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Condo boom in Cambodia's capital driven by expat demand and a leap of faith
High-rise apartments are springing up across Cambodia’s capital, part of a property boom led by expat demand, while developers are also betting the country’s growing middle class will shed a traditional distaste for “living on top of each other”. ...
Prak Chan Thul, Aradhana Aravindan
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/02/cambodia-condominiums-idUSL3N12N3UL20151102
Cambodia PM starts to 'like' Facebook as opponents woo voters online
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen is taking a belated leap into the digital age in a bid to court young, urban voters as he tries to fend off unprecedented competition from the opposition after three decades in power. Hun Sen’s Facebook, which how has 1.2 ...
Prak Chan Thul
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/20/us-cambodia-socialmedia-idUSKCN0SE2RW20151020
Cambodia seeks way out of post 'killing fields' mental health crisis
Hing Phon thought she was losing her mind when night after night terrifying nightmares jolted her awake as she dreamt of her husband, eldest son and 18 other relatives being killed by the Khmer Rouge during their brutal reign in Cambodia. ...
Astrid Zweynert
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/lifestyle/cambodia-seeks-way-out-of/2172436.html
Cambodia unions warn of strikes as factories indicate no wage raise
Cambodia’s garment factories have indicated they will reject demands for an increase in the minimum wage next year, angering unions and risking upheaval in a crucial economic sector for years dogged by unrest. ...
Prak Chan Thul
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/12/cambodia-garment-idUSL3N10N1W620150812
Paychecks aplenty as ghosts haunt Cambodia's lax bureaucracy
Borith has been on the payroll of Cambodia’s parliament for 15 years but rarely shows up for work. He is busy with his other job at a non-governmental organization, and no one notices his absence. ...
Prak Chan Thul
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/23/us-cambodia-corruption-idUSKCN0PX2MI20150723
Chinese influence in Cambodia grows with army school, aid
When Defense Minister Tea Banh addressed graduates last month at Cambodia’s prestigious Army Institute, he directed his thanks to the guests who made it all possible: a group of crisply dressed officers from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). ...
Aubrey Belford and Prak Chan Thul
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/02/us-cambodia-china-military-idUSKBN0MT0SW20150402
World Bank may be blind to harm of financial investments: Oxfam
The World Bank’s private sector arm may be doing more harm than good when it invests in private equity firms, banks and other financial intermediaries, global development group Oxfam said in a report on Wednesday. In one project indirectly sponsored by the bank’s International Finance Corporation ...
Anna Yukhananov
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/01/us-worldbank-investments-idUSKBN0MS5IJ20150401
Satellite data suggests forest loss is accelerating
Satellite images suggest tropical forests from the Amazon to the Philippines are disappearing at a far more rapid pace than previously thought, a University of Maryland team of forest researchers say. Tropical Asia showed the second largest increase in deforestation with 0.8 million hectares (about ...
Kyle Plantz
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/03/02/us-forest-satellites-idUKKBN0LY1M720150302
Floods, storms and heat projected to cost SE Asia $34 bln per year
Falling crop yields, damage to infrastructure and heat-related illnesses brought on by climate change could cost the four Southeast Asian countries of the lower Mekong River basin $34 billion per year, researchers say. A report released on Monday found that climate change could cost Cambodia, ...
Alisa Tang
http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/02/23/climatechange-southeast-asia-idINKBN0LR1A920150223
Garment exports slow, but still up from 2013 - Cambodia Daily
Cambodia’s garment exports have continued to rise but at a slower pace than earlier in the year, according to government data. ...
REUTERS News Staff
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/24/cambodia-press-exports-garment-idUSL3N0SJ1QS20141024
Cambodia opposition leader Sam Rainsy endorsed by parliament, ends year-long stalemate
Cambodia’s parliament endorsed opposition leader Sam Rainsy as a lawmaker on Monday as part of a deal with long-term rival Prime Minister Hun Sen that both leaders hailed as an end to a year-long political crisis. Cambodia has been without an effective parliament since Sam Rainsy’s ...
Prak Chan Thul
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/28/us-cambodia-politics-idUSKBN0FX0I720140728
Hundreds of Chinese enter Cambodia, fleeing Vietnam violence
Hundreds of Chinese nationals have fled to Cambodia to escape anti-China riots in Vietnam in which at least 20 people are reported to have been killed, Cambodian police said on Thursday. “Yesterday more than 600 Chinese people from Vietnam crossed at Bavet international checkpoint into Cambodia,” ...
