Creditors, Court in Dispute over Mfone Case
A court administrator and creditors who have filed complaints against bankrupt mobile operator Mfone are at loggerheads over whether or not to overturn two injunctions filed against the firm to stop it selling off its assets. “The judges are now considering to drop the injunctions because ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/creditors-court-in-dispute-over-mfone-case-18654/
Workers claim intimidation
About 4,000 employees at one of Asia’s largest garment-processing factories have stopped work, as union workers demand the company sever ties with a shareholder who ordered a military police presence there. Workers at SL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd began demonstrating on Monday, about two weeks after ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-claim-intimidation
Cambodia-U.S. bilateral trade up 2 pct
Trade between Cambodia and the United States was valued at 2.55 billion U.S. dollars in the first ten months of 2013, up 2 percent from 2.49 billion U.S. dollars over the same period last year, the figures of the U.S. Department of Commerce showed Friday. Cambodia’s ...
The Global Post
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/131206/cambodia-us-bilateral-trade-2-pct
Defence minister warns against general strike
Defence Minister Tea Banh yesterday said the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces are ready to protect the Kingdom’s constitution should the opposition’s threatened general strike fall on the wrong side of the law. “A nationwide general strike or mass demonstration must be held under the framework of ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/defence-minister-warns-against-general-strike
Council Orders Discipline of Election Staff in Siem Reap
The Constitutional Council on Thursday ordered the National Election Committee to discipline staff members at seven voting stations in Siem Reap province for irregularities in July’s national election. The Council, which acts as the appeals body for election complaints, said in its decision that disciplinary action ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/council-orders-discipline-of-election-staff-in-siem-reap/1743918.html
Politics not quite all in the family
Kem Sokhon, the brother of Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy president Kem Sokha, is continuing to progress through government ranks. Sokhon – who has been openly critical of his brother’s policies since defecting from the opposition – told the Post yesterday he is now an adviser to senior ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/politics-not-quite-all-family
Cambodia post delivers 40% revenue gain
Revenue at Cambodia’s postal service rose 40 percent in the first nine months of this year compared to the same period last year, an official at Cambodia Post said yesterday, attributing the rise to the postal service gaining complete independence from the Ministry of Posts ...
Cambodian migrant workers are welcome, says Kuwait diplomat
Kuwait is open for Cambodian migrant workers, said the Head of Mission at the Embassy of the State of Kuwait in Cambodia, Zaher M B M Alkhurainej at a press conference in Phnom Penh on Tuesday. He also stressed on the “consolidation and development of ...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodian-migrant-workers-are-welcome-says-kuwait-diplomat
Ordnance found in K Chhnang
Explosives experts from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre have unearthed nearly 1,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance (UXO) after being called to a military base in Kampong Chhnang province. CMAC discovered 894 items of explosive material after soldiers at Cholkiri district’s Tuol Chek base came across ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ordnance-found-k-chhnang
US to ramp up sanctions after ‘flawed’ national polls
At a press conference on Wednesday, the US StAte Department announced thAt it would expand visa sanctions on the Cambodian officials and individuals it deems responsible for “undermining democracy” in Cambodia. At the briefing, spokesperson HeAther Nauert reiterAted thAt the department regarded the July 29 ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-ramp-sanctions-after-flawed-national-polls
Project aims to make Phnom Penh school ‘center of excellence’
The Ministry of Education has given a local education NGO $370,000 and one year to implement a pilot project aimed at replacing a long list of informal payments required of students at a Phnom Penh high school with a merit-based payment system that rewards high-performing ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/project-aims-to-make-phnom-penh-school-center-of-excellence-96350/
Sokimex says contract termination is government decision
An executive at Sokimex, the firm that has held the right to sell tickets to the Angkor Archaeological Park since 1999, said on Sunday that the decision to end its contract next year was made by the government, contradicting a statement saying that it was ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sokimex-says-contract-termination-is-government-decision-99712/
Call for action against domestic violence
Civil society organisations yesterday asked the government to strengthen legal measures against perpetrators of violence against women and children.The request was made at the 2018 One Billion Rising Campaign at the Chenla Theatre in Phnom Penh, where more than 300 people gathered to discuss protecting ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108047/call-action-domestic-violence/
City's public transport may take 10 years to materialize
A public transportation system for Phnom Penh is still years from becoming a reality, according to a presentation during a meeting on urban transit on Friday at City Hall, but the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will begin a survey at the end of May ...
Cambodia launches arbitration body to deal with commercial disputes
Cambodia officially launched the long-awaited National Arbitration Center (NAC) on Monday, aiming at enhancing business environment and attracting more local and foreign investors. Speaking at the launching ceremony, Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh said the government is committed to improving and enhancing Cambodia’s business environment and ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-03/04/c_132207640.htm
Housing Activists Clash With Police in Street Protest
At least two women were injured Monday as housing rights activists clashed with police in Phnom Penh. The activists had been demonstrAting by sitting in a major street in front of City Hall to demand land titles in two ongoing land disputes in the capital, those ...
Berjaya Food share rises after Cambodia unit formed
Berjaya Food Bhd’s share on Bursa Malaysia rose in early trade today following the announcement yesterday that it had incorporated a new subsidiary in Cambodia. As at 9.57am, the counter rose four sen or 2.45% to RM1.67, after opening at RM1.64, with 47,000 shares changing hands. ...
Free Malaysia Today News
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/business/2014/07/10/berjaya-food-share-rises-after-cambodia-unit-formed/
Trial for 23 finally under way
The long-awaited trial of the 23 men arrested during strike demonstrations in early January began this morning at 8 am at Phnom Penh Municipal Court and is proceeding into the afternoon. Before the trial began, police had already blocked off the street in front of the ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trial-23-finally-under-way
Hundreds of Chinese enter Cambodia, fleeing Vietnam violence
Hundreds of Chinese nationals have fled to Cambodia to escape anti-China riots in Vietnam in which at least 20 people are reported to have been killed, Cambodian police said on Thursday. “Yesterday more than 600 Chinese people from Vietnam crossed at Bavet international checkpoint into Cambodia,” ...
Alan Raybould
http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=84785
No scheme in place for congestion near AEON
Despite expecting 27,000 visitors per day, little planning has gone into tackling traffic congestion at Cambodia’s long-awaited AEON Mall when it opens June 30, City Hall said yesterday. There are 1,400 vehicle parking spaces allotted at AEON and 1,600 bikes spaces accessed via both Sothearos ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/no-scheme-place-congestion-near-aeon