Cambodian documentary makes Sundance Film Festival
Until the arrival of large-scale development around her home in the northeastern province of Ratanakkiri, Sav Samourn, a member of the ethnic Jarai minority, was frightened of wild animals and ghosts. But as trees disappeared and industrial machinery razed the forestland, the old fears fell away. ...
606 New Companies Opened in Cambodia in Q1, Down 33 pct
Cambodia had granted operating licenses to 606 new companies in the first quarter of this year, a 33 percent decrease compared with the 904 firms at the same period last year, the Commerce Ministry’s report showed Tuesday. Yim Rom, an official at the ministry’s statistics ...
Rosewood trade must stop: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and Laos to help curb the illegal trade in rosewood after Cambodia’s bloodiest year yet for logging-related border shootings. Speaking to reporters at Phnom Penh International Airport after the premier returned from a two-day meeting ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013031461944/National/rosewood-trade-must-stop-pm.html
Tuk-Tuk Maker Eyes Cambodian Market
Japan-based Terra Motors Corporation viewed Cambodia as a potential market for its electric tuk-tuk, the company’s general manager of overseas sales said yesterday. “We’re thinking of entering the Cambodian market as well. But at this moment, there are no concrete plans. [We] just hope to enter,” ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032964775/Business/tuk-tuk-maker-eyes-cambodian-market.html
Passport Posts A Go
Cambodia is making plans to open passport offices along its border with Thailand in a bid to cut down on illegal migration, Interior Minister Sar Kheng announced yesterday. Speaking at the close of a migration workshop, Kheng said that officials are already preparing to open a ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032964787/National/passport-posts-a-go.html
Huge Increase in MFI Loans, Deposits
More economic activity and a better understanding of using formal financial services among rural residents are leading to good loan performance rates and increases in savings deposits in Cambodia’s microfinance industry, according to industry sources. The loan portfolios of the 35 registered microfinance institutions (MFI) and ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050265366/Business/huge-increase-in-mfi-loans-deposits.html
Prakas Set to Control Tax Agents
The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) last month signed a prakas, a ministerial decision, to ensure tax agents’ professionalism, an insider told the Post yesterday. After the full implementation of Prakas 455, signed on April 12, agents have to pay one million riel to ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050265367/Business/prakas-set-to-control-tax-agents.html
Opposition leader arrives ahead of planned protest
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy arrived in Cambodia on Tuesday after a two-week long campaign abroad to seek support for his Cambodia National Rescue Party’s (CNRP) bid to bring foreign intervention to Cambodia’s election dispute. He returned home just a day before his party’s planned three-day protest ...
Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=MDNjYTM1NWZjMmN#sthash.ZPVqxJbu.dpuf
Verdict today in case of jailed land activist
After more than three months in jail, environmental activist Kuch Veng is set to hear his verdict at the Pursat provincial court. The verdict was originally scheduled to be handed down July 10, but the judge ordered it delayed after some 300 people from 11 provinces ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/verdict-today-case-jailed-land-activist
Cambodia rivals to meet after protests
Cambodia’s political rivals are set to hold crisis talks as crowds massed for a second day to protest a disputed election, following violence that left one demonstrator dead and several wounded. Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy were due to meet at 9am ...
Sky News Australia News Staff
http://www.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx?id=906538
Cambodia's rice output forecast to be similar to last year
Cambodia’s production of paddy rice is forecast at about 9.3 million tonnes this year, unchanged from last year’s estimate but up from 8.8 million tonnes in 2011, the Food and Agriculture Organisation said Thursday. In its latest quarterly Crop Prospects and Food Situation report, the UN ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ZmYxZmI5NTFjZWM
Australian company finds 'significant' mineral deposits in Preah Vihear
Australia’s Geopacific Resources NL said Thursday it had found “significant” amounts of gold, copper and molybdenum at its Kou Sa project in Preah Vihear. In a statement, the mineral explorer said the results of the first phase of its soil-sampling program had also found “associated multi-element ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=OGViOWQwNzllY2F
Factory management agrees on pay advance for holiday
Management at the Chhin Chin garment factory yesterday agreed to meet workers’ demands to receive their wages before the Pchum Ben holiday after a 150-worker demonstration briefly blocked National Road 4 in front of the factory. Workers at the factory, which is located in Phnom Penh’s ...
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factory-management-agrees-pay-advance-holiday
Activists give photos, video as evidence of attack
Land activists who were brutally cracked down on at a protest in September submitted video and pictorial evidence of masked suspects slinging marbles, beating and electric shocking them to Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. The group of 70 Borei Keila and Boeung Kak activists are suing ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-give-photos-video-evidence-attack
(English) Gov’t: village feedback to be used for reform
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Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-village-feedback-be-used-reform
(English) Cambodia, Vietnam trade bound to hit 5 bln USD in 2015: PM
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Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/841879.shtml#.UvslvPmSxqU
(English) Rice industry caught in flux
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Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-industry-caught-flux
(English) Protest leads to second chance on nat’l exams
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Chhay Channyda and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protest-leads-second-chance-nat%E2%80%99l-exams
មេប៉េអឹម៥រូប ត្រូវតុលាការហៅសួររឿងបង្ក្រាបបែបហិង្សាពីដើមខែ
មន្ត្រីកងរាជអាវុធហត្ថរាជធានីភ្នំពេញ ៥នាក់ ត្រូវតំណាងអយ្យការអមសាលាដំបូងរាជធានីភ្នំពេញកោះហៅឲ្យចូលទៅបំភ្លឺនិងសាកសួរ ក្នុងសប្តាហ៍មុន ជុំវិញហេតុការណ៍ប៉ះទង្គិចដោយហិង្សានៅក្នុងសង្កាត់ ចោមចៅ ដែលបណ្តាលឲ្យស្លាប់មនុស្សយ៉ាងហោច ៤នាក់ ...
ប៊ុត រស្មីគង្គា
http://postkhmer.com/national/1-national-news/109738-2014-01-27-03-00-46
(English) Political deadlock broken
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Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/political-deadlock-broken