JOGMEC to explore for gold in Ratanakkiri
Canadian mining firm Angkor Gold has entered into a joint exploration agreement with Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp (JOGMEC) to explore Angkor’s Oyadao south licence in Ratanakkiri province, the company said in a press release yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/jogmec-explore-gold-ratanakkiri
Constitutional Council of Cambodia announced new memeber
On 21 June 2016, Im Chhun Lim, former minister of land management, officially began his tenure as head of the council after being appointed by the supreme Council of Magistracy and voted chief by the council’s other members. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Constitutional Council of Cambodia
Cambodia and Myanmar in joint stand on South China Sea dispute
Cambodia and Myanmar have reiterated their support for a peaceful solution to the territorial disputes involving China and several Asean countries in the south China sea after a meeting between Prime Minister Hun sen and Myanmar’s newly appointed ambassador to Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Government orders search for prisoners in Malaysia
Foreign Affairs Minister Prak sokhonn has ordered Cambodian Embassy staff in Malaysia to find out whether more nationals are being held in any of the country’s detention facilities after 18 Cambodians were released from a prison in Kuala Lumpur last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Daily
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/brief/government-orders-search-prisoners-malaysia-116588/
More angels coming in search of worthy investments
Two months since a group of angel investors visited Phnom Penh in search of startup investment opportunities, the organisation behind the initiative is planning an even bigger scouting mission, looking for investment opportunities in the Kingdom’s small but vibrant startup community. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/more-angels-coming-search-worthy-investments
China promises additional aid after ASEAN skirts sea dispute
China promised Cambodia funds for a variety of projects during a meeting between Prime Minister Hun sen and Chinese Prime Minister Li Kequiang during this week’s Asean summit in Vientiane, a minister attached to Mr. Hun sen told reporters on Thursday night. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/china-promises-additional-aid-asean-skirts-sea-dispute-117783/
Cambodian government plans stricter internet controls
Cambodia announced plans this week to form a new government department responsible for monitoring and cracking down on a range of vaguely defined “online” crimes, drawing expressions of concern from human rights groups and the country’s political opposition. ss='cambodia-color'>...
So Chivey
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/controls-09102015155636.html
Workshop on mechanisms and criteria for determining minimum wages in Cambodia
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training will organize a workshop on “Mechanisms and Criteria for Determining Minimum Wages in Cambodia” on 22 september 2015 from 8:30 am, at a meeting room A of the ministry’s office. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training
Opposition supporters in Banteay Meanchey defect
Almost 100 opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) supporters and several dozen members of the Royalist Funcinpec Party in svay Chek district, Banteay Meanchey province, defected yesterday to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. Among them were provincial and village-level leaders. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16929/opposition-supporters-in-banteay-meanchey-defect/
Rainsy stripped of lawmaker status
Sam RainSy iS no longer a lawmaker.The deciSion to Strip the oppoSition leader of hiS lawmaker StatuS and immunity followed a morning meeting of the National ASSembly&rSquo;S permanent committee that waS boycotted by the Cambodia National ReScue Party. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda and Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-stripped-lawmaker-status
King Sihamoni calls for climate action at COP21
King Norodom Sihamoni delivered an impaSSioned plea for a legally binding international climate change treaty in an addreSS to the delegateS of 195 nationS and the world&rSquo;S civil Society on Monday night aS the UN Climate TalkS in PariS (COP21) opened. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/king-sihamoni-calls-climate-action-cop21
Sokha warns youth against provocative use of Facebook
Deputy opposition leader Kem sokha on Thursday told a conference of the CNRP’s provincial youth leaders to be careful with what they post on Facebook, asking them to remain polite in political arguments to prevent provoking any trouble with the ruling CPP. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sokha-warns-youth-against-provocative-use-of-facebook-102004/
New traffic law hurts the poor, citizens say
The introduction of the new traffic law has hit a few potholes, with some citizens complaining that it is too tough on poor families, while analysts say people in rural areas have been left in the dark about the new law’s requirements. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear and Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19443/new-traffic-law-hurts-the-poor--citizens-say/
Business group airs union law concerns
Some of the country&rSquo;S top buSineSS leaderS laid out their main concernS with a controverSial draft union law during a meeting with CPP lawmakerS on Monday, including a Stipulation that would let only 10 people form a union at a workplace. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/business-group-airs-union-law-concerns-105839/
Company denies responsibility in chicken deaths
The cause of death of more than 11,000 diseased broiler chickens found dumped in a canal in Kompong Thom province last month has been identified as an infectious virus transmittable to humans, according to the Ministry of Agriculture’s animal health department. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/company-denies-responsibility-in-chicken-deaths-107679/
Gov’t denies land issues
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction issued a statement on saturday defending its track record and denying that Germany ended its support for the ministry’s land rights program due to a lack of transparency and sluggish reform pace. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-denies-land-issues
More Boeng Kak families accept land swap
Twenty-one more families facing eviction from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood have accepted new plots of land in exchange for moving, further whittling down the number of families still holding out for better deals. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-boeng-kak-families-accept-land-swap-111119/
Acleda e-commerce hits $500,000 a month
Acleda Bank Plc., the country’s largest commercial bank by branches, has seen rapid growth in online transactions – now about $500,000 a month – since it launched its e-commerce payment gateway late last year, a senior executive at the bank said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24022/acleda-e-commerce-hits--500-000-a-month/
Preah Vihear replica commander transferred
The Thai commander who was the mastermind behind the scale replica of the Preah Vihear temple complex on Pha Mor E-Daeng cliff has been transferred following concerns aired by the Thai Foreign Ministry about the structure’s effect on relations with Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24722/preah-vihear-replica-commander-transferred/
Conservation NGO blamed for death of endangered crocodile
An environmental group has been accused of complicity in the decline of the critically endangered siamese crocodile in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley, mainly due to traps that are believed to have killed the last breeding-age female in the area. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/conservation-ngo-blamed-for-death-of-endangered-crocodile-113521/