Insight: Land conflict, impunity dims Cambodia's awakening
Cambodia’s transformation from war-torn basket-case to one of Asia’s most promising emerging economies is being overshadowed by a backwards lurch in human rights and land policies that critics say are entrenching poverty. ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/12/us-cambodia-protests-idUSBRE8AB17J20121112
Viriyah firm plans move in Cambodia
Thailand’s Viriyah Insurance, one of the biggest firms of its kind in the country, is seeking to expand its motor vehicle business in Southeast Asia, according to a report yesterday in the Bangkok Post. ...
Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/viriyah-firm-plans-move-cambodia
Judicial reshuffle: Top judiciary posts filled by Sihamoni
King Norodom Sihamoni yesterday shook up the composition of the Supreme Council of the Magistracy, officially instituting seven new members to the body overseeing the nation’s judiciary, while also disbarring one former prosecutor. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/judicial-reshuffle-top-judiciary-posts-filled-sihamoni
PPWSA profits up, pays $2.2M dividend
The Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority – one of two listed companies on the Cambodia Securities Exchange – earned an after-tax net profit of $11.43 million last year, up 20 per cent from 2013. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppwsa-profits-pays-22m-dividend
EU seeks negotiation on timber agreement
As Vietnam and Laos negotiate to enter a European Union trade agreement aimed at improving forestry governance, the EU – one of the world’s top timber importers – is urging Cambodia to join the scheme. ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/eu-seeks-negotiation-timber-agreement
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. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/necs-communication-breakdown-4-groups
RCAF drug suspect gets 10 yrs
A Phnom Penh Municipal judge yesterday sentenced a former military officer to 10 years for drug trafficking and running an illicit lottery, while his niece received a one-year suspended sentence for her role. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rcaf-drug-suspect-gets-10-yrs
Open an account at a securities firm and get ready to trade
CSX chief executive Hong Sok Hour explains how the exchange will function on its first day of trading and into the future. The way to begin trading on the CSX is to open an account with any one of a dozen securities firms which are licensed ...
Cambodia prepares to talk with China over bilateral cooperation promotion
Cambodia held an inter- ministerial meeting on Monday to discuss and prepare documents for a talk with China in November in order to further enhance bilateral ties and cooperation, officials said. Koy Kuong, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the Monday’s meeting ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/817635.shtml#.Ul0kxlBgd8E
Angry villagers block dusty quarry road in Takeo province
About 300 angry villagers blocked a dusty road in Takeo province’s Bati district on Friday, demanding that three quarrying firms follow through on promises to pave it, a local official said Sunday. The villagers are unhappy that the quarrying firms’ trucks kick up massive amounts of ...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/angry-villagers-block-dusty-quarry-road-in-takeo-province-53403/
Ministry orders inspection of building sites in Preah Sihanouk
The Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction ordered a committee on Tuesday to spend a week inspecting the legality and technical standards of all construction projects in Preah Sihanouk province. This follows the collapse of a seven-storey building in Sihanoukville on Saturday that ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-orders-inspection-building-sites-preah-sihanouk
Company nears water distribution
A recently-completed water treatment facility with the capacity to store up to 60,000 cubic metres of water in Preah Sihanouk province’s Kbal Chhay will only resume distributing water after Anco Brothers, a conglomerate tasked with building and operating the facility, has concluded that all technical ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50565275/company-nears-water-distribution/
Agriculture ministry halts imports of pesticides
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has temporarily halted the import, supply and distribution of all pesticides. The ban comes after at least 14 people died and around 300 were warded after poisonings in Sre Norn and Alorch villages in Chet Borey district’s Kantuot ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/agriculture-ministry-halts-imports-pesticides
CPP Congress sets key policies
The 41st Congress of the Central Committee of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), headed by its president and Prime Minister Hun Sen has laid out key policies and far-reaching reforms across all sectors in order to win provincial, municipal, district and national elections, party spokesman ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-congress-sets-key-policies
Newly titled communities hope to protect more than just traditions
After three years of processing, two Phnong villages in northern Kratie province finally received community land titles on Saturday, the first to do so in Kratie province. Currently, there are two more villages with community land titles in Ratanakiri, and seven in Mondulkiri, making eleven ...
Aisha Down
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19402/newly-titled-communities-hope-to-protect-more-than-just-traditions/
CNRP would slash ministry funds by 20%, spokesman says
The CNRP will cut all ministry budgets by 20 percent if it wins next year’s national election to free up funds to provide $500,000 annually to each commune, the party’s spokesman said on Monday, a proposal dismissed by the ruling party as empty election season ...
Ben Paviour and Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second2/cnrp-slash-ministry-funds-20-spokesman-says-130259/
City Hall sends hundreds for rehab in social affairs centres
More than 1,700 beggars and homeless people were removed from the streets of Phnom Penh and sent to social affairs centres last year. According to City Hall’s annual report, which was released yesterday, authorities rounded up 1,727 beggars and homeless people from all city districts over ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106908/city-hall-sends-hundreds-rehab-social-affairs-centres/
Health Ministry issues hot weather warning
The Health Ministry has warned all Cambodians to drink lots of water and keep cool, as hot season temperatures near 40 0C. The ministry’s Communicable Disease Control department also advised the public to avoid alcohol and drink only boiled or filtered water to prevent food poisoning ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37694/health-ministry-issues-hot-weather-warning/
New rules for digital payments
The central bank has issued new regulations governing the licensing of payment services providers (PSPs), requiring that all firms providing online services to accept electronic payments have at least $2 million in registered capital, a move expected to increase the stability of the sector and ...
Hor Kimsay and Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-rules-digital-payments
Vietnam: zero duties for rice, tobacco
Vietnam agreed yesterday to waive all duties on a total of 300,000 tons of rice and 3,000 tons of dried tobacco exported annually from Cambodia to the country, according to a bilateral agreement signed at two back-to-back summits to promote economic cooperation in the Greater ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31305/vietnam--zero-duties-for-rice--tobacco/