Qatar’s maid claims amiss: gov’t
The Cambodian government has denied any agreement was signed to send women to Qatar to work as domestic workers, an official from the Labour Ministry said this week. The denial comes after a report late last month by Qatari newspaper Gulf Times – which said an ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050965504/National/qatar-s-maid-claims-amiss-gov-t.html
Cambodia Plantations Not IFC’s First Controversy
In the wake of a new report from environmental rights group Global Witness rebuking the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Deutsche Bank for investing in rubber plantations accused of illegal logging and forced evictions, both institutions have denied responsibility and deflected the blame ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-plantations-not-ifcs-first-controversy-23793/
Cambodia shrugs at Gambia’s import ban
Gambia’s recent announcement that it would ban rice imports in about three years to spur local demand will only have a small impact on Cambodia, which sends a portion of its annual output to the west African country and other nations on the continent, data ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061866317/Business/cambodia-shrugs-at-gambia-s-import-ban.html
Cambodia, S. Korea to sign loan agreement
South Korea will Soon give a four year loan package worth $200 million for dam and road projectS, according to Cambodian MiniStry of Foreign AffairS on Friday. The loan will be utilized to repair three national road lineS aS well aS rural roadS in nine SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=MTUzZGE4MTQxOWF
Sam Rainsy’s request for immunity rejected
Opposition leader sam Rainsy’s request to have his parliamentary immunity restored before sunday’s national election was refused yesterday by the National Assembly permanent committee — which consists wholly of ruling Cambodian People’s Party lawmakers. “The permanent committee has unanimously decided that because [Rainsy] has become a ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sam-rainsy%E2%80%99s-request-immunity-rejected
Despite Popularity, Rainsy’s Role Remains Uncertain
When opposition leader sam Rainsy last touched down at Phnom Penh International Airport, he was greeted by some 100,000 supporters in what was the largest opposition rally in Cambodia’s 20 years of democracy. When he returns on Friday from the U.s., where he has been at­tending ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/despite-popularity-rainsys-role-remains-uncertain-39565/
Kingdom’s hoofed species need conservation: WWF
Diminishing populations of hoofed animals in southeast Asia have hit Cambodia hard, with numbers of one of the Kingdom’s indigenous species dropping by 90 per cent. The current banteng census shows an 80 per cent drop in the world’s banteng population and a 90 per ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom%E2%80%99s-hoofed-species-need-conservation-wwf
Cambodia’s flooding brings specter of disease
Flooding is a perennial pain in Cambodia, the low-lying, deeply impoverished nation squeezed between Thailand and Vietnam. About this time each year, rivers swell, lakes expand and villages sink beneath soupy brown waters. But this year’s flooding woes are proving particularly miserable. More than 100 are dead, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/cambodia/131011/cambodia-floods-again-disease-dengue
Cambodia’s tax revenue still on rise
In the first nine months of the year, Cambodia’s tax revenue increased more than 17.3 per cent from the corresponding period in 2012, data from the General Department of Taxation show. Total tax revenue rose to $678.1 million from $578 million. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia%E2%80%99s-tax-revenue-still-rise
Thai exports: Cambodia’s severe trade imbalance
The value of Cambodian exports to Thailand reached $163 million in the first half this year, an increase of about 21 per cent compared to the same period in 2012. Despite the rise, the number is minuscule next to imports from Thailand, because the Cambodian products ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thai-exports-cambodia%E2%80%99s-severe-trade-imbalance
Tycoon’s firm behind summons, soldier says
The Pursat Provincial Court has issued a summons to a soldier based on the Thai border for allegedly clearing protected land in Veal Veng district, a move the man believes was orchestrated by a company owned by tycoon Try Pheap, which is embroiled in an ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tycoon%E2%80%99s-firm-behind-summons-soldier-says
CNRP’s Next Challenge—How to Compromise
Over the past three days, the CNRP conducted one of the most significant campaigns of mass demonstrations against Prime Minister Hun sen’s government in years. For three days, more than 20,000 people packed into Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park for daily appearances from opposition leaders sam Rainsy ss='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrps-next-challenge-how-to-compromise-42580/
Businessman’s Son Has Prison Sentence Cut
The Court of Appeal has reduced to six months the original three-and-a-half-year prison term handed to the son of a wealthy businessman for pistol-whipping a man and damaging restaurant property. Duong Udomchorvin, 24, was sentenced in May, along with his 17-year-old brother, Duong Kimlong, who was ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/businessmans-son-has-prison-sentence-cut-43055/
A minor melee mars day’s events
A day of peaceful demonstrations gave way to an evening of unrest last night as a handful of protesters were removed from a small patch of land across from the United states embassy and a grup of uninvolved people threw Molotov cocktails towards riot police ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minor-melee-mars-day%E2%80%99s-events
Premier’s Vietnam Visit Draws Opposition Ire
Prime Minister Hun sen is scheduled to pay a three-day visit to Vietnam later this week, a move criticized by opposition officials who say the premier should stay in Cambodia to deal with the country’s ongoing political deadlock. “What is necessary at this time is to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/premier-vietnam-visit-draws-opposition-ire/1816809.html
Angkor’s Management Plan to Be Overhauled
Cambodia’s Apsara National Authority, which manages Angkor Archaeological Park, will this week unveil a “revolutionary” new concept for Angkor’s management that will vastly decentralize responsibility for the preservation of the temple complex, according to Anne Lemaistre, Unesco representative in Cambodia. The new Angkor Heritage Management Framework, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Michelle Vachon
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/angkors-management-plan-to-be-overhauled-48235/
Credit Suisse’s HAGL holdings drawing fire
Credit SuiSSe, a financial ServiceS firm baSed in Switzerland, haS been accuSed of aiding land grabbing in Cambodia by becoming a major Shareholder in VietnameSe rubber giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Group. In a Statement releaSed today, Global WitneSS (GW), an NGO baSed in England, SS='cambodia-color'>...
Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/credit-suisse%E2%80%99s-hagl-holdings-drawing-fire
Sok An’s son joins government ranks
Sok Sokan, Son of Deputy Prime MiniSter Sok An, haS been officially named deputy Secretary general within the Council of MiniSterS &ndaSh; a rank equal to Secretary of State &ndaSh; according to November&rSquo;S Royal AffairS publication releaSed laSt month. Ek Tha, a SpokeSman for the Council SS='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sok-%E2%80%99s-son-joins-government-ranks
Revenues Down at Pailin’s Dreamworld Casino
U.S.-liSted firm Entertainment Gaming ASia&rSquo;S (EGA) Dreamworld caSino in Poipet province haS Seen revenue drop by almoSt 18 percent thiS year, according to financial reSultS releaSed by the company. ReSultS iSSued on ThurSday from Hong Kong Said the caSino, which opened in May 2012, made revenue SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/revenues-down-at-pailins-dreamworld-casino-39102/
City Hall’s shuffling of officials continues
In what appears to be an ongoing reorganisation of City Hall, a long-time financial director will step into the shoes of an outgoing deputy administrative director today. Bun serey, Phnom Penh’s ex-finance director, will officially replace Tev Kim Piseth as deputy director of administration, said Koeut ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-hall%E2%80%99s-shuffling-officials-continues