Deportations in K Chhnang go on
Another 17 people are to be deported for living illegally in Kampong Chhnang province, bringing the total number of deportations to more than 500 nationwide since a foreigner census began in late August. ...
Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/deportations-k-chhnang-go
Luxury wood confiscated in Banteay Meanchey
Police and Forestry Administration officials in Banteay Meanchey province confiscated more than 120 pieces of illegally logged luxury-grade wood in two separate operations on Tuesday and Wednesday, officials said Thursday. In one case, authorities on Wednesday found 75 pieces of beng and thnong wood inside a ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/luxury-wood-confiscated-in-banteay-meanchey-71893/
Massive luxury timber haul in Mondulkiri
Forestry Administration officials in Mondulkiri province are on the lookout for illegal loggers, after finding 130 pieces of luxury-grade timber in Koh Nhek district. The find comes on the heels of 3,221 pieces of timber found in Mondulkiri’s Pech Chreada district last month. ...
Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/massive-luxury-timber-haul-mondulkiri
Fainting figures jumped in 2014: government
Workplace faintings last year jumped more than 100 per cent from 2013, a report from the Ministry of Labour and National Social Security Fund (NSSF) released yesterday says. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fainting-figures-jumped-2014-government
Suspect in tycoon’s murder questioned
Seang Veasna, the suspected gunman in the murder of Ung Meng Cheu allegedly orchestrated by fugitive tycoon Thong Sarath, was questioned again at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday regarding his whereabouts on the night of the November 2014 shooting. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/suspect-tycoons-murder-questioned
Activist ‘thorn in govt’s side’
As opposition grew yesterday over plans to remove Areng dam activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson from the country when his visa expires later this week, analysts said the government was hoping to clear the way to develop the valley. ...
Alice Cuddy and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/activist-thorn-govts-side
Notification on overtime working in factories
Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training informs owners and directors of factories about requests for approvals from the ministry if they wish their workers and employees to work overtime. This overtime work is based on agreements of the workers and employees while the total time ...
Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training
National cassava body in the works
A year after establishing the Cambodia Rice Federation, the Ministry of Commerce is planning to set up a cassava organisation to boost production of the root vegetable in the Kingdom. According to Ratha, the federation will work similarly to the Cambodia Rice Federation and will ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-cassava-body-works
Chinese puppetry show launched in Cambodia
An eight-member troupe of China’s Fujian puppetry practitioners performed the show here on Wednesday. Held at the Chinese Cultural Mansion in Cambodia, the show drew dozens of viewers, including Cambodian Culture and Fine Arts Secretary of State Samraing Kamsan, Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo and ...
Ecns.cn News Staff
http://www.ecns.cn/2015/03-12/157756.shtml
First gibbon born in Angkor Park
The 21st century welcomed its first baby gibbon at Cambodia’s Angkor Archaeological Park, in a celebrated step towards the conservation of an endangered species. ...
Michelle Tam
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/03/19/Gibbon-Angkor-Park/
UNOPS to open office in Cambodia
Grete Faremo, executive director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), said on Monday that UNOPS has a plan to open its office in Cambodia. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/150323/unops-open-office-cambodia
UN agency plans office in capital
A United Nations development agency will open a new office in Phnom Penh following a meeting yesterday with Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong, an official has said. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/un-agency-plans-office-capital
In Cambodia, domestic workers get organized
Their ranks are small but growing, and they want their government to join an international labor treaty. “If we organize, we can help each other,” says a 25-year-old housekeeper who started working when she was 10 and earns $75 a month. ...
Kristi Eaton
http://womensenews.org/story/labor/150403/in-cambodia-domestic-workers-get-organized
Gate’s design blamed in arson
A decorative gate erected in Siem Reap province’s Angkor Archaeological Park for the upcoming Khmer New Year festivities was burned down in the early hours of yesterday morning, following a backlash against its so-called Vietnamese design. Siem Reap Deputy Governor Bun Tharith said the gate – ...
Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gates-design-blamed-arson
Brit hauled in on drug allegations
Police in Preah Sihanouk province yesterday arrested a British national in a guesthouse for alleged drug possession. ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/brit-hauled-drug-allegations
Suit v countersuit in Preah Vihear
Members of a forest community and local officials in Preah Vihear province have renewed a legal battle over a small patch of woodland in Rovieng district after the villagers last year accused the officials and a landowner of illegally profiting from the protected area. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/suit-v-countersuit-preah-vihear
Land official accused in construction feud
A complaint lodged with the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) alleges that a high-level planning official in Phnom Penh has been illegally building a house that has caused damage to neighbouring buildings, and used his influence to override a court order for construction to stop. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-official-accused-construction-feud
More montagnards arrive in Phnom Penh
Eleven more Montagnard asylum seekers arrived in Phnom Penh this week, bringing to 85 the number waiting to apply for refugee status, the U.N. said Tuesday. ...
Chris Mueller and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-montagnards-arrive-in-phnom-penh-84895/
Still more fishermen rescued in Indonesia
The number of Cambodians recently found in Indonesia after being trafficked onto Thai fishing vessels has risen to 230, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press statement released yesterday. ...
Cheang Sokha and Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/still-more-fishermen-rescued-indonesia
US Army weighing cache in Cambodia
The US Army is currently considering Cambodia as a possible host for some of its extensive stockpiles of equipment kept overseas, known as “prepositioned stocks”. ...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-army-weighing-cache-cambodia