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 ...
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Adhoc defends Staffer in Incitement Claim
Human rights group Adhoc yesterday criticized a commune official in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district for accusing one of its staff of incitement and spreading disinformation after villagers traveled to Phnom Penh in March to protest over a land dispute with well known businessman Try ...
Factories Asked to Voluntarily Assess Safety
The Garment Manufactures Association of Cambodia (GMAC) and International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia yesterday asked factory owners to voluntarily conduct structural audits on their buildings in light of building collapses at two garment factories that killed two people and injured 23. “In the ...
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Korea trade nears $1 billion
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and South Korea nearly reached the $1 billion dollar realm in 2012, a hike of nearly 100 per cent from the year before, senior officials said yesterday. According to official data from the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, total bilateral trade between ...
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Inspections over tainted milk start in markets
Government officials began inspecting markets across the country yesterday in search of baby formula containing an ingredient from New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra that could cause botulism, quality control representatives at the Ministry of Commerce said. “We informed all our officials directly to collect nationwide some ...
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Agriculture needs more loans, irrigation systems, experts say
Accessing low-interest loans for rice cultivation is a challenge because the industry in Cambodia is dependant upon rainfall and not irrigation and is thus more risky, experts said last week. In a meeting on the private sector development in the rice sector, Lim Heng, vice president ...
Sugar Firm Staff Protest Over Unpaid Wages
About 250 laborers working at a newly opened $90-million sugar factory complex in Kratie province-hailed by the government as a boon to Cambodia’s economy-staged a protest last Saturday morning demanding to be reimbursed for two weeks worth of unpaid wages. District governor Heng Soha acted ...
Hong Kong delegation seeks business opportunities in Cambodia
A delegation from China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region are currently seeking possibilities to broaden bilateral trade and investment ties in Cambodia. The delegation comprising of business executives from 24 different firms in the financial and professional services, infrastructure and real estate, garments and textiles, telecommunications, ...
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Cambodian opposition chief arrives home after 4 years in exile
Cambodia’s charismatic opposition leader Sam Rainsy arrived in his home country on Friday morning after spending nearly four years abroad in self-imposed exile to avoid an 11-year prison sentence on charges of disinformation and destruction of public property. Hun Sen said his request to the ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-07/19/c_132555198.htm
Villagers protest hike in electricity expense
More than 60 villagers from Kampong Cham province’s Stung Trang district staged a protest on Monday at Arak Tnort commune hall, demanding answers for a massive price hike that has accompanied the installation of electricity meters ahead of a planned switchover to state-provided power. Private company ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-protest-hike-electricity-expense
PTT petrol stations filling up
Thailand’s PTT Cambodia, a subsidiary of the kingdom’s state-owned oil and gas conglomerate PTT Public Company Limited, expects to more than double the amount of petrol stations it manages in Cambodia by the end of 2017, a senior executive in the company said this week. ...
Laura Ma
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King To Invite Both Parties to Open Assembly
Following a weekend of opposition demonstrations and rejection of official election results, King Norodom Sihamoni on Monday called for the two political parties embroiled in Cambodia’s post-election deadlock to open a legislative meeting on the Sept. 28 deadline. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has said ...
Sok Khemara
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Cambodian King urges opposition protestors, police to end violence
Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni on Monday called on opposition protesters and police to stop using violence against each other after a clash on Sunday night left one protester dead and several others injured. “I would like to beg all compatriots who are the protesters and the ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-09/16/c_132725471.htm
Sok An: conspiracy apparent between opposition, Comfrel, NDI over election figures
Cabinet Minister, Sok An on Tuesday has accused the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party of conspiring with Comfrel and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) over the forgery of the election figures. Speaking at the fifth general election book launching ceremony, he said the opposition party ...
Cambodia Herald News Staff
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Park's own Cleveland clinic
As two volunteers guided a man unsteady on his feet into a medical tent on the second day of a three-day pro-opposition demonstration at Freedom Park yesterday, Chan Bun Han instructed another to get the patient a bottle of water after they laid him on ...
Sean Teehan, P.6
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(English) Official Says Logging-Related Deaths Down
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Khy Sovuthy
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(English) Opposition preps plans for demos
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Daniel Pye and Meas Sokchea
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Sam Rainsy calls on market, temple people to join protest
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) — Opposition party leader, Sam Rainsy, on Thursday visited Stung Meanchey market and temple, appealing to the people there to join in their mass prayer demonstration this weekend.The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) will hold a “violence-free” mass prayer demonstration ...
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Cambodia sees steady growth in tourist arrivals despite disputed election result
Cambodia registered steady growth in international tourist arrivals in the first nine months of the year although the political dispute between the ruling and opposition parties over contested elections in July remains unsolved, officials said Thursday. Tith Chantha, secretary of state at the Ministry of Tourism, ...
Nguon Sovan
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-10/04/c_132772459.htm
‘Ban’ for three more unionists
Three more unionists have been suspended as a result of the violent strikes at a Kampong Speu garment factory in May and June, a Free Trade Union official said yesterday. Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing factory’s FTU president Sun Vanny, vice-president Sem Sopheak and general secretary Chi ...
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan, P.6
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