Cambodia to benefit substantially from China’s BRI: Moody’s
Moody’s Investors service Inc sees Cambodia, which has a B2 stable rating, as one of the countries that stand to benefit the most from China’s Belt and Road Initiative. In its latest report, Moody’s analyses the potential long-run economic gains and near-to-medium term macro-stability risks ss='cambodia-color'>...
Poovenraj Kanagaraj
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50600312/cambodia-to-benefit-substantially-from-chinas-bri-moodys/
Labor leaders call for more discussion on union law
In a joint statement, civil society and labor leaders urged the government to accept changes to the law as they continue to discuss it. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hean Socheata
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/labor-leaders-call-for-more-discussion-on-union-law/3154489.html
Outrage over boarding charges
A government minister has threatened legal action, and disability groups are up in arms, after a small Cambodian airline forced a disabled passenger to pay $240 on top of her ticket price for help getting on and off an aircraft.Bassaka Air has admitted demanding the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/outrage-over-boarding-charges
Chair of ASEAN audit board goes to Kingdom
Som KimSour, the chairwoman of Cambodia&rSquo;S National Audit Authority, waS appointed to chair the ASEAN Supreme Audit InStitutionS (ASEANSAI), a collaborative body of public Sector auditorS, during a Summit on ThurSday in Phnom Penh, according to State media outlet AKP. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chair-asean-audit-board-goes-kingdom
Gov’t moves to attract IT firms
Technological innovation is playing a critical role in the development of the country’s economy by making business operate faster, a senior official at the Ministry of Commerce told a seminar last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18058/gov---t-moves-to-attract-it-firms/
Cambodia, Japan exchange views on Korean Peninsula issue
Cambodian Foreign Minister, Hor Namhong, and visiting Japanese Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Masakazu Hamachi, on Monday in Phnon Penh exchanged views on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue. កម្ពុជា, ជប៉ុនផ្លាស់ប្តូរទស្សនៈគ្នាលើបញ្ហានៅឧបទ្វីបកូរ៉េ ss='cambodia-color'>...
Agency Report
http://leadership.ng/news/510972/cambodia-japan-exchange-views-korean-peninsula-issue
Nauru refugee decries kingdom's medical facilities
After fleeing religious persecution in Myanmar, Mohammed Rashid found himself on a circuitous route to Phnom Penh. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Erin Handley and Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nauru-refugee-decries-kingdoms-medical-facilities
Women encouraged to enter politics
In the lead-up to the upcoming elections, three provinces have been selected to participate in a three-year project designed to encourage women, first-time voters and the youth to actively participate in politics. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24873/women-encouraged-to-enter-politics/
Millions given for waste management
The government has allocated $5 million across the Kingdom’s 46 sub-districts and towns to help with waste management by national and local institutions. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25476/millions-given-for-waste-management/
US congressman urges CPP to drop party-busting bill
A U.S. congreSSman on WedneSday called on the CPP to abandon an imminent vote on legiSlation that would give the Cambodian government Sweeping new powerS to aboliSh itS political rivalS, the Same day the U.S. ambaSSador met with CNRP acting PreSident Kem Sokha to diScuSS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-congressman-urges-cpp-to-drop-party-busting-bill-125317/
Minister demands loyalty to CPP from civil servants, warns protesters they will be ‘hit with bamboo’
Social AffairS MiniSter Vong Soth Said on Monday that all civil ServantS muSt Support the Cambodian People&rSquo;S Party or reSign from their jobS, and warned that the government will uSe bamboo rodS to bludgeon anyone who proteStS after next year&rSquo;S election. SS='cambodia-color'>...
‘No protest, no change’ for CNRP, deputy says, placing CPP in bind
The Cambodia National Rescue Party will refuse to appoint a new president following the arrest of current leader Kem sokha on sunday, Deputy President Mu sochua said yesterday, a decision she acknowledged may lead to the dissolution of the party should sokha be convicted of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Andrew Nachemson and Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-protest-no-change-cnrp-deputy-says-placing-cpp-bind
U.S. Congressmen, Asean MPs, express concern over Cambodia crackdown
A group of eight U.S. congreSSmen haS called on the State Department to continue itS public condemnation of the continuing crackdown on diSSent and arreSt of the leader of the oppoSition in Cambodia. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/us-congressman-asean-mps-express-concern-over-cambodia-crackdown/4037054.html
China, Cambodia to share credit reports
The central banks of Cambodia and China are in talks to share customers’ credit reports in an effort to boost bilateral private investment, as a response to rising trade between the two countries. The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) director general Chea serey told Khmer Times ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32409/china--cambodia----to-share-credit-reports/
Wives bearing brunt of HIV
A toxic culture of masculinity in Cambodia is contributing to the spread of HIV from husbands to wives, according to a study in the American Journal of Men’s Health. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wives-bearing-brunt-hiv
Changes to party law ban convicts
The National Assembly’s permanent committee will today schedule a plenary session of parliament to debate and vote on laws that would ban the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party from associating with its former leader sam Rainsy, or ever using images of his face, recordings of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea, Touch Sokha and Alex Willemyns
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/changes-party-law-ban-convicts
CPP plans to reallocate legislative, local council seats get assembly nod
With the fate of the CNRP still in the supreme Court’s hands, the National Assembly yesterday paved the way for all of the main opposition party’s seats to be handed over to a smattering of smaller parties and, at the local level, to the ruling ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-plans-reallocate-legislative-local-council-seats-get-assembly-nod
Forces build up on Laos border over construction dispute
More than 400 Laotian soldiers have crossed into Cambodian territory to block military engineers from constructing a road, sparking an armed buildup in the border area over the past two weeks, Cambodian officials said on sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/forces-build-up-on-laos-border-over-construction-dispute-125410/
Court rebuffs Koh Kong families seeking to reclaim land
The Court of Appeal on Tuesday rejected the request of five families from Koh Kong province to nullify the deals they made seven years ago to give up their land to a local sugarcane plantation on the grounds that they were coerced. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-rebuffs-koh-kong-families-seeking-to-reclaim-land-127541/
Telecom regulator to steer clear of service providers’ price war
After a year of toothless warnings against below-cost mobile deals – which it previously called “suspicious” and “unfair” – the country’s telecommunications regulator yesterday capitulated, instead beseeching operators to steer clear of confusing marketing and maintain the quality of their services. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/telecom-regulator-steer-clear-service-providers-price-war