CNRP cites assaults in nixing talks
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday withdrew from talks with the government scheduled for today in protest against soldiers cracking down on monks and demonstrators during a garment worker strike in the capital. special Forces Airborne 911 Unit soldiers with metal pipes, knives, AK-47s, slingshots ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shane Worrell and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-cites-assaults-nixing-talks
Subedi: There is room for reform
Despite the government indicating it was open to parliamentary reform, the dismissal of opposition lawmakers in June was a disturbing shift away from a commitment to protecting human rights, UN human rights envoy surya subedi says in his latest report on Cambodia. Obtained on Friday, the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/subedi-there-room-reform
Cambodia imports 1.1 million tons of oil in 8 months
Cambodia had imported 1.1 million tons of petroleum in the first eight months of the year, a 3.5 percent decrease compared with the 1.14 million tons over the same period last year, the figures of the Ministry of Commerce showed Friday. From January to August this ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-09/27/c_132756600.htm
Interior Minister Says Electronic ID Cards to Become Standard
Interior Minister sar Kheng on Wednesday said that the government had begun formalizing the process for obtaining electronic national identity cards in a bid to reduce graft carried out by local authorities. speaking on the sidelines of the 10th Government Discussion Forum on Electronic Identity at ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/interior-minister-says-electronic-id-cards-to-become-standard-49161/
Exchange to receive millions
Cambodia’s stock exchange will receive a $2.5 million funding injection from the south Korean government in an attempt to draw more corporate interest from companies who may want to go public, according to a recent report on state media site AKP. The funds will go towards ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exchange-receive-millions
Rehab Options Needed for Female Inmates
As International Women’s Day is marked around the world on saturday, calls are being made for more rehabilitative opportunities to be made available to female prisoners in Cambodia and, separately, for cultural norms that rank women below men to be challenged and overcome. Local rights group ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rehab-options-needed-for-female-inmates-53733/
DVD shops close before raid
A handful of stores in Phnom Penh’s City Mall closed up shop yesterday morning, draping large curtains over their storefronts rather than face an impending police raid on businesses allegedly selling pirated movies there, police and other vendors said. The aborted raid came less than two ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David and Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dvd-shops-close-raid
New Zealand provides Cambodia with 3.7 mln USD to preserve Angkor Wat
The government of New Zealand on Wednesday signed up to provide Cambodia with 3.7 million U.s. dollars for the preservation and protection of Angkor Wat Temple, one of the world heritage sites, said a news statement from the Cambodian government. Bun Narith, director general of Apsara ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-06/04/c_133383466.htm
Strike continues as T&K rejects lunch allowance
Union representatives stormed out of negotiations and continued a strike yesterday when managers at T&K Garment factory said workers would never receive the 2,000 riel ($0.50) daily lunch allowance allegedly promised to them. A week after they walked off the job, T&K workers at Por sen ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear and Koam Chanrasmey
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strike-continues-tk-rejects-lunch-allowance
For villagers losing land, Hun Sen is last resort
Three separate communities from across the country were in Phnom Penh on Monday to petition Prime Minister Hun sen to personally intervene to help settle their various land disputes. Communities affected by alleged land grabs in Phnom Penh and beyond often appeal directly to Mr. Hun ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/for-villagers-losing-land-hun-sen-is-last-resort-62200/
Japanese chain to open hotel in 2015
Budget business hotel group Toyoko Inn hope to draw East Asian businesspeople and travellers to Phnom Penh The Toyoko Inn, which is a joint venture between the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) and a Japanese budget, business hotel chain, is slated to open in May 2015. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/japanese-chain-open-hotel-2015
Life as a brokered wife
Barely able to make enough money to survive in her hometown, sok Chenda* picked up her passport and a few belongings last year and headed to the provincial capital of Kampong Cham. It was a journey she would regret. The eldest daughter among five siblings, Chenda, 28, ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/life-brokered-wife
Work Remains for Cambodia After UN Rights Hearing
Though Cambodia had four years to implement 91 recommendations on how to improve its human rights record, U.N. member states still had to push for action in a number of key areas during its second Universal Periodic Review hearing in Geneva on Tuesday. In a speech ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/work-remains-for-cambodia-after-un-rights-hearing-51129/
Malaysian Insurance Institute signs agreement with Cambodia Insurance Ass’n.
The Malaysian Insurance Institute (MII) and the Insurance Association of Cambodia (IAC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for “a bilateral collaboration to forge a beneficial business relationship to further enhance insurance knowledge and skills development for the insurance industry in Cambodia,” said a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Insurance Journal News Staff
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2014/03/03/321950.htm
Clean water access ‘improves’
Cambodia is making steady headway towards its goal of providing universal clean-water access. “The 2013 population census shows that the percentage of people who now have clean water sources has climbed to 49 per cent. We will be able to achieve the 2015 Millennium Development Goal ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/clean-water-access-%E2%80%98improves%E2%80%99
Seventy-eight judges and court officials reshuffled
With new laws in the pipeline to reform the judiciary, the supreme Council of Magistracy has announced a reshuffling of judges and court staff, with 78 officials promoted or transferred, according to a royal decree signed April 6. The job changes, which include senior judges and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/seventy-eight-judges-and-court-officials-reshuffled-56529/
Hun Sen lambasts ‘mafia’-like CNRP over political deadlock
A blustery Prime Minister Hun sen on Tuesday used a speech at a National Fish Day event to lash out against the opposition CNRP, comparing the party to the mafia and suggesting it create its own country “on the moon.” Just before helping release thousands of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-lambasts-mafia-like-cnrp-over-political-deadlock-62942/
Office space demand up slightly in Q4 2013
Demand for office space in Phnom Penh in the fourth quarter of 2013 grew by five per cent over the previous quarter, according to research by local property services provider VTrust Property Company. VTrust deputy director Chrek soknim said that growth in Q4 of last year ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/office-space-demand-slightly-q4-2013
Police Seek Chinese New Year Beer From Local Businesses
With Chinese New Year approaching, the long arm of the law has once again reached out to local businesses in at least one Phnom Penh commune asking for their help to ensure police have enough beer to usher in the Year of the Horse in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-seek-chinese-new-year-beer-from-local-businesses-51072/
Thai rice failure hitting Cambodia
While last year was full of good news for Cambodian rice exports, which hit a record-breaking 378,800 tons, 2014 is getting off to a much slower start. Thai Prime Minister Yingluck shinawatra’s controversial pledge to pay farmers above market rates for their rice is coming ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muy Hong and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thai-rice-failure-hitting-cambodia