Cambodia's trade with China's Hong Kong up 19 pct in 9 months
Trade between Cambodia and China’s Hong Kong special Administrative Region has seen a 19- percent growth in the first nine months of the year thanks to robust bilateral trade ties, Benjamin Chau, deputy executive director of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, said here Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Asean-China-Center News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-11/28/c_132926075.htm
To Celebrate Relations With China, Hun Sen Plants Rosewood Tree
Prime Minister Hun sen and the visiting president of the China-Cambodia Friendship Association (CCFA) each planted a tree inside the Peace Palace compound in Phnom Penh on Wednesday to celebrate the 55th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Gu Xiulian, president of the CCFA, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/to-celebrate-relations-with-china-hun-sen-plants-rosewood-tree-48609/
Disability Services to Be Rolled Out in Provinces
Cambodia will on Tuesday introduce measures intended to better serve disabled people living in the provinces and will hold its first workshop on the draft of a new five-year plan to improve disability services, the government said at an annual meeting of members to the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/disability-services-to-be-rolled-out-in-provinces-48641/
Illegal miners tread carefully
In a remote part of Ratanakkiri, Lan Yorn ekes out an existence mining for gems. In his quest to provide for his family, Yorn engages in highly dangerous work illegally digging mines as deep as 12 metres with only the most basic of equipment. Government officials ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shane Worrell and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-miners-tread-carefully
Opposition Official in US in Hopes of Breaking Deadlock
Opposition vice president Kem sokha, who is facing court charges in Cambodia, is currently in the United states, hoping to find support for his party and a way to break Cambodia’s political stalemate. Kem sokha is in the Us to speak to supporters, as well ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/opposition-official-in-us-in-hopes-of-breaking-deadlock/1804395.html
City Hall Bans Monks From Marching to National Assembly
Phnom Penh City Hall issued a letter Monday banning a group of monks who have marched cross-country to mark International Human Rights Day from completing the final leg of their journey, in which they had hoped to hand petitions to lawmakers at the National Assembly ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-bans-monks-from-marching-to-national-assembly-48959/
Cambodian maids raring to go
At 5am, without any alarm clock going off, a dozen Cambodian maids wake up with near-military precision. Over the next hour, the women sweep, wash and scrub spotless their two-storey training centre in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. They all want to be maids in singapore, eager ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Star Online Staff
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Regional/2013/09/23/Cambodian-maids-raring-to-go.aspx
In Cambodia, monks get political after unpopular elections
During Pchum Ben, a Cambodian religious holiday that came to a close last week, Venerable Keo somaly got up before dawn. By 5 a.m. each day, the 32-year-old monk was dressed in his saffron robe and chanting prayers. Not long after, with the sun still hanging ss='cambodia-color'>...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/belief/cambodia-monks-politics-election
At Preah Vihear, tourists undeterred
Not even the imminent threat of war could quell tourists’ appetite for historical sites – at least at Cambodia’s Preah Vihear temple, which was the subject of a highly contentious ruling at the International Court of Justice yesterday. While government figures show that local tourism to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Stuart White and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/preah-vihear-tourists-undeterred
Rainsy slams informal EU monitors
Opposition leader sam Rainsy has rebuked the European Union over two low-profile election experts it sent to monitor July’s elections, claiming their presence had undermined Cambodian democracy. In a letter sent on Tuesday to Ugu Astuto, the EU’s top diplomat for south and southeast Asia, Rainsy ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-slams-informal-eu-monitors
‘No Rush’ For Cambodia on Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement, Experts Say
Two ambitious trade negotiations are moving forward in the Asia Pacific, but Cambodia should first pursue a regional partnership before joining in with all of the Asia Pacific, trade experts say. Cambodia should build momentum on the existing Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, an Asean-driven agreement, before ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/no-rush-for-cambodia-on-trans-pacific-trade-agreement-experts-say-cambodia/1794961.html
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde to Visit Cambodia
nternational Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Christine Lagarde will visit Cambodia next week as part of an Asia tour that will also include stops in south Korea and Burma, according to an IMF spokesman. Ms. Lagarde will meet with Cambodian government officials, university students, investors and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/imf-managing-director-christine-lagarde-to-visit-cambodia-47940/
Cambodian Opposition Lifts Conditions on Talks with Ruling Party
Cambodia’s opposition said Thursday it is prepared to hold talks with Prime Minister Hun sen’s party without any preconditions in a fresh bid to end a political deadlock three months after disputed national elections. The move signaled a shift by the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), which days earlier had said it ss='cambodia-color'>...
Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/talks-10312013180011.html
Council of Ministers Nullifies Telecom Law
The Council of Ministers has nullified a 2009 law that set minimum prices on telephone calls, paving the way for regulators to reset the country’s telecommunications prices, which industry executives say are too high. The law, Prakas 232, which has been widely flouted, set a minimum ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey and Joshua Wilwohl -
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/council-of-ministers-nullifies-telecom-law-49573/
Indigenous woes probed
Ethnic minority groups in Ratanakkiri province are facing widespread human rights violations, land loss and the exploitation of their natural resources, an indigenous peoples conference was told yesterday. More than 300 villagers from the province’s Tum Poun, Kreng, Prov, Kavet, Jarai, Kachok and Lun communities hosted ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/indigenous-woes-probed
NEC White Paper on General Election (full text)
The following is the full text of an Executive summary of the White Paper on the 2013 General Election for the National Assembly issued by the National Election Committee on Thursday: On 28 July 2013, the general election for the 5th mandate of Cambodia’s National Assembly ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=OTUzM2YwZWQ3OTB
Three Charged for $2.3 Million Embezzlement From Banks
The former manager of Canadia Bank’s credit section, along with two accomplices at the bank, were charged Thursday with theft and forgery for allegedly embezzling about $2.3 million from ABA and sBC banks, according to municipal court and police officials. “The deputy [municipal court] prosecutor has ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-charged-for-2-3-million-embezzlement-from-banks-44403/
Villagers in Land Row Complain of Death Threat
Four representatives of villagers locked in a land dispute with the well-connected KDC company have filed a complaint with the Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court after they received death threats. “The anonymous letter was a threat against our lives,” said Reach seima, one of the representatives, adding ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-in-land-row-complain-of-death-threat-44714/
Elephants likely shot: NGO
A group of endangered Asian elephants found dead in Mondulkiri province on sunday were likely slaughtered, investigators from conservation group WWF-Cambodia have found. The organisation said in a statement yesterday an investigation into the deaths in protected Phnom Prich Wildlife sanctuary suggested the elephants were “slaughtered ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/elephants-likely-shot-ngo
Mfone Files Complaint With Court
The administrator charged with liquidating bankrupt mobile operator Mfone filed a complaint Tuesday with the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, requesting it to order two companies to pay money owed to Mfone after repayment negotiations apparently failed, the administrator said. Mobile payment service WING Cambodia Co. Ltd. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/mfone-files-complaint-with-court-47959/