Political bias alleged
Four families in Oddar Meanchey province’s Samrong town have filed a complaint with their commune hall, alleging that a military official and a village chief are trying to block them from receiving land titles because the families support the Cambodian National Rescue Party. The families and ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/political-bias-alleged
PAL sets new closing date for investment in Cambodia Airlines
The deal between national flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) and Royal Group of Cambodia (RCG) to form Cambodia Airlines Co. Ltd. is set to be completed within the next two months. This was according to Ma. Cecilia Pesayco, assistant corporate secretary of PAL’s parent firm PAL ...
China congratulates CPP on election victory
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Monday that China congratulated the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) on its victory in the country’s general election. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang have sent congratulatory messages to CPP ...
People's Daily Online Staff
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90883/8394357.html
Watchdogs accused of conspiring with CNRP
Deputy Prime Minister Sok An has accused two independent election watchdogs of conspiring with the opposition to undermine the election. Speaking at the Council of Ministers on Monday, An said that the Committee for Free and Fair Elections (Comfrel) and the US-government-funded National Democratic Institute (NDI) ...
Kevin Ponniah and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/watchdogs-accused-conspiring-cnrp
Cambodia sees 21 pct rise in garment exports in first 8 months
Cambodia’s garment industry, the kingdom’s largest income maker, recorded 3.65 billion U.S. dollars in export value in the first eight months of the year, up 21 percent from 3.01 billion U.S. dollars over the same period last year, the Ministry of Commerce said Friday. Cambodian ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-09/20/c_132736137.htm
CPP rally possible: Manith
Supporters of the Cambodian People’s Party might stage a rally in the capital following repeated requests by the “silent majority” to take to the streets since last year, Prime Minister Hun Sen’s son, Hun Manith, said on Monday. “I’m sure you know that the minority always ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-rally-possible-manith
AEC lures Thai rice millers to invest in Cambodia
Thai rice millers are lining up to build mills in Cambodia to cash in on imminent regional economic integration, with experts warning Cambodian rice is likely to flood Thailand. An industry source said several millers from Thailand’s central and northeastern regions are preparing to set up ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/news/401535/aec-lures-thai-rice-millers-to-invest-in-cambodia
Cambodian shot, killed in Thailand
A Cambodian national was fatally shot near the Thailand-Cambodia border on Wednesday in the latest of a string of deadly incidents along the border this month, officials said yesterday. Theng Sokla, 27, a native of Pailin province’s Sala Krao district, was hunting for animals on a ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodian-shot-killed-thailand
Cambodia's second stock listing delayed
A Taiwanese-owned garment maker has delayed its planned Cambodia listing by three weeks, setting back what would be just the second initial public offering to be held in this developing Southeast Asian nation. Grand Twins International (Cambodia) PLC now plans to list on May 29, according ...
Chun Han Wong
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304626304579509390823129458
Deposits rally after election outflows
Savings levels at Cambodia’s microfinance institutions (MFIs) have recovered well since the widespread withdrawal that followed last July’s disputed national election, with more than $90 million deposited in the first quarter of this year. The amount of deposits in MFI accounts fell from $378 million in ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/deposits-rally-after-election-outflows
Parties to meet for ‘final talks’ on basis of 2018 election
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy announced on his Facebook page late last night that the CNRP has accepted a February 2018 national election in exchange for a new electoral commission and that “final talks” to end the political crisis will take place at 9 a.m. on ...
Alex Willemyns and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/parties-to-meet-for-final-talks-on basis-of-2018-election-64514/
Direct Japan flights set to take off later in year: PM
Japan will introduce direct flights to and from Cambodia this year in an effort to bolster trade, investment and tourism between the two nations, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Friday. Hun Sen announced the plan at a meeting with a delegation led by Hideo ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/direct-japan-flights-set-take-later-year-pm
CNRP seeks reform input
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party will hold a seminar this morning on election reform to “seek input” from civil society and election monitors ahead of the second meeting of a bipartisan election reform committee on Monday. According to an invitation issued on Tuesday, the CNRP ...
Meas Sokchea and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-seeks-reform-input
Be up front with NEC plans, CNRP tells CPP
A day after opposition leader Sam Rainsy said election reform talks were being “cut off” due to ruling party intransigence on the issue of National Election Committee reform, the opposition has asked the Cambodian People’s Party to officially declare its stance on the matter. Senior CPP ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/be-front-nec-plans-cnrp-tells-cpp
Funcinpec continues to receive Chinese Communist Party support
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is providing financial and material support to the beleaguered Funcinpec Party to cover its rent, electricity, transportation and general administration expenses, as well as offering political training to its younger members, senior leaders of the royalist party said Wednesday. Funcinpec was ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/funcinpec-continues-to-receive-chinese-communist-party-support-54553/
Education official says don’t jail exam cheats
A senior Education Ministry official on Thursday said that jailing students caught cheating, as threatened by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Tuesday, was the wrong approach to cleaning up the national high school exam. Instead, he called for a budget increase to offset losses that teachers ...
Matt Blomberg and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/education-official-says-dont-jail-exam-cheats-55135/
Bangladesh expected to seek leases for farming in Cambodia
Bangladesh and Cambodia have decided to set up a joint commission to boost bilateral relations and conclude bilateral agreements on agricultural and cultural cooperation, investment promotion and protection. The agreements will be inked during Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s three-day official visit to Dhaka beginning on ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=Y2RkOGVmY2QzMjU
Ranariddh to re-enter politics with new party
Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who became first prime minister of Cambodia after the 1993 U.N.-sponsored elections, will form a new party and re-enter the political arena, according to his cabinet chief. “The prince has a plan to create a new party,” said Naranarith Anandayath, chief of Prince ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ranariddh-to-re-enter-politics-with-new-party-53156/
Cambodia’s PM, Opposition Leader Agree on Reform to Electoral Body: Lawmaker
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy have agreed on procedures for appointing new members to the country’s electoral body during their first talks in seven months aimed at breaking a political deadlock following disputed polls last year, a lawmaker said Wednesday. The ...
Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/reform-04092014184057.html
Work death disguised as road accident: cops
After rocks from a worksite detonation killed one of his employees, a manager at a Kratie province granite company was questioned yesterday for allegedly trying to cover up the circumstances surrounding the fatality, police said. Chinese national Chov Chinlean, 39, died after a crew from Moeung ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/work-death-disguised-road-accident-cops