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Ministry issues warning as tropical depression moves in
Those living along the Mekong, Tonle Sap and Tonle Bassac rivers were warned Sunday by the Ministry of Water Resources to exercise caution in the coming days as a tropical depression is expected to lead to flooding. Typhoon Rammasun has killed more than 100 people in ...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-issues-warning-as-tropical-depression-moves-in-64527/
Italy demands ‘fairer’ rice deal
Italy has demanded that the European Union restrict Cambodia’s duty-free import status, as concerns over the survival of that country’s rice sector appear to be reaching a fever pitch. According to rice industry website Oryza, the Italian government has officially submitted a request to the EU ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/italy-demands-%E2%80%98fairer%E2%80%99-rice-deal
Fine dining ups bird count
Over the past six months, 19 “vulture restaurants” have led to a slight rise in the number of the birds spotted in Cambodia, according to a recent Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries report. Contrary to the name’s sound, the vultures aren’t the dish being served ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fine-dining-ups-bird-count
Four offices to open for Thailand-bound workers
Four “one-stop” offices to process documentation for Cambodians seeking legal work in Thailand will open on Tuesday after the Ministry of Labor issued a directive last week outlining how the migration process will operate, according to the head of the Ministry of Interior’s passport department. Mao ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/four-offices-to-open-for-thailand-bound-workers-64533/
Water plan for schools on tap
At nearly half of the Kingdom’s primary schools, students have to make a daily choice between drinking contaminated water or going thirsty, a dilemma the government hopes to soon banish with new minimum sanitation and safe water standards. The guidelines, which have yet to be finalised ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/water-plan-schools-tap
Anti-Vietnam protesters bring a petition to foreign embassies
As scheduled, Khmer Krom citizens gathered Monday in front of French embassy in order to present their petition which asks the VN embassy’s spokesman to apologize for his comment over Khmer Kampuchea Krom territory. Some 500 students, monks, and citizens were led by leaders of Federation ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=MWJmZWVhMzZkNzc
OIC delegation visits Cambodia
A delegation from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) recently visited Cambodia to participate in an international conference organized by the Council for Development of Cambodia under the slogan “Islamic Education and Economic Development in Cambodia” in the capital Phnom Penh. Located in the southern portion ...
Arab News Staff
http://www.arabnews.com/news/604706
TAITRA reiterates Phnom Penh trade center approved
The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) yesterday insisted it has received the green light from the Cambodian government to open a Taiwan trade center in Phnom Penh. TAITRA, a non-profit trade promotion organization affiliated with the Ministry of Economic Affairs, made the remarks in response ...
Shih Hsiu-chuan
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2014/07/20/2003595537
S. Iswaran leading Singapore team to Cambodia to strengthen business ties
Mr S Iswaran Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office and Second Minister for Home Affairs and Trade and Industry will be making an official visit to Cambodia on 21 July 2014. ...
