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
Software giant targets piracy
Microsoft Cambodia has appointed Thakral Cambodia Industries Limited as its second authorised software distributor in the country, a move intended to help the computer giant’s local operation combat the rampant use of pirated software. Thakral, one of the largest distributors of IT products in Cambodia (its ss='cambodia-color'>...
Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/software-giant-targets-piracy
Flash Floods Leave Villagers Trapped on Roofs
Flash floods left hundreds of families trapped in their villages, destroyed properties and killed livestock in Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat district Tuesday, officials said. Heavy rain had softened the walls of a canal, which gave way to the pressure, according to Khlem sovann, chief of Lbaing I ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/flash-floods-leave-villagers-trapped-on-roofs-42611/
Cambodia to establish first civil aviation school
Cambodia planned to set up the first ever Civil Aviation Training Center with south Korean assistance in order to boost development of air transport industry and tourism, a spokesman said saturday. “south Korea agreed to provide 10.1 million U.s. dollars in grant aid to Cambodia for ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-10/12/c_132793377.htm
Radio Host Calls On Pupils to Denounce Teachers Talking Politics
The owner of the popular local ABC radio station on Thursday urged university students to call his station and inform listeners if their teachers discuss information that could be deemed critical of the government. An ABC radio employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity as ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/radio-host-calls-on-pupils-to-denounce-teachers-talking-politics-45899/
NCDM Lauds Flood Response, NGO Calls for Better Coordination
National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) Vice President Nhim Vanda on Wednesday lauded the flood response work of the Cambodian Red Cross and government, at a workshop to discuss the country’s National Action Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction where several participants focused on the lack ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matt Blomberg and Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ncdm-lauds-flood-response-ngo-calls-for-better-coordination-46404/
IMF chief: Cambodia needs to invest more in education, infrastructure
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde said Tuesday that Cambodia needs to invest more in education and physical infrastructure in order to lay the foundation for future success. While there has been good progress, Cambodia is still being held back by low ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/131203/imf-chief-cambodia-needs-invest-more-education-infrastructur
Convicted killer back on stand
More than six years after the slaying of Free Trade Union president Hy Vuthy, one of the men convicted of his murder, Chan sophorn, 35, appeared in court yesterday for a retrial. sous sam Ath, the judge presiding over the case at the Phnom Penh Municipal ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/convicted-killer-back-stand
Reports of Major Congestion at Poipet Checkpoint
Trucks and other vehicles have been backed up for up to a kilometer on either side of the Poipet border checkpoint for the past three days due to administrative changes on the Thai side, according to Cambodian officials. Khiet Bunleap, chief of staff for the Poipet ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/reports-of-major-congestion-at-poipet-checkpoint-48643/