New Zealand opens door to more flights to Philippines, Cambodia
The number of flights between New Zealand and Southeast Asia is set to grow with the approval of new air services agreements with the Philippines and Cambodia, Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee said Wednesday. “These agreements help provide New Zealanders with better access to Southeast Asia, providing ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=228794
On the march: Days-long strike shifts to district HQ
After striking for more than a week, employees at Phnom Penh’s Sun Well Shoes yesterday marched to Por Sen Chey district hall, demanding their voices be heard. Some 300 people marched from their Veng Sreng Boulevard factory with a list of seven demands, including the ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/march-days-long-strike-shifts-district-hq
Villagers in land fight use flames
Members of a Lao ethnic community in Ratanakkiri province allegedly burned down three makeshift houses belonging to a rubber plantation on Monday. The 250 villagers in Veun Sai district’s Hatpak village accuse Indian-owned SK Company of encroaching on the forest and ignoring markers demarcating village farmland, ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-land-fight-use-flames
Grand Twins’ listing date official, but late
The Cambodian Stock Exchange (CSX) has approved Grand Twins International’s (GTI) final submission of IPO documents and issued an official listing date of June 16. “Cambodia Securities Exchange has a great honor to inform the public that Grand Twins International (Cambodia) Plc is approved to be ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/grand-twins%E2%80%99-listing-date-official-late
Bridge not to blame, says ADB
A Battambang bridge project isn’t to blame for blocking a river and preventing water from reaching parched rice fields, an Asian Development Bank investigation concluded yesterday. Bavel district farmers accused the bank-funded construction project of choking the river since construction began in December, leaving their recently ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bridge-not-blame-says-adb
Gov’t called upon to stamp out child labor
The government must make more of an effort to not only eradicate child labor, but also its underlying causes, and ensure that children attend school, local rights group Licadho said Thursday. In a statement released ahead of World Day Against Child Labor, the group said the ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-called-upon-to-stamp-out-child-labor-61337/
Cambodian PM warns to fire opposition's deputy leader from post in parliament
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen warned to dismiss opposition’s deputy leader Kem Sokha from his current post of the first vice-president of the National Assembly after the latter repeatedly told his supporters that he was seeking ways to depose the prime minister and ministers. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-09/09/c_133630916.htm
Provincial officials delay UN search for Montagnards
Provincial authorities in Ratanakkiri province on the Vietnam border have yet to allow a team of UN workers to actively seek out a group of Montagnards potentially seeking asylum. UN refugee workers met with provincial officials for more than an hour on Wednesday, but no permission ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/provincial-officials-delay-un-search-for-montagnards/2562662.html
Ministry attempts to explain its interference in Sen Sok dispute
Representatives of 163 families embroiled in a long-running land dispute in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district met with officials from the Agriculture Ministry on Wednesday to ask why the ministry issued a letter last week requesting that the Phnom Penh Municipal Court hold off on ...
P Vihear families call on gov’t to stop logger
After almost five years of alleged illegal logging in Preah Vihear province’s Preah Rokar community forest by a local businessman, more than 100 villagers yesterday petitioned the provincial authorities to shut down his handicrafts company. The villagers say that the woodworking operation, owned by businessman Sar ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/p-vihear-families-call-govt-stop-logger
Rights group claims continued harassment in Oddar Meanchey
NGO workers interviewing evictees in Oddar Meanchey province said police pulled their car over without cause on Saturday and tried to seize one of their cameras, the third reported case of authorities in the area harassing the group’s staff in the past month. ...
Mech Dara and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rights-group-claims-continued-harassment-in-oddar-meanchey-69650/
Cargo shipments via Cambodia’s 2 largest ports continue to grow in 10 months
The Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, Cambodia’s largest shipping facility, reported a 14 percent increase in cargo shipments in the first ten months of 2014. The sea port received 2.84 million tonnes of goods during the January-October period this year, up 14 percent compared to the same period ...
Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
http://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/cargo-shipments-via-cambodias-2-largest-ports-continue-to-grow-in-10-months/
Obama gone, but education challenges remain
Following the fanfare surrounding the visit of First Lady Michelle Obama over the weekend, life in Siem Reap returned to normal this week. Many here say they were not aware of the first lady’s visit, and some said even though they were, they aren’t sure ...
Phorn Bopha
http://bit.ly/1BksB3k
Selling off the farm one truckload at a time
The recent ban on dredging sand from the Mekong has resulted in some people resorting to more innovative measures to obtain landfill. On the island of Koh Oknha Tey, also known as Silk Island, people pay from 7,000 to 10,000 riels per cart-load for delivery ...
Bob Wiltshire
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12283/selling-off-the-farm-one-truckload-at-a-time/
Verdicts delivered in general’s murder case
In the first verdict handed down in the case against Major General Thong Sarath, who stands accused of masterminding a fellow tycoon’s assassination, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday sentenced him and one of his bodyguards to 30 months in jail for illegal weapons ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/first-verdicts-delivered-in-generals-murder-case-85609/
Japan contributes to ASEAN, India in retail, railway
AEON Mall, a subsidiary of Japan’s largest retailer AEON Group, recently launched its first shopping mall in Indonesia. The Japanese government has also decided to provide Overseas Development Assistance to the country. It includes renovation of aging signal equipments for the Myanmar railways. ...
The Financial Express News Staff
http://bit.ly/1IgT4FZ
S. Korean-funded roads opens to traffic in Cambodia
Roads built with low-interest policy loans from South Korea have opened to traffic in Cambodia, the finance ministry said Monday. The roads near the Vietnamese border in the Southern part of Cambodia, are part of a broader infrastructure project undertaken by Phnom Penh to meet ...
Yonhap News Agency Staff
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/business/2015/06/29/0503000000AEN20150629005200320.html
Travel competitiveness: Philippines improves to 74th
The ranking of the Philippines has improved from 82nd in 2013 to 74th in the latest World Economic Forum (WEF) Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2015. In terms of air transport infrastructure, the Philippines scored 2.77 versus Singapore’s 5.26 and Cambodia’s 2.1. ...
Ted Torres
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2015/07/22/1479635/travel-competitiveness-philippines-improves-74th
Lawmakers urge Constitutional Council to amend NGO law
A group of opposition lawmakers has urged the Constitutional Council to amend a contentious law on regulating NGOs in the country. Prum Nhean Vicheth, a spokesman for the Constitutional Council, confirmed receipt of the petition and said the Council will be considering the draft law ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/lawmakers-urge-constitutional-council-to-amend-ngo-law/2886994.html
Environmentalists issue warning on Mekong biodiversity
Scientists say the Southeast Asia’s rapid development is driving deforestation in the vital Mekong Subregion, and threatening scores of species in one of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems. Trafficking in plant and animal wildlife is accelerating the trend, and governments are being pressed to do ...
Ron Corben
http://www.voanews.com/content/enviornmentalists-issue-warning-on-mekong-biodiversity/2888102.html