Transparency watchdog deals discounts to fight corruption
Transparency International Cambodia has launched a new campaign to encourage citizens to fight corruption, issuing a card that provides discounts with more than 100 companies to people who vow to work against the practice. ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/transparency-watchdog-deals-discounts-to-fight-corruption/2858632.html
Rice sector wary of EU-Vietnam deal
As Vietnam and the European Union reach the final stages of negotiating a bilateral trade agreement, giving Cambodia’s neighbour zero-duty exports to the economic bloc, local rice millers and exporters have expressed concerns that the deal could hurt the Kingdom’s rice exports. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-sector-wary-eu-vietnam-deal
Villagers accuse ELC of reneging on deal
Nearly 200 Kuoy villagers protested yesterday at the Forestry Administration Office in Preah Vihear province to demand a Malaysian-owned company return 1,100 hectares of land and a tractor confiscated by officials last month. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-accuse-elc-reneging-deal
Rainsy slams Nauru refugee deal in Australia
Sam Rainsy, leader of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), yesterday slammed the deal the government made with Australia to take in asylum seekers detained on the Pacific island of Nauru to Cambodia. ...
After factory fire, workers agree to deal
After a fire burned through the Xing High Feng garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district on Monday night, the four unions representing more than 400 workers there agreed Tuesday to give the factory two months to rebuild and to receive $30 each in ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-factory-fire-workers-agree-to-deal-92551/
Australian ministers deny collapse of refugee deal
Australia’s foreign minister on Monday insisted that a controversial refugee deal with Cambodia was alive and well, dismissing Australian news reports that efforts to resettle more refugees here from Nauru had collapsed. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/australian-ministers-deny-collapse-of-refugee-deal-93037/
Strike may end if deal holds: union
Workers who have been told they have been sacked for striking at the co-owned Tai Yang and Camwell factories will forget about their seniority bonuses – for now – if they are reinstated, unions and an advocacy group said yesterday. In an attempt to end one ...
OSK and RHB bank in merger deal
OSK Holdings Berhad and RHB Capital Berhad have announced the signing of a conditional share purchase agreement to merge their investment banking operations, creating the largest investment bank by assets in Malaysia, an official press release said. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012060556578/Business/osk-and-rhb-bank-in-merger-deal.html
Up to 26 storms forecast for rainy season, five or six to overflow Mekong
A Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology spokesman said on Tuesday that there will be up to 26 storms this rainy season, but of those, only five or six will cause the Mekong river to overflow or result in general flooding. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/26-storms-forecast-rainy-season-five-or-six-overflow-mekong
Hun Sen offers ultimatum for CNRP officials: defect or risk a five-year ban
Prime Minister Hun Sen threatened yesterday to impose a five-year ban on more than 100 unnamed senior CNRP officials, seemingly under a controversial provision of the Law on Political Parties, while insisting that the main opposition party will indeed be dissolved this month by the ...
Niem Chheng, Ben Sokhean and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-offers-ultimatum-cnrp-officials-defect-or-risk-five-year-ban
Villagers claim CPP arm-twisting
About 40 families of ex-Khmer Rouge and government soldiers in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district complained to rights group Adhoc yesterday, accusing officials of forcing them to thumbprint a contract saying they would vote CPP so the party could resolve an ongoing land dispute, an ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-claim-cpp-arm-twisting
World Bank No Longer Funding State-Run Radio
The World Bank has ceased funding Radio National Kampuchea (RNK) as of last month due to a failure to comply to the bank’s Demand for Good Governance Project agreement. The funding ended on June 30. The World Bank granted RNK US $20 million with a ...
Chinese 'no-strings' loans come at a cost
As government borrowing from China continues to increase, a new study released yesterday showed that Chinese concessional loans carry higher interest than any others. According to the study, released by the NGO Forum on Cambodia at a workshop in Phnom Penh, China’s average interest rate on ...
PM: No more electricity shortages from next year
Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Monday that by next year, Cambodia will not face a shortage of electricity supply. The Kingdom has reserved 400MW from two large power generators. Speaking to students at a graduation ceremony in Phnom Penh on Sunday, the prime minister ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pm-no-more-electricity-shortages-next-year
PM wants no double tax for foreign teachers
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Saturday he would like to stop foreign teachers from being required to pay income tax both in Cambodia and their home country in order to attract more highly-skilled educators to work here. ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-wants-no-double-tax-for-foreign-teachers-94863/
‘Free market’ no excuse for price gouging: CNRP
Despite Prime Minister Hun Sen’s request for bus owners and cab drivers to not hike prices over the Pchum Ben holiday, passengers were subjected to a familiar price bump this week. ...
Chea Takihiro and Srey Kunmeth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16770/---free-market----no-excuse-for-price-gouging--cnrp/
Rainsy says no plan to meet Funcinpec leader
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy denied Wednesday that he had plans to meet Prince Norodom Ranariddh to discuss the CNRP joining with Funcinpec against the CPP ahead of the 2018 national election. ...
Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-says-no-plan-to-meet-funcinpec-leader-97260/
Coup no obstacle to Hun Sen trade visit
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s visit to Thailand this week reaffirms brightening relations between the two countries after the Cambodian premier sent a delegation to extend his goodwill to the National Council for Peace and order (NCPO) in July last year. ...
Chananthorn Kamjan and Achara Ashayagachat
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/794780/coup-no-obstacle-to-hun-sen-trade-visit
No HIV outbreak in Kandal, health officials say
Health officials say they now doubt there is a new outbreak of HIV in Kandal province, following an investigation. ...
Hean Socheata
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/no-hiv-outbreak-in-kandal-health-officials-say/3219656.html
Court in no hurry to charge timber traders
As the government prepares to start auctioning off the 70,000 cubic meters of illegal timber it has seized so far this year, not one of the companies on whose property it was found—nor anyone else—has been charged over the wood, following months of court procedures. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-in-no-hurry-to-charge-timber-traders-113838/