Child protection plan rolled out
The government unveiled a long-awaited national plan to combat violence against children yesterday, four years after a countrywide survey revealed that more than half of children in Cambodia are physically abused. ...
Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/child-protection-plan-rolled-out
Crackdown on logging has been a ‘success’: Bin Chhin
Deputy Prime Minister Bin Chhin oversaw a meeting on illegal logging in the northeast region of Cambodia, reportedly branding the Kingdom’s anti-logging crackdown a “success” despite evidence to the contrary. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/crackdown-logging-has-been-success-bin-chhin
Labour union sued by factory
The owner of Gawon Apparel factory in Kandal province’s Takhmao city has sued the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union for continuing its protest and has requested Labour Ministry intervention. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50103467/labour-union-sued-by-factory/
Prime minister asks for cooperation to bring down costs for rice farmers
The Cambodian prime minister called yesterday on the public, private and non-profit sectors to work together in bringing down the cost of growing rice to help struggling farmers throughout the country. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108462/prime-minister-asks-cooperation-bring-costs-rice-farmers/
Senate passes controversial les majeste law
The Senate on Wednesday passed some laws, including an amendment to the Criminal code, which will punish anyone who insults the king with a penalty of one to five years in jail. ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109731/senate-passes-controversial-les-majeste-law/
More crocodile farms given Cites recognition
Sixteen additional crocodile farms have been approved under an international conservation treaty to export Siamese crocodiles, bringing the total number of recognised farms in Cambodia to 21, according to a government official. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/more-crocodile-farms-given-cites-recognition
Hun Sen Asks Businesses to Serve Local Foods
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday reiterated comments made by government officials Tuesday that government institutions, hotels and restaurants should begin serving local cuisine and produce to generate more cash flow in the tourism sector. ...
Sok Siphana’s law firm joins ZICOlaw
Lawyer and government advisor Sok Siphana has made his law firm, Sok Siphana & Associates, a member of ZICOlaw, a leading regional law firm based in Kuala Lumpur and focused on the ASEAN region. ...
Insight: Land conflict, impunity dims Cambodia's awakening
Cambodia’s transformation from war-torn basket-case to one of Asia’s most promising emerging economies is being overshadowed by a backwards lurch in human rights and land policies that critics say are entrenching poverty. ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/12/us-cambodia-protests-idUSBRE8AB17J20121112
Union Seeks Tax Reduction for Garment Workers
Factory workers should get a reduction or exemption from paying income tax as the deductions are forcing them into poverty, the Free Trade Union (FTU) wrote in a letter to Finance Minister Keat Chon. ...
Court hears of Chinese marriage traffickers
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday heard the case of three people who were charged with fraudulently obtaining passports for four Cambodian women in an attempt to send them to China for marriage. ...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-hears-of-chinese-marriage-traffickers-54927/
Truck ban for bamboo collectors
More than 50 villagers who collect bamboo and rattan in the forests of Kampot’s Teuk Chhou district called on Kampot provincial hall for intervention yesterday after their trucks were banned from the area. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/truck-ban-bamboo-collectors
Chainsaws confiscated by villagers
Ethnic Phnong villagers in Mondulkiri province’s Sen Monorom district will file a complaint with rights group Adhoc today against three men who allegedly illegally logged 10 cubic metres of timber from their forest. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chainsaws-confiscated-villagers
Former clerk from Banteay Meanchey jailed
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced a former Banteay Meanchey provincial court clerk to two years in jail after finding him guilty on corruption and bribery charges brought by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU). ...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/former-clerk-from-banteay-meanchey-jailed-55008/
ACU boss’s life ‘threatened’
The head of the country’s anti-graft body has said he has received two death threats since the unit responsible for directing investigations into public and private-sector corruption was established in 2010. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/acu-boss%E2%80%99s-life-%E2%80%98threatened%E2%80%99
Marching rights activists blocked at starting point
More than a hundred monks and rights activists marching to Phnom Penh for International Human Rights Day were blocked by soldiers and police at their starting point in Takeo province’s Kirivong district yesterday. ...
Vandy Muong
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/marching-rights-activists-blocked-starting-point
Officials tour Nauru, fail to meet refugees
A Cambodian delegation that arrived in Nauru on Tuesday for high-level meetings to progress a controversial refugee resettlement scheme has toured Australian-run detention centres on the island, according to a rights group. ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/officials-tour-nauru-fail-meet-refugees
Teachers union worried textbooks may be sold
A district education official in Preah Vihear may be hoarding state textbooks to sell at the market rather than distributing them to perennially book-strapped schools, according to the Cambodian Independent Teachers Association (CITA). ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teachers-union-worried-textbooks-may-be-sold
Environmental groups urge Cambodia PM to press Laos to cancel dam project
Conservation groups have called on Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to press Lao President Choummaly Sayasone to postpone the construction of the much-criticized Don Sahong dam project on the Mekong River in Laos. ...
Ounkeo Souksavanh
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/efforts-to-cancel-dam-project-02252015161706.html
Civil servants, armed forces given additional allowance for Khmer New Year
Prime Minister Hun Sen said that the government decided to provide additional 40,000 Riel (about $10) to civil servants and armed forces in April. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/civil-servants-armed-forces-given-additional-allowance-for-khmer-new-year-8236