Dispute with tycoon was settled by the court, Land Ministry says
The Ministry of Land Management on Monday said it cannot help the 292 families involved in a land dispute with Oknha sieng Chan Heng’s Heng Aphivath Company in Kandal province’s Kandal stung district, because a court verdict has already found the land to be the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dispute-tycoon-was-settled-court-land-ministry-says
City Hall breaks ground on new $22M overpass
Prime Minister Hun sen joined City Hall officials on Thursday to break ground on what is slated to become a $22 million overpass near the capital’s Choam Chao roundabout. This will become Phnom Penh’s sixth flyover and will be undertaken, as was the five others, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/city-hall-breaks-ground-new-22m-overpass
Capital police vow to keep order as activists prepare to deliver petition to King
Opposition activists from across Cambodia are expected to descend on Phnom Penh today, bringing a petition for CNRP lawmakers to deliver to the King, even as the National Assembly’s permanent committee determines whether to allow a criminal case against the party’s acting president, Kem sokha, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea, Chhay Channyda and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-police-vow-keep-order-activists-prepare-deliver-petition-king
Used car market fails to scare Isuzu
Despite used car sellers dominating the Kingdom’s automobile market, Tri Petch Isuzu sales Co. Ltd, the sole distributor of Isuzu vehicles in the region, is confident in the sales of its new D-Max Blue Power high utility vehicles in Cambodia due to the country’s fast ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26273/used-car-market-fails-to-scare-isuzu/
Gender imbalance in job applications
More males are applying for jobs online compared to females, highlighting a deep gender division in the country’s workforce, according to Everjobs Cambodia’s second quarter career report. “Over 68 percent of online applications came from male job seekers and only 32 percent from female applicants,” said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29753/gender-imbalance-in-job-applications/
Peace, but not stability, for Cambodia, experts warn
Experts warn that Cambodia still faces the prospect of violence and atrocities, as human rights abuse and other social injustices persist.But Cambodia’s leaders still have the “responsibility to protect” the country’s citizens, according to standards issued by the UN. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/peace-but-not-stability-for-cambodia-experts-warn/3082776.html
Aggrieved villagers come to Phnom Penh for protest
About 100 residents of Preah Vihear province’s Choam Ksan district gathered at Phnom Penh’s restive samakki Raingsey pagoda on Wednesday ahead of a planned march calling for justice in their long-running land dispute. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/aggrieved-villagers-come-to-phnom-penh-for-protest-103757/
Official details kingdom's drug problems
The nation’s drug czar yesterday described a prison and rehab centre system in which drugs were being sold under the noses of the authorities and suggested police estimates of the number of drug users in Cambodia were “not enough” as he spoke at the Interior ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/official-details-kingdoms-drug-problems
‘Hitler of Stung Meanchey’ weighs in
Amid a staunch defence of the performance of a newly formed illegal logging committee’s recent crackdown and remarks on concerns over gun control, National Military Police Commander sao sokha took time out to address his now infamous year-old comments on Adolf Hitler yesterday at the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gender-underplayed-krts-00201-report
Residents, activists call for city to stop filling in lakes
Protesters from Phnom Penh’s lakeside communities spent an hour facing off with police on Thursday on a road on the former Boeng Kak lake before turning around and taking a different route to the National Assembly, where they demanded an end to the infilling and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thai financial major Krungsri buys out Cambodian micro-lender HKL
Bank of Ayudhya Pcl (Krungsri), Thailand’s fifth largest financial group and a subsidiary of Japan’s leading financial group Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has acquired a 100-per-cent stake of Hattha Kaksekar Limited (HKL), one of the leading microfinance institutions in Cambodia, for an undisclosed amount. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chalida Ekvitthayavechnukul
http://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/krungsri-acquires-cambodian-micro-financial-group-hkl-28704/
Time to outgrow garment manufacturing, gov’t advisor says
As the AsEAN Economic Community (AEC) raises Cambodia’s profile as a member of one of the world’s largest trade zones, investors around the world are considering Cambodia as a gateway to the region and it should take advantage of this opportunity by diversifying its economic ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21466/time-to-outgrow-garment-manufacturing--gov---t-advisor-says/
Cargo projections fall short at capital port
Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP), which operates the capital’s river port, reported a decline in container traffic during the first quarter of the year, raising questions about the newly listed company’s ability to meet its double-digit revenue and earnings projections – though analysts say it ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cargo-projections-fall-short-capital-port
Listed firms lax on fiscal reports
Six weekS Since the cloSe of the fiScal firSt half, none of the four liSted companieS on Cambodia&rSquo;S Stock exchange have iSSued their required half-year financial StatementS, and one firm haS not diScloSed any financial data Since 2014 &ndaSh; caSting doubtS on the tiny bourSe&rSquo;S SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/listed-firms-lax-fiscal-reports
Cambodia becomes dialogue partner in SCO
Cambodia has officially become a dialogue partner in the shanghai Cooperation Organization (sCO). The memorandum was signed on Thursday in the framework of the Eurasian Economic Forum in China’s north-western city of Xian by Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Hor Namhong and sCO secretary General Dmitry Mezentsev. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Russia & India Report News Staff
http://in.rbth.com/news/2015/09/24/cambodia-becomes-dialogue-partner-in-sco_427465
Amid tensions, two sides vow to continue political dialogue
Officials from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party say they will continue political talks, despite last week’s assault of two opposition lawmakers and the removal of Rescue Party Vice President Kem sokha from his senior post at the National ss='cambodia-color'>...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/amid-tensions-two-sides-vow-to-continue-political-dialogue/3032973.html
Mass fainting hits Cerie garment factory again
A mass fainting incident occurred again yesterday at a Chinese-owned garment factory that supplies nighties, bras and children’s clothing to North American retail chain Hudson Bay, with more than 60 workers collapsing at the factory in Kampong speu’s samrong Tong district, after about 40 collapsed ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18487/mass-fainting-hits-cerie-garment-factory-again/
ACU chief slams global fund over bribe case
Cambodia’s corruption czar was again on the defensive on Tuesday about the government’s controversial decision not to prosecute the former head of the National Malaria Center over revelations that he took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to secure million-dollar mosquito net contracts for ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/acu-chief-slams-global-fund-over-bribe-case-102456/
PM pledges 1m hectares of ELC land to poor
Prime Minister Hun sen on Thursday declared an end to the government’s review of Cambodia’s economic land concessions (ELCs), pledging that nearly 1 million hec­tares of reappropriated property would be handed over to poor families. He also announced a major reorganization of the two ministries ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-pledges-1m-hectares-of-elc-land-to-poor-109007/
China to consider rice deal
Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday asked China to consider Cambodia’s rice stocks as part of its effort to distribute food relief to other countries. The request was made during a meeting between the premier and Ho Hau Wah, Vice-Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25570/china-to-consider-rice-deal/