Parties slug it out in rare TV debate
Breaking into a medium almost universally controlled by the ruling party, acting opposition president Kem Sokha squared off yesterday against rival legislators during the filming of what may well have been Cambodia’s first televised national election debate. The debate at the state-run TVK studios, which featured ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parties-slug-it-out-rare-tv-debate
Shuttered schools, factories
With only about 10 per cent of its 1,000-person workforce at their stations by 8am yesterday, management at Hoyear (Cambodia) Garment Ltd cut its losses and announced that the factory would close for the next two days. Thousands across the capital opted out of work ...
Sean Teehan, Laignee Barron and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/shuttered-schools-factories
New weapon in battle with drug-resistant TB
Researchers at the Novartis institute for Tropical Diseases have isolated a new class of drugs that could be used to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis, a disease that affects thousands of Cambodians, according to a report published in the journal Science Translational Medicine last week. The drugs, called indolcarboxamides, work ...
Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-weapon-battle-drug-resistant-tb
Lender singled out after documentary
Some 1,000 employees from one of Cambodia’s largest microfinance institutions gathered in the Koh Pich exhibition hall yesterday to watch 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) ...
Joe Freeman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/lender-singled-out-after-documentary
Hun Sen Says His Face as Good as Any; Situation Is Normal
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that calls for him to resign and for a new “face” to lead the country were hypocritical as the faces of his critics also remained unchanged. Mr. Hun Sen also said that the political situation in the country is perfectly ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-says-his-face-as-good-as-any-situation-is-normal-51866/
Justice still elusive for acid victims
Two years after Cambodia’s Acid Law took effect, and one year after a subsequent sub-decree further regulated the dangerous substance, significant hurdles remain in securing justice for victims of acid attacks, according to a paper published in the Cambodian Law and Policy Journalon Sunday. in her paper, ...
Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/justice-still-elusive-acid-victims
Rice prices continue to fall
As buyers swoop in to purchase Thai rice at garage-sale prices, Cambodian exporters are dealing with lower than usual rates, and the results are being felt all the way down the supply chain to the farmers themselves. New figures from rice industry publication Oryza show that ...
Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-prices-continue-fall
Areng project changes hands again
Sinohydro Corporation has taken over the concession to build the Stung Cheay Areng dam in Koh Kong province and is preparing for the early stages of construction, according to a company representative and government officials. ith Prang, secretary of state at the Ministry of Mines and ...
Chhay Channyda and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/areng-project-changes-hands-again
In China, nowhere to run
In yet another case of CambodIan women facIng abuse In ChIna, a 19-year-old told the Post yesterday that she has taken to lIvIng on the streets after the consulate In ShanghaI refused to pay for her repatrIatIon. KIm Sophea*, who claIms she has been forced Into marrIage In ...
Sen David and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/china-nowhere-run
Reports: Nojay sought for questioning in Cambodia
Assemblyman Bill Nojay, R-Pittsford, is wanted for questioning in southern Asia as part of an investigation into a $1 million fraud complaint, theCambodian press reported this week. in a July 7 letter, a local Cambodian prosecutor summoned Nojay and three others to appear for questioning in ...
Jon Campbell
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/local/2014/09/04/bill-nojay-cambodia-fraud-investigation/15079479/
Press release: Signing ceremony for Japanese grant assistance on road construction, rehabilitating irrigation system and strengthening agricultural cooperatives project
On 18 December 2020, Japanese Government has agreed to provide Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects, KUSANONE, US$392,371 in total, for constructing road in Koh Kong province, rehabilitating irrigation system in Kampong Chhnang province and strengthening agricultural Cooperatives in Mondulkiri province. H.E. Mr. MiKAMi ...
Embassy of Japan in the Kingdom of Cambodia
Court summons issued to Mother Nature founder
“I have my defence rIght to a court hearIng as stated In an InternatIonal covenant and CambodIan laws. My defence lawyer has trIed for more than two-and-a-half years, sInce March 2016, to push for a hearIng. The court dared not schedule a hearIng untIl several ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/court-summons-issued-mother-nature-founder
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Starbucks to open its first outlet in Vietnam
Global coffee-chain giant Starbucks will enter its 12th Asian market next month when it opens an outlet in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City. RMA Cambodia CEO Rami Sharaf said the expansion into Vietnam did not automatically mean Starbucks would enter Cambodia. “i don’t think there is ...
Impact assessment of Open Development Cambodia (ODC)
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As rail plan delayed, homeless take shelter in Battambang station warehouse
Many Battambang residents see the squatter camp at the train depot’s abandoned warehouse as a den of criminals and drug addicts. Fourty-four-year-old Srey Oun sees it as her home. “Many of the people who live here are unemployed,” she said, “but i am always scavenging ...
Ven Rathavong and Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22935/as-rail-plan-delayed--homeless-take-shelter-in-battambang-station-warehouse/
Siem Reap city governor calls for cleaner streets
Siem Reap city authorities issued a letter on Friday, asking all residents, markets, hotels, and guesthouses to control the disposal of trash and divide it properly.Siem Reap city governor So Platong said residents should not throw trash in the street or burn it, but put ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50103500/siem-reap-city-governor-calls-for-cleaner-streets/
Hun Sen welcomes international investigation
Prime Minister Hun Sen said this afternoon he would “welcome” an international investigation into the contested results of Sunday’s election. “For the sake of free and fair elections, i welcome the international community, all political parties and the NEC to investigate this,” he told reporters, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-welcomes-international-election-investigation
Press release on invitation Exellency François HOLLANDE, President of the Frenh Republic, to the Royal Government of Cambodia, His Exellency Deputy Prime Minister HOR Namhong, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
At the invation of His Excellecny François HOLLANDE, President of the Frenh Republic, to the Royal Government of Cambodia, His Excellency Deputy Prime Minister HOR Namhong, Minister of Foreign Affairs and internaitonal Cooperation, will attend the celebration of the Centenary of the World War i ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Hor Namhong hopes map issues will be clear
Deputy prime minister Hor Namhong, minister of foreign affairs expressed his optimistic that the map issues for border demarcation will be clear. “i strongly hoped that the result of the verifying will make all of us clear”, he underlined. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/hor-namhong-hopes-map-issues-will-be-clear-8861