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New German Ambassador Urges CPP and CNRP to Meet
Germany’s new ambassador to Cambodia, Joachim Baron von Marschall, said Wednesday during a meeting with Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong that he hoped the country’s ruling CPP and opposition CNRP would meet to resolve the post-election uncertainty, an official said. “His Excellency [Mr. Baron von Marschall] ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-german-ambassador-urges-cpp-and-cnrp-to-meet-46389/
Evictees, Activists Scuffle With Police in Front of City Hall
Evictees and anti-eviction activists on Wednesday briefly scuffled with police and security guards after cutting off traffic in front of Phnom Penh City Hall to demand that businesswoman Suy Sophan compensate them for homes that were bulldozed early last year. Human rights group Adhoc said at ...
Khuon Narim and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/evictees-activists-scuffle-with-police-in-front-of-city-hall-46362/
Sam Rainsy To Call Sar Kheng Over Negotiations
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy plans to call CPP Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Thursday to discuss restarting negotiations between the two parties. Mr. Rainsy said that he hoped Mr. Kheng would clarify whether the CPP is unconditionally open to further negotiations, or if the party is ...
Colin Meyn and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/sam-rainsy-to-call-sar-kheng-over-negotiations-46355/
Cambodia's construction sector attracts 2.27 bln USD in 9 months
Cambodia’s construction sector has attracted a total investment of 2.27 billion U.S. dollars in the first nine months of 2013, up 24 percent compared with 1.83 billion U.S. dollars over the same period last year, a government report showed Thursday. The report said during the January-September ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-10/31/c_132848042.htm
Teenage Pregnancy Rate Stays Constant Over Past Decade
Teenage pregnancies are hindering Cambodia’s development as young mothers are unlikely to finish school and therefore lack job opportunities, government and U.N. officials said at the launch of a global report on adolescent pregnancies on Wednesday. “The Ministry of Women’s Affairs acknowledges that adolescent pregnancies have ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/teenage-pregnancy-rate-stays-constant-over-past-decade-46402/
US embassy surveillance site: report
The United States embassy in Phnom Penh contains an intelligence-gathering operation that amasses information about Cambodia, the Sydney Morning Herald reported yesterday, citing a map first published in Germany’s Der Spiegel. The Herald article referenced some 90 international surveillance sites, including ones housed in embassies in neighbouring Jakarta, Yangon, Bangkok and ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-embassy-surveillance-site-report
H5N1 Avian Influenza: Cambodia Reports 22nd Case In Girl From Battambang Province
The Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Kingdom of Cambodia has announced a new human case of H5N1 avian influenza, according to a ministry press release Wednesday. The case is a 6-year-old girl from Romdoul village, O Romdoul commune, Phnom Preuk district, Battambang province confirmed positive ...
Robert Herriman
http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/h5n1-avian-influenza-cambodia-reports-22nd-case-in-girl-from-battambang-province-38291/
Malaysia Says No Draft Agreement on Maids Yet
Malaysia has not yet received a draft agreement aimed at protecting Cambodian migrant domestic workers from abuse, but the government is pressing Cambodia to lift its two-year moratorium on sending maids, a Malaysian official said Wednesday. In October 2011, Prime Minister Hun Sen imposed a ban ...
Dene-Hern Chen and Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/malaysia-says-no-draft-agreement-on-maids-yet-46399/
Rights group investigates miner’s death
The death of a miner on Monday in a pit collapse in Preah Vihear is under investigation by Adhoc, the rights group has said. Lor Chann, Adhoc coordinator in Preah Vihear province, said yesterday that the miner died while working for a private mining firm in ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rights-group-investigates-miner%E2%80%99s-death
New fees, political crisis mean fewer businesses
The number of new businesses registering in Cambodia continued to plummet through the third quarter of this year amid tightened rules for start-ups and waning investor confidence following the still-unresolved national elections. Data from the Ministry of Commerce yesterday showed that 853 new businesses registered with ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-fees-political-crisis-mean-fewer-businesses
NCDM Lauds Flood Response, NGO Calls for Better Coordination
National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) Vice President Nhim Vanda on Wednesday lauded the flood response work of the Cambodian Red Cross and government, at a workshop to discuss the country’s National Action Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction where several participants focused on the lack ...
Matt Blomberg and Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ncdm-lauds-flood-response-ngo-calls-for-better-coordination-46404/
Lao consultants give dam the thumbs up
The controversial Don Sahong hydropower dam, which Laos says it will soon build just a kilometre from the Cambodian border, will not have significant effects on the Mekong River, according to an environmental impact assessment paid for by the dam’s builder. Obtained yesterday, the report – ...
Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lao-consultants-give-dam-thumbs
Apartment demand falters in Q3
The apartment rental market was flat in the third quarter after strong growth earlier in the year, with oversupply and political tensions among the causes blamed by realty experts. Chrek Soknim, deputy director of VTrust Property Co, Ltd, said that growth has stagnated after the January-March ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/apartment-demand-falters-q3
Mixed bag of health: report
Cambodia is making headway on its 2015 Millennium Development Goal to improve maternal health and is ahead of its target to reduce its under-five child mortality rate, but it still lags behind neighbouring countries, the 2013 State of the World Population Report has revealed. Released yesterday, ...
Amelia Woodside and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mixed-bag-health-report
Logging ‘crackdown’ falls flat with villagers
Hundreds of villagers in Preav Vihear’s Kulen district cut down a palm tree on Monday and used it to block provincial officials attempting to confiscate tonnes of luxury timber from their village, their representative said yesterday. Ri Sothun, a spokesman for more than 400 families in ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-%E2%80%98crackdown%E2%80%99-falls-flat-villagers
Butterly bridge to fly over to Island
Diamond Island may see another new concrete bridge, this time in the form of a butterfly. The proposed 100-metre long bridge from Phnom Penh to Diamond Island would be similar in height to the current Rainbow Bridge, Touch Samnang, a project manager of developer OCIC, said. No ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/butterly-bridge-fly-over-island
UK Pedophile Came to Cambodia to Teach in Schools
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday charged convicted British pedophile Richard Fruin, 36, with sexually abusing two brothers, aged 8 and 11, at a guesthouse in Phnom Penh, court officials said. While the court has yet to decide Fruin’s fate, his case—and many similar ...
Kuch Naren and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/uk-pedophile-came-to-cambodia-to-teach-in-schools-46353/
Cobras Thrown Into Land Dispute Family’s Home
Three highly venomous cobras were thrown early Tuesday morning into the Phnom Penh home of a family locked in a dispute with a private company that wants to develop the family’s land in Tuol Kok district. Ly Sreang Kheng, 58, his wife Mok Siv Hong, 51, ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-cobras-thrown-into-land-dispute-familys-home-46359/
Elephants likely shot: NGO
A group of endangered Asian elephants found dead in Mondulkiri province on Sunday were likely slaughtered, investigators from conservation group WWF-Cambodia have found. The organisation said in a statement yesterday an investigation into the deaths in protected Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuary suggested the elephants were “slaughtered ...
Phak Seangly and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/elephants-likely-shot-ngo
Firms urged to tap growing middle-class market in GMS
Bangkok Bank has urged Thai businesses to have a more active role in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) in terms of trading activities and investment, in order to tap the growing middle-class market in those countries. Speaking at the bank’s “Trade Logistics in Greater Mekong Sub-region: ...
Sucheera Pinijparakarn
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Firms-urged-to-tap-growing-middle-class-market-in--30218244.html
NGOs Say Women Could Help End the Political Impasse
More women should be part of any future high-level negotiations between the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP to resolve the current political deadlock, a coalition of women’s rights NGOs said Tuesday in a statement. In a joint statement by more than 20 organizations, the groups criticized ...
Kuch Naren and Dene-Hern Chen
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngos-say-women-could-help-end-the-political-impasse-46267/
ILO-BFC unveils worker mobile phone call-in project report
The International Labour Organisation’s Better Factories Cambodia program (BFC) releases the first report from its mobile phone call-in project aimed at educating garment and footwear workers. The mobile phone project entitled Kamako Chhnoeum (‘Outstanding Worker’ in Khmer) received 3,245 valid phone calls in its first two ...
Fibre2Fashion News Staff
http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/apparel-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=154799
Database will assist farmers
Rural farmers will soon be able to access farming information via experts under an initiative of the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD). The project, with Bangladesh-based Grameen-Intel, encourages local entrepreneurs to first reach out to small farmers and collect data about crops. This is then ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/database-will-assist-farmers
Ball’s in their court: CPP
Minister of Interior and Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng said yesterday that the ruling party was waiting for the opposition to contact them regarding negotiations to break the ongoing political deadlock. CNRP president Sam Rainsy yesterday said his party would “definitely” be contacting the CPP, ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ball%E2%80%99s-their-court-cpp