Khmer Krom targetted, says NGO
The leader of an organisation of monks from Kampuchea Krom, the part of southern Vietnam that once belonged to the Khmer Empire, accused security officials at the recent crackdowns at Freedom Park and last Thursday’s garment protest of singling out Kampuchea Krom monks for arrest ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/khmer-krom-targetted-says-ngo
Cambodians and Koreans Join Protest in Seoul
Hundreds of Cambodians living in south Korea protested in front of seoul’s City Hall on sunday, demanding justice for five garment workers killed in clashes with police on January 3, and calling for Prime Minister Hun sen to step down. With public protests indefinitely banned in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodians-and-koreans-join-protest-in-seoul-50459/
SL Garment workers to protest at City Hall
Following further unsuccessful negotiations with company management, garment workers and union representatives said yesterday that they intend to hold a 6,000-person demonstration in front of the Ministry of social Affairs and City Hall in Phnom Penh. Demonstrations supporting employees at the two sL Garment factories in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sl-garment-workers-protest-city-hall
Ratanakkiri cop in bed with loggers, villagers say
Rights group Adhoc will take a complaint filed against a commune police officer accused of colluding with illegal loggers in Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district to the provincial court today. The complaint, which villagers in Lbaing II commune filed with Adhoc on Friday, alleges that commune police officer ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-cop-bed-loggers-villagers-say
CNRP says parliament's first session violates constitution
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) criticized the first session of the National Assembly because it was held with only one party in attendance. “Citizens voted for the Cambodian People’s Party and the Cambodia National Rescue Party, but the National Assembly held its first session ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NWFhMmM4N2U2NDY
Oil and gas giant Chevron rotates local personnel
After two and a half years, Chevron’s Cambodia country manager, steve Glick, will move on from his position in what the oil and gas giant called a routine rotation, according to a statement released yesterday. Glick, who came to the job in 2011, will be “taking ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel de Carteret and May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/oil-and-gas-giant-chevron-rotates-local-personnel
‘Wintery’ weather warning
As temperatures drop during the cool season, children, infants and the elderly should take extra measures to ward off common seasonal illnesses, officials from the Ministry of Health said on Wednesday. In a press release issued by the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98wintery%E2%80%99-weather-warning
Cambodia's biggest nationwide immunization campaign succeeds: minister
Some 4.5 million Cambodian children aged between 9 monthS and 15 yearS, have received new meaSleS and rubella vaccineS during the biggeSt nationwide immunization campaign, Starting from October to December. AddreSSing in a joint preSS conference on the SucceSS of meaSleS-rubella vaccine Supplementary immunization activity campaign SS='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-01/10/c_133035602.htm
Summonsed seek delay
ScoreS of people in Preah Sihanouk province&rSquo;S Kompong Seila diStrict have aSked the provincial court to delay proceedingS in a caSe filed againSt them by three local buSineSSpeople in September. The 88 people received SummonSeS in September, but yeSterday aSked the court to poStpone a hearing SS='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/summonsed-seek-delay
Authority will not use forces to crackdown on protesters: Governor
Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong Said that authoritieS will not uSe forceS to crack down on proteSterS. The governor met with Phnom Penh officialS to clarify the government&rSquo;S poSition on how to deal with proteStS led by Cambodia National ReScue Party (CNRP). Pa Socheatvong added the SS='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=NWQ0YTM1MTYxZjQ
Chinese Foreign Ministry provides office supplies to Cambodian counterpart
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday donated 50 laptops and 100 cellphones in equivalent to 70, 000 U.s. dollars to its Cambodian counterpart to increase task efficiency. speaking while handing over the supplies to Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, Chinese Ambassador to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
https://cambodia.opendevelopmentmekong.net/wp-admin/post.php?post=33513&action=edit&message=6
Tax reform looms large for new government
Cambodia’s General Department of Taxation has laid out a series of reforms it says are needed as the 2015 deadline looms for the Asean Economic Community, a single market for trade and development. strengthening tax collection to increase revenue while nurturing an attractive investment climate is ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tax-reform-looms-large-new-government
Rubber firm tells villagers to bounce
Villagers embroiled in a longstanding land dispute with a Chinese rubber company in Ratanakkiri’s O’Chum district received an official eviction notice last week from local authorities who failed to promise compensation, community representatives told the Post yesterday. More than 100 families will have to move so swift Rubber ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rubber-firm-tells-villagers-bounce
Garment workers’ patience wearing thin
Taking part in daily demonstrations outside the shuttered factory where she once worked is beginning to weigh on Bou Narith and her co-workers. Government officials this morning will sit down with representatives of employees and a representative from UsA Fully Field (Cambodia) Garment factory, which, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/garment-workers%E2%80%99-patience-wearing-thin
China's humanitarian aid eases hardships for vulnerable people in Cambodia
China’s humanitarian assistance has helped relieve difficulties of flood- hit families, HIV/AIDs victims, elderly, disabled and poor people in Cambodia, beneficiaries said Friday. The Chinese government donated one million U.s. dollars to Cambodia in October for people who have faced hardships due to severe flooding last ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-01/10/c_133034716.htm
Cambodia sends 22,300 laborers abroad last year
Cambodia had dispatched some 22, 300 laborers overseas in 2013, down 36 percent from 34,800 a year earlier, figures from the Ministry of Labor showed Monday. The country sent 13,170 workers to Thailand last year, down 50 percent year-on-year; 8,820 to south Korea, up 8 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Asean-China-Center News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-01/15/c_133047425.htm
CNRP to gauge land dispute
Lawmakers-elect from the Cambodia National Rescue Party are scheduled today to visit families in Koh Kong province affected by a long-running land dispute with Union Development Group, just weeks after the company destroyed dozens of homes there. Rights groups say that Chinese-owned Union Development has burned ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-gauge-land-dispute
LGBT rights battle ongoing
Cambodia’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens have seen significant progress in securing legal protections in recent years, activists said yesterday, though the fight for full equality remains an ongoing battle. During a forum in the capital yesterday, participants said that codifying equality under the law ss='cambodia-color'>...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lgbt-rights-battle-ongoing
Dam developers hit back
Hydropower developers in southern Laos have fired back at the World Wildlife Fund after the conservation group issued two disparaging reports in as many weeks on the Don sahong dam project. WWF released a brief on February 19 alleging that construction of the 260-megawatt damcould result ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-developers-hit-back
CNRP solicits NGO suggestions ahead of CPP meet
The opposition CNRP met with civil society groups and NGOs on Friday and asked for recommendations ahead of resuming electoral reform talks with the ruling CPP on Monday. “We wanted to ask civil society for their ideas,” CNRP President sam Rainsy said after the meeting. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-solicits-ngo%E2%80%88suggestions-ahead-of-cpp-meet-53769/