Sokha still in crosshairs
The National Assembly is preparing to discuss the “people’s proposal” to oust Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy leader Kem sokha from his position as the assembly’s vice president, a ruling party lawmaker said yesterday.Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker and parliamentary spokesman Chheang Vun said that Monday’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sokha-still-crosshairs
Cambodia's garment export reaches 3.54 bln USD in 8 months, up 11%
Cambodia has exported garment and textile products in equivalent to 3.54 billion U.s. dollars in the first eight months of 2012, a 11 percent rise from 3.19 billion U.s. dollars at the same period last year, a report from the Commerce Ministry showed Friday According to ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2012-10/19/c_131916898.htm
Plans for 7-Eleven chain in Cambodia
Thailand’s biggest convenience store operator, CP All, plans to apply for licences to open 7-Eleven stores in countries including Cambodia by 2015, according to a Reuters news report yesterday. The other two countries are Myanmar and Laos, and the plan is part of CP All’s expansion ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013013161087/Business/plans-for-7-eleven-chain-in-cambodia.html
Cambodia's micro-lenders record 24 pct lending growth in Q1
Cambodia’s 35 microfinance institutions had lent 1 billion U.s. dollars to customers by the end of March this year, up 24 percent from 808 million U.s. dollars it lent at the end of last year, the data of Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA) showed Wednesday. On the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-05/03/c_132357476.htm
Power-grid study to tackle supply problems
U.S. conglomerate General Electric (GE) on ThurSday inked a $1 million deal with Cambodia&rSquo;S State-owned Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) to conduct a Six-month Study to identify weakneSSeS in Cambodia&rSquo;S electrical grid with the aim of enhancing the reliability of the power Supply. According to the EdC, SS='cambodia-color'>...
George Styllis and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/power-grid-study-to-tackle-supply-problems-74517/
Costs thwart potential exports
Following Cambodia’s loss of a hefty Filipino rice tender to Vietnam last week, industry insiders say logistics and production costs are hampering the competitiveness of the Kingdom’s rice exports. Cambodia lost a 100,000-tonne tender for the fourth time running after its final price of $455.50 per ss='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/costs-thwart-potential-exports
CNRP may sit out rules change
Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers are considering boycotting next week’s extraordinary plenary session vote to strip away their role as the National Assembly’s minority group, saying the ruling party-backed proposal highlight’s the parliament’s weakness. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-may-sit-out-rules-change
Investigation of police official possible: ACU
Corruption czar Om Yentieng said on Wednesday that he might still open an investigation into graft allegations against the head of the National Police’s public order department, which oversees the nation’s traffic officers, if the subordinates who made the claims were unsatisfied with their boss’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/investigation-of-police-official-possible-acu-115990/
Experts strategize on wildlife reintroduction
The pangolin is slow and has no teeth—its main defense is curling up into a ball on the dense forest floor. It’s an easy target for poachers looking to cash in on the mammal’s much-prized meat or the supposed medicinal qualities of the tiny anteater’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meghan Tribe
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/experts%E2%80%88strategize-on-wildlife-reintroduction-98393/
Union reps suspended after more than a thousand strike in election day pay row
Ten union representatives were yesterday suspended from the southland garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Por sen Chey district after more than a thousand workers went on strike to protest the factory’s decisions about time taken off for voting in sunday’s commune elections. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/union-reps-suspended-after-more-thousand-strike-election-day-pay-row
Angkor Wat is no. 1 landmark, but Indian copy inspires fear
Angkor Wat in Siem Reap City topped another touriSm poll thiS week, named aS the world&rSquo;S No. 1 landmark by TripAdviSor&rSquo;S TravelerS&rSquo; Choice awardS on TueSday. But a maSSive temple under conStruction in India iS once again Stirring fearS that Cambodia&rSquo;S iconic monument will be SS='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/angkor-wat-is-no-1-landmark-but-indian-copy-inspires-fear-85053/
Royal Group denies report that Cellcard seeks investor
Royal Group executives, owners of Cambodia’s leading mobile phone operator Cellcard, vigorously denied the veracity of a London-based media report on Friday that claimed the phone company is looking for investors and wants to sell off its telecommunications towers because it is unable to raise ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/royal-group-denies-report-that-cellcard-seeks-investor-53741/
Anti-Corruption Unit seeks response over Information Ministry complaint
The government’s Anti-Corruption Unit has sent a letter to the Ministry of Information asking it to respond to allegations that its officials demanded bribes to let applicants pass exams for jobs in the ministry, a letter published on the ACU’s website reveals. ACU President Om Yentieng’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Opposition Will Go Forward With Mass Demonstration, Leader Says
Opposition leader sam Rainsy on Tuesday reaffirmed his party’s commitment to three days of mass demonstrations starting on Wednesday, in response to the government’s failure to address widespread irregularities in July’s national elections. Returning from a trip abroad, where he had urged Western states not to ss='cambodia-color'>...
VOA Khmer Staff
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/opposition-will-go-forward-with-mass-demonstration-leader-says/1774467.html
CNRP activist detained over political VCDs
Police on Sunday detained a CNRP activiSt and confiScated 347 political video-CDS that he waS tranSporting to the party&rSquo;S headquarterS in Phnom Penh, police and oppoSition party officialS Said Monday. The VCDS Showed violent police and military repreSSionS of land and labor activiStS and laSt SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-activist-detained-over-political-vcds-58127/
New deadlock but old tactics, analysts say
Ahead of today’s hearing on Cambodia’s record at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, opposition figures and analysts said the ruling Cambodian People’s Party has reverted to familiar tactics of post-election suppression. Analysts yesterday said that the breaking up of Cambodia National Rescue Party-led protests ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-deadlock-old-tactics-analysts-say
Delayed shipment puts iPhone on hold
The opening weekend for the official launch of two new iPhone models in Cambodia hit a few bumps when the Kingdom’s two authorised iPhone resellers faced supply-side issues.Telecom company smart, one of the two licensed resellers, was forced to turn away customers who had pre-booked ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/delayed-shipment-puts-iphone-hold
CNRP lawmaker continues to accuse Gov’t of illegal maps
Two weeks after opposition leader sam Rainsy said he would order the party’s lawmakers to stop attacking the government’s border work, CNRP lawmaker Um sam An said Tuesday he is continuing his tour in the U.s. to tell supporters there that the CPP is using ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmaker-continues-to-accuse-govt-of-illegal-maps-95963/
US signs $35 million aid package with government
The U.S. pledged $35 million in development aid to Cambodia in the firSt part of a three-year, $137 million package announced on WedneSday at a ceremony attended by Deputy Prime MiniSter Keat Chhon and U.S. AmbaSSador William Heidt, according to a U.S. EmbaSSy Statement. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-signs-35-million-aid-package-with-government-110667/
Opposing Unions compete for international support on draft law
Two opposing camps of unions representing a large share of the country’s roughly 700,000 garment workers handed in petitions this week to the U.s. Embassy and others asking for their support on a controversial draft union law during a visit to the country from a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/opposing-unions-compete-for-international-support-on-draft-law-84873/