The Phnom Penh Post

Conservationists warn government of encroachment

Conservation NGOs yesterday raised the issue of alleged land grabs in the country’s protected areas by the military and local authorities at a resources protection forum, asking Environment Minister Say Sam Al to intervene.​ ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/conservationists-warn-government-encroachment

Massive ceremony at Angkor Wat will show ‘Cambodia not in anarchy’: PM

Government officials, thousands of monks and Prime Minister Hun Sen himself will hold a massive prayer ceremony at Angkor Wat in early December to highlight the Kingdom’s continuing “peace, independence and political stability”, a spectacle observers said was designed to disguise the deterioration of Cambodia’s ...

Kong Meta and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/massive-ceremony-angkor-wat-will-show-cambodia-not-anarchy-pm

PM tells workers CNRP is to blame for any sanctions

In a speech to workers yesterday, Prime Minister Hun Sen pinned the blame for any damage inflicted on Cambodia’s garment industry by potential economic sanctions squarely on the opposition party. “You must remember clearly that if the purchase orders are reduced, it is all the ...

Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/pm-tells-workers-cnrp-blame-any-sanctions

World Bank outlook remains bright despite political concern

Cambodia’s economy is predicted to remain strong and resilient for the next two years, fuelled by a shift to higher value-added manufacturing, despite lingering concerns over political stability and the slowed growth of both the construction and garment sectors, the World Bank said yesterday in ...

Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/world-bank-outlook-remains-bright-despite-political-concern

China business delegates bullish on Cambodia

Delegates gathered at the Cambodia-Fujian Business and Tourism seminar in Phnom Penh yesterday to discuss opportunities for investment in the Kingdom through increased trade in both the energy and garment sector. ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-business-delegates-bullish-cambodia

‘Scholar’ spins CNRP dissolution into strengthening of democracy

Just days after the Supreme Court dissolved Cambodia’s primary opposition party, government officials and affiliates yesterday gathered to praise the unprecedented move as a strengthening of democracy, even as international organisations and governments around the world have condemned it. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/scholar-spins-cnrp-dissolution-strengthening-democracy

HAGL goes bananas with fruit exports

Vietnamese conglomerate Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) has shipped a total of over 9,000 tonnes of Cambodian bananas destined for the Chinese market since the firm first started exporting in July, a company representative said. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hagl-goes-bananas-fruit-exports

Development council approves three projects worth $8M

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) approved three new investment projects with a combined investment capital of nearly $8 million, according to a release.​ ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/development-council-approves-three-projects-worth-8m

GDT now allows you to pay the tax man online

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) announced yesterday that it has officially launched an e-payment platform that allows individual and corporate taxpayers to pay their obligations online and directly through bank accounts, a move that businesses in the Kingdom hope will trim waiting periods. ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gdt-now-allows-you-pay-tax-man-online

National Assembly passes $6 billion 2018 budget

The National Assembly, with only ruling party lawmakers in attendance, voted on Friday to pass the national budget for 2018 and to add two additional positions to 10 parliamentary committees, a day after a Supreme Court ruling dissolved the only other party to hold seats in the ...

Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-assembly-passes-6-billion-2018-budget

AEC presents migrant hurdles

With cross-border flows of migrant workers rapidly increasing since the founding of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) in 2015, industry insiders claim that this change has had both positive and negative effects on the Kingdom by reducing the levels of unemployment while highlighting the need ...

Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/aec-presents-migrant-hurdles

China gives demining supplies after pledge of support

The Chinese Embassy donated equipment to the Cambodian Mine Action Authority (CMAA) yesterday, marking the beginning of a new pledge to become a top donor to the sector, following the withdrawal of US funds.​ ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/china-gives-demining-supplies-after-pledge-support

Defectors to CPP trickling in

The CPP claims to have received 390 defections as of Monday. They include one lawmaker, 33 provincial and district councillors, and 356 commune officials, of whom 33 are commune chiefs. The chiefs account for around 7 percent of the 489 CNRP chiefs elected in June, ...

Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/defectors-cpp-trickling

Government ‘monitoring’ civil society organisations named in CNRP hearing

The Ministry of Interior yesterday confirmed that certain civil society organisations and their members are being “monitored” following accusations, levelled during the Supreme Court hearing on the dissolution of the opposition party on Thursday, that they participated in a purported “revolution”. ...

Andrew Nachemson and Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-monitoring-civil-society-organisations-named-cnrp-hearing

Three CNRP-nominated elections officials resign from NEC after party dissolution

Three National Election Committee (NEC) members, all Cambodia National Rescue Party nominees, have quit the electoral body, intensifying the fallout from the Supreme Court’s dissolution of the opposition party on Thursday. ...

Soth Koemsoeun and Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-cnrp-nominated-elections-officials-resign-nec-after-party-dissolution

EBA scheme in jeopardy after CNRP ruling

In the wake of the dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party last week by the Supreme Court, which effectively removes any viable opposition party from challenging next year’s national elections, the European Union issued a statement seemingly warning that the Kingdom’s preferential access through the Everything ...

Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/access-eba-scheme-jeopardy-after-cnrp-ruling

NBC gives banks, MFIs greenlight to issue bonds

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) announced on Friday that local banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs) can now issue corporate bonds or list equity securities on the nascent Cambodian stock market, a move industry insiders claim will help financial institutions raise capital and be less ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nbc-gives-banks-mfis-greenlight-issue-bonds

Timber trader arrested, again

A prominent Vietnamese timber trader was arrested and put in pre-trial detention for the second time this year after some two tonnes of rosewood allegedly connected to her were discovered in Oddar Meanchey province, authorities said yesterday. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/timber-trader-arrested-again

Land rights organisation in Lango limbo

More than a month after the announcement of its ostensibly 30-day suspension, land rights organisation Equitable Cambodia remains stuck in limbo, with the Ministry of Interior saying the NGO must wait for the ministry’s approval to reopen. ...

Leonie Kijewski and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-rights-organisation-lango-limbo

US extends mine clearance grant

The United States has extended for two months a grant to clear unexploded ordnances from the country through the Cambodian Mines Action Centre. ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5090902/us-extends-mine-clearance-grant/

‘Death of democracy’: CNRP dissolved by Supreme Court ruling

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled to dissolve the Cambodia National Rescue Party, removing the only existing electoral threat to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s grip on power in the Kingdom and undoing in one stroke the opposition’s gains over the last five years. ...

Ben Sokhean, Mech Dara and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/death-democracy-cnrp-dissolved-supreme-court-ruling

Breaking: Supreme Court rules to dissolve CNRP

The Supreme Court this evening ruled to dissolve the Cambodia National Rescue Party, ending the only existing electoral threat to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s grip on power in the Kingdom. ...

Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/breaking-supreme-court-rules-dissolve-cnrp

Military Police chief grilled over Mondulkiri logging

Kampong Chhnang Provincial Military Police Commander Sak Sarang was questioned yesterday at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court in relation to allegedly taking bribes from illegal loggers in Mondulkiri, where he was previously stationed. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/military-police-chief-grilled-over-mondulkiri-logging

Surveillance up ahead of CNRP verdict

Checkpoints went up on national roads, barricades were dumped in front of the Supreme Court and police paid unannounced visits to civil society organisations and opposition officials as darkness fell yesterday ahead of today’s Supreme Court hearing on the dissolution of the opposition CNRP. ...

Niem Chheng, Daphne Chen and Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/surveillance-ahead-cnrp-verdict

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