Benefits there for the taking
Thailand will lose its beneficial tax treatment on exports to the European Union next year, and Cambodia’s manufacturing sector could be set to capitalise. Following three consecutive years of upper-middle income status as defined by the World Bank, Thailand will on January 1 lose its Generalised ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/benefits-there-taking
Hun Sen lambasts disaster management official
Prime Minister Hun sen lambasted a senior official in the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) on Thursday after announcing that he would allocate money to aid victims of recent floods that have killed a total of 12 people. speaking at the Chaktomuk Conference Hall for ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-lambasts-disaster-management-official-65994/
Key Phnom Penh posting suggests Australia's asylum seeker deal with Cambodia is almost done
Australia has reportedly installed a key immigration bureaucrat in its Phnom Penh embassy as the government prepares to send up to 1000 asylum seekers in its care on Nauru to Cambodia. Greg Kelly, who formerly headed the detention operations division of the Immigration Department and managed ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Doherty and David Wroe
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/key-phnom-penh-posting-suggests-australias-asylum-seeker-deal-with-cambodia-is-almost-done-20140818-105htp.html
Capital clash sees 10 injured
At least 10 people, one a 4-year-old child, were injured in a clash in the capital yesterday when security forces used electric batons to disperse about 300 villagers from Kratie province embroiled in a land dispute with a south Korean agribusiness. The villagers, from Kratie’s snuol ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-clash-sees-10-injured
More Than 1,000 Faintings Reported in Cambodian Factories This Year
The faintings between January and August were much higher than the 802 reported in the whole of last year, while only one factory worker died in the workplace in 2013, the Free Trade Union of Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia (FTUWKC) said in a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/faintings-08212014140815.html
Gov’t bans alcohol ads to reduce traffic deaths
Television and radio stations will be barred from broadcasting advertisements for alcohol during the primetime 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. slot beginning next month, as part of the government’s effort to reduce the number of fatalities resulting from drunk driving, officials at the Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia factories snub workers arrested in January strikes
While the smoke has long cleared on January’s violent garment strikes, for many of the 23 workers and unionists arrested and tried on charges widely considered to be baseless, the ordeal is far from over. Nine months after security forces used deadly violence to end strikes ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alice Cuddy, Chhay Channyda & Mom Kunthear
http://www.ucanews.com/news/cambodia-factories-snub-workers-arrested-in-january-strikes/72213
Cambodian scholars hail China's contribution to Silk Road Fund
Cambodian scholars have voiced their support to Chinese President Xi Jinping for his announcement of China’s contribution of 40 billion U.s. dollars for the establishment of a silk Road Fund, saying that such a fund is vital for developing countries. Chheang Vannarith, senior researcher of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-11/10/c_133778379.htm
Anger on the home front
More than 100 soldiers in Pursat province have threatened to resign en masse after being ordered to bulldoze their own lands, which are claimed by tycoon Try Pheap’s MDs Import Export Company. The threat of mass resignations came two days after a soldier, seng Pov, took ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/anger-home-front
Thais ‘admit’ to burn deaths
Thai soldiers admitted to burning alive two men last week who may have been undocumented Cambodians, Battambang military officials said yesterday. Cambodian officers said their Thai counterparts informed them that on the night of January 7, four Cambodians illegally crossed the border with intentions of evading ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thais-admit-burn-deaths
Growing pains, as capital keeps expanding
Phnom Penh is one of the fastest-growing cities in southeast Asia. It added nearly 500,000 people between 2000 and 2010, for a total of 1.4 million. That has meant a lot of changes in a short period: more congestion, more markets, more housing. And, newcomers ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha,
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/growing-pains-as-capital-keeps-expanding/2630483.html
Refugee helper missing
A Cambodian national who was allegedly arrested on Thursday alongside dozens of Montagnard asylum seekers remained missing yesterday, while those sent back to Vietnam were reportedly abused by authorities for their attempted escape. Forty-two-year-old Dy Heun, an ethnic Jarai from Ratanakkiri province, was officially reported missing ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/refugee-helper-missing
Gov’t lifts farming ban on K Thom floodplains
The Council of Ministers has granted farmers in Kompong Thom province permission to start farming on the floodplains of the Tonle sap lake in an area previously off limits and home to flooded forests that provide a critical fish breeding habitat. The Council of Ministers’ notice, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-lifts-farming-ban-on-k-thom-floodplains-66008/
RCEP participating states reiterate to conclude negotiations by end-2015
Economic ministers from the 16 participating countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) have reiterated their commitment to conclude negotiations by the end of 2015. The ministers reaffirmed they are committed to ending the RCEP negotiations in line with the vision endorsed by their state ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=237929
UNICEF slams street sweeps
Following the detention this week of homeless children as young as 1 year old at Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey speu vocational training centre, UNICEF yesterday called for an end to street sweeps and arbitrary detentions. Three people rounded up on sunday said in separate accounts this ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alice Cuddy
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/unicef-slams-street-sweeps
Resintech to tap into rubber plantation with joint venture in Cambodia
Resintech Bhd, a local Polyethylene and poly vinyl chloride (PVC) pipe manufacturer, will tap into the rubber plantation sector in a bid to diversify its business segment given the healthy outlook on the rubber industry. Resintech’s managing director Datuk Teh Kim Poo said that according to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tropical storm precedes cold front
Tropical Storm Sinlaku iS expected to hit Cambodia today, bringing with it heavy rainS and flooding for reSidentS in the Kingdom&rSquo;S northeaStern provinceS, a government meteorologiSt confirmed. Mondulkiri and Ratanakkiri are expected to be the moSt vulnerable areaS, and the Storm will have little effect on SS='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary and Sarah Taguiam
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/tropical-storm-precedes-cold-front
Poll shows increased dissatisfaction with government
An increasing number of Cambodians are dissatisfied with the direction the country is moving toward, according to results from a nationwide survey by the Asia Foundation. The foundation interviewed 1,000 people face to face in May and June of this year—prior to a political deal struck ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/poll-shows-increased-dissatisfaction-with-government/2561243.html
Seeking to cultivate young Cambodian leaders
US AmbaSSador William Todd created the AmbaSSador&rSquo;S Youth Council in Cambodia in 2012, one of 80 Such groupS of youth around the world. The goal iS to create better relationS between Cambodia and the US and to cultivate young leaderS for Cambodia, he Said. “ThoSe SS='cambodia-color'>...
Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/seeking-to-cultivate-young-cambodian-leaders/2564238.html
Kampot police officers sentenced to jail for graft
The Kampot Provincial Court on Thursday sentenced the former Banteay Meas district police chief and his former deputy to four years and two years in prison respectively for embezzling funds and taking bribes amounting to $64,360 over a five-year period, a court official said. In March, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kampot-police-officers-sentenced-to-jail-for-graft-77021/