Parties slug it out in rare TV debate
Breaking into a medium almost universally controlled by the ruling party, acting opposition president Kem Sokha squared off yesterday against rival legislators during the filming of what may well have been Cambodia’s first televised national election debate. The debate at the state-run TVK studios, which featured ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parties-slug-it-out-rare-tv-debate
Work of Observers Key to Fair Election, Monitor Says
WASHINGTON DC – The head of the election monitoring group Comfrel says a number of election irregularities and fraud have taken place during the campaign period, as observers prepare for Election Day on Sunday. Voter lists have numerous flaws, with some people unable to find their ...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/work-of-observers-key-to-fair-election-monitor-says/1710055.html
Chamber wants new tax laws
The private sector has called on the government to review Cambodia’s taxation law, a statute that business leaders say is outdated and needs to change if Cambodia wants to continue to attract foreign investment. Led by Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) president Kith Meng, a delegation ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chamber-wants-new-tax-laws
Workers split on call to rally
Union workers and leaders appeared divided yesterday on the question of whether to support the opposition party’s planned three-day demonstration at Freedom Park. Campaign promises from the Cambodia National Rescue Party to raise minimum monthly salaries to $150 seemed to have struck a chord with garment ...
Chhay Channyda and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-split-call-rally
March a victory of another sort
While the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s continued push for an investigation into election irregularities may at times feel quixotic, the fact that the opposition was able to hold a peaceful march yesterday without incident represents a perhaps equally significant victory for freedom of assembly. The Ministry ...
Shane Worrell, P.2
http://www.phnompenhpost.com
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 ...
Colin Meyn and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/after-sam-rainsys-call-no-answer-from-cpp-46444/
Cambodia's trade with China's Hong Kong up 19 pct in 9 months
Trade between Cambodia and China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has seen a 19- percent growth in the first nine months of the year thanks to robust bilateral trade ties, Benjamin Chau, deputy executive director of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, said here Wednesday. ...
Asean-China-Center News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-11/28/c_132926075.htm
Disability Services to Be Rolled Out in Provinces
Cambodia will on Tuesday introduce measures intended to better serve disabled people living in the provinces and will hold its first workshop on the draft of a new five-year plan to improve disability services, the government said at an annual meeting of members to the ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/disability-services-to-be-rolled-out-in-provinces-48641/
City Hall Bans Monks From Marching to National Assembly
Phnom Penh City Hall issued a letter Monday banning a group of monks who have marched cross-country to mark International Human Rights Day from completing the final leg of their journey, in which they had hoped to hand petitions to lawmakers at the National Assembly ...
Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-bans-monks-from-marching-to-national-assembly-48959/
(English) Cambodia Police, Garment Workers Clash Amid Strike
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Sun Narin and Chun Han Wong
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303799404579283802423278442
Still No Agreement Over Opposition Marches
A meeting between representatives of the CNRP and Phnom Penh City Hall officials Monday failed to produce an agreement over the opposition party’s plans to march throughout the city during its three consecutive days of demonstrations starting Wednesday. City Hall officials last week decreed that the ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/still-no-agreement-over-opposition-marches-45629/
(English) NGOs Call for Vote Reform, New Election
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Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngos-call-for-vote-reform-new-election-50066/
Hun Sen, opposition in second day of talks
Cambodian strongman Hun Sen met leaders of the country’s main opposition party again on Tuesday, the second day of crucial talks aimed at finding a way out of the country’s post-election deadlock. After demonstrations over the weekend triggered clashes with security forces that left one man ...
The Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/370122/hun-sen-opposition-in-second-day-of-talks
ភាគហ៊ុនបានធ្លាក់ចុះក្រោម៥០០០រៀល
តម្លៃហ៊ុនរដ្ឋករទឹកក្រុងភ្នំពេញ (PPWSA) បានបន្តធ្លាក់ចុះក្រោម ៥០០០ រៀលក្នុងមួយហ៊ុនពេលបិទការជួញដូររបស់ខ្លួន កាលពីថ្ងៃច័ន្ទហើយមានវិនិយោគិនតែម្នាក់គត់បានលក់ភាគហ៊ុនជាង ២០ ០០០ នៅលើទីផ្សារនេះ។ ...
ម៉ៃ គុណមករា
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia%E2%80%99s-only-stock-plummets-shares-sold
CNRP to Hold Ceremony for Grenade Victims
Supporters of the opposition CNRP and relatives of the 16 men, women and children killed in a grenade attack during a protest rally in 1997, will hold a Buddhist ceremony today at the scene of the blasts in front of the old National Assembly in ...
Aun Pheap and Dene-Hern Chen
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-to-hold-ceremony-for-grenade-victims-43867/
Cambodia opposition announces to stage mass protest on Oct. 23
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) on Saturday announced that it would launch a mass protest on Oct. 23 in order to submit a petition to the United Nations. “A mass protest will be held on Oct.23 from 3:00-6:00 p.m. at the Freedom Park (in ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-09/28/c_132758766.htm
Thailand, Japan Donate to Flood Relief Efforts
The governments of Japan and Thailand as well as the Thai community in Cambodia have decided to donate goods and cash totaling about $520,000 to flood relief in Cambodia, officials said Tuesday. The Japanese government will donate about $400,000 in an official ceremony this morning at ...
Denise Hruby and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thailand-japan-donate-to-flood-relief-efforts-45714/
‘Dialogues’ set for provinces
They can’t talk in the National Assembly, and they can’t talk in the provinces – at least at the parliamentarian level – but a new round of local dialogues held by the National Democratic Institute will see the ruling party and the opposition face off ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98dialogues%E2%80%99-set-provinces
Lender singled out after documentary
Some 1,000 employees from one of Cambodia’s largest microfinance institutions gathered in the Koh Pich exhibition hall yesterday to watch A River Changes Course, the award-winning documentary about three Cambodians from different backgrounds all struggling to eke out a living in fast-changing times. Why Angkor Mikroheranhvatho (Kampuchea) ...
Joe Freeman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/lender-singled-out-after-documentary
CNRP to Hold Demonstration in Siem Reap
The opposition CNRP has decided to move a mass demonstration to mark International Human Rights Day on December 10 from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap City, the party’s deputy president Kem Sokha said on Saturday. The CNRP will also hold mass demonstrations every Sunday at Freedom ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-to-hold-demonstration-in-siem-reap-47801/