Incitement trial begins for NagaWorld union leader and eight strikers
<p>NagaWorld union leader Chhim Sithar and eight co-defendants appeared for their first day of trial in phnom penh Municipal Court on Tuesday. Sithar and all her colleagues, except for one, denied the incitement charges against them. ...p>
Khuon Narim and Sovann Sreypich
https://cambojanews.com/incitement-trial-begins-for-nagaworld-union-leader-and-eight-strikers/
Siem Reap villagers protest APSARA authority restrictions, seek land titles
<p>Around 100 villagers representing thousands of families from seven Siem Reap communities facing land conflicts delivered petitions to relevant ministries in phnom penh, requesting land titles and solutions from provincial and national authorities this week. ...p>
Khuon Narim
https://cambojanews.com/siem-reap-villagers-protest-apsara-restrictions-seek-land-titles/
World Bank fund halt irks officials
<p>THE government expressed disappointment yesterday with the World Bank’s announcement that it had halted new country loans due to the ongoing land dispute at Boeung Kak lake in phnom penh and vowed to raise the issue with the bank’s executive board. “We are very dissatisfied ...p>
Fainting factory goes on sick-leave strike
<p>More than 100 workers at a garment factory hit by a mass fainting incident in late July went on strike yesterday to demand the dismissal of a supervisor they accused of denying them the right to take sick leave.
The strike at Hung Wah (Cambodia) Garment ...p>
Oz Minerals Sells M'Kiri Gold Assets
<p>After more than three years of disappointment in its search for large gold deposits in Mondolkiri province, Australian mining firm OZ Minerals has decided to sell its Cambodian assets to another Australian company
In a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange, OZ Minerals said that it ...p>
Fertilizer Giant Opens New Branch
<p>The petroVietnam Fertilizer and Chemicals Joint Stock Company (pVFCCo) officially inaugurated its branch in Cambodia on July 29 with an aim to sell products directly to local farmers. Since the establishment of its representative office in phnom penh in May 2010, pVFCCo, an affiliate of ...p>
Budget fears as TB figures fall
<p>Health officials and workers are concerned about budget shortages for the treatment of tuberculosis in the Kingdom as new data reveals that prevalence of the disease has declined 37 percent from 2002, officials said yesterday.
Mao Tan Eang, director of the National Centre for Tuberculosis and ...p>
Workers Call For Factory Official to Go
<p>More than 1000 factory workers protested in phnom penh yesterday outside the Sun Well Shoes Company factory in pur Senchey district, demanding higher wages and the dismissal of the factory’s administration chief, union representatives said.
Tep Saroeun, a union representative at Sun Well Shoes Company in ...p>
Trucks Banned on Phnom Penh Streets for Duration of Summit
<p>phnom penh City Hall has banned all trucks transporting goods and gasoline from traveling on the city’s roads in daytime hours to ease traffic during the Asean Summit, according to a notice placed on the municipality’s website Saturday.
The Ministry of Education has also told 12 ...p>
Workers Protest at Factory Linked to Manhattan SEZ
<p>More than 3,000 factory workers protested yesterday at the Manhattan Quing Dao Textiles Corp in Kompong Cham province’s Kompong Siem District to demand that the factory owner abide by an Arbitration Council Ruling issued in late 2010, a union representative said yesterday.
The factory web site ...p>
Maid may be stuck in Malaysia
<p>The mother of a domestic maid allegedly stranded in Malaysia has become the latest Cambodian claimant to file an official complaint to the Ministry of Interior over labor abuse in the country.
Em Sokhum said her 24-year-old daughter Chher Sophorn left to pursue work in Malaysia more than ...p>
Five arrested for trying to traffic women to China
<p>Anti-human trafficking police in phnom penh arrested three Cambodians and two Chinese nationals after the group tried to traffic two young women—who had been promised wealthy husbands—to work as prostitutes in China, police said Monday.
Keo Thea, chief of the municipal anti-human trafficking police, said the ...p>
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/five-arrested-for-trying-to-traffic-women-to-china-52479/
Tycoon gunned down in Phnom Penh
<p>A prominent phnom penh businessman died after being shot six times by an unidentified gunman outside a fruit shop in Chamkar Mon district on Saturday, according to military police, who believe the murder was an assassination.
Ung Meng Chue, 53, a construction tycoon who held the ...p>
Saing Soenthrith, Hay Pisey and Alex Consiglio
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tycoon-gunned-down-in-phnom-penh-72866/
Like father like son, Hun Manet appears to model Hun Sen’s political rhetoric
<p>Since being endorsed by the Cambodian people’s party in December as the ruling party’s only prime minister candidate, Hun Manet is increasingly appearing in public, taking his father’s place at events ranging from the inauguration of military buildings to road openings. ...p>
Sorn Sarath
https://cambojanews.com/like-father-like-son-hun-manet-appears-to-model-hun-sens-political-rhetoric/
Land Titles Needed to Drive Investment in Agriculture
<p>The issue of using land titles to encourage banks to boost their lending to the agriculture sector was raised at the “Empower Your Business: Riding on Cambodia’s Growth” seminar in phnom penh on July 21. “Seventy percent of the population is undertaking agriculture as their ...p>
SRP calls to suspend Prey Long rubber firm
<p>Opposition party lawmaker Son Chhay has sent a letter to Deputy prime Minister Sok An asking for the immediate suspension of a Vietnamese rubber plantation in the endangered prey Long forest, accusing the firm of illegal deforestation.
In the letter dated Wednesday, Mr Chhay also asked ...p>
Ongpin’s Atok buys Hong Kong company
<p>Atok-Big Wedge Co. Inc., a listed company owned by the group of former Trade minister Roberto Ongpin, acquired Tidemark Holdings Ltd., a Hong Kong company that owns 25.9 percent of Forum Energy plc, an oil and gas firm controlled by philex Mining Corp.
Atok-Big Wedge said ...p>
Agriculture Sector
<p>A better outlook for the price of Cambodian major crops, especially cassava and soybeans, drives the upward revision of growth of the other crops subsector.
This in turn leads to a marginal upward revision of growth of the agriculture sector to an annualized rate of 4.6 percent, from 4.5 percent in our January ...p>
Massage Parlor Raid Suspects Sent to Court
<p>Seven Vietnamese nationals arrested during simultaneous raids on a pair of massage parlors in central phnom penh on Thursday night have been sent to the phnom penh Municipal Court for their role in the alleged trafficking of minors, police and a child-protection NGO said Sunday.
“We ...p>
Ben Woods and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/massage-parlor-raid-suspects-sent-to-court-46521/
Cambodia and N-Korea Update Trade Ties
<p>Ouch Borith, Secretary of State for Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and Ri Myong San, Trade Vice-Minister of DpRK, signed an agreement where Cambodia and North Korea agreed to expand bilateral trade, technology, agriculture, industry, investment and the health sector on July ...p>