Vietnam Plans to Add Border Gates Along Border With Cambodia
Vietnam plans to build 13 new border gates along the boundary line with Cambodia to help boost trade that has already been growing between the two southeast Asian nations. Vietnam and Cambodia will work out plans to add 13 new border gates over the next seven ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nguyen Pham Muoi
http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2013/08/29/vietnam-plans-to-add-border-gates-along-border-with-cambodia/
Kem Sokha Accused of Denying Flood Aid to CPP Voters
A village chief in Kompong Cham province’s flooded Tonle Bit commune Thursday accused opposition leader Kem sokha of refusing to provide emergency supplies to CPP supporters during a donation run on Tuesday. Prek Touch village chief sar Bora said that Mr. sokha, vice president of the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Flood crisis another setback for real estate sector
While the political crisis in the country is still ongoing, Cambodia is now suffering another crisis due to flooding, which has had a big impact on the country’s real estate business. Kim Heang, the President of Khmer Real Estate, said the buying and selling of real ss='cambodia-color'>...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/flood-crisis-another-setback-real-estate-sector
Cambodia to Submit Human Rights Report to UN
Cambodia will submit a human rights report to the U.N. today for a universal periodic review (UPR), the second time it is participating in the process, according to the Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit. Under the UPR process established in 2006, the Human ss='cambodia-color'>...
Dene-Hern Chen and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-to-submit-human-rights-report-to-un-46006/
(English) Government Proposes 100% Hike in Minimum Wage by 2018
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Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-proposes-100-hike-in-minimum-wage-by-2018-49396/
(English) Svay Rieng Workers Strike Again, Throw Rocks
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Aun Pheap and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/svay-rieng-workers-strike-again-throw-rocks-49506/
Update says rubber company up to old tricks
Vietnamese rubber firm Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) has failed to keep its commitments to address human rights and environmental abuses at its plantations in Cambodia, Global Witness said in a statement yesterday. In May, the London-based NGO published an investigation into two Vietnamese rubber companies ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/update-says-rubber-company-old-tricks
Regulator to Review Minimum Prices for Calls
An official at the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) said Wednesday that the body plans to review and possibly lower the current minimum price per call after it recently ordered the country’s seven mobile phone operators to abide by a law that sets minimum call ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Wilwohl and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/regulator-to-review-minimum-prices-for-calls-48616/
(English) Rice Trader Claims Being Wrongly Fined Bad Scale to Measure Her Truck
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Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/rice-trader-claims-being-wrongly-fined-bad-scale-to-measure-her-truck-49631/
(English) Silence broken at last
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May Titthara and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/silence-broken-last
Study charts AIDS progress
Cambodia’s decline in HIV/AIDs mortalities has made it a regional anomaly, according to a new study published today by a global health research centre at the University of Washington. While HIV/AIDs remains a leading cause of disease burden in Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, and mortality ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/study-charts-aids-progress
Vinamilk Sees Revenue Doubling in Overseas Expansion Push
Vietnam Dairy Products Joint-stock Co., the nation’s largest dairy producer, is building a milk factory in Cambodia as it plans a global expansion to more than double annual revenue to $3 billion by 2017. The company known as Vinamilk is opening a plant in the capital ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bloomberg News Staff
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-30/vinamilk-sees-revenue-doubling-in-overseas-expansion-push.html
King Sihamoni Signs Decree Terminating All Adviser Positions
King Norodom Sihamoni haS Signed off on a Royal Decree terminating the poSitionS of every miniStry-level adviSer in the government except for thoSe of Prime MiniSter Hun Sen in order to allow recently appointed officialS to appoint new adviSerS. The decree, Signed October 1 and obtained SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/king-sihamoni-signs-decree-terminating-all-adviser-positions-44720/
USA garment factory workers block national road
Nearly 400 workers at the UsA Fully Field (Cambodia) Garment factory blocked National Road 2 in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district yesterday after fears spread that the factory was winding down operations and that management wouldn’t pay necessary wages once it closed. soy Nakri, a worker representative ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/usa-garment-factory-workers-block-national-road
Saved From the Soup, Rescued Sun Bears Thrive
Now about six months old, Hope is still a little clumsy when climbing trees. Hope’s sidekick, named “173,” follows her around as if they were inseparable twins. Together, they swing in a hammock, bathe in a pool and, sometimes, climb up the metal bars of their ss='cambodia-color'>...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/saved-from-the-soup-rescued-sun-bears-thrive-48223/
Cambodia's rural communities to get sustainable energy access
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Government of Australia are expanding access to economical and reliable energy for rural Cambodian households, including through the promotion of cookstoves in svay Rieng and Kampong Cham provinces. A $6.1 million Australian Aid grant, administered by ADB, will finance ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=YTc1MDdmNzhlNTM
Gov’t looks to 2014 for adoptions
The long-awaited resumption of international adoptions may finally occur in the new year, officials from the ministries of Justice and social Affairs said yesterday, though no time table is yet in place. While the freeze on adoptions – put in place in 2009 with the passage ss='cambodia-color'>...
Amelia Woodside and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-looks-2014-adoptions
Cambodian King urges newly-elected lawmakers to see national interest as top priority
Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni on Monday called on all newly-elected lawmakerS to See the country&rSquo; S intereSt aS the top priority and unify for the nation&rSquo;S preStige. Speaking at the opening SeSSion of the fifth legiSlature of the National ASSembly, the king congratulated all lawmakerS for SS='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-09/23/c_132742276.htm
Work starts on new 22-storey hotel
Construction has started on the 22-storey Toyoko Inn Hotel, which will cost Us$20 million to build, near the Hang Bridge. The project is due to be completed in November 2014. Touch somnang, the Project Manager for the Koh Pich development project, said the Toyoko Inn Hotel ss='cambodia-color'>...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/work-starts-new-22-storey-hotel
World Toilet Day Highlights Sanitation Solutions
Tuesday marked World Toilet Day, the annual attempt to push the issue of open defecation back into the spotlight and highlight the preventable illnesses that are caused by what is still a very common practice in Cambodia, which has the lowest toilet coverage in southeast ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/world-toilet-day-highlights-sanitation-solutions-47393/