Cambodia Officially Starts Trading Life Insurance
Cambodia on May 21 officially started to trade life insurance for first time in history with hope of supplementing social security and growth of insurance development in the kingdom. At the inauguration ceremony at 21st floor of Canadia Tower in Phnom Penh, His Excellency, Aun Porn Moniroth, secretary of state of finance ministry said: “it ...
Raids Netted Excavators Owned by CPP Official
Twelve of the 29 excavators seized by military police in Kompong Thom province during Monday’s military police raids on illegal Tonle Sap reservoirs were confiscated from a farming collective run by a newly elected CPP commune chief. Peanh Poul, director of the Dry Rice Season Community, ...
Anti-Eviction Protesters Camp at US Embassy for Second Day
Anti-eviction protesters set up camp in front of the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh for a second day yesterday, but ended their protest in the early evening when a petition to U.S. President Barack Obama was taken into the diplomatic mission by an embassy guard. “The ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/protesters-camp-at-us-embassy-for-second-day-5358/
Bank of China launches dual currency ATM card
The Bank of China launched the first dual currency international bank card yesterday, part of a move to expand in the local market by offering both US dollar and Renminbi accounts on a single card. People can get the card for a deposit of US$10 at ...
Rights Committee Investigates Land Dispute
The government’s Human Rights Committee has visited villagers in a long-running land dispute in Battambang province to find out whether members of their community have been unfairly imprisoned in recent years for land encroachment, local authorities and villagers said yesterday. Officials from committee, which is headed ...
Two Men Charged With Smuggling Rosewood
The Kompong Thom Provincial Court yesterday charged two men with illegally logging 65 pieces of rosewood, the courts director Pen Sarat, said. Provincial police said the two 19 year old men were arrested Saturday morning while transporting about 1 105 kg of rosewood in Prasat ...
China’s appetite for rubber increasing
Natural rubber consumption in China, Cambodia’s largest rubber market, is expected to rise by 7.2 per cent in 2013 after growing by 4.5 per cent last year, according to the Singapore-based International Rubber Study Group (IRSG). Demand in North America was expected to grow 4.2 per ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013012460966/Business/china-s-appetite-for-rubber-increasing.html
NGOs Call for Asean Rights Document Delay
With less than two weeks until Asean leaders meet in Phnom Penh to consider approval of the region’s first human rights declaration, international NGOs yesterday urged them to postpone passing what they are calling a “deeply flawed” document. “In the current form, the [Asean Human Rights] ...
Two Banong Groups to Get Communal Titles
Two ethnic Banong communities in Mondolkiri province’s Keo Seima district have completed the final stage in the process to receive rare collective property titles, and are set to receive ownership documents early next month, an official at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) said. Kan Vibol, ...
Guilty verdict for timber cop
Pursat Provincial Court yesterday sentenced a military official, Poung Puthearith, to two years in jail – suspended to six months – on charges of threatening and obstructing the works of a forestry official, a court official said. Puthearith was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020761235/National/guilty-verdict-for-timber-cop.html
Cambodian rice popular across Asia
Cambodian milled rice is becoming more popular throughout Asia, particularly in Malaysia, which is the number one importer of milled rice from the Kingdom. According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Malaysia imported over 7,000 tonnes of a total 25,700 tonnes exported ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013022561575/Business/cambodian-rice-popular-across-asia.html
Mam Sonando's verdict announced
Beehive radio owner Mam Sonando, along with two others appeared in the Court of Appeals Thursday to listen to their verdicts. The sentence was changed from five years to eight months imprisonment, but will be released on March 16, 2013 for having spent the same amount ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=NTNlN2Y5YmNmYjg
New Battambang Passport Office Caters to Migrant Workers
The government announced Monday that it will open a new passport office in the northwest province of Battambang, the first such office outside Phnom Penh. In a statement, posted to the Ministry of Interior website, the ministry said that the new passport office will serve people ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-battambang-passport-office-caters-to-migrant-workers-28788/
Evacuations amid flooding
Hundereds of families have been evacuated from their homes in Banteay Meanchey province, with about 1,000 more refusing to leave, despite water that is chest-deep in some areas due to Mekong River flooding. The evacuation of more than 500 families began late last week, as heavy ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/evacuations-amid-flooding
Cambodian flood damage estimates top $1 bil.
The vice president of Cambodia’s National Committee for Disaster Management said Thursday damage from monsoon-season flooding is now estimated to have topped $1 billion. Nhim Vanda, who received $320,000 in flood-relief assistance from Japan on Wednesday, said the estimate for this year’s floods affecting more than ...
(English) Cambodia says over 16,000 job vacancies for Thailand returnees
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Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-06/25/c_133437849.htm
(English) Cops, CNRP clash at service
The deputy governor of Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district was slightly injured yesterday in a clash that broke out during a remembrance ceremony to mark the day 39 years ago the Khmer Rouge seized the capital in 1975. Prach Seyha, Dangkor’s deputy governor, was injured in the ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cops-cnrp-clash-service
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បន្ទាប់ពីទទួលរងការរលួយប្រមាណ ៤០ ភាគរយនៃរាងកាយលោក ហាក់ អយ អាយុ ៤១ឆ្នាំ ដែលជាជនរងគ្រោះនៃការវាយប្រហារដោយទឹកអាស៊ីតកាលឆ្នាំមុនឥឡូវនេះកំពុងមានអាការស្រវាំងភ្នែកទាំងពីរ។ នេះបើតាមអង្គការជួយជនរងគ្រោះដោយសារអាស៊ីត (CASC)។ លោកស្រី Erin Bourgois អ្នកគ្រប់ ...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.postkhmer.com/national/1-national-news/114545-2014-05-20-03-04-40
(English) Cambodian FM denies political deadlock over election row
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Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-02/22/c_133135380.htm
(English) UK urged to help improve Cambodia’s factories
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Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/uk-urged-to-help-improve-cambodias-factories-65704/