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Hun Sen says he is ready to negotiate with Sam Rainsy

Prime Minister Hun Sen said today that he is ready to have a summit with Sam Rainsy, the president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, to break the current political deadlock. ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NmMyZjJlNzgwMGU

ADB predicts slower growth for 2014

The Asian Development Bank on Tuesday said it expects Cambodia’s economic growth to slow slightly in 2014. In its annual “Asian Development Outlook,” the bank said it expects to see a drop in the rate from about 7.2 percent last year to 7 percent this year ...

Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/adb-predicts-slower-growth-for-2014/1883732.html

Experts discuss legitimacy of Government without Opposition

Diplomats, legal experts and political analysts all met in a forum in Phnom Penh Tuesday to discuss the implications of last year’s election and the ongoing political deadlock. Some diplomats, like Dinesh Patnaik, India’s ambassador to Cambodia, questioned the legitimacy of a government the opposition refuses ...

Kong Sothanarith, Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/experts-discuss-legitimacy-of-government-without-opposition-/1883843.html

Workplace deaths up

Workplace deaths shot up more than 60 per cent last year when compared with 2012, while injuries and payouts to those injured also saw dramatic increases, according to data released yesterday by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF). Speaking during a conference at the Ministry of ...

Sen David and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workplace-deaths

Assembly back, CNRP not

The Kingdom’s fifth National Assembly is to open its second session today, more than six months after the opposition party boycotted the inauguration of parliament on September 23 and left 68 Cambodian People’s Party lawmakers to swear-in at the Royal Palace on their own. According to ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/assembly-back-cnrp-not

New clinic performs ‘operation smile’

Thirty-year-old Sam Hoiy never dreamed her son would have the opportunity to live a life without the cleft lip that has always marred his otherwise delicate features. Hoiy’s seven-month-old son is one of more than 100 Cambodians being treated and screened by a team of ...

Mom Kunthear and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-clinic-performs-%E2%80%98operation-smile%E2%80%99

Rainsy says protests to resume in May during council elections

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Monday that the CNRP will resume mass demonstrations against the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen on May 2. The opposition will use the official campaign period for May 18 district, city and provincial council elections to circumvent a government ban ...

Alex Willemyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-says-protests-to-resume-in-may-during-council-elections-55387/

Moratorium on new universities

The Ministry of Education has vowed to shift its focus from the quantity of the country’s universities to their quality by instituting a moratorium on the approval of new institutions, officials said yesterday. Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron said that with more than 100 universities already ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/moratorium-new-universities

Compensation plan agreed to, says ADB

Following a scathing report from its internal watchdog about the resettlement of thousands of Cambodian families affected by a national railway rehabilitation project that it is funding, the Asian Development Bank has agreed with the government on an action plan for further compensation, it said ...

Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/compensation-plan-agreed-says-adb

New Ranariddh party approved

Prince Norodom Ranariddh is officially back in the political game. The Ministry of Interior has approved the former prime minister’s Community of Royalist People’s Party (CRPP), Ranariddh’s cabinet chief, Noranarith Anandayath, said yesterday. ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-ranariddh-party-approved

Tea Banh travels to us for Asean defense ministers meeting

Defense Minister Tea Banh will meet Tuesday in Hawaii with U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel as well as nine other Asean defense ministers at the first U.S.-hosted meeting with the regional defense chiefs, officials said. Gen. Banh, speaking at a news conference at Phnom Penh ...

Mech Dara and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tea-banh-travels-to-us-for-asean-defense-ministers-meeting-55381/

Rubber decline stokes worry

The government and industry insiders are worried about the steady decline of rubber prices over the last three years, during which the area it is cultivated in has grown. “Farmers and investors raised concern . . . over the trend of the market and the price of natural ...

Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rubber-decline-stokes-worry

Report claims $75 Million in damages from January demonstrations

The Cambodian government says it has no plans so far to carry out a lawsuit against the opposition for damages from violent demonstrations in January. The Ministry of Interior has released a report, claiming $72 million in public and private damages, including to 95 different factories, ...

Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/report-claims-75-million-in-damages-from-january-demonstrations/1883036.html

Hun Sen pushes rice export to Brunei

Prime Minister Hun Sen said that he would like to see the stronger economic and trade cooperation between Cambodia and Brunei. And Cambodia want to increase the rice export to Brunei. ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=OGVjODA2M2I1MDM

Cambodia Police Beat Protesters for TV License Bid

Police in Cambodia on Monday beat anti-government demonstrators who tried to defy a ban on public demonstrations to demand a license for what would be the Southeast Asian nation’s first opposition television channel. Several hundred supporters of Mam Sonando, a fierce government critic, came out to ...

Sopheng Cheang
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cambodia-police-beat-protesters-tv-license-bid-23123156

Cambodia honors 2 Chinese peacekeepers killed in 1993 blast

Cambodia on Monday held a ceremony to honor two Chinese  soldiers serving as UN peacekeepers who lost their lives in a blast in the province’s Cheung  Prey district on May 21, 1993. The ceremony was presided over by Gen. Sav Sok, undersecretary of state of theCambodian Ministry of Defense and Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo, and wasattended by some 120 Chinese and Cambodian people. ...

People's Daily Online News Staff
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90883/8584330.html

NGOs issue one more plea to stop Xayaburi

With time running short before Laos’s Xayaburi hydropower dam enters its final, potentially irreversible stages of construction, a group of NGOs has made another call for its suspension. In a joint declaration released today, 39 organisations based in Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Australia set a one-year ...

Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-issue-one-more-plea-stop-xayaburi

Two killed in separate UXO blasts

A 12-year-old boy and a 37-year-old farmer lost their lives over the weekend in UXO explosions in Battambang and Pailin provinces. ...

Lieng Sarith
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-killed-separate-uxo-blasts

Officials to rotate after eight years

The Ministry of Interior on Friday announced that provincial and municipal governors and deputy governors will now be reshuffled between provinces every eight years in a move that the ministry maintained would help “improve services”. ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-rotate-after-eight-years

Two killed in mine, mortar shell blasts in Battambang, Pailin

A man and a teenage boy were killed by an anti-tank mine and a mortar shell in separate incidents on Friday and Saturday, according to police. In Battambang province, Chea Toum, 37, was seriously injured when the tractor he was walking behind set off a buried ...

Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-killed-in-mine-mortar-shell-blasts-in-battambang-pailin-55263/

Mam Sonando says protest will proceed, but he won’t lead

Independent radio station owner Mam Sonando said he would not lead a banned protest he had planned for today outside Information Ministry headquarters in Phnom Penh, but would attend if his supporters went ahead with the demonstration on their own. “I will not lead [the protest] ...

Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mam-sonando-says-protest-will-proceed-but-he-wont-lead-55252/

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