Government Blasted for Eviction of Freedom Park
The U.N. and local human rights groups have condemned the government’s violent eviction of CNRP supporters from Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on saturday, as well as its indefinite ban on public protests in the city. On saturday, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court also summonsed opposition leaders ss='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn and Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-blasted-for-eviction-of-freedom-park-50132/
‘Gender equality starts at home’
The push for gender equality must start within families and parents should encourage their daughters to speak their minds, Minister of Culture and Fine Arts Phoeung sackona said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Va Sonyka
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15310/---gender-equality-starts-at-home---/
Bride traffickers take new route to reach China
It wasn’t until she was en route to the Ho Chi Minh airport that sok srey Touch knew she was in trouble. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matt Blomberg and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bride-traffickers-take-new-route-to-reach-china-93515/
Chugging along- The rehabilitation of the Kingdom’s railways is essential to boosting regional economic ties, but the mammoth project needs to pick up speed
A glance around Battambang’s dilapidated train station reveals the monumental task it will be to complete the Cambodian segment of the ‘iron silk road’, which will connect southeast Asia to Europe by rail for the first time. Cows graze between missing rails in front of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Garment Workers Set Tires on Fire as Tax Protest Continues
About 600 garment factory workers continued their strike in Phnom Penh yesterday, setting car tires alight to protest what they said were unfair salary cuts but factory representatives and labor officials described as a normal tax on income. “The factory told us that they cut our ss='cambodia-color'>...
After bust, cosmetics shops under scrutiny
Less than a week after the arrest of alleged beauty parlour madam Chan sreynuch, military police say they are taking a closer look at a number of hair salons and beauty shops in Phnom Penh suspected of being involved in human trafficking and prostitution. According to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Singapore investment up
Total fixed assets of singaporean investment in Cambodia last year reached $82.7 million, a 500 per cent increase from $13.8 million in 2011, data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) show. singaporean entrepreneurs who have already entered the Cambodian market said they expect ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013022561574/Business/singapore-investment-up.html
Obama visit on track
Another senior United states official has said that President Barack Obama will visit Cambodia in November for the East Asia summit and the Us-AsEAN summit. ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052856420/National-news/obama-visit-on-track.html
We Will Not Be Moved
They’re known as the BK13 and they’re not prepared to let greedy developers take the very, very little they have. They’re 13 women – mothers, grandmothers – who live around what used to be Boeung Kak Lake – not far from the centre of Cambodia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
U.K.’s Prudential Set to Gain Cambodia License in First Quarter
Prudential Plc, the U.K.’s biggest insurer by market value, plans to begin selling insurance in Cambodia in the first quarter of next year to extend its presence in Asia across 13 markets. The firm is hiring sales agents and expects to gain a license to operate ss='cambodia-color'>...
S. Korea’s financial body inks deal to assist Cambodia in banking supervision
South Korea&rSquo;S Financial ServiceS CommiSSion (FSC) and the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on Friday Signed a Memorandum of UnderStanding (MoU) on the proviSion of technical Support for Cambodia&rSquo;S banking and financial SuperviSion, according to a preSS releaSe after the Signing ceremony. “The MoU will SS='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia-US Bilateral Trade 2012 Increases Slightly
The bilateral trade between Cambodia and the United StateS in 2012 roSe Slightly, while Cambodia&rSquo;S export decreaSed, according to a report of the United StateS CenSuS Bureau of the Department of Commerce. U.S. Department of Commerce. The Cambodia-US bilateral trade Saw itS increaSe 0. 61%, while SS='cambodia-color'>...
Three more populations of Indochinese hog deer found in Cambodia
Fauna and Flora International says its has found three previously unknown populations of the endangered Indochinese hog deer in Cambodia. “This is a remarkable discovery given not only the species’ vulnerability to hunting, but also because all of the sites were outside the existing protected area ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=YzRmOWQ0M2JiNzU
Japanese Government Awards Chea Sim Order of the Rising Sun
CPP and Senate PreSident Chea Sim waS awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the RiSing Sun by the JapaneSe government on Sunday in recognition of hiS contributionS to the Strengthening of relationS between the two countrieS. In the 1980S and early 1990S, Mr. Sim, SS='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/japanese-government-awards-chea-sim-order-of-the-rising-sun-46601/
Factory Owners Slam Government Over Handling of Strikes
Members of the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) said during a conference sunday that they are “fed up” with the government for not controlling strikes by labor unions. “All of us have the same issue: illegal strikes,” Van Porphin, a member of GMAC’s executive committee, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/factory-owners-slam-government-over-handling-of-strikes-49352/
Illegal ivory a sign Cambodia is new transit point
The seizure on Friday of a large haul of African elephant tusks in svay Rieng province, only one month after police intercepted a large ivory haul in siem Reap, could indicate that Cambodia is becoming a major transit point for illegal ivory, experts said Monday. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson and Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-ivory-a-sign-cambodia-is-new-transit-point-54876/
NGOs issue one more plea to stop Xayaburi
With time running short before Laos’s Xayaburi hydropower dam enters its final, potentially irreversible stages of construction, a group of NGOs has made another call for its suspension. In a joint declaration released today, 39 organisations based in Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Australia set a one-year ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-issue-one-more-plea-stop-xayaburi
US promotes child nutrition and development in Cambodia
U.S. EmbaSSy Chargé d&rSquo;AffaireS, a.i. Jeff Daigle viSited In Komar Primary School in Kampong Thom province today to highlight a $20 million U.S. government School feeding program funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and implemented by the United NationS&rSquo; World Food Programme (WFP), SS='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=YzQ0ZTIzMmEyODg
Push to transform bright female students into future gov’t leaders
As a child growing up in a poor family in Banteay Meanchey, Yang Leaphea struggled to imagine a world outside her province. she turned to her desperately under-resourced local library, but found few books there to expand her horizons. All that changed when the intelligent daughter ss='cambodia-color'>...
Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/push-to-transform bright-female-students-into-future-govt-leaders-66806/
Commission calls for review of land concessions in Koh Kong
Three parliamentarians from the National Assembly’s human rights commission, led by CNRP lawmaker Eng Chhay Eang, returned Tuesday from a two-day visit to four communities in Koh Kong province locked in land disputes with companies holding private land concessions. Following the trip, the lawmakers said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/commission-calls-for-review-of-land-concessions-in-koh-kong-73100/