Tata moves in on agriculture
India-based Tata International Ltd announced yesterday that it would import and distribute its Farmtrac Tractors in Cambodia to profit from the country’s growing agricultural sector. speaking at the launching ceremony at the Koh Pich exhibition centre, Jitendra Manghinani, country manager of Tata south East Asia (Cambodia), ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tata-moves-agriculture
Media Groups Call On ‘Political Elite’ to Protect Reporters
More than a dozen journalism and hu­man rights groups have called on Cambodia’s political forces to protect journalists and guarantee citizens’ access to an open and unobstructed press during the current political unrest. In a statement released Wednesday, the Cambodian Center for Independent Media, along with ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lindsey Peterson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/media-groups-call-on-political-elite-to-protect-reporters-45436/
Rights Group Slams ‘Rampant Impunity’ in Cambodia
A Cambodian rights group said Wednesday that impunity is on the rise in Cambodia, hitting out at the authorities for failing to resolve a number of high-profile killings and bring the perpetrators to justice. Ahead of International Day to End Impunity on saturday, the Cambodian ss='cambodia-color'>...
Radio Free Asia Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/impunity-11202013182832.html
Villagers in a drawn-out land fight summonsed
Five Tumpuon villagers have again been summonsed for questioning by the Ratanakkiri Provincial Court in a lengthy dispute after private firm Ly sokim Co Ltd accused villagers of destroying its property. In the latest summons, dated July 30, villagers are warned that failing to show up ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-drawn-out-land-fight-summonsed
Database looks at court flaws
Nearly half of defendants lack legal representation, 80 per cent are held in pretrial detention, and a sizeable chunk confess before they get a hearing, according to an online public database released yesterday by the Cambodia Center for Human Rights. The database reveals numerous infringements on ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/database-looks-court-flaws
Police Have Not Enforced Traffic Laws for Four Months
Traffic police across the country have still not resumed enforcing traffic laws after a pre-election enforcement moratorium that was meant to last just a few weeks ahead of the July 28 poll, according to government and U.N. officials. “The superiors ordered [police] to stop, for a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-have-not-enforced-traffic-laws-for-four-months-47521/
State-Owned Properties to Be Sold, Swapped
Six prime government-owned propertieS in Phnom Penh and Battambang province have been reclaSSified aS privately held State propertieS in order to pave the way for the land to be Sold or Swapped with private companieS, according to a Sub-decree Signed November 8. Signed by Prime MiniSter SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/state-owned-properties-to-be-sold-swapped-48527/
Groups insist on equal rights
Seila, a tall, heavily made-up woman with orange-blonde hair, Said She waS in a park in Siem Reap laSt year when policemen approached her, put a gun to her head and told her if She ran, they would Shoot. Legally, the Kingdom&rSquo;S ConStitution protectS the SS='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/groups-insist-equal-rights
Vote Tallies Blank in Battambang City Booths
The National Election Committee (NEC) on Wednesday publicly released official election documents from eight polling stations in Battambang City, revealing that forms essential to calculating results had been left blank at two booths on polling day. The Constitutional Council of Cambodia (CCC), which has ordered the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/vote-tallies-blank-in-battambang-city-booths-41257/
On politics, silence gold: top monks
Cambodia’s highest monks have called on the clergy to refrain from joining any political demonstrations, calling it an abuse of morals and professional ethics. In a statement issued on sunday and obtained yesterday, the three top Buddhist leaders liken joining protests to the act of killing. “An ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/politics-silence-gold-top-monks
Floods Claim 39 Lives; Crops, Hundreds of Schools Damaged
The death toll from flooding across the country has risen to 39, while the Mekong River remains above emergency levels in Prey Veng and Kandal provinces, a government official said on Friday. Keo Vy, cabinet chief for the government’s National Committee for Disaster Management, said that ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/floods-claim-39-lives-crops-hundreds-of-schools-damaged-44434/
Debtors need mercy: CNRP
The opposition party has called on microfinance institutions to renegotiate payment terms with flood-affected loan holders. This year’s floods have affected 20 provinces and more than 1.7 million people, with 31,314 households evacuated, according to the Humanitarian Response Forum. The Cambodia National Rescue Party has asked that ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/debtors-need-mercy-cnrp
Blood Bank Says More Stocks Are Needed to Meet Demand
The National Blood Transfusion Center (NBTC) will launch a website this month aimed at encouraging more people to donate blood as stocks at the center are still critically low and hundreds of units short of meeting demand, the center’s director said Monday. Dr. Hok Kim Cheng ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha and Dene-Hern Chen
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/blood-bank-says-more-stocks-are-needed-to-meet-demand-41586/
Parties urged to resume talks
Citing a lack of public confidence in the official post-election irregularity resolution process – namely, the Constitutional Council’s opening of vote packages – a coalition of leading civil society groups yesterday appealed to the two main political parties to swiftly come back to the negotiating ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parties-urged-resume-talks
CNRP to Hold Second 3-Day Mass Protest
The opposition CNRP has sent a letter to municipal authorities informing them that a mass demonstration planned for Wednesday at Freedom Park to coincide with the anniversary of the 1991 signing of the Paris Peace Agreement will now be a three-day affair and include marches ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-to-hold-second-3-day-mass-protest-45412/
Projects ‘threaten mangroves’
Mangrove forests along Cambodia’s coast in Kampot support more than 100,000 families and create a diverse ecosystem that is home to hundreds of unique species. But coastal development projects, coupled with locals’ reliance on the forest for their livelihoods, threaten to decimate more than 1,000 hectares ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/projects-%E2%80%98threaten-mangroves%E2%80%99
(English) Hoteliers Are Warming Up to Phnom Penh
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Emily Wilkins
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/hoteliers-are-warming-up-to-phnom-penh-51460/
(English) Ministry of Labor highlights triumphs in 2013 Annual Report
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Matt Blomberg and Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-of-labor-highlights-triumphs-in-2013-annual-report-51872/
(English) Sar Kheng bans rally, gives police $54K in bonuses
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Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sar-kheng-bans-rally-gives-police-54k%E2%80%88in-bonuses-53735/
(English) Alleged Violent Protest Provocateur Charged
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Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/alleged-violent-protest-provocateur-charged-51106/