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Levi Strauss Pulls Out From Embattled SL Garment Factory

A Singaporean-owned garment factory whose workers have been on strike since early August is no longer producing clothes for American denim giant Levi Strauss, a brand representative and a factory worker said Monday. The workers of SL Garment Factory in Meanchey district—which still makes clothes for ...

Aun Pheap and Dene-Hern Chen
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/levi-strauss-pulls-out-from-embattled-sl-garment-factory-44015/

Chinese tourists warned of expensive counterfeits in Siem Reap

PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) — Chinese Tourism companies have warned their citizens visiting Siem Reap province not to buy gifts or souvenirs from vendors for fear of expensive counterfeit products.  A tourist guide in Ankor Wat, Siem Reap said that this happens a lot because ...

The Cambodia Herald Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=MzFkMGQwMzM1YmM

PHNOM PENH CONDOMINIUM MARKET IS BOOSTED BY HIGH SALES RATES, PROMPTING FURTHER CONSTRUCTION

The condominium market in Phnom Penh is still very much within its early stage of development and thus is unlikely to flourish until there is a cultural shift towards owner occupants relocating to condominium developments within the city. This however will be heavily dependent on the ...

Cambodian Business Review Staff, P.18
http://www.cambisreview.com

Complaint Lodged Against Commune Chief

Villagers have accused a CPP commune chief in Ratanakkiri province of threatening four ethnic minority Tampoun men after they filed a complaint against him for allegedly selling off community land to a local businessman. Rocham Norng, a Tampoun villager in Bakeo district, has alleged that Soeung ...

Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/complaint-lodged-against-commune-chief-44004/

Malaysian and Sri Lankan Charged Over Bank Card Scam

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday heard the case of a Malaysian and a Sri Lankan charged with using fake bank cards to withdraw up to $50,000 from ATMs during Khmer New Year in 2012. Delvin Joshap, 30, of Malaysia, had masterminded the crime and ...

Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/malaysian-and-sri-lankan-charged-over-bank%E2%80%88card-scam-44012/

Japanese Ambassador, Police to Meet Following Shootings

The Japanese ambassador is set to meet with senior police officials to discuss the shooting of a Japanese tourist in Phnom Penh on Saturday, according to an embassy official, while the U.S. Embassy on Monday said it was “very troubled” by a similar attack on ...

Saing Soenthrith and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/japanese-ambassador-police-to-meet-following-shootings-44000/

Threats after activism: monks

Two monks living a remote pagoda in Kampong Speu province’s Oral district said yesterday that a shot had been fired at their living quarters last Tuesday in what they suspected was a threat motivated by their conservation efforts and participation in an opposition rally. Venerables Sam ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/threats-after-activism-monks

Heads above water

Though authorities have called on residents to move to higher ground, those in some of the worst flooded areas of Cambodia said yesterday that they had neither the means nor the ability to do so. Instead, they said, they will remain in their rapidly flooding ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/heads-above-water

Cambodia’s Carbon Credit Scheme Still Not Making Gains

Cambodia’s only U.N.-backed carbon trading scheme is still nowhere near making any money for communities and logging in the area continues to threaten the very forests supposed to generate tens of millions of dollars over the next 30 years, community representatives and officials in charge ...

Kuch Naren and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodias-carbon-credit-scheme-still-not-making-gains-43865/

Union wary of possible crackdown

Preparing for a demonstration expected to draw thousands of garment workers this morning, Ath Thorn, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union (C.CAWDU), said yesterday that he feared the possibility of a heavy-handed military police response. About 4,000 workers gathered at SL ...

Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/union-wary-possible-crackdown

CNRP to Hold Ceremony for Grenade Victims

Supporters of the opposition CNRP and relatives of the 16 men, women and children killed in a grenade attack during a protest rally in 1997, will hold a Buddhist ceremony today at the scene of the blasts in front of the old National Assembly in ...

Aun Pheap and Dene-Hern Chen
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-to-hold-ceremony-for-grenade-victims-43867/

Lucky supermarket opens three more branches

Amid growing urbanisation, Lucky Supermarket opened three more branches in Phnom Penh’s suburbs over the weekend, targeting a new consumer base living around the city. With the additional branches, Lucky now counts 10 outlets in Phnom Penh, including one mini-mart at Koh Pich. ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/lucky-supermarket-opens-three-more-branches

Cambodia sees 56 pct drop in cassava exports in 8 months

Cambodia had exported 288,300 tons of fresh and dry cassava in the first eight months of the year, down 56 percent compared with same period last year, the figures of the Commerce Ministry said Sunday. The country generated total revenue of 15.2 million U.S. dollars from ...

EastDay.com News Staff
http://english.eastday.com/e/130929/u1a7689224.html

Cambodia sees 45 percent rise in rubber exports in 8 months

Cambodia has reported a 45 percent increase in dry rubber exports in the first eight months of the year, the figures of the Ministry of Commerce showed Saturday. From January to August this year, the country had exported 45, 530 tons of dry rubber, up 45 ...

Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/814624.shtml#.UkjU7dKBmN8

NGOs Call for Freedom of Information Laws

A coalition of 30 NGOs on Friday called on the Government to draft and pass a freedom of information law to overthrow its “culture of secrecy”. The groups said Saturday is the 10th Right to Know Day, but that Cambodians are being denied a “fundamental human ...

Lauren Crothers, P.12
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/

Sar Kheng Says ‘Change’ Needs to Go Beyond New Names

Officiating a ceremony on Friday to welcome the country’s new minister of post and telecommunications, Interior Minister Sar Kheng reminded the audience of government officials that the public expects change—as was demonstrated in their election support for the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). Mr. Kheng, who ...

Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sar-kheng-says-change-needs-to-go-beyond-new-names-43848/

Easier to invest in Cambodia

Chongqing and Phnom Penh will become sister cities, after which it will be more convenient for those Chongqing enterprises to invest in Cambodia. Cambodia is an important trading partner for Chongqing and it has become one of the major countries for the development strategy of “going ...

Daily Economic News Staff
http://www.dailyeconomic.com/2013/Asia-Pacific_0927/1928.html

Hun Sen urges new Finance Minister to eliminate money under the table

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday urged the Ministry of Economy and Finance to eliminate the practice of bribery or greasing the palm to facilitate development projects funded by the Ministry itself or the National Treasury. New Finance Minister, Oun Porn Monirath, successor of Keat Chhon, ...

Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NjQ2NTYwYTA4NTI#sthash.XqY6JrsS.dpuf

Investors Play Down Impact of Labor Strikes

Economists and analysts on Thursday shrugged off the opposition CNRP’s threat to stage nationwide labor strikes, arguing that while such a move could lower profits for companies in the short term, it would not significantly deter foreign investors. Mr. Rainsy, who mentioned the possibility of strikes ...

Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/investors-play-down-impact-of-labor-strikes-43694/

Former Boeng Kak Residents Demand More Compensation

More than 200 former residents of the Boeng Kak community protested Thursday outside City Hall to demand more compensation to the original amount they received when forcibly evicted from around the lake in 2009. The protesters—who accepted payouts from the private developer Shukaku to make way ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/former-boeng-kak-residents-demand-more-compensation-43692/

Democratic Reform Needed to Ensure Growth, Prosperity

With the long-ruling CPP sworn in to govern for another five years despite the opposition CNRP abstaining from sitting in the National Assembly due to election irregularities, a new report argues that imminent threats to Cam­bodia’s future development can only be overcome with significant government ...

Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/democratic-reform-needed-to-ensure-growth-prosperity-43690/

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