Health. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wives-bearing-brunt-hiv
Changes to party law ban convicts
The National Assembly’s permanent committee will today schedule a plenary session of parliament to debate and vote on laws that would ban the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party from associating with its former leader sam Rainsy, or ever using images of his face, recordings of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea, Touch Sokha and Alex Willemyns
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/changes-party-law-ban-convicts
CPP plans to reallocate legislative, local council seats get assembly nod
With the fate of the CNRP still in the supreme Court’s hands, the National Assembly yesterday paved the way for all of the main opposition party’s seats to be handed over to a smattering of smaller parties and, at the local level, to the ruling ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-plans-reallocate-legislative-local-council-seats-get-assembly-nod
Forces build up on Laos border over construction dispute
More than 400 Laotian soldiers have crossed into Cambodian territory to block military engineers from constructing a road, sparking an armed buildup in the border area over the past two weeks, Cambodian officials said on sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/forces-build-up-on-laos-border-over-construction-dispute-125410/
Court rebuffs Koh Kong families seeking to reclaim land
The Court of Appeal on Tuesday rejected the request of five families from Koh Kong province to nullify the deals they made seven years ago to give up their land to a local sugarcane plantation on the grounds that they were coerced. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-rebuffs-koh-kong-families-seeking-to-reclaim-land-127541/
Telecom regulator to steer clear of service providers’ price war
After a year of toothless warnings against below-cost mobile deals – which it previously called “suspicious” and “unfair” – the country’s telecommunications regulator yesterday capitulated, instead beseeching operators to steer clear of confusing marketing and maintain the quality of their services. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/telecom-regulator-steer-clear-service-providers-price-war
U.S. pledges 20 mln USD to WFP for school feeding in Cambodia
The United StateS haS pledged 20 million U.S. dollarS over the next three yearS to the United NationS World Food Program (WFP) to carry out School feeding program in Cambodia, Said a WFP preSS releaSe on TueSday. The Statement Said the donation, made by the U.S. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-10/08/c_132780183.htm
Japanese Ambassador, Police to Meet Following Shootings
The Japanese ambassador is set to meet with senior police officials to discuss the shooting of a Japanese tourist in Phnom Penh on saturday, according to an embassy official, while the U.s. Embassy on Monday said it was “very troubled” by a similar attack on ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/japanese-ambassador-police-to-meet-following-shootings-44000/
End right to unionize, businesses ask Hun Sen
Prime Minister Hun sen told business leaders and government officials Tuesday that he will not tolerate “illegal” labor strikes that harm investment, but avoided judgment on a request to withdraw ratification of a U.N. convention protecting workers’ rights to unionize. speaking at the 17th Government-Private sector ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/end-right-to-unionize-businesses-ask-hun-sen-53516/
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
Damage uncertain: Vision blurry for survivor of acid attack
After receiving burns to 40 per cent of his body in an acid attack and undergoing surgery five times, 41-year-old Hak Ay now has blurred vision in both eyes, according to the Cambodian Acid survivors Charity (CAsC). The survivor of this year’s first recorded acid attack ss='cambodia-color'>...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/damage-uncertain-vision-blurry-survivor-acid-attack
Violence ‘cost economy $1.5B’
The consequences and containment of violence cost the Cambodian economy over $1.5 billion in 2013, just under 10 per cent of its estimated GDP for the period, according to the Institute for Economics & Peace’s Global Peace Index released yesterday. According to IEP executive chairman ss='cambodia-color'>...
Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/violence-%E2%80%98cost-economy-15b%E2%80%99
Marubeni powers into Cambodia
Marubeni Corp. said Monday that it would acquire a 20 percent stake in a Cambodia-based electricity generation and transmission business owned and operated by Malaysia’s Leader Group, marking Japan’s first foray into Cambodia’s power market. Leader Infrastructure Ltd. operates two 50 megawatt coal-fired power stations in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kyodo News Staff
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/02/business/marubeni-powers-into-cambodia/#.U4128fmSx8F
Anglers ‘invading’: Villagers say rivals taking over fish lot
More than 200 residents from seven villages in Ratanakkiri province’s Taveng district have filed a complaint to the local Administrative Fisheries Department and two right groups over claims that rival anglers in the area are collecting fish in their protected lot by poisoning the catch. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anglers-%E2%80%98invading%E2%80%99-villagers-say-rivals-taking-over-fish-lot
Kantha Bopha Children's Hospital nationalised
Siem Reap&rSquo;S Kantha Bopha Children&rSquo;S HoSpital, which haS provided free medical treatment Since 1998, haS been tranSferred to the MiniStry of Health, the PoSt haS learned. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Cheang Sokha
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/kantha-bopha-childrens-hospital-nationalised
Cambodians in Washington fundraise for children’s hospital
Cambodians in Washington raised more than $15,000 for the Kantha Bopha Hospital on saturday, at an event sponsored by the Cambodian Embassy. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sophat Soeung
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodians-in-washington-fundraise-for-children-hospital/2491065.html
Cambodia's Hun Sen says no political motive behind recent arrests
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun sen on Thursday lashed out at critics who claimed that the recent arrests of four opposition officials for their alleged roles in a violent protest were politically motivated, saying they had committed criminal acts and must be tried according to law. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
Big News Network News Staff
http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/228037539
CPP, CNRP to discuss selection of minority leader in the parliament
Working groups of ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) will meet Tuesday to discuss amendment of article 45 of the internal regulations of the National Assembly to prepare for selection of minority leader whose rank will be equal to ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cpp-cnrp-to-discuss-selection-of-minority-leader-in-the-parliament-7761
Criticised training exercises begin anew
An annual US-led military training exerciSe, which waS marred by controverSy laSt year when a major rightS group Said it waS teaching tacticS that would aSSiSt Cambodia&rSquo;S “abuSive armed forceS” in crackdownS, will officially open today in Kampong Speu province. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/criticised-training-exercises-begin-anew