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Across ASEAN, women need more development, advocate says
As ASEAN heads toward greater economic integration at the end of the year, a Cambodian advocate says more needs to be done in the region for women’s rights. Asean has a working group for women’s issues, but the region faces challenges in social and economic equality, ...
Sok Khemara
http://bit.ly/1KPkscF
Fleeing violence, Iraqi migrant finds haven in Cambodia
In his small restaurant in downtown Phnom Penh, Hashim Fahram serves up fresh, golden falafel having found safety for his family far from his native Iraq. Without refugee status in Cambodia, the Fahrams have to rely on the authorities to renew their visas every year, ...
The Daily Star News Staff
http://bit.ly/1EZ7CDA
GDT threatens to publicly shame late payers
The Tax Department has threatened to publicly name companies that have not paid their outstanding dues by the end of the month. In an announcement posted on its website and in local media on Tuesday, the General Department of Taxation called on all company directors with ...
May Kunmakara and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gdt-threatens-publicly-shame-late-payers
We want your business, UN tells local firms
The $1.6-billion Untac mission of the early 1990s injected a huge amount of money into Cambodia’s economy. Now, the U.N. wants to pump millions more into the country—this time by buying up the offerings of local businesses. ...
Kang Sothear and Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/we-want-your-business-un-tells-local-firms-85035/
First refugees from Nauru arrive in Cambodia
After months of fraught negotiations and secretive planning with Cambodia, Australia on Thursday flew the first four refugees into Phnom Penh under a highly controversial deal that could bring dozens—or hundreds—more in their wake. ...
Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/first-refugees-from-nauru-arrive-in-cambodia-85026/
Angkor Wat is no. 1 landmark, but Indian copy inspires fear
Angkor Wat in Siem Reap City topped another tourism poll this week, named as the world’s No. 1 landmark by TripAdvisor’s Travelers’ Choice awards on Tuesday. But a massive temple under construction in India is once again stirring fears that Cambodia’s iconic monument will be ...
Simon Henderson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/angkor-wat-is-no-1-landmark-but-indian-copy-inspires-fear-85053/
US Army weighing cache in Cambodia
The US Army is currently considering Cambodia as a possible host for some of its extensive stockpiles of equipment kept overseas, known as “prepositioned stocks”. ...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-army-weighing-cache-cambodia
Soldiers, Singaporean firm to plant 6 million trees
The Ministry of Defense plans to work with a Singaporean company to plant six million trees in Cambodia that will eventually be turned into high-end perfume, medicine, tea, incense and furniture, an official said Thursday. One Plantation Holdings signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) last month ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/soldiers-singaporean-firm-to-plant-6-million-trees-85039/
K Krom mark 66 years since Cochinchine pact
Some 10 months after leading protests during which Vietnamese flags were burned outside the country’s embassy in Phnom Penh, members of the Khmer Krom community took a more conciliatory approach Thursday as they marked the 66th anniversary of France’s formal splitting of Cochinchine. Thousands of monks ...
Sek Odom and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/k-krom-mark-66-years-since-cochinchine-pact-85037/
Monk from KNLF gets 7 years in prison
A monk who is a member of the Khmer National Liberation Front (KNLF) – a dissident group branded a terrorist organisation by the government – was sentenced to seven years in prison yesterday on treason charges for distributing KNLF literature in Phnom Penh. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monk-knlf-gets-7-years-prison
Ministry to review oil company’s plans
The company that has been given production rights over a 5,500-square-km area off the coast of Sihanoukville known as Block D has been given 10 days to submit their exploration plans to be reviewed by the Mines and Energy Ministry, a spokesman said Thursday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/ministry-to-review-oil-companys-plans-85061/
NEC concerned over new IDs
The National Election Committee has expressed concern over whether the Interior Ministry will be able to issue enough new biometric identity cards – which ensure voter names aren’t duplicated – in time for it to register voters ahead of the 2017 commune elections. The issue, among ...
Meas Sokchea and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-concerned-over-new-ids
GTI to pay 177 riel per share
Garment factory Grand Twins International (GTI), one of the two companies listed on Cambodia’s fledgling stock exchange, will pay 50 per cent of its net income after tax in dividends to shareholders by the 22nd of this month. According to an announcement from the Cambodia Securities ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gti-pay-177-riel-share
Lawmakers debate disaster management law
The National Assembly on Thursday debated and easily passed two chapters of a law that aims to improve responses to natural and man-made disasters, partly by imposing fines and jail time for incompetent officials and citizens who know of, but fail to report, a coming ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lawmakers-debate-disaster-management-law-85043/
Boeung Trabek residents resist offers
Residents of Phnom Penh’s Boeung Trabek area yesterday balked at the options to either pay the government for land certificates or sell their land to the municipality during a forum attended by local authorities, area inhabitants and housing rights officials. City officials earlier this year said ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/boeung-trabek-residents-resist-offers
Migrants warned of MERS risks
In the wake of 35 documented cases – including two deaths – of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea, Cambodian Ministry of Health officials are warning Cambodian migrant workers there about the risk. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/migrants-warned-mers-risks
Boeng Kak protesters curse ex-city governor
More than 30 former residents of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak community protested outside the National Assembly on Thursday, calling for CPP lawmaker Kep Chuktema to be removed from his post for the suffering he caused thousands of families during a decade as municipal governor. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/boeng-kak-protesters-curse-ex-city-governor-85055/
Still more fishermen rescued in Indonesia
The number of Cambodians recently found in Indonesia after being trafficked onto Thai fishing vessels has risen to 230, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press statement released yesterday. ...
Cheang Sokha and Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/still-more-fishermen-rescued-indonesia
Smugglers of wood are busy before rainy season
More and more wood is being smuggled across the southwestern border. Smuggling prevention agencies said they had discovered many consignments of wood illegally imported from Laos and Cambodia across the border. ...
Vietnamnet News Staff
http://bit.ly/1Qrrkyq
Cambodia gets its first LGBT magazine
The land of Cambodia is so far removed from our world, that the southeast Asian nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community is only now getting its first publication aimed at LGBT readers: Q Cambodia. ...
Thom Senzee
http://bit.ly/1KPZ7Tx
Amnesty calls for reform of law enforcement in Cambodia
The Cambodian government has been taken to task in a lengthy report by Amnesty International for two years of “violent repression.” Researchers for the human rights organisation found that between Nov. 2013 and May of this year, people’s basic rights to assemble were stifled, excessive and ...
Lauren Crothers
http://bit.ly/1ANKXiG
Company sells lucky iron fish, claims it reduced iron deficiency in Cambodia
Iron deficiency affects nearly 3.5 billion people worldwide. It is the most common nutritional deficiency in the world. In Cambodia, after 9 months of using the Lucky Iron Fish every day, researchers saw a 50 percent decrease in the incidence of clinical iron deficiency anemia, ...
Click2Houston.com News Staff
http://bit.ly/1Fy5seT
Vietnamese soldiers ‘threaten to kill’ Cambodians monitoring disputed border
A group of opposition officials and indigenous villagers from northeastern Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province claimed Thursday that guards from Vietnam threatened to shoot and kill them as they inspected disputed border territory, in the latest land squabble between the two neighboring nations. ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://bit.ly/1KPNrQG
Thai Rights body censures firm over Koh Kong sugar plantations
The National Human Rights Commission of Thailand has accused the country’s Khon Kaen Sugar of “serious human rights violations” at its two Cambodian plantations in a new report that urges the firm to return the land to the hundreds of families forced off their farms—some ...
Zsombor Peter and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thai-rights-body-censures-firm-over-koh-kong-sugar-plantations-84968/