Cambodia’s Economic Opportunity
While significant obstacles remain, the success of the rice sector is a potentially crucial driver in Cambodia’s prosperous and equitable development. Cambodia announced two major bilateral trade agreements recently, with the Philippines and Thailand, that are expected to further expand the country’s rice export sector. ...
http://thediplomat.com/2013/05/09/cambodias-economic-opportunity/
Despite Popularity, Rainsy’s Role Remains Uncertain
When opposition leader Sam Rainsy last touched down at Phnom Penh International Airport, he was greeted by some 100,000 supporters in what was the largest opposition rally in Cambodia’s 20 years of democracy. When he returns on Friday from the U.S., where he has been attending ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/despite-popularity-rainsys-role-remains-uncertain-39565/
National Assembly Claims CNRP Acting Unconstitutionally
The National Assembly said in a statement on Friday that the opposition CNRP is in contempt of both the Constitution and the King by claiming that the new government is illegitimate. The CNRP had accused the ruling CPP of behaving unconstitutionally by convening parliament last week ...
Hul Reaksmey and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/national-assembly-claims-cnrp-acting-unconstitutionally-43861/
SUVs Block Pagoda to Keep Out Monks on Peace March
Harassment of monks and their supporters, who are marching to Phnom Penh to participate in International Human Rights Day rallies in the capital, continued Friday when three suburban utility vehicles were used to block the entrance to a pagoda in Kompong Speu province where marchers ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/suvs-block-pagoda-to-keep-out-monks-on-peace-march-48816/
Hun Sen Offers ‘Back Pay’ to Ousted Opposition Lawmakers
Prime Minister Hun Sen has offered to pay back the lost salaries of opposition lawmakers who were stripped of their parliamentary posts in June by the then CPP-led National Assembly, a CNRP official said. The offer to back-pay the 27 lawmakers from the Sam Rainsy Party ...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/hun-sen-offers-back-pay-to-ousted-opposition-lawmakers-42679/
Cambodia: Chut Wutty's legacy creates an opportunity for land justice
In Cambodia, there is talk of change. Not just from Hun Sen, the prime minister, who has promised reforms after his party suffered a significant blow in recent elections, but from environmental activists and campaigners, who say there has never before been such an opportunity ...
Kate Hodal
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/oct/02/cambodia-chut-wutty-land
Factory owners boycott wage talks for Cambodian garment workers
Garment factory owners failed to turn up for what was supposed to have been a tripartite meeting with the government and worker unions on Thursday to help break an impasse in negotiations to increase the minimum wage for workers, officials said. The International Labor Organization (ILO) ...
Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/talks-04242014182701.html
A year after law, acid easily available on streets
“What law? No one has ever come to speak to me about that,” said 33-year-old Lim Vannak, scanning the large plastic buckets of corrosive acids she had lined up on the pavement of Phnom Penh’s Street 144 on a recent morning. Acid in the wrong hands ...
Sek Odom and Alice Cuddy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/a-year-after-law-acid-easily-available-on-streets-51663/
Compensation for culled poultry is a catch-22
Since its emergence in the region more than a decade ago, the governments of Southeast Asia have been fighting to contain the human avian influenza virus through surveillance programs, rigorous inspections and widespread culling of infected birds. In Cambodia last year, 13 people died of ...
Simon Henderson and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/compensation-for-culled-poultry-is-a-catch-22-52485/
Low salaries stifle education reform efforts
Sao Sothy’s home is small and the furniture is sparse. There are no tables or chairs. In one room, there is a small bed, but her family of four sleeps on mats in the living room. Hanging on the otherwise bare walls is Ms. Sothy’s ...
Emily Wilkins and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/low-salaries-stifle-education-reform-efforts-56752/
Youths heed city's siren call
When 29-year-old store manager Srey Mom sent her mother in Takeo province some money to pay young people to help with the rice planting, her mother told her it was no use – the young people had abandoned the village to seek their fortunes in ...
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new dataset on official result of voter registration for preparing new voter lists 2016
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new dataset on “official result of voter registration for preparing new voter lists 2016”. This dataset shows the data of voter registration in 25 provinces and capital across the country including name of provinces/capital, total number of commune/sangkat and ...
Despite Land Loss, Minorities Back Status Quo
Romam Gvin could be described as a counterintuitive voter. Intuition might lead you to believe that Mr. Gvin blames the government for the loss of his land to the Vietnamese rubber company that now owns everything for as far as the eye can see here in ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/despite-land-loss-minorities-back-status-quo-34786/
New container terminal may not deliver for Cambodia
Shallow draft, lack of rail connectivity, uneasy relations with Vietnam, and the general slowdown may leave LM 17, Cambodia’s brand new $28-million container terminal near Phnom Penh, up the strait. Even if the terminal achieves the targeted throughput of 110,000 TEUs (it has moved 70,000 so ...
Hindu Business Line News Staff
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/logistics/new-container-terminal-may-not-deliver-for-cambodia/article5061737.ece
New container terminal may not deliver for Cambodia
Shallow draft, lack of rail connectivity, uneasy relations with Vietnam, and the general slowdown may leave LM 17, Cambodia’s brand new $28-million container terminal near Phnom Penh, up the strait. Even if the terminal achieves the targeted throughput of 110,000 TEUs (it has moved 70,000 so ...
Hindu Business Line News Staff
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/logistics/new-container-terminal-may-not-deliver-for-cambodia/article5061737.ece
Flooding takes a toll
Ten days ago, Loun Somaly, 33, left his house to deliver a deposit to the glass workers he hired to replace a window on his rickety sheet metal-panelled house. Ly Sophal, Somaly’s tenacious three-year-old son, followed him outside, asking if he could join. But with floodwater ...
Sihanoukville gets more garbage trucks and collectors
Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities have distributed 30 garbage trucks and deployed 171 garbage collectors in four communes to improve the collection, cleaning and transportation of garbage in Sihanoukville. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50569701/sihanoukville-gets-more-garbage-trucks-and-collectors/
U.N.’s new rights envoy to make official visit to Cambodia tomorrow
The U.N.’s new special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, Rhona Smith will make her first official visit eight-day in Cambodia. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/un%E2%80%99s-new-rights-envoy-to-make-official-visit-to-cambodia-tomorrow-8955
Tonle Sap wetland on the brink of a crisis
In a statement last week, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature identified ongoing fires in flooded forests as a major threat to the Tonle Sap lake. ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://m.phnompenhpost.com/national/tonle-sap-wetland-brink-crisis?utm_content=buffer27079&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Institution-based sex crimes raise concerns
Institution-based sex crimes agaInst children and the threat of online pedophiles are a “growing concern” in Cambodia, child protection organisation APLE said in its annual report yesterday. ...
Vong Sokheng and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/institution-based-sex-crimes-raise-concerns