Subedi Urges Passage of Laws on Judiciary
U.N. humaN rights eNvoy Surya Subedi met with a seNior official at the MiNistry of Justice oN WedNesday aNd reiterated a call for New legislatioN to be passed oN goverNiNg Cambodia’s judiciary. “He did Not ask us much oN aNythiNg New, but he did ask for ...
Cambodian opposition stages new rally in capital amid post-election deadlock
Cambodia’s main opposition party staged another mass rally in the capital on Sunday, vowing to keep up its political fight in the aftermath of national elections they say were rigged. Around 10,000 people turned out for the protest in Phnom Penh. The demonstration was part of ...
The Washington Post Staff
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/cambodian-opposition-stages-new-rally-in-capital-amid-post-election-deadlock/2013/10/06/b3d36554-2e65-11e3-9ddd-bdd3022f66ee_story.html
Legal experts: Cambodia judicial laws of 'Deep concern'
International legal experts are expressing deep concern over proposed changes to Cambodia’s legal system that critics say hand over too much power to the executive. At a meeting in Phnom Penh Tuesday, a group recommended the three judicial reform laws should be returned to parliament ...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/legal-experts-say-cambodia-judicial-laws-of-deep-concern/1958277.html
Nearly 2 million vehicles travel on Chinese-invested expressway in Cambodia in 5 months
Almost 1.9 million vehicles had travelled on the Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway in the first five months since its opening to the public last October, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport said in a news release on Tuesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501247347/nearly-2-million-vehicles-travel-on-chinese-invested-expressway-in-cambodia-in-5-months/
Wang Yi’s Show of Support for Government Is Applauded
A government spokesman on Thursday welcomed remarks of support for the ruling CPP from China’s foreign minister, saying they showed Cambodia’s main benefactor was an example to other foreign states. Following meetings with Prime Minister Hun Sen and Foreign Minister Hor namhong on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign ...
Simon Lewis and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/wang-yis-show-of-support-for-government-is-applauded-40662/
Opposition Lays Out Reform Demands at ‘People’s Congress’
Amidst an opposition boycott of the national Assembly, CnRP leaders on Sunday announced to about 10,000 supporters gathered in Phnom Penh their tentative plans to push the one-party CPP government to investigate irregularities in the July election and enact a broad slate of reforms. As patchy ...
Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/opposition-lays-out-reform-demands-at-peoples-congress-44450/
UN Envoy Subedi Shares Concerns Over Post-Vote Violence
The U.N. humaN rights eNvoy to Cambodia, Surya Subedi, oN Tuesday preseNted a report to the HumaN Rights CouNcil (HRC) iN GeNeva aNd expressed his grave coNcerN about post-electioN violeNce aNd the failure of the goverNmeNt aNd NatioNal ElectioN Committee to properly iNvestigate widespread electoral ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/un-envoy-subedi-shares-concerns-over-post-vote-violence-43145/
Compensation for culled poultry is a catch-22
Since its emergence in the region more than a decade ago, the governments of Southeast Asia have been fighting to contain the human avian influenza virus through surveillance programs, rigorous inspections and widespread culling of infected birds. In Cambodia last year, 13 people died of ...
Simon Henderson and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/compensation-for-culled-poultry-is-a-catch-22-52485/
Hun Sen’s Niece Brings Hard Rock Restaurant to Cambodia
Hard Rock Cafe, the iconic U.S. restaurant franchise known for its collections of rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia, will open restaurants in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh, in a deal with a local firm owned by the niece of Prime Minister Hun Sen, company representatives said ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sens-niece-brings-hard-rock-restaurant-to-cambodia-15652/
Cambodian PM, businessmen head to Nanning for 11th ASEAN-China Expo
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, accompanied by businesspeople and senior officials, flew to nanning City of southwest China’s Guangxi province on Monday to attend the 11th ASEAn-China Expo. Senior officials accompanying the prime minister included Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol, Governor of the national Bank of Cambodia Chea ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-09/15/c_133643051.htm
Cambodia vows to contribute to China's "One Belt, One Road" initiatives
Cambodia, along with other ASEAn members, will make joint efforts to create an upgraded China-ASEAn Free Trade Area and contribute to the building of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, said a senior Cambodian official at the First ASEAn ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-12/13/c_133852295.htm
UN Housing Envoy Wants Eviction Activists Freed
The U.N.’s Special Rapporteur oN Adequate HousiNg, Raquel RolNik, has waded iN to the furor surrouNdiNg the imprisoNmeNt this week of two aNti-evictioN activists from BoeNg Kak aNd Borei Keila commuNities, posiNg with a poster calliNg for the release of the two womeN. Yorm Bopha, 32, ...
EU aids Cambodia in combating illicit trafficking, use of nuclear, radiological materials
The European Union (EU) signs Wednesday to provide Cambodia with equipment to detect illicit trafficking and criminal use of nuclear and radiological materials. The agreement was inked between EU Ambassador to Cambodia Jean Francois Cautain and Om Yentieng, vice-chairman of the Secretariat of national Counter-Terrorism Committee. Under the deal, ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-11/06/c_132863880.htm
Gov’t dismisses judicial reform concerns
Human Rights Watch says three draft laws on the verge of approval by the national Assembly, intended to assure the independence of Cambodia’s courts, would do just the opposite, and has called on the government to withdraw them. The Council of Ministers approved the trio of ...
Zsombor Peter and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-dismisses-judicial-reform-concerns-58023/
Disability initiatives launched as jobs quota not met
For Cambodians with disabilities, the launch of two major initiatives in the past two days designed to improve their lives has brought some optimism about the future—tempered by a note of caution. At Koh Pich island on Thursday, in front of a crowd of more than ...
Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/disability-initiatives-launched-as-jobs-quota-not-met-63276/
NGOs Raise Concern Over Freedom of Expression to UN
Seven nGOs have raised their concerns that the government is using the law, media and Internet to further stifle freedom of expression, ahead of Cambodia submitting its first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of human rights to the U.n. The UPR is the process through which Geneva’s ...
Lauren Crothers and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngos-raise-concern-over-freedom-of-expression-to-un-40748/
NGOs Raise Concern Over Freedom of Expression to UN
Seven nGOs have raised their concerns that the government is using the law, media and Internet to further stifle freedom of expression, ahead of Cambodia submitting its first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of human rights to the U.n. The UPR is the process through which Geneva’s ...
Lauren Crothers and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngos-raise-concern-over-freedom-of-expression-to-un-40748/
Work Remains for Cambodia After UN Rights Hearing
Though Cambodia had four years to implement 91 recommendations on how to improve its human rights record, U.n. member states still had to push for action in a number of key areas during its second Universal Periodic Review hearing in Geneva on Tuesday. In a speech ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/work-remains-for-cambodia-after-un-rights-hearing-51129/
EU Won’t Investigate Land Concessions—for Now
The trade commissioner and foreign affairs representative of the European Union (E.U.) have turned down a request from 13 members of the European Parliament that they immediately investigate Cambodia’s much criticized economic land concessions, but said they were monitoring the issue closely. In a March letter ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eu-wont-investigate-land-concessions-for-now-25194/
Experts Put Forward Changes to Draft Agreement Protecting Maids
Officials from the government U.n. and human rights groups on Friday put forward amendments to draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) that is designed to impose safeguards for Cambodians to travel to work as maids in Malaysia. While the original draft by the Malaysian government sets out the responsibility of ...