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Tanasak to visit Cambodia Aug 30-31
Thai Supreme Commander Tanasak Patimapragorn will visit Cambodia Aug 30-31, possibly to discuss issues related to the Preah Vihear temple. Prime Minister Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha assigned Gen Tanasak to visit meet Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Wassana Nanuam
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/428853/tanasak-to-visit-cambodia-aug-30-31
NGOs seek ex-PMs’ support
Civil society advocates – who last week called on parliament to consider amending the constitution to limit prime ministers to two terms in office – are now trying to enlist former premiers to back their proposal. The group, which includes well-known political analysts and representatives of ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-seek-ex-pms%E2%80%99-support
Lor Peang villagers march to Justice Ministry, National Assembly
A group of Kompong Chhnang villagers in a fight for land with the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem delivered petitions to the Ministry of Justice and National Assembly on Monday, one of five communities from across the country that have recently traveled ...
Khuon Narim and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lor-peang-villagers-march-to-justice-ministry-national-assembly-67138/
Cambodian Opposition Gets Parliamentary Commission Roles
This week lawmakers from Cambodia’s opposition party are being voted onto 10 parliamentary commissions. This is a key part of a political deal in which the opposition finally agreed to take its 55 seats in parliament, ending its year-long boycott over alleged vote-rigging in the ...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodian-opposition-gets-parliamentary-commission-roles/2428215.html
Battambang families to petition Prime Minister
A group of families involved in a land dispute with a businessman in Battambang province will today submit petitions to the National Assembly and Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet to plead for intervention. The more than 300 families, from Bavel district’s Boeng Bram commune, maintain that ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/battambang-families-to-petition-prime-minister-67156/
Villagers pushed back from Hun Sen’s house
About 70 residents from Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district were blocked on Saturday from marching to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Phnom Penh villa, where they planned to appeal for support in a long-running land dispute. The residents were representing 134 families from four villages in Chhvang ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-pushed-back-from-hun-sens-house-67107/
Timber dealer accuses firms of fraud, wants Hun Sen’s help
The director of a Vietnamese company hoping to buy timber off a pair of land concessions has accused three local businessmen of cheating her out of $200,000 and asked Prime Minister Hun Sen to investigate, according to a letter published by local media. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/timber-dealer-accuses-firms-of-fraud-wants-hun-sens-help-67109/
Hun Sen congratulates Thai military chief on his appointment as PM
Cambodia’s Prime Minister congratulated Thai military chief Prayuth Chan-ocha on his appointment as Thai interim Prime Minister. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=ZmMwZjliNDhhOWQ
Australia wants to resettle refugees on remote island, Cambodian opposition leader says
Australia has considered sending up to 1000 refugees to live on a remote island off the coast of impoverished Cambodia under a controversial resettlement agreement,, according to an opposition leader in Phnom Penh. Australian officials have visited several sites to accommodate the refugees now on Nauru, ...
Cambodian court frees 3 opposition activists on bail
Cambodia’s Appeal Court on Friday granted bail to three opposition youth activists, who were arrested early this month for alleged involvements in a violent protest last month, a defense lawyer confirmed. “Appeal Court’s Judge Seng Sivutha decided to release the trio on bail,”Chen Lida, a ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-08/22/c_133576343.htm
Japanese parliamentary delegation visits Cambodia to strengthen ties
A Japanese parliamentary delegation, led by Azuma Koshiishi, vice president of the House of Councilors, is visiting Cambodia to strengthen and expand bilateral ties and cooperation. Speaking during a meeting with Heng Samrin, president of the Cambodian National Assembly, on Friday, Koshiishi said it was his ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-08/22/c_133576940.htm
Hun Sen announces raises for teachers, nurses
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday announced a three-stage plan to raise the salaries of civil servants working under the Education and Health ministries, with the first increase to come in September. Speaking to graduating students at Beltei University in Phnom Penh, Mr. Hun Sen said that ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-announces-raises-for-teachers-nurses-67017/
Hun Sen Calls Rights Worker ‘an Idiot’
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday lashed out at the rights group Adhoc, angered by comments rights workers have made about land grabs in recent years. During a speech in Phnom Penh, Hun Sen called a rights worker from the group “insolent and an idiot.” ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/hun-sen-calls-rights-worker-an-idiot/2423347.html
ANZ says no to evicted Cambodian farmers
ANZ has ruled out helping hundreds of poor Cambodian families forcibly evicted from their land to make way for sugar-cane plantations that involved child labour and led to food shortages. Fairfax Media this year revealed confidential audits that disclosed that ANZ’s Cambodian subsidiary, ANZ Royal Bank, ...
Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/anz-says-no-to-evicted-cambodian-farmers-20140819-105sib.html
Groups Call for Term Limits for Prime Minister
Local NGOs are urging the new National Assembly to pass term limits for the prime minister, to prevent a “dictatorship” in Cambodia. Prime Minister Hun Sen has ruled Cambodia in some capacity for 30 years, but following discussions in Phnom Penh, rights groups and development NGOs ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/groups-call-for-term-limits-for-prime-minister/2418677.html
NGO says legal action over land disputes on the rise
The number of people charged in land disputes across the country so far this year has already surpassed the number of charges in all of 2013 in what rights group Adhoc on Tuesday called an “alarming” increase in legal action against those wrapped up in ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-says-legal-action-over-land-disputes-on-the-rise-66873/
Iron fist to eliminate ghost staff in the government institutions
The head of Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU), Oum Yingtieng, has officially announced their mission to catch “Corruption Ghosts” that has been lurking and sucking the government’s blood relentlessly. Prior to the campaign, Tieng puts forth a notice to all state institutions that they have 3 months to ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=OWE1N2JjY2U5OWE
Cambodia's parliament leadership reshuffle set for next week: PM
The 123 Cambodian Members of Parliament (MPs) from the ruling and opposition parties will vote on Tuesday next week to elect their leadership, Prime Minister Hun Sen, vice president of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), said on Monday. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP)’s ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140818/cambodias-parliament-leadership-reshuffle-set-next-week-pm
Hun Sen again stresses need to develop irrigation systems
Prime Minister Hun Sen used a speech at a food security seminar Monday to once again stress the need for Cambodia to develop modern irrigation facilities to better exploit the land and meet growing food requirements. Speaking from his office building in Phnom Penh, Mr. Hun ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-again-stresses-need-to-develop-irrigation-systems-66810/
Capital clash sees 10 injured
At least 10 people, one a 4-year-old child, were injured in a clash in the capital yesterday when security forces used electric batons to disperse about 300 villagers from Kratie province embroiled in a land dispute with a South Korean agribusiness. The villagers, from Kratie’s Snuol ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-clash-sees-10-injured
Protesters Clash With Police Outside Premier’s Home
Hundreds of housing rights protesters and evictees clashed with security forces outside Phnom Penh on Monday, leaving at least nine people with minor injuries. The clash was one of the first since major violence over Freedom Park in the capital in July. Protesters gathered outside the National ...
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/protesters-clash-with-police-outside-premier-home/2417160.html
30 pct of students passes high school exam in Cambodia
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that an estimated 30 percent of the 93,456 applicants passed their high school graduation exam early this month because the country took strict measures to enhance the quality of education sector. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140818/30-pct-students-passes-high-school-exam-cambodia
Cambodia's GDP per capita to hit 1,130 USD in 2014: PM
Cambodia’s GDP per capita is expected to reach 1,130 U.S. dollars this year, an estimated increase of 8 percent from 1,043 U.S. dollars last year, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=235977
Education ministry sets date for high school re-examination
The Ministry of Education announced that high school students who failed the national exam will get their second chance to pass the test on October 13 and 14 following a decision by Prime Minister Hun Sen to hold a re-sit of the exam amid reports ...
Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/education-ministry-sets-date-for-high-school-re-examination-66697/