CNRP pledges marches; PM says party ‘absolutely will not be allowed’
The Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday declared its intention to move forward with nationwide demonstrations in response to what it calls a campaign of state-backed legal harassment, prompting a swift reply from Prime Minister Hun sen, who warned security forces had been advised to crack ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sengkong and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-pledges-marches-pm-says-party-absolutely-will-not-be-allowed
Garment Exports Grow 15% in First Quarter
Garment and footwear exports from Cambodia increased 15.29 percent to $1.29 billion in the first three months of the year compared to the same period in 2011, according to figures released yesterday by the Ministry of Commerce. While exports to the European Union rose 46.76 percent to $376.14 million in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Coca-Cola, Smart Mobile again team up for top-ups
Coca-cola and Smart Mobile have teamed up in a joint promotion to give away $1 million worth of prizeS, including top-up minuteS and 25 SamSung Galaxy S3 SmartphoneS uSing numberS printed under bottle capS of Coca-Cola, Fanta and Sprite. The promotion Started on November 1 SS='cambodia-color'>...
Guesthouses rebut calls for fair prices
Hotel and guesthouse operators have pushed back against government calls to avoid price increases during holidays, claiming group booking, as well as supply and demand, dictated the price of accommodation. Government officials, including Prime Minister Hun sen, have recently tried to dissuade operators from raising the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Unpaid Factory Workers Ask US Embassy for Help
More than 100 workers from Kingsland Garment Cambodia factory, which was a supplier to U.s. retail giant Wal-Mart, demonstrated outside the U.s. Embassy in Phnom Penh yesterday, appealing for help in getting their severance payments. In December, workers found out the company had declared bankruptcy ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia's trade with U.S. up 2% in first half of 2013
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and the United StateS haS amounted to 1.44 billion U.S. dollarS in the firSt Six monthS of the year, up 2 percent compared with 1.41 billion U.S. dollarS over the Same period laSt year, the figureS of the U.S. Department of SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-08/07/c_132610051.htm
Teenage Pregnancy Rate Stays Constant Over Past Decade
Teenage pregnancies are hindering Cambodia’s development as young mothers are unlikely to finish school and therefore lack job opportunities, government and U.N. officials said at the launch of a global report on adolescent pregnancies on Wednesday. “The Ministry of Women’s Affairs acknowledges that adolescent pregnancies have ss='cambodia-color'>...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/teenage-pregnancy-rate-stays-constant-over-past-decade-46402/
US Government Clothes Producer Denies Abuses
A representative of the Zongtex Garment Manufacturing company in Phnom Penh on Tuesday denied employing workers as young as 15 to make U.s. government clothing, following an exposé by The New York Times on poor standards in factories producing U.s. government attire. On sunday, The Times ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/us-government-clothes-producer-denies-abuses-49654/
Cambodia, Britain sign MOU to fight crimes
Cambodia and Britain signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to fight against cross-border crimes. “The MOU focused on cooperation between the General Commissariat of National Police and Britain’s National Crime Agency to fight against crimes and related violations,” said Kirt Chantharith, national police spokesman. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=ZTRmODY4NWYxOGZ
Cambodia asks for help in oil and gas industry
Cambodia has invited resource-rich Azerbaijan to help develop Cambodia’s prospective oil and gas industry, Commerce Minister sun Chanthol announced during a high-level visit to the Caucasian country on Tuesday, according to Azerbaijani media reports. Mr. Chanthol laid out a goal to achieve an overall trade ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/cambodia-asks-for-help-in-oil-and-gas-industry-57237/
CNRP holds a citywide rolling rally
Days after authorities repeatedly cracked down on demonstrations, opposition party supporters staged a rolling rally across Phnom Penh yesterday, filling up roads for hours and blocking major intersections. About 500 people with tuk-tuks and motorbikes gathered at the Cambodia National Rescue Party headquarters in the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-holds-citywide-rolling-rally
CNRP looks to UN, King
The opposition may be readying a formal request that the United Nations and King Norodom sihamoni play a role in future negotiations between the Cambodia National Rescue Party and the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. On a trip to Takeo province on saturday, CNRP deputy president Kem ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-looks-un-king
Villagers request intervention in land dispute
Villagers from Koh Kong province delivered petitions in Phnom Penh on Friday seeking international intervention in their land dispute with powerful businessman and CPP senator Ly Yong Phat, alleging that his Koh Kong special Economic Zone (sEZ) was encroaching on their farmland. Five representatives of the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-request-intervention-in-land-dispute-65038/
Assembly official accused of gross misspending
The National Assembly’s banking and finance commission decided on Wednesday to summon Leng Peng Long, parliament’s chief administrative official, for questioning over claims of nepotism and alleged spending irregularities including $25,000 spent on a flagpole, the commission’s deputy chairman said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/assembly-official-accused-of-gross-misspending-77824/
Soldiers train rangers to fight illegal logging
A group of 56 rangers from the Ministry of Environment last week completed a one-month training course in Phnom Penh run by the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) to help save Cambodia’s protected areas from illegal loggers, a first for the country’s rangers. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/soldiers-train-rangers-to-fight-illegal-logging-78016/
Questioning over assembly misspending delayed
Son Chhay, the deputy chairman of the National ASSembly&rSquo;S banking and finance commiSSion, on TueSday accuSed commiSSion chairman Cheam Yeap of deliberately avoiding Summoning the chief adminiStrator of the parliament for queStioning over alleged groSS Spending irregularitieS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/questioning-over-assembly-misspending-delayed-78621/
5,000 trees planted to reforest Angkor
About 5,000 trees were planted in Angkor Archaeological Park this summer, part of effort to combat severe deforestation of native tree species in Cambodia’s forests. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Naomi-Collett Ritz
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14050/5-000-trees-planted-to-reforest-angkor/
Boutique hotels rising
An increasing number of boutique hotels are appearing in Cambodia and attracting foreign investment, insiders say, including a Us$2 million investment in the Governor’s House, a newly opened, 10-room boutique hotel in Phnom Penh. The number of boutique hotels in Cambodia has increased rapidly, particularly in ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070257135/Business/boutique-hotels-cambodia.html
U.S. Ambassadors Fund to give grants for Cambodia preservation
The U.S. EmbaSSy haS juSt announced it will be awarding grantS to two recipientS for the 2013 U.S. AmbaSSadorS Fund for Cultural PreServation in Cambodia. The Archaeology and Development Foundation iS the firSt recipient and will receive $47,000 to implementS it&rSquo;S propoSal called the “Documentation of SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ZjYxOGFmM2ExNDk
SMC to invest 1.5 billion dollars in Cambodia Airlines
Diversified conglomerate san Miguel Corp. (sMC) will invest $1.5 billion for its airline venture in Cambodia, its top executive said yesterday. Cambodia Airlines will have about 20 aircraft in its fleet and add as much as $400 million revenues per year to Philippine Airlines (PAL), said ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/05/10/13/smc-invest-15-billion-dollars-cambodia-airlines