Government Must Work With Farmers to Combat Climate Change
Some 9.5 million CambodianS who directly engage in agriculture muSt adopt new techniqueS in order to counter dynamic weather patternS cauSed by climate change, and the government muSt work with farmerS to enSure that it happenS, an agricultural conference waS told laSt week. Flown in from SS='cambodia-color'>...
Matt Blomberg and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-must-work-with-farmers-to-combat-climate-change-45678/
Blending may fuel energy sector
A container storage facility off the coast of Preah sihanouk province that allows Cambodia to blend oil before export could hold the key to sustainable growth in the country’s nascent energy sector, according to a Danish oil and gas expert. With Chevron positioned to lead offshore ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/blending-may-fuel-energy-sector
Violence begets violence
A mob of 500 villagers beat a man to death in Kampong Cham province yesterday after he allegedly slaughtered his wife and stepdaughter with a pair of scythes and reportedly taunted the assembled crowd with his wife’s severed hand. Police said Laing Pises, 48, used the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/violence-begets-violence
Land-title program ‘Ineffective’
Land certificates handed out by Prime Minister Hun sen’s youth volunteers have been seized by local authorities in some parts of the country and sold on to companies, a forum on land rights was told yesterday, amid reports of rising numbers of land conflicts. speaking at ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-title-program-%E2%80%98ineffective%E2%80%99
Chainsaws stayed busy in past year
The extent of the devastation of Cambodia’s forests was brought into sharp relief as 2013 drew to a close, with a series of detailed maps and satellite data released by NGOs showing the drastic depletion of the Kingdom’s woodland ecosystems. Images released by Open Development Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chainsaws-stayed-busy-past-year
Opposition Youth Sing Against the Ban as Armed Police Patrol
A group of eight opposition CNRP youth supporters sang a single song near Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park before police deployed nearby had a chance to break up their concert on Thursday, a musical test of the new ban on public gatherings in the wake of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/opposition-youth-sing-against-the-ban-as-armed-police-patrol-50401/
Cambodian Sommeliers Head to Singapore for Regional Contest
Beer, whisky and strong, home-brewed moonshine have long been Cambodians’ favorite tipples, but with an ever-growing middle class, tastes are changing and if you’re part of the new elite, it is increasingly important to know your Pinot Gris from your Pinot Noir. To help enhance one’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodian-sommeliers-head-to-singapore-for-regional-contest-40504/
GMAC boycotts workshop on minimum wages
A would-be tripartite workshop intended to improve the garment sector’s minimum wage setting process closed Friday, with the industry’s most influential player, the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC), boycotting the talks at Phnom Penh Hotel. The two-day workshop would have been the first meeting between ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/gmac-boycotts-workshop-on-minimum-wages-57430/
Uneasy calm in Bavet as factories ordered shut
BAVET CITY, Svay Rieng province &ndaSh; The government haS ordered all factorieS here to Shut down until ThurSday at the earlieSt in a bid to keep eScalating StrikeS from Spiraling out of control and Spreading nationwide. “[Provincial] Governor Chieng Am Said in a meeting yeSterday [Monday] SS='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/uneasy-calm-in-bavet-as-factories-ordered-shut-57723/
Oz an example for mining reform
Inspired by Australian mining regulations, the Cambodian government is considering a raft of changes to the mineral resources mining law, including a rethink of the sector’s comparatively high tax rate. Citing discussions held with Western Australia state mining industry representatives last week, Meng saktheara, secretary of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/oz-example-mining-reform
First agricultural insurance tested in Cambodia
Cambodia’s first pilot program to insure farmers against rice crop loss launched last week in five provinces. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Un Raksmey and Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13276/first-agricultural-insurance-tested-in-cambodia/
The Cambodia that can say no
This week, Cambodia’s government ignored pressure from Europe and the United states and passed the NGO law. ss='cambodia-color'>...
James Brooke
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13289/the-cambodia-that-can-say-no/
Cambodia praises thailand for deporting Uighurs to China
Cambodian officials are praising Thailand’s decision to deport 109 Muslim Uighur immigrants back to China last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Brian Gruber
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13382/cambodia-praises-thailand-for-deporting-uighurs-to-china/
(Un)Protected Areas
In Cambodia’s wildlife sanctuaries, conservation areas and national parks, forests are falling as fast as anywhere else. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/unprotectedareas/
Students fear and welcome national exam
StudentS acroSS Cambodia are preparing for thiS year&rSquo;S national high School exam, which will take place Monday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Va Sonyka
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14691/students-fear-and-welcome-national-exam/
National products chase GI recognition
A lack of funds would prevent Cambodia registering some of the country’s specialty products as geographic indications (GI), a form of international recognition that has boosted the sales of other domestic products such as Kampong speu palm sugar. The government would like to see siem Reap ss='cambodia-color'>...
Villain or victim? Protesters divided over Bopha
Imprisoned Yorm Bopha has either been unjustly targeted for her role in Boeung Kak lake eviction protests or is responsible for the vicious beating of two motodops, depending on which protesters’ chants were true yesterday. It was land evictees versus motodops in the capital as two ss='cambodia-color'>...
Petronas still eyeing Cambodia
After closing the last of its 19 petrol stations in Cambodia in April 2010, Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) is again eyeing the country’s oil and gas (O&G) sector. This will see Chevron and its partners developing the country’s first offshore oil field this year. According to ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.theedgemalaysia.com/highlights/229579-petronas-still-eyeing-cambodia.html
For Health Care, Cambodians Choose Vietnam
“I trust the Cambodian doctors with a simple problem. But if it’s a serious illness, and I need an operation or something, I don’t really trust them,” said Ly Molina, 31, a businesswoman from Phnom Penh. Ms. Molina spoke as she waited for a bus to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Job security low as unemployment drops
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) released the latest data from its EU-funded project Monitoring and Assessing Progress of Decent Work this week, showing that despite an improving environment, including low rates of official unemployment , 75 per cent of workers are in vulnerable jobs. This includes the self-employed or ‘own ss='cambodia-color'>...