As count ticks upward, parties spin competing narratives
With official tallies from Sunday’s commune elections slowed by internet hiccups, both major political parties provided similar results but different stories on Monday on which had won a vote that drew a record 7 million Cambodians to the polls—300,000 more than had been previously reported ...
Ben Paviour and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-count-ticks-upward-parties-spin-competing-narratives-130998/
Sesan residents brace for floods
The doors of the Lower Sesan II dam were closed on Saturday for a monthlong test run, forcing more than 100 families holding out in Stung Treng’s Srekor and Kbal Romea communes to prepare for floods. Since the doors’ closure on Saturday morning, water levels ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sesan-residents-brace-floods
Cham struggle to build new lives after moving
The Cham families along the Tonle Sap in this area of Kandal have traditionally lived and worked on the river, some for more than five decades. But now they are building a village on land called “Islam Thmey”, or “New Islam”, to seek what they ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cham-struggle-build-new-lives-after-moving
Cases against CNRP are making progress
Court cases and investigations involving former Cambodia National Rescue Party officials are continuing apace, with new charges laid against opposition leader Sam Rainsy, another appeal for bail filed on behalf of jailed party leader Kem Sokha and a National Police spokesman saying yesterday that the ...
Ben Sokhean, Erin Handley and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cases-against-cnrp-are-making-progress
Japan to aid Prey Lang forest protection
The Ministry of Environment and Japan will today sign a $600,000 agreement on forest conservation for a period of three years in the Prey Lang forest, which spans four provinces. The project will focus on forest conservation, legal strengthening and community forestry development, according to a ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50111840/japan-aid-prey-lang-forest-protection/
Rainsy summoned for 'treason' over alleged Montagnard deal
Former opposition leader Sam Rainsy has been summoned from exile to answer a charge of “treason” over an alleged agreement he made with a pro-Montagnard activist. Phnom Penh Municipal Court deputy prosecutor Sieng Sok issued a letter on Thursday to summon Rainsy as a “suspect” ...
Chhay Channyda
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-summoned-treason-over-alleged-montagnard-deal
Cambodia, states clash at UN session
Cambodia traded shots with the international community in a heated exchange at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday evening, with states condemning the Kingdom’s ongoing crackdown on the political opposition and civil society, and an increasingly agitated Cambodia accusing member states of ...
Leonie Kijewski
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-states-clash-un-session
Japanese FDI flows in roads, bridges it built
Japanese investors have sunk over $800 million into the Cambodian economy over the past two decades, with much of this investment coming on the back of concessional aid directed to develop and strengthen the country’s trade and industry capacities, according to data provided on Friday ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/japanese-fdi-flows-roads-bridges-it-built
Affordable housing for all
Affordable houses for low-income earners and state workers will go on sale within two weeks after a groundbreaking ceremony on Saturday. The project, aimed at the lower middle class, low-income earners and state workers, will be restricted at first to low-income civil servants, said building contractor ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34013/affordable-housing-for-all/
Naga profits hit jackpot again
NagaCorp’s winning streak shows no signs of letting up, with the Hong Kong-listed casino operator posting another impressive half-year result, reporting profits up more than 20 percent year-on-year during the first six months of 2017 on a surge in VIP rollings and visits to its ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/naga-profits-hit-jackpot-again
Analysis: Cambodia’s government learns the art of ‘lawfare’
On Friday, all the pieces fell into place. The Ministry of Interior, a day prior, had primed the media, instructing them On how to report the day’s events. The government’s investigatiOn and filing to the Supreme Court that called for the main oppositiOn party to ...
Erin Handley and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/analysis-cambodias-government-learns-art-lawfare
Hun Sen, tax chief accuse US of lying about cuts to aid
Prime Minister Hun Sen and tax chief Kong Vibol accused the US of lying about cutting assistance to Cambodia, claiming that one of the programs on the chopping block hasn’t existed since 2016. In a speech to garment workers in the Sihanoukville SEZ on Saturday, ...
Mech Dara and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-tax-chief-accuse-us-lying-about-cuts-aid
Six hurt as storm damages homes
At least six people were injured and 150 properties damaged during a storm in Pursat, Preah Vihear and Rattanakiri provinces. Preah Vihear province’s deputy police chief Chorm Sam Ol said yesterday that based on preliminary reports, the storm started on Tuesday afternoon and destroyed 83 homes ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36529/six-hurt-as-storm-damages-homes/
China seeks to expand trade, investment ties with Cambodia
China sees Cambodia as one of the potential trade and investment partners among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and pledges to boost closer economic ties between the two countries, said a senior Chinese official on Tuesday. Wan Jifeisaid that his visit to Cambodia ...
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/7389759.html
New border crossing to open at Preah Vihear
Cambodia and Thailand will open another permanent border crossing between Preah Vihear province and Thailand’s Ubon Ratchathani province on Wednesday An Ses, the new permanent border crossing, is primarily used for the trade of agricultural products. Cambodian people usually import products from Thailand through the crossing, ...
Cambodia seeks $200m from China for rice mill
Cambodian government officials and private sector leaders have met with Chinese officials to negotiate a US$200 million loan for the development of Cambodia’s rice sector, an official said on Tuesday. The new loan would focus on the development of the agricultural sector, primarily the construction ...
Hor Namhong to talk debt in US
Cambodian Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong will conduct a one-day visit to Washington, at the behest of US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, where he will again lobby for US debt forgiveness. The one-day visit on Tuesday will also focus on strengthening bilateral ties between ...
Cambodian airports to get $400 million upgrade
VINCI Airports will invest close to $400 million on upgrading Cambodia’s airport system over the next eight years, according to chairman, Nicolas Notebaert. Notebaert, speaking at the Global Airport Development (GAD) conference in Paris earlier today, revealed that $80 million would be invested on an extension ...
UXO kills one, injures two others in Pailin
One man was killed and two teenagers injured On Sunday while cleaning unexploded ordnance they found just past the border of Pailin, in Thailand’s Chanthaburi province. Sot Phy, 27, was killed On the spot, while a 14- and 16-year-old were badly injured. ...
Lieng Sarith
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/uxo-kills-one-injures-two-others-pailin
Young child makes bird flu recovery
A 15-month-old toddler who represented the 18th confirmed case of avian influenza in Cambodia this year has recovered and was released from Kantha Bopha hospital on Friday. The little boy from Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district developed a fever on August 16, and was transferred a ...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/young-child-makes-bird-flu-recovery