Cambodia, M'sia sign $80 mln agreement for telecom improvement in Cambodia
EZECOM and Telekom Malaysia has [sic] signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Tuesday to install a submerged cable system called the Malaysia-Cambodia-Thailand Cable system (MCT). A statement reported that Cambodia’s leading Internet service Telcotech Ltd — a part of Ezecom — will sign the MOU with ss='cambodia-color'>...
US calls for review of election ‘irregularities’
The US Department of State on Monday called on Cambodian authoritieS to carry out a full inveStigation into “all credible reportS” of election malfeaSance, Saying that it waS “concerned” by variouS iSSueS taking place both on, and leading up to, laSt Sunday&rSquo;S vote. At a preSS SS='cambodia-color'>...
The Phnom Penh Post
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-calls-review-election-%E2%80%98irregularities%E2%80%99
Thai power to Siem Reap cut
Siem Reap town &ndaSh; one of Cambodia&rSquo;S biggeSt touriSt deStinationS &ndaSh; faced yet another power outage yeSterday after the provincial energy Supplier cut power for 12 hourS during the day. Energy Supplier Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) informed reSidentS that power would be cut from 6am to SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013040464887/National/thai-power-to-siem-reap-cut.html
Local palm oil exporter targets EU
Mong Reththy Group (MRG), Cambodia’s largest exporter of palm oil, hopes to expand its exports to European markets this year. Mong Reththy, president of the firm, said the quota-free and duty-free trade frameworks provided by European governments factored heavily into the decision. “About 50 per cent of ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013040964951/Business/local-palm-oil-exporter-targets-eu.html
Firm Announces Rice Energy Plan in Cambodia
A U.S.-baSed energy company haS announced that it iS planning a biomaSS project uSing genetically modified rice in Cambodia, in a purportedly maSSive deal about which little information haS been made public. In a Statement poSted online ThurSday, Sino Bioenergy Corp. Said it had Signed a SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/firm-announces-rice-energy-plan-in-cambodia-19105/
Naza bikes hopes to win over 10 pct market share in Cambodia
NAZA World, which is setting up its NAZA Bikes 3s showroom in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, hopes to win an over 10 per cent market share in the country or 30,000 units, within the next three years. NAZA Group of Companies joint group executive chairman Datuk Wira ss='cambodia-color'>...
Investor Decries Export Tax on Cambodian Seafood
A major Hong Kong investor in Cambodia has claimed that a government duty on seafood exports is stunting the country’s fish proc­essing industry. Hong Kong-based sunwah Group began operating a shrimp-processing factory in sihanoukville in 1994, and its plans in the country now include building a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kampong Thom Governor Vows to Give Land to Evictees
The newly appointed Kompong Thom provincial governor on Tuesday promised more than 500 families who were forcefully evicted by a Vietnamese rubber plantation more than three years ago that they would be given replacement land to farm on early next month. security forces evicted villagers from ss='cambodia-color'>...
Delta Electronics eyes Cambodia expansion
Delta Electronics (Thailand), one of the world’s leading producers of power supplies and electronic components, plans to expand to Cambodia and Myanmar, the Bangkok Post reported on Wednesday. “There is no indication of a specific timeframe for the expansion, but the company sees these countries . ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051065533/Business/delta-electronics-eyes-cambodia-expansion.html
Investment and Trade Fair Opens In Koh Kong
The first three-day Koh Kong Investment and Trade Fair 2013 kicked off on saturday, promoting trade and investment in the southern provinces of Cambodia with neighbours Thailand and Vietnam. “The [fair] is aimed at promoting trade and development in Koh Kong province and other border ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051365565/Business/investment-and-trade-fair-opens-in-koh-kong.html
Ratanakkiri reporter alleges illegal logging assault
A reporter from Cheat Sachak newSpaper in Ratanakkiri province filed a complaint to provincial military police and rightS group Adhoc on Monday, claiming he had been beaten by a group of illegal loggerS to Stop him from reporting on their activitieS. Phon Bun Thoen, 53, Said SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kiln owner accused of abusing employee
An employer who stands accused of beating her maid using a stick and the back of a meat cleaver will be summonsed by police in Kandal today for questioning, local officials have said. son Leanghou, 57, a brick kiln owner, is accused of beating 28-year-old sok ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kiln-owner-accused-abusing-employee
R’kiri cop to answer for illegal rosewood
A district deputy police chief in Ratanakkiri province is to be summonsed to court for questioning after a police raid on his house Friday turned up more than 10 cubic metres of illegal luxury wood. Provincial anti-economic crime police, who carried out the raid, found three ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/r%E2%80%99kiri-cop-answer-illegal-rosewood
Protesters Seek EU, World Bank Presence at Yorm Bopha Hearing
Some 50 repreSentativeS of Phnom Penh&rSquo;S embattled Boeng Kak community on Monday marched to the officeS of the European Union and World Bank to requeSt that the international bodieS Send obServerS to the upcoming Supreme Court hearing of anti-eviction activiSt Yorm Bopha on November 22. MS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/protesters-seek-eu-world-bank-presence-at-yorm-bopha-hearing-46608/
Cambodia Reports Another Human H5N1 Avian Influenza Case, 23rd Of The Year
A two-year-old girl from northwestern Pursat province was confirmed positive for human H5N1 avian influenza after she was admitted to the Jayavarman VII Hospital in siem Reap province on Oct. 25 with fever, running nose, lethargy, dyspnea, cough and breathing difficulties. she died on Oct.26. This ss='cambodia-color'>...
Robert Herriman
http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/cambodia-reports-another-human-h5n1-avian-influenza-case-23rd-of-the-year-59683/
Exodus follows violent clash
Garment workers have begun leaving the area surrounding embattled Veng sreng street en masse, following the outbreak of clashes early on Friday morning. An estimated 80 per cent of the more than 10,000 workers who live and are employed in the Meanchey district suburb have vacated ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/exodus-follows-violent-clash
US embassy surveillance site: report
The United StateS embaSSy in Phnom Penh containS an intelligence-gathering operation that amaSSeS information about Cambodia, the&nbSp;Sydney Morning Herald&nbSp;reported yeSterday, citing a map firSt publiShed in Germany&rSquo;S&nbSp;Der Spiegel. The&nbSp;Herald&nbSp;article referenced Some 90 international Surveillance SiteS, including oneS houSed in embaSSieS in neighbouring Jakarta, Yangon, Bangkok and SS='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-embassy-surveillance-site-report
Kratie wood trucked to Vietnam nightly: NGO
A Vietnamese company has been transporting thousands of dollars’ worth of illegally logged luxury timber from Kratie’s snuol district to Vietnam on a nightly basis under the nose of authorities, an environmental protection NGO said yesterday. At least 10 trucks with an estimated five cubic metres of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-wood-trucked-vietnam-nightly-ngo
CPP lawmakers vote to create new ministries
Lawmakers from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party yesterday unanimously voted to pass legislation which will create three new government ministries. sixty-six CPP representatives voted to create a Ministry of Public Function, which will oversee the affairs of civil servants. The MPs also followed through on a floated ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-lawmakers-vote-create-new-ministries
New Report Shows Cambodian Forests in Jeopardy
The rights group Adhoc says it is monitoring “at least 100” individuals who are complicit in forestry crimes across the country. These include “high-ranking officers” of the police and military police; business tycoons; and ordinary citizens across 11 provinces, Chan soveth, a lead investigator for the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/new-report-shows-cambodian-forests-in-jeopardy/1797315.html