Cambodia’s slide into repression
On Nov. 13, Cambodia’s dictatorial prime minister Hun sen ousted opposition leader sam Rainsy, stripping him of his seat in parliament and calling for his arrest. These latest actions against Rainsy are representative of Cambodia’s long muddle through a sort of unfree democracy. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Olivia Enos
http://dailysignal.com/2015/12/01/cambodias-slide-into-repression/
PM sings hydropower’s praises
Prime Minister Hun sen stood up for Cambodia’s energy policy yesterday at the inauguration of the stung Tatai hydropower dam in Koh Kong province, even going so far as to label opponents of hydropower technology “extremists”. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-sings-hydropowers-praises
Kingdom’s democracy rank slips
Cambodian democracy regressed last year, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2015 Democracy Index, which indicates that the Kingdom is “on the cusp of the ‘authoritarian regime’ category”. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdoms-democracy-rank-slips
Factory defies governor’s request
The labor dispute between workers and employers at the Aerosoft summit Footwear factory in Battambang province’s sampov Laun district is still raging due to the company’s refusal to allow workers back to the factory at the provincial governor’s request. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27217/factory-defies-governor---s-request/
Peacekeeper injured in S. Sudan
A United Nations peacekeeper from Cambodia was injured in gunfire on sunday in Juba, south sudan, according to the Cambodian National Center of Peacekeeping Forces. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27219/peacekeeper-injured-in-s--sudan/
Dream deferred in S’pore
As another Cambodian maid who travelled to singapore under a pilot scheme between the two countries prepares to return home this week alleging labour rights abuses, recruitment agencies in Phnom Penh continue to look for more women to sign up for the overseas work. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dream-deferred-spore
Women’s issues underfunded: report
Efforts to empower women at a sub-national level are drastically under-funded, according to research released yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/womens-issues-underfunded-report
Government reclassified state’s properties
The government has reclassified 34,000 square meters of state public land to state private land, clearing the way for the ministries and other authorities in control to sell or rent the properties for private development. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18223/government-reclassified-state---s-properties/
Cambodia’s Place in ASEAN
Cambodia is one of the smallest and poorest economies in AsEAN. It accounts for only 0.7% of total regional economic activity and had the lowest GDP per capita in 2014 (Table 1). Only the Lao PDR has a smaller economy, and the next-poorest countries in ss='cambodia-color'>...
IndraStra Global
http://www.indrastra.com/2016/07/EXCERPT-Cambodia-s-Place-in-ASEAN-002-07-2016-0037.html
Dam’s impacts being felt
Residents of stung Treng province’s Preah Romkil commune are reluctant to express their concerns over Laos’s Don sahong hydropower dam since it was endorsed last month by Prime Minister Hun sen, despite the impacts of the dam already being keenly felt, activists and researchers said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dams-impacts-being-felt
Cambodia’s rich currency heritage
These coins was found at excavation sites and archaeologists believe many more have yet to be uncovered, pointing to depictions of coins on objects from the Nokor Phnom era (also known as the Funan era), which dates back to the 1st century and is recognized ss='cambodia-color'>...
Riel Gains
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36634/cambodia---s-rich-currency-heritage/
Emerald’s gold prospects improve
The Australian-listed mining firm behind Cambodia’s Okvau gold project in Mondulkiri province released its definitive feasibility study (DFs) yesterday, confirming its predictions of 1.14 million ounces in gold reserves while reducing its projected investment costs for extraction. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/emeralds-gold-prospects-improve
Phnom Penh’s sewers criticised
Interior Minister sar Kheng bemoaned Phnom Penh’s sewage infrastructure and criticised the Ministry of Environment for allowing untreated waste water to flow into the Mekong and Bassac rivers in unscripted remarks on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnom-penhs-sewers-criticised
Sokha’s witness request denied
An investigating judge has rejected Kem sokha’s request that he interview a representative from the Us government in connection with the former opposition leader’s “treason” case, despite the fact that sokha stands accused of plotting a Us-backed overthrow of the Cambodian government. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sokhas-witness-request-denied
Kingdom’s economy insulated: officials
SpeakerS at a government forum held yeSterday on macroeconomic management and the 2017 budget law Said Cambodia&rSquo;S Strong economic growth haS been largely unScathed by China&rSquo;S Slowdown, though cloudS were forming on the horizon. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-economy-insulated-officials
Angkor Air’s Macau route
Tourists wanting to visit Asia’s answer to Las Vegas will be able to fly from Preah sihanouk province to Macau after Cambodia Angkor Air unveiled the new route yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36262/angkor-air---s-macau-route/
Acleda’s new ATM cards
Acleda Bank spent about $1 million to produce 800,000 new ATM cards with EMV chips to enable them to be used globally and also to mitigate the risk of fraud, said the bank’s president and group managing director on Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38780/acleda---s-new-atm-cards/
Dam’s consultation process concludes
The consultation process for the controversial proposed Pak Beng dam in Laos concluded on Monday, allowing construction to begin even as local and international civil society groups continued to urge a delay until a forthcoming Mekong River Commission (MRC) environmental assessment is released later this ss='cambodia-color'>...
Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dams-consultation-process-concludes