Speech therapists to help fill void
Forty-eight Cambodians will graduate today from what is being heralded as the Kingdom’s first speech-therapy training program. The graduates have been trained to fill a void in speech- and language-therapy services for an estimated 536,000 people in Cambodia affected by communication and swallowing disorders, according to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Amelia Woodside and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/speech-therapists-help-fill-void
IMF chief: Cambodia needs to invest more in education, infrastructure
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde said Tuesday that Cambodia needs to invest more in education and physical infrastructure in order to lay the foundation for future success. While there has been good progress, Cambodia is still being held back by low ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/131203/imf-chief-cambodia-needs-invest-more-education-infrastructur
Convicted killer back on stand
More than six years after the slaying of Free Trade Union president Hy Vuthy, one of the men convicted of his murder, Chan sophorn, 35, appeared in court yesterday for a retrial. sous sam Ath, the judge presiding over the case at the Phnom Penh Municipal ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/convicted-killer-back-stand
Reports of Major Congestion at Poipet Checkpoint
Trucks and other vehicles have been backed up for up to a kilometer on either side of the Poipet border checkpoint for the past three days due to administrative changes on the Thai side, according to Cambodian officials. Khiet Bunleap, chief of staff for the Poipet ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/reports-of-major-congestion-at-poipet-checkpoint-48643/
TVK Cameraman Attacked at CNRP Human Rights Rally
A cameraman from the state-run Television Kampuchea (TVK) was assaulted at Freedom Park on Tuesday as he tried to film CNRP leaders at a rally to mark International Human Rights Day, the victim and Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said. seng Chan, 34, said he was slapped ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tvk-cameraman-attacked-at-cnrp-human-rights-rally-49075/
Pursat Villagers Get No More Compensation
A representative of the Try Pheap Group said Tuesday that villagers in Pursat province who attempted to march to a public forum on Monday to ask authorities to intervene in a land dispute would not receive any further compensation after losing the right to the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pursat-villagers-get-no-more-compensation-49418/
Sonando postpones protest for TV licence
Beehive Radio director Mam Sonando Said yeSterday that he waS forced to poStpone a planned demonStration in Support of hiS bid for a televiSion licenSe aS he had given authoritieS inSufficient notice of what he hoped would be an ongoing proteSt. On Friday, Sonando &ndaSh; whoSe SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sonando-postpones-protest-tv-licence
CNRP calls a timeout
After garment workers swelled turnout at the opposition’s ongoing demonstrations yesterday to what some estimated to be double the number seen at any previous rally, party leadership announced a weeklong moratorium on the marches. Demonstrators will continue to assemble at Freedom Park each day, said Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear, Sean Teehan and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-calls-timeout
Condo market continues to grow despite over-supply
New projects involving 20 condo complexes are continuing to be built despite an already narrow market sector and a future surplus of condos in the Kingdom. According to research on the condo market by Bunna Reality Group in first half of this year, Phnom Penh now ss='cambodia-color'>...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/condo-market-continues-grow-despite-over-supply
Profits dip for water authority
Second-quarter net profit for the exchange-liSted Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority dropped nearly 26 per cent to $2 million from the Same quarter a year ago, according to the moSt recent financial report releaSed on October 11. Sim Sitha, the director-general of PPWSA, Said the decreaSe SS='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/profits-dip-water-authority
Bandith lawyer ‘in dark’
The lawyer of wanted fugitive Chhouk Bandith yesterday said key witnesses had not been summonsed to an appeal hearing of the sentencing of the powerful former Bavet town governor, scheduled for Thursday. Defence lawyer sun Bannarith told the Post he had found out about the hearing from the ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bandith-lawyer-%E2%80%98-dark%E2%80%99
Families Protest Eviction by Chinese Company
Forty-two families from Preah Vihear province’s Chheb district on sunday held a demonstration to protest their pending eviction in favor of a Chinese company that plans to establish a sugarcane plantation on the land the families have occupied for almost three years. Local authorities have told ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-protest-eviction-by-chinese-company-47808/
Inflation Rate at 4.2% to October
Cambodia’s inflation rate increased by 4.2 percent in the 12-month period to October, with food prices accounting for more than half of the rate, according to data released Monday by the National Institute of statistics. The monthly inflation rate grew from 3.4 percent in August to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/inflation-rate-at-4-2-to-october-48977/
No End in Sight for Svay Rieng SEZ Strikes
A union official at the center of a strike that started last Monday and involves an estimated 30,000 workers from two special economic zones (sEZs) in svay Rieng province said sunday that he has no control over the strikers, and does not know when or ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/no-end-in-sight-for-svay-rieng-sez-strikes-49560/
Rice Exports Rise by More Than 170,000 Tons
Rice exports increased from 205,717 tons in 2012 to 378,856 tons in 2013 as a result of high demand from the European Union as well as countries in Asia, according to figures released Thursday by the Ministry of Agriculture. France imported the most Cambodian milled rice, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/rice-exports-rise-by-more-than-170000-tons-49976/
CNRP Asks Canada to Clarify Stance on Election
Representatives of the opposition CNRP in Canada have sent a letter to the Canadian government asking that it clarify its stance on the results of Cambodia’s national election after a former Cabinet minister took part in an international observer team that deemed the elections free ss='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-asks-canada-to-clarify-stance-on-election-40006/
Easier to invest in Cambodia
Chongqing and Phnom Penh will become sister cities, after which it will be more convenient for those Chongqing enterprises to invest in Cambodia. Cambodia is an important trading partner for Chongqing and it has become one of the major countries for the development strategy of “going ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daily Economic News Staff
http://www.dailyeconomic.com/2013/Asia-Pacific_0927/1928.html
Buildings Up for Demolition Broke Agreement, Not Restrictions
Phnom Penh’s governor on Thursday refused to confirm whether two buildings close to the Royal Palace will be pulled down after local district and commune officials said Wednesday that their demolition due to height violations was imminent. Governor Pa socheatvong de­clined to comment on the reports ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/buildings-up-for-demolition-broke-agreement-not-restrictions-45425/
RCAF evicting for bases: NGO
The Royal Cambodian Armed Forces have evicted nearly 1,000 families in 14 provinces in the past five years, ostensibly to build military bases, according to a report released by rights group Adhoc yesterday. The report outlined Adhoc’s concerns over ongoing land disputes between local communities and ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rcaf-evicting-bases-ngo
Phnom Penh Port Says City Center Ban on Trucks Hurting Exports
The Phnom Penh Autonomous Port has requested that City Hall reduce the length of its daily ban forbidding container trucks from traveling on Phnom Penh roads between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. because cargo is unable to reach the port, resulting in a decrease in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-port-says-city-center-ban-on-trucks-hurting-exports-46759/