Cambodian Opposition Chief Under Fire for US Trip Amid Crisis
Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy has left for the United States to attend his daughter’s wedding, triggering criticism at home that he was leaving the country in the midst of a political crisis following disputed national elections. Sam Rainsy announced at a mass rally at Freedom ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/trip-08072013184422.html
Cambodia’s young users
Injecting methamphetamines is on the rise in Cambodia, particularly among younger addicts, as recreational users have begun to switch from smoking and pill-popping to mainlining, a report by the Australian National Council on Drugs suggests. The report, released yesterday, details how amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) and their ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia%E2%80%99s-young-users
Anti-Graft Unit Says Health Center’s Procurements Were Correct
The government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) said Friday that it has investigated the public procurements of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STD Control (NCHADS) and found they were carried out correctly, despite an exhaustive investigation by the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anti-graft-unit-says-health-centers-procurements-were-correct-47767/
Police Presence Light at Rowdy CNRP Rally in Freedom Park
Police maintained a subtle, and mostly unarmed, presence at a rowdy opposition rally that filled Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on Monday, despite persistent tensions over last month’s contested national election and a beefed-up security presence around the city. Even as the crowd swelled to well over ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/police-presence-light-at-rowdy-cnrp-rally-in-freedom-park-40918/
(English) Chainsaws stayed busy in past year
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Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chainsaws-stayed-busy-past-year
Bun Rany Slams CNRP During Red Cross Event
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s wife Bun Rany on Saturday used a Cambodian Red Cross flood relief event in Pailin province to denounce the opposition CNRP’s three-day rally and marches in Phnom Penh last week as part of an effort to “cheat” the people of Cambodia. Ms. ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/bun-rany-slams-cnrp-during-red-cross-event-45988/
Villagers Say Illegal Loggers Claim to Work for Try Pheap
Villagers in Mondolkiri province filed a complaint with rights group Adhoc on Friday, saying that they had discovered loggers illegally felling trees in their local community forest who claimed to be working for businessman Try Pheap. Mr. Pheap, who owns plantations, mining concessions and special economic ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-say-illegal-loggers-claim-to-work-for-try-pheap-48419/
Police pledge ‘no guns’ at today’s rallies
National Police and military police officers deployed to International Human Rights Day events and an opposition rally in the capital today will not carry guns or live ammunition, spokesmen for the respective authorities said yesterday. Effectively vowing to avoid a repeat of two fatal police shootings ...
Shane Worrell and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-pledge-%E2%80%98no-guns%E2%80%99-today%E2%80%99s-rallies
(English) Treating a common but misunderstood disability
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Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/treating-a-common-but-misunderstood-disability-53425/
(English) Uneasy calm in Bavet as factories ordered shut
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Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/uneasy-calm-in-bavet-as-factories-ordered-shut-57723/
(English) Sexual abuse among claims against HAGL
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Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sexual-abuse-among-claims-against-hagl
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ឃី សុវុទ្ធី និង Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadailykhmer.com/latest/11625/
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ម៉ៃ ទិត្យថារ៉ា និង Daniel Pye
http://bit.ly/1G5VNj0
(English) Poll shows fighting corruption drives support for education reform in Cambodia
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Silas Everett and Menghun Kaing
http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2014/10/15/poll-shows-fighting-corruption-drives-support-for-education-reform-in-cambodia/
'Separatist' farms replaced by RCAF base
A track of land once farmed by 1,000 families in Kratie province — families violently evicted amid claims they were part of a separatist movement — is now home to a military base. Unit 9 Royal Cambodian Armed Forces base, which will be finished later this ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020661212/National/separatist-farms-replaced-by-rcaf-base.html
The Bottom Line
Clashes between garment workers and the local manufacturing industry came to a head in February when three women were shot while protesting for increased bonuses outside their workplace. It was almost five more months before manufacturers and governing bodies agreed to raise the earning potential ...
Duty-Free Sugar Exports to EU Hit $13 Million
The European Union (E.U.) last year continued to import millions of dollars worth of duty-free sugar from Cambodian plantations that have forced hundreds of families off their land despite calls from European lawmakers for the trade benefits to end, according to the latest E.U. data. Thailand’s ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/duty-free-sugar-exports-to-eu-hit-13-million-18114/
Foreign investment rises 73 pct
A mid [sic] global economic fragility, foreign direct investment (FDI) in Cambodia grew a whopping 73 per cent in 2012 from the year before, a huge increase helping to fuel a record-setting amount of money pouring into least developed countries, according to the United Nations ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013070166579/Business/foreign-investment-rises-73-pct.html
Better Recovery for Construction and Real Estate Sector
2012 has been an impressive year for Cambodia’s economic resilience. Among the many sectors that had positively grown are the construction and property development [sic] and they are expected to be among the highest growth achievers in the current year as well. In 2012, the ...
Governor Takes to the River to Promote Flood Response
A fleet of five speedboats set off from Sisowath Quay on Tuesday afternoon carrying Phnom Penh’s governor, 19 local officials, several bodyguards and a press team, as the municipal authorities’ plan to deal with flooding in several districts of the city switched into first gear. Over ...
Ben Sokhean and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/governor-takes-to-the-river-to-promote-flood-response-44147/