Paths to Parliament Cleared for CPP’s Powerful Sons
Despite failing to win enough votes in the July 28 election to become lawmakers, at least three sons of some of the ruling CPP’s most high-ranking members will still take up seats in Parliament when the next government is formed, senior CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap ss='cambodia-color'>...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/paths-to-parliament-cleared-for-cpps-powerful-sons-38716/
Too many players vie in Kingdom’s ISP industry
Like the telecommunications industry in Cambodia, the market for internet service providers (IsP), too, is overcrowded, leading industry experts to say that the situation is preventing new investment. Data from the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications showed that at the end of 2012, Cambodia had ss='cambodia-color'>...
IMF Says Cambodia’s Economic ‘Takeoff’ Not Yet Sustainable
Government action will be needed to ensure that nearly two decades of impressive economic growth continues in Cambodia, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a report published Wednesday. In its 2013 World Economic Outlook, the IMF put Cambodia’s gross do­mestic product (GDP) growth for 2012 ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/imf-says-cambodias-economic-takeoff-not-yet-sustainable-18880/
Kingdom’s rubber exports rise, but prices stay flat
Rubber exports from Cambodia were up over 17 per cent in the first quarter of 2013, but the revenue from rubber stayed steady as prices decline worldwide, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce. The data showed that in the first quarter of this year, ss='cambodia-color'>...
FAO Predicts Rice Crop to Match Last Year’s
The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predicts that Cambodia’s rice crop this year will equal but not exceed last year’s record yield. In its July rice market monitor report, issued quarterly, the FAO said that weather conditions meant this year’s rice crop would not reach ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/fao-predicts-rice-crop-to-match-last-years-38297/
CNRP, Comfrel Call for Investigation Into NEC’s Independence
The CNRP and the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) on Monday called for a full investigation into the National Election Committee’s (NEC) independence as well as its possible role in the irregularities the opposition says occurred during the national election on ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-comfrel-call-for-investigation-into-necs-independence-38403/
High Risk Seen in Kingdom’s Business Environment: Report
Corruption, a weak judicial system and the potential for complicity with human and labour rights abuses are key risks for firms looking to invest in Cambodia, a new report [by Maplecroft, a UK-based global risk and strategic consulting firm] analysing investment risk in the Kingdom ss='cambodia-color'>...
S. Korea's Booyoung to build new town in Cambodia
Booyoung Co., a mid-sized south Korean conglomerate, said Tuesday that it broke ground for one of the largest housing projects in Cambodia, a project Cambodia hopes to spur foreign investments. Booyoung said it will build 40 apartments and seven residential and commercial complexes on 2.7 square ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/business/2013/05/07/45/0501000000AEN20130507006500320F.HTML
Sam Rainsy’s Last-Minute Efforts to Run Rebuffed
Both the National Assembly and the Constitutional Council of Cambodia, the highest legal authority in the land, convened closed-door meetings Thursday during which they decided not to reinstate opposition leader sam Rainsy as a voter and parliamentary candidate for sunday’s national election. According to a copy ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/sam-rainsys-last-minute-efforts-to-run-rebuffed-36763/
Cambodia’s Top Court Orders Release of Ballot Records
Cambodia’s highest court on Friday ordered the country’s electoral body to release secured ballot information from more than a dozen polling stations to investigate claims by the opposition of irregularities in last month’s disputed elections. Constitutional Council of Cambodia President Ek sam Ol issued an urgent ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://english.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/ballot-08232013162229.html
Fresh Faces on CPP’s Shortened List of Lawmakers
When the ruling CPP takes its seats in the new National Assembly, its members of Parliament will include a few new faces, and significantly less old ones, according to ratified election results announced by the National Election Committee (NEC) on sunday. The CPP’s poor showing in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/fresh-faces-on-cpps-shortened-list-of-lawmakers-41902/
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តំណាងសហគមននិងមន្ត្រីទទួលបន្ទុកគម្រោងឲ្យដឹងថា គម្រោងពាណិជ្ជកម្មកាបូននៅតែមិនទាន់មានលទ្ធភាពរកប្រាក់ចំណូលសម្រាប់សហគមន៍នៅឡើយ។ គម្រោងនេះទទួលបានការគាំទ្រតែ ss='cambodia-color'>...
គុច ណារ៉េន និង ម៉ាតត៍ ប្លូមប៊ឺហ្គ
http://www.cambodiadailykhmer.com/5878
Factory’s contracts seen as ‘test case’ for brands
A garment factory’s alleged efforts to wipe workers’ contract histories clean could be a “test case” for how much international buyers tolerate factories negotiating outside of legal requirements, a labour-rights advocate has said. After effectively being bought out of their contracts, about 300 employees of UsA ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shane Worrell and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factory%E2%80%99s-contracts-seen-%E2%80%98test-case%E2%80%99-brands
After Sam Rainsy’s Call, No Answer From CPP
At about 10 a.m. Thursday morning, during a press conference at the CNRP’s Phnom Penh headquarters, opposition leader sam Rainsy dialed the phone number of CPP Interior Minister sar Kheng and told a few dozen reporters in attendance that he would broadcast their conversation over ss='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/after-sam-rainsys-call-no-answer-from-cpp-46444/
National Bank Governor’s Daughter Named New Director-General
Chea Serey, the daughter of National Bank Governor Chea Chanto, haS been promoted to director-general of the central bank, She confirmed thiS week. MS. Serey will replace Nguon Sokha, who Said that She left the National Bank about a month ago after being appointed aS a SS='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/national-bank-governors-daughter-named-new-director-general-48069/
(English) Hun Sen’s Son Says CNRP Is Paying Protesters
Sorry, thiS entry iS only available in អង់គ្លេស (ស.រ.អ). SS='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sens-son-says-cnrp-is-paying-protesters-49624/
UK to Request Extradition of Biofuel Company’s Chairman
The U.K.’s fraud office plans to request the extradition of a British national currently detained in Cambodia, after it brought charges against four people for their part in a $36 million Ponzi scheme involving a biofuel plantation. Gregg Fryett was arrested in Phnom Penh in March ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Lewis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/uk-to-request-extradition-of-biofuel-companys-chairman-40796/
UK to Request Extradition of Biofuel Company’s Chairman
The U.K.’s fraud office plans to request the extradition of a British national currently detained in Cambodia, after it brought charges against four people for their part in a $36 million Ponzi scheme involving a biofuel plantation. Gregg Fryett was arrested in Phnom Penh in March ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Lewis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/uk-to-request-extradition-of-biofuel-companys-chairman-40796/
Project to fix capital’s drains kicks into gear
The third phase of a project designed to revamp Phnom Penh’s drainage system, currently inundated by seasonal rains, began yesterday. Four areas of the city spanning a total of 369,445 metres will be witness to the next stage of the project’s implementation, part of an ongoing ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/project-fix-capital%E2%80%99s-drains-kicks-gear
Jubilation as Pair Acquitted of Union Leader’s Assassination
Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun, the men wrongfully Sentenced to 20 yearS in priSon for the 2004 murder of Free Trade Union (FTU) leader Chea Vi&Shy;chea, were exonerated WedneSday by the Supreme Court of the crime. ReSponding to the acquittal, Chea Vichea&rSquo;S brother, Chea Mony, SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/jubilation-as-pair-acquitted-of-union-leaders-assassination-43396/