K Krom mark 66 years since Cochinchine pact
Some 10 monthS after leading proteStS during which VietnameSe flagS were burned outSide the country&rSquo;S embaSSy in Phnom Penh, memberS of the Khmer Krom community took a more conciliatory approach ThurSday aS they marked the 66th anniverSary of France&rSquo;S formal Splitting of Cochinchine. ThouSandS of monkS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/k-krom-mark-66-years-since-cochinchine-pact-85037/
Emaxx, Excell deal long dead
The collapse of Digital star Media’s acquisition of mobile operator Excell emerged yesterday, nearly a year after the firms announced the potential buy-out. Digital star Media, branded under the name Emaxx, announced in late July last year it was in talks to buy GT-TELL’s Excell. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070557224/Business/emaxx-excell-deal-long-dead.html
Gov’t signs off on Koh Rong protected habitat
The Cambodian government has signed off on the Kingdom’s first dedicated marine protection area in a bid to save the Koh Rong Archipelago’s coral reef and sea life. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cintri in contract negotiations with all Phnom Penh districts
Phnom Penh’s beleaguered trash-collection company, Cintri, is in the process of creating new contracts with each of the city’s 12 districts, an official from the firm said on Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cintri-in-contract-negotiations-with-all-phnom-penh-districts-100982/
Promnea looks set for constitutional council membership
The National Assembly’s permanent committee yesterday put forward sam Promnea, a former Tourism Ministry secretary of state, as a new member of Cambodia’s Constitutional Council. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/promnea-looks-set-constitutional-council-membership
City meets with Cintri to draft new waste disposal contract
Phnom Penh municipal authorities met on Wednesday with the city’s embattled trash-collection company, Cintri, to draft a new contract, according to a statement posted to City Hall’s Facebook page. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Rosewood bust at Tbong Khmum pepper field
Officers from Tbong Khmum provincial police’s anti-economic crime unit yesterday seized 36 pieces of luxury rosewood timber dumped in a pepper field in Memot district’s Memot commune. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rosewood-bust-tbong-khmum-pepper-field
Chroy Changvar road row pushes into day 2
A protest against city hall’s decision to clear residents’ land for a new road on Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar peninsula without paying compensation yesterday entered its second day. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chroy-changvar-road-row-pushes-day-2
Siem Reap to Danang air link studied
Cambodia Angkor Air is studying a tourism air route linking Cambodia’s siem Reap province, home of the Angkor temples, and Vietnam’s Danang, a coastal city popular with tourists. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25225/siem-reap-to-danang-air-link-studied/
Gem miners protest in Ratanakkiri
About 200 villagers gathered in Ratanakkiri’s provincial capital of Banlung town yesterday, calling for a resolution to a longstanding land dispute in the province’s gem-rich Bakeo district. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gem-miners-protest-ratanakkiri
EU talks ‘election climate’
The EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, Frederica Mogherini, yesterday released a letter outlining Europe’s continued concern with what it perceives as a deteriorating political situation in Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-talks-election-climate
Hun Sen endorses ‘One China’
Prime Minister Hun sen has reaffirmed the country’s commitment to supporting Beijing’s One China policy during a meeting with a Chinese official, a stance one expert called “obsequious”. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-endorses-one-china
Cambodia slams 2 border killings
Cambodia’s foreign ministry Monday condemned Thailand’s military for two shooting that it claimed left two Khmer nationals dead and one injured since sept 28. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/436220/cambodia-slams-2-border-killings
American man convicted over child-sex trips to Cambodia
A Cambodian-American man was convicted by a U.s. federal jury in Alaska on Monday of attempting to travel to Cambodia to have sex with underage girls, U.s. media reported. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/american-man-convicted-over-child-sex-trips-to-cambodia-80651/
Indonesia rescues 17 Cambodians from Thai boats
Indonesian authorities on Wednesday rescued 17 Cambodian migrants enslaved aboard two Thai vessels illegally fishing the archipelago nation’s waters, according to a statement issued by Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/indonesia-rescues-17-cambodians-from-thai-boats-78284/
Developer sparks another dispute over wall
Families in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district have been protesting since Friday against wealthy businessman Khun sear’s plan to build a brick wall that will effectively block access to their village. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/developer-sparks-another-dispute-over-wall-79360/
On garment exports, gov’t figures vary wildly
Cambodia’s critical garment industry may be doing significantly better than Commerce Ministry figures suggest, judging by the Finance Ministry’s count, but just whose numbers to trust is up for debate. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/on-garment-exports-govt-figures-vary-wildly-81437/
NGOs irate over gov’t ‘hijack’
Members of Cambodia’s civil society are rebuking their representation at the AsEAN Civil society Conference/AsEAN Peoples’ Forum last week, alleging the Kingdom’s civil society representatives were disproportionately government-aligned. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-irate-over-govt-hijack
Gunfire exchange leaves one suspect dead
Police in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet city exchanged gunfire on Monday’s night with three suspected thieves on, leaving one suspect died at the scene. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/gunfire-exchange-leaves-one-suspect-dead-8883
Amid chaos, time for CNRP to get serious
Late last year, in one of his provocative Facebook posts from abroad, opposition leader sam Rainsy falsely accused Heng samrin’s 1980s regime of sentencing King Norodom sihanouk to death. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/amid-chaos-time-for-cnrp-to-get-serious-116190/