Election worries for tourists
Chris Leyland had forgotten about Cambodia’s national elections when he made plans to travel into Phnom Penh from Vietnam with Jess Jackson, 34, and her two children. Had Leyland, a 41-year-old from Oxford, UK, remembered that it wasn’t going to be a normal weekend in Cambodia, ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/election-worries-tourists
Rights Groups Rebuke Petitions Endorsing CPP Election Win
Rights groups on Wednesday called on authorities to stop circulating petitions asking people to support preliminary results from last month’s national election showing a win for the ruling CPP and promising not to join any demonstration called by the opposition. With both the CPP and opposition ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/rights-groups-rebuke-petitions-endorsing-cpp-election-win-40506/
Tata moves in on agriculture
India-based Tata International Ltd announced yesterday that it would import and distribute its Farmtrac Tractors in Cambodia to profit from the country’s growing agricultural sector. speaking at the launching ceremony at the Koh Pich exhibition centre, Jitendra Manghinani, country manager of Tata south East Asia (Cambodia), ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tata-moves-agriculture
Monitor, GMAC at odds over plan
The head of the Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) program said yesterday that consultations on its new public-disclosure initiative have been going on for more than a year, contrary to claims by a garment factory representative who characterised the process as hasty. Jill Tucker, chief technical adviser ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel de Carteret and May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/monitor-gmac-odds-over-plan
Media Groups Call On ‘Political Elite’ to Protect Reporters
More than a dozen journalism and hu­man rights groups have called on Cambodia’s political forces to protect journalists and guarantee citizens’ access to an open and unobstructed press during the current political unrest. In a statement released Wednesday, the Cambodian Center for Independent Media, along with ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lindsey Peterson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/media-groups-call-on-political-elite-to-protect-reporters-45436/
Rights Group Slams ‘Rampant Impunity’ in Cambodia
A Cambodian rights group said Wednesday that impunity is on the rise in Cambodia, hitting out at the authorities for failing to resolve a number of high-profile killings and bring the perpetrators to justice. Ahead of International Day to End Impunity on saturday, the Cambodian ss='cambodia-color'>...
Radio Free Asia Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/impunity-11202013182832.html
Villagers in a drawn-out land fight summonsed
Five Tumpuon villagers have again been summonsed for questioning by the Ratanakkiri Provincial Court in a lengthy dispute after private firm Ly sokim Co Ltd accused villagers of destroying its property. In the latest summons, dated July 30, villagers are warned that failing to show up ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-drawn-out-land-fight-summonsed
Database looks at court flaws
Nearly half of defendants lack legal representation, 80 per cent are held in pretrial detention, and a sizeable chunk confess before they get a hearing, according to an online public database released yesterday by the Cambodia Center for Human Rights. The database reveals numerous infringements on ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/database-looks-court-flaws
Flooding closes 513 schools
Thousands of students were unable to attend classes yesterday after returning from holiday, as more than 500 schools remained closed due to flooding that has claimed 50 lives so far this year. According to a report released by the National Committee for Disaster Management, 513 schools ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flooding-closes-513-schools
Mercedes-Benz Distributor to Halt Repairs on Illegal Imports
Hung Hiep (Cambodia) Co., the only company in Cambodia licensed to import Mercedes-Benz luxury vehicles, said Monday it would no longer make repairs to new lines of Mercedes vehicles that are smuggled into the country. Company officials said the move is to reduce scams and repair ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/mercedes-benz-distributor-to-halt-repairs-on-illegal-imports-45121/
Ethnic minorities to receive bilingual education: gov’t
The government affirmed its commitment to bilingual education for ethnic minority children in Cambodia’s northern provinces at a UNEsCO conference in Bangkok last week. speaking at the fourth International Conference on Language and Education: Multilingual Education for all in Asia and the Pacific, Ton sa Im, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Emily Wight
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/lifestyle/ethnic-minorities-receive-bilingual-education-gov%E2%80%99t
Police Have Not Enforced Traffic Laws for Four Months
Traffic police across the country have still not resumed enforcing traffic laws after a pre-election enforcement moratorium that was meant to last just a few weeks ahead of the July 28 poll, according to government and U.N. officials. “The superiors ordered [police] to stop, for a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-have-not-enforced-traffic-laws-for-four-months-47521/
State-Owned Properties to Be Sold, Swapped
Six prime government-owned propertieS in Phnom Penh and Battambang province have been reclaSSified aS privately held State propertieS in order to pave the way for the land to be Sold or Swapped with private companieS, according to a Sub-decree Signed November 8. Signed by Prime MiniSter SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/state-owned-properties-to-be-sold-swapped-48527/
Groups insist on equal rights
Seila, a tall, heavily made-up woman with orange-blonde hair, Said She waS in a park in Siem Reap laSt year when policemen approached her, put a gun to her head and told her if She ran, they would Shoot. Legally, the Kingdom&rSquo;S ConStitution protectS the SS='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/groups-insist-equal-rights
NGOs Call for Vote Reform, New Election
A re-election should be held in 2015 following the implementation of a comprehensive series of electoral reforms, an umbrella group of local rights organizations and independent election monitors said Friday. The organizations, including the Committee for Free and Fair Elections (Comfrel), Adhoc, the Community Legal Education ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngos-call-for-vote-reform-new-election-50066/
Vote Tallies Blank in Battambang City Booths
The National Election Committee (NEC) on Wednesday publicly released official election documents from eight polling stations in Battambang City, revealing that forms essential to calculating results had been left blank at two booths on polling day. The Constitutional Council of Cambodia (CCC), which has ordered the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/vote-tallies-blank-in-battambang-city-booths-41257/
On politics, silence gold: top monks
Cambodia’s highest monks have called on the clergy to refrain from joining any political demonstrations, calling it an abuse of morals and professional ethics. In a statement issued on sunday and obtained yesterday, the three top Buddhist leaders liken joining protests to the act of killing. “An ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/politics-silence-gold-top-monks
Floods Claim 39 Lives; Crops, Hundreds of Schools Damaged
The death toll from flooding across the country has risen to 39, while the Mekong River remains above emergency levels in Prey Veng and Kandal provinces, a government official said on Friday. Keo Vy, cabinet chief for the government’s National Committee for Disaster Management, said that ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/floods-claim-39-lives-crops-hundreds-of-schools-damaged-44434/
‘Dialogues’ set for provinces
They can’t talk in the National Assembly, and they can’t talk in the provinces – at least at the parliamentarian level – but a new round of local dialogues held by the National Democratic Institute will see the ruling party and the opposition face off ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98dialogues%E2%80%99-set-provinces
Debtors need mercy: CNRP
The opposition party has called on microfinance institutions to renegotiate payment terms with flood-affected loan holders. This year’s floods have affected 20 provinces and more than 1.7 million people, with 31,314 households evacuated, according to the Humanitarian Response Forum. The Cambodia National Rescue Party has asked that ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/debtors-need-mercy-cnrp