Veasna hits out at CPP, CNRP
The leader of the League for Democracy Party (LDP) on Thursday used a press conference to hit out at the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) for “vote buying” and the court-dissolved opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) for having “no morals or vision”. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/veasna-hits-out-cpp-cnrp
CNRP boycott call slammed by opposition party leader
The president of the Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) on Wednesday slammed the leadership of the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) for handing the 125-seat National Assembly to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party with its boycott calls. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-boycott-call-slammed-opposition-party-leader
Cambodia denies rights violations
Ahead of a mission to the Kingdom by UN’s special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia, a spokesman for the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) yesterday said Cambodia has never been sanctioned by the UN for violating human rights, noting that the rapporteur and other rights ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times
https://www.manilatimes.net/cambodia-denies-rights-violations/459237/
105 Chinese arrested at senator’s Poipet casino
More than 100 Chinese nationals believed to be wanted for crimes in their home country were arrested on Wednesday at a CPP senator’s casino in Poipet City, which had to be shut down during the operation, police said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/105-chinese-arrested-at-senators-poipet-casino-109327/
Patrol thwarts bid to cross Thai border illegally
Police in Koh Kong province reported yesterday that 49 Cambodians were caught trying to cross the Thai border during a forest patrol on Monday in smach Meanchey district. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/patrol-thwarts-bid-cross-thai-border-illegally
With asylum hope over, 16 montagnards return to Vietnam
A group of 16 Montagnard asylum-seekers who fled to Cambodia from Vietnam over the past two years returned to their home country on Tuesday after failing to secure refugee status in Phnom Penh, an Interior Ministry official said on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Taylor O'connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/with-asylum-hope-over-16-montagnards-return-to-vietnam-115421/
Prasac ups paid up capital
One of the Kingdom’s largest microfinance institutions (MFI), Prasac MFI, increased its paid up share capital by $29 million in a bid to increase public confidence and comply with the National Bank of Cambodia’s (NBC) requirements. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27959/prasac-ups-paid-up-capital/
Exports to Thailand still blocked
Agricultural exports to Thailand are still being blocked at the border by Thai authorities over concerns that officials’ seals and certificates of origin are being forged, as Cambodian officials try to resolve the issue. The Ministry of Commence on Friday issued a statement stressing that the ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29025/exports-to-thailand-still-blocked/
Innovation for a fruitful harvest
The integration of technology into Cambodia’s agricultural sector is vital to increase the competitiveness and overall performance of the Kingdom’s harvest, but efforts to push for widespread adoption of innovative solutions has been slow to take off, industry experts and stakeholders said at a forum ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/innovation-fruitful-harvest
Capital’s income levels set to soar
Phnom Penh’s median household income could swell to surpass the projected level of Bangkok within 15 years if the city’s rapid urbanisation is properly managed through effective policymaking and adequate city planning, according to a new study. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/capitals-income-levels-set-soar
Seaport operator cruises toward IPO
The state-owned enterprise that operates Cambodia’s only deep-sea port is aiming to raise $27 million by floating a 25 percent stake on the Kingdom’s stock market, a company executive said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/seaport-operator-cruises-toward-ipo
Officials brawl at voter drive
Two Chak Angre Leu commune officials traded blows at a voter registration drive in Phnom Penh on sunday morning and the National Election Committee (NEC) said it will hold a hearing for both men to air their grievances and explain their actions. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31492/officials-brawl-at-voter-drive/
Surrogacy to be legal
Authorities are preparing a draft law to make surrogacy legal with a range of protections for the women and babies involved. News of the move emerged yesterday after a meeting between Foreign Minister Prak sokhonn and newly appointed United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) representative to Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35333/surrogacy-to-be-legal/
Cambodia to boost military ties to China
Cambodia and China have vowed to take their collaboration on military affairs to a “new height”, according to China’s Ministry of National Defence. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-boost-military-ties-china
Despite the lofty goals of the Paris Peace Agreement, 25 years on, Prime Minister Hun Sen has achieved his own
Amid the winding-down of the Cold War in early December 1987, Prime Minister Hun sen and Prince Norodom sihanouk met in the quiet northern French village of Fère-en-Tardenois for their first talks on ending Cambodia’s intractable civil war. It was an overture that opened the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/well-always-have-paris-peace-accords-25-years-later
UN Sees Cambodian Economic Growth Slowing in 2012
Economic growth in Cambodia is estimated to reach 6.7 percent this year, a 0.2 percent drop compared with 2011, the U.N. said in a report released on Friday, citing a modest slowdown in exports from Cambodia to the U.s. and Europe. In its Economic and social ss='cambodia-color'>...
Withdrawals top hundreds of millions
More than $600 million flooded out of Cambodia’s entire banking system during the third quarter of this year, as fears of post-election chaos set off panic and mass withdrawals, new figures from the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) reveal. The figures, obtained yesterday, were the first ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/withdrawals-top-hundreds-millions
Cambodian-Americans Warn of Dangers of Political Deadlock
As demonstrations continued in Phnom Penh, Cambodian-Americans in Washington said this week that the international community can no longer stay out of Cambodian affairs, lest the political deadlock turn to violence. At a discussion at the National Press Club in Washington, held by the Khmer People’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodian-americans-warn-of-dangers-of-political-deadlock/1776213.html
Labor Unions agree to one time hike in wage
Around 40 Labor Unions in Cambodia have all agreed to pursue the third formula given by the Ministry of Labor, of a one time hike in minimum wage for footwear and garment factory employees in 2014. The Labor Unions agreed to pursue the hike in salary ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=MWNmYzg4Yjc2YjJ
Officials Breach Dam to Stop It From Bursting
Hundreds of families in Battambang province have been evacuated as authorities ordered a section of a dam to be cut away to release pressure on a reservoir that was threatening to burst and engulf the communities beneath it, as heavy rain continues to cause havoc ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-breach-dam-to-stop-it-from-bursting-44790/