Cambodia-Finland air pact
Cambodia’s secretariat of Civil Aviation signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Monday with the Finland Civil Aviation Authority to open their skies and allow direct flights between the two countries. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27466/cambodia-finland-air-pact/
NEC says soldiers registered for vote in wrong commune
A spokesman for the country’s election authority said officials in Preah Vihear province were wrong to have registered a group of soldiers who neither lived nor worked there regularly, but added that they might get a pass because the soldiers could end up monitoring polling ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nec-says-soldiers-registered-vote-wrong-commune-118798/
PM raises doubts on ASEAN Economic Community
Prime Minister Hun sen questioned yesterday the extent of the AsEAN Economic Community’s (AEC) commitment towards forming an inclusive economic region as countries continue to compete with each other for agricultural exports and inflows of foreign direct investment. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pm-raises-doubts-asean-economic-community
Rohingya refugee likely back in Burma
A Rohingya refugee who landed in Phnom Penh in June as part of a controversial resettlement deal with Australia is likely back in Burma after requesting to return home, according to the Interior Ministry. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rohingya-refugee-likely-back-in-burma-97166/
Wild things return to Angkor Wat
Decades after poachers stripped the forests surrounding Angkor Wat of large mammals, an innovative conservation group is bringing them back. Already, Wildlife Alliance has rewilded the forest with gibbons and langurs. And more are coming. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jeremy Hance
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2015/nov/24/angkor-wat-wildlife-gibbons-rewilding
Officials identify leader of capital’s sex trafficking ring
Military police have identified the suspected leader of what they believe to be a sex trafficking ring masquerading as a masseuse-training agency as a 40-year-old businesswoman with Cambodian and Thai citizenship who owns karaoke parlors in both countries. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mine action center resumes breeding dogs as fundraiser
The Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) has restarted a long-dormant dog breeding program it hopes will replenish its stock of explosive-sniffing canines as well as its dwindling coffers by selling them to others, including riot police. The first litter of six Malinois, a type of Belgian ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mine-action-center-resumes-breeding-dogs-fundraiser-117170/
Gov to give drivers licenses to people with disabilities
Em Chan Makara, president of the Disability Action Council (DAC), told reporters that his group will issue drivers licenses for people with disabilities in conjunction with the government. The council will also discuss appropriate vehicles for disabled people with other stakeholders. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18828/gov-to-give-drivers-licenses-to-people-with-disabilities/
Chinese firm seeks funding for Sihanoukville expressway
Officials from China’s Export-Import Bank are expected to visit Cambodia this week to study granting a loan to a Chinese construction firm to build a $1.6 billion, 190-kilometer long expressway from Phnom Penh to sihanoukville. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24197/chinese-firm-seeks-funding-for-sihanoukville-expressway/
Customs pressures exporters to register with GDT
Cambodia’s Customs Department announced on May 27 that it would stop processing paperwork for import and export companies, and halt cross-border activity if they fail to meet today’s deadline for online tax registration. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/customs-pressures-exporters-register-gdt
Key CHRAC donor suspends funding
A key donor to the Cambodian Human Rights Action Coalition (CHRAC) has suspended its funding, citing operational concerns even as other revenue sources are seemingly drying up for the organisation. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/key-chrac-donor-suspends-funding
Absent MPs salaries to be cut
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday approved a proposal by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) to punish politicians who are absent from parliamentary meetings without a “reasonable” explanation, the assembly spokesman said, after a boycott by the opposition. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31325/absent-mps-salaries-to-be-cut/
Parliament boycotts bear little fruit for opposition
While highly contentious new rules were being passed in the National Assembly on Monday banning the CNRP from collaborating with its former leader sam Rainsy, photographs were posted to Facebook of senior opposition lawmakers dining at a riverside hotel in Kampot province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/parliament-boycotts-bear-little-fruit-for-opposition-132457/
Speed up land titles: Indigenous groups
The Indigenous People Network and civil society organizations yesterday asked the government to speed up registration of indigenous collective lands. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077522/speed-land-titles-indigenous-groups/
Amid strife, the CNRP is a party on pause
When Cambodia National Rescue Party President Kem sokha stood arm-in-arm with three newly minted deputies earlier this year, the quartet seemed eager and ready to address the party’s next challenge at hand: critical commune elections that could greatly bolster grassroots support. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/amid-strife-cnrp-party-pause
Schools promote financial literacy
In an effort to promote financial literacy to students in primary and secondary schools, the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and the Ministry of Education, Youth and sport yesterday officially launched the “Let’s Talk Money” comic book. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35956/schools-promote-financial-literacy/
CPP rewriting rules again, with amendments planned to political laws to redistribute CNRP seats
The Cambodian People’s Party is rewriting the nation’s political laws yet again, this time to allow the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s 55 parliamentary seats to be dished out to minor parties – with royalist Funcinpec the main beneficiary in the sweep – in the event ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng, Ananth Baliga and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-rewriting-rules-again-amendments-planned-political-laws-redistribute-cnrp-seats
World Bank Report Says Few Cambodians Using Bank Accounts
Only 3.7 percent of Cambodia’s 14 million people have bank accounts with a financial institution, while less than 1 percent of those with an account are actually using them to save money, according to a World Bank report released Tuesday. Though the World Bank’s Global Financial ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/world-bank-report-says-few-cambodians-using-bank-accounts-46844/
Minimum call charges apply: TRC
Mobile phone call promotions undercutting the government’s minimum pricing regulations are to be outlawed – again. Minimum charges will be applied to mobile phone calls from on Thursday with the return of the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia’s (TRC) rules on call tariffs, the regulator confirmed yesterday. On ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/minimum-call-charges-apply-trc
Hun Sen’s son defends government’s legitimacy
Hun Mani, a parliamentary member from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, yesterday visited more than a thousand of local people in Kampong speu, including supporters of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). He took the time to justify the legitimacy of the government led by His Father, ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=Y2RjZTg1ZGE3ZWM