Electric car is still on the charger
What happened to Cambodia’s electric car? The short answer is, the wait continues. More than seven months after its owners unveiled the new and improved Angkor EV 2013 to great fanfare, they are chronically short of funding and assembly is taking place in piecemeal fashion. Seang Chan ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/electric-car-still-charger
US Taxman Provides Investigation Training
The U.S. tax collection agency is this week training Cambodian bank staff as well as anti-corruption officials, police, judges and prosecutors in how to investigate financial activity to detect wrongdoing, officials said Monday. U.S. Embassy spokesman Sean McIntosh said the program, called Intermediate Financial Investigations Training, ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/us-taxman-provides-investigation-training-40220/
A Year On, Cambodia’s Role as Asean Chairman a Bitter Memory
Resentment is still simmering toward Cambodia for its handling of the contentions South China Sea issue last year, which fractured the unity of Asean, analysts from around the region said Thursday. During the first day of a two-day regional conference in Phnom Penh organized by the ...
Hul Reaksmey and Dene-Hern Chen
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/a-year-on-cambodias-role-as-asean-chairman-a-bitter-memory-42812/
Businessman’s Son Has Prison Sentence Cut
The Court of Appeal has reduced to six months the original three-and-a-half-year prison term handed to the son of a wealthy businessman for pistol-whipping a man and damaging restaurant property. Duong Udomchorvin, 24, was sentenced in May, along with his 17-year-old brother, Duong Kimlong, who was ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/businessmans-son-has-prison-sentence-cut-43055/
(English) Committees to ‘Research’ Minimum Wages, ‘Study’ Killings
Sorry, this entry is only available in អង់គ្លេស (ស.រ.អ). ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/committees-to-research-minimum-wages-study-killings-50431/
Banteay Meanchey Dam at Risk of Breaking, Inundating Villages
Hundreds of police and soldiers have been working around the clock since Wednesday to prevent a major dam built during the Khmer Rouge period in Banteay Meanchey province from breaking and flooding as many as eight surrounding villages, officials said Thursday. Heavy rains, compounded by floodwaters ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/banteay-meanchey-dam-at-risk-of-breaking-inundating-villages-44409/
Nation’s youngest lack teachers
Fewer and fewer primary schoolteachers are willing to cope with poor pay and the worst student-to-teacher ratio outside of Africa, government data shows. Annual reports released by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport reveal that despite fervent recruitment efforts, every year since 2005 – when ...
Laignee Barron and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nation%E2%80%99s-youngest-lack-teachers
US Asks Parties to ‘Work Together’ for the People
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday called for the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP to “work together” and repeated its call for a transparent review of irregularities in July’s national election. “The United States urges leaders of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the CNRP ...
Phorn Bopha and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/us-asks-parties-to-work-together-for-the-people-43407/
EU Ambassador Meets Sok An, Says CNRP Should Take Seats
Popular online news website CEN (Cambodia Express News) reported Wednesday that European Union (E.U.) Ambassador Jean-Francois Cautain told CPP Deputy Prime Minister Sok An that the E.U. wished to see the opposition CNRP take their seats in the National Assembly. Mr. Cautain’s comments were made during ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/eu-ambassador-meets-sok-an-says-cnrp-should-take-seats-44310/
Bar Association Requests Set Price for Copies of Case Files
The Bar Association of Cambodia has written to Justice Minister Ang Vong Vattana requesting that an official price be set for photocopies of court case files, claiming that court clerks are taking advantage of the current system by charging lawyers extortionate amounts. The letter, dated October ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bar-association-requests-set-price-for-copies-of-case-files-46689/
គ្រួសារដែលមានវិវាទដីធ្លីជាមួយអភិបាលខេត្តប៉ៃលិនដាក់ពាក្យបណ្តឹងទៅអង្គការអាដហុក
អ្នកសម្របសម្រួលអង្គការក្រៅរដ្ឋាភិបាលប្រចាំខេត្តប៉ៃលិនម្នាក់បាននិយាយថា អ្នកភូមិ១៩គ្រួសារនៅក្នុងខេត្តប៉ៃលិនដែលត្រូវបាននគរបាលនិងកងរាជអាវុធហត្ថប្រាប់ឲ្យចាកចេញពីដីរបស់ខ្លួនកាលពីថ្ងៃសៅរ៍នោះ បានដាក់ពាក្យបណ្តឹងទៅអង្គការអាដហុកកាលពី ...
(English) Cambodia to meet Malaysia over maids MoU
Sorry, this entry is only available in អង់គ្លេស (ស.រ.អ). ...
Denise Hruby and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-to-meet-malaysia-over-maids-mou-53635/
(English) Cambodia’s Ruling, Opposition Parties at Odds Over Electoral Body Reform
Sorry, this entry is only available in អង់គ្លេស (ស.រ.អ). ...
Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/reform-03102014163840.html
(English) Opposition councilors bemoan ministry directive
Sorry, this entry is only available in អង់គ្លេស (ស.រ.អ). ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/opposition-councilors-bemoan-ministry-directive-58131/
(English) Future unclear for dormant health center
Sorry, this entry is only available in អង់គ្លេស (ស.រ.អ). ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/future-unclear-for-dormant-health-center-59231/
(English) More Plots Readied for Land Titles at Boeng Kak
Sorry, this entry is only available in អង់គ្លេស (ស.រ.អ). ...
Mech Dara and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-plots-readied-for-land-titles-at-boeng-kak-51002/
(English) More four-star generals added to RCAF’s top-heavy ranks
Sorry, this entry is only available in អង់គ្លេស (ស.រ.អ). ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-four-star-generals-added-to-rcafs-top-heavy-ranks-52240/
Mind the wage gap
Most mornings, garment worker Vicheka buys food from the street vendors outside her factory in Kampong Chhnang province. The beef and pork dishes, she says, have a tendency to give workers a stomach ache – a reputation forged long before Vicheka and her co-workers at ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092858979/National-news/mind-the-wage-gap.html
1,000 hectare land grab alleged
Villagers in Preah Sihanouk province have accused a businessman of bulldozing almost 1,000 hectares of their farm land in complaints filed to relevant authorities and the provincial court last week. Pin Lean Hun, a village representative, said yesterday rice paddies, vegetable patches and jackfruit trees ...
BDO expands Cambodia operations
The former country partner and staff of Grant Thornton Law and associates in Cambodia have joined the accountancy and advisory firm BDO Malaysia effective July 1, according to a statement. BDO is one of three accounting firms licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011070550176/Business/bdo-expands-cambodia-operations.html