Gov’t settles land dispute after Hun Sen’s visit
Just two days after Prime Minister Hun Sen promised to resolve a 20-year-old land dispute in Siem Reap City, the government on Friday issued a subdecree that divides 115 hectares of the contested plot between more than 700 families. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-settles-land-dispute-after-hun-sens-visit-82132/
Gov’t denies refugee arrivals from Nauru imminent
The Ministry of Interior on Sunday said no refugees from Nauru were expected to arrive in Cambodia for the next few days, contradicting recent comments from the International Organization for Migration (IOM). ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-denies-refugee-arrivals-from-nauru-imminent-82118/
Kampot police may arrest protest leader
Military police in Kampot province on Monday said they would arrest a vocal member of a Chhuk district community locked in a land dispute with the provincial government if he failed to produce land titles for the hundreds of families claiming part of the contested ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kampot-police-may-arrest-protest-leader-84800/
NGOs call for a chance to comment on regulations
With the approval last week of a draft NGO law by Cambodia’s Council of Ministers, many pro-democracy and rights advocates say they should now have a chance to add their comments on the bill, before it goes to the National Assembly for debate. ...
Sok Khemara
http://bit.ly/1Gciimj
Officials’ affairs may be secret under law
Any information that is damaging to Cambodia’s national security or public order, affects its relationship with other countries or threatens the Kingdom’s economy or finances could be withheld from the public under a draft law on access to information. ...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-affairs-may-be-secret-under-law
Three injured in clash between rival Labor Unions
Three members of the Free Trade Union were hospitalized after being beaten by members of a rival union during a protest Wednesday morning at the SH International garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district, union and police officials said. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-injured-in-clash-between-rival-labor-unions-85350/
Garment workers again target $177 minimum wage
Cambodia’s garment workers will renew their campaign for a monthly wage of $177 next month, when talks start for a new minimum wage, labor leaders said yesterday. ...
Va Sonyka
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12352/garment-workers-again-target--177-minimum-wage/
Farmer says Montagnards crossed river
An ethnic Jarai villager in Ratanakkiri province said Monday that two men claiming to be Montagnard asylum seekers approached him on his farm on Sunday looking for help after swimming across the Sesan River to escape Vietnamese police three days earlier. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/farmer-says-montagnards-crossed-river-85627/
Trade Unions agree on $177 wage demand
A group of nine trade unions representing some of the country’s 700,000 garment workers agreed on Monday to push for a $177 monthly minimum wage for the sector during fast-approaching negotiations, matching the figure they unsuccessfully lobbied for last year. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/trade-unions-agree-on-177-wage-demand-86349/
Hundreds of opponents of NGO bill deliver petition to lawmakers
A group of 300 pro-democracy and rights organizations and their supporters delivered a petition to the National Assembly on Tuesday, calling for lawmakers to reject a draft law to regulate NGOs. ...
Neou Vannarin
http://bit.ly/1Nh3sxF
RTB Technology to refocus on connected devices
RTB Technology, an IT-gadget distributor, is gearing up to cash in on the emerging market for connected devices as it aims to grow revenue this year by 10 per cent to Bt450 million. However, apart from expanding its line of products to cover the two ...
Asina Pornwasin
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/RTB-Technology-to-refocus-on-connected-devices-30262946.html
Cambodia villager held in attack on Chinese worker over land dispute
Police in Cambodia’s Tbong Khmum province on Friday arrested a villager accused of injuring a Chinese worker and his translator in a long running land dispute. ...
Saut Sok Pratna
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/cambodia-villager-06262015153727.html
Posts ministry launches low-cost van service
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications on Monday launched a low-cost van service that will shepherd passengers and goods across the country in what he said he hoped would be a profitable venture for the government. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/posts-ministry-launches-low-cost-van-service-86882/
PFS lowers capital cost estimates for Renaissance’s Cambodia gold project
The PFS estimated that the project would require capital investment of $120-million, which was down from the $133-million estimated in the 2014 scoping study, while life-of-mine cash costs also decreased from the $735/oz estimated in the scoping study, to $684/oz. ...
Esmarie Swanepoel
http://www.miningweekly.com/article/pfs-lowers-capital-cost-estimates-for-renaissances-cambodia-gold-project-2015-07-27
Sar Kheng: Sub-national level budgets to be paid via bank to stop corruption
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng announced on Tuesday that the budgets for sub-national administrations next year will be paid via the bank to prevent corruption and ensure transparency. He also warned officials not to abuse power for personal gain. Sar Kheng was speaking at the ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-sub-national-level-budgets-be-paid-bank-stop-corruption
Patrol finds 200 snares in forest community
More than 200 illegal snares have over the past two weeks been removed from the Prambei Mom Forest community area in Kampong Speu’s Thpong district. Liv Sarum said on Thursday that patrols of the forest community in Prambei Mom commune found the traps, with 117 ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/patrol-finds-200-snares-forest-community
Mondulkiri officials ‘cleared forest’
Members of the indigenous Bunong tribe and civil society organisations on Wednesday filed a complaint against local authorities in Mondulkiri for illegally clearing 300ha of protected forest. The cleared land is located in O’Raing district’s Pou Les village. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-officials-cleared-forest
Masterplan for Preah Sihanouk province
Preah Sihanouk province will soon become a multi-purpose special economic zone and potentially the industrial hub of Cambodia, according to a senior official from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50688097/masterplan-for-preah-sihanouk-province
Electronic tablets to help disburse welfare funds
The Social Affairs Ministry has distributed over 1,000 electronic tablets to provincial authorities meant to be used to help disburse welfare funds to impoverished pregnant women and children under two-years-old. ...
Sun Mesa
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50675451/electronic-tablets-to-help-disburse-welfare-funds
Concern as census counts just over 170 cranes in protected wetlands
Environmental technical teams and bird conservationists on Sunday expressed concern for the biodiversity of birds in the wetlands due to the water shortage this year. The concern comes as this year’s ongoing crane census has so far recorded more than 170 of them in the ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/concern-census-counts-just-over-170-cranes-protected-wetlands