Authorities accused of threatening over land
Threatening leaflets were thrown into the homes of four people in Banteay Meanchey’s Thma Puok district, with victims saying they believe officials involved in a local land dispute are behind the intimidation campaign. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-accused-threatening-over-land
Pneumonia tests tested
A new campaign has been launched in Cambodia to identify the most effective tools available for diagnosing pneumonia, a condition that represents the country’s single-biggest killer of children under 5 years old. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pneumonia-tests-tested
PM urges greater economic integration with China
Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday called for more collaboration and integration of financial markets at the regional level, especially with China – the world’s second-largest economy – to offset the effects of a slowing global economy. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16773/pm-urges-greater-economic-integration-with-china/
Premier Hun Sen: Russian PM to visit Cambodia on Nov. 23, 2015
If nothing changes, Russian Prime Minister H.E. Dmitry Medvedev will pay a visit to Cambodia on Nov. 23-24, 2015, Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun sen said this morning. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/premier-hun-sen:-russian-pm-to-visit-cambodia-on-nov-23-2015-9042
Rights groups condemn ‘new wave of political violence’
Human Rights Watch and local rights groups condemned Monday’s attack on two opposition parliamentarians, who were dragged from their cars and beaten by an organized group of masked men. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Neou Vannarin, Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/rights-groups-condemn-new-wave-of-political-violence/3024815.html
Cambodia to gain as Adidas pivots from china
Adidas, one of the country’s biggest garment buyers, says it will expand production in Cambodia over the next five years as part of its pivot away from China to lower-cost producers in southeast Asia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-to-gain-as-adidas-pivots-from-china-103163/
Index shows Cambodia still weak on human development
Cambodia ranked 143rd out of 188 countries in the U.N.’s latest Human Development Index (HDI), a composite measure of development incorporating health, education and living standards, according to new figures released on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tej Parikh
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/index-shows-cambodia-still-weak-on-human-development-103035/
Sihanoukville beach to be cleared of fences, says gov’t
The government yesterday ordered all fences blocking public access along Independence Beach in sihanoukville to be dismantled as part of a continuing campaign to remove private encroachments on the coastal city’s public beaches. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sihanoukville-beach-be-cleared-fences-says-govt
Animals die as Cambodia is gripped by worst drought in decades
Behind a clutch of huts that hug the major route between Cambodia’s capital and its famed Angkor temples, rice farmers Phem Phean and sok Khoert peer into a cement hollow. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/may/05/animals-die-cambodia-worst-drought-decades
Bad meat among goods seized
More than 200kg of old meatballs were seized by the government’s Camcontrol in a crackdown on goods past their use-by dates in Pailin on Wednesday, according to the Ministry of Commerce. ss='cambodia-color'>...
San Bunsim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27546/bad-meat-among-goods-seized/
Telecom Cambodia workers protest over missing money
Dozens of employees of Telecom Cambodia protested outside the state-owned company’s head office in Phnom Penh on Monday over allegations that a manager pocketed $230,000 in payments from a private firm. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/telecom-cambodia-workers-protest-over-missing-money-93606/
Minister pens book on Khmer economy
“Cambodia Economy: The Bright Way to the Future,” written by Cambodia’s Minister of Education, Youths and sport Ministry MoEYs, will be officially launched next Tuesday by the author, Dr. Hang Chuon Naron. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18999/minister-pens-book-on-khmer-economy/
Gov’t says Rainsy may not Skype with court
Opposition leader sam Rainsy’s request to be questioned remotely by court officials in his latest defamation case cannot be allowed, a spokesman for the Justice Ministry said on sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ouch Sony and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-says-rainsy-may-not-skype-with-court-104296/
India to ease visa norms to lure visitors
India is looking to ease its visa regime for AsEAN nations in a bid to increase Buddhist tourist arrivals – travellers looking to visit Buddhist heritage sites – to the country, India’s vice president said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/india-ease-visa-norms-lure-visitors
133-story twin towers get initial approval
The government is reviewing a mammoth $1-billion proposal by the Thai Boon Roong Group to build twin commercial skyscrapers in Phnom Penh which, if constructed, would be among the world’s tallest buildings. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/133_story_towers_approved-108645/
Preah Vihear villagers allege rubber company retaliation
Villagers from Preah Vihear’s Kulen district, where last week two rubber company guard posts were torched, yesterday alleged security guards from the same company had looted their homes and threatened to burn them. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-villagers-allege-rubber-company-retaliation
Cambodia refutes new East Sea-related agreement with China
Cambodia does not have any new agreements regarding the south China sea (East sea) issue with China, the country’s secretary of state and spokesman for the Council of Ministers, Phay siphan, has said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vietnam News Team
http://vietnamnews.vn/world/296040/cambodia-refutes-new-east-sea-related-agreement-with-china.html
Another commercial arbitration center planned
The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce has discussed the possibility of establishing arbitration and a mediator to solve commercial conflicts in Cambodia’s business community, where every conflict now ends up in the court system. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24705/another-commercial-arbitration-center-planned/
Pig skin to kick off leather industry
Agro-industrial giant Mong Reththy Group is finalising construction on the Kingdom’s first pig skin processing factory and expects production to begin by the end of the year, a company executive said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pig-skin-kick-leather-industry
Maids unlikely to reach Malaysia before 2017
Recruiters say it could be 2017 by the time Cambodia starts sending maids to Malaysia through legal channels again, despite Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s public endorsement of a tentative deal last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/maids-unlikely-to-reach-malaysia-before-2017-113761/