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Japanese foreign minister to visit Cambodia
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida is to make a three-day visit to Cambodia from Sunday, Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry said Monday. While in Cambodia, he will pay courtesy calls and meet with King Norodom Sihamoni, Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Cambodian counterpart Hor Namhong, the ministry ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/140623/japanese-foreign-minister-visit-cambodia
Gov’t to meet recruitment firms over migrants
Labor Ministry officials are set to meet today with about 40 local recruitment agencies to talk about formalizing the procedure for sending migrant workers to Thailand, an agency director said. The meeting will focus on how the agencies can help migrants obtain work permits and other ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-to-meet-recruitment-firms-over-migrants-62202/
For villagers losing land, Hun Sen is last resort
Three separate communities from across the country were in Phnom Penh on Monday to petition Prime Minister Hun Sen to personally intervene to help settle their various land disputes. Communities affected by alleged land grabs in Phnom Penh and beyond often appeal directly to Mr. Hun ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/for-villagers-losing-land-hun-sen-is-last-resort-62200/
KDC families want compensation deal revoked
Twenty-two families who have been locked in a bitter, seven-year dispute over 145 hectares of land in Kompong Chhnang province with a company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem claim they were illegally pressured into accepting compensation and filed a ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kdc-families-want-compensation-deal-revoked-62215/
Hundreds plea for PM’s help
Hundreds of families descended on Phnom Penh yesterday to ask Prime Minister Hun Sen and the United Nations to intervene in three separate land disputes. More than 800 families from across the country gathered in front of Wat Botum at about 9am, where they submitted petitions ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-plea-pm%E2%80%99s-help
Aid, Aeon on agenda for Japan
The Japanese government will offer more than $21 million in grant aid and loans to Cambodia when Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida visits later this month, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to the statement, Kishida will ink a number of ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/aid-aeon-agenda-japan
Defendants not informed of rights in cambodian appeal court cases: study
Judges in Cambodia’s Court of Appeal fail to inform defendants of their rights and a high number of hearings do not even have the defendants or their lawyers present, according to a study by a local rights group. In addition, the quality of evidence presented at ...
Richard Finney
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/rights-06232014173104.html
Gov’t begins effort to send workers back to Thailand
With Thailand and Cambodia both feeling the pinch from the sudden exodus of more than 200,000 Cambodian workers out of Thailand, the two countries are now working together to try and get them back to their old jobs legally, as fast as possible. Some 225,000 Cambodians, ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-begins-effort-to-send-workers-back-to-thailand-62083/
Influx of Cambodian workers back into Thailand seen with $4 passports
A Cambodian decree slashing the passport fee for would-be migrant workers to only $4 (about Bt 120) is expected to lead to an influx of workers from the neighbouring country into Thailand. Cambodian migrant workers who have just returned to Cambodia yesterday greeted the news with ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=M2JjNjM2ZWM0NzB
Illegal workers arrested, face Thai court
Thai authorities have arrested and are preparing to try 13 Cambodian migrant workers who were allegedly caught with fake stamps on their work papers as they tried to return home, Foreign Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong confirmed on Friday. The government also announced a plan to subsidize ...
Khy Sovuthy and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-workers-arrested-face-trial-in-thailand-62059/
As oknha ranks grow, honorific loses meaning
Initially a status reserved for a privileged few, the number of businesspeople bearing the honorific “oknha” has ballooned from an estimated 20 individuals in 2004 to some 200 in 2008 and more than 700 today. Traditionally a title of nobility bestowed by the king to honor ...
Sek Odom and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-oknha-ranks-grow-honorific-loses-meaning-62057/
New business registrations in Cambodia rise 55 pct in 5 months
Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce said Friday that it has granted operating licenses to 1,676 new firms in the first five months of 2014, up 55 percent as compared with the 1,084 companies for the same period last year. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-06/20/c_133424091.htm
Siem Reap land protest draws crowd of 1,000
In a rare display of solidarity outside of Phnom Penh, more than 1,000 people with varied land-related grievances across Siem Reap province gathered in front of the provincial governor’s office on Tuesday to demand action, and left with a promise from the governor to help. Activist ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/siem-reap-land-protest-draws-crowd-of-1000-61831/
Bangladesh, Cambodia seek new areas of cooperation
Bangladesh and Cambodia have decided to set up a “joint commission” to promote bilateral ties as the two countries eye to deepen cooperation for regional peace, stability and prosperity. According to a joint statement issued after the talks between the two prime ministers in Dhaka on ...
bdnews24.com
http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2014/06/18/bangladesh-cambodia-seek-new-areas-of-cooperation
Cambodian PM heads for Bangladesh, 4 deals to be signed
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen left here on Monday for a 3-day official visit to Bangladesh where the two countries are expected to ink four deals, a senior official said. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-06/16/c_133409920.htm
Monks Protest Developer’s Construction on Disputed Grounds
About 400 monks and villagers protested Sunday outside Wat Koh Puthivong pagoda in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district to protest what they say is a real estate company’s encroachment onto the pagoda’s land, including an island that monks consider sacred. During the protest, dozens of young ...
Bangladesh expected to seek leases for farming in Cambodia
Bangladesh and Cambodia have decided to set up a joint commission to boost bilateral relations and conclude bilateral agreements on agricultural and cultural cooperation, investment promotion and protection. The agreements will be inked during Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s three-day official visit to Dhaka beginning on ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=Y2RkOGVmY2QzMjU
UN Envoy to Gauge Progress of Rights, Reforms in Cambodia
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Surya Subedi, will visit the country next week to assess the government’s progress in improving human rights and democratic and land reforms, his office said Wednesday. During the 10-day fact-finding mission, beginning June ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/envoy-06112014173419.html
US military aid to Cambodia to continue, diplomat says
A US diplomat says military aid to Cambodia is necessary to improve the professionalism of the country’s security forces. The US has been criticized for its military aid to Cambodia, following violent crackdowns on demonstrations this year. ...
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/us-military-aid-to-cambodia-to-continue-diplomat-says/1934634.html
Hun Sen vows to live past 93
Responding to rumours swirling on social media that he had suffered a massive stroke and died, Prime Minister Hun Sen proved to be very much alive during an animated speech in Kampot province yesterday. Addressing a crowd in Chhuok district, the 63-year-old premier assured listeners that ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-vows-live-past-93
Hun Many opens up to criticism
Prime Minister Hun Sen may regularly deliver hours of bombastic public oratory and rarely, if ever, allow anyone to ask questions of him. But his youngest son, Hun Many, a rising star in the ruling CPP, has begun doing just the opposite as he builds on ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-many-opens-criticism
Hun Sen allows Opposition to have a TV channel
Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Tuesday that the Royal Government of Cambodia agreed to allow the opposition party to have its own TV channel, which shall be registered as a private company. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=MThlNTQ3YmUyZjF
Army did not move to stop CNRP: Tea Banh
The opposition yesterday accused a senior army general of having ordered plainclothes soldiers to block the party from entering the former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Anlong Veng on Sunday, where they were set to hold a public forum. But Defence Minister Tea Banh strongly rejected the ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/army-did-not-move-stop-cnrp-tea-banh
Phnom Penh families protest for land titles
About 30 residents from Phnom Penh’s Srah Chak commune protested in front of their Russian Boulevard houses Monday, demanding that City Hall issue them land titles. Some of the protesters wore CPP T-shirts while others held banners with pictures of Prime Minister Hun Sen and his ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-families-protest-for-land-titles-60899/