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Cambodia seeks to promote trade relations with Britain
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday urged the United Kingdom to increase purchase orders for Cambodian products so as to further promote trade relations between the two countries. ...
ShanghaiDaily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=246415
Cambodian trade unions lead protest to demand higher wage for garment workers
Six Cambodian trade unions led around 1,000 garment workers to march through streets here on Sunday to demand a higher minimum wage as annual talks on a wage hike are scheduled for next month. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141012/cambodian-trade-unions-lead-protest-demand-higher-wage-garme
IMF maintains Cambodia's projected growth at 7.2 pct in 2014
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday kept its projection for Cambodia’s economic growth rate at 7.2 percent this year and 7.3 percent next year. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-10/10/c_133705938.htm
Hun Sen tells King Buddhist Institute’s land not for sale
Government denials over the rumored development of the Buddhist Institute have reached the highest levels, with the prime minister penning a letter to the king to assure him the land is not for sale. In a letter addressed to King Norodom Sihamoni dated October 6 and ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-tells-king-buddhist-institutes-land-not-for-sale-69609/
As PM ‘brags’, scammers try to strike gold
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday sang the praises of Cambodia’s first gold medallist in 44 years – suggesting Sorn Seavmey’s achievement was the “only thing Cambodia can brag about” – as the Kingdom’s Olympic Committee warned of bogus Facebook accounts in her name soliciting money. After ...
Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-%E2%80%98brags%E2%80%99-scammers-try-strike-gold
Hun Sen says civil servants to get tax break
Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday that civil servants making less than 800,000 riel, or about $200, a month will be exempt from paying income taxes, just days after the Finance Ministry sent a very different message to the country’s garment workers. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-says-civil-servants-to-get-tax-break-69534/
Cambodian officials, CEOs discuss country's economic future
Around 300 Cambodian government officials, business leaders, economists and researchers met in an international investment conference here on Monday to exchange views on the prospect of Cambodia’s economic development. ...
Xinuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-10/06/c_133695677.htm
NagaCorp reassures investors over Cambodia licence
Cambodian casino operator NagaCorp Ltd has taken the step of reassuring investors about its casino licence rights in the country. It stated that the deal includes an exclusive right to operate a casino (NagaWorld, pictured) in the capital Phnom Penh, and the area within a ...
GGRAsia News Staff
http://www.ggrasia.com/nagacorp-reassures-investors-over-cambodia-licence/
Cambodian king appoints new chief for customs and excise department
The Finance Ministry’s general department of customs and excise is getting a new boss after the long-serving general department chief Pen Siman retires, according to a royal decree released to the media Tuesday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-10/01/c_133686069.htm
Despite ELC ban, minister talks of new land deals
Two-and-a-half years after Prime Minister Hun Sen imposed a freeze on the granting of economic land concessions (ELCs), Environment Minister Say Sam Al on Monday appeared to leave the door open to the government giving more companies access to the often-controversial land holdings. At a press ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/despite-elc-ban-minister-talks-of-new-land-deals-68632/
Cambodia will take in Australia's refugees on voluntary basis: PM
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday that the country will take in refugees from Australia on a voluntary basis, stressing that accepting asylum seekers is part of an international obligation for Cambodia. Hun Sen said a Cambodian working group will interview those refugees ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-09/29/c_133681664.htm
Cambodia revokes land licenses from 8 companies
Cambodian Environment Minister Say Samal said Monday that the government has canceled licenses of economic land concessions (ELCs) for eight companies after they have not undertaken development on the lands for years. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140929/cambodia-revokes-land-licenses-8-companies
Cambodia should not accept refugees from Australia: Sam Rainsy
Opposition party leader Sam Rainsy said that Cambodia should not have signed a deal with Australia to accept refugees to live in Cambodia. Cambodia should not have accepted the refugees from Australia because they are not goods for being exported or imported by any country, Sam ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=ODE5MjAzZTY3Yjh
Hun Sen asks Philippines to expand tourism cooperation
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday asked Philippines to expand tourism cooperation between the two countries. Hun Sen made the comments during a meeting with Neo A Wong, outgoing Philippine Ambassador to Cambodia, at the Peace Palace. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/hun-sen-asks-philippines-to-expand-tourism-cooperation-7381
NGO positive NA wants to tackle corruption
Transparency International Cambodia yesterday presented findings of a recent scathing report on corruption to the newly formed parliamentary anti-corruption commission. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/ngo-positive-na-wants-tackle-corruption
Students demand to see internet law
More than 200 university students yesterday called on the government to publicly release the latest version of the controversial cybercrime law, amid fears it will lead to a clampdown on their currently unrestricted use of social media sites like Facebook. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/students-demand-see-internet-law
Gov’t releases data on timber baron’s deal
Tycoon Try Pheap has collected an estimated 1,500 cubic metres of timber from Forestry Administration offices since the government in July issued his companies permission to confiscate “waste wood” from their offices and from the Ministry of Environment, according to preliminary government figures obtained by ...
Daniel Pye
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-releases-data-timber-baron%E2%80%99s-deal
Cambodia needs 11 bln USD for public investment in 5 years: PM
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday that the country needs about 11 billion U.S. dollars for public investment to support the implementation of the government’s priorities from 2013 to 2018. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-09/18/c_133653197.htm
Kem Sokha hosts 1st visit as assembly leader
With National Assembly President Heng Samrin attending a conference in Laos, CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha on Wednesday hosted his first official foreign visit since becoming first vice president of parliament in late August. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kem-sokha-hosts-1st-visit-as-assembly-leader-68174/
Koh Kong villagers seek PM’s help in capital
Villagers from Koh Kong province have descended on the capital, ready to petition Prime Minister Hun Sen and the government today to intervene in their long-running land dispute with prominent businessman Heng Huy. Phav Nhoeung, a representative of 15 families in Sre Ambel district’s Chi Khor ...
Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-villagers-seek-pm%E2%80%99s-help-capital
Cambodian PM's visit to Nanning a success: senior official
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s just-concluded visit to China’s Nanning city for the 11th ASEAN-China Expo is a “success”, contributing to further enhancing Cambodia’s ties with China and ASEAN, a senior official said Tuesday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-09/16/c_133647747.htm
Cambodia says China-proposed "maritime silk road" to benefit ASEAN
The China-proposed “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” will benefit the Southeast Asian nations in term of economy, a senior Cambodian official said Tuesday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-09/16/c_133647940.htm
Cambodian PM, businessmen head to Nanning for 11th ASEAN-China Expo
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, accompanied by businesspeople and senior officials, flew to Nanning City of southwest China’s Guangxi province on Monday to attend the 11th ASEAN-China Expo. Senior officials accompanying the prime minister included Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol, Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia Chea ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-09/15/c_133643051.htm
Laos, Cambodia enhance legislative cooperation
Lao National Assembly and the National Assembly of Cambodia have vowed to continue the exchange and mutual support between the two legislative bodies. The vow was made at a meeting held in Vientiane between the high-level parliamentary delegations led by the Lao National Assembly President Ms ...
Somxay Sengdara
http://www.vientianetimes.org.la/FreeContent/FreeConten_Laos.htm