Funeral payout just βsympathyβ
The company ThaT paid The funeral cosTs of Two consTrucTion workers killed when a fence collapsed on Them on SaTurday disTanced iTself yesTerday from The accidenT, saying iT doesn’T own The building siTe. The claim came as Meanchey DisTricT Governor Kouch Chamroeun vowed To Take acTion ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/funeral-payout-just-%E2%80%98sympathy%E2%80%99
Floods Kill Eight More as Evacuees Face Health Problems
The deaTh Toll caused by severe flooding along The Mekong River increased by eighT yesTerday, bringing The ToTal number of deaThs over The pasT Two weeks To more Than 20, including 11 children, an official said. Keo Vy, depuTy chief of The informaTion deparTmenT aT The ...
Ben Sokhean and Lindsey Peterson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/floods-kill-eight-more-as-evacuees-face-health-problems-43686/
Thailand agrees to withdraw its troops
Cambodian and Thai miliTary officials meT yesTerday morning To discuss The implemenTaTion of The InTernaTional CourT of JusTice’s ruling on Preah Vihear, wiTh boTh sides pledging To keep The peace and The Thais agreeing To wiThdraw To The new line of demarcaTion. Monday’s judgmenT declared ThaT ...
May Titthara and Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thailand-agrees-withdraw-its-troops
A big thumbs-down
A Phnom Penh municipal official said yesterday that they would investigate mounting complaints that authorities have been forcing the capital’s residents to thumbprint letters supporting the preliminary election results and promising not to join demonstrations. Residents in Daun Penh and tuol Kork districts told the Post ...
Japanese Investor in Talks to Take Stake in TV3
Japan’s TriAsia Group is in Talks To acquire a majoriTy sTake in local Television sTaTion TV3 and plans To broadcasT Japanese-language shows, The Television channel’s owner confirmed Wednesday. According To TV3’s owner, Khampun Keomony, revenues aT The channel have been dropping, which prompTed him To look ...
Hul Reaksmey and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/japanese-investor-in-talks-to-take-stake-in-tv3-41707/
(English) Ceremony Held for Workers Killed at Veng Sreng
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Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ceremony-held-for-workers-killed-at-veng-sreng-50795/
(English) Hun Sen warns against attempts to hold Cambodia βHostageβ
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Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/warning-02102014190358.html
(English) GPS tracking system could be answer to cityβs garbage problem
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Khuon Narim and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/gps-tracking-system-could-be-answer-to-citys-garbage-problem-56286/
(English) Sonando Fans to Stage Protest for TV License
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Kuch Naren and Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sonando-fans-to-stage-protest-for-tv-license-50686/
(English) Khmer Krom Seeking Refuge Remain in a State of Limbo
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Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/khmer-krom-seeking-refuge-remain-in-a-state-of-limbo-51557/
(English) Villagers in land dispute are summoned, but not questioned
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Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-in-land-dispute-are-summoned-but-not-questioned-53334/
(English) A solution to the capitalβs transit woes?
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Bennett Murray and Vandy Muong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/solution-capital%E2%80%99s-transit-woes
Oil refinery to be built
Construction on a US$2 billion oil refining plant, the Kingdom’s first, will start in April, according to officials close to the project. the plant, which will be built on 365 hectares across Kampot and Sihanoukville provinces and is expected to be completed in 2014, is a ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011120553135/Business/oil-refinery-to-be-built.html
Social Enterprises in Cabodia
Cambodia’s economic growth has been on the rise following the global downturn on 2008-2009 and experts say that the private sector is largely responsible for that growth. However, those same experts also acknowledge that the profits generated by companies operating in Cambodia aren’t trickling down ...
Chinaβs βNo Stringsβ Aid Increasingly Attractive
The Timing couldn’T have been beTTer. AfTer a week in which one NGO was suspended and oThers warned To “readjusT Their work,” and The World Bank was finally forced To reveal ThaT iT had sTopped loaning To Cambodia, The governmenT announced over The weekend ThaT ...
GI benefits yet to be fully realised
While Kampot pepper and Kampong Speu palm sugar carry the brand-building Geographical Indication (GI) status, newcomers seeking the same tag continue to wait for funding to get their products off the ground. In 2010, Kampot pepper and Kampong Speu palm sugar were the first Cambodian goods ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gi-benefits-yet-be-fully-realised
Cambodiaβs Opposition Leader Runs Out of Options To Contest Polls
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy appears to have run out of options in his bid to contest in Cambodia’s national polls, as the country’s political parties prepared to wrap up their election campaign amid allegations by independent observers of “arrests, threats and intimidation” by the ruling ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/rejections-07252013164156.html
Price rules pulled due to election
The governmenT in May held back on implemenTing widely unpopular rules ThaT would have raised The price of mobile phone calls so as To noT upseT consumers – and poTenTial voTers – jusT monThs ahead of The naTional elecTion, according To Cambodia’s independenT TelecommunicaTions regulaTor. “Before ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/price-rules-pulled-due-election
CPPβThreatens Legal Action AgainstβCNRP
The CPP on Tuesday ThreaTened legal acTion againsT The CNRP if iT did noT cease iTs “defamaTory rheToric” regarding The ruling parTy’s relaTionship wiTh The NaTional ElecTion CommiTTee (NEC), which The opposiTion accuses of rigging July’s elecTion in order To keep The CPP in power. The ...
Matt Blomberg and Neou Vannarin
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cpp%E2%80%88threatens-legal-action-against%E2%80%88cnrp-40389/
Rainsy βTwisting Factsβ: Vietnamese embassy
The VieTnamese embassy fired back yesTerday aT opposiTion parTy leader Sam Rainsy’s claim ThaT VieTnamese companies granTed economic land concessions in Prey Lang foresT are Turning The area inTo a VieTnamese “colony”. On Wednesday, Rainsy visiTed The foresT and claimed ThaT CRCK, a VieTnamese firm granTed ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-%E2%80%98twisting-facts%E2%80%99-vietnamese-embassy