Cambodia's trade with France up 29 pct in 2014
Trade between Cambodia and France increased to 520 million U.s. dollars last year, up 29 percent year-on-year, according to figures released by the French Embassy here on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/150304/cambodias-trade-france-29-pct-2014
Coca-cola guides ‘rebranding’ cambodia event
Commerce Minister sun Chan­thol evoked the late U.s. President John Kennedy on Friday at a seminar about “rebranding” Cambodia that quickly turned into a promotional event for Coca-Cola. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matt Blomberg and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/coca-cola-guides-rebranding-cambodia-event-80912/
Senior Vietnamese officials pay respects to Chea Sim
A Vietnamese Communist Party delegation that included Vietnam’s National Assembly president Wednesday paid their respects to the late CPP President Chea sim, who died Monday at the age of 82. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/senior-vietnamese-officials-pay-respects-to-chea-sim-85354/
R’kiri land protesters make case for fence
Five local representatives from Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district were questioned in court on Friday, following accusations from a Vietnamese company of unlawful land-grabbing, according to NGO Adhoc and community representatives. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rkiri-land-protesters-make-case-fence
New kind of gambling has locals concerned
A company organising homemade missile competitions for Thai gamblers in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district has come under fire after the plastic rockets fell onto roofs and frightened villagers. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-kind-gambling-has-locals-concerned
Judge says probe yields no evidence
No evidence was found to incriminate a woman suspected of killing her own mother and stealing more than 370 grams of gold, according to Koh Kong Provincial Court’s investigating judge. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/judge-says-probe-yields-no-evidence
Farmers cry foul on excavation
Four families in Kandal province’s Muk Kampoul district have sued a local official who they accuse of colluding with a village chief to excavate their rice fields without their permission. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/farmers-cry-foul-excavation
Tiny frog in Virachey added to red list
A tiny species of frog that may be found only in Virachey National Park in Cambodia’s remote northeast was yesterday officially classified as endangered by a major international conservation group. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tiny-frog-virachey-added-red-list
New Commerce Ministry website lacks facts
As the only finalist in its category at Thursday’s Cambodia Information and Communications Technology awards, the Commerce Ministry looks likely to take home first prize for its newly overhauled website. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-commerce-ministry-website-lacks-facts-86466/
Gov’t gets plaudits for drop in underage sex workers
The International Justice Mission (IJM) yesterday lauded Cambodia’s progress in tackling the child sex trade but stressed more needed to be done, including authorising police to use undercover investigation techniques. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/govt-gets-plaudits-drop-underage-sex-workers
Preah Vihear temple marks heritage listing
The government on Tuesday celebrated the seventh anniversary of Preah Vihear temple’s listing as a Unesco World Heritage site, which last week began charging foreign visitors for the first time. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/preah-vihear-temple-marks-heritage-listing-87549/
Road development protests on Koh Rong
Preah Sihanouk Provincial Governor Chhit Sokhon halted further&nbSp; conStruction work on Koh Rong thiS week following a proteSt by reSidentS of Koh Tuich village, in the iSland&rSquo;S moSt populated bay. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13023/road-development-protests-on-koh-rong/
Shipping deals turn the tide for Cambodian economy
New shipping agreements will soon be signed between companies in Cambodia and China that will see the Kingdom’s largest port continue its transformation into a regional hub, port officials say. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13852/shipping-deals-turn-the-tide-for-cambodian-economy/
Cambodia needs 2,400 computers to start computerized voter registration next year
The National Election Committee (NEC)’s spokesperson Hang Putea said Cambodia will start computerized-voter registration in March next year, but needs 2,400 computers. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodia-needs-2400-computers-to-start-computerized-voter-registration-next-year-8823
Map researcher threatened
A prominent researcher studying Cambodia’s border with Vietnam said yesterday that he had received numerous threats on Facebook amid the protracted and fiery debate surrounding the disputed frontier. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/map-researcher-threatened
PM reaffirms protection of peace, monarchy and throne
Prime Minister Hun sen has reaffirmed the Royal Government’s commitment to continue protecting peace, monarchy and the throne. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50981801/pm-reaffirms-protection-of-peace-monarchy-and-throne/
Cambodia is eager to invite more Chinese tourists
A senior Cambodian official on Monday called for more Chinese tourists, saying that their presence has significantly contributed to the kingdom’s economic and touristic growth and poverty reduction. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501373964/cambodia-is-eager-to-invite-more-chinese-tourists/
Pig production priority
Thailand’s reported move to ban exports of live pigs highlights the need to develop a larger Cambodian pig industry, insiders say. The Bangkok Post reported yesterday that Thailand’s Acting Commerce Minister Porntiva Nakasai had banned the exports in order to bring down its own prices, ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011070150113/Business/pig-production-priority.html
Residents seek market price
Representatives of 32 families living in the capital’s Chamkarmon district staged a protest yesterday in Tonle Bassac commune, pleading with Prime Minister Hun sen to intervene on their behalf against the Thai Bun Roong company, which they say is forcing them to sell their land ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011102052253/National-news/residents-seek-market-price.html
Plans Name Developer of Sisowath Quay Site
Architectural plans of a property development that is blamed for causing structural damage to French colonial-era buildings on Phnom Penh’s sisowath Quay show drawings of a five-story residential building, complete with underground car parking. According to the plans, dated July 11, the mysterious company behind ss='cambodia-color'>...