Powerless Phnom Penh Struggles With Hot Season
As air-conditioning units slow to a halt, computers die and the lights go out, the frustration of local business owners and organizations in Phnom Penh is boiling over once again as the annual hot season blackouts have arrived. The 190-megawatt, Chinese-built Kamchay hydropower dam in ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/powerless-phnom-penh-struggles-with-hot-season-15655/
Villagers Protest Eviction by Chinese Company
More than 100 villagers living on a 20-hectare swath of a rubber plantation in Ratanakkirri province gathered outside O’Chum commune hall yesterday to protest their eviction at the hands of a Chinese company, local officials and rights activists said. About 120 families from Trang Churng Village ...
Map connects factories and buyers
In light of ongoing disputes over working conditions in the garment sector, the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR) released yesterday details on hundreds of factories it believes will offer greater transparency along the garment supply chain – from producers to buyers – and shine ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013070166578/Business/map-connects-factories-and-buyers.html
‘Take it or leave it’
The uncle of a man who died in Thursday’s ceiling collapse at the Wing Star Shoes factory in Kampong Speu province claimed yesterday that the company had threatened to give the family nothing if they did not agree to an on-the-spot payout. It came as a ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065719/National/take-it-or-leave-it.html
New Campaign Aims to Clean Phnom Penh’s Drainage System
The Phnom Penh Municipality on Saturday launched a new campaign to clean up the city’s drainage system in an effort to alleviate chronic flooding during the rainy season. The campaign would encourage people to discard their waste correctly and would also see City Hall cleaning the ...
Mech Dara and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-campaign-aims-to-clean-phnom-penhs-drainage-system-40812/
(English) Cambodia's ruling party lawmakers say opposition staging coup against Hun Sen gov't
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Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-12/23/c_132989140.htm
Prime Real Estate May Be Set for Development
A 5,000-square-meter plot of land owned by the local Sokimex Group on Phnom Penh’s Street 154, near Wat Ounalom and Kandal market, could be the site of a new, multi-story hotel, the conglomerate’s CEO said Tuesday. Sok Kong, Sokimex CEO, said Tuesday that construction of a ...
Aun Pheap and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/prime-real-estate-may-be-set-for-development-46269/
អង្គការសហប្រជាជាតិចង់ស៊ើបអង្កេតលើអំពើហិង្សានៅកម្ពុជា
ភ្នាក់ងារសិទ្ធិមនុស្សអង្គការសហប្រជាជាតិបានទទូចអោយកម្ពុជាធ្វើការស៊ើបអងេ្កតទៅលើវិសមាត្រនៃការប្រើប្រាស់កំលាំងដោយកងកំលាំងសន្តិសុខកាលពីសប្តាហ៏មុនប្រឆាំងទៅនឹងកម្មករោងចក្រកាត់ដេរដែលធ្វើកូដកម្មលើបញ្ហាប្រាក់ឈ្នួល។ ...
បុគ្គលិកសារព័ត៌មាន Peninsula On-line News
http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/asia/267595/un-wants-probe-into-cambodian-violence
A big thumbs-down
A Phnom Penh municipal official said yesterday that they would investigate mounting complaints that authorities have been forcing the capital’s residents to thumbprint letters supporting the preliminary election results and promising not to join demonstrations. Residents in Daun Penh and Tuol Kork districts told the Post ...
(English) Cambodia’s Ruling, Opposition Parties at Odds Over Electoral Body Reform
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Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/reform-03102014163840.html
(English) Mixed message to UN
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Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mixed-message-un
(English) Second death confirmed on Kompong Speu sugar plantation
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Kuch Naren and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/second-death-confirmed-on-kompong-speu-sugar-plantation-54417/
(English) Sihanouk statue waves down on Royal Palace
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Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sihanouk-statue-waves-down-on-royal-palace-56896/
(English) Japan to Install “Smart” Traffic Lights Throughout Cambodia’s Capital
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Sebastian Strangio
http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/japan-jica-install-smart-system-of-traffic-lights-phnom-penh
1,000 hectare land grab alleged
Villagers in Preah Sihanouk province have accused a businessman of bulldozing almost 1,000 hectares of their farm land in complaints filed to relevant authorities and the provincial court last week. Pin Lean Hun, a village representative, said yesterday rice paddies, vegetable patches and jackfruit trees ...
Court issues injunction to top rice milling firm
Battambang provincial court has issued an injunction halting the sale of any part of Loran Import Export Company in a dispute over ownership of the prominent rice milling firm, according to a statement. The plaintiffs, including prominent media personality Soy Sopheap as well as Uy Ang ...
Court sentences recruitment agency manager
Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday sentenced the manager of job recruitment agency VC Manpower to 13 months in prison for ilegally detaining underage recruits at a Phnom Penh training center, while the firm’s foreign director was convicted in absentia to eight years’ imprisonment General Manager ...
Cambodia-South Korea trade jumps 45%
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and South Korea jumped more than 40 per cent year-on-year through September, according to the Korea Trade Investment Promotion Agency. Total trade between January and September reached $387 million, according to KOTRA, up 45 per cent from $267 million during the year-ago ...
After clashes, tentative agreement for Borei Keila
Following their fourth protest in as many weeks, residents of Phnom Penh’s displaced Borei Keila community yesterday reached a tentative housing agreement with development firm Phanimex, company and village representatives said yesterday. The meeting came after a protest yesterday morning in which more than 100 residents ...
Prison chiefs eagerly await labor programs law
Prison directors across the country said yesterday they were eager to launch for-profit manufacturing programs following the expected passage of a controversial prison law that legalizes such schemes. Human rights groups, however, called on the government to strike the provision, saying that it would violate ...