Foreign press ‘interfering’: CPP lawmaker
A senior ruling party official yesterday accused foreign journalists and media outlets in Cambodia of interfering in the Kingdom’s governance and urging political instability. speaking to reporters in the capital, Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker and National Assembly spokesman Chheang Vun said a number of journalists – ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/foreign-press-%E2%80%98interfering%E2%80%99-cpp-lawmaker
Taxi Drivers Block Checkpoint In Poipet to Protest New Tax
Taxi drivers staged a large protest Wednesday at a customs checkpoint in Poipet City over customs officials’ demands for what the protesters said was an exorbitant tax on a small load of goods. At the checkpoint Wednesday, more than 50 taxi drivers blocked the road for ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/taxi-drivers-block-checkpoint-in-poipet-to-protest-new-tax-49159/
Memories of a land unspoiled
The constant hum of chainsaws almost drowned out Buddhist monk sam Kim sath, 65, as he stood this week in a wildlife sanctuary on Oral Mountain, Cambodia’s highest peak. Forest in the Phnom Oral Wildlife sanctuary, in the eastern part of the Cardamoms, is being “obliterated” ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/memories-land-unspoiled
Property Prices on the Rise in Phnom Penh
Preliminary results of a new survey show a steady rise in the price of land in Phnom Penh since the country’s property boom in 2008 and spectacular bust in 2009. The initial findings of the survey by VTRUsT Property Co. Ltd. examine land prices during the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/property-prices-on-the-rise-in-phnom-penh-49622/
Call for More Women Representatives in Sub-National Politics
As Cambodia nears its second district and municipal council elections in May, about 200 women councilors from the sub-national level attended a workshop Friday to call for political parties to increase the number of women candidates in the upcoming election. Currently, 12 percent of councilors at ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/call-for-more-women-representatives-in-sub-national-politics-49740/
Tea Banh Tells Armed Forces to Defend Government
Defense Minister Tea Banh used the annual meeting of national military police in Phnom Penh on Wednesday to reiterate that the armed forces would remain committed to defending Prime Minister Hun sen’s government in the ongoing political dispute with the opposition CNRP, local media and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tea-banh-tells-armed-forces-to-defend-government-50987/
Cambodia discusses garment issues with buyers from global brands
Cambodian Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon on Wednesday met with a delegation representing 30 global brands and global trade unions to discuss the current situation of garment sector. The delegation comprised 27 global brands including H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB, Gap Inc., Adidas, Puma, Levi ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-02/19/c_133128000.htm
IFC Ombudsman to help settle Phnom Penh airport land dispute
Representatives for the hundreds of families facing eviction from homes around Phnom Penh International Airport have agreed to let the compliance ombudsman of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private investment arm of the World Bank, mediate a solution to the land dispute with the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ifc-ombudsman-to-help-settle-phnom-penh-airport-land-dispute-53146/
Garden-view condominium complex a hit with locals and foreigners alike
With the 15-storey Vimean Keo Choronai Condominium close to completion, some 70 per cent of its apartments have already been sold. Vimean Keo Choronai sits in what eventually will be an expansive, leafy garden setting on National Road 1 about 600 metres from Monivong Bridge ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/garden-view-condominium-complex-hit-locals-and-foreigners-alike
Gov’t orders halt to Koh Pich expansion
The owner and developer of Koh Pich in Phnom Penh has been ordered by the government to scale back its expansion of the island, according to the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology. According to a statement posted to the ministry’s website on Wednesday, the Overseas ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-orders-halt-to-koh-pich-expansion-60029/
Hun Sen Says His Face as Good as Any; Situation Is Normal
Prime Minister Hun sen said Monday that calls for him to resign and for a new “face” to lead the country were hypocritical as the faces of his critics also remained unchanged. Mr. Hun sen also said that the political situation in the country is perfectly ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-says-his-face-as-good-as-any-situation-is-normal-51866/
Illegal logging case ‘closed’ against RCAF officer
A brigadier general in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) whose home and rubber plantation in Mondolkiri province were raided by police last week claimed sunday that the authorities had apologized to him after he threatened them with a lawsuit. Police had raided Brigadier General Chhit ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-logging-case-closed-against-rcaf-officer-52343/
Bodies found after Mekong riverbank collapse
The bodies of a 39-year-old woman and her 18-month-old nephew were recovered Thursday two days after a riverbank collapse caused their home in Kandal Province’s Khsach Kandal district to plunge into the Mekong River while they slept, but the woman’s 3-year-old son has not yet ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bodies-found-after-mekong-riverbank-collapse-52895/
Free HPV tests target married women, nearly 500 screened
Nearly 500 women were tested this month in a screening drive at Phnom Penh’s Calmette Hospital for human papillomavirus (HPV), two strains of which are known to cause cervical cancer, but the free Pap smear was advertised as being available only to married women. Hav Monirath, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hay Pisey and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/free-hpv-tests-target-married-women-nearly-500-screened-57082/
Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh expressway plans announced
The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) revealed its plans Monday for a Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City expressway that will halve travel time between the two cities. At an estimated cost of $2.2 billion, the initial target date for completion of the expressway is ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-to-ho-chi-minh-expressway-plans-announced-57626/
Justice still elusive for acid victims
Two years after Cambodia’s Acid Law took effect, and one year after a subsequent sub-decree further regulated the dangerous substance, significant hurdles remain in securing justice for victims of acid attacks, according to a paper published in the Cambodian Law and Policy Journalon sunday. In her paper, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/justice-still-elusive-acid-victims
Inmate died after hours without aid, prisoners say
A 41-year-old prisoner died of a heart attack in Prey sar prison’s Correctional Center 1 on February 15, but only after he spent more than two hours stuck in his overcrowded cell waiting for medical treatment, his fellow prisoners allege. CC1 administrator Khuth Vuthy, who confirmed ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/inmate-died-after-hours-without-aid-prisoners-say
City hall denies unions permission for Freedom Park forum
A group of 18 labor unions and associations said they will proceed with plans for a public forum in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on saturday, despite City Hall’s rejecting their request, citing public security concerns. The unions, who are organizing a nationwide strike in the garment ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-denies-unions-permission-for-freedom-park-forum-53525/
Security sector working group to make policy recommendations
Members of the government, military and civil society met on Monday to form a working group to undertake security reform and reporting. The working group will have 26 members from a wide spectrum of government and nongovernment agencies to produce policy recommendations to Cambodia’s leaders. The formation ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/security-sector-working-group-to-make-policy-recommendations/1872979.html
Rubbish tuk-tuks delivered to six districts in the capital
Phnom Penh Municipal Hall has handed over 40 modern rubbish tuk-tuks to six districts in the capital as a means to transport rubbish while it seeks to improve waste management. Municipal hall spokesman Met Meas Pheakdey said on sunday that the administration is planning to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rubbish-tuk-tuks-delivered-six-districts-capital