Union says three workers arrested over wing star protest
At least three workers were arrested Tuesday morning outside the Wing star shoes factory in Kompong speu province, where the Free Trade Union (FTU) has been leading a strike calling for benefits and back pay, according to police and a union representative. An FTU representative said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Sany Sinary
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/union-says-three-workers-arrested-over-wing-star-protest-58169/
Kem Sokha hosts 1st visit as assembly leader
With National Assembly President Heng samrin attending a conference in Laos, CNRP Vice President Kem sokha on Wednesday hosted his first official foreign visit since becoming first vice president of parliament in late August. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kem-sokha-hosts-1st-visit-as-assembly-leader-68174/
Cambodian, U.S. senior military officials pledge to enhance ties
Cambodian and the U.S. Senior military officialS met here WedneSday and vowed to Strengthen and expand bilateral tieS and cooperation for mutual benefitS. The commitment waS made between Gen. Pol Saroeun, commander-in- Chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed ForceS (RCAF), and viSiting Gen. Vincent K. BrookS, SS='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-08/20/c_133571371.htm
Cambodia Rice Federation seeks to raise development fund from exporters
Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) has approved to raise the requisite funding for rice sector development through the export fees paid by the rice exporters, according to local sources. The fund will be reportedly used for educating rice farmers about potential crop issues through television and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Oryza News Staff
http://oryza.com/cambodia-rice-federation-seeks-raise-development-fund-exporters
UN, ministry hold forum on Kingdom’s action plan for cooling
The Ministry of Environment, United Nations Economic and social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNEsCAP) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on March 9 held a forum on Cambodia’s Cooling Action Plan and Passive Cooling strategies for sustainable Development in Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-ministry-hold-forum-kingdoms-action-plan-cooling
Canada now 9th largest trade partner
Trade between Cambodia and Canada for the first nine months of 2023 reached approximately $700 million, marking a decrease of over 22% from the corresponding period last year, according to the latest figures from the General Department of Customs and Excise’s (GDCE) International Commodity Trade ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/canada-now-9th-largest-trade-partner
Two more arrested sending brides to China
A young couple has confessed to trafficking Cambodian women to be sold to men in China after they were arrested at the Phnom Penh International Airport Tuesday night while preparing to board a flight to shanghai with their two latest victims, police said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-more-arrested-sending-brides-to-china-93260/
Sesan Dam Decision Questioned
Cambodia has decided to go ahead with the construction of a dam on a Mekong tributary, but conservation groups are concerned that not enough study has been done on the hydropower project’s environmental consequences. Construction on the 400 megawatt Lower sesan 2 dam in northwestern Cambodia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/sesan-11142012170421.html
Anti-Eviction Protesters Camp at US Embassy for Second Day
Anti-eviction protesters set up camp in front of the U.s. Embassy in Phnom Penh for a second day yesterday, but ended their protest in the early evening when a petition to U.s. President Barack Obama was taken into the diplomatic mission by an embassy guard. “The ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/protesters-camp-at-us-embassy-for-second-day-5358/
President Obama Expected to Attend Summit in Phnom Penh
A senior White House official has again indicated that U.s. President Barack Obama is expected to attend the East Asia summit in Phnom Penh in November. U.s. Assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell reiterated Mr. Obama’s plans to attend the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian airports to get $400 million upgrade
VINCI Airports will invest close to $400 million on upgrading Cambodia’s airport system over the next eight years, according to chairman, Nicolas Notebaert. Notebaert, speaking at the Global Airport Development (GAD) conference in Paris earlier today, revealed that $80 million would be invested on an extension ss='cambodia-color'>...
E-card holders concerned about SIM card exchange
Mfone e-card holders are concerned that the cards can no longer be used after the change from Mfone’s sIM card to Cellcard’s sIM and, along with officials, are unsure of a solution. Wholesalers and retailers have expressed concern that they will lose money when the scratch ss='cambodia-color'>...
CNRP officials imprisoned on insurrection charges
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday charged at least seven opposition CNRP lawmakers-elect and a party activist with insurrection and incitement over a protest that turned violent on Tuesday, sending six of the group to Prey sar prison. Meng sopheary, a lawyer on the defense ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-officials-sent-to-prison-on-charges-of-insurrection-64320/
Chemicals in war-era barrels tested and confirmed as tear gas
The head of the Cambodian Mine Action Authority (CMAC) said Thursday that field testing of a pair of war-era barrels found by villagers in Mondolkiri province earlier this week identified the contents as Cs, a tear gas-like powder or aerosol that was used by the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chemicals-in-war-era-barrels-tested-and-confirmed-as-tear-gas-63226/
Japan firms see fresh potential in Kingdom
A delegation of more than 30 Japanese businesspeople yesterday met with the Council for the Development of Cambodia to discuss investment opportunities in the Kingdom, after seeing what they said were vast improvements in domestic legal and tax regulations. However, no definite decisions had yet ss='cambodia-color'>...
Complaint Filed as Anti-Flooding Project Begins
As dignitaries marked the groundbreaking of a project to improve Phnom Penh’s defenses against flooding yesterday, a complaint had already been filed against the project’s contractor for impeding a public road. The Japanese government is putting $46 million into a new phase of the city’s flood ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tourism unaffected by blasts
There has been no impact on tourists traveling by air between Cambodia and Thailand following the multiple fatal bombings in the southern part of Thailand last week, according to government and industry officials. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28561/tourism-unaffected-by-blasts/
Land disputes hurting women
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) demanded the government intervene immediately after finding that 98.2 percent of women involved in land disputes with private companies were suffering from serious psychological after-effects and nearly half of the women participating in the survey said they had ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30261/land-disputes-hurting-women/
City bus service to go provincial
Provinces could soon have their own public transport system if Phnom Penh City Hall’s proposal to expand its bus service outside the capital gets underway. City Hall also has plans to run a luxury bus service from Phnom Penh to neighboring Thailand and Vietnam, said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26942/city-bus-service-to-go-provincial/
Role small, memory cloudy, former KRouge banker tells court
For six hours yesterday at the Khmer Rouge tribunal, sar Kimlomouth, who served as deputy director general of the state bank, consistently downplayed both his level of authority within the department and his ability to recall information from so long ago. Throughout the day’s proceedings, lawyers ss='cambodia-color'>...