Price rules pulled due to election
The governmenT in May held back on implemenTing widely unpopular rules ThaT would have raised The price of mobile phone calls so as To noT upseT consumers – and poTenTial voTers – jusT monThs ahead of The naTional elecTion, according To Cambodia’s independenT TelecommunicaTions regulaTor. “Before ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/price-rules-pulled-due-election
CPP Threatens Legal Action Against CNRP
The CPP on Tuesday ThreaTened legal acTion againsT The CNRP if iT did noT cease iTs “defamaTory rheToric” regarding The ruling parTy’s relaTionship wiTh The NaTional ElecTion CommiTTee (NEC), which The opposiTion accuses of rigging July’s elecTion in order To keep The CPP in power. The ...
Matt Blomberg and Neou Vannarin
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cpp%E2%80%88threatens-legal-action-against%E2%80%88cnrp-40389/
Rainsy ‘Twisting Facts’: Vietnamese embassy
The VieTnamese embassy fired back yesTerday aT opposiTion parTy leader Sam Rainsy’s claim ThaT VieTnamese companies granTed economic land concessions in Prey Lang foresT are Turning The area inTo a VieTnamese “colony”. On Wednesday, Rainsy visiTed The foresT and claimed ThaT CRCK, a VieTnamese firm granTed ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-%E2%80%98twisting-facts%E2%80%99-vietnamese-embassy
Government Pushes Ahead With NGO Law
After nearly two years of silence on its draft NGO Law, the Ministry of Interior on Sunday said it was aiming to have the highly contentious piece of legislation ready for the Council of Ministers early next year and voted on by July. Meas Sarim, deputy ...
Phorn Bopha and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-pushes-ahead-with-ngo-law-48245/
Cambodia Opposition Party To Demand Re-Election
The Cambodia NaTional Rescue ParTy (CNRP) will push for a re-elecTion if Prime MinisTer Hun Sen’s governmenT conTinues To refuse calls for an independenT probe inTo widespread irregulariTies in The July polls, The opposiTion parTy’s depuTy presidenT, Kem Sokha, said Tuesday. He warned ThaT The ...
Radio Free Asia
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/cnrp-11262013192513.html
(English) Government agrees to review of railway evictees
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Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-agrees-to-review-of-railway-evictees-57745/
កម្មករដួលសន្លប់ទៀតហើយនៅរោងចក្រកាត់ដេរ សេនហ្ស៊ូ ក្នុងខណ្ឌពោធិ៍សែនជ័យ រាជធានីភ្នំពេញ
កម្មករជាង១០០នាក់នៅឯរោងចក្រ កាត់ដេរ សេនហ្ស៊ូ ក្នុងរាជធានីភ្នំពេញបានដួលសន្លប់កាលពីម្សិលមិញ មួយថ្ងៃបន្ទាប់ពីមានការដួលសន្លប់យ៉ាងច្រើនដូចគ្នានេះដែរ នៅឯរោងចក្រដដែលនេះ។ កម្មការិនីដំបូងបាន ...
Matt Blomberg និង សេក ឧត្តម
http://www.cambodiadailykhmer.com/news/12825/
(English) Development body's concern for refugees resettled in Cambodia
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Factories still skimping: ILO
Cambodia’s garment exports exceeded US$1 billion during the first quarter of 2012, yet many factories are failing to pay workers proper maternity leave benefits or address issues of fainting, a labour report says. the International Labour Organization-Better Factories Cambodia’s twenty Eighth Synthesis Report on Working Conditions ...
Brighton Mining Group to acquire Cambodian gold mining assets
Brighton Mining Group (ASX: BtN) has completed negotiations for the acquisition of a major interest in gold mining assets held directly or indirectly by Brighton Mining Limited (BML), boosting its concession holdings in Cambodia. these include the interest of BML in the Cambodian concessions held by ...
Rats Good Business for Cambodians, Food for Vietnamese
Koh Thom disTricT, Kandal province – On a quieT sTreTch of road in This sleepy border Town, There are some TellTale signs of an unusual Trade: A Trail of discarded dead raTs, some upTurned wiTh Their paws sTiff in The air, oThers covered wiTh a ...
CPP Says ‘Too Late’ for Joint Investigation Into Election
CPP lawmaker and de facto party spokesman Cheam Yeap said yesterday it was now “too late” to form an independent committee to investigate alleged irregularities during last month’s national election and that the opposition CNRP needs to be “more flexible” in its relationship with the ...
Khy Sovuthy and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cpp-says-too-late-for-joint-investigation-into-election-41033/
Daun Penh Authorities Deny Involvement in Wat Phnom Attack
Some 50 members of the Boeng Kak and Borei Keila communities—many still bearing welts and bruises—walked to Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district offices tuesday and blamed officials there for a violent attack that broke out at Wat Phnom on Sunday night as they were peacefully ...
Mech Dara and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/daun-penh-authorities-deny-involvement-in-wat-phnom-attack-43143/
Ministers Told to Prepare for Public Scrutiny
During an epic speech on Wednesday that lasted for more than six-and-a-half hours, Prime Minister Hun Sen told his newly approved Cabinet that they would be subject to increased public scrutiny as part of a series of reforms to be undertaken by the CPP over ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/ministers-told-to-prepare-for-public-scrutiny-43405/
Compensation for Falsely Jailed Men Unlikely in Cambodia
After spending 2,073 days in prison, Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun were exonerated on Wednesday by the Supreme Court of having killed popular union leader Chea Vichea in 2004. Legal expert Sok Sam Oeun of the Cambodian Defenders Project said that although the two ...
Denise Hruby and Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/compensation-for-falsely-jailed-men-unlikely-in-cambodia-43684/
In Siem Reap, Rainsy Again Calls for Hun Sen to Step Down
SIEM REAP CITY – OpposiTion leader Sam Rainsy was greeTed Tuesday by 15,000 supporTers and a small dusT sTorm aT The CNRP’s firsT posT-elecTion rally in Siem Reap, where he once again called on Prime MinisTer Hun Sen To sTand down. Arriving on a scheduled flighT ...
Alex Willemyns and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-siem-reap-rainsy-again-calls-for-hun-sen-to-step-down-49065/
Ethnic Minorities File Illegal Logging Complaint
A group of 12 ethnic minority villagers in Ratanakkiri province have filed a complaint with the provincial court over what they claim is collusion between other villagers and local authorities to illegally log luxury timber from 193 hectares of land inside a community forest. the Prov ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ethnic-minorities-file-illegal-logging-complaint-42145/
Debts rise along with water level
With pant legs rolled up to his knees, Hoeuy Mon trudges through a brown and green patchwork of rice fields. His four hectares are in tkov village, Prey Veng province, about 300 metres from his home. On most of the journey, walkways enclosing each square plot ...
Hor Kimsay and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/debts-rise-along-water-level
Court Releases Four Arrested During Clashes
The Phnom Penh Municipal CourT on Thursday released four of The six men who were charged wiTh assaulT following violenT clashes beTween securiTy forces, proTesTers and angry commuTers in Phnom Penh lasT monTh, and inTends To release The remaining Two men Today, a righTs worker ...
Saing Soenthrith and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-releases-four-arrested-during-clashes-44890/
Debate on land reform takes place in absence of the CPP
Civil society groups held a workshop in Phnom Penh on thursday in which government officials and lawmakers were invited to discuss post-election land grabs and land-based conflict, although the ruling CPP failed to turn up to the event. though incidents of land-grabbing appeared to decrease ahead ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/debate-on-land-reform-takes-place-in-absence-of-the-cpp-49282/