The Straits Times News Staff
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/mr-iswaran-leading-singapore-team-cambodia-strenghten-bu
Cambodia reports 15,980 malaria case in H1 2014
Cambodia has reported 15,980 malaria cases in the first six months of 2014, down 18 percent from 19,560 cases over the same period last year, a health official said Sunday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140720/cambodia-reports-15980-malaria-case-h1-2014
Hor Namhong to attend ASEAN-EU meeting next week
Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Hor Namhong will lead a delegation to attend the 20th ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, next week, according to a statement issued Friday by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The statement said the meeting invited by Mrs Catherine ASHTON, high ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1
Another deceived bride repatriated from China
A Cambodian woman who went to China to marry a man there was repatriated on Thursday after escaping from her husband’s house and finding refuge at the Cambodian consulate in Guangzhou. Yoeng Sreymom arrived at Phnom Penh International Airport at about 3:30 p.m. in the company ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/another-deceived-bride-repatriated-from-china-64430/
Cambodia denies allowing China's Taiwan to open representative office
Cambodia on Friday afternoon issued a statement to reject a news report that the country had given approval to China’s Taiwan to open a trade center in its territory. According to the statement posted on its website, the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-07/18/c_133494396.htm
After rights review, groups press gov’t to act
Nearly a month after Cambodia’s second universal periodic review (UPR) of its human rights situation at the U.N. in Geneva, rights groups met in Phnom Penh on Thursday to discuss how they can work with the government to ensure that the 163 recommendations it accepted ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-rights-review-groups-press-govt-to-act-64438/
Most guards ‘over worst’
A day after the government issued a statement saying that 22 of the Daun Penh district security guards beaten by opposition protesters on Tuesday were in “critical condition”, officials yesterday told the Post that most of them are now well on the way to recovery. Daun Penh district ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/most-guards-%E2%80%98over-worst%E2%80%99
Cracks discovered in bridge
The Ministry of Public Works and Transportation (MPWT) and the Phnom Penh municipality are preparing a ban on heavy trucks crossing the Cambodian-Japanese Friendship Bridge after cracks were discovered in a pillar on the bridge’s eastern end, a City Hall official confirmed yesterday. At a meeting ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cracks-discovered-bridge
Employers snub talks over wages
Management at Ocean Garment factory yesterday flouted a Ministry of Labour invitation to sit at the negotiating table with employees protesting the factory’s refusal to abide by an Arbitration Council decision in their favour. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/employers-snub-talks-over-wages
Questions Raised Over Quarry Crackdown
The Phnom Penh municipal government issued a warning to those operating unlicensed sand quarries after a military helicopter plunged into one killing four people on Monday, but some questioned City Hall’s motives and commitment. The statement, dated Tuesday and signed by Governor Pa Socheatvong, came a ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/questions-raised-over-quarry-crackdown-64436/
Helicopter’s black box to be reviewed Friday
A joint committee of Cambodian and Chinese technical analysts will begin reviewing black box data today retrieved from the Chinese-built Z-9 helicopter that crashed early this week, killing four military personnel, officials said on Thursday. The Z-9 helicopter, which the government purchased from China last year ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/helicopters-black-box-to-be-reviewed-friday-64440/
Taiwan gets green light to open trade center in Cambodia
The nation has received approval from the Cambodian government to open a trade center in Phnom Penh, the semi-official Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) said. The center, which is expected to be officially opened next month at the earliest, will raise the number of the ...
Taipei Times News Staff
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2014/07/17/2003595311
Cambodia achieves border demarcation of 80 pct with Vietnam, 75 pct with Laos
Cambodia has achieved border demarcation of 80 percent with Vietnam and 75 percent with Laos, Keo Piseth, a spokesman for Cambodian Parliamentary President Heng Samrin, said Thursday. The spokesman told reporters after a meeting between Heng Samrin and delegations of Vietnamese lawmakers led by Nguyen Kim ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-07/17/c_133490689.htm
Opposition supporters rally at Prey Sar prison to ask for the release of five lawmakers
About 100 CNRP activists and supporters gathered Thursday at Prey Sar prison to put pressure for the release of five opposition lawmakers and another supporter who are under detention. Policemen were seen guarding around the Prey Sar prison to prevent the protesters from approaching the site, ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=MWM3ODZkODg2MDI
Ministry of Interior orders authorities to take legal measures against violent acts
Interior Minister Sar Kheng ordered cities and provincial authorities to take action to prevent rallies, following a violent clash at the Freedom Park, injuring dozens of security guards and protesters. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=OTkxOTI4NGMyYzc
Maid accused of hitting baby in Singapore
Singaporean police have investigated allegations that a Cambodian woman working as a maid in the city-state assaulted an infant in her care, according to the Cambodian ambassador there and a Singaporean recruitment agency. Cheth Naren, Cambodian ambassador to Singapore, said that three Cambodian women came to ...
Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/maid-accused-of-hitting-baby-in-singapore-64328/