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Civil society, tech team up
With security footage of elephants, clouded leopards and other wildlife caught on hidden cameras in Cambodia’s Eastern Plains flashing on a TV screen, Toby Eastoe of Conservation International noted that their cameras also catch other activity. Presenters ranging from anti-corruption advocates to health service workers ...
Sean Teehan
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/civil-society-tech-team
Cambodia takes measures to detect Ebola virus in travelers
As the deadly Ebola virus continues to plague parts of western Africa, Cambodia has since August put in place detection measures at its international airports and border crossings to screen for several diseases. ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-takes-measures-to-detect-ebola-virus-in-travelers/2442400.html
Cambodia's parliament chief to visit Laos
Heng Samrin, president of the National Assembly of Cambodia, will make an official visit to Laos from September 13-17 to advance bilateral ties and cooperation, the legislative body said in a statement on Monday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-09/08/c_133628101.htm
Chinese human resources vice-minister visits Cambodia to strengthen ties
Xin Changxing, vice minister of the Chinese Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, met here Monday with Ith Samheng, Cambodian minister of labor and vocational training, to discuss ways to further enhance relations and cooperation in labor sector between the two countries. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-09/08/c_133628311.htm
2 charged for trafficking Cambodians
A Cambodian court charged two men for trying to smuggle 23 people into Thailand to work, a report said Monday. ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/431147/2-charged-for-trafficking-cambodians
US launches 16 mln USD nutrition, sanitation project in Cambodia
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday unveiled a five-year Integrated Nutrition, Hygiene and Sanitation project in Cambodia, which is estimated to cost 16 million U.S. dollars, according to a press statement from the U.S. Embassy to Cambodia. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-09/08/c_133627929.htm
Offshore Block A provides buzz to Cambodia's petroleum industry
Recent events, triggered by Singapore-based KrisEnergy Ltd.’s acquisition of Chevron Corp.’s entire stake in Cambodia’s Block A in the Gulf of Thailand, may possibly end the stalemate to develop the country’s only oil discovery to date. The prospect has also rekindled hopes in Cambodia to ...
Cheang Chee Yew
http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/134898/Offshore_Block_A_Provides_Buzz_to_Cambodias_Petroleum_Industry/?all=HG2
Over 1,100 teachers funded for informal education: Minister
Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron said Monday that there are 1,127 teachers funded by the government for informal education. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=N2RlNWZjZGNhNjl
Cambodian parties expect draft election law by month’s end
Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties expect to finalize a draft of the nation’s new election law by the end of the month as the centerpiece of key reforms promised in a July agreement that ended a nearly one-year political crisis, an official said Monday. “The two ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/draft-09082014171348.html
Cambodia, Lao transit fees for Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh City route seen as too high
Aviation companies can save on flying time and fuel if they are allowed to take the proposed Ha Noi-HCM City air route crossing the airspace of Laos and Cambodia. However, the governments of Laos and Cambodia are charging transit fees for flights passing through their airspace ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=MGE2ZDJlMjJiNGY
Sorya bus hullabaloo at an end
A five-month protest aimed at a Phnom Penh bus company came to an end on Thursday when Sorya Transportation Company reinstated three of 17 drivers it fired in April. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/sorya-bus-hullabaloo-end
Second public bus line revs up
The Phnom Penh municipality launched the capital’s second bus line yesterday, running for 68 stops from the night market to Takhmao town in Kandal province. ...
Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/second-public-bus-line-revs
Kem Sokha wants to boot out old officials
Opposition deputy leader and parliamentary first vice president Kem Sokha promised on Saturday to use his party’s status in parliament to summons and vote out long-serving corrupt government ministers with the help of the ruling party. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/kem-sokha-wants-boot-out-old-officials
University dorm for orphans
Ol Sok Hour, a keen and promising student, had his life turned upside down two years ago when his parents died of AIDS. Yesterday, the NGO celebrated the launch of its Graduation House, a facility that will offer accommodation and support for orphaned tertiary students. ...
Sen David and Alice Cuddy
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/university-dorm-orphans
PPWSA posts its Q2 profits
Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) earnings recovered slightly during the second quarter of the year off the back of increased public water usage, officials said. In a filing to the Cambodia Stock Exchange last week, the PPWSA posted $2.7 million in profits for the second ...
Hor Kimsay
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/ppwsa-posts-its-q2-profits
Caught up in the middle
Sheltering under a blue tarpaulin amid dense woodland in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains, Nhean* sits and waits for night to fall after a long day scouring the protected forest for luxury timber. He says he works for a broker who is a supplier to one of Cambodia’s ...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/caught-middle
Government passes $5.24b investment plan
The Council of Ministers on Friday approved a three-year $5.24 billion “public investment program”—a package of several hundred projects from 2015 to 2017 designed to help the government reach its goal of 7 percent annual growth or better. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-passes-5-24b-investment-plan-67675/
Khmer Krom vow more protests, again
Kampuchea Krom activists are planning yet another round of demonstrations to protest remarks made by a Vietnamese embassy spokesman in June, demanding Prime Minister Hun Sen cut diplomatic ties with Vietnam until a public apology is issued. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/khmer-krom-vow-more-protests-again
Villagers say dredging a danger, disturbance
About 50 villagers living along the Mekong River in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district protested outside their local pagoda Sunday to demand that authorities take action against a company illegally dredging sand from the riverbed. ...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-say-dredging-a-danger-disturbance-67660/
Holiday brings street sweeps
In an effort to “clean” Phnom Penh’s streets ahead of the coming Pchum Ben celebrations, authorities in Daun Penh district yesterday rounded up 27 homeless people. Kim Vutha, district security chief, told the Post that authorities conducted the roundup in Wat Phnom, Srah Chak, Boeung Raing and Chey ...
Sen David
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/holiday-brings-street-sweeps
A busy week at court expected for union leader Ath Thorn
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court will be seeing a lot of union leader Ath Thorn next week. From next Monday through Thursday, it has summonsed the president of the country’s largest independent union to three rounds of questioning over three separate cases in which Mr. Thorn ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/a-busy-week-at-court-expected-for-union-leader-ath-thorn-67650/
Released CNRP youth called back to court
Three CNRP Youth activists facing charges of taking part in an insurrection for their alleged roles in a violent opposition protest near Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park in July have been summonsed back to court early next month. A summons signed by Investigating Judge Keo Mony calls ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/released-cnrp-youth-called-back-to-court-67654/
Rubber firm guard sought over shooting
Military police in Mondolkiri province say they are searching for a guard working for a local rubber company who allegedly injured three villagers Saturday when he fired a bullet in their direction that ricocheted off a rock, prompting questions about the firm’s use of armed ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rubber-firm-guard-sought-over-shooting-67647/
Firm calls fraud case a ‘misunderstanding’
The director of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court last week formally accused a property developer of attempting to defraud him of more than $200,000 he paid for a villa in Tuol Kok district when his name was not transferred to the land title, the businessman’s ...
Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/firm-calls-fraud-case-a-misunderstanding-67656/