Railway link on track
Cambodia is committed to complete construction of the 6.5-kilometer cross-border railway linking Poipet city in Banteay Meanchey province to neighboring Thailand’s sisophon province by the year’s end. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27096/railway-link-on-track/
Deadline arrives for Borei Keila residents
Villagers in one of Phnom Penh’s fiercest land disputes said yesterday they are determined to stay in Borei Keila despite today’s deadline to either accept compensation or leave with nothing. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deadline-arrives-borei-keila-residents
Cambodia to raise monthly minimum wage for garment workers to 123 USD for 2015
Cambodia on Wednesday decided to increase the monthly minimum wage in the garment sector to 123 U.s. dollars, up 23 percent from the current 100 U.s. dollars, Labor Minister Ith samheng said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-11/12/c_133784394.htm
Rainsy claims CPP behind ‘Khmer for Khmer’
CNRP President sam Rainsy continued the opposition party’s attack on political commentator Kem Ley’s “Khmer for Khmer” reform group Wednesday, telling supporters that the group is a creation of the ruling CPP. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-claims-cpp-behind-khmer-for-khmer-76158/
CNRP whip cries foul on nepotism in parliament
CNRP lawmaker Son Chhay haS Sent a letter to National ASSembly Secretary-General Leng Peng Long accuSing the official&rSquo;S deputy of Stacking the parliament&rSquo;S bureaucratic rankS with memberS of hiS extended family. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-whip-cries-foul-on-nepotism-in-parliament-70668/
Cambodia's construction sector receives 2.5 bln USD investment last year
Cambodia’s construction sector attracted a total investment of 2.5 billion U.s. dollars in 2014, down 10 percent from 2.77 billion U.s. dollars in 2013, according to official data on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=271483
Opposition party president to pay his condolence to Chea Sim
The main opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party’s President sam Rainsy will pay his condolence to former president of senate and the ruling Cambodian People’s Party tomorrow. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1cMLgPf
Cambodian activists, monks urge lawmakers to save endangered forest
Around 100 activists, including Buddhist monks, gathered in front of Cambodia’s parliament Monday to demand that lawmakers and the country’s Forestry Administration take action against illegal logging in endangered Prey Lang forest. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prach Chev
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/forest-07062015163702.html
Assasination plot under investigation
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a lower court&rSquo;S deciSion and refuSed to releaSe on bail Lay Huong, the alleged maStermind of a plot to kill a government miniSter&rSquo;S wife. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/assasination-plot-under-investigation
Lawmaker calls for action on ‘anarchic religious tourists’
Yem Ponhearith, chairman of the National Assembly’s commission on religious affairs, culture and tourism, on Thursday told a workshop that arrivals of “anarchic religious tourists” from Vietnam are harming Cambodia’s religious harmony. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lawmaker-calls-for-action-on-anarchic-religious-tourists-90223/
Gov’t requests probe into prisoners in Malaysia
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has asked the country’s ambassador to Malaysia, Princess Norodom Arunrasmey, to investigate reports that hundreds of Cambodian migrant workers have been jailed in the country’s selangor state. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-requests-probe-into-prisoners-in-malaysia-90388/
China rice deal gets more urgent
Cambodia’s need to secure China as a rice export destination is becoming increasingly urgent, with China’s multiple pending agreements with other countries in southeast and south Asia, said industry insider David Van. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14389/china-rice-deal-gets-more-urgent/
Pirated Software May Threaten Garment Firms
Garment factories run the risk of having their cargo confiscated by U.s. customs authorities if they continue using pirated computer software in their administrative operations, and may be prosecuted under a law that requires all manufacturers to use licensed digital software, according to a local ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/pirated-software-may-threaten-garment-firms-28459/
Listeners Wary as Hun Sen Changes His Tone
Residents of Phnom Penh on sunday reacted with resignation and weariness to Prime Minster Hun sen’s latest post-election speech, in which he prophesied chaos on the streets of Phnom Penh should opposition supporters protest the National Election Committee’s official election result, widely expected to be ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/listeners-wary-as-hun-sen-changes-his-tone-38273/
Cambodia Misses Deadline to Submit UN Human Rights Report
Cambodia failed Monday to make its deadline to submit a key human rights report—known as the universal period review (UPR)—to the U.N., said Mak sambath, deputy chairman of the government’s Human Rights Committee. Having missed the submission deadline, the government is now hoping to get its ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and Dene-Hern Chen
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-misses-deadline-to-submit-un-human-rights-report-46138/
Teachers Group Threatened Over Planned Pay Protest
The Interior Ministry on Wednesday threatened to revoke the license of the Cambodian Independent Teachers Association (CITA) if it goes ahead with a planned demonstration next week seeking higher wages for the country’s educators. An official at the ministry said that the move to revoke the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/teachers-group-threatened-over-planned-pay-protest-49855/
Protesters Stop Try Pheap Tractor From Clearing Land in Preah Vihear
More than 100 people on Thursday protested and stopped a bulldozer belonging to businessman Try Pheap from clearing their land next to a rubber plantation he owns in Preah Vihear’s Rovieng district, villagers and local officials said. Oeun sitha said he was among more than 100 ss='cambodia-color'>...
One-Party Parliament Effortlessly Passes $3.56 Billion Budget
Sixty-Six National ASSembly memberS of the ruling CPP on TueSday unanimouSly approved Cambodia&rSquo;S $3.56 billion draft budget for 2014 without debate and without even the hint of an oppoSition, whoSe 55 lawmakerS-elect are boycotting parliament in proteSt over July&rSquo;S Still-diSputed national election reSult. The ruling party SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/one-party-parliament-effortlessly-passes-3-56-billion-budget-46913/
Groups Want Independent Human Rights Body
Cambodia must establish an independent, national human rights institution with the power to conduct investigations and sanction those guilty of violations, representatives of the country’s two leading local rights groups said on Friday. A consortium of rights groups met Thursday in Phnom Penh to discuss the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/groups-want-independent-human-rights-body-48227/
Thai tourism threatened by coup; effect on Cambodia uncertain
Thailand’s Tourism Ministry has been biting its nails since the country’s military declared a coup on Thursday and imposed a nighttime curfew, but a Cambodian official said sunday that it is too soon to say whether the lock-down will have a knock-on effect on tourism ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thai-tourism-threatened-by-coup-effect-on-cambodia-uncertain-59558/