Cambodia embraces intensive livestock production
Cambodia, a SoutheaSt ASian country with 15 million inhabitantS, haS begun to embrace intenSive liveStock production deSpite numerouS obStacleS. The induStry heavily relieS on the import of geneticS, Soybean meal, fiSh meal, additiveS, medicineS and vaccineS. A major conStraint preventing producerS from taking up intenSive SS='cambodia-color'>...
Trade with Vietnam increases
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and neighbouring Vietnam rose more than 10 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of this year, data from the Vietnam Embassy in Phnom Penh showed. Officials said cross-border trade facilitation by both countries significantly contributed to the growth. But they said ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050965501/Business/trade-with-vietnam-increases-2013.html
UK Lawsuit Against Sugar Firm Heading to Trial
A lawsuit filed by families in Koh Kong province accusing U.K. sugar giant Tate & Lyle of wrongfully profiting off land stolen from them is heading to trial after efforts to mediate a settlement fell through earlier this month, according to those involved. Law firm Jones ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/uk-lawsuit-against-sugar-firm-heading-to-trial-35233/
Land prices in Phnom Penh increase by 15 per cent in first quarter
The more Cambodia’s economy grows and the more investors come into Cambodia has had some positive and negative effects, and one of those effects is to push up land prices in Phnom Penh for the first quarter in 2013, an increase of 15 per cent. sorn ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/land-prices-phnom-penh-increase-15-cent-first-quarter
Little won in logging crackdown
Early on Monday morning, at about 1am, two trucks carrying roughly 10 cubic metres of illegally felled timber were bouncing down the road between Oddar Meanchey and siem Reap. Police stopped the trucks – one of which bore military plates – and seized the haul, but ss='cambodia-color'>...
Stuart White and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/little-won-logging-crackdown
CNRP Pledges to Continue Boycott, Stage Demonstrations
Following the convening of a one-party CPP National Assembly, leaders of the opposition CNRP said Monday that they would continue to boycott parliament and use mass demonstrations as a tool to pressure the government to meet their demands for “justice” following what they claim was ss='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-pledges-to-continue-boycott-stage-demonstrations-43037/
Bank exits rubber firm: NGO
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
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’
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/
(English) New Cambodian Land Disputes Despite Moratorium on Key Concessions
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Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/disputes-01302014194318.html
របាយការណ៍រដ្ឋាភិបាលបន្ទោសថា CNRP និងសហជីពបំផ្លាញទ្រព្យសម្បត្តិ
គណៈកម្មការមួយរបស់រដ្ឋាភិបាលទទួលបន្ទុកវាយតម្លៃការខូចខាតបង្កឡើ ss='cambodia-color'>...
គុជ ណារ៉ែន
http://www.cambodiadailykhmer.com/news/12556/
(English) Cambodian court again delays trial of 23 jailed protesters
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Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/trial-05062014144900.html
(English) Sar Kheng Accuses CNRP of Launching ‘Constitutional Coup’
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Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sar-kheng-accuses-cnrp-of-launching-constitutional-coup-51186/
រដ្ឋមន្ត្រីក្រសួងបរិស្ថានចុះទៅមើលក្រុមហ៊ុន UDG នៅខេត្តកោះកុង តែមិនបានទៅជួបអ្នកភូមិ
យោងតាមបុគ្គលិកអង្គការសិទ្ធិមនុស្សម្នាក់និងមន្ត្រីខេត្តម្នាក់បានឲ្យដឹងថា លោក សាយ សំអាល់ រដ្ឋមន្ត្រីក្រសួងបរិស្ថានមិនបានទៅជួបក្រុមអ្នកភូមិដែលជាប់ពាក់ព័ន្ធក្នុងវិវាទដីធ្លីដ៏យូរមកហើយជាមួយក្រុមហ៊ុនអភិវឌ្ឍន៍សហជីព(UDG) ss='cambodia-color'>...
ហ៊ុល រស្មី
http://www.cambodiadailykhmer.com/news/11187/
(English) ‘Burst’ of land disputes sees dozens of Cambodians charged: rights group
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Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/land-05082014175124.html