Angkor Wat revenue at $51 million for last year
Revenue from foreign tourists buying passes to see temples in siem Reap’s Angkor Wat complex amounted to about $51 million last year, according to a Post calculation of data that was released Friday in a letter by the Apsara Authority, which manages the site. [Bun] Narith ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/angkor-wat-revenue-51-million-last-year
Kem Sokha Concerned Over Post-Election Violence
Opposition vice president Kem sokha on Thursday said he could not guarantee there would be no violence following sunday’s vote and appealed to the international community to be on alert and help ensure a peaceful transition after the election results are released. speaking to reporters after ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/kem-sokha-concerned-over-post-election-violence-36762/
China provides 33 mln USD in free-interest loan to Cambodia for development projects
The Chinese government on Thursday signed up to provide a free-interest loan of 200 million Renminbi (33 million U.s. dollars) to Cambodia for social and economic development projects. The agreement was inked between Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo and Cambodian Finance Minister Aun Porn Moniroth ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-11/14/c_132888622.htm
ADB funds tourism development in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a 100 million UsD aid package to support the development of tourism infrastructure in the three Mekong River countries of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The decision was made at the annual meeting on tourism development of the Greater Mekong ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vietnamnet Bridge News Staff
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/travel/91098/adb-funds-tourism-development-in-vietnam--laos--cambodia.html
NGO alleges bribery over titles
An environmental protection NGO is preparing to file a lawsuit with the Kampong speu provincial court and a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit against an Agriculture Department official who was allegedly paid by a development firm to issue land titles to villagers squatting on state ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-alleges-bribery-over-titles
Cambodia Rejects Rice Contamination Claims by EU
The Cambodian government and rice exporters have dismissed allegations that rice exports to the European Union (EU) countries are contaminated with rice from Vietnam. Commerce Ministry representative told local sources that while it is true that some Cambodia rice is processed in Vietnam to match ss='cambodia-color'>...
Oryza News Staff
http://oryza.com/news/cambodia-rejects-rice-contamination-claims-eu
Verdict today in case of jailed land activist
After more than three months in jail, environmental activist Kuch Veng is set to hear his verdict at the Pursat provincial court. The verdict was originally scheduled to be handed down July 10, but the judge ordered it delayed after some 300 people from 11 provinces ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/verdict-today-case-jailed-land-activist
Monks feeling policed
During a small press conference yesterday, the founder of the Independent Monk Network said about 30 police officers came to Wat Botum two nights in one week, asking to search the premises for “bad men” who may be hiding there. The visits occurred on the nights ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan and Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monks-feeling-policed
Lao consultants give dam the thumbs up
The controversial Don sahong hydropower dam, which Laos says it will soon build just a kilometre from the Cambodian border, will not have significant effects on the Mekong River, according to an environmental impact assessment paid for by the dam’s builder. Obtained yesterday, the report – ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lao-consultants-give-dam-thumbs
Gov’t to push rural sanitation
With the vast majority of rural Cambodians still lacking access to a toilet, and suffering the incumbent health risks, Ministry of Rural Development officials on Monday renewed long-standing intentions to improve the country’s sanitation infrastructure. Just days after World Toilet Day, the officials surveyed villages ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-push-rural-sanitation
Tanks sit between villagers, farmland
Villagers in Oddar Meanchey province’s samroang town filed a complaint to Adhoc yesterday after local authorities repeatedly failed to budge a nearby military unit, which the villagers say has stationed six tanks on their farmland and refused to grant residents access to their crops, or ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tanks-sit-between-villagers-farmland
Geopacific Resources to update capital raising for copper project in Cambodia
Geopacific Resources (AsX: GPR) is in pre-open following the AsX granting the company a trading halt, pending an announcement regarding a proposed capital raising in the form of a placement to sophisticated investors. Geopacific is focused on the highly prospective Kou sa copper project in Cambodia, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Opposition tells CPP: Agree, or talks off
Opposition leaders have given the ruling party an ultimatum: Agree to our demands by the end of the year or the talks are over. Kem sokha, Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy president, said yesterday that after discussing the matter with party president sam Rainsy, they had ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/opposition-tells-cpp-agree-or-talks
Long march to capital begins
The long journey on foot from the provinces to Phnom Penh began yesterday for hundreds of villagers and monks who intend to mark December 10’s International Human Rights Day by protesting outside the National Assembly. Parades of people, expected to grow in size the closer they ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/long-march-capital-begins
Journos claim officials are involved in logging
A group of local journalists in Preah Vihear province allege, in a complaint filed with a rights group, that authorities are involved in the sale of illegally logged timber. seven journalists, who asked that their names and respective outlets not be identified for fear of retribution ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/journos-claim-officials-are-involved-logging
Threats as police, WWF officer probe logging
Seven police officerS and an NGO Staffer in Mondulkiri province eScaped a potentially violent confrontation with illegal loggerS on WedneSday, while a Soldier who waS accompanying the group claimed he received death threatS from military police connected to the logging operation. Khleuv Krak, 40, a Royal SS='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/threats-police-wwf-officer-probe-logging
Crushing protests, CPP has abandoned constitution
King Norodom Sihamoni haS not declared a State of emergency in Cambodia. But that haSn&rSquo;t Stopped the CPP government of Prime MiniSter Hun Sen from diSregarding the ConStitution in itS effort to Stamp out demonStrationS and political diSSent in Phnom Penh. Facing maSS rallieS calling for SS='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/crushing-protests-cpp-has-abandoned-constitution-50358/
Exports of rice to fall short of 2013 goal
Cambodia’s rice exports roughly doubled in the first nine months of this year compared with the same period in 2012, according to government data released yesterday. But the figures aren’t big enough to meet official goals for 2013. The numbers show that exports of fragrant rice ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-rice-fall-short-2013-goal
US senator wants military aid tied to election probe
Opposition leader sam Rainsy has scored a late political victory in his whirlwind two-week tour to Europe and the United states to try and ramp up international pressure on the newly formed Cambodian government ahead of his return Tuesday. Last Wednesday, a prominent Republican Party senator, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-senator-wants-military-aid-tied-election-probe
CAMBODIA: H&M calls for annual minimum wage review
The Cambodian government should construct an effective annual review system for the minimum wage to ease worker unrest, according to clothing retail giant H&M. The swedish company’s comments came after CEO Karl-Johan Persson visited the country in mid-October, meeting Cambodia Prime Minister Hun sen and other ss='cambodia-color'>...
Richard Woodard
http://www.just-style.com/news/hm-calls-for-annual-minimum-wage-review_id119576.aspx