Monitor, GMAC at odds over plan
The head of the Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) program said yesterday that consultations on its new public-disclosure initiative have been going on for more than a year, contrary to claims by a garment factory representative who characterised the process as hasty. Jill Tucker, chief technical adviser ...
Daniel de Carteret and May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/monitor-gmac-odds-over-plan
Cambodia’s Opposition Calls for Halt to Foreign Investment, Loans
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government as the two sides remained stalled in talks in a deadlock over disputed national elections. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) said in a public statement that it could not guarantee that any agreements made with Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian ...
Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/investment-10292013173412.html
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/
Mercedes-Benz Distributor to Halt Repairs on Illegal Imports
Hung Hiep (Cambodia) Co., the only company in Cambodia licensed to import Mercedes-Benz luxury vehicles, said Monday it would no longer make repairs to new lines of Mercedes vehicles that are smuggled into the country. Company officials said the move is to reduce scams and repair ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/mercedes-benz-distributor-to-halt-repairs-on-illegal-imports-45121/
Ethnic minorities to receive bilingual education: gov’t
The government affirmed its commitment to bilingual education for ethnic minority children in Cambodia’s northern provinces at a UNESCO conference in Bangkok last week. Speaking at the fourth International Conference on Language and Education: Multilingual Education for all in Asia and the Pacific, Ton Sa Im, ...
Emily Wight
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/lifestyle/ethnic-minorities-receive-bilingual-education-gov%E2%80%99t
Cambodia's service sector encouraging, but reforms needed: ADB
Cambodia is benefiting from a steadily growing service sector, but it needs to clear a number of obstacles to harness the sector’s potential, said a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) report released on Tuesday. The report, entitled Developing the Service Sector as an Engine of Growth ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/824334.shtml#.UoLkAHCBlmM
Cambodia's King Invites Hun Sen, Sam Rainsy to Talks
Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni has invited Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy for talks this aimed at resolving a standoff over recent elections as Sam Rainsy’s party filed a lawsuit accusing the country election body of vote fraud. Both Hun Sen and ...
Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/cambodia-09122013180350.html
‘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
Cambodia hosts int'l vaccine, immunization meeting
The Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunization (GAVI) Board meeting was held here on Thursday to decide which new vaccines will be added to the organization’s portfolio. The two-day meeting brought together 160 people who are representatives of donors and developing countries, civil society organizations, vaccine ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-11/21/c_132906783.htm
Hun Sen: No post-election crisis
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday that the political problems in his country following July’s general election that the opposition says was rigged are not serious. “A solution to our problem here is only a matter of time. It’s an old problem, not a new ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/383095/hun-sen-no-post-election-crisis
Rainsy’s speech under fire
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has landed in hot water with women’s rights activists after publicly questioning whether Prime Minister Hun Sen was being “weaker than a woman” by not calling for a new election like Thai leader Yingluck Shinawatra in the face of popular protests. Speaking ...
Kevin Ponniah and Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy%E2%80%99s-speech-under-fire
Youth Support for Protests Cools as Fears Mount
One of the most significant and memorable aspects of the fiercely contested July 28 national election was the explosion of youth engagement during the campaign season, with hordes of young Cambodians driving through the streets on motorbikes calling for change. The youth vote has been widely ...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/youth-support-for-protests-cools-as-fears-mount-39518/
Threat of National Assembly Boycott Presents Royal Conundrum
Despite the opposition CNRP’s ongoing threats to boycott the opening of parliament next Monday, the National Assembly on Tuesday officially announced that King Norodom Sihamoni will open the first session of the new legislature as scheduled. “On Monday, September 23, at 8 o’clock in the morning, ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/threat-of-national-assembly-boycott-presents-royal-conundrum-42593/
Former Boeng Kak Residents Demand More Compensation
More than 200 former residents of the Boeng Kak community protested Thursday outside City Hall to demand more compensation to the original amount they received when forcibly evicted from around the lake in 2009. The protesters—who accepted payouts from the private developer Shukaku to make way ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/former-boeng-kak-residents-demand-more-compensation-43692/
(English) Property Prices on the Rise in Phnom Penh
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Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/property-prices-on-the-rise-in-phnom-penh-49622/
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សកម្មជន និងព្រះសង្ឃជាង៥០អង្គនាក់ដែលប្រឆាំងនឹងបម្រាមថ្មីចំពោះសកម្មភាពប្រមូលផ្តុំ បានជួបជុំគ្នានៅខាងក្រៅការិយាល័យអង្គការសហប្រជាជាតិទទួលបន្ទុកសិទ្ធិមនុស្សប្រចាំនៅប្រទេសកម្ពុជា កាលពីព្រឹកម្សិលមិញ ដើម្បីទាមទារឲ្យមានការដោះលែងបុរស ...
ម៉ិច ដារ៉ា និង Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadailykhmer.com/news/9385/
(English) Tea Banh Tells Armed Forces to Defend Government
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Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tea-banh-tells-armed-forces-to-defend-government-50987/
(English) Garden-view condominium complex a hit with locals and foreigners alike
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Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/garden-view-condominium-complex-hit-locals-and-foreigners-alike
(English) Firm buying Boeng Kak land claims no knowledge of evictions
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Zsombor Peter and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/firm-buying-boeng-kak-land-claims-no-knowledge-of-evictions-62463/
(English) The Sihanoukville option
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Chris Horton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/sihanoukville-option