EU starts EBA withdrawal
The EU on Monday announced that it has begun the 18-month process of withdrawing the Kingdom’s access to its preferential Everything But Arms (EBA) agreement over “a deterioration of democracy [and] respect for human rights”. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joseph Curtin
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-starts-eba-withdrawal-0
Groups urge gov’t not to return Montagnards
Eleven international organizations on Thursday condemned Cambodia’s plan to repatriate scores of Montagnards who claim to be fleeing oppression in Vietnam, while the government on Friday reiterated its position that the Montagnards were not legitimate refugees. ss='cambodia-color'>...
George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/groups-urge-govt-not-to-return-montagnards-95556/
Baby formula promotions continue despite ban
Baby formula companies are pushing their products in clinics and on health care professionals—some with great effect—despite a government ban on such acts and extensive research showing that formula is an inferior alternative to mother’s milk. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matt Blomberg and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/baby-formula-promotions-continue-despite-ban-98791/
Beehive members tell court of corruption
Three founding members of radio personality Mam sonando’s Beehive social Democratic Party appeared at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday for questioning over a complaint they filed requesting the party be dissolved because its leader is corrupt. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/beehive-members-tell-court-of-corruption-99397/
Government to take control of ticketing at Angkor Wat
Beginning next year, the government will take full control of the Angkor Archaeological Park, ending a controversial concession with private firm sokimex, which holds the right to sell tickets to the country’s most popular tourist draw. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-to-take-control-of-ticketing-at-angkor-wat-99671/
Royal Group set to build hotel on Koh Rong
The Royal Group, in partnership with a Thailand-based swiss investor, will build a 148-room five-star hotel on Preah sihanouk’s Koh Rong island, with the group having completed a ground-breaking ceremony on saturday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kun Kourchettana
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/royal-group-set-build-hotel-koh-rong
Sea festival nets $15M for Kampot economy
This year’s sea Festival, held for the first time in Kampot last weekend, attracted over 300,000 visitors and generated more than $15 million in revenue for the local community, tourism minister Thong Khon said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sea-festival-nets-15m-kampot-economy
Wing outlet held up at gunpoint
An armed robbery on Sunday evening at a Wing money tranSfer outlet in Prey Veng province&rSquo;S Komchay Mear diStrict left two people with head injurieS after they were piStol-whipped by five perpetratorS, police Said yeSterday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wing-outlet-held-gunpoint
New scrutiny for heavy trucks on tsubasa bridge
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport has set up a checkpoint with a vehicle scale at the eastern entrance to Tsubasa Bridge on Friday, after an overloaded rice truck damaged the bridge’s pavement last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-scrutiny-heavy-trucks-tsubasa-bridge
Wanted monk says Sweden granted him asylum
Soeung Hai, a diSSident former monk wanted for arreSt by the government, Said on TueSday that he had been living in Sweden Since February after the U.N.&rSquo;S refugee agency helped him Secure political aSylum there. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/wanted-monk-says-sweden-granted-him-asylum-111498/
Journalists arrested for extorting wood traders
Nine local journalists were arrested yesterday morning in Preah Vihear province’s Koulen district over allegations they threatened to write about local villagers who were transporting illegal timber unless they handed over cash, according to officials. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24768/journalists-arrested-for-extorting-wood-traders/
NEC seeks regular meetings to dispel bias suspicions
Cambodia’s election body has called for regular meetings with political parties, journalists and civil society organisations (CsOs) in a bid to stave off suspicions of bias as two of its non-CPP aligned officials face prosecution. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bun Sengkong and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-seeks-regular-meetings-dispel-bias-suspicions
Government will start chipping away at protected areas
Between 2009 and 2012, the Ministry of Environment went on nationwide leasing spree, signing over vast swaths of the country’s nominally protected areas to private companies for rubber plantations and other agribusiness ventures. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-will-start-chipping-away-at-protected-areas-113127/
Cambodia eyes more trade with Hong Kong
The Ministry of Commerce received a visiting business delegation led by Bruno Luk, director of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade office in singapore, Pao Hengdara, the ministry’s chief of cabinet, said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-eyes-more-trade-hong-kong
Monkey farm workers accept $16 pay raise
Employees of a controversial monkey breeding farm in Pursat City who protested earlier this week for higher wages have accepted their employer’s offer of a $16 monthly wage increase, authorities said on Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phan Soumy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/monkey-farm-workers-accept-16-pay-raise-115492/
Sihanoukville cargo rises
Sihanoukville AutonomouS Port (SAP), the Kingdom&rSquo;S largeSt maritime container hub, reported a Six percent increaSe in cargo ShipmentS in the firSt Six monthS of the year, while tonnage roSe by 10 percent in the Same period. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27958/sihanoukville-cargo-rises/
Foreign minister visits Russia
Foreign Minister Prak sokhonn kicked off his two-day visit to Russia yesterday and will meet key leaders from the federation in a bid to strengthen bilateral ties between the two nations, the ministry’s spokesman said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30309/foreign-minister-visits-russia/
Education ministry gives 30 days for challenging national exam result
The Ministry of education, youth and sport announced today that parents, exam attendees and other relevant people can protest with the high school exam’s result released over the weekend within 30 days. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/education-ministry-gives-30-day-for-challenging-national-exam-result-8951
Ranariddh, Sokha differ over party merger reports
At events marking the third anniversary of King Norodom sihanouk’s death Thursday, deputy opposition leader Kem sokha and Prince Norodom Ranariddh provided differing opinions about reports suggesting that the CNRP and Funcinpec are considering a merger. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ranariddh-kem-sokha-differ-over-party-merger-reports-97336/
Boeung Kak vows one-month protest
Villagers from the former Boeung Kak lake, Borei Keila and Thma Kul communities are to hold a month-long protest in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park to pressure City Hall to resolve a long running land dispute. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/boeung-kak-vows-one-month-protest