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Cambodia Health Ministry Reports Two More Human H5N1 Cases, Brings Total To 26 This Year
The Cambodian Ministry of Heath (MOH) reported today the confirmation of two additional of human H5N1 avian influenza cases, the 25th and 26th cases of 2013, according to a Joint Press Release from the MOH and the World Health Organization (WHO) dated Nov. 14. According to ...
Robert Herriman
http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/cambodia-health-ministry-reports-two-more-human-h5n1-cases-brings-total-to-26-this-year-13599/
Cambodia's trade with Vietnam reaches 2.7 bln USD in 9 months
Bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and its neighboring Vietnam has hit 2.7 billion U.S. dollars in the first nine months of the year, up 10 percent compared with the 2.45 billion U.S. dollars over the same period last year, a Cambodian trade official said Thursday. Kem ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-11/14/c_132887645.htm
Insurance claims through the roof
Partly triggered by recent flood damage and an increase in road accidents, claims filed with the six general insurance companies in Cambodia spiked more than 160 per cent in the nine months through to September compared with the same time last year, the latest data ...
Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/insurance-claims-through-roof
Cambodia's construction industry looks ahead
Cambodia’s construction industry took a major step forward in its development on Tuesday with the second summit of the Cambodia Constructors Association at DARA Airport Hotel. The summit occurred alongside an exhibition of construction products, materials and services. Association chairman Pung Kheav Se said that was ...
Hin Pisei
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/cambodias-construction-industry-looks-ahead
City faces gigantic 45-storey change
Phnom Penh will be a changed city and more attractive when twin 45-storey condominium towers are completed in the coming three or four years, developers say. Sung Bonna, director of Bonna Realty Group, said Singaporean outfit The Bridge Company, would start constructing the twin skyscraper buildings ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/city-faces-gigantic-45-storey-change
Hun Sen Set to Weigh In on SL Garment Factory Dispute
Officials at the Ministry of Labor who mediated talks Wednesday between the management of SL Garment Factory and union leaders who have led a three-month-long strike at the factory said that they would send the results of the meeting to Prime Minister Hun Sen to ...
Khuon Narim and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-set-to-weigh-in-on%E2%80%88sl%E2%80%88garment%E2%80%88factory-dispute-46952/
China provides 33 mln USD in free-interest loan to Cambodia for development projects
The Chinese government on Thursday signed up to provide a free-interest loan of 200 million Renminbi (33 million U.S. dollars) to Cambodia for social and economic development projects. The agreement was inked between Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo and Cambodian Finance Minister Aun Porn Moniroth ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-11/14/c_132888622.htm
CPP Parliament Approves Ministry Split, Ministers Unclear
The CPP-dominated National Assembly on Wednesday approved a law that will see the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy split into two separate ministries, but has yet to decide who will head the new bodies. The CPP’s 68 lawmakers unanimously passed a measure that will see ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-parliament-approves-ministry-split-ministers-unclear-46944/
Police in strike shootings to be investigated
Police officers who defied orders not to open fire on rioting garment workers on Tuesday – an act that resulted in the fatal shooting of 49-year-old rice vendor Eng Sokhom – could lose their jobs, a National Police spokesman said yesterday. Kirt Chantarith told the Post that a ...
Shane Worrell and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-strike-shootings-be-investigated
Governor Seeks Curb in Rubber Resin Smuggling
Kompong Cham provincial governor Lun Lim Thai on Tuesday ordered authorities to step up long-running efforts to reduce the smuggling of unprocessed rubber resin from the province into Vietnam. Those smuggling resin to processors across the border should be more actively pursued and instead forced to ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/governor-seeks-curb-in-rubber-resin-smuggling-46966/
Budget leaves $1.5b unassigned
Transparency watchdogs have warned that $1.5 billion of unallocated funds in next year’s budget will only encourage nepotism and embezzlement. The Draft Budget Law was approved at the National Assembly on Tuesday in a unanimous vote of 66 ruling Cambodian People’s Party MPs. The $3.4 billion ...
Daniel Pye and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/budget-leaves-15b-unassigned
Cambodia's customs officials urge importers to pay "tax fees, not pay bribe"
Cambodia’s customs officials on Wednesday called on all importers to pay”tax fees as stated by law, not pay bribe”to customs officers. The appeal came after some Chinese importers have complained that Cambodian customs officers have increased tariffs for their imported products, or not allowed their ...
