Kampot Pepper Farmers to see Bumper Year
When the harvest season for Kampot pepper starts next month, farmers in Kampot province expect this year’s crop to yield more than 17 percent above last year, a representative of the farmers said. Nguon Lay, president of the Kampot Pepper Association, said last week that ss='cambodia-color'>...
Anti-Graft Unit to Give Telecom Staff Anti-Corruption Education
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has ordered staff at Telecom Cambodia to attend a meeting today in order to “educate” them about the country’s Anti-Corruption Law after they made graft allegations and held demonstrations against the firm’s director-general Lao sarouen earlier this month, Minister of Posts ss='cambodia-color'>...
Calls for Angkor Beer Boycott Over Laos Dam Investment
Environmental groups and a local community leader in stung Treng province have called for a nationwide boycott of the popular Angkor Beer brand to protest the beverage company’s links to a controversial hydro­power dam to be built in Laos. Laos announced earlier this month that it ss='cambodia-color'>...
Dene-Hern Chen and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/calls-for-angkor-beer-boycott-over-laos-dam-investment-45646/
Armed Security Doubled for Human Rights Day Rallies
The government will deploy double the usual number of armed security personnel on the streets of Phnom Penh on Tuesday to keep control of the large number of rallies planned in the city to celebrate International Human Rights Day, a military police official said Monday. “We ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/armed-security-doubled-for-human-rights-day-rallies-48954/
(English) Government Says US Praised Protest ‘Patience’
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Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-says-us%E2%80%88praised-protest-patience-51547/
(English) Commerce minister vows ‘meaningful’ reforms to US investors
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Sophat Soeung
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/commerce-minister-vows-meaningful-reforms-to-us-investors/1944607.html
(English) As banking sector booms, overbanking looms
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Kang Sothear and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/as-banking-sector-booms-overbanking-looms-67824/
(English) Prey Speu detention centre still going strong
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Sen David and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/prey-speu-detention-centre-still-going-strong
China reaps concession windfalls
About half of the land concessions granted since 1994 are in the hands of Chinese companies, according to data released yesterday by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. Ouch Leng, CCHR land reform project coordinator, said that from 1994 to 2012, the Cambodian government granted 4,615,745 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hun Sen to Hold Bilateral Talks With Obama During Summit
Prime Minister Hun sen will hold bilateral talks with U.s. President Barack Obama when the newly re-elected American leader visits Phnom Penh during this month’s East Asia and Asean summits. Mr. Hun sen announced the bilateral meeting in a letter to Mr. Obama on Wednesday congratulating ss='cambodia-color'>...
Australia Admits Cambodia Postponed Military Cooperation
Cambodia has delayed two of its military cooperation programs with Australia, the Australian Defense Department said Thursday, after it emerged this week that U.s.-backed programs had also been postponed following the July 28 national election. Dave Gordge, first secretary and deputy head of mission at the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/australia-admits-cambodia-postponed-military-cooperation-39885/
Cassava exports jump 94%
The Kingdom’s cassava exports soared 94 per cent year-on-year in the first nine months of 2011, despite the recent flood devastation the agriculture sector has experienced, according to Ministry of Commerce figures. The statistics showed that Cambodia’s export of dry and fresh cassava hit about 22,652 ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011101952198/Business/cassava-exports-jump-94.html
Skills key to gender goals
A Millennium Development Goal Acceleration Framework action plan presented yesterday by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) seeks to address Panha’s and other women’s lagging economic opportunities in Cambodia. The plan will help Cambodia achieve targeted Millenium Development Goals by 2015. Though no date of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Logging Reporter Arrested
Cambodian authorities arrest a journalist who exposed the illegal smuggling of timber. Taing Try, a reporter affiliated with the Khmer Democratic Journalists’ Association, was taken into custody on Friday, police in Kratie’s snoul district told RFA on sunday. But Ing savoeun, a representative from the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/reporter-12102012174729.html
KR Bank Official Quizzed Over Disappearances
On his second day of questioning by prosecutors at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday, the deputy director of the foreign commerce bank during the Pol Pot regime, sar Kim Lomouth, said he feared for his safety following the purging of several superiors at the Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...
Government Denies Reports on Mining Corruption and Hun Sen
The Cambodian government on Thursday dismissed media reports in Australia linking Prime Minister Hun sen to a mining company under investigation there for corruption. Earlier this week, The Age newspaper reported on Australian documents that described officials from BHP Billiton seeking a special meeting with Hun ss='cambodia-color'>...
PPWSA pays dividends
Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) will allocate itS firSt dividend to ShareholderS Since liSting on the bourSe, on April 10. According to an announcement by PPWSA, the annual dividend will be diStributed in caSh. The dividend payout ratio iS Seven per cent, with a total dividend SS='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013040564909/Business/ppwsa-pays-dividends.html
Teacher raises made public
In the middle of an election campaign in which wages have been a prominent issue, the Ministry of Education did something out of the ordinary Monday: It made public the official pay scale it uses to remunerate its teachers. The list contains figures that are somewhat ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teacher-raises-made-public
Commune officials to solve factory disputes
In response to a growing number of strikes in the country’s highly profitable garment sector, the government trained 15 handpicked commune officials yesterday to mediate and resolve factory disputes. The training was designed to teach commune councillors to defuse and resolve conflict, Buth Ji, director of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/commune-officials-solve-factory-disputes
Reform talk from CPP
The Cambodian People’s Party is prepared to make sweeping changes during its fifth government mandate, including improving the often-criticised judiciary and prioritising social justice, a government spokesman said. This “period of reform” would see deep-seated changes across a number of ministries in response to grievances expressed ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/reform-talk-cpp