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City Hall breaks ground on new 11-story $3.5 million office

The Phnom Penh Municipality has broken ground on a new 11-story $3.5 million building that is intended to house the city’s public services, the municipal spokesman said Monday. Long Dimanche said construction on the building, which is being erected on a 1,000 square meter plot of ...

Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-breaks-ground-on-new-11-story-3-5-million-office-53439/

Cellcard advert questioned

The Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR) is calling out telecommunications firm Mobitel over a TV ad that shows a young Cambodian man who is shocked and dismayed when he meets, on a blind date, what appears to be a transgender woman. Lasting about 60 seconds, ...

Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cellcard-advert-questioned

PM decries copyright theft

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on government bodies, local authorities, international organisations and the private sector to dial back Cambodia’s widespread theft of copyrighted works, like film and music, and encouraged the creation of more original, home-grown cultural works. Copying other countries’ cultural output – ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-decries-copyright-theft

Treating a common but misunderstood disability

Born with cerebral palsy, 5-year-old Chhen Sivong has trouble walking, standing and raising his arms, but he also struggles with an even more fundamental motor skill: swallowing. Around the time he turned one, the little boy began having problems eating solid food, which upset both Sivong ...

Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/treating-a-common-but-misunderstood-disability-53425/

Families file complaint over Pailin governor

The 19 families in Pailin province who were told by police and military police on Saturday to vacate their land filed a complaint with Adhoc on Monday, the provincial coordinator for the NGO said. Authorities told the families to move on Saturday from the 95-hectares they ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-file-complaint-over-pailin-governor-53443/

Impact study on dam problem-ridden: WWF

The conservation NGO WWF today slammed developers of the Don Sahong Hydropower project for providing “flawed” and scientifically unsound impact assessments. In an analysis released today, WWF criticised the hydropower project’s Environmental Impact Assessment and Social Impact Assessment, finding both “riddled with problems such as inappropriate ...

Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/impact-study-dam-problem-ridden-wwf

Workers ‘locked inside’ during overtime strike

Workers at two different garment factories say that managers locked them inside their workplaces last week when they tried to participate in a boycott of overtime. Union representatives and rank-and-file employees at Kampong Speu province’s Complete Honour Footwear Industrial Cambodia Co, Ltd and Dai Yi Fashion ...

Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-%E2%80%98locked-inside%E2%80%99-during-overtime-strike

Political Parties Registered for Upcoming Elections

Five political parties have registered to take part in provincial and district elections in May, officials said Tuesday. The elections are approaching despite a deadlock in national politics between the ruling party and the opposition—which wants election reform and a recall national vote. Only members of local ...

Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/political-parties-registered-for-upcoming-elections/1863897.html

Cambodia considers giving visa for Japanese on airplane

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday his government wants to make it easier for Japanese travelers to visit Cambodia by introducing in-flight processing of tourist visas. Speaking at a government forum with private sectors in Phnom Penh, Hun Sen said the original idea from the ...

Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/140304/cambodia-considers-giving-visa-japanese-airplane

CPP, CNRP agree to have law on financing of political parties

The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party today agreed to pave the way for the creation of a law on financing of political parties. Working groups from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party met ...

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

Cambodian workers to be hardest-hit victims of wage unrest

Cambodian workers will be the ultimate victims if minority and violent unions continue to put the garment and shoe industries under the state of uncertainty and unpredictability by continuing to demand for further wage hikes that the industry cannot afford, an employers’ association said in ...

The Daily Star News Staff
http://www.thedailystar.net/business/cambodian-workers-to-be-hardest-hit-victims-of-wage-unrest-13761

Siam Kubota launches Cambodia, Laos units

Siam Kubota Corporation Co Ltd is set to expand its business by opening subsidiaries in Cambodia and Laos as part of its preparation for the launch of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015. Siam Kubota has invested a total of Bt68 million in the two ...

Erich Parpart
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Siam-Kubota-launches-Cambodia-Laos-units-30228172.html

Malaysian Insurance Institute signs agreement with Cambodia Insurance Ass’n.

The Malaysian Insurance Institute (MII) and the Insurance Association of Cambodia (IAC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for “a bilateral collaboration to forge a beneficial business relationship to further enhance insurance knowledge and skills development for the insurance industry in Cambodia,” said a ...

Insurance Journal News Staff
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2014/03/03/321950.htm

British PM's trade envoy to visit Cambodia to boost trade, investment ties

British Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy Lord Puttnam will visit Cambodia from March 4 to 7 to strengthen bilateral trade and investment relations, according to a press statement from the British Embassy here on Monday. During his visit, Lord Puttnam will call on Prime Minister Hun ...

Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/euruope/2014-03/03/c_133157100.htm

Cambodia ruling, opposition senior officials continue talks over electoral reforms

The Joint-Committee on Electoral Reforms, established during a meeting between senior officials of the ruling and opposition parties last month, convened its first meeting on Monday to discuss topics for electoral reforms toward free and fair elections in the future. The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP)’s ...

Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-03/03/c_133157050.htm

Australian diplomat bites back

Austalian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has responded to one of her predecessors, Gareth Evans, who accused her of failing to deliver a “robust critique” when she met Hun Sen on February 22 in a Friday op-ed that excoriated Cambodia’s political leaders for abuses. In an interview ...

Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/australian-diplomat-bites-back

Pailin governor orders 19 families to move off his land

More than 60 police and military police informed 19 families farming on a plot of land in Pailin province’s Sala Krao district on Saturday that they would have to move as they were growing crops on state land. However, Prak Sophima, provincial coordinator for rights group ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pailin-governor-orders-19-families-to-move-off-his-land-53397/

Government responds to Rainsy’s Cambodia, Ukraine comparison

The Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit (PQRU) on Friday published an extended criticism of a speech made by opposition leader Sam Rainsy last week in which he promised his supporters that the political change that swept Ukraine’s president from power​​ would soon ...

Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-responds-to-rainsys-cambodia-ukraine-comparison-53401/

After Chinese company’s visit, villagers fear dam construction

Following a visit by representatives of the Chinese company planning to build a controversial 108-MW hydropower dam in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley, local officials and residents say they fear that construction on the project, which will require the evacuation of an estimated 1,500 villagers, ...

Sani Sinary
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-chinese-companys-visit-villagers-fear-dam-construction-53409/

Unions plan forum

The leaders of 18 unions and union confederations this week will invite ruling and opposition party members to take part in a public forum where labour relations issues will be discussed. Rong Chhun, president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions (CCU), yesterday said the letters have ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-plan-forum

Rice prices continue to fall

As buyers swoop in to purchase Thai rice at garage-sale prices, Cambodian exporters are dealing with lower than usual rates, and the results are being felt all the way down the supply chain to the farmers themselves. New figures from rice industry publication Oryza show that ...

Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-prices-continue-fall

Parties on NEC roster for election

Three parties – the Cambodian People’s Party, the Cambodia National Rescue Party and Funcinpec – were registered for the May 18 municipal, district and provincial council election as of Saturday, according to the National Election Committee. “As the deadline will close on March 3rd, I think ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parties-nec-roster-election

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