Rift with UN rights body ends
The government has patched up a quarrel with the United Nations’ human rights wing less than two weeks before the organization would have been forced out of Cambodia. But the two-year agreement came with a reminder of Cambodia’s sovereignty and the principle of non-interference in national lass='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33398/rift-with-un-rights-body-ends/
New map illustrates election results
The Australian National University has posted a map of the results of last month’s elections on its website showing the different levels of popular support for the ruling and opposition parties in all provinces. Colum Graham, a PhD candidate at the ANU College of Asia and lass='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=ZjIzZGRmOWM0ZjN
NGOs back two-thirds vote for NEC selections
The Electoral Reform Alliance, a group of election monitors and NGOs, put its support behind the opposition CNRP’s demands for a two-thirds majority vote for selecting members of the National Election Committee (NEC) at a workshop Tuesday in Phnom Penh. The process for selecting members of lass='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/subedi-urges-cpp-to-reform-cnrp%E2%80%88to-take-assembly-seats-62342/
Cambodia completes '90 percent' of draft of electoral body reform law
Cambodia’s opposition and ruling parties have completed 90 percent of a draft law to reform the country’s electoral body, officials said Monday following talks. Revamping the National Election Committee (NEC), which oversees the country’s elections, was a key component of a deal struck in July between lass='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/draft-10272014172013.html
Reformed election commission likely to be delayed by stalled talks
The electoral reform working groups from the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP have canceled both their scheduled meetings this week and are now unlikely to complete talks in time for the new election commission to be created next month, CNRP lawmaker Eng Chhay Eang said lass='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/reformed-election-commission-likely-to-be-delayed-by-stalled-talks-76749/
New book to help Cambodia navigate cyberspace
Three Cambodian tech experts have penned a book that explores the nation’s current cyberspace landscape and advocates for enhanced cybersecurity as more of the population share data online. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Bun Tharum
https://kiripost.com/stories/new-book-to-help-cambodia-navigate-cyberspace
Phnom Penh to host inaugural tech expo
Phnom Penh will host the nation’s first tech expo, Cambodia Tech Expo CTX, in November, with a string of events, conferences and panel discussions aimed at strengthening the tech startup community and attracting investment opportunities. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Bun Tharum
https://kiripost.com/stories/phnom-penh-cambodia-tech-expo-ctx
Combatting plastic pollution in Cambodia
The Ministry of Environment (MoE), the Embassy of Japan, GIZ implemented 3RproMar Project and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organised the 3rd National Forum on “Combatting Plastic Pollution in Cambodia” earlier this month. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501274385/combatting-plastic-pollution-in-cambodia/
Cambodia actively seeking direct investment for SME sector growth
Cambodia is actively seeking more direct investment to enhance its small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector, a key driver of the nation’s economic growth, according to the Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Parties Agree to Let UN Observe Election Investigation
The CPP and opposition CNRP agreed during a meeting at the National Assembly on Friday that the U.N. can observe an investigation into irregularities in last month’s national election, but continued to disagree that the National Election Committee (NEC) lead the investigation. After the two parties lass='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/parties-agree-to-let-un-observe-election-investigation-39056/
Rainsy election boycott call a ‘betrayal of King’
Deputy Prime Minister Hor Namhong on Wednesday criticised calls from former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) leader Sam Rainsy to boycott the July 29 elections as a “betrayal to the King, nation and people”. He also labelled Rainsy “stupid” in comparing himself with the late lass='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-election-boycott-call-betrayal-king
Groups aim to end violence against women
A worldwide, 16-day campaign to end violence against women kicked off in Cambodia yesterday, with NGOs, the United Nations and government agencies intensifying their efforts toward preventative measures.Spanning from yesterday’s International Day for Eliminating Violence against Women and Girls until Human Rights Day on December lass='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear and Zoe Holman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/groups-aim-end-violence-against-women
Vietnam Airlines builds Mekong hub
Vietnam Airlines outlined expansion at the 4-Code presentation seminar, Wednesday, just prior to the opening of 8th International Travel Expo 2012 in Ho Chi Minh City. The national airline reiterated its commitment at the trade fair to build Vietnam as a major gateway to the other lass='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2012/09/vietnam-airlines-builds-mekong-hub/
Malnutrition central to health gap: NGO
The gap between Cambodia’s health rich and health poor is “devastating”, according to a report by World Vision issued yesterday. Cambodia is ranked 124 out of 176 countries on the global index based on four indicators used to measure the gap in each listed country: life lass='cambodia-color'>...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/malnutrition-central-health-gap-ngo
Funcinpec enters fray
Members of a party unable to garner a single seat in the National Assembly at July’s national election will hold undersecretaries of state positions in at least 28 different government ministries. In an interview yesterday, Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan told the post that the lass='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea, P.3
http://www.phnompenhpost.com
A New Royalist Party Would Have Little Hope, Analysts Say
Cambodian political analysts say a new royalist party would have little hope of success. Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who once led Cambodia’s dominant post-war political party, Funcinpec, told VOA Khmer on Monday he plans to launch a new royalist party for commune elections later this year and lass='cambodia-color'>...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/a-new-royalist-party-would-have-little-hope-analysts-say/1859956.html
Cambodian deputy PM urges opposition to join parliament
Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said Friday that the country’s main opposition party should join the National Assembly if it really wants to debate on an electoral reform or a re-election. The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), led by longtime opposition lass='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-01/31/c_133086875.htm
Cambodian FM denies political deadlock over election row
Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said Saturday that there is no political impasse in Cambodia despite ongoing post-election dispute between the ruling and opposition parties. He said all actions taken by the government of Cambodia in the past, at the present and in the future lass='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-02/22/c_133135380.htm
Business bribery is rife: report
Cambodia has again ranked as one of the most corrupt countries in the world with the release of global anti-bribery association TRACE’s bribery risk index. According to the index, titled the TRACE Matrix and released on November 11, Cambodia is the fifth most at risk country lass='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/business-bribery-rife-report