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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/
Workers seek passports
The Interior Ministry is rushing to print passports for thousands of Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand before a March 31 deadline set by the neighbouring junta. So far, the Interior Ministry has received a list of just 60,000 workers in need of passports, according to the ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-seek-passports
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/
Draft law could mean a crackdown on online freedom, expert says
A draft telecommunications law is causing concern from rights groups, who say it threatens freedom of speech online, one of the few spaces open to political discussion. ...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/draft-law-could-mean-a-crackdown-on-online-freedom-expert-says/2624768.html
Cambodia Rice Federation seeks to raise development fund from exporters
Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) has approved to raise the requisite funding for rice sector development through the export fees paid by the rice exporters, according to local sources. The fund will be reportedly used for educating rice farmers about potential crop issues through television and ...
Oryza News Staff
http://oryza.com/cambodia-rice-federation-seeks-raise-development-fund-exporters
Cambodia’s ruling party promotes PM’s sons, top allies
Cambodia’s ruling party named three sons of long-time Prime Minister Hun Sen to its upper ranks on Sunday as part of a bid to rejuvenate its leadership and claw back support lost at the last general election. ...
Daily Times News Staff
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/foreign/03-Feb-2015/cambodia-s-ruling-party-promotes-pm-s-sons-top-allies
Chinese President Xi's book on governance captivates Cambodian readers
Hundreds of Cambodian students, academics and senior officials on Monday attended the launching ceremony of a book written by Chinese President Xi Jinping on governance. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/chinese-president-xis-book-on-governance-captivates-cambodian-readers-8145
Viet Nam, Cambodia to boost co-operation in religious affairs
Viet Nam’s Committee for Religious Affairs and Cambodia’s Ministry of Cult and Religious Affairs signed a co-operation agreement for the 2015-2020 period in HCM City yesterday. ...
Viet Nam News Staff
http://vietnamnews.vn/politics-laws/266005/viet-nam-cambodia-to-boost-co-operation-in-religious-affairs.html
Cobra clan dad asked to ‘clarify’ complaint
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has invited the patriarch of a family locked in a land dispute with real estate tycoon Khun Sear to “clarify” his complaint against four officials he claims conspired to sell his home in Boeng Kak I commune without his consent, ...
Hay Pisey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cobra-clan-dad-asked-to-clarify-complaint-77266/
Cracks leave tenants in fear
Residents of Phnom Penh’s historic White Building fled from their homes on Sunday night after large cracks suddenly appeared in the structure, which have been widely attributed to nearby construction work, sparking fears for their safety. A group of officials from City Hall and the Ministry ...
Sen David and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cracks-leave-tenants-fear
Rice federation votes, approves export fee
The newly formed Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) voted Monday to require its members pay an export fee of $0.50 per metric ton of long-grain white rice and $1 per ton of fragrant rice in order to raise money for educating farmers and marketing Cambodian rice ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/rice-federation-votes-approves-export-fee-77253/
Cobra clan dad asked to ‘clarify’ complaint
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has invited the patriarch of a family locked in a land dispute with real estate tycoon Khun Sear to “clarify” his complaint against four officials he claims conspired to sell his home in Boeng Kak I commune without his consent, ...
Hay Pisey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cobra-clan-dad-asked-to-clarify-complaint-77266/
EU seeks negotiation on timber agreement
As Vietnam and Laos negotiate to enter a European Union trade agreement aimed at improving forestry governance, the EU – one of the world’s top timber importers – is urging Cambodia to join the scheme. ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/eu-seeks-negotiation-timber-agreement
Girl killed by UXO explosion in Kompong Speu
A 10-year-old girl was killed instantly when a piece of unexploded ordinance (UXO) detonated under the heat of a brush fire in in Kompong Speu province’s Oral district on Sunday afternoon, her commune chief said Monday. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/girl-killed-by-uxo-explosion-in-kompong-speu-77256/
Teachers union worried textbooks may be sold
A district education official in Preah Vihear may be hoarding state textbooks to sell at the market rather than distributing them to perennially book-strapped schools, according to the Cambodian Independent Teachers Association (CITA). ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teachers-union-worried-textbooks-may-be-sold
Wage wait: Unionists not impressed with promise
Labor leaders sniffed at the government’s stated commitment yesterday to hike the wage in the garment industry to $160 – by 2018. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wage-wait-unionists-not-impressed-promise
Apsara summoned to account for ticket sales
The Apsara Authority will be summoned to the National Assembly next month to defend its stance in an embittered spat over revenue collected from ticket sales at Angkor Archaeological Park, according to opposition party lawmakers. Apsara, which manages the historical site of Angkorian temples, will be ...
Meas Sokchea and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/apsara-summoned-account-ticket-sales
Families to rejoin protests against sugar farms
Villagers in Koh Kong province left out of compensation deals that some of their neighbors are receiving for land lost to sugar plantations have gathered about 300 signatures on a petition demanding to be included in the payouts and hope to gather more before submitting ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-to-rejoin-protests-against-sugar-farms-77251/