In Cambodia, Shifting Allegiances Shape a Tougher Than Usual Election
ANLONG VENG, Cambodia — A decade and a half after the last remnants of the Khmer Rouge capitulated in this northwestern town, the streets are festooned with images of their erstwhile enemy, Prime Minister Hun sen, who is seeking to prolong his 28 years in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Firms’ Timber Trade Decried
Two firms holding concessions in rapidly disappearing northern forests are amassing stockpiles of tens of thousands of luxury logs cut both within and outside their leases and trucking them on to Vietnam, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights has alleged. CCHR investigators that tracked logging operations ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052865880/National/firms-timber-trade-decried.html
AKP Corrects Report on Call for International Vote Probe
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith on Thursday clarified that Prime Minister Hun sen did not express willingness to see international involvement in an independent investigation into election irregularities, after state media incorrectly reported to the contrary. state news service Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP), which operates out of ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/akp%E2%80%88corrects-report-on-call-for-international-vote-probe-38139/
Residents Call for Foul-Smelling Factory to Move
About 100 people protested Wednesday evening outside a Phnom Penh ice-making factory owned by the daughter of deputy Kompong spue governor Tong seng, complaining that the factory causes a bad smell and that the health of residents in Russei Keo district’s Kilometer 6 commune was ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian police clash with thousands of garment workers, 23 hurt
At least 23 workers were hurt in Cambodia on Monday when police using stun batons moved in to end a protest over pay at a factory that makes clothing for U.s. sportswear company Nike , a worker and a trade union representative said. Police with riot ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/27/cambodia-garments-workers-idUSL3N0E829T20130527
Against the Grain
On the palm-studded plains of Cambodia, rice farmers’ eyes light up with the prospect of sending their crop northward to China. The poor southeast Asian nation had been trying for several years to export rice to the mainland but only last year did it gain ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/china-rice-demand-market-import
Satellite cities a solution for overcrowded Phnom Penh
The coming sprawls of Phnom Penh’s new satellite cities will bring about not only opportunities but also challenges for the population. “Any urban area has to sprawl outside the main city areas so that it can keep up with the increasing demand of commercial land,” said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Factory production sluggish
In the wake of last month’s election, production levels at Cambodian garment factories are still below the norm as lingering fears of political unrest keep workers at home and away from the capital. shrugged off at the outset as a natural byproduct of the election that ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/factory-production-sluggish
Verdict Due in Case of Brutally Slayed Reporter
A verdict in the brutal slaying last year of an investigative journalist in Ratanakkiri province is due to be handed down by the provincial court today following a reinvestigation into the case. Hang serei Odom, 42, a reporter for the Virakchun Khmer Daily, was found hacked ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/verdict-due-in-case-of-brutally-slayed-reporter-41062/
Mizuho bank links up with Maybank and Canadia
Japan-based Mizuho Bank (MHBK) has signed an agreement with two well-established banks in Cambodia that is designed to help Mizuho leverage a wider range of financial services when dealing with Japanese clients. The memorandum of understanding was inked on Friday in Phnom Penh between Mizuho’s president ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mizuho-bank-links-maybank-and-canadia
Six Sent to Court Following Clashes With Police
Officials at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday questioned six men accused of using violence against authorities when protesters clashed with security forces near Phnom Penh’s Monivong Bridge in fighting that saw a 29-year-old man shot dead. The men were arrested sun­day night, at the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eang Mengleng and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/42515-42515/
NEC Falls Short of Removing All ‘Ghost Names’ From Voter List
The National Election Committee (NEC) on Wednesday closed the official voter registration period, which lasted for 20 days and saw more than 170,000 people added and nearly 100,000 names struck from the voter list. The list has been heavily criticized by election monitors, who say the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nec%E2%80%88falls-short-of-removing-all-ghost-names-from-voter-list-45743/
Elephant deaths lead to probe
The discovery of the remains of three endangered Asian elephants in Mondulkiri’s Phnom Penh Prich Wildlife sanctuary has prompted conservation group World Wildlife Fund to launch an investigation into the animals’ deaths. samrang Dy Vichet, director of the Wildlife sanctuary, told the Post yesterday that villagers spotted the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/elephant-deaths-lead-probe
Water Resources Minister Seeks Investigation Into Exported Sand
Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology Lim Kean Hor said Monday that he would seek an investigation into a $1.5-million haul of river sand exported to India in April in spite of a ban on the export of dredged sand handed down by Prime Minister ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/water-resources-minister-seeks-investigation-into-exported-sand-46848/
Campaign Against Gender Violence Launched
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs, NGOs and several U.N. agencies Monday launched the 13th annual campaign against gender-based violence, which this year is focused on rape, organizers said Monday. sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an international campaign celebrated in countries around the globe ss='cambodia-color'>...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/campaign-against-gender-violence-launched-47895/
Undercover underused: NGO
Cambodia hopes to legalise undercover investigative techniques – like covert surveillance and officers posing as criminals, which until now have fallen into a murky legal grey area – by next year. At a workshop in the capital yesterday, law enforcement officials and representatives of human rights ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/undercover-underused-ngo
(English) Turmoil marks year in labour
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Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/turmoil-marks-year-labour
(English) Textbooks arriving COD, NGOs claim
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Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/textbooks-arriving-cod-ngos-claim
(English) Recall Election Technically Possible, Analysts Say
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Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/recall-election-technically-possible-analysts/1818074.html
(English) Leadership of CNRP digging in
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Stuart White and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/leadership-cnrp-digging