Protest Becomes Secession When Liberties Are Taken With Words
This month’s eviction of villagers in Kratie province that resulted in the death of a 14-year-old girl was one of many such violent incidents over land that have erupted in Cambodia in recent years. But what set the May 16 violence apart was a word: ss='cambodia-color'>...
Fear accompanies summons over land disputes
Less than a week after Prime Minister Hun sen called for land to be returned to villagers embroiled in land disputes, a Pursat province villager has been summonsed by the court in a scenario many see as all too common in these disputes. Kuch Veng, a ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062056901/National-news/fear-accompanies-summons.html
REDD Forests Endangered by Loggers, Soldiers
Banteay Ampil district, Oddar Meanchey province – The families of Beng commune have new neighbors: a battalion of Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldiers building a military base inside one of 13 pockets across the province aiming to be the first forest-based carbon trading scheme ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sentencing swift in pic ripping case
Less than 36 hours after Wang Zia Chao provoked a strike by destroying two photos of the late King Father in front of hundreds of Cambodian garment workers, the Chinese factory manager was booked, charged and convicted by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, which last ss='cambodia-color'>...
Arbitration Court Backs Government in Power Deal with US Firm
The government has won an arbitration case in a World Bank court, successfully countering a $300 million claim made by a U.s based company over a failed power plant project dating back to 1996. According to a statement from the Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick ss='cambodia-color'>...
Giving more than 100%
Nearly all of Phnom Penh’s communes have voter registration rates in excess of 100 per cent, amounting to more than 145,000 additional names, with one commune topping the 200 per cent mark, an analysis of previously unseen government population data reveals. Further analysis of the already ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prices fluctuate due to poll
As election data trickled in on sunday evening and a fear set in borne of uncertainty and a beefed-up police presence, demand for basic commodities surged, food prices briefly rose, and some banks saw an expected rise in withdrawals. sales of rice jumped from their normal ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/prices-fluctuate-due-poll
Growth at risk from ‘turmoil’
Cambodia’s Minister of Commerce and long-time ruling party stalwart Cham Prasidh said yesterday that post-election demonstrations could prevent growth and even result in small-scale looting. “If they want to destroy the economy, they have to protest more and more in order to destroy,” he said. speaking ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/growth-risk-%E2%80%98turmoil%E2%80%99
Kem Sokha Accused of Denying Flood Aid to CPP Voters
A village chief in Kompong Cham province’s flooded Tonle Bit commune Thursday accused opposition leader Kem sokha of refusing to provide emergency supplies to CPP supporters during a donation run on Tuesday. Prek Touch village chief sar Bora said that Mr. sokha, vice president of the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Flood crisis another setback for real estate sector
While the political crisis in the country is still ongoing, Cambodia is now suffering another crisis due to flooding, which has had a big impact on the country’s real estate business. Kim Heang, the President of Khmer Real Estate, said the buying and selling of real ss='cambodia-color'>...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/flood-crisis-another-setback-real-estate-sector
Cambodia to Submit Human Rights Report to UN
Cambodia will submit a human rights report to the U.N. today for a universal periodic review (UPR), the second time it is participating in the process, according to the Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit. Under the UPR process established in 2006, the Human ss='cambodia-color'>...
Dene-Hern Chen and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-to-submit-human-rights-report-to-un-46006/
Government Proposes 100% Hike in Minimum Wage by 2018
The government proposed doubling the minimum wage for garment workers—from $80 to $160—within five years during a meeting with labor unions and garment manufacturers on Monday at the Ministry of Labor. “We have a plan to raise the minimum wage up to $160 for garment workers, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-proposes-100-hike-in-minimum-wage-by-2018-49396/
Update says rubber company up to old tricks
Vietnamese rubber firm Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) has failed to keep its commitments to address human rights and environmental abuses at its plantations in Cambodia, Global Witness said in a statement yesterday. In May, the London-based NGO published an investigation into two Vietnamese rubber companies ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/update-says-rubber-company-old-tricks
Regulator to Review Minimum Prices for Calls
An official at the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) said Wednesday that the body plans to review and possibly lower the current minimum price per call after it recently ordered the country’s seven mobile phone operators to abide by a law that sets minimum call ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Wilwohl and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/regulator-to-review-minimum-prices-for-calls-48616/
Silence broken at last
Notification that her son is being detained at Correctional Centre 3 in Kampong Cham came as a relief to Touch sart yesterday, after spending nearly a week wondering whether he was even alive. since her son, Theng saroeun, was arrested along with 22 others at demonstrations ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/silence-broken-last
Vinamilk Sees Revenue Doubling in Overseas Expansion Push
Vietnam Dairy Products Joint-stock Co., the nation’s largest dairy producer, is building a milk factory in Cambodia as it plans a global expansion to more than double annual revenue to $3 billion by 2017. The company known as Vinamilk is opening a plant in the capital ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bloomberg News Staff
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-30/vinamilk-sees-revenue-doubling-in-overseas-expansion-push.html
USA garment factory workers block national road
Nearly 400 workers at the UsA Fully Field (Cambodia) Garment factory blocked National Road 2 in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district yesterday after fears spread that the factory was winding down operations and that management wouldn’t pay necessary wages once it closed. soy Nakri, a worker representative ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/usa-garment-factory-workers-block-national-road
Saved From the Soup, Rescued Sun Bears Thrive
Now about six months old, Hope is still a little clumsy when climbing trees. Hope’s sidekick, named “173,” follows her around as if they were inseparable twins. Together, they swing in a hammock, bathe in a pool and, sometimes, climb up the metal bars of their ss='cambodia-color'>...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/saved-from-the-soup-rescued-sun-bears-thrive-48223/
Gov’t looks to 2014 for adoptions
The long-awaited resumption of international adoptions may finally occur in the new year, officials from the ministries of Justice and social Affairs said yesterday, though no time table is yet in place. While the freeze on adoptions – put in place in 2009 with the passage ss='cambodia-color'>...
Amelia Woodside and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-looks-2014-adoptions
Cambodian King urges newly-elected lawmakers to see national interest as top priority
Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni on Monday called on all newly-elected lawmakerS to See the country&rSquo; S intereSt aS the top priority and unify for the nation&rSquo;S preStige. Speaking at the opening SeSSion of the fifth legiSlature of the National ASSembly, the king congratulated all lawmakerS for SS='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-09/23/c_132742276.htm