Legal experts: Cambodia judicial laws of 'Deep concern'
International legal experts are expressing deep concern over proposed changes to Cambodia’s legal system that critics say hand over too much power to the executive. At a meeting in Phnom Penh Tuesday, a group recommended the three judicial reform laws should be returned to parliament ...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/legal-experts-say-cambodia-judicial-laws-of-deep-concern/1958277.html
Gov’t pushes census to 2019
The 2018 national population census will be pushed back a year in order to focus on The 2018 national elections, The government announced on Friday. According to article 6 of The Statistics Law, The census must be conducted at least once every 10 years, with The ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30167/gov---t-pushes-census-to-2019/
Acleda to be listed on CSX
Locally-owned Acleda Bank Plc will become the first commercial bank to be listed on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX). It received an official letter to this effect from the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on November 26, which allows it to proceed with its plans for ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/acleda-be-listed-csx
Civil society groups appeal for international intervention for the release of 23 protesters
181 national and international non-governmental organizations handed over their petitions to foreign embassies on Thursday to seek the release of 23 people who were arrested in protest crackdowns. A group of some 50 representatives marched along the streets and submitted the petitions to the German, Sweden ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=MzYwOTcwZDY5ZjV
New plan for low-cost housing
Cambodia’s Ministry of Land Management is in the initial phase of a project to build affordable housing for the Kingdom’s low-income population. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-plan-low-cost-housing
Protection groups partner up
An initiative aimed at boosting the level of child protection in five Cambodian provinces was launched in Phnom Penh yesterday. the Partnership Program for the Protection of Children, which brings together the Cambodian government, UNICEF, Friends International and nine grassroots NGOs, is aimed at better coordinating ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012032155158/National-news/protection-groups-partner-up.html
Prime Minister: Take back islands from inactive developers
The government will “take back” land on roughly 30 islands from private companies that have not made progress on planned developments, Prime Minister Hun Sen said in a speech on Monday that also targeted land-grabbing villagers and idle provincial governors. ...
Phak Seangly and Daphne Chen
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prime-minister-take-back-islands-inactive-developers
Nearly $2B in investments cleared by CDC
The Council for The Development of Cambodia (CDC), The government body in charge of approving large-scale investments, announced on Thursday that it had approved four projects with a combined total capital investment of nearly $2 billion. It said The four projects would create 11,193 jobs. ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nearly-2b-investments-cleared-cdc
CDC approves new steel plant in Kampong Speu
A project to build a $31-million steel-processing plant in Kampong Speu province was recently greenlighted by the government, according to an announcement by the Council for the Development of Cambodia earlier this week. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50505077/cdc-approves-new-steel-plant-in-kampong-speu/
Japan’s assistance for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)
On 28 December 2018, the Government of Japan disbursed an amount of USD1.2 million as its 2018 Fiscal Year contribution to the United Nations component of the ECCC budget. the Government of Japan decided to make this contribution to continue to support the judicial process of the ...
Embassy of Japan in the Kingdom of Cambodia
Sihanoukville’s new sewage systems ‘almost complete’
Following public outcry after waste from construction projects in Sihanoukville was found being dumped directly into the sea, provincial authorities have said four sewage systems are now almost complete. the construction of sewage systems at four beaches was 80 per cent finished, while two pumping ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sihanoukvilles-new-sewage-systems-almost-complete
EU donates €3.5M to the KR Tribunal
The Extraordinary Chambers in The Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) announced on Monday that The European Union (EU) has pledged a total of €3.5 million ($4.1 million) to support it in 2018, according to its press officer, Neth Peaktra. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-donates-eu35m-kr-tribunal
Poy Kampenh families granted land
The National Committee for The Management and Development of Coastal Zones said on Sunday that The government has provided 103 families with land to live on and develop in Preah Sihanouk province. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50536089/poy-kampenh-families-granted-land/
‘Historic’ Khmer Rouge tribunal Case 002/2 verdict to be delivered
The Extraordinary Chambers in The Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) are to deliver The verdict on Friday, in The trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, in a pronouncement hailed as a “historic event for Cambodia and The world”. The verdict from ...
CDC: Improve infrastructure to draw investment to border
The Council for The Development of Cambodia (CDC) has urged relevant parties to increase efforts to attract more foreign investors to border areas. CDC secretary-general Sok Chenda Sophea said to achieve this, it is necessary to develop infrastructure There such as special economic zones (SEZ), ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cdc-improve-infrastructure-draw-investment-border
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. ...
Gov't working group to tackle money laundering
The government is seeking to strengThen its ability to counter money laundering and terrorism funding through a new working group that combines representatives across several ministries and The private sector. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-working-group-tackle-money-laundering
Mondulkiri land sit-down ‘fruitful’
French owned plantation firm Socfin has restarted talks with indigenous villagers affected by its plantations in Mondulkiri province, with the UN saying the process could be replicated across a region dominated by agro-industrial firms. ...
Daniel Pye and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-land-sit-down-fruitful
More Montagnards opt to return home
More Montagnard asylum seekers are planning to return to home amid cuts in United Nations-provided food rations.Vivian Tan, regional spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said more than 10 indigenous Christian Montagnards had requested assistance in returning to Vietnam. ...
Alice Cuddy and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-montagnards-opt-return-home
Japan donates $1.1 million to tribunal
Japan, the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s largest donor to date, has contributed a further $1.12 million to its international component, the tribunal said on Tuesday in a statement. ...
Mayuri Mei Lin
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32642/japan-donates--1-1-million-to-tribunal/