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
Prime Minister Hun Sen: Cambodia to have direct flight from Japan in six months
Prime Minister Hun sen of Cambodia believes that within 6 months, Cambodia will have direct flight from Japan, which will help promote tourism and investment in the Kingdom. The Premier made such comment January 31 during his meeting with Delegates of World Tourism led by Mr. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=Mjc2MTVkMDkxMzU
Police invite hit-and-run officer to ‘solve problem’
A police officer who has been implicated in a fatal hit-and-run has been asked by local police in Kandal province to come to their office and negotiate a settlement for the victims’ families, police said sunday. Ek sovannara—the son of Ek Krit, a former Kandal provincial ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-invite-hit-and-run-officer-to-solve-problem-56770/
Dengue falls, encephalitis up
The number of dengue cases in the Kingdom is continuing to dwindle, but health officials noted a spike of rainy season-induced Japanese encephalitis over the weekend. On saturday alone, 112 children at Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital were diagnosed with encephalitis – brain-swelling – that was caused ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dengue-falls-encephalitis
UN to investigate Montagnards in remote province
The Cambodian government will allow UN representatives to seek out a group of Montagnards reportedly in hiding in Ratanakkiri province. Interior Minister sar Kheng gave the green light for UN offices of human rights and refugees to look into the case, where at least 13 Montagnards ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/un-to-investigate-montagnards-in-remote-province/2553646.html
Senior CPC official meets Cambodian PM, party officials to further enhance ties
A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is visiting Cambodia to further promote ties and cooperation between the ruling parties of the two countries. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-12/22/c_133871746.htm
Land disputes surge: Licadho
The number of families newly affected by land disputes last year was three times that of 2013, according to figures documented by local rights group Licadho. In a statement released yesterday, the group “strongly expresse[d] its concern” at the surge in disputes, noting that in 2014 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alice Cuddy and Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/land-disputes-surge-licadho
NA seat count leads to concern
The allocation of two new seats to Preah sihanouk province and absence of seats for Phnom Penh in the recently distributed draft law on electoral reform has prompted concerns that attempts are being made to manipulate the playing field ahead of the 2018 election. Ou Virak, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel Pye and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/na-seat-count-leads-concern
Parties unite to pass strict tobacco control law
The ruling CPP and opposition CNRP made a rare show of fraternity Wednesday morning in unanimously passing the country’s first tobacco control law—which bans sales to minors, smoking in public and most advertising—in a bid to combat related illnesses. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/parties-unite-to-pass-strict-tobacco-control-law-81703/
Bad year ahead for dengue
Dengue fever cases in the Kingdom have increased by nearly 80 per cent compared with the same period last year, and the Cambodia National Malaria Center (CNM) said yesterday that it expects a continued surge throughout 2015. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bad-year-ahead-dengue
Authorities probe shooting death of man in Thailand
A Cambodian migrant worker was shot dead by a Thai foreman at the construction site where he was working last week in Thailand’s Chachoengsao province, a border official said sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/authorities-probe-shooting-death-of-man-in-thailand-82682/
Child centre’s chief arrested
Four children were removed yesterday from Bethel Children’s Home of Cambodia and the centre’s director was arrested in Chhbar Ampov following a complaint alleging child abuse and neglect, including forced labour and sexually inappropriate conduct. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/child-centres-chief-arrested
US report details human rights abuses in 2014
The U.S. State Department releaSed itS 39th annual human rightS report on Friday, reviewing abuSeS againSt the citizenS of 199 countrieS and painting a forenSic picture of the ShortcomingS of the Cambodian government&rSquo;S effortS to protect the rightS of itS population. Under the heading “Arbitrary or SS='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-report-details-human-rights-abuses-in-2014-86716/
UN and social affairs officials convene to discuss Prey Speu
Social affairS officialS met ThurSday with the U.N.&rSquo;S Office of the High CommiSSioner for Human RightS to diScuSS the notoriouS Prey Speu Social affairS center, with the government giving permiSSion for the U.N. to viSit the center Friday and identify reSidentS who require pSychiatric aSSiStance SS='cambodia-color'>...
Two women charged with extorting factory
Two women were charged with extortion and placed in Kandal Provincial Prison on Wednesday for accepting $4,500 from the factory where they worked and had recently set up a union, a court official said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-women-charged-with-extorting-factory-89453/