Cambodia, US share concerns over Lao dam
Following a meeting with a visiting U.s. diplomat on Wednesday, Ministry of Foreign Affairs secretary of state Ouch Borith said the U.s. shares Cambodia’s concerns about a controversial hydropower dam Laos is planning to build on the Mekong River. Cambodia and Vietnam both fear that the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-us-share-concerns-over-lao-dam-67238/
Obama Urged to Address Rights Issues During Cambodia Visit
Some of the U.S.&rSquo; moSt Senior lawmakerS are urging Barack Obama to Speak out on what they called Cambodia&rSquo;S deteriorating human rightS Situation when the U.S. preSident makeS what will be the firSt viSit to the country by a Sitting American leader later thiS month. SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/obama-urged-to-address-rights-issues-during-cambodia-visit-5555/
Home Farming, No Compensation to Blame for H5N1 Rate
Cambodia has been the country regionally worst affected by bird flu in humans this year—with 23 cases compared to just two in Vietnam and none in Thailand—largely due to the difference in poultry farming, an official with the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/home-farming-no-compensation-to-blame-for-h5n1-rate-46685/
US Senator Calls for Suspension of Military Aid to Cambodia
U.S. Senator LindSey Graham laSt week Submitted a reSolution to the U.S. Committee on Foreign RelationS requeSting the SuSpenSion of U.S. military aSSiStance to Cambodia until an independent inveStigation into July&rSquo;S national election iS conducted. The reSolution waS Submitted on WedneSday to expreSS “the SenSe of SS='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-senator-calls-for-suspension-of-military-aid-to-cambodia-45672/
New push for maternal health
The government on Saturday announced a plan to decreaSe the number of maternal deathS in the Kingdom by 50 per cent in the future by promoting countrywide pregnancy-related preventative meaSureS among women. In the recently releaSed preliminary reSultS of the 2014 Cambodia Demographic and Health SS='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David and Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/new-push-maternal-health
PM: Programme to recover Vietnam War missing back on
Prime Minister Hun sen has announced the resumption of the MIA programme to recover the remains of American service personnel missing after action on Cambodian soil during the Vietnam War. The programme was suspended for more than a year after the Us government imposed visa ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-programme-recover-vietnam-war-missing-back
Hun Sen presses local officials to ‘facilitate’ the poll process
Prime Minister Hun sen, in a speech on Monday, ordered officials to “facilitate” the campaign process for all political parties, including the opposition, a seeming about-face, as they had recently reported being hindered and harassed. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-presses-local-officials-facilitate-poll-process
Parties’ campaign plans
In addition to the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) rally on saturday, which its spokesman says would see some 100,000 supporters attending, two other parties announced plans for events that day to kick off their parties’ campaign period. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parties-campaign-plans
Minor parties left out of election monitoring process
The National Election Committee (NEC) said on Wednesday that 50,000 party-affiliated election observers had signed up to monitor the July 29 national polls, even as many opposition parties announced they would not send any due to lack of resources NEC member and spokesman Hang Puthea ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minor-parties-left-out-election-monitoring-process
Australia to miss opening of assembly due to ‘flawed’ poll
As Australia became the latest Western embassy to announce it would not be sending a representative to Wednesday’s opening of parliament, Council of Ministers spokesman Phay siphan dismissed the Us and EU Ambassadors being “unable to attend” as no loss because “they give no value ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/australia-miss-opening-assembly-due-flawed-poll
Government hits back at threats to pull EBA, suspend UN seat
The spokesman for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) has said the government is in no way concerned after the European Parliament gave it three months to reverse what it called the “systematic repression of the political opposition”. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng and Meas Sokchea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-hits-back-threats-pull-eba-suspend-un-seat
As Cambodian democracy weakens, U.S. imposes sanctions on a high-ranking Cambodian official
Cambodia’s democracy has been in increasing trouble in recent months, with Prime Minister Hun sen dissolving the main opposition party and cracking down on independent media. Now there’s a sign that the U.s. government is paying attention. ss='cambodia-color'>...
China says foreigners should not interfere in Cambodia after election
Foreigners should not interfere in Cambodia’s internal affairs, the Chinese government’s top diplomat told his Cambodian counterpart, following an election in the southeast Asian nation that critics said was neither free nor fair. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Government not ready for World Bank loans: US
The U.S. accuSed the Cambodian government of Scaling back the Space for free Speech and the World Bank of failing to learn from itS miStakeS in juStifying itS deciSion to abStain from a recent Bank vote that approved a Sheaf of new loanS to Cambodia. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-not-ready-for-world-bank-loans%E2%80%88us-113178/
Police chief admits wife is timber smuggler
A Toyota SUV and the load of illegally logged luxury wood found inSide it on Monday belong to the wife of a diStrict police chief in Tbong Khmum province, according to local officialS, who Say they have no intention of taking action againSt the couple.&nbSp;“We SS='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-chief-admits-wife-timber-smuggler-118251/
Kingdom’s union law ‘a work in progress’
Lawmakers from both the ruling Cambodia People’s Party (CPP) and the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) were able to reach consensus and move forward on several aspects of the draft union law yesterday, revising seven of 21 articles that had been flagged by union groups ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19968/kingdom---s-union-law----a-work-in-progress---/
Disabled deserve jobs: gov’t
The Ministry of social Affairs yesterday once again called on the Kingdom’s employers to hire the disabled, something mandated in a widely ignored 2010 sub-decree. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David and Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/disabled-deserve-jobs-govt
Who owns the 2,949 logs found by a government task force?
The government’s anti-logging task force on Monday confiscated nearly 3,000 logs stashed in a forest clearing in Mondolkiri province, officials said on Tuesday. The owner of the 2,949 pieces of second-grade timber—Khlong, Tbeng and Trach—is unknown, said Eng Hy, spokesman for the National Military Police, which ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second2/owns-3000-logs-found-government-task-force-118253/
Lawmakers beaten at National Assembly
Opposition lawmakers Nhay Chamroeun and Kong sakphea were viciously beaten and left seriously injured yesterday morning as a protest outside the National Assembly against Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy leader Kem sokha descended into violence.The ruling Cambodian People’s Party denied any involvement in organising the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya, Charles Parkinson and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lawmakers-beaten-national-assembly
Assembly passes budget as CNRP boycotts vote
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party passed the government’s $4.3 billion budget for 2016 unopposed yesterday as Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers followed through on a pledge to sit out the National Assembly session if concerns for their members’ safety were not addressed. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng and Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/assembly-passes-budget-cnrp-boycotts-vote