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Bank exits rubber firm: NGO

សង្គមស៊ីវិល / សម្បទានដីសេដ្ឋកិច្ច និងចំការ / សេដ្ឋកិច្ច និងពាណិជ្ជកម្ម / ផលិតផលព្រៃឈើ / ការវិនិយោគ
DBTCA / ធនាគារ ឌូសខេ បេងខ៏ / Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas / អង្គការ គ្លោបល វីតនេស / អេច អេ ជី អិល

Global Witness, a United Kingdom-based NGO, has alleged that Deutsche Bank has dropped the majority of its holdings in a Vietnamese company that operates rubber plantations in Cambodia, amid accusations the firm is involved in land grabbing and illegal logging. In a statement released today, Global ss='cambodia-color'>...

 Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bank-exits-rubber-firm-ngo

Legal Body Calls for Bar Association to Ensure Independence

គណៈមេធាវី និងសេវាកម្មជំនួយផ្នែកច្បាប់ / សិទ្ធិមនុស្ស / វិជ្ជាជីវៈច្បាប់ និងសេវាកម្មផ្នែកច្បាប់ / ការអភិវឌ្ឍសង្គម

The Bar Association of Cambodia should consider stricter standards on admission to the bar, make lawyers take regular mandatory training and set up a new disciplinary committee in order to ensure that Cambodia’s legal professionals are independent, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has said. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

 Simon Lewis and Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/legal-body-calls-for-bar-association-to-ensure-independence-40802/

Report Finds Disaster Committee Severely Lacking

The government’s National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) fails to meet regularly and is void of an annual budget to cover its operations while most of its staff members are totally unaware of their job description, according to a report released in March and funded ss='cambodia-color'>...

 Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/report-finds-disaster-committee-severely-lacking-43998/

Cambodia: Drug Centers Detain, Abuse ‘Undesirables’, Says HRW

Cambodian authorities unlawfully detain hundreds of drug users and others deemed “undesirable” in centers where they face torture, sexual violence, and forced labor, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Human Rights Watch called for the immediate closure of the country’s eight detention ss='cambodia-color'>...

 Eurasia Review News Staff
http://www.eurasiareview.com/09122013-cambodia-drug-centers-detain-abuse-undesirables-says-hrw/

Rainsy calls Assembly meeting ‘communist’

ការបោះឆ្នោត / រដ្ឋាភិបាល

Opposition leader sam Rainsy, along with the rest of his party, condemned the opening of the National Assembly yesterday, saying in a speech delivered in siem Reap that the action violated the constitution and had reverted the country to “communist” rule. Even as rumours swirled about ss='cambodia-color'>...

 May Titthara, Meas Sokchea and Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-calls-assembly-meeting-%E2%80%98communist%E2%80%99

UN Rights Envoy Subedi Says Electoral Reform Inadequate

Nearly all of the recommendations regarding electoral reform made by U.N. human rights envoy to Cambodia surya subedi were not put into place ahead of last month’s national election. In his latest report to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, released last week, Mr. subedi ss='cambodia-color'>...

 Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/un-rights-envoy-subedi-says-electoral-reform-inadequate-40195/

Cambodia to feel an energy crunch, but growth to remain stable: report

Energy demand in SoutheaSt ASia iS expected to increaSe by more than 80 per cent by 2035, fuelling Some $240 billion in oil Spending, a new report from the International Atomic Energy ASSociation (IAEA) ShowS. In itS “SoutheaSt ASia Energy Outlook” publiShed yeSterday, the PariS-baSed IAEA SS='cambodia-color'>...

 Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-feel-energy-crunch-growth-remain-stable-report

Lack of Legal Aid in Cambodia Puts Children, Poor at Risk

A national legal aid system is imperative and must be established to offset a widening gap between those who can afford justice and those who cannot, the representative for the U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Cambodia said on Friday. In ss='cambodia-color'>...

 Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lack-of-legal-aid-in-cambodia-puts-children-poor-at-risk-48219/