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Preah Vihear border checkpoint to go international
A delegation of Cambodian officials including Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong will meet with Thai counterparts in Bangkok next week to sign off on an agreement that will open an international border checkpoint in Preah Vihear province, the ministry said Friday. ...
Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/preah-vihear-border-checkpoint-to-go-international-87338/
Scavengers cut solid waste in country’s lone recycling progam
The day ends late for Cambodian waste pickers. Darkness does not stop them. They walk through the night wearing small miners’ lights announcing their presence by shouting “et chay,” which means “scavenger.” ...
Marina Shafik
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12915/scavengers-cut-solid-waste-in-country---s-lone-recycling-progam/
Cambodia asks for original maps from UN to verify border line with Vietnam
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday requested all original maps deposited at the United Nations to verify the authenticity of maps the government is using to demarcate border line with its neighboring countries. ...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12922/cambodia-asks-for-original-maps-from-un-to-verify-border-line-with-vietnam/
Gov’t says debate is open, but NGOs boycott LANGO workshop
The human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs) Licado and Adhoc both say they will not attend Wednesday’s consultation workshop on the controversial draft Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organizations (LANGO) hosted by the National Assembly. ...
Muny Sithyna and Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12920/gov---t-says-debate-is-open--but-ngos-boycott-lango-workshop/
Registration open for LANGO meet
The National Assembly has announced that members of the public hoping to participate in the consultation regarding Cambodia’s contentious draft Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organisations (LANGO) will have until Tuesday to register. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/registration-open-lango-meet
Cambodia, Vietnam to investigate border tensions
Border tensions between Vietnam and Cambodia are set to be investigated by a bilateral body, it was reported Saturday. The body was established in the wake of a skirmish involving a member of parliament, who was visiting the site of a border marker that is in ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.aa.com.tr/en/politics/549889--cambodia-vietnam-to-investigate-border-tensions
UN Secretary-General encourages bilateral talks over border
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been following developments on the Cambodia-Vietnam border and “welcomes the agreement of both countries to establish a Joint Working Group to examine and clarify recent incidents,” his spokeswoman, Eri Kaneko, told VOA Khmer. ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/un-secretary-general-encourages-bilateral-talks-over-border/2847792.html
Japan, Cambodia agree to work closely on developing Mekong region
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his Cambodian counterpart, Hor Namhong, agreed Thursday to keep working together over infrastructure development in Cambodia and four other countries along the Mekong River, the Foreign Ministry said. ...
The Japan Times News Staff
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/03/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-cambodia-agree-work-closely-developing-mekong-region/#.VZYTaEY2XHA
IMF expects economic growth of 7 percent this year
The International Monetary Fund expects Cambodia’s economic growth rate to remain stable at around 7 percent this year, while inflation is expected to rise. ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/imf-expects-economic-growth-of-7-percent-this-year/2847775.html
Fisheries production rises 2.4 percent in latest year
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Ouk Rabun said Wednesday that Cambodia’s fisheries production rose to 745,255 tonnes in 2014, up 2.4 percent from 728,000 a year earlier. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/fisheries-production-rises-24-percent-in-latest-year-8733
Vietnamese province asks Cambodia to prevent violent acts at border
Long An Province on Thursday asked Cambodian authorities to tighten their control over a border area where Cambodian extremists attacked Vietnamese villagers late last month. ...
Thanh Nien News Staff
http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/vietnamese-province-asks-cambodia-to-prevent-violent-acts-at-border-47485.html
Without new skills, Cambodian workers face challenges in ASEAN
With Asean integration growing closer, Cambodia’s workers will need new skills if they are to compete in an open region, labor experts say. Cambodia’s industry brings in billions of dollars for the economy and employs more than 600,000 workers, but it will not be able ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/without-new-skills-cambodian-workers-face-challenges-in-asean/2847736.html
Cambodia taps national park travel
A Japanese company, A2A Town (Cambodia), has submitted a request to the Cambodian Ministry of Environment to establish helicopter flights from Phnom Penh to Preah Soramrit Kossamak Kirirom National Park in Kampong Speu province. ...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2015/07/cambodia-taps-national-park-travel/
SME board possible this year
Market regulator Securities and Exchanges Commission of Cambodia and Cambodia Securities Exchange are looking at reducing some of the current initial public offering requirements, as a way to attract more small- and medium-size businesses to list on the flagging exchange. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sme-board-possible-year
Chief monk commits suicide over road construction debt
A popular chief monk who was found dead on Monday at his pagoda in Kompong Speu province committed suicide after becoming overburdened by debt from a road construction project he had undertaken, a police official and senior monk said Thursday. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chief-monk-commits-suicide-over-road-construction-debt-87245/
Putting border issue on the map
The Cambodian government yesterday produced some of the maps it has been using to demarcate the eastern frontier, stressing that they match the constitutionally mandated map despite having been developed in Vietnam. At a press conference at the Council of Ministers, the government’s senior official on ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/putting-border-issue-map
RCAF top brass unaware of M’kiri standoff
Two days after a platoon leader in Mondolkiri accused soldiers from Kratie of pointing their weapons at his men in order to free a group of suspected illegal loggers from Vietnam, two of the military’s most senior officials on Thursday said they were unaware of ...
Sek Odom and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rcaf-top-brass-unaware-of-mkiri-standoff-87239/
CNRP members want lawmaker sanctioned
About 25 CNRP members from Svay Rieng province traveled to Phnom Penh on Thursday to demand that opposition lawmaker Kong Sophea be removed from the party’s provincial working group for promoting his friends, but left empty-handed. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-members-want-lawmaker-sanctioned-87251/
Power bill spikes raise alarm
Seemingly arbitrary increases in electricity prices are raising eyebrows in Phnom Penh, as residents’ bills are showing marked-up charges despite unchanged usage patterns – and frequent blackouts. Citizens are lodging complaints with the state-owned electricity company Electricite du Cambodge (EdC), claiming that their bills are rapidly ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/power-bill-spikes-raise-alarm
Four factories see 118 faintings
More than 100 workers across four garment factories in Phnom Penh, Kandal and Takeo provinces fainted yesterday. National Social Security Fund (NSSF) officials said 45 workers at C N Prosperous Garment (Cambodia) Co Ltd in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district fainted yesterday, after more than ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/four-factories-see-118-faintings
Sawmill discovered in Oddar Meanchey forest; wood seized
Forestry officials in Oddar Meanchey province on Wednesday discovered a timber processing plant and thousands of lengths of luxury-grade wood in a remote forested area populated only by soldiers, officials said Thursday. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sawmill-discovered-in-oddar-meanchey-forest-wood-seized-87247/
Korea test cheaters arrested
Seventeen young people were charged by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court and released on bail yesterday after they were caught allegedly falsifying documents while taking a Korean language test administered as a precursor to working in South Korea, police said. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/korea-test-cheaters-arrested
Spat between lawmakers continues
CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun wrote to National Assembly President Heng Samrin on Thursday to complain that CNRP lawmaker Um Sam An broke the parliament’s rules by attempting to be interviewed while Mr. Vun himself was being interviewed. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/spat-between-lawmakers-continues-87253/
17 fake test-takers face up to six months in prison, fine
Seventeen people who were arrested last weekend in Phnom Penh during a Korean-language test could face six months in prison after being charged with impersonating prospective migrants hoping to work in South Korea, a police official said Thursday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/17-fake-test-takers-face-up-to-six-months-in-prison-fine-87249/