Kem Sokha says judicial laws need changing
Deputy opposition leader Kem sokha told supporters Monday that the CNRP’s 55 lawmakers will soon ask to revisit the three controversial judicial reform laws passed by the National Assembly last year during the opposition party’s post-election parliamentary boycott. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kem-sokha-says-judicial-laws-need-changing-81065/
Students protest over inability to sit exams
Nearly 200 midwives and nursing students at the International University in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district protested yesterday after reportedly being denied the necessary documents required to sit the Ministry of Health’s state civil servant exam this summer. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/students-protest-over-inability-sit-exams
Officials’ affairs may be secret under law
Any information that is damaging to Cambodia’s national security or public order, affects its relationship with other countries or threatens the Kingdom’s economy or finances could be withheld from the public under a draft law on access to information. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-affairs-may-be-secret-under-law
Poipet safe from water shortage, governor says
Poipet City’s governor said Thursday that residents did not need to worry that their taps could run dry, despite a warning earlier this week by the private company that provides the city’s water that supplies were running low. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/poipet-safe-from-water-shortage-governor-says-85458/
Officials at border call for better info sharing
Authorities in svay Rieng province have slammed the minister in charge of negotiating border issues with Vietnam, saying he has not kept the military and governor’s office in the loop regarding the ongoing dispute with Cambodia’s neighbour. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-border-call-better-info-sharing
Chea Mony vows to step down as Union chief
After 11 years as president of the Free Trade Union, Chea Mony said sunday that he would not seek re-election as head of one of the country’s largest unions, which launched Cambodia’s labor movement nearly two decades ago. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chea-mony-vows-to-step-down-as-union-chief-88878/
NagaWorld sees revenue jump 42% in first half
Cambodia’s largest casino NagaWorld’s gross gaming revenue (GGR) grew for the first semester this year by 42 per cent to $255.4 million, compared to the $180.3 million reported for the same period in 2014. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nagaworld-sees-revenue-jump-42-first-half
Ministry orders Kok An audit
Heng Chheang, the jailed ex-deputy general director of senator Kok An’s Anco Brothers Co, may have been improperly convicted of embezzling more than Us$58 million from the tycoon, according to a letter sent to the supreme Court from the Ministry of Economy and Finance last ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012091058613/National-news/ministry-orders-kok-an-audit.html
Mfone transfer questioned
Although Mfone subscribers are due to transfer their accounts to Mobitel today, the Post has learned that telco provider Huawei Technologies (Cambodia) is still waiting for a court to rule on the legality of the transaction. Huawei’s lawyer, Kuoy Thunna, filed a letter late last month ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020661207/Business/mfone-transfer-questioned.html
US Ambassador Calls for Election Investigation, NEC Reform
Repeating his country’s call for a transparent investigation into irregularities during the July 28 national election, the U.s. ambassador to Cambodia has urged the government to repair deficiencies in the electoral process. While some foreign governments have issued congratulatory messages to Prime Minister Hun sen and ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/us-ambassador-calls-for-election-investigation-nec-reform-38282/
Robust Recovery Continues
Cambodia’s economy is on track to maintain its robust recovery thanks to a cocktail of private sector and government efforts. In 2012, the Asian Development Bank estimated that gross domestic product grew at a rate of 7.2 per cent, an increase from a 2011 International ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061066160/Business/robust-recovery-continues.html
NEC Stops Investigating Election Irregularities
The National Election Committee (NEC) said sunday that it is no longer involved in mediating the dispute between the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP over the results of last month’s national election. The announcement came after the NEC over the weekend rejected 17 complaints related to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nec-stops-investigating-election-irregularities-39974/
Labor Ministry Says Brands Hold Key to Wages
The minimum wage for garment factory workers can only be raised if international clothing brands sourcing from Cambodia pay more for their products, a Ministry of Labor official said Tuesday. Khieu savuth, chief of the Ministry of Labor’s labor conflict commission, laid down the challenge a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Dene-Hern Chen and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/labor-ministry-says-brands-hold-key-to-wages-47966/
CNRP Calls for Paris Peace Agreement Signatories to Intervene
CNRP vice president Kem sokha on Thursday renewed the opposition party’s calls for the 18 signatories of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreement to intervene in Cambodia, saying that the more than two-decades-old agreement had still not been properly implemented. The opposition has announced that October 23—the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-calls-for-paris-peace-agreement-signatories-to-intervene-44432/
Official Retracts Comments About Logging in Wildlife Sanctuary
A district-level Environment Ministry official on Thursday retracted comments he made last week when he claimed proper monitoring of logging inside Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat Wildlife sanctuary was impossible because his ministry did not know the boundaries of private land concessions in the protected zone. On November ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Ben Wood
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/official-retracts-comments-about-logging-in-wildlife-sanctuary-48211/
One airline is enough: report
Cambodia’s aviation sector doesn’t need a second domestic carrier, according to a new report from the Australia-based Centre for Aviation (CAPA). The report, published yesterday, is the latest instalment in a two-part analysis of the country’s aviation industry, and focuses on Cambodia Airlines, the Royal Group ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/one-airline-enough-report
Sugar Firm Offers Defense After Call for Probe of EU Trade Links
The director of a CPP senator’s sugar plantation accused of stealing land from hundreds of families said Wednesday that most locals were happy with the new jobs the plantation has generated, a week after a visiting European Union parliamentarian renewed calls for an investigation of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sugar-firm-offers-defense-after-call-for-probe-of-eu-trade-links-51545/
Media-Savvy Monks to Launch Weekly Radio Show
As Buddhist monks across the country don saffron robes and leave pagodas in search of donations to fill alms bowls each morning, seven monks based in Dangkao district on the dusty outskirts of Phnom Penh are thinking only of feeding the country’s growing appetite for ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/media-savvy-monks-to-launch-weekly-radio-show-51192/
Journalists garner support, monks silent in wake of attacks
Condemnation has grown following Friday’s attack on a journalist near Freedom Park as the Ministry of Information joined the U.N. Human Rights Office in denouncing the attacks. On saturday, the U.N.’s human rights representative in Cambodia, Wan-Hea Lee, called for an investigation into the beating of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and George Wright
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/journalists-garner-support-monks-silent-in-wake-of-attacks-58145/
Activists Say Human Rights Delegate Lied to United Nations
Mak Sambath, deputy chairman of the government&rSquo;S Human RightS Committee, came under fire Monday from activiStS who accuSed him of lying to the U.N. in Geneva regarding land iSSueS and the diSplacement of affected people. The criticiSm of Mr. Sambath&rSquo;S report to the U.N.&rSquo;S Human RightS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/activists-say-human-rights-delegate-lied-to-united-nations-51341/