NGOs, Sar Kheng talk investigation
Interior Minister Sar Kheng sat down with representatives from 10 civil society organisations on Friday for what Cambodian Center for Human Rights president Ou Virak described as a “very frank discussion” of how to handle the investigation into the multitude of alleged irregularities in last ...
The Phnom Penh Post
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-sar-kheng-talk-investigation
Microsoft decries pirated software
Microsoft Cambodia has found that an overwhelming majority of computer retailers surveyed earlier this year failed to offer customers the option to purchase licensed, as opposed to pirated, software. Out of the 54 Cambodian computer retailers included in the May survey, the results of which were ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/microsoft-decries-pirated-software
Cambodia's ruling party ready to resume talks with opposition, but refuses probe
The ruling party said Thursday it was ready to resume talks with the opposition party over the contested election results, but ruled out the possibility of talks on the formation of a special investigation committee into poll irregularities since it was against the Constitution. “The Cambodian ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-08/29/c_132674417.htm
Cambodian King urges newly-elected lawmakers to see national interest as top priority
Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni on Monday called on all newly-elected lawmakers to see the country’ s interest as the top priority and unify for the nation’s prestige. Speaking at the opening session of the fifth legislature of the National Assembly, the king congratulated all lawmakers for ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-09/23/c_132742276.htm
Cambodia's Siem Reap, China's Jiangxi ink cooperation deal
Cambodia’s cultural Siem Reap province and China’s eastern Jiangxi province have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation in a number of fields, according to a copy of the MoU on Saturday. The deal was inked on Friday afternoon between Khim Bunsong, governor of ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-11/30/c_132930687.htm
U.S. gov't launches HIV research project in Cambodia
The United States government on Wednesday launched a HIV research project in Cambodia, aiming to collect and disseminate critical data that will help the country in the fight against HIV. Men Chean Rithy, coordinator for the newly-launched HIV Innovate and Evaluate Project, said the U.S. provided ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/131211/us-govt-launches-hiv-research-project-cambodia
Cambodia's Opposition Launches Daily Protests to Force New Polls
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) launched a campaign of daily demonstrations beginning Sunday in a bid to force Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government to call for a re-election following disputed July polls. CNRP President Sam Rainsy and other leaders declared at a rally attended ...
Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/rally-12152013171658.html
Rainsy Considers International Complaint Over Election Result
Opposition CNRP President Sam Rainsy on Friday expressed his intention to take his dissatisfaction with the outcome of the July national election, over which his party is boycotting its National Assembly seats, to an international stage. Speaking at the launch of a detailed election report by ...
Khy Sovuthy and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-considers-international-complaint-over-election-result-49327/
Made here, owned there
At the end of a well-paved road just past the city’s airport sits a cluster of factories. Each one is barely discernible from the next – grey concrete walls and blue aluminium roofs. But one factory in the lot, MAG (Cambodia), is different. In a country ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/made-here-owned-there
Palm oil plantation accused of withholding workers’ pay
More than 20 families working on a controversial palm oil plantation in Ratanakkiri province owned by the Hoang Anh Lumphat company have filed a complaint with rights group Adhoc accusing the owners of improperly withholding one month’s pay. Lor Sophal said he and another 22 families, ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/palm-oil-plantation-accused-of-withholding-workers-pay-53520/
Government-formed land dispute committee suspected of bias
The Kompong Chhnang provincial government has set up a new committee to help settle a long-running land dispute between local farmers and a company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem, but a representative of the villagers has not been invited ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-formed-land-dispute-committee-suspected-of-bias-53851/
Long-awaited draft law limits King’s powers over judiciary
The long-awaited draft law on the Supreme Council of Magistracy continues the practice of secret votes and gives Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana key powers, according to excerpts from the document, but it would reduce the position of King Norodom Sihamoni if passed in its ...
Hul Reaksmey and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/long-awaited-draft-law-limits-kings-powers-over-judiciary-54419/
Police embezzlement claims ‘baseless,’ police official says
Svay Rieng provincial police Thursday publicly defended a district police official accused of corruption after conducting their own investigation into the claims. According to a report published by the local news website CEN on April 7, Svay Chrum district deputy police chief Meas Soeun embezzled money ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-embezzlement-claims-baseless-police-official-says-56704/
In debt, out of work
They save for months, borrowing from family and friends, even taking out loans, to pour as much as a year’s worth of earnings into the hands of recruiters that may have no intention and certainly have no guarantee of procuring overseas employment. Recruitment agencies, several of ...
Laignee Barron and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/debt-out-work
Stung Treng authorities seize illegal Thnong wood shipment
Authorities in Stung Treng province discovered and confiscated a haul of luxury wood that was being transported in three trucks on Sunday night from the protected Virachey National Park, officials said Tuesday. Provincial deputy police chief Yorn Din said the trucks were stopped and searched as ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/stung-treng-authorities-seize-illegal-thnong-wood-shipment-58644/
Risk-averse Japanese investing more in Phnom Penh condos
In the course of a city’s development, especially a capital city, certain events serve as mile markers, raising their profile both regionally and globally. Few understand the changing views of Japanese investors toward Cambodia better than the upper management of boutique real estate consultancy AnnaCam ...
Chris Horton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/risk-averse-japanese-investing-more-phnom-penh-condos
Garment IPO to pay for factory
Taiwanese garment factory Grand Twins International (GTI) has carefully laid out a schedule so it can go public on Cambodia’s stock exchange after the dust settles from unrest tied to minimum wage disputes, according to the company’s chief financial controller, Henry Chen. GTI received approval from ...
Eddie Morton and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/garment-ipo-pay-factory
Test Drive Begins for New City Bus Service
Ten buses set off Wednesday morning along Monivong Boulevard in Phnom Penh on a month-long test-run to determine if the public is ready to jettison their motorbikes and luxury cars and hop on board mass transport. This is the second attempt by the Japanese International Cooperation ...
Hul Reaksmey and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/test-drive-begins-for-new-city-bus-service-51538/
World Bank meets Phnom Penh Governor, Boeng Kak evictees
The World Bank on Thursday asked Phnom Penh municipal officials to do more to help the thousands of families the city evicted from the Boeng Kak neighborhood to make way for a CPP senator’s private real estate project, and is now waiting for a reply, ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/world-bank-meets-phnom-penh-governor-boeng-kak-evictees-54189/
Unions, GMAC tussle over New Year strike
Garment worker unions have tangled with factory owners over the unions’ plan to use the coming Khmer New Year holiday to launch a nationwide strike. A coalition of eight unions will send a letter today to the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) stating that workers ...
Mech Dara and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unions-gmac-tussle-over-new-year-strike-55543/