Culture of crooning: Ranariddh wows PM with new album
At a time when he’s facing one of the tensest political periods since the 2013 national elections, Prime Minister Hun Sen last Saturday took time to tell a former bitter enemy he has a “very sweet” voice. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/culture-crooning-ranariddh-wows-pm-new-album
News analysis: AEC to boost bloc's influence on global economy-- Cambodian experts
The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), which will become a reality at the end of this year, would boost the ten- nation bloc’s influence and prestige in the global stage, according to Cambodian scholars here. ...
Xue Lei, Nguon Sovan
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6687807/2015/11/14/news-analysis-aec-boost-blocs-influence-global-economy-cambodian-experts
Lor Peang residents refuse compensation for ‘their land’
Around 50 people representing 83 households from Lor Peang village in Kampong Chhnang yesterday refused concessions offered to them during a meeting with the National Assembly’s Commission on Human Rights, Complaints, and Investigation. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20731/lor-peang-residents-refuse-compensation-for----their-land---/
Date set for Rainsy’s latest defamation trial
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who is living in France to avoid prison time, will be tried over allegations of defaming National Assembly President Heng Samrin starting July 28, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court has announced. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/date-set-for-defamation-trial-111814/
Thai timber found with Khmer script
More than 100 pieces of luxury rosewood bearing Cambodian names and a phone number were found by Thai police and forest conservation officers in a national park in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province on Tuesday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thai-timber-found-khmer-script
Angkor Air, Air France MoU
Cambodia Angkor Air and Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding to cover component support and maintenance services for the national flag carrier’s fleet of Airbus A320. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36204/angkor-air--air-france-mou/
Rice deal cooking with Bangladesh
Cambodia and Bangladesh announced a potentially massive rice deal yesterday that would deliver up to 1 million tonnes of local rice to the South Asian nation over the next five years, provided they agree on the pricing terms. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-deal-cooking-bangladesh
Flood control ‘lacking’
Cambodia and Vietnam currently lack a system to effectively forecast and control flooding in the Sesan and Srepok river basins, both at the national and intergovernmental level, according to a study published by the Mekong River Commission (MRC). ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flood-control-lacking
PM says veterans will get their land
Prime Minister Hun Sen has asked Land Minister Chea Sophara and the Cambodia Veterans Association to make a success of the social land concession scheme for men and women who have served the nation. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38295/pm-says-veterans-will-get-their-land/
Tanker filled with timber
A petrol tanker truck was found with more than 2,000 pieces of luxury rosewood stashed inside its tank when it was intercepted by authorities in Phnom Penh last week, National Military Police spokesman Eng Hy said yesterday. ...
Soth Koemsoeun and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tanker-filled-timber
Workers strike again to demand strike pay
About 2,000 workers at Takeo province’s I-Cheng (Cambodia) Cooperation remain on strike today, after management held steady in its refusal to pay employees for days they joined in a national garment worker strike in December and this month. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-strike-again-demand-strike-pay
Workers allowed to vote at work areas
Ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and Cambodia National Rescue agreed to allow factory workers to vote in the area where they work. The agreement came after a meeting Friday between the two parties’ working group, discussing amendments of election law. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/workers-allowed-to-vote-at-work-areas-7896
Prince Ranariddh wins Funcinpec power struggle
Prince Norodom Ranariddh completed his takeover of the royalist Funcinpec party on Thursday, with a national party congress granting him absolute control of the party following a power struggle with the man who engineered his removal as leader in 2006. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prince-ranariddh-wins-funcinpec-power-struggle-79690/
Constitutional council asked to annul portions of election laws
One of the country’s foremost election rights advocates wrote to the Constitutional Council on Tuesday requesting that it annul two articles in the proposed new national election law that he says violate constitutional rights to participate in election campaigns. ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/constitutional-council-asked-to-annul-portions-of-election-laws-80665/
Cambodia gets its first LGBT magazine
The land of Cambodia is so far removed from our world, that the southeast Asian nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community is only now getting its first publication aimed at LGBT readers: Q Cambodia. ...
Thom Senzee
http://bit.ly/1KPZ7Tx
Officials’ affairs may be secret under law
Any information that is damaging to Cambodia’s national security or public order, affects its relationship with other countries or threatens the Kingdom’s economy or finances could be withheld from the public under a draft law on access to information. ...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-affairs-may-be-secret-under-law
Fish farms key for future: PM
In celebration of the 13th annual National Fish Day, 1 million baby fish, 100,000 young shrimp and a host of eels, turtles and frogs were freed into a reservoir in the Stung Trang district of Kampong Cham yesterday. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fish-farms-key-future-pm
Jarai: police OK’d logging
Members of the ethnic Jarai community in Ratanakkiri’s Andong Meas district have lodged a complaint with the provincial court, demanding that it take legal action against four Vietnamese nationals and two Cambodian border officials for offences related to illegal logging. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/jarai-police-okd-logging
Censured lawmaker admits poor word choice
In the wake of his 15-session suspension from parliament for “insulting” National Assembly President Heng Samrin, opposition lawmaker Um Sam An has defended criticism he posted on social media while expressing regret over his choice of words. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/censured-lawmaker-admits-poor-word-choice
Gov’t slams ‘interfering’ UN
Cambodia has rebuked the United Nations after a UN office released a statement admonishing recent political developments in the Kingdom, while an opposition lawmaker is making a last-minute attempt to stop one of those developments from becoming law. ...
Charles Rollet and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-slams-interfering-un