GDP stays in election race
The Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) has turned back from its earlier warning that it could withdraw from participating in the July 29 national elections, it announced on Sunday. The party said it made the decision as the atmosphere of resistance from the Kingdom’s authorities had lass='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gdp-stays-election-race
Free buses to province planned
The Phnom Penh municipal government has announced a plan to provide limited free bus services along national roads during the Pchum Benh week. The plan will see 120 buses deployed to “ease people’s travels during the holiday”, the capital’s City Hall said in a statement. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/free-buses-province-planned
Villagers demand $250 payout for land grab
Some 1,000 villagers on Tuesday blocked National Road 2 in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district, each demanding compensation of $250 from the provincial authority for communal land they claim a former commune chief sold to a well-connected developer without their knowledge in 2008. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Kim Sarom
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-demand-250-payout-land-grab
Hun Sen tells CNRP to be more civil
Angry at a new Facebook post by an opposition party spokesman and another CNRP lawmaker’s mention of the 1980s government’s deadly “K5 Plan,” Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday used the floor of the National Assembly to warn opposition lawmakers to be more civil. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-assembly-hun-sen-tells-cnrp-to-be-more-civil-97722/
China's pact with Cambodia, Laos an interference in ASEAN's domestic affairs: Former Sec-Gen
The recent move by Cambodia and Laos to make a pact with China on how to settLe the South China Sea dispute amounted to them interfering with the domestic affairs of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), said former ASEAN Secretary-GeneraL Ong Keng Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...
Saifulbahri Ismail
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/china-s-pact-with/2729132.html
Giant coal plant taking shape in Sihanoukville
Nearly half of a massive 700-megawatt coal-fired power plant that will fuel the country’s biggest industrial park and feed the national grid is set to be completed by the end of the year, according to officials at the Ministry of Mines and Energy. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/giant-coal-plant-taking-shape-sihanoukville
FAO addresses rural poverty
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), met yesterday to discuss strategies to address the vulnerabilities facing Cambodia’s small-scale farmers and landless poor. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Safiya Charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26235/fao-addresses-rural-poverty/
Noy: ASEAN can’t let any country claim entire sea
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) must not allow any country – “no matter how powerful” – to claim an entire sea as its own and use force and intimidation to send its message across, President Aquino told a gathering of regional leaders yesterday. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Aurea Calica
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2015/11/22/1524549/noy-asean-cant-let-any-country-claim-entire-sea
CNRP lawyer argues for attempted murder
A lawyer for CNRP lawmakers Nhay Chamroeun and Kong Saphea, who were severely beaten on October 26 in front of the National Assembly, filed a new complaint with the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday asking that those arrested for the crime be charged with lass='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawyer-argues-for-attempted-murder-102347/
Government policy to boost STEM learning
The government has broadly adopted a policy to improve STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) teaching in a bid to turn around the Kingdom’s dismal pass rates for the subjects in the 12th grade national examinations, according to a government official. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-policy-boost-stem-learning
Sam Rainsy plans to meet deputy prime minister Sar Kheng next week
Sam Rainsy, president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) plans to meet with deputy prime minister, and minister of interior Sar Kheng next week to discuss on a number of disagreement over the amendment of the commune/Sangakt election law. lass='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/sam-rainsy-plans-to-meet-deputy-prime-minister-sar-kheng-next-week-8965
Maid to return from Saudi Arabia as deal nears
Consular officials yesterday were working to repatriate a Cambodian maid fleeing what she described as unfair working conditions in Saudi Arabia, even as Cambodia’s minister of labour was en route to seal a long-awaited deal to open a pipeline of workers to the Gulf nation. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Rollet and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/maid-return-saudi-arabia-deal-nears
Critics sceptical of NGO's optimistic findings
Cambodians were optimistic about the economic and political future of the Kingdom, according to a national survey on citizen’s perceptions released on Wednesday by the Asia Foundation, although observers yesterday questioned whether that optimism remains in light of the government’s recent crackdown on the opposition. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/critics-sceptical-ngos-optimistic-findings
Assembly asks Sokha to provide ‘clarification’
The National Assembly issued a statement on Monday calling on deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha to respond to a complaint filed by a group of students last week over audio recordings leaked online that purport to be Mr. Sokha flirting with a mistress. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Phuon Chanserei Vuth
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/assembly-asks-sokha-to-provide-clarification-110241/
Assembly approves PM's ministerial reshuffle
The National Assembly yesterday approved a reshuffle of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet, with a pair of unidentified opposition lawmakers backing the changes along with the ruling party, even after the prime minister reminded the CNRP he didn’t need their support. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/assembly-approves-pms-ministerial-reshuffle
‘I am not a sex worker’ – women on safety and health
I am a massage worker, I am not a sex worker,” Seth Sreylorn, 33, an employee at Alaska massage center in Siem Reap province, said to more than 100 entertainment workers who participated yesterday in the National Conference on Occupational Safety and Health for Entertainment lass='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24167/---i-am-not-a-sex-worker--------women-on-safety-and-health/
Commission, EU to discuss subsidies
Members of the opposition will join their ruling party counterparts on the National Assembly’s (NA) Second Commission on Economics, Finance, Banking and Auditing in a meeting today with a European Union (EU) technical working group to discuss EU subsidies to Cambodia. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27759/commission--eu-to-discuss-subsidies/
Rainsy hit with third court case in three weeks
National Assembly President Heng Samrin has become the latest government official to accuse opposition leader Sam Rainsy of defamation, with a lawyer for the ex-president filing a complaint against Mr. Rainsy over false claims that the 1980s communist regime sentenced King Norodom Sihanouk to death. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-hit-with-third-court-case-in-three-weeks-101823/
Registration of voters bumped back again
National Election Committee spokesman Hang Puthea yesterday maintained that the country remains on track to hold commune elections in June 2017 despite the body again postponing the registration of voters in a new digital system because necessary equipment had not yet been acquired. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/registration-voters-bumped-back-again
Minister calls for higher standard for road work
Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol yesterday ordered his officials to keep a close eye on a new $1.3 million project to widen National Road 4 in Preah Sihanouk province in order to halt criticism of shoddy road quality and corruption in his lass='cambodia-color'>...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-calls-higher-standard-road-work