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Cambodian parties to monitor voter registration project

Cambodia’s political parties say they are preparing to monitor a voter registration pilot project which will be held in November ahead of future local and national polls. Cambodia’s last election in 2013 was marred by disputes over the results. The opposition alleged widespread voter fraud, ...

Neou Vannarin
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-election-voter-registration-pilot-project/2954222.html

Construction standards on the way

The International Business Chamber of Cambodia (IBS) on Friday took a step to formulate industry-wide construction standards by signing a memorandum of understanding with the UK’s Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), an accreditation agency that monitors quality and safety across the property market.  ...

Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15449/construction-standards-on-the-way/

India gives up Angkor Wat replica: Cambodian spokesman

The Indian government is giving about $4 million to conserve the Preah Vihear temple complex, according to Foreign Ministry spokesman Chum Sounry. ...

Ban Sokrith and Phun Chan Ousaphea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15492/india-gives-up-angkor-wat-replica--cambodian-spokesman/

In sweeping address, PM defends border work

In a three-hour speech delivered on state television, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday said his government has not ceded a single meter of land while demarcating Cambodia’s border with Vietnam. He also threatened further arrests of border critics and warned that war would break ...

Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-sweeping-address-pm-defends-border-work-93682/

Gov’t announces plans to cut down on deputies

The government will prune superfluous “deputy” manager roles from the state bureaucracy’s many branches by restricting the number of people able to hold the title from the ministerial level down to kindergartens and hospitals. ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-announces-plans-cut-down-deputies

CNRP pols fear possible set-up

An outspoken opposition lawmaker says he fears a set-up after a Svay Rieng woman was questioned in court yesterday over a complaint against him and others that she denies ever having made. ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-pols-fear-possible-set

Gov't working group to tackle money laundering

The government is seeking to strengthen its ability to counter money laundering and terrorism funding through a new working group that combines representatives across several ministries and the private sector. ...

Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-working-group-tackle-money-laundering

Pig disease contained; pork sales still down

The recent outbreak of “blue-ear pig disease” in two districts of Siem Reap province has been successfully contained, but consumer demand for pork in the province has not recovered, a senior official said. ...

Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pig-disease-contained-pork-sales-still-down-93700/

Parties at impasse over rules for 2017 commune elections

The ruling CPP and opposition CNRP are deadlocked in their ongoing negotiations over new rules for commune elections, according to party officials, with the length and scale of election campaigns at the center of the dispute. ...

Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/parties-at-impasse-over-rules-for-2017-commune-elections-93692/

H&M eyes ‘fair wage’ push

Amidst ongoing negotiations to boost the minimum wage for garment workers in Cambodia, H&M, the world’s second-largest fashion retailer, has rolled out a program aimed at improving pay in the Kingdom’s factories, arguing that higher wages improve industrial relations and productivity. ...

Mom Kunthear and Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hm-eyes-fair-wage-push

NGO files suit over ‘seizures’ in Phnom Oral

A Kampong Speu-based NGO has accused a police officer and several rangers working for the provincial Environment Department of seizing more than 100 hectares of Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary, demanding a court order to restore the land and hold the parties to account. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-files-suit-over-seizures-phnom-oral

ILO says latest draft law on Trade Union an improvement

The regional director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) said Tuesday that the latest proposed changes to Cambodia’s draft Trade Union Law—which has been blasted by employers and unions alike—marked an improvement over the last version, which the ILO had called a “step backward.” ...

Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ilo-says-latest-draft-law-on-trade-union-an-improvement-93690/

GMOs: cheaper food and higher farm incomes for Cambodia?

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Cambodia’s agriculture industry contributes 37 percent of GDP, and employs 67 percent of the workforce, with 75 percent of cultivated land dedicated to growing rice. ...

Gabrielle Ward and John Humphreys
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15487/gmos--cheaper-food-and-higher-farm-incomes-for-cambodia-/

4,000 unlicensed health care providers: ministry

The Ministry of Health yesterday issued a tally of illegal health-service providers in the country, saying there were nearly 4,000 such facilities as of August. ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/4000-unlicensed-health-care-providers-ministry

Ministry to investigate complaint from seamen

The Interior Ministry’s anti-human trafficking department will investigate a complaint made against a local maritime school Tuesday by seven Cambodian seamen who fled from a pair of cargo ships last month after enduring what they described as slave-like conditions, an official said. ...

Anthony Jensen and Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-to-investigate-complaint-from-seamen-93697/

Minister urges health officials to report clinics

Health Minister Mam Bunheng on Tuesday urged health departments in Phnom Penh and the provinces to file complaints with the courts if they discover that people running health services are breaking the law, a ministry official said. ...

Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-urges-health-officials-to-report-clinics-93704/

Telecom firm takes action over embezzlement

Telecom Cambodia has suspended a manager accused of stealing $230,000 and is preparing a legal complaint against him and a former senior employee in the firm’s finance office who supposedly received the missing money, a company official said. ...

Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/telecom-firm-takes-action-over-embezzlement-93684/

Kampot holdouts take compensation, move out

Six families in Kampot City accepted compensation of $3,000 each on Monday for their houses situated on a road that authorities want to expand, after initially rejecting the offer last week. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kampot-holdouts-take-compensation-move-out-93702/

Cambodia and other GMS countries to meet in Myanmar on infrastructure development

The Cambodia minister and other senior officials from the other countries Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) will gather this week for the 20th GMS Ministerial Conference to explore ways to boost infrastructure investment and development, said the press release of the ASIAN Development Bank. ...

The Cambodia Herald​ News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodia-and-other-gms-countries-to-meet-in-myanmar-on-infrastructure-development-8933

"Blue-ear disease" kills over 1,200 pigs in northwest Cambodia

A new outbreak of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) has taken the lives of more than 1,200 pigs while infecting some 3,200 more in three districts across Cambodia’s Siem Reap province since mid-August, according to Chinese News Agency-Xinhua. ...

The Cambodia Herald​ News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/%22blue-ear-disease%22-kills-over-1200-pigs-in-northwest-cambodia-8929

ASEAN senior immigration officials discuss cooperation in Cambodia

Senior immigration officials from the ten ASEAN member countries gathered here on Monday to discuss ways to further enhance regional cooperation, according to Chinese News Agency- Xinhua. ...

The Cambodia Herald​ News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/asean-senior-immigration-officials-discuss-cooperation-in-cambodia-8930

The National Police establishes a new department

The General Commissariat of National Police has recently established a new department called “Department for Anti-technology Crime”, said Gen. Khieu Sopheak, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior. ...

The Cambodia Herald​ News Staffq
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/the-national-police-establishes-a-new-department-8932

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