Women’s Caucus meets UK rep
Female members of the National Assembly sat down with a representative of the UK Parliament yesterday to discuss female participation in politics, on the final day of a consultative meeting hosted by the British Embassy. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/womens-caucus-meets-uk-rep
Gate’s design blamed in arson
A decorative gate erected in Siem Reap province&rSquo;S Angkor Archaeological Park for the upcoming Khmer New Year feStivitieS waS burned down in the early hourS of yeSterday morning, following a backlaSh againSt itS So-called VietnameSe deSign. Siem Reap Deputy Governor Bun Tharith Said the gate &ndaSh; SS='cambodia-color'>...
Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gates-design-blamed-arson
NEC’s communication breakdown: 4 groups
The National Election Committee has created a pair of new commissions, with one aimed at keeping relevant stakeholders informed of the reformed body’s activities and another coordinating electoral activities with Provincial Election Committees. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/necs-communication-breakdown-4-groups
Malaysia's internet faster than Cambodia’s
The government today dismissed as inaccurate information in a report released by global broadband speed test operator Ookla that the Internet speed in the country was worse than in Cambodia and Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Malaysiakini News Staff
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/303683
Asia’s orphanage industry worth millions
Private donations to orphanages in Cambodia means the government is struggling to cope with their reform, with lack of transparency and lack of safety checks. Most of Cambodia’s orphanages are financed by private donations from abroad, but no one knows exactly how much money flows ss='cambodia-color'>...
Asian Pacific Post News Staff
http://www.asianpacificpost.com/article/7013-asia%E2%80%99s-orphanage-industry-worth-millions.html
Cambodia’s micro-climate is changing
The heavy rains forecast to wash over Phnom Penh this weekend will come too late for farmers in rice paddies here, 165 km north of the capital. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Igor Kossov and Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13087/cambodia---s-micro-climate-is-changing/
PM’s sexist epithet raises ire
Women representing dozens of civil society groups met yesterday to discuss Prime Minister Hun sen’s recent use of derogatory language when discussing a female protester accused of injuring a security guard. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pms-sexist-epithet-raises-ire
Tycoon’s son guilty, and free
Duong Otdom Chhorvin, aka Duong Chhay, was convicted by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday of having beaten and threatened to kill the son of tycoon Try Pheap but walked free following the verdict after having his sentence reduced. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tycoons-son-guilty-and-free
UK found three Cambodia’s maps
The Cambodia’s three found-maps by UK in the British Library were published by services Geographique de l’Indochine are the maps printed in between 1933 and 1953. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/uk-found-three-cambodia%E2%80%99s-maps-8885
Gov’t rejects WB’s report
A World Bank report released last month shows that as of 2011-2012 only 7.9 per cent of Cambodia’s arable land was irrigated, with the a Ministry of Water Resources official contesting these numbers as old data and that irrigated land figures were higher than reported. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kun Kourchettana
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-rejects-wbs-report
Kingdom’s logistics firms see diversity
Logistics firms saw a new level of diversity in Cambodian exports, a trend that would protect the economy from external shock, several shipping companies said. The Kingdom is on the right track to diversify and increase the export of agricultural products, while decreasing its reliance on ss='cambodia-color'>...
Border crime in Interpol’s sights
An ASEAN-firSt Interpol databaSe tracking tranSnational crime between Cambodia and Vietnam waS launched in Phnom Penh yeSterday. Keo Vannthan, head of Cambodia&rSquo;S Interpol Bureau at the MiniStry of Interior, Said the European Union had pledged almoSt US$800,000 to the pilot EU-ASEAN Migration Border Management Program project SS='cambodia-color'>...
Criticism for Cambodia’s tax revenue
Cambodia’s tax revenue increased 16 per cent in the first half of this year compared to the corresponding period last year – a rise economists have attributed to improvements in the Kingdom’s economy. Critics, however, say it amounts to little compared to the national gross domestic ss='cambodia-color'>...
CBRE: Cambodia’s bright future
CBRE Cambodia’s latest MarketView report sees strong growth in tourist arrivals resulting in growth in hotel occupancy rates and durations of stay. Quoting Ministry of Tourism statistics, CBRE said Cambodian tourism sector continued to enjoy steady growth over the course of 2013, with the number of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/06/cbre-cambodias-bright-future/
Monitoring for Nothing: Is the ILO’s ‘Better Factories’ programme failing the Kingdom’s garment workers?
The United Nations in Cambodia has taken a beating in recent months. The UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal has been plagued by high-profile resignations and accusations of political interference. Elsewhere human rights activists have criticised the UN’s failure to take a firm stance against an increasingly ss='cambodia-color'>...
Frédéric Janssens
http://sea-globe.com/monitoring-for-nothing/
Building Boom Causes Asian Sand Smugglers to Expand
Singapore&rSquo;S decadeS-long effort to reclaim land from the ocean haS expanded the nation&rSquo;S coaStline and fueled itS building boom. But it haS alSo depleted itS Supply of Sand.&nbSp; In recent yearS, the maSSive Sand Shortage haS been worSened by export banS by neighboring countrieS, driving SS='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia hosts 3rd World Eco-Tourism Forum
Cambodia hosted the 3rd World Ecotourism Conference on October 3rd at the famous costal province—Preah sihanouk—in an aim at developing the Asia Pacific region as a leading ecotourism destination. To celebrate the acceptance of the Cambodia costal zone (Preah sihanouk Ville, Koh Kong, Kep and Kampot) ss='cambodia-color'>...
Japanese Investment Grows; Hurdles Remain
Japanese investment in Cambodia is steadily increasing as a result of sharply rising wages in China and other southeast Asian nations. But experts warned this week that for sustained investment growth—and to avoid driving Japanese companies to other attractive investment destinations such as Burma —the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/japanese-investment-grows-hurdles-remain-5144/
Staff Protest Corruption at Telecom Cambodia
The director-general of Tele­com Cambodia, one of the country’s most highly regarded state-owned enterprises and a candidate for listing on the stock exchange, has left his post amid an investigation into corruption allegations, the minister of posts and telecommunications said on Thursday. Despite the staff’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/staff-protest-corruption-at-telecom-cambodia-10535/
Hun Sen and EU Ambassador Talk Elections, Land Reform
The European Union’s ambassador to Cambodia raised issues of judicial reform, land reform and the upcoming national elections in a meeting with Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday morning. The European Commission’s directorate-general for trade is currently reviewing a report by the U.N.’s human rights envoy ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-and-eu-ambassador-talk-elections-land-reform-11009/