Laws could lead to ‘undemocratic’ elections, Human Rights Watch says
Criticism of two draft laws aimed at reforming Cambodia’s electoral system continues to grow. On Tuesday, Human Rights Watch issued a statement saying the draft laws “violate basic human rights and democratic norms and should be substantially revised before being presented to the National Assembly for ss='cambodia-color'>...
Heng Reaksmey
http://bit.ly/1O4ILXd
Assembly ready to choose members of election committee
The National Assembly has been presented with a full list of 24 candidates for nine positions on the National Election Committee. As the Assembly prepares to select the members, its women’s political committee urged that it select more women, and that a woman be chosen as president ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kong Sothanarith
http://bit.ly/1ClraBf
One refugee on Nauru takes up resettlement offer, says Cambodian official
Just one refugee on Nauru has taken up the Australian government’s offer to settle Cambodia, according to a Cambodian official. A Cambodian interior ministry spokesman Khieu sopheak told the Cambodia Daily that a Rohingya man was so far the only refugee who had taken up the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Paul Farrell
http://bit.ly/1DD4nl4
Graft may grow with trade: TI
A new report issued today by Transparency International calls for the establishment of an AsEAN Integrity Community (AIC) to combat corruption, warning that economic integration could otherwise deepen the graft that taints the region. “If economic integration is not built on a strong foundation of transparency, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/graft-may-grow-trade-ti
Thai law firm says IP the main focus
A Bangkok-based regional law firm says it will expand to Cambodia in the coming weeks, despite the local bar association’s renewed drive to clamp down on foreign lawyers practising “illegally” in the country. Law firm Tilleke & Gibbins said it expected to enter the legal scene ss='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thai-law-firm-says-ip-main-focus
Senate boss claims advisers
A royal decree released yesterday has assigned 38 paid advisers to deputy ruling party president say Chhum to assist him in his new role as senate president. The same document, signed by King Norodom sihamoni on Monday, also served to disband the large team of advisers ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/senate-boss-claims-advisers
New SEZ aims for logistics hub
A new special economic zone aiming to make Cambodia into a regional logistics hub held an official groundbreaking ceremony yesterday, at its future home on the muddy outskirts of Phnom Penh in Kandal’s Takhmao district. The $100 million Kerry Worldbridge sEZ project is a partnership between ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-sez-aims-logistics-hub
RCAF top brass unaware of M’kiri standoff
Two days after a platoon leader in Mondolkiri accused soldiers from Kratie of pointing their weapons at his men in order to free a group of suspected illegal loggers from Vietnam, two of the military’s most senior officials on Thursday said they were unaware of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rcaf-top-brass-unaware-of-mkiri-standoff-87239/
Law on food safety edges closer to approval
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization and the Ministry of Commerce held a workshop yesterday to garner feedback from NGOs and businesses on the draft National Food Law.The new law deals with the safety, labelling and advertising of food and agricultural products for local consumption ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xueying Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/law-food-safety-edges-closer-approval
CNRP hands in French map
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday handed over digital copies of a Cambodia-Vietnam border map bought in France to the Royal Academy.The academy’s border committee now has maps from the UN, Us and France, and says it will begin studying them in a bid ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-hands-french-map
KrisEnergy preparing to apply for licence
Singaporean-liSted oil and gaS firm KriSEnergy iS edging cloSer to finaliSing itS deal with the Cambodian government that will pave the way for extraction from offShore oil field Block A.According to KriSEnergy&rSquo;S half-yearly financial Statement, poSted on itS webSite yeSterday, termS have been agreed and SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/krisenergy-preparing-apply-licence
Japan charts road to industrialization for Mekong region
Japan and the five SoutheaSt ASian countrieS bordering the Mekong River adopted a blueprint Monday to booSt induStrialization in the Subregion. It aimS to booSt the combined groSS domeStic product of the grouping to $4.7 trillion by 2020. ASEAN&rSquo;S combined GDP iS currently eStimated at SS='cambodia-color'>...
The Japan Times News Staff
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/24/business/japan-charts-road-industrialization-mekong-region/#.VdvM-Jf-SB2
Residents suffer as Stung Sen River runs dry
Residents and authorities in Kampong Thom province’s Kampong svay district yesterday expressed deep concern over the persistence of severe drought in the stung sen River. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Som Kanika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50722392/residents-suffer-as-stung-sen-river-runs-dry/
USAID, gov’t to release report on Prey Lang
The Ministry of Environment and the Us Agency for International Development’s (UsAID) Greening Prey Lang Project are planning to release a report on the Prey Lang Extended Landscape. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/usaid-govt-release-report-prey-lang
Officials pitch invesment from Thais
Cambodia’s top economy builders are looking to bring back Thai investment that has departed the country since the onset of political clashes involving Preah Vihear temple in northern Cambodia. Officials at the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) yesterday hosted 30 delegates from the Thai ss='cambodia-color'>...
Japanese grant $32 million for Takhmao water supply system
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Cambodia signed a $32 million grant agreement with the government on Monday to expand Takhmao town’s water supply system. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japanese-grant-32-million-takhmao-water-supply-system
$10-million garment factory to open in Kampong Speu province
On the day the EU enforced tariffs on some of Cambodia’s exports, the Council for Development of Cambodia announced yet another new investment in the garment sector. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50754548/10-million-garment-factory-to-open-in-kampong-speu-province/
PM donates fish to Administration
Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday donated hundreds of two species of fish to the Agriculture Ministry’s Fisheries Administration so that it can dole them out to farmers. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khann Chanvirak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50756552/pm-donates-fish-to-administration/
GDI approves guidelines for residence registration
The Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Identification (GDI) has approved a guideline to pave the way for easier and faster residence registration and management. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50746697/gdi-approves-guidelines-for-residence-registration/
Aid for Sihanoukville ‘smart city’ strategy
The Australian Ambassador to Cambodia Pablo Kang, and Preah sihanouk Provincial Governor Kuoch Chamroeun, launched Australia’s support for a “smart city” strategy for sihanoukville. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50753209/aid-for-sihanoukville-smart-city-strategy/