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 lass='cambodia-color'>...
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 lass='cambodia-color'>...
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 lass='cambodia-color'>...
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 lass='cambodia-color'>...
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 lass='cambodia-color'>...
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 lass='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/parties-to-meet-for-final-talks-on basis-of-2018-election-64514/
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 lass='cambodia-color'>...
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 lass='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/be-front-nec-plans-cnrp-tells-cpp
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 lass='cambodia-color'>...
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 lass='cambodia-color'>...
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 lass='cambodia-color'>...
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 lass='cambodia-color'>...
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 lass='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/work-death-disguised-road-accident-cops
Prime minister gives graduates class in geopolitics 101
Amid a dour assessment of the current geopolitical landscape, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday warned that only bad things follow when long-ruling strongmen are overthrown. In the lead-up to last year’s national elections, which Mr. Hun Sen’s ruling CPP officially won amid reports of widespread lass='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-gives-graduates-class-in-geopolitics-101-65696/
Assembly rules amended in first bipartisan sitting
The ruling CPP and opposition CNRP sat together in the National Assembly for the first time Friday, formalizing the addition of the Assembly’s new commission on anti-corruption and putting forth their plans for what the parties say is a new culture of political cooperation. longtime rivals lass='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/assembly-rules-amended-in-first-bipartisan-sitting-66102/
Election NGOs to begin testing new voter registration system
Testing of a computerized voter registration system will begin next month in the hopes of addressing flaws in the current system, which remains susceptible to election fraud, a coalition of NGOs working to promote democracy in the country announced Thursday. The Electoral Reform Alliance (ERA) has lass='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/election-ngos-to-begin-testing-new-voter-registration-system-74513/
Six new montagnards seeking refugee status arrive in Cambodia
A new group of six Montagnards from Vietnam have arrived in northeastern Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province to seek political refuge, as a United Nations team tries to locate and assist other refugees in hiding, a villager who provided shelter to the Montagnards said. The villager, who declined lass='cambodia-color'>...
Ratha Visal
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/six-montagnards-arrive-in-ratanakiri-02192015162656.html
Hun Sen issues warning to CNRP as activists refused bail
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday warned the CNRP that the political deal he cut with the party last month could come undone if its 55 elected lawmakers do not turn up to this morning’s sitting of the National Assembly, the first to be scheduled lass='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-issues-warning-to-cnrp-as-activists-refused-bail-65979/
Cambodian poll reform movement head demands transparency
The head of a key election reform group in Cambodia said Tuesday that he would consider applying for a position on the country’s new election body if membership selection is open to the public and transparent. Koul Panha, director of the Committee on Free and Fair lass='cambodia-color'>...
Roseanne Gerin
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/koul-panha-11042014181035.html
Cambodia scores low on global giving index
A study released by the UK-based Charities Aid Foundation puts Cambodia close to the bottom of the world in terms of the charity of its citizens, despite Southeast Asia being cited as the world’s strongest performing sub-region. According to the World Giving Index, which ranks countries lass='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Rollet
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-scores-low-global-giving-index