FBI to assist ‘Crackdown’ on dissident, police say
The U.S. Federal Bureau of InveStigation (FBI) haS agreed to Cambodia&rSquo;S requeSt for greater aSSiStance aS it attemptS to “crack down” on U.S.-baSed diSSidentS, according to the National Police CommiSSariat webSite. A delegation led by National Police Chief Neth Savoeun returned Saturday from a three-day viSit SS='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson and Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fbi-to-assist-crackdown-on-dissident-police-say-63470/
Value chain in decline: WTO
Cambodia is one of only two economies worldwide to have declined in global value chain (GVC) participation since 1995, according to the World Trade Organization’s latest study. The WTO’s World Trade Report 2014, released Monday, shows Cambodia’s overall percentage of GVC participation – one country’s contribution ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/value-chain-decline-wto
Microfinancer Prasac looking to partner up with Korean giant
Woori Bank, South Korea&rSquo;S Second-largeSt bank in termS of aSSetS, iS vying to purchaSe a 50 per cent Stake Cambodia&rSquo;S largeSt microfinance inStitution, PraSac, the company&rSquo;S CEO confirmed yeSterday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/microfinancer-prasac-looking-parter-korean-giant
Concern Over Chinese Investment
Cambodia’s largest opposition party has expressed concern that China’s investment in the country is heavily skewed towards exploiting natural resources, wreaking havoc on the environment. China is Cambodia’s largest investor by a wide margin, having poured U.s. $9.7 billion into the country over the past 18 ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/china-02072013175545.html
Lender singled out after documentary
Some 1,000 employeeS from one of Cambodia&rSquo;S largeSt microfinance inStitutionS gathered in the Koh Pich exhibition hall yeSterday to watch&nbSp;A River ChangeS CourSe, the award-winning documentary about three CambodianS from different backgroundS all Struggling to eke out a living in faSt-changing timeS. Why Angkor Mikroheranhvatho (Kampuchea) SS='cambodia-color'>...
Joe Freeman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/lender-singled-out-after-documentary
Justice ministry to consider laws on surrogate mothers
Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana agreed to consider drafting the country’s first surrogacy law during a Friday meeting with Australia’s ambassador to Cambodia, according to the minister’s spokesman. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/justice-ministry-to-consider-laws-on-surrogate-mothers-116112/
Campaigners dismiss Facebook as a solution to land problems
Activists have cast doubt on whether Prime Minister Hun sen’s new initiative for the country’s problems to be solved through social media can tackle the country’s most pervasive problem—land disputes. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hean Socheata
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/campaigner-dismiss-facebook-as-a-solution-to-land-problems/3212705.html
New Ranariddh party approved
Prince Norodom Ranariddh is officially back in the political game. The Ministry of Interior has approved the former prime minister’s Community of Royalist People’s Party (CRPP), Ranariddh’s cabinet chief, Noranarith Anandayath, said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-ranariddh-party-approved
Myanmar opposition victory resonates in Cambodia
Cambodia’s opposition leader yesterday lauded the success of Aung san suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party in Myanmar’s historic election, an outcome he said will help pave the way for his party’s own electoral victory.In a post on his Facebook page, Cambodia National ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alice Cuddy and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/myanmar-opposition-victory-resonates-cambodia
MFIs bank returns on rates: report
High returns on investment and healthy interest rates are helping Cambodia’s microfinance sector continue its rapid expansion, according to Cambodia-based investment firm Mekong strategic Partners. With an average of 22 per cent return on equity and 48 per cent increase in loans across Cambodia’s 27 microfinance ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mfis-bank-returns-rates-report
Chinese Ambassador: EU Should Not Mix Politics,Trade in Cambodia
China’s Ambassador in Phnom Penh says the European Union should not mix politics with trade as it mulls withdrawing Cambodia’s vital preferential single market access in response to the country’s autocratic backslide. ss='cambodia-color'>...
David Boyle
https://www.voanews.com/a/chinese-ambassador-eu-should-not-mix-politics-trade-in-cambodia/4489291.html
Sok Hour loses appeal
The Appeal Court yesterday rejected a bid by Hong sok Hour’s lawyer to secure the imprisoned opposition senator’s freedom and avoid being forced to hand over further evidence, including the lawmaker’s laptop. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sok-hour-loses-appeal
Heavy rains washing out local salt industry in Kep, Kampot
Cambodia’s salt producers are suffering from a catastrophic harvest season that is likely to deplete their reserves and threaten the industry’s future prospects, according to leaders of the country’s largest salt federation. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/heavy-rains-washing-out-local-salt-industry-kep-kampot
Overseas voting amendments sent to Assembly Committee
The National Assembly’s permanent committee on Monday approved further study of amendments to Cambodia’s election law that would allow more than 1 million migrant workers to vote from outside the country’s borders. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadailykhmer.com/38590
GMAC slams sample size in HRW report
Nearly a week after Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report detailing systemic labour rights abuse in Cambodia’s garment sector, the country’s garment manufacturers association fired back, criticising the study’s methodology and alleged omissions. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/gmac-slams-sample-size-hrw-report
World Bank: EU exports may decline up to $654M
The value of Cambodian exports to the EU is expected to decline between $513-$654 million per annum if the country’s tariff-free access is withdrawn, according to a World Bank report released on Monday. The World Bank’s assessment – made in a report named Cambodia Economic ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/world-bank-eu-exports-may-decline-654m
Cambodia records 1.51 bln trade deficit in 7 months
Cambodia reported a trade deficit of 34 percent in equivalent to 1.51 billion U.S. dollarS in the firSt Seven of thiS year, the report of the Commerce MiniStry Showed on ThurSday. During January-July period thiS year, the country&rSquo;S total import and export value waS 7.45 billion SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.nzweek.com/world/cambodia-records-1-51-bln-trade-deficit-in-7-months-7684/
Politics at fore on anniversary
Opposition leaders brought politics to the forefront of a ceremony to mark yesterday’s anniversary of France’s official transfer of the former Kampuchea Krom provinces to Vietnam in 1949. speaking to a crowd of hundreds of monks, Khmer Krom and Khmer attendees at samaki Rainsey pagoda in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/politics-fore-anniversary
EU pulls NEC support, saying elections ‘cannot be seen as legitimate’ after CNRP dissolution
The European Union announced yesterday that it is suspending all support for Cambodia’s National Election Committee, calling credible elections impossible in light of the government’s dissolution of the ruling party’s only legitimate competitor. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Leonie Kijewski and Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/eu-pulls-nec-support-saying-elections-cannot-be-seen-legitimate-after-cnrp
First CPP National Assembly Plenary Session Set for Thursday
The National Assembly will hold its first plenary session meeting on Thursday since Prime Minister Hun sen’s 68 members of parliament last month approved an Assembly president and chairpersons to head the body’s nine committees, and despite the opposition CNRP still refusing to take their ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/first-cpp-national-assembly-plenary-session-set-for-thursday-44452/