Former SRP president slams arrest of Um Sam An
As the opposition marked the 41st anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge, one of its senior officials yesterday lashed out at the imprisonment of a CNRP lawmaker for criticising the government’s handling of the Vietnamese border issue. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/former-srp-president-slams-arrest-um-sam
Rainsy alleges Khmer Rouge culture still pervades Cambodia
Although the Khmer Rouge no longer holds power, self exiled Opposition Leader sam Rainsy alleged that the regime’s residue pervades Cambodian society and culture. He made these claims via skype at the Choeung Ek Genocide Center – also known as the Killing Fields – yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23888/rainsy-alleges-khmer-rouge-culture-still-pervades-cambodia/
Montagnard asylum seeker kills himself
A Montagnard asylum seeker was found dead on Wednesday morning in a Phnom Penh residence provided by the U.N.’s refugee agency, having committed suicide in his room, according to police. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear and Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/111572-111572/
Micro lenders see steady expansion
Loans and deposits in the Kingdom’s crowded microfinance sector rose about 10 percent during the first quarter of the year from the same period last year, according to a report from the Cambodia Microfinance Association, which put the rise down to an expanding economy. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24525/micro-lenders-see-steady-expansion/
First oil refinery a step closer
Construction on a $3 billion oil refining plant, the Kingdom’s first, will start in October this year and is expected to be finished by the end of 2018, according to a senior executive at the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24607/first-oil-refinery-a-step-closer/
Cambodian Red Cross raises more than $13M in one day
The country’s political and business elite dug deep into their pockets on sunday for the Cambodian Red Cross’ (CRC) annual fundraising drive in Phnom Penh, contributing a total of $13.43 million during an event marking World Red Cross Day. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodian-red-cross-raises-more-than-13m-in-one-day-112338/
US envoy urges government to release NGO staff
A visiting U.s. human rights envoy on Tuesday urged the government to release and drop charges against five current and former rights workers arrested in April amid what he called a deteriorating political situation in which the courts have disproportionately targeted state critics. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-envoy-urges-government-to-release-ngo-staff-115653/
Booming growth pushes Cambodia to lower-middle income status
Despite some appearances to the contrary, things in Cambodia are looking pretty rosy at least according to the World Bank. In its latest revision of world economies the Bank raised Cambodia’s status from a low-income economy to a lower-middle income country. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vat Vin
http://aecnewstoday.com/2016/booming-growth-pushes-cambodia-to-lower-middle-income-status/
Joint CCC-Matrade agreements
The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) will for the first time sign bilateral cooperation agreements with Malaysia’s External Trade Development Corporation (Matrade) to pave the way for businesses in both countries to carry out matching activities, like events and expositions. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27631/joint-ccc-matrade-agreements/
Survey says garment workers earn $191 monthly
A new survey of what the country’s 700,000 garment workers earn and spend in a typical month has concluded that the median take-home pay of a garment factory employee is $191, higher than the minimum wage, but lower than what employers have claimed. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/survey-says-garment-workers-earn-191-monthly-94853/
UN envoy makes first address to rights council in Geneva
Rhona Smith, the U.N.&rSquo;S new Special rapporteur on human rightS in Cambodia, on TueSday addreSSed the U.N. Human RightS Council (HRC) in Geneva for the firSt time, telling the body that She planned to focuS on marginalized people in the country. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-envoy-makes-first-address-to-rights-council-in-geneva-95957/
Cambodia's Angkor Wat earns over 43 mln USD from ticket sales in 9 months
Revenue from ticket sales to foreign tourists visiting Cambodia’s famed Angkor Wat Temple reached 43.3 million U.s. dollars in the first nine months of 2015, up 0.24 percent year-on-year, according to a news statement on Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-10/02/c_134680572.htm
Youth health care in focus
A set of new global standards for adolescent health care released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDs this week indicate that a worldwide gap in health care provision for youths is magnified by Cambodia’s comparatively young population, officials and experts said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zoe Holman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/youth-health-care-focus
Cambodian villagers call for protection, mull lawsuit against military unit in land dispute
Villagers in northwestern Cambodia’s siem Reap province on Wednesday called for local authorities to protect them and said they are considering legal action against a military unit they claim is threatening them in a bid to take over their farmland. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hang Savyuth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/dispute-10212015183332.html
Firm gives Ratanakkiri minorities cash for ceremony
Representatives of 14 ethnic mi­nority communities in Ratana­kkiri province on Friday accepted $1,700 each from Vietnamese rubber company Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) to buy a buffalo and hold a ceremony to appease the spirits that had been disturbed by the firm’s plantations. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/firm-gives-ratana%C2%ADkkiri-minorities-cash-for-ceremony-100330/
PM invited to US as Rainsy seeks support in Europe
As a grinning Prime Minister Hun sen shook hands with U.s. President Barack Obama and received his first invite for an official trip to Washington over the weekend, opposition leader sam Rainsy said he was headed to Europe seeking to place diplomatic pressure on the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-invited-to-us-as-rainsy-seeks-support-in-europe-101143/
Ministry investigates maritime school over worker complaints
The Interior Ministry’s anti-human trafficking department on Monday questioned an administrator at a maritime school over complaints lodged in september by seven former students who claim they were forced to flee a pair of Chinese-owned cargo ships after working in slave-like conditions. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-investigates-maritime-school-over-worker-complaints-101579/
Three briefly held over Kampot roadblock
The Kampot Provincial Court will continue to investigate three villagers and an NGO worker after they were arrested and released on Friday for allegedly setting up an illegal checkpoint to extort money from timber and firewood transporters in Kampot’s Chhouk district, according to officials. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-briefly-held-over-kampot-roadblock
Malaysian firm wagers on Sihanoukville's potential
An obscure Malaysian company has obtained approval from Cambodia’s Council of Ministers to develop hotels and casinos in sihanoukville, with an online promotional video claiming the firm will transform the coastal city into the “Macau of southeast Asia.” ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/malaysian-firm-wagers-sihanoukvilles-potential
Cambodia's famed Angkor earns over 20 mln USD from ticket sales in Q1
Revenue from ticket sales to foreign tourists visiting Cambodia’s famed Angkor archaeological park reached 20.3 million U.s. dollars in the first quarter of 2016, up 2.5 percent compared to the same period last year, according to an official statement on Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
liuxin
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-04/01/c_135244361.htm