Final push to finish line
For a month now, the campaign has grown increasingly frenetic. supporters have poured into the streets by the tens of thousands for ruling and opposition party rallies alike. On motorbikes and by the truckload, campaigners have overrun cities large and small, chanting party slogans. Today, that ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/final-push-finish-line
Bulldozers will not move us, families insist
More than 100 families living in Koh Kong’s Kiri sakor and Botum sakor districts are on the clock, with an official government decree demanding they vacate their land in less than two months or face the bulldozers of the Chinese firm slated to build a ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bulldozers-will-not-move-us-families-insist
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 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/sam-rainsy-to-ask-western-nations-not-to-recognize-current-cambodian-government/1764857.html
Human rights group decries foreign praise
Human Rights Watch yesterday took the key donor governments of Japan, Australia and France to task for congratulating Prime Minister Hun sen on his official election victory in a strongly worded statement that called on them to support an independent investigation into July’s disputed poll. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/human-rights-group-decries-foreign-praise
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 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/index-shows-little-progress-on-gender-equality-46004/
Speed up FOI law, PM says
Prime Minister Hun sen has called on the Ministry of Information to accelerate the drafting of a long-awaited freedom of information law that could see more transparency in the Kingdom’s government. According to a press release issued by the Council of Ministers after a cabinet meeting ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/speed-foi-law-pm-says
Unions Want Government, Factories to Resume Wage Talks
The unions behind several days of strikes that turned deadly this month said they will officially ask the Labor Ministry today to resume negotiations on a new minimum wage for the country’s critical garment sector, and said they would hold more street protests if their ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unions-want-government-factories-to-resume-wage-talks-50451/
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 ss='cambodia-color'>...
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 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/in-washington-hundreds-rally-for-election-investigation/1753204.html
Disabled integration touted
Disabled Cambodians were promised a “society without barriers” by Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday in a speech on Cambodia’s Day of Persons with Disabilities in Phnom Penh. About 1,500 disabled Cambodians marked the day at a gathering of more than 2,000 people in the capital’s Koh ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/disabled-integration-touted
Rights Group Calls for Investigation of Thai Casino Torture Case
Local human rights group Adhoc has called on the government to investigate the alleged detention and torture of a Cambodian woman at a Bangkok casino where she was employed. In a statement released Friday, Adhoc said the government must push for a “full investigation” into the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rights-group-calls-for-investigation-of-thai-casino-torture-case-49552/
Nations unite against dam
Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand have all called on Laos to submit its planned Don sahong hydropower dam to an intergovernmental assessment. According to the dam’s opponents, the Laos National Mekong Committee has acted unilaterally in the planning of its second Mekong dam, a project they fear ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nations-unite-against-dam
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 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-%E2%80%98crackdown%E2%80%99-falls-flat-villagers
‘Crime rise’ blamed on protesters
Phnom Penh’s chief prosecutor yesterday attributed an alleged rise in Cambodia’s crime rate to an increase in public demonstrations. Prosecutor general of Phnom Penh Municipal Court Ouk savuth’s theory came out during a speech he made at a meeting of police and prosecutors held at City ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98crime-rise%E2%80%99-blamed-protesters
With eight in prison, parties set to resume talks
With at least eight opposition officials facing controversial charges of “leading an insurrection,” opposition leader sam Rainsy is set to meet face-to-face with Prime Minister Hun sen on Tuesday morning for the first time since september in what he has described as “final talks” to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/with-eight-in-prison-parties-set-to-resume-talks-64603/
Dreamworld operator sees revenue drop
Entertainment Gaming Asia (EGA), which operates casinos and slot machines in Cambodia and the Philippines, recorded a 9 percent drop in revenue last year compared to 2012, from $26.8 million to $24.3 million, according to the company’s annual report. EGA operates casinos in Pailin and Poipet ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/dreamworld-operator-sees-revenue-drop-53867/
B Meanchey Court chief moved to Phnom Penh
Ang Mealatey, the former president of Banteay Meanchey Provincial Court, was appointed president of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday, ending the eight-year tenure of Chiv Keng. Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana and supreme Court President Dith Munty presided over the ceremony of around 100 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eang Mengleng and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/b-meanchey-court-chief-moved-to-phnom-penh-56905/
Villagers accuse Mondolkiri company of major deforestation
Mondolkiri provincial villagers on Tuesday accused authorities there of colluding with a development company involved in serious deforestation. The Phnong minority villagers say the wife of the deputy provincial governor owns the company, Villas Development, which is allegedly involved in illegal logging. The activists spoke Tuesday ss='cambodia-color'>...
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/villagers-accuse-mondolkiri-company-of-major-deforestation/1948555.html
After deal, unions expect support
News of an end to a year-long political deadlock has labour union leaders believing the opposition party can bring their interests to parliament, but a lack of follow-through could cost the Cambodia National Rescue Party vital support from one of its key interest groups. Different union ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan, Mom Kunthear and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/after-deal-unions-expect-support
Cambodia to rear prawns in ‘third water’
Cambodian farmers will open three prawn farms this summer in the mountain region using Japanese technique of ‘third water’ for creating artificial river and seawater The artificial water is a blend of fresh water and a carefully measured mix of minerals, including salts of sodium, potassium ss='cambodia-color'>...
Far Eastern Agriculture News Staff
http://www.fareasternagriculture.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3463:cambodia-to-rear-prawns-in-third-water&catid=1080&Itemid=97