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NGOs slam proposed law on election speech

Cambodia’s leading human rights groups have condemned the ruling and opposition parties’ reported efforts to stymie their voices during election campaigns, arguing such restrictions would violate freedom of expression. The ruling Cambodian People’s Party and opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party have been negotiating changes to the ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-slam-proposed-law-election-speech

Rights groups ask World Bank to hold meeting with evictees

Rights groups have asked the World Bank to schedule a “special meeting” with evictees before deciding whether to lift a freeze on new loans to Cambodia, and to hold it in Thailand so that participants can speak their minds without fear of reprisal from the ...

Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rights-groups-ask-world-bank-to-hold-meeting-with-evictees-77417/

Communities urge gov't to rescind ELCs

Representatives of communities across the country who have had their lives upturned by development projects yesterday called on the government to rescind the economic land concessions at the centre of their disputes. ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/communities-urge-govt-rescind-elcs

Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam discuss AEC preparedness

Officials from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam met yesterday in Vientiane to discuss the progress and challenges of the Lao pilot programme for narrowing the development gap towards Asean integration. The programme was formulated as a pilot project in October 2010 by the Lao government, Asean Secretariat ...

Vientiane Times News Staff
http://www.vientianetimes.org.la/freeContent/FreeConten_Laos_Cambodia_Vietnam.htm

Cambodia sees 7.2 pct growth in 2014: PM

Cambodia’s economy grew by 7.2 percent in 2014, driven by garment exports, agriculture, tourism and construction, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday. ...

The Cambodia Herald​ News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodia-sees-72-pct-growth-in-2014:-pm-8152

Security officials added to top ranks of ruling party

The ruling Cambodian People’s Party has added at least 80 commanders and other security officials to its Central Committee, a move that even more closely ties security forces to the party. ...

Kong Sothanarith,
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/security-officials-added-to-top-ranks-of-ruling-party/2628499.html

Cambodia’s NGOs say measures proposed by parties would curtail free speech

Nine nongovernmental organizations on Wednesday slammed Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties for considering measures that would ban them from giving interviews or making statements deemed “insulting” to political parties during election periods, saying the restrictions would violate free speech. ...

RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/ngos-02042015175755.html

Cambodia earns $3bn from tourism

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Wednesday that his country earned US$3 billion (97 billion baht) last year from the booming tourism sector. ...

Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/466294/cambodia-earns-3bn-from-tourism-in-2014

HIV patients in Cambodia’s Roka commune suffer thefts, fault police inaction

Villagers in remote western Cambodia who were infected with HIV/AIDS by an unauthorized medical worker have been hit by a wave of thefts of cows and other property, and some local residents say they police have been indifferent to their plight. ...

Hum Chamrouen
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/thieves-steal-from-HIV-victims-02042015155855.html

Cambodia, DPRK weigh to boost trade, investment ties

Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong met with Vice Foreign Minister of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Ri Kil Song on Wednesday to discuss ways to boost trade and investment ties, a Cambodian spokesman said. ...

The Cambodia Herald​ News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodia-dprk-weigh-to-boost-trade-investment-ties-8149

Group behind banned festival tries soft touch

After music festival kaZantip was banned on Monday by Cambodian officials, organisers say they are mounting a campaign to change hearts and minds. Kharchenko said the festival team would be sending “presentations” to all interested Cambodian officials to demonstrate how “we really love Cambodia and ...

Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/group-behind-banned-festival-tries-soft-touch

Battambang families told to make way for new park

Battambang town authorities have notified 600 families living in the provincial capital’s Prek Preah Sdech commune that they need to relocate due to the construction of a large public garden to beautify the city. ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battambang-families-told-make-way-new-park

Strike-leading union head arrested in Phnom Penh

The pugnacious leader of an independent workers union was arrested outside a garment factory on Phnom Penh’s industrial outskirts Tuesday morning for leading what police described as “illegal striking and an anarchic union.” ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/strike-leading-union-head-arrested-in-phnom-penh-77342/

Pagoda rejects city’s claims of violence

The head monks of Phnom Penh’s Wat Samakki Raingsey on Tuesday drafted a letter rebutting City Hall’s claims of illicit and immoral behavior at the pagoda, which has drawn the government’s ire over the past year by supporting evicted villagers from across the country. ...

Mench Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pagoda-rejects-citys-claims-of-violence-77350/

Fainting figures jumped in 2014: government

Workplace faintings last year jumped more than 100 per cent from 2013, a report from the Ministry of Labour and National Social Security Fund (NSSF) released yesterday says. ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fainting-figures-jumped-2014-government

Anti-Corruption Unit probing 49 officials in extortion case

The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) says it has opened an investigation into a suspected extortion case but urged the media to refrain from reporting on it after a list of the suspects and their phone numbers was posted online by a number of news outlets. ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anti-corruption-unit-probing-49-officials-in-extortion-case-77346/

Without citizenship, Vietnamese remain adrift

Though they live in floating houses moored to the banks of the Tonle Sap river, few of the nearly 2,500 ethnic Vietnamese villagers here can truly call Cambodia home. Thousands built floating homes on the Tonle Sap, a cheaper and more attainable alternative to settling ...

Chris Mueller and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/without-citizenship-vietnamese-remain-adrift-77344/

Firms that list to see tax cut

New and existing companies listed on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) will have their taxes halved by the Cambodian government, a move that is being labelled as a generous attempt to boost activity on the bourse. The sub-decree, which was signed off by Prime Minister Hun ...

Eddie Morton and May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/firms-list-see-tax-cut

Families say firm cleared land, graves

More than 100 families in Rattanakkiri’s O’Chum district are demanding a solution after a Chinese company allegedly bulldozed their land and nearby family graves to create a rubber plantation. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-say-firm-cleared-land-graves

Hasty hydropower critiqued

Less than a week after Laos declared its “sovereign right” to develop hydropower regardless of neighbouring countries’ objections, the Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) gathered an “extraordinary meeting” to stress the importance of sustainable waterways. During the two-day discussions in Pakse, Laos which concluded yesterday, the US ...

Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hasty-hydropower-critiqued

Unlicensed lenders called out

Officials have released a public statement warning against a rise in unlicensed lenders they say are dangerously operating outside of Cambodian regulations and threatening financial stability. In a joint declaration from the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the National Bank of Cambodia on Monday, authorities ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/unlicensed-lenders-called-out

Montagnard presence denied

Government spokesman and four-star General Khieu Sopheak has threatened to sue an NGO worker over his “false allegations” about Montagnard asylum seekers. Sopheak said authorities had only arrested “illegal Vietnamese immigrants”, and called on Chhay Thy, provincial coordinator for local rights group Adhoc and the ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/montagnard-presence-denied

Hun Sen defends proposed Areng valley dam

In the government’s latest defense of a proposed dam in the heart of the sparsely developed Cardamom Mountains, Prime Minister Hun Sen in a letter downplayed the impact the project would have on the hundreds of ethnic minority families it would displace and touted its ...

Zsombor Peter and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-defends-proposed-areng-valley-dam-77352/

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