Gov’t back for seconds at Licadho
For the second time in as many weeks, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction has asked rights group Licadho to provide data collected on the identity of land dispute complainants. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/govt-back-seconds-licadho
Government approves pact to send maids to Malaysia
Cambodia has signed off on a draft agreement that would lift a moratorium on sending maids to Malaysia, imposed four years ago amid widespread reports of abuse, and is waiting for the Malaysian government’s approval, a Labor Ministry official said Tuesday. ...
Simon Henderson
htt://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-police-face-off-in-dispute-over-road-expansion-79974/
Vietnam's stamp design used among ASEAN nations
The stamp and postmark designed by Vietnamese artists will be produced as a joint issue stamp within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Aug. 8, 2015 to celebrate the association’s 48th founding anniversary and the formation of the ASEAN Economic Community by Dec. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1bAWN41
Cambodia's rice export increases by 77 pct in three months
Cambodia exported 149,464 tons of rice in the first three months of 2015, up 77 percent over the same period last year, according to data of the Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export Formality. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1MVsDJK
Study finds substandard malaria drugs, but no fakes
A new report suggests counterfeit anti-malarial drugs are far less prevalent in Cambodia than previously thought, but almost a third of the legitimate medicines are of substandard quality. According to the study, published on Monday by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, none of ...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/study-finds-substandard-malaria-drugs-no-fakes
Children’s faeces just as toxic, report says
A recently released study on hygiene in Cambodia has found that a lack of understanding of the dangers of handling child faeces is causing serious health problems. ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/childrens-faeces-just-toxic-report-says
Time to revisit an ASEAN-EU FTA?
On May 19, 2015, the European Union (EU) adopted a Joint Communication: The EU and ASEAN: a partnership with a strategic purpose. The communication calls for taking “trade relations with ASEAN to a different level and working towards an ambitious region-to-region free trade agreement (FTA) ...
Ji Xianbai
http://bit.ly/1AP2O8P
Mourning for senate president to last 10 days
Mourning for Chea Sim, the late President of the Senate and the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, is to last 10 days to allow foreign diplomats, national leaders and ordinary Cambodians to pay their respects. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12096/mourning-for-senate-president-to-last-10-days/
Authorities shut down illegal M’kiri mine site
An illegal gold mine allegedly managed by a military police commander in Mondulkiri province was shut down by a local prosecutor last week after being in operation for more than two decades, officials said. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-shut-down-illegal-mkiri-mine-site
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. ...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-affairs-may-be-secret-under-law
During Japan’s occupation, artist resisted, died
Seventy years ago Thursday, during what may have been the murkiest period of the French administration in Cambodia, the founder of the National Museum died in an interrogation room at the hands of Japanese authorities. ...
Michelle Vachon
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/during-japans-occupation-french-artist-resisted-died-85793/
Thai companies vow to address human trafficking in fishing industry
The Board of Trade of Thailand and the Thai Chamber of Commerce, along with four fishing-industry associations and leading players in the sector, vowed Tuesday to continue strenuous efforts to solve the problem of human trafficking and other labour issues, in compliance with the government’s ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1etqiGJ
Large-scale Cambodian youth delegation to visit China
President of Cambodian Union of Youth Federations Hun Many will lead a 100-member youth delegation to visit China from June 21 to 25 to deepen youth-to-youth relations between the two countries. . ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/large-scale-cambodian-youth-delegation-to-visit-china-8701
Silk board looks to revive flagging sector
The recently established National Silk Board is looking to tighten regulations and boost investor confidence in Cambodia’s silk industry, as well as create a policy for silk promotion in the future. ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/silk-board-looks-revive-flagging-sector
Ministry, NGO to push training
Youth vocational training may be the key to curbing migration and combating poverty in Cambodia’s most vulnerable communities, according to child welfare NGO Pour un Sourire d’Enfant (PSE), which is helping to roll out a technical skills program for high school dropouts. ...
Rebecca Moss
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-ngo-push-training
Gov’t promises border action
A government delegation yesterday told Tbong Khmum provincial and local officials it would resolve a border dispute with Vietnam in Memot district “very soon”, as villagers blocked from their farms in the contested area by Vietnamese authorities say they fear looming food shortages. ...
Vong Sokheng and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-promises-border-action
Chhouk Bandith's victims see hope in Sok Bun arrest
Three factory workers shot more than three years ago by a town governor who remains at large have come to Phnom Penh to ask Prime Minister Hun Sen to take action in their case, given the recent success of the premier’s call to arrest a ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chhouk-bandiths-victims-see-hope-sok-bun-arrest
Gov’t prepares its tourism strategy for 2020
The Cambodian government has finalised a five-year Tourism Marketing Strategy that it hopes will help lure more visitors and investors to the Kingdom. ...
Xueying Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-prepares-its-tourism-strategy-2020
Nearing lower-middle income
Cambodia is expected to reach a GDP per capita of $1,220 this year, putting it on course to being a lower-middle income economy, said Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol, who was attending a meeting with Macau entrepreneurs in Phnom Penh yesterday. ...
May Kunmakara and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nearing-lower-middle-income
Credit bureau brings rural lenders into the fold
Five rural credit operators signed an agreement to join the Credit Bureau Cambodia on Thursday as the watchdog and the National Bank of Cambodia ramp up efforts to better monitor the country’s expansive, but largely informal, rural lending industry. ...
Kang Sothear and Tsz-kwan Ho
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/credit-bureau-brings-rural-lenders-into-the-fold-90227/