Asean-China-Center News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-11/14/c_132886796.htm
French offer forensics 101
In the past two years, the French embassy in Phnom Penh has been drawn into at least two high-profile cases in which their nationals have died in suspicious circumstances in Cambodia. In an attempt to improve forensic investigations in the Kingdom, the French embassy announced ...
Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/french-offer-forensics-101
Strikers, police clash
A woman was killed and at least six others shot yesterday morning when police fired live ammunition into a crowd of hundreds of rioting garment workers in the capital’s Stung Meanchey district. UN reports said police also arrested 37 people, including seven monks, as a result ...
Sean Teehan, Mom Kunthear and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strikers-police-clash
NA spokesman says opposition’s boycott makes no impact on session
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party’s (CNRP) lawmakers continued their boycott of the National Assembly session on Tuesday. CNRP spokesman Yem Punharith said that the lawmakers of the CNRP didn’t attend today’s session of the National Assembly because solutions to the election disputes have not yet ...
Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=YjQ0YTk4OTVkZGE
Thailand agrees to withdraw its troops
Cambodian and Thai military officials met yesterday morning to discuss the implementation of the International Court of Justice’s ruling on Preah Vihear, with both sides pledging to keep the peace and the Thais agreeing to withdraw to the new line of demarcation. Monday’s judgment declared that ...
May Titthara and Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thailand-agrees-withdraw-its-troops
CPP lawmakers vote to create new ministries
Lawmakers from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party yesterday unanimously voted to pass legislation which will create three new government ministries. Sixty-six CPP representatives voted to create a Ministry of Public Function, which will oversee the affairs of civil servants. The MPs also followed through on a floated ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-lawmakers-vote-create-new-ministries
One-Party Parliament Effortlessly Passes $3.56 Billion Budget
Sixty-six National Assembly members of the ruling CPP on Tuesday unanimously approved Cambodia’s $3.56 billion draft budget for 2014 without debate and without even the hint of an opposition, whose 55 lawmakers-elect are boycotting parliament in protest over July’s still-disputed national election result. The ruling party ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/one-party-parliament-effortlessly-passes-3-56-billion-budget-46913/
Cambodia's export up 30 pct in 10 months
Cambodia’s export has seen a 30 percent rise in the first 10 months of 2013 thanks to the surges in the exports of garment, milled rice, and rubber, trade data showed Wednesday. The Southeast Asian nation has exported goods in a total value of 5.87 billion ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-11/13/c_132885668.htm
Laos Pushes Ahead With Second Mekong Dam Project
Laos is pushing ahead with construction of a second dam on the Mekong River despite objections from environmental and civil society groups. Work on the main part of the Don Sahong hydropower dam near the Cambodian border in southern Laos will begin by the end of ...
Radio Free Asia
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/don-sahong-11122013185743.html
Government to Spend $13.7M on Appeal Courts
The government will spend a total of $13.7 million in the next three years to build new appeal courts outside of Phnom Penh along with free accommodation for judges and prosecutors across the country, according to the draft budget law for 2014, which is scheduled ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-to-spend-13-7m-on-appeal-courts-46853/
Law Aimed at Protecting Local Products Approved
The Council of Ministers has approved a draft law aimed at protecting the patent rights of traditional Cambodian products, which if violated could be met with a fine of up to $5,000 and a five-year jail term. The law on geographical indication (G.I.), a status given ...
Hul Reaksmey and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/law-aimed-at-protecting-local-products-approved-46855/
Partial victory at the ICJ
The International Court of Justice yesterday unanimously declared that its 1962 judgment awarding the Preah Vihear temple to Cambodia also gave the Kingdom sovereignty over the promontory that the temple sits on. But while the announcement was initially greeted as a resounding victory by some in ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/partial-victory-icj
Ethnic minorities to receive bilingual education: gov’t
The government affirmed its commitment to bilingual education for ethnic minority children in Cambodia’s northern provinces at a UNESCO conference in Bangkok last week. Speaking at the fourth International Conference on Language and Education: Multilingual Education for all in Asia and the Pacific, Ton Sa Im, ...
Emily Wight
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/lifestyle/ethnic-minorities-receive-bilingual-education-gov%E2%80%99t