Planned rally too large, city officials say
City Hall yesterday rejected the opposition party’s request to hold a Sunday rally with 20,000 supporters, saying it was unable to provide security for participants. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has scheduled a “party congress” to be held in Freedom Park on Sunday, with a ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/planned-rally-too-large-city-officials-say
Sam Rainsy To Ask Western Nations Not to Recognize Current Government
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy says he is preparing for a trip to the United States and Europe, to urge Western countries not to recognize the newly formed government led by Prime Minister Hun Sen. Sam Rainsy registered to vote on Monday, making him eligible to vote ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/sam-rainsy-to-ask-western-nations-not-to-recognize-current-cambodian-government/1764857.html
Cambodia Wants Sinopec to Build Oil Refinery by 2018
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday urged China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, or Sinopec Corp, the Asia’s largest oil refining and petrochemical enterprise, to expedite its process to build an oil refinery in Cambodia by 2018, Xinhua reported on October 15, citing a spokesman. ...
Oil and Gas Industry Latest News Staff
http://www.oilandgaseurasia.com/en/news/cambodia-wants-sinopec-build-oil-refinery-2018
Index Shows Little Progress on Gender Equality
Cambodia has made little progress on gender equality and is the lowest-ranked country in the region, according to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2013 Gender Gap Index released Friday, slipping a place from last year to rank 104 out of 136 countries. The index examines the ...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/index-shows-little-progress-on-gender-equality-46004/
Parliament calls to action over use of invalid number plates
Cambodia’s National Assembly Secretary General, Leng Peng Long, called on the Ministry of Interior to take decisive action over members of parliament whose vehicles still use out of date number plates. On Thursday, the Secretariat of the National Assembly had informed lawmakers and former lawmakers ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=MzA4YWM3NjQzYzd
Thai policy hits Cambodian cassava exports
Thailand’s restriction on agricultural imports earlier this year caused dramatic declines for Cambodia’s cassava exports during the harvest season, provincial border officials said yesterday. Cambodia’s exports of cassava reached 288,109 tonnes in the first six months of this year, a decline of 55 per cent from ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thai-policy-hits-cambodian-cassava-exports
In Washington, Hundreds Rally for Election Investigation
Nearly 500 Cambodian-Americans gathered at a rally on Capitol Hill Wednesday, demanding a transparent investigation into Cambodia’s alleged election irregularities. The rally was addressed by three Republican congressmen who called on a change in Cambodia’s governance. Rep. Steve Chabot, a Republican who chairs the House Foreign ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/in-washington-hundreds-rally-for-election-investigation/1753204.html
Mixed bag of health: report
Cambodia is making headway on its 2015 Millennium Development Goal to improve maternal health and is ahead of its target to reduce its under-five child mortality rate, but it still lags behind neighbouring countries, the 2013 State of the World Population Report has revealed. Released yesterday, ...
Amelia Woodside and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mixed-bag-health-report
Military Denies Receiving Request to Examine News Report
Senior officials at the Military Court and Ministry of Defense said Tuesday that they have not received a request from Council of Ministers Secretary of State Phay Siphan to investigate an article published in an opposition newspaper. Mr. Siphan on Monday said he had submitted a ...
Kuch Naren and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/military-denies-receiving-request-to-examine-news-report-48515/
Cambodia's opposition to mark International Human Rights Day
The main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) will stage mass rallies in capital Phnom Penh and tourist city of Siem Reap on Dec. 10 to celebrate the International Human Rights Day, a party spokesman said Thursday. “We plan to mobilize 20,000 people in Phnom Penh ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/131205/cambodias-opposition-mark-international-human-rights-day
Massage Parlor Raid Suspects Sent to Court
Seven Vietnamese nationals arrested during simultaneous raids on a pair of massage parlors in central Phnom Penh on Thursday night have been sent to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for their role in the alleged trafficking of minors, police and a child-protection NGO said Sunday. “We ...
Ben Woods and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/massage-parlor-raid-suspects-sent-to-court-46521/
Cambodia, US Extend Artifacts Trade Agreement
Cambodia and the U.S. have signed an extension to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that imposes strict import restrictions on artifacts dating from the Bronze Age to the end of the Angkor Empire. Hab Touch, director-general for tangible heritage at the Ministry of Culture and ...
Simon Henderson
https://cambodia.opendevelopmentmekong.net/wp-admin/post.php?post=34061&action=edit&message=1
CNRP will not attend first session of parliament: Rainsy
Opposition party leader Sam Rainsy said on Thursday that his Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) will not join the government and attend the National Assembly’s first session on Sept. 23, if the hopes of the Cambodian people don’t come into fruition. “The Cambodia National Rescue ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NGIyMDBhYjRiNzI
Boats seized in dredging crackdown
More than 100 sand-pumping systems and 40 boats have been impounded by the Kandal provincial Department of Water Resources and Meteorology in order to prevent riverbank collapse as water levels continue to rise. Chun Penglong, the provincial department director, told the Post yesterday that navy police and the ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/boats-seized-dredging-crackdown
Logging ‘crackdown’ falls flat with villagers
Hundreds of villagers in Preav Vihear’s Kulen district cut down a palm tree on Monday and used it to block provincial officials attempting to confiscate tonnes of luxury timber from their village, their representative said yesterday. Ri Sothun, a spokesman for more than 400 families in ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-%E2%80%98crackdown%E2%80%99-falls-flat-villagers
Eco-tourists made to leave
An eco-tourism initiative in Mondulkiri hit a snag this week when authorities asked management to vacate overnight guests while provincial officials determine whether the project is properly licensed to operate a guesthouse. Guests of the Elephant Valley Project (EVP), which is located in a Forestry Administration ...
Sean Teehan and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eco-tourists-made-leave
Chinese ophthalmologists help restore sight for Cambodian eye patients
A medical team of 10 Chinese ophthalmologists from the Beijing Tongren Hospital have helped operate on eye patients in Cambodia as a part of the celebrations of the 55th anniversary of China-Cambodia diplomatic ties. The team have spent a two-day humanitarian mission at the Preah Ketomelea ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/131204/chinese-ophthalmologists-help-restore-sight-cambodian-eye-pa
Cambodia Opposition Party Threatens to Call Off Talks
The main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) threatened Tuesday to call off talks aimed at breaking an eight-month political deadlock with Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party, accusing it of using the negotiations to cling on to power. CNRP chief Sam Rainsy said his party ...
Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/
Neighbours wary of Laos dam plan
In its race to cash in on hydropower without first addressing its downstream implications, Laos could pitch the region into a water crisis and jeopardise millions of Cambodian’s food security, conservation groups and Cambodian government officials said yesterday. “Lao PDR is exploiting the Mekong River to ...
Laignee Barron and Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/neighbours-wary-laos-dam-plan
Chemicals used for soap, not drugs, police say
Thirty tons of chemicals seized by police on Wednesday were used to make counterfeit soap, officials confirmed Thursday, refusing to release the name of the Chinese national arrested in connection with the raid. The liquid and solid chemicals were stored in blue vats, bottles and sacks ...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chemicals-used-for-soap-not-drugs-police-say-56444/