Clinton Discusses Boeng Kak Prisoners With Hor Namhong
The U.S. haS called on the Cambodian government to give fair legal treatment to the 13 women recently jailed for demonStrating againSt their evictionS from the Boeng Kak area, according to a U.S. State Department SpokeSwoman. Cambodian Foreign MiniSter Hor Namhong met with U.S. Secretary of SS='cambodia-color'>...
Rights champion urges women to seek justice in courts
An increasing number of women who are victims of violence are looking for solutions outside the country’s dysfunctional court system, the president of rights group Licadho, Pung Chhiv Kek, said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Va Sonyka
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14743//
Hotel Shuts Down Asean NGO Panels
Four workshops at the Asean Peoples’ Forum concerning pressing issues such as land rights and events in Burma were blocked by the owner of the venue where the forum was being held on Friday, as they were considered too politically sensitive, the organizer said. Out of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Final poll results confirm first single-party Assembly
In an unprecedented situation in Cambodian politics, the official results of the July 29 national elections have declared that the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) will take all 125 seats in the National Assembly on the back of it receiving 76 per cent of the votes. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/final-poll-results-confirm-first-single-party-assembly-0
Official preliminary results show higher voter turnout
The National Election Committee (NEC) on Saturday announced the official preliminary reSultS of the Sixth Cambodian national electionS. The reviSed figureS Show voter turnout on July 29 waS in fact 83.02 per cent &ndaSh; higher than the 82.89 per cent revealed in unofficial reSultS Shortly SS='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/official-preliminary-results-show-higher-voter-turnout
On world rabies day, a call for cooperation
Government officials and public health workers met with about 100 students at the Ministry of Health’s school of nursing in Phnom Penh on Monday to mark World Rabies Day, calling for a united effort to eradicate a virus that kills hundreds of Cambodians each year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meghan Tribe
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/on-world-rabies-day-a-call-for-cooperation-95814/
Malaysia’s giant opens first Cambodia supermarket
Malaysia-based retailer Giant, one of the largest players in Asia, has launched its first store in Cambodia, opening in Phnom Penh’s Grand City Mall as part of a major expansion into the Kingdom. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24085/malaysia---s-giant-opens-first-cambodia-supermarket/
More Cambodians traveling abroad as tourists
The number of Cambodians traveling overseas as tourists increased to nearly 700,000 in the first half of the year, up 26 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Tourism. Experts in the industry welcomed this trend and pointed out ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28454/more-cambodians-traveling-abroad-as-tourists/
ID cards in kandal thought to be fake
A commission of experts will check nearly 50 new Cambodian national ID cards today amid suspicions the card holders do not hold Cambodian nationality after irregularities were found during voter registration in Kandal province earlier this month. Provincial police chief Eav Chamroeun said yesterday afternoon that ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29770/id-cards-in-kandal-thought-to-be-fake/
Gold Green for Knai Bang Chatt
Kep province’s Knai Bang Chatt hotel is the first in Cambodia to receive the gold certification in the international Green Growth 2050 initiative after it was accredited by industry experts. In August, an Australian team of experts conducted an independent audit and found that the hotel ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29916/gold-green-for-knai-bang-chatt/
Successful drug raid nabs 3 as arrests continue to increase
Police arrested three people and confiscated about 1 kg of methamphetamine pills in a raid in Kompong Chhnang province on saturday afternoon, the latest case in a year that has seen nearly three times as many meth busts as in the same period last year, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/successful-drug-raid-nabs-3-as-arrests-continue-to-increase-96373/
CNRP to rejoin national assembly
Senior oppoSition member Son Chhay Said yeSterday that he and hiS fellow party memberS would enter the National ASSembly to reSolve Some ongoing problemS and planned to Summon four miniSterS for clarificationS aS well aS to appeal for the health miniSter&rSquo;S reSignation.&nbSp;After viSiting oppoSition officialS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29990/cnrp-to-rejoin-national-assembly/
Koh Kong sand-dredging opponents on trial over alleged threats
After more than 10 months in pretrial detention, a trio of activists from environmental group Mother Nature yesterday faced court for allegedly threatening to destroy dredging equipment during a protest against sand mining in Koh Kong province last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-sand-dredging-opponents-trial-over-alleged-threats
How politics is killing Cambodia's forests
Cambodian forests, some of the most biologically diverse areas in the world, are vanishing fast as a result of the Vietnamese, Chinese and Cambodian political interests. Cambodia has one of the largest deforestation rates in the world. Forest Trends, an influential organization with a mission to conserve ss='cambodia-color'>...
Abu SMG Kibria
http://thediplomat.com/2016/09/how-politics-is-killing-cambodias-forests/
Airports deemed ready for ICAO security audit
A spokesman for Cambodia’s aviation authority said yesterday that the Kingdom’s airports are “prepared and ready” for an audit by the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization that is set to commence on Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/airports-deemed-ready-icao-security-audit
Finance for women easier
Acleda Bank, a leading locally-owned commercial bank, has received a $30 million loan from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the Us government’s development finance institution, through Goldman sachs’ 10,000 Women and the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Banking on Women program for supporting women-owned small ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31993/finance-for-women-easier/
Villagers affected by dam meet with government officials
Villagers from stung Treng whose homes stand to be flooded by the Lower sesan II dam met with representatives of the Ministry of Mines and Energy at an NGO Forum-sponsored meeting in Phnom Penh yesterday, in hopes of establishing a dialogue towards a long-awaited compromise. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-affected-dam-meet-government-officials
Former bar president back on top
Twelve years after being ousted as president of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) amid a bitter dispute with the prime minister’s attorney, human rights lawyer suon Visal has been voted back into the lawyer association’s top position. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/former-bar-president-back-top
Recruitment Agency Director Charged With Fraud
The Siem Reap Provincial Court charged the director of a recruitment agency with fraud for allegedly taking money from victimS in exchange for promiSing jobS in the U.S., a court official Said yeSterday. “Bich Bunara, head of the recruitment agency, waS charged with fraud and another SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hun Sen says CPP will never tax farmland
Prime Minister Hun sen has said the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) will never tax farmland. “It would burden our farmers,” he said in Takeo sunday. “Although national revenue that comes from land taxes is spent on building roads, water systems, hospitals and schools, we still ss='cambodia-color'>...