Father Suing Rubber Firm for Beating His Three Children
The father of three children attacked with wooden sticks and steel poles by employees of well-connected DM Group in Ratanakkiri province has filed a lawsuit against the firm, and is asking for tens of thousands of dollars in compensation. .. The provincial court has charged the ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/father-suing-rubber-firm-for-beating-his-three-children-22805/
Cambodia-Japan trade volume up 14% in 3 months
Bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and Japan had amounted to 180 million U.S. dollars in the first three months of this year, up 14 percent compared with the 158 million U.S. dollars at the same period last year, a report of the Japan External Trade ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-05/14/c_132381154.htm
Try Pheap given OK to harvest yellow vine
Logging baron Try Pheap’s MDS Import Export Co, Ltd has been granted a licence to collect and process the controversial plant known as yellow vine around the Stung Atay hydropower dam in the Cardamom Mountains, according to documents received by the Post yesterday. The vine has ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060466045/National/try-pheap-given-ok-to-harvest-yellow-vine.html
Commune officials to solve factory disputes
In response to a growing number of strikes in the country’s highly profitable garment sector, the government trained 15 handpicked commune officials yesterday to mediate and resolve factory disputes. The training was designed to teach commune councillors to defuse and resolve conflict, Buth Ji, director of ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/commune-officials-solve-factory-disputes
Limited Trafficking, Rampant Abuse in Thai Fishing Industry
Only one of the 241 Cambodians questioned for the largest survey of the notoriously abusive Thai fishing industry’s workforce to date said he was forced into the job, according to a new report by the International Labor Organization (ILO). Though some of the findings are in ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/limited-trafficking-rampant-abuse-in-thai-fishing-industry-41643/
Turmoil marks year in labour
When unions and the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) signed a memorandum of understanding in October last year, both sides were confident strikes in the Kingdom’s biggest export sector could be kept to a minimum. Not counting December, GMAC has recorded 131 strikes this ...
Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/turmoil-marks-year-labour
Speech therapists to help fill void
Forty-eight Cambodians will graduate today from what is being heralded as the Kingdom’s first speech-therapy training program. The graduates have been trained to fill a void in speech- and language-therapy services for an estimated 536,000 people in Cambodia affected by communication and swallowing disorders, according to ...
Amelia Woodside and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/speech-therapists-help-fill-void
Pursat Villagers Get No More Compensation
A representative of the Try Pheap Group said Tuesday that villagers in Pursat province who attempted to march to a public forum on Monday to ask authorities to intervene in a land dispute would not receive any further compensation after losing the right to the ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pursat-villagers-get-no-more-compensation-49418/
UN envoy expected to arrive in Cambodia for human rights assessment
United Nations envoy is expected to arrived in Cambodia today, a week after the deadly crackdown by government forces against protesting workers on Veng Sreng street, which left five people dead. This is the first visit of Surya P. Subedi, UN Special Rapporteur on human ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=ZGYzMjE1Y2E4NWI
Cambodian-Americans Warn of Dangers of Political Deadlock
As demonstrations continued in Phnom Penh, Cambodian-Americans in Washington said this week that the international community can no longer stay out of Cambodian affairs, lest the political deadlock turn to violence. At a discussion at the National Press Club in Washington, held by the Khmer People’s ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodian-americans-warn-of-dangers-of-political-deadlock/1776213.html
UN Monitors in Cambodia to Inspect Prisons for Use of Torture
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has ordered all prison, detention and rehabilitation center chiefs to accommodate and give full access to delegates from the U.N.’s Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT), whose five-day mission to assess the use of torture, cruelty and other inhumane treatment ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-monitors-in-cambodia-to-inspect-prisons-for-use-of-torture-48963/
Kids key in disaster planning
Stronger disaster planning is needed to avoid future devastation and loss of life caused by flooding, according to a report published by World Vision yesterday. The report, titled Cities Prepare, recommends that the Cambodian government and civil society work to place “a stronger emphasis on disaster risk ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kids-key-disaster-planning
Cambodia Opposition Leader Urges Halt to Forest Land Concessions
Cambodia’s opposition leader called Wednesday for a halt to land concessions granted by the government to foreign companies in the country’s vast Prey Lang Forest, calling for greater protection of one of Southeast Asia’s last remaining lowland evergreen woodlands. Cambodia National Rescue Party President Sam ...
Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/prey-lang-12112013181039.html
Innovative Cambodia method could curb TB cases
A fast-track approach in identifying patients with tuberculosis (TB) may help tackle the spread of the disease in the city. Currently, the WHO-approved model is practiced in Cambodia to reduce the burden of TB. “The idea is to identify patients who come into hospital with ...
Jyoti Shelar
http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Innovative-Cambodia-method-could-curb-TB-cases/articleshow/22642784.cms
RCAF evicting for bases: NGO
The Royal Cambodian Armed Forces have evicted nearly 1,000 families in 14 provinces in the past five years, ostensibly to build military bases, according to a report released by rights group Adhoc yesterday. The report outlined Adhoc’s concerns over ongoing land disputes between local communities and ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rcaf-evicting-bases-ngo
New local carrier to launch flights
A new local airline is applying to fly in Cambodia, according to aviation officials, at a time when the market is monopolised by national flag carrier Cambodia Angkor Air and a handful of carriers offering chartered routes. Royal Spirit Airlines last Friday met with the State ...
Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-local-carrier-launch-flights
High Rate of HIV Infection Among Intravenous Drug Users
While Cambodia is often touted as a regional success story in terms of HIV/AIDS prevention, the prevalence of the disease among men who have sex with men, sex workers and intravenous drug users remains a concern, according to a report by UNAIDS released Tuesday. Infections have ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/high-rate-of-hiv-infection-among-intravenous-drug-users-47385/
Cambodia, Japan to issue exemptions, long-term and multiple visas
In order to promote and facilitate people to people exchange between Cambodia and Japan, both governments have agreed on visa exemptions and the issuance of long-term and multiple visas, according to a press release issued by Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. In the ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=NzNkNzY5YjMxZTk
Cambodia’s rice under fire
Amid falling local production in Italy, officials there are calling on the European Union to scrap a preferential trade agreement that gives Cambodia’s rice exports duty-free advantages in the global market. According to a January 31 report from rice industry publication Oryza, members of the Italian ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia%E2%80%99s-rice-under-fire
Casino owner’s woes persist
The share price of Cambodian casino owner Entertainment Gaming Asia has fallen below the minimum requirement of the Nasdaq Stock Market, threatening the gaming company’s US listing, according to a statement posted on EGA’s website last week. EGA has been given 180 days – until October ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/casino-owner%E2%80%99s-woes-persist