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Shooting probe urged

UN rights envoy Surya Subedi wrapped up his six-day fact-finding mission to Cambodia yesterday by calling for a thorough investigation into security forces’ role in the deadly crackdown on garment workers early this month. He also offered to act as a mediator between the ruling Cambodian ...

Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/shooting-probe-urged

Strike action still on table, unions say

Leaders of unions that declared a nationwide garment worker strike said the work stoppage and protests, which they temporarily suspended, will resume unless government officials renegotiate the industry’s minimum wage. The announcement was their first since authorities cracked down on strike demonstrations on January 2 and ...

Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strike-action-still-table-unions-say

Vinamilk deal to go ahead

Vietnam Dairy Product Joint-Stock Co, better-known to milk lovers as Vinamilk, was granted a licence on Monday to open a $23 million processing facility in Phnom Penh’s Special Economic Zone. A statement to the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange released by the dairy giant on Monday ...

Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/vinamilk-deal-go-ahead

Amnesty idea floated during talks: report

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy and Prime Minister Hun Sen discussed the possibility of offering amnesty to senior government officials in order to allow for “an honourable exit of the leaders”, Rainsy was quoted as saying to the French newspaper La Libération last week. Rainsy reportedly said in the ...

Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/amnesty-idea-floated-during-talks-report

PM praises VN involvement

In his first public remarks of the year, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday took pains to recount his experience under the Khmer Rouge and thanked Vietnam for overthrowing the brutal communist regime. Speaking at the inauguration of a Vietnamese hospital, in the presence of visiting Vietnamese ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-praises-vn-involvement

Vietnam’s investment skyrockets

Political instability has done little to dampen Vietnam’s appetite for investment in Cambodia, the latest figures revealed yesterday by Prime Minister Hun Sen show. Last year, Vietnamese investment reached $302 million, up 250 per cent from $86 million in 2012, according to the prime minister, who ...

Hor Kimsay and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/vietnam%E2%80%99s-investment-skyrockets

Cambodians and Koreans Join Protest in Seoul

Hundreds of Cambodians living in South Korea protested in front of Seoul’s City Hall on Sunday, demanding justice for five garment workers killed in clashes with police on January 3, and calling for Prime Minister Hun Sen to step down. With public protests indefinitely banned in ...

Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodians-and-koreans-join-protest-in-seoul-50459/

Vietnamese Prime Minister Arrives for Three-Day State Visit

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrived for an official three-day visit Sunday, during which he is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Hun Sen as well as inaugurate a new Vietnamese-funded hospital and attend a groundbreaking ceremony for a bridge linking the two countries. Tran ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vietnamese-prime-minister-arrives-for-three-day-state-visit-50453/

Government Creates New CPP-Majority Province

A government request to create a new province in the eastern half of Kompong Cham, where the ruling CPP won its only districts in the province in July’s national election, was approved by King Norodom Sihamoni last month, according to a copy of the Royal ...

Phorn Bopha and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-creates-new-cpp-majority-province-50391/

Banteay Meanchey Soldiers File Complaint Against Superiors

Dozens of soldiers from the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) in Banteay Meanchey province have filed a complaint with rights group Adhoc accusing their superiors of serious corruption, stealing veterans’ pensions, nepotism and illegal logging. For three years, a representative of the soldiers said, they had ...

Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/banteay-meanchey-soldiers-file-complaint-against-superiors-50393/

South Korean Embassy Denies Role in Strike Suppression

The South Korean Embassy on Wednesday denied a news report that it had lobbied Cambodian military authorities to “crack down on protesters” in a bid to shield Korean investments in the garment industry, prior to Friday’s killing of five protesters and the wounding of more ...

Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/south-korean-embassy-denies-role-in-strike-suppression-50364/

Cambodia's industry loses 275 mln USD due to outlawed protests

Cambodia’s garment and shoe industry has lost roughly 275 million U.S. dollars due to outlawed garment strikes in the past two weeks, Van Sou Ieng, President of the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC), said Monday. The garment and shoe industry comprise more than 900 ...

Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-01/06/c_133022880.htm

Cambodia's oil import down 2 pct in 2013

Cambodia imported 1.4 million tonnes of petroleum in the first eleven months of 2013, down 2 percent from the 1.43 million tonnes a year earlier, the data of the Commerce Ministry showed Sunday. During the January-November period, the country spent about 1. 34 billion U.S. dollars ...

Asean - China Centre News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-01/06/c_133021769.htm

Cambodia's opposition leaders to appear in court as summoned

Cambodian opposition leaders said Sunday that they will appear at the court upon the summons issued by the Phnom Penh municipal court after a bloody clash on Friday. According to the summons signed by the court’s deputy prosecutor Heang Sopheak, Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha ...

Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-01/05/c_133019719.htm

PM news articles surprise, vanish

In an apparent departure from the usual diet of colourless press releases and updates on the travel plans of officials, the Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit website yesterday posted two articles critical of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government. The articles – Reuters’ coverage ...

Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-news-articles-surprise-vanish

Summonses, arrests must stop: villagers

Villagers locked in a land dispute with ruling party senator Ly Yong Phat’s Phnom Penh Sugar Company have submitted a petition to the provincial court asking for a cessation of the court’s issuing of summonses and arrest warrants. The court has so far issued 37 summonses, ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/summonses-arrests-must-stop-villagers

Royal Group makes deal during PM’s official visit

A Royal Group subsidiary has signed a deal with two Vietnamese firms to import fertiliser, a senior official with the company said yesterday. Among several deals agreed to during Prime Minister Hun Sen’s trip to Vietnam this weekend, Nitrogen Chemicals and Fertilizer Cambodia Ltd, the subsidiary ...

Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/royal-group-makes-deal-during-pm%E2%80%99s-official-visit

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

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