Confidence at central bank
As volatility strikes Asian markets in anticipation of the US Federal Reserve winding down quantitative easing – the practice of injecting money into the economy – the National Bank of Cambodia says the Kingdom will remain largely insulated thanks to an investment market still in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/confidence-at-central-bank/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013062566455/Business/confidence-at-central-bank.html
Factory production sluggish
In the wake of last month’s election, production levels at Cambodian garment factories are still below the norm as lingering fears of political unrest keep workers at home and away from the capital. Shrugged off at the outset as a natural byproduct of the election that href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/factory-production-sluggish/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/factory-production-sluggish
Commune officials to solve factory disputes
In response to a growing number of strikes in the country’s highly profitable garment sector, the government trained 15 handpicked commune officials yesterday to mediate and resolve factory disputes. The training was designed to teach commune councillors to defuse and resolve conflict, Buth Ji, director of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/commune-officials-to-solve-factory-disputes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/commune-officials-solve-factory-disputes
Phnom Penh Governor Expresses Disapproval of CNRP Rally
Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong on Thursday rebuked opposition CNRP president Sam Rainsy for allegedly breaking his promise to keep Monday’s CNRP rally at Freedom Park to 6,000 people and bar the participation of supporters from outside of the city. Well over 10,000 CNRP supporters attended href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/phnom-penh-governor-expresses-disapproval-of-cnrp-rally/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/phnom-penh-governor-expresses-disapproval-of-cnrp-rally-41439/
Cambodia low on energy ranking
Low electrification rates and over-dependence on fossil fuel imports have contributed to Cambodia’s abysmally low ranking in the new World Economic Forum’s Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report for 2014. Cambodia ranked 120 out of 124 nations, with a so-called Energy Architecture Performance Index (EAPI) score href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-low-on-energy-ranking/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-low-energy-ranking
(English) EU Alleges Up to 30% of Cambodia Rice Imports Mixed With Vietnam Rice
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Oryza
http://oryza.com/news/eu-alleges-30-cambodia-rice-imports-are-mixed-vietnam-rice
Still at Large, Chhouk Bundith Has Case Sent to Appeal Court
Although the Svay Rieng Provincial Court announced the ex-governor’s sentence in June and ordered his immediate arrest, he has remained elusive to the authorities. His lawyers filed an appeal in July to the Appeal Court challenging the provincial court’s verdict. Sun Bunnarith, Chhouk Bundith’s lawyer, claimed href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/still-at-large-chhouk-bundith-has-case-sent-to-appeal-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Dene-Hern Chen
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/still-at-large-chhouk-bundith-has-case-sent-to-appeal-court-40914/
Software giant targets piracy
Microsoft Cambodia has appointed Thakral Cambodia Industries Limited as its second authorised software distributor in the country, a move intended to help the computer giant’s local operation combat the rampant use of pirated software. Thakral, one of the largest distributors of IT products in Cambodia (its href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/software-giant-targets-piracy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/software-giant-targets-piracy
Cambodia to establish first civil aviation school
Cambodia planned to set up the first ever Civil Aviation Training Center with South Korean assistance in order to boost development of air transport industry and tourism, a spokesman said Saturday. “South Korea agreed to provide 10.1 million U.S. dollars in grant aid to Cambodia for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-to-establish-first-civil-aviation-school/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-10/12/c_132793377.htm
Radio Host Calls On Pupils to Denounce Teachers Talking Politics
The owner of the popular local ABC radio station on Thursday urged university students to call his station and inform listeners if their teachers discuss information that could be deemed critical of the government. An ABC radio employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity as href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/radio-host-calls-on-pupils-to-denounce-teachers-talking-politics/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/radio-host-calls-on-pupils-to-denounce-teachers-talking-politics-45899/
