City Hall Approves Plan for 5 New Districts in Phnom Penh
The Phnom Penh Municipal Council on Monday signed off on the creation of five new districts for the city and will now pass the proposal to the Ministry of Interior for review, municipal spokesman Long Dimanche said Tuesday. The plan for the new districts, which will ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-approves-plan-for-5-new-districts-in-phnom-penh-47932/
Hun Sen rejects opposition calls to hold new election, step down
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday rejected opposition calls for him to dissolve the National Assembly to pave the way for a new election and to step down from power. “I want to stress that there is no re-election, no one dissolves the legislature and ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/131220/hun-sen-rejects-opposition-calls-hold-new-election-ste
City Hall Announces New Plan to Raise Living Standards of Poor
City Hall announced a new plan to improve living standards in the city’s poorest areas Tuesday on International Human Rights Day, while representatives for the urban poor continued to call on the municipality to issue longsought after land titles. Addressing a crowd of 600 at Olympic ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-announces-new-plan-to-raise-living-standards-of-poor-49078/
Gov’t gives telecom firms time to digest new draft law
The ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC) has postponed a two-day meeting with telecom firms to discuss a controversial draft law leaked to the Post last week, which details the government’s plan to assert control over the industry. A representative from one telecommunications provider who wished ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gov%E2%80%99t-gives-telecom-firms-time-digest-new-draft-law
Phnom Penh warms to new buses on second day of service
On the second day of Phnom Penh’s monthlong public bus experiment, there was a visible uptick in passengers Thursday traveling the single route along Monivong Boulevard. About a dozen passengers interviewed, who included civil servants, NGO staff and a large number of uniformed students, were ...
Hul Reaksmey and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-warms-to-new-buses-on-second-day-of-service-51641/
New Futuristic Tuk-Tuks Arrive on the Streets of Phnom Penh
Most tuk-tuk drivers have to continuously vie with each other to attract tourists’ attention, but Oung Hour gets it without even trying. As he stands on the sidewalk near the riverside, groups of tourists point at his bright mustard-yellow tuk-tuk, its smooth fiberglass body shaped like ...
Emily Wilkins and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-futuristic-tuk-tuks-arrive-on-the-streets-of-phnom-penh-52616/
Luxury resort looks for new lease of life with redesigned blueprint
A new blueprint for the long-delayed Snake Island (Koh Pos) resort development off the coast of Sihanoukville will soon be completed, and investment of up to $1 billion is hoped to kick-start the project, which has a planned completion date of 2018, according to the ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/luxury-resort-looks-new-lease-life-redesigned-blueprint
Deaths raise new questions on ANZ funding of Cambodian sugar projects
First Sum Tea lost her farm. Then she lost her son. Sum Tea is one of hundreds of farmers who lost her small landholding in 2006 when the Cambodian government granted Phnom Penh Sugar, a company owned by Cambodian tycoon and ruling party senator Ly Yong ...
Daniel Quinlan, Richard Baker, Nick McKenzie
http://www.smh.com.au/national/investigations/deaths-raise-new-questions-on-anz-funding-of-cambodian-sugar-projects-20140427-zr0bj.html
Cambodia launches new 50,000-riel banknote to celebrate king's birthday
The National Bank of Cambodia on Tuesday officially issued a new 50,000-riel banknote (in equivalent to 12.5 U.S. dollars) in order to mark King Norodom Sihamoni’s 61st birthday, which falls on May 14. A sub-decree on the issuance of the new banknote was endorsed by ...
Asean-China-Center
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-05/07/c_133316546.htm
New research facility for infectious diseases in Asia unveiled in Cambodia
France’s Institut Pasteur du Cambodge on Tuesday inaugurated a new facility here for a regional research platform in Asia, focusing its research on infectious diseases in the region. Cambodian Health Minister Mam Bunheng, Vincent Deubel, director of the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, and French Nobel Prize ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2014-03/11/c_133177317.htm
New business registrations in Cambodia rise 55 pct in 5 months
Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce said Friday that it has granted operating licenses to 1,676 new firms in the first five months of 2014, up 55 percent as compared with the 1,084 companies for the same period last year. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-06/20/c_133424091.htm
Cambodia sees 44% rise in new company registrations in 7 months
Cambodia has granted operating licenses to 2,424 new companies in the first seven months of 2014, up 44 percent compared with 1,688 firms over the same period last year, according to the latest report of the Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=238871
New companies registered in Cambodia jump 36 pct in 9 months
Cambodia has issued operating licenses to 3,025 new companies in the first nine months of 2014, up 36 percent over the same period last year, the Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday. Foreign companies were 1,335, an increase of 20 percent, as local registrations saw a ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141104/new-companies-registered-cambodia-jump-36-pct-9-months
Social media a potential new tool for good governance, expert says
Social media has emerged to play a crucial role in providing many Cambodians with information that could mean better governance, an expert says. Ok Serei Sopheak, a good governance specialist, told “Hello VOA” that sites like Facebook help people get information quickly and easily, and can ...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/social-media-a-potential-new-tool-for-good-governance-expert-says/2544265.html
Unions warn of strikes over gov’t rejection of new branch
A group of eight trade unions Thursday said the government has turned down every one of their applications to form local branches at the country’s garment factories since early last year and threatened mass strikes if the rejections continue. At a press conference in Phnom Penh, ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unions-warn-of-strikes-over-govt-rejection-of-new-branches-77031/
Hun Sen to commit good cooperation with new elected senate president
Prime Minister Hun Sen expressed his strong belief for the continuity of the good cooperation between the country’s executive and legislative body under the leadership of the new elected president of senate Say Chhum. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1Gqy8uV
New laws in Cambodia to help ruling party in 2018 election
Cambodia’s ruling party suffered a dramatic drop in support during the country’s last election two years ago, and critics say lawmakers are now pushing through a spate of laws to ensure that does not happen again. In the past year, parliament has passed new regulations ...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/new-laws-in-cambodia-to-help-ruling-party-in-2018-election/2874638.html
New laws in Cambodia to help ruling party in 2018 election
Cambodia’s ruling party suffered a dramatic drop in support during the country’s last election two years ago, and critics say lawmakers are now pushing through a spate of laws to ensure that does not happen again. In the past year, parliament has passed new regulations ...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13715/new-laws-in-cambodia-to-help-ruling-party-in-2018-election/
New political party unveiled in Cambodia to contest in 2018 elections
A handful of human rights activists and social researchers on Sunday jointly formed a political party to contest in the 2018 national elections although a political analyst said that small parties are hard to win even a seat. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-08/02/c_134472537.htm
New Cambodian permanent representative to ASEAN presents his letter of credence
Cambodian Permanent Representative to ASEAN, Norng Sakal, presented his Letter of Credence to the Secretary-General of ASEAN, Le Luong Minh, at a ceremony held at the ASEAN Secretariat today, according to a press release of ASEAN’s Secretariat. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/new-cambodian-permanent-representative-to-asean-presents-his-letter-of-credence-8897