The Missing Link
Resources to feed and educate a child, access to shelter and a life free of abuse arc fundamental rights, yet each day millions of Cambodians struggle to meet their basic needs alone. With more than 30% of the population living below the national poverty line of ...
Controversial Dam Approved on Cambodia-Laos Border
Laos has notified the Mekong River Commission (MRC) that it will go ahead with the construction of the Don Sahong Dam, which environmentalists say could threaten the ecosystem of the Lower Mainstream Mekong and have a severe impact on the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/controversial-dam-approved-on-cambodia-laos-border-44401/
Cambodia Still Undecided About Signing Cluster Munitions Treaty
Despite being one of the earliest proponents of the U.N.-sponsored Convention on Cluster Munitions, Cambodia was still not ready to sign on, an official said on the eve of the fourth annual meeting of state parties to the treaty in Zambia. Heng Ratana, director-general of the ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-still-undecided-about-signing-cluster-munitions-treaty-41918/
Hun Sen’s Cabinet Approves $3.5B Draft Budget
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s new Cabinet on Friday approved a 2014 draft budget of $3.5 billion, a 13 percent increase over this year’s budget, but gave no details as to how the money would be spent. The CPP also said it will go ahead with a ...
Hul Reaksmey and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sens-cabinet-approves-3-5b-draft-budget-45985/
Cambodians Regularly Face Pre-Trial Detention: Rights Group
Cambodian authorities frequently hold suspects, especially the young, in detention pending trial, even though the law could allow them to be released on bail while awaiting the completion of their judicial proceedings, according to a report released Wednesday. Minor crime suspects are also provided a “worryingly ...
Radio Free Asia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S_S3UzOzAY&list=PLNkBYj4uOY-igjoKtwu08dF2qKq1PmauL
After prison, Bopha undeterred
Shelving any thoughts that 14 months in prison had deterred her from protesting, Yorm Bopha rushed to the capital’s Borei Keila community yesterday morning to try to stop authorities from forcing evictees from an abandoned building. Bopha was one of about 10 Boeung Kak activists called ...
Phak Seangly, Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/after-prison-bopha-undeterred
(English) Cambodia’s tourism anchored to Angkor
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TTR Weekly News Staff
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/01/cambodias-tourism-anchored-to-angkor/
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ម៉ិច ដារ៉ា
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(English) A refined approach?
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Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/refined-approach
Shorten Buildings or We Will, City Hall Tells Two Developers
The Phnom Penh municipal government will today issue announcements to two property developers ordering them to partially demolish buildings near the Royal Palace in order to reduce their height to comply with the original planning agreements, an official said. The two buildings—one owned by Vattanac Properties ...
Aun Pheap and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/shorten-buildings-or-we-will-city-hall-tells-two-developers-45510/
No Demolition Yet as Buildings’ Deadline Nears
There was little sign Wednesday that two new buildings near the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, which have been ordered to reduce their height, were any closer to demolition Wednesday, despite the approach of a one-month deadline from City Hall. Phnom Penh municipal officials said last ...
Aun Pheap and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/no-demolition-yet-as-buildings-deadline-nears-46960/
(English) Government’s Trade Union Law may limit freedom of association
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Hul Reaksmey and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/governments-trade-union-law-may-limit-freedom-of-association-54042/
EU Won’t Investigate Land Concessions—for Now
The trade commissioner and foreign affairs representative of the European Union (E.U.) have turned down a request from 13 members of the European Parliament that they immediately investigate Cambodia’s much criticized economic land concessions, but said they were monitoring the issue closely. In a March letter ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eu-wont-investigate-land-concessions-for-now-25194/
Election Monitors Submit Request to Review NEC Documents
Independent election monitors and civil society groups submitted a request to the National Election Committee (NEC) on Friday asking to review post-election voter rolls and Identity Certificates for Elections (ICE) forms in seven provinces in which reports of election irregularities were widespread on July 28. The ...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/election-monitors-submit-request-to-review-nec-documents-38287/
CNRP’s Kem Sokha Refutes Claim That the Party Is Divided
CNRP vice president Kem Sokha on Monday denied claims made by Interior Minister Sar Kheng’s cabinet chief that leaders of the opposition party were making conflicting demands of the ruling CPP. The two parties have been locked in a political stalemate since July’s election, with the ...
Khy Sovuthy and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrps-kem-sokha-refutes-claim-that-the-party-is-divided-45109/
Education to Receive 20% Boost in 2014 Budget
The Education Ministry on Monday said it was in line for a near 20 percent hike from the government’s $3.52 billion draft budget for 2014, approved by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cabinet on Friday, though other details of how money was to be allocated remained ...
Zsombor Peter and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/education-to-receive-20-boost-in-2014-budget-46127/
Leprosy Hospital Expands as Cases Increase
About 20 leprosy patients have been treated at a rehabilitated and expanded wing of the Battambang Provincial Referral Hospital, the second hospital to offer professional treatment for leprosy patients in Cambodia. “We have two doctors and one nurse who specialize in leprosy treatment, and in the ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/leprosy-hospital-expands-as-cases-increase-46778/
Minister Says Set Phone Call Prices ‘Temporary’
The minister of posts and telecommunications on Monday insisted an edict ordering the country’s seven mobile phone operators to abide by a law that sets minimum prices for calls is only temporary. Prak Sokhon, the newly-appointed posts and telecommunications minister, said the order was necessary because ...
Joshua Wilwohl and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/minister-says-set-phone-call-prices-temporary-48975/
(English) Community Marks Fifth Anniversary of Violent Eviction
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Khuon Narim and Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/community-marks-fifth-anniversary-of-violent-eviction-51017/
(English) Addicts’ lifeline to go
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Stuart White and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/addicts%E2%80%99-lifeline-go