Smart Mobile Sees 36% Revenue Growth
Malaysian telecommunications company Axiata Group Berhad reported Wednesday that its Cambodian brand Smart has seen strong growth in the first nine months of the year, with revenue increasing by 36 percent compared with the same period last year. In its third quarter financial report, Axiata said href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/smart-mobile-sees-36-revenue-growth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/smart-mobile-sees-36-revenue-growth-48215/
ប្រាក់ចំណូលរដ្ឋាករទឹកកើនឡើង ២៤%
របាយការណ៏ហិរញ្ញវត្ថុរបស់រដ្ឋាករទឹកស្វយ័តក្រុងភ្នំពេញ(PPWSA) ចេញផ្សាយពីថ្ងៃទី១១ ខែតុលាបានបង្ហាញថាចំណូលសរុបនឹងប្រាក់ចំនេញសុទ្ធរបស់ខ្លួនបានកើនឡើងជាង២០ភាគរយនៅឆមាសទីមួយឆ្នាំនេះ។ href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/profits-dip-for-water-authority/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
ម៉ៃ គុណមករា
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/profits-dip-water-authority
No heads-up for ‘smugglers’
Forestry Administration officers sent two suspected wildlife smugglers to court in Stung Treng province yesterday after they were arrested while allegedly smuggling disembodied heads and hooves of the increasingly rare Chinese serow – a type of wild goat – into Cambodia from Laos, officials said. Provincial href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/no-heads-up-for-smugglers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-heads-%E2%80%98smugglers%E2%80%99
Cambodia attracts over 879,000 tourists from ASEAN region
For the first semester of 2013, Cambodia attracted 879, 782 tourist arrivals from ASEAN region, plus 23.5 per cent if compared in the same period of last year, a report from tourism ministry obtained on Tuesday said. The figure of tourist arrivals from ASEAN for the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-attracts-over-879000-tourists-from-asean-region/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
The Southeast Asia Weekly Staff
http://www.thesoutheastasiaweekly.com/cambodia-attracts-over-879000-tourists-from-asean-region/
(English) At Appeal Court, Ex-Soldiers Deny Violent 2012 Land Grab
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Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/at-appeal-court-ex-soldiers-deny-violent-2012-land-grab-49723/
(English) Rice Exports Rise by More Than 170,000 Tons
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Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/rice-exports-rise-by-more-than-170000-tons-49976/
Cambodian opposition renews protest warning
Cambodia’s long-time opposition leader Sam Rainsy once again threatened to call nationwide demonstrations if an independent committee was not established to look into allegations of poll irregularities. “We strongly insist the establishment of an independent committee to investigate election irregularities before the release of the final href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodian-opposition-renews-protest-warning/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhua News Staff
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/8377805.html
មន្រ្តីបក្សប្រជាជន រង់ចាំថ្ងៃកំណត់ប្រជុំសភាអាណត្តិថ្មីលើកដំបូង
លោកជាម យៀប សមាជិកគណៈកម្មាធិការអចិន្ត្រៃយ៍របស់គណបក្សប្រជាជន កម្ពុជា និងជាសមាជិក href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/%e2%80%8b%e1%9e%98%e1%9e%93%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%9a%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%8f%e1%9e%b8%e2%80%8b%e1%9e%94%e1%9e%80%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%9f%e2%80%8b%e1%9e%94%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%9a%e2%80%8b%e1%9e%87%e1%9e%b6%e2%80%8b%e1%9e%87/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
People Returning to City After Holiday Met by Roadblocks
Police and military police set up roadblocks on major highways leading into Phnom Penh on Sunday as the opposition held its first rally in the capital since the party boycotted the opening of parliament last month over contested election results. Some officials manning the roadblocks said href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/people-returning-to-city-after-holiday-met-by-roadblocks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/people-returning-to-city-after-holiday-met-by-roadblocks-44455/
Anti-Eviction Activist Yorm Bopha Freed on Bail
The Supreme Court on Friday temporarily freed jailed Boeng Kak anti-eviction activist Yorm Bopha on bail, but sent her case back to the Court of Appeal to be reinvestigated. During the hearing, which lasted an hour and a half, dozens of monks and supporters of the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/anti-eviction-activist-yorm-bopha-freed-on-bail/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anti-eviction-activist-yorm-bopha-freed-on-bail-47709/