Alan Raybould
http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=84785
Cambodian opposition said to be seeking compromise with PM
Cambodia’s opposition has been in talks with Prime Minister Hun Sen to find a deal to end the political crisis caused by last year’s disputed general election and a compromise may be near, two analysts briefed on the matter said. Opposition leader Sam Rainsy and his ...
Prak Chan Thul
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/01/15/uk-cambodia-election-idUKBREA0E0H420140115
Cambodians rally to demand PM's resignation
Tens of thousands of Cambodian opposition supporters, backed by striking garment-factory workers, rallied on Sunday to demand long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen step down and call an election. The garment workers have in recent days joined the opposition protests to press their demand that the government ...
Prak Chan Thul
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/29/us-cambodia-protest-idUSBRE9BS03P20131229
Temasek unit opens bank in first Cambodian investment
A unit of Temasek Holdings Private Ltd has opened a new bank in Cambodia with local partners in the first investment by the Singapore state investor in the country, the Straits Times reported on Friday. The bank has 11 branches in seven provinces, with five ...
Eveline Danubrata and Sunil Nair
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/27/singapore-press-idUSL4N0HN05120130927
Cambodia's Hun Sen pushes on with forming government, rejects opposition role
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen pushed ahead with forming a new government on Tuesday and said he had rejected a demand from the main opposition party, which says it won July’s general election, to be given senior positions in parliament. Hun Sen told reporters that, ...
Cambodia election crisis deepens as opposition rejects results
(Reuters) – A deadlock over Cambodia’s disputed election hardened on Monday as the opposition rejected official results confirming a victory for Prime Minister Hun Sen’s long-ruling party and raised the prospect of further street protests. The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) said it would not accept ...
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/12/uk-cambodia-election-count-idUKBRE97B02G20130812
Opposition vows mass protest over Cambodian election deadlock
The result remains hotly disputed, but Cambodia’s recent general election has put long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen on a collision course with a resurgent opposition and revealed widespread unhappiness with his iron-fisted rule. While analysts aren’t writing off the chances of the politically ruthless Hun Sen ...
http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/08/06/cambodia-election-idINDEE97503K20130806
Oxley Holdings Ltd Announces Incorporation Of Companies In Cambodia
Oxley Holdings Ltd announced that the Group has incorporated Oxley Holdings (Cambodia) Co., Ltd. and Oxley-Worldbridge (Cambodia) Co., Ltd. in Cambodia. Oxley Holdings Cambodia has an issued capital of 20,000,000 Riel (approximately SGD6,309), divided into 1,000 shares of par value 20,000 Riel each. It is ...
http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/OXHL.SI/key-developments/article/2773685
Cambodian police clash with thousands of garment workers, 23 hurt
At least 23 workers were hurt in Cambodia on Monday when police using stun batons moved in to end a protest over pay at a factory that makes clothing for U.S. sportswear company Nike , a worker and a trade union representative said. Police with riot ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/27/cambodia-garments-workers-idUSL3N0E829T20130527
China pledges $548 million in aid to ally Cambodia
China has pledged another $548 million in aid to Cambodia for infrastructure and irrigation systems, extending assistance that some critics say has bought it Cambodia’s diplomatic support. Agreements covering $500 million in soft loans and $48 million in grants were signed when Prime Minister Hun ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/10/us-cambodia-china-idUSBRE93909D20130410
Insight: Cambodia's $11 billion mystery
The remote district of Rovieng was once a battleground between Cambodian government troops and Pol Pot’s genocidal Khmer Rouge. Unexploded bombs still lurk in its fields and forests. So does something more desirable – iron ore – and supposedly in such huge quantities two Chinese companies ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/13/us-cambodia-china-idUSBRE91C1N320130213
Southeast Asia calls for talks with China on sea dispute
Southeast Asian nations displayed a rare show of unity on Sunday against China’s sweeping maritime claims, calling for the first formal talks with Beijing over a sea dispute that has raised tensions and exposed deep divisions in the region. As Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/18/asia-summit-southchinasea-upd-idUSL3E8MI0BU20121118
Insight: Land conflict, impunity dims Cambodia's awakening
Cambodia’s transformation from war-torn basket-case to one of Asia’s most promising emerging economies is being overshadowed by a backwards lurch in human rights and land policies that critics say are entrenching poverty. ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/12/us-cambodia-protests-idUSBRE8AB17J20121112