Release quickly follows deal
A jubilant crowd of opposition supporters burst into cheers yesterday afternoon as seven Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers-elect and one party activist were released on bail just hours after an announced rapprochement between the CNRP and the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. They walked free through exits ...
Joe Freeman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/release-quickly-follows-deal
Partner NGOs again in the dark over city’s street sweep
Rin Ren thought that her grandchildren had gone to study English with NGo Mith Samlanh and would return to their home along the railroad in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak II commune by nightfall, just as they had done many times before. Instead, friends of the children ...
Khuon Narim and Alex Consiglio
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/partner-ngos-again-in-the-dark-over-citys-street-sweep-65799/
Police say mistake made, kidney transplants legal
After a two-month investigation, police were confident enough to arrest and interrogate nine people on Saturday over an alleged kidney trafficking ring at the state-run Preah Ket Mealea military hospital, including its director Ly Sovann, a lieutenant general in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). But ...
Khy Sovuthy and Alex Consiglio
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-say-they-made-mistake-kidney-transplants-legal-66261/
More than 200 deported as census continues
The Ministry of Interior has deported more than 200 foreign nationals over the past two months as part of its ongoing nationwide census, according to Sok Phal, director of the ministry’s immigration department. The Interior Ministry’s census was launched last month, at the same time ...
Mech Dara and Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-200%E2%80%88deported-as-census-continues-68659/
Sar Kheng says parties must ‘reorient’ to save deal
Interior Minister Sar Kheng Said Thursday that the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP must “reorient” and meet regularly to ensure they are not straying from the terms of last year’s July 22 political deal. In a joint press conference following a meeting with opposition leader Sam ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sar-kheng-says-parties-must-reorient-to-save-deal-77002/
A lending alternative to MFIs
Oxfam said it will expand its savings-led cOmmunity-lending mOdel in CambOdia as an alternative tO traditiOnal credit-based micrOfinance services, which it says are ineffective in reaching the KingdOm&rsquO;s pOOrest. Oxfam&rsquO;s saving fOr Change prOject, which trains rural cOmmunities tO fOrm savings grOups, nOw has $5 milliOn ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/lending-alternative-mfis
Cambodia attracts 230,100 Chinese visitors in H1, up 19 pct
Cambodia has received 230,100 Chinese tourists in the first six months of 2014, an increase of 19 percent over the same period last year, according to a tourism report released on Wednesday. The report shows that China is the second largest source of tourists to Cambodia ...
Ecns.cn News Staff
http://www.ecns.cn/2014/08-13/129405.shtml
Cambodia Orders Halt to Anti-Vietnamese Protests After Flag Burning Incident
suspend protests against Vietnam over a territorial dispute as Phnom Penh expressed “regret” to Hanoi over the burning of a Vietnamese flag during the demonstrations last week. Horn Nam Hong met at his office with the head of the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation, Thach Setha, who agreed ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/protests-08192014163708.html
Journalist investigating illegal logging shot dead
A 49-year-old journalist reportedly investigating illegal logging in Kratie province was shot dead early Sunday morning. Within hours, police arrested three men—a commune police chief, a military police officer and a Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldier—for the murder, officials said. Taing Try, who contributed to ...
Saing Soenthrith and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/journalist-investigating-illegal-logging-shot-dead-69629/
Cambodian, Chinese companies ink two business deals
Two business agreements were signed between 21 companies from East China Fujian province and their Cambodian counterparts at a business matching meeting here Sunday. of the two agreements signed between the two sides, one was between China’s Fuzhou Yifeng Rice Company and Cambodia’s Mekong oryza ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141214/cambodian-chinese-companies-ink-two-business-deals
Subedi talks rights with CCC president Kith Meng
The United Nation’s human rights envoy Surya Subedi met yesterday with the president of Cambodia Chamber of Commerce, Kith Meng, to discuss human rights and economic growth in the Kingdom. at the top of the agenda was the management of economic land concessions and the role ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/subedi-talks-rights-ccc-president-kith-meng
H.E. Cheang Vun's responding letter to the request by CCC
H.E. Cheang Vun, the head of the 5th Commission, reaffirmed that, as a tradition, after received any draft law from the Royal Government of Cambodia and assigned by the Standing Committee of the National Assembly for studying and giving opnions on the texts, special Commissions ...
National Assembly
CPP sets goals for this year
The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) on Saturday held its 42nd congress at the Koh Pich Convention and Exhibition Centre in the capital to review its achievements for last year and set this year’s targets. Presided by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who is also CPP president, ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/cpp-sets-goals-year
Cambodia to mark World Wetlands Day in Banteay Meanchey province
Cambodia will observe the World Wetlands Day in Poychar commune, Phnom Srok district, Banteay Meanchey province on Feb 6, the Ministry of Environment said. organised by the Ministry of Environment in cooperation with Banteay Meanchey provincial administration, the forthcoming celebration will be held at Sok ...
Agence Kampuchea Presse
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50685506/cambodia-to-mark-world-wetlands-day-in-banteay-meanchey-province
Black gold on the horizon
The Ministry of Mines and Energy signed a petroleum agreement with Cambodia Resources Energy Development Co on exploration of the offshore Block D oilfield. “Signing the agreement allows the company to conduct studies and search for oil in Block D,” Cheap Sour, director-general of Petroleum ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50690818/black-gold-on-the-horizon
Ministry: 5G essential for Cambodia’s digitalisation
Minister of Post and Telecommunications Tram Iv Tek on Thursday lauded leading mobile operator CamGSM Co Ltd for its progress in rolling out a 5G network in Cambodia. Speaking at an event organised by CamGSM to showcase its 5G capabilities, he said the technology is essential ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-5g-essential-cambodias-digitalisation
ICRC races to prevent virus transmission in prisons
The International Committee of the Red Cross in Phnom Penh on Friday donated 20 tonnes of health care, hygiene and sanitation supplies to the Directorate General Prison at the Correctional Centre 1. The humanitarian aid aims to assist the General Department of Prisons in preventing ...
Som Kanika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50712382/icrc-races-to-prevent-virus-transmission-in-prisons/
Cambodians shun banks: World Bank report
Cambodian people used banks less than any other country in the Asia-Pacific region last year in percentage terms of using financial services, recent data from the World Bank showed. The report, released this month, also pointed to high growth in the percentage of borrowers, which insiders ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012053056467/Business/cambodians-shun-banks.html
Cambodia calls for help in drug battle
At a Wednesday meeting of the signAtories to the Mekong Memorandum of Understanding on Drug Control, NAtional Authority for CombAting Drugs (NACD) secretary-general Meas Virith requested participAting countries and the UN office on Drugs and Crime (UNoDC) to seek a solution for the region’s burgeoning ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-calls-help-drug-battle
Two Japanese firms eye agricultural opportunities
NIPPON Express and XamatO Green expressed their interest after seeing a pOtential investment in CambOdia&rsquO;s agriculture sectOr. The plan was disclOsed during a meeting last week led by YamatO Green cOmpany&rsquO;s Chairman Nabeshima KatsuhitO and Ngin Chhay, the directOr-general Of the General DirectOrate Of Agriculture ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50726611/two-japanese-firms-eye-agricultural-opportunities/