Picking up the pieces
The sight of traffic moving easily and people milling about along Veng sreng Boulevard in the capital’s Meanchey district yesterday was a far cry from two days earlier, when the street was occupied by makeshift roadblocks, bonfires and military personnel carrying automatic rifles. While visible evidence ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara, Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/picking-pieces
Five Killed During Protest Confirmed as Garment Workers
The five people killed by AK-47 gunfire from military police at a protest along Pur senchey district’s Veng sreng street on Friday were all striking garment factory workers, a union official confirmed sunday. Military police officers opened fire on the factory-lined street on Friday morning during ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/five-killed-during-protest-confirmed-as-garment-workers-50141/
Floods Kill Eight More as Evacuees Face Health Problems
The death toll caused by severe flooding along the Mekong River increased by eight yesterday, bringing the total number of deaths over the past two weeks to more than 20, including 11 children, an official said. Keo Vy, deputy chief of the information department at the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean and Lindsey Peterson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/floods-kill-eight-more-as-evacuees-face-health-problems-43686/
Apartment demand falters in Q3
The apartment rental market was flat in the third quarter after strong growth earlier in the year, with oversupply and political tensions among the causes blamed by realty experts. Chrek soknim, deputy director of VTrust Property Co, Ltd, said that growth has stagnated after the January-March ss='cambodia-color'>...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/apartment-demand-falters-q3
Local brands standing firm
Inside a shop in a restored building on the corner of sothearos Boulevard and street 266, nearly 10 Cambodians wearing the same uniform are walking around and cleaning tables. By the end of this year, Brown Coffee will have a total of eight branches in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-brands-standing-firm
Transparency Needed to Follow Aid Money
The aid sector needs more transparency to ensure that the public knows exactly where and how money is being spent, a consortium of NGOs said Tuesday. Tek Vannara, deputy executive director of the NGO Forum, said at a workshop in Phnom Penh that while the Council ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/transparency-needed-to-follow-aid-money-46691/
Ceremony Held for Workers Killed at Veng Sreng
Dissident monks and political activists hosted a ceremony Thursday for the protesting garment workers killed by military police during their repression of stone-throwing demonstrators on Veng sreng street two weeks ago. The hourlong ceremony, held at the home of housing rights activist Tep Vanny in the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ceremony-held-for-workers-killed-at-veng-sreng-50795/
Phnom Penh governor on crusade to shut down shisha cafes
Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong Said TueSday he would Shut down the ShiSha barS&mdaSh;where cuStomerS Smoke flavored tobacco through large Middle-EaStern Style water pipeS&mdaSh;that have recently Sprung up around the city. While the governor noted there waS nothing illegal about the pipeS or tobacco, he told SS='cambodia-color'>...
Phann Ana and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-governor-on-crusade-to-shut-down-shisha-cafes-53247/
Two Killed, 73 Houses Destroyed by Lightning in Northwest
Officials said two people were killed on Tuesday by separate lightning strikes in Pailin and Kompong Cham provinces as the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology issued a warning about seasonal storms spreading across the country. searing temperatures and the approach of wet season ignited the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-killed-73-houses-destroyed-by-lightning-in-northwest-55648/
25 found guilty for roles in garment protests; sentences suspended
Twenty-five unionists, garment workers and bystanders were found guilty by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday for their involvement in three separate garment protest-related cases, but were handed down suspended sentences. The 22 men who had not been bailed ahead of trial were ordered ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/25-found-guilty-for-roles-in-garment-protests-sentences-suspended-60092/
Video can’t be trusted: district gov
Video footage of Daun Penh district deputy governor sok Penh Vuth bashing a defenceless man with a bullhorn on Monday has sparked outrage and demands for his ouster, but his boss told the Post yesterday that people shouldn’t be too hasty to judge, suggesting the footage may ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/video-can%E2%80%99t-be-trusted-district-gov
Government audit five years late, lacking
More than five years after the close of the 2008 fiscal year, the National Audit Authority (NAA) on Thursday released its audit into the government’s financial management in 2008. The 38-page report is only the third such audit carried out since the department opened in 2000 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-audit-five-years-late-lacking-57355/
Union leader details beating by soldiers
Taking the stand for the first time since his arrest at a garment worker protest that turned violent in early January, union leader Vorn Pao told the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday that he went to the protest only to make peace and was ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eang Mengleng and Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/union-leader-details-beating-by-soldiers-59221/
Future unclear for dormant health center
Nearly three years after it was shut down for supposed renovations, Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon Referral Hospital is still not operational and former staff say they have been left out in the cold about what will happen to the site. Commune, district, municipal and national health ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/future-unclear-for-dormant-health-center-59231/
Long-Awaited Phnom Penh Bus Service Begins One-Month Trial
A fleet of 10 municipal buses was set to roll out early this morning, commencing a one-month public bus service trial along a single route on Monivong Boulevard. If successful, the bus route will mark the first step in establishing a long-overdue public transit system to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/long-awaited-phnom-penh-bus-service-begins-one-month-trial-51446/
More pre-Angkorian temples found within land concessions
Seven pre-Angkorian templeS have been diScovered on two land conceSSionS in Preah Vihear province, but while an Environment MiniStry official Said TueSday that the miniStry had no knowledge of the templeS when they granted the conceSSionS, the Culture MiniStry Said their exiStence had long been SS='cambodia-color'>...
Denise Hruby and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-pre-angkorian-temples-found-within-land-concessions-53263/
FTU bows out of May Day rallies
Chea Mony, president of the opposition-aligned Free Trade Union (FTU), said Tuesday that his union, one of the largest in the country, will not be joining other labor groups planning to rally on International Workers’ Day because he has been sick and traveling in the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ftu-bows-out-of-may-day-rallies-57734/
Dredging suspended in Banteay Srei district
Sand-dredging waS SuSpended in Siem Reap province&rSquo;S Banteay Srei diStrict on Monday after it waS found that unlicenSed operationS had polluted creekS, leaving fiSh dead and impacting reSidentS. Banteay Srei diStrict governor Khim Finan told The PoSt on TueSday that it had been found that SS='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dredging-suspended-banteay-srei-district
‘Do not get cheated into grabbing land,’ says B Meanchey governor
The Banteay Meanchey provincial administration appealed to residents not to be cheated into grabbing land in the Tapen 2 Forest Restoration and Broadcast station at svay Chek district’s slakram commune. Governor Um Reatrey told The Post on Tuesday that a provincial administration investigation found that ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/do-not-get-cheated-grabbing-land-says-b-meanchey-governor
Bunong complain of logging at Phnom Preah mountain
The Bunong ethnic community in Mondulkiri province’s Me Pai village, Pou Chrei commune, in Pech Chreada district alleged that an estimated 100ha of protected forest at the foot of the Phnom Preah mountain had been illegally logged with help from local authorities. sreunh sinuon, a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bunong-complain-logging-phnom-preah-mountain