Maid tells of abuse faced in Saudi Arabia
After two weeks stuck inside an immigration office in saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh, a Cambodian domestic worker returned to Phnom Penh yesterday without assistance from the Cambodian government – on a plane ticket she says was paid for by saudi immigration police. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vandy Muong and Audrey Wilson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/maid-tells-abuse-faced-saudi-arabia
City land prices stay stable
Land prices in central Phnom Penh’s Tonle Bassac and Boeung Keng Kang (BKK) districts remained stable in the first half of the year due to overdevelopment and a slowdown in new investments, according to research by a local real estate agent. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27268/city-land-prices-stay-stable/
Cambodia, Vietnam to build market on border
The Vietnamese government yesterday agreed in principle to provide a grant of $2 million to Cambodia to build a model market aimed at boosting cross-border trade between the two countries, officials at Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-vietnam-build-market-border
Railway land dispute escalates
Residents from villages in Phnom Penh’s Pur senchey district gathered outside the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction yesterday to ask the prime minister and government to honor their titles to land they said had been claimed by Royal Railway. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Microsoft translation project to tackle business jargon
American software giant Microsoft announced yesterday that it would jointly implement a project with Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce to create a translation program to simplify complex English and Khmer business terminology in order to help businesses better understand commonly used jargon. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/microsoft-translation-project-tackle-business-jargon
Plans underway for clearer guidelines governing landmarks and heritage buildings
As many tall buildings continue to pop up in Cambodia’s 500-year-old capital, ministries are continuing to place importance on preserving the cultural heritage of important historical sites and landmarks, ranging from ancient temples and monuments to pagodas and colonial buildings. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xi to make first presidential visit this month
Amid deteriorating relations with Western countries due to the government’s suppression of critics, Chinese President Xi Jinping is due to visit Cambodia this month for the first time since taking office, according to a Facebook post by National Police chief Neth savoeun. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Daily
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/xi-make-first-presidential-visit-month-118764/
ADB, Cambodia launch second Asia Women Leaders Program
The Asian Development Bank (ADB), in collaboration with the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, is holding a second Asia Women Leadership Program (AWLP) event starting today to help senior women government officials develop their potential to become future leaders. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The FINANCIAL News Staff
http://finchannel.com/index.php/business/item/51339-adb-cambodia-launch-second-asia-women-leaders-program
Health minister says time needed on Formula
The health minister on Friday defended the government’s failure to fine or shut down any of the private clinics that are currently illegally promoting baby formula to new mothers, saying that more time was needed for committees to “investigate” the breaches. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/health-minister-says-time-needed-on-formula-99679/
ADB provides 64 mln USD to Cambodia for irrigation, malaria control
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday signed up to provide a total of 64 million U.s. dollars loan and grant to Cambodia for the projects of irrigation and malaria control system, according to an ADB statement. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-11/10/c_134802150.htm
Interior ministry hits back at ACU graft claims
The Interior Ministry has re­sponded to remarks the chief of the government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) made this week about graft among police officials, claiming that such comments belittle the work of civil servants who have dedicated their lives to the state. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/interior-ministry-hits-back-at-acu-graft-claims-102867/
Report examines KRT legacy
As parties prepare for Case 002/01 appeal hearings, set to resume on Tuesday, a new report by the Open society Justice Initiative examines the legacy of the Khmer Rouge tribunal, identifying political interference and insufficient outreach as the court’s primary shortcomings. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-examines-krt-legacy
PM gives ministers an 'F', lashes out at illegal logging task force
Prime Minister Hun sen unleashed a tirade against underperforming government officials in a pair of speeches yesterday – musing aloud about reshuffling his Council of Ministers and wondering why rockets had not yet been deployed in the Kingdom’s recent “crackdown” on illegal logging. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara, Lay Samean and Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-gives-ministers-f-lashes-out-illegal-logging-task-force
Optimism high for law on access to information
Though Cambodia’s access to information law has been in the works for over a decade, participants at a seminar on the law yesterday said that they’re optimistic that the time is finally right for it to actually come to fruition. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bun Sengkong and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/optimism-high-law-access-information
Two await trial for breach of court order in land dispute
Two women were arrested on Friday for allegedly breaching a court order related to an ongoing dispute over 1,000 hectares of land they live on along with 165 other families in Kompong speu province’s Phnom sruoch district. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-await-trial-for-breach-of-court-order-in-land-dispute-109794/
Amret moves up the ratings ladder
Amret Microfinance Institution, one of the largest in Cambodia’s crowded market, yesterday announced it had received an A- rating from independent rating agency Microfinanza, which is based in Italy, for improving its operation and for its strong performance over the past year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23063//
Union law violates human rights, finds OHCHR
The United Nations Human Rights Commission in Cambodia (OHCHR) yesterday released an analysis of the contentious draft trade union law finding key clauses to be in violation of existing Cambodian law, human rights norms and the ILO’s conventions. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/union-law-violates-human-rights-finds-ohchr
Meta house founder responds to chut wutty ban
The founding director of Meta House, Nicolaus Mesterharm, responded yesterday after the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts called off tonight’s screening of I am Chut Wutty, which was set to be publicly screened for the first time in the Kingdom. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Michael Light and Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23975/meta-house-founder-responds-to-chut-wutty-ban/
Workers ask for help after factory closed
About 1,000 workers and employees of the Victco Handbags Cambodia Industrial factory, an Adidas supplier before it abruptly suspended operations earlier this year, marched in Kampong speu’s samrong Tong district to the provincial hall yesterday morning to deliver a petition. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25286/workers-ask-for-help-after-factory-closed/
Complaint against sugar company withdrawn
More than 150 residents from Kampong speu’s Oral district gathered at the Equitable Cambodia (EC) headquarters and the National Assembly on Friday to withdraw their complaints over land against the Phnom Penh sugar Company, which is owned by magnate Ly Yong Phat. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25516/complaint-against-sugar-company-withdrawn/