Country’s first Japanese news website launched
Thmey Thmey online news website on Wednesday launched a Japanese-language version of the site to help illuminate the world of Cambodian politics and business for Japanese residents here, as well as those considering relocating or investing in the country. The news site, which was set up ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/countrys-first-japanese-news-website-launched-58743/
Victim’s kin ‘no right to cash’
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) haS defended itS deciSion not to pay a SurvivorS&rSquo; penSion to the family of a teenager killed in a ceiling collapSe at the Wing Star ShoeS factory in Kampong Speu province laSt May. On the anniverSary of the collapSe on SS='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/victim%E2%80%99s-kin-%E2%80%98no-right-cash%E2%80%99
Cambodia’s parliament OKs dam compensation plan
Cambodia’s energy minister allayed concerns in parliament over inadequate compensation offered to villagers who face relocation for a proposed China-backed dam on a Mekong River tributary, saying the government has allocated to villagers more than four times the area taken over for the project. Minister of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/dam-06192014195419.html
Planned dams threaten Cambodia’s food security
The planned construction of 88 hydroelectric dams in the lower Mekong basin by 2030 will cause food security challenges in Cambodia, experts say. “Cambodia is going to pay the highest price for dam development basin-wide, to the point of affecting the food security of its 80 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Gant Daily News Staff
http://gantdaily.com/2014/07/28/planned-dams-threaten-cambodias-food-security/
Exports consistent for Cambodia’s ag sector
Cambodia exported 2.9 million tons of agricultural products last year, roughly the same as 2012, but experts say the figure does not reflect the huge potential for the market. According to official data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, exports included more than 1 ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-consistent-cambodia%E2%80%99s-ag-sector
Cambodia’s rice export in January down
Cambodia exported 21,536 tons of milled rice in January of 2014, down 4,190 tons (16%) compared to 25,726 tons exported in the same period of last year, according to a report on agriculture, forestry and fishery. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=Y2JjZWMwNzAwNDd
Palace says King’s name still intact
The Royal Palace yesterday said the letter sent by opposition leader sam Rainsy to King Norodom sihamoni last week that elicited a furious response from the government for “insulting” the King, did not, in fact, disrespect the monarch’s “honour and name”. A statement signed by the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/palace-says-king%E2%80%99s-name-still-intact
Hor Namhong censures Ambassador to S Korea
Foreign Minister Hor Namhong has written a letter to the newly appointed Cambodian ambassador to south Korea to censure him over the alleged involvement of his family members in embassy affairs. In the letter, dated Monday, Mr. Namhong warns Ambassador suth Dina not to allow ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hor-namhong-censures-ambassador-to-s-korea-57360/
Company digs trench around family’s home
Hang Chantha watched in horror last weekend as a private company battling to take her land dug a four-meter-deep trench around the perimeter of her home. “After the company dug, I could not sleep at night; I was afraid my house would fall,” she recounted Thursday, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean and Alex Consiglio
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/company-digs-trench-around-familys-home-60031/
Vietnam’s fish industry dominates in Cambodia
At Chraing Chamreh wholesale fish market in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district, men frantically scoop dark, snake-like Trey Phtok fish out of a huge steel tank and into a wicker basket. The flickering pile of tails and gaping mouths is placed on a scale and weighs ss='cambodia-color'>...
George Styllis and Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/vietnams-fish-industry-dominates-in-cambodia-60676/
Melco’s unit disposes of Cambodia assets
Nasdaq-listed Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc, a company linked to Macau casino operator Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd, is selling its assets in Cambodia. The sale includes all assets of Dreamworld Leisure with the exception of all electronic gaming machines, and prohibits any use of the Dreamworld ss='cambodia-color'>...
GGRAsia News Staff
http://www.ggrasia.com/melcos-unit-disposes-of-cambodia-assets/
Barred from exam, grade 12s protest
Fifty-two students in Kampong Thom are blaming teacher favouritism and an inherently unequal system for preventing them from sitting the national exam and graduating this year. The students, from Hun sen Taing Kork High school in Baray district, filed a petition to the provincial department of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/barred-exam-grade-12s-protest
Official’s son questioned over hunting photos
The 23-year-old son of the director of rural development in Pailin province is under investigation by police after photos of the young man hunting protected wildlife went viral on social media, police said Monday. soeu Longdy, deputy Tuol Lvea commune police chief, said his officers questioned ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-son-questioned-over-hunting-photos-64621/
‘A threat to Cambodia’s sacred forests’
In southwest Cambodia, at the foot of the Cardamom Mountains, is a single dirt road that meanders through the heart of the pristine Areng valley. Ten miles down this road, villagers have set up an encampment to stop a hydroelectric dam project that they fear ss='cambodia-color'>...
New York Times News Staff
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/opinion/a-threat-to-cambodias-sacred-forests.html
AEON tenants target Cambodia’s middle class
An ice-skating rink, bowling alley, seven-screen cinema and a proverbial catwalk of high-end European and Us labels will start vying for a slice of Cambodia’s rising middle class inside the soon-to-open AEON Mall, management with the firm overseeing it confirmed on saturday. The Japanese-owned shopping centre’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay and Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/aeon-tenants-target-cambodia%E2%80%99s-middle-class
CNRP’s wish list for NEC narrows
The opposition is eyeing two leading civil society figures and deputy party leader Kem sokha’s daughter to fill the three remaining slots the party holds on the nine-member National Election Committee, according to a high-level party source. Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker-elect Kuoy Bunroeun has already ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea, Kevin Ponniah and David Boyle
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp%E2%80%99s-wish-list-nec-narrows
Troops to join UN’s CAR effort
Cambodia will send a detachment of 216 peacekeepers to the United Nations stabilisation mission in the Central African Republic (MINUsCA), the Information Ministry has said. The Kingdom already sent a delivery of tanks, trucks and other materiel there on Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/troops-join-un%E2%80%99s-car-effort
Foreign minister defends Cambodia’s rights record
Shortly after a Speech in New York by US PreSident Barack Obama, in which he applauded the effortS of human rightS defenderS, Cambodian Foreign MiniSter Hor Namhong SayS hiS country iS making progreSS. Obama acknowledged the work of two Cambodian rightS activiSt during a Speech at SS='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/foreign-minister-defends-cambodia-rights-record/2468925.html
CNRP reveals Kem Sokha’s monthly salary
An opposition official has hit back at claims made by “Khmer for Khmer” founder Kem Ley last week that CNRP Vice President Kem sokha has collected a salary of $15,000 per month since the opposition joined parliament in August. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-reveals-kem-sokhas-monthly-salary-71701/
Workers get reinstated after court’s injunction
Hundreds of workers who were fired from a Phnom Penh garment factory returned to work yesterday after Phnom Penh Municipal Court filed an injunction on Monday requiring management to reinstate them. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-get-reinstated-after-court%E2%80%99s-injunction