Daun Ov community in Dangkor district has submitted a petition to the city hall to resolve the land issue
Nearly 80 people representing 56 families in Daun Ov community, Sangkat Cheung Ek, Khan Dangkor, who are worried about eviction, have urged the Phnom Penh authorities to expedite the issuance of land titles. And on-site development. ...
Phon Sotthyroth and Runn Sreydeth
https://khmer.cambojanews.com/daun-ouv-community-in-dangkor-district-has-submitted-a-petition-to-the-city-hall-to-help-resolve-the-land-issue/
Trade pressures on Cambodia
Cambodia’s economic policies are relatively liberal for the region, and its investment and trade regimes remain attractive. However, being a small and open economy, Cambodia is susceptible to external changes and shocks. Global trade growth slowed in the second half of 2022 and further deceleration ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501307802/trade-pressures-on-cambodia/
No closure yet for slain anti-logging fighter Chut Wutty after 12 years, activists call for reinvestigation
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and activists called on the government to reinvestigate the case of anti-logging activist Chut Wutty who was shot dead on April 26, 2012. ...
Peace a Priority as Officials Prepare for CNRP Rally Security
With the opposition CNRP expecting at least 10,000 people to turn out for a rally in Phnom Penh on Monday, a military police official said Thursday that any attempt to disturb the peace would not be tolerated. Brigadier General Kheng Tito, spokesman for the military police, ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/peace-a-priority-as-officials-prepare-for-cnrp-rally-security-40678/
Parties Agree to Let UN Observe Election Investigation
The CPP and opposition CNRP agreed during a meeting at the National Assembly on Friday that the U.N. can observe an investigation into irregularities in last month’s national election, but continued to disagree that the National Election Committee (NEC) lead the investigation. After the two parties ...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/parties-agree-to-let-un-observe-election-investigation-39056/
More than 100 workers faint at Shenzhou garment factory
More than 100 workers of Shenzhou garment factory in Phnom Penh fainted Thursday, one day after a similar mass fainting at the same factory. The first workers fainted at about 8 a.m., setting off a chain reaction that sent the entire workforce running from the factory ...
Matt Blomberg and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-100-workers-faint-at-shenzhou-garment-factory-55766/
Rights groups file complaint against dutch MFI investor Oikocredit
Three NGOs filed a complaint Monday to a Dutch government watchdog accusing social investor Oikocredit of failing to conduct due diligence by investing in Cambodian microfinance institutions (MFIs) whose lending practices have been linked to rights abuses. ...
Jack Brook and Khuon Narim
https://cambojanews.com/rights-groups-file-complaint-against-dutch-mfi-investor-oikocredit/
NEC upholds convictions against opposition members for inciting spoiled ballots
The National Election Committee (NEC) upheld the decisions of provincial election officials Thursday, who had convicted four opposition members and activists for inciting spoiled ballots in the national election. ...
Khuon Narim
https://cambojanews.com/nec-upholds-convictions-against-opposition-members-for-inciting-spoiled-ballots/
Indigenous communities urge action on collective land titles
Just 38 indigenous communities out of 455 have received communal land titles since the government first made them available in 2009, with indigenous activists and rights groups bemoaning the notoriously slow process. ...
Son Sarak
https://cambojanews.com/indigenous-communities-urge-action-on-collective-land-titles/
Hun Sen speaks out about Phnom Penh houses confiscated by construction company
A group of over 1,000 families in Phnom Penh effectively advocated for the Prime Minister to speak out after they say the construction company Borey Piphup Thmey violated their contracts and seized their homes. ...
Den Seymar
https://cambojanews.com/hun-sen-speaks-out-about-phnom-penh-houses-confiscated-by-construction-company/
TAFTAC official says he “won’t accept” union at his factory prior to union VP losing job
The deputy chairman of a major garment factory trade association said he will “not accept” a new union at his factory because he prefers a union run by a ruling CPP official. ...
Runn Sreydeth
https://cambojanews.com/taftac-official-says-he-wont-accept-union-at-his-factory-prior-to-union-vp-losing-job/
Teenager rescued after trafficked to China for marriage, police search for ringleader
Interior Ministry police are searching for the ringleader in a human trafficking case following the rescue of a 16-year-old who was trafficked to China. ...
Khuon Narim
https://cambojanews.com/teenager-rescued-after-trafficked-to-china-for-marriage-police-search-for-ringleader/
Hun Manet eyes business opportunities in France during first official visit
Prime Minister Hun Manet met with President Emmanuel Macron Thursday at the Élysée Palace on the first day of his official visit to France, where he emphasized possibilities for economic collaboration between the two countries. ...
Seoung Nimol
https://cambojanews.com/hun-manet-eyes-business-opportunities-in-france-during-first-official-visit/
ADB sees strong growth for developing Asia in 2015 and 2016
Developing Asia will maintain its strong economic growth in 2015 and 2016 supported by soft commodity prices and recovery in the major industrial economies, says a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) report. ADB’s flagship annual economic publication, Asian Development Outlook 2015 (ADO), released today, forecasts developing ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1DWutVM
Oral community to block entrance to forestland to protect from military clearance
Villagers in the Oral district of Kampong Speu province are digging in to protect what they claim as their community forest land, despite increasing pressure from the military to leave the site. ...
Sorn Sarath
https://cambojanews.com/oral-community-to-block-entrance-to-forestland-to-protect-from-military-clearance/
Five parties urge changes to the electoral laws
Five opposition parties that have been pushing for a change in the electoral law called for a constitutional amendment to reform membership of the National Election Committee. ...
Khuon Narim
https://cambojanews.com/five-parties-urge-changes-to-the-electoral-laws/
Son Chhay found guilty for defamation, ordered to pay CPP $750,000
The Phnom Penh court on Friday ordered opposition Candlelight Party vice president Son Chhay to pay the ruling CPP 3 billion riel ($750,000) in damages, finding him guilty of defamation for saying that voting fraud occurred during the June commune elections. ...
Sorn Sarath
https://cambojanews.com/son-chhay-found-guilty-for-defamation-ordered-to-pay-cpp-750000/
Policy improves garment workers’ safety but leaves bus drivers deep in debt
An ongoing NGO and Labor Ministry initiative aims to make garment workers’ commute safer by shifting their daily transportation from typically flatbed trucks to enclosed buses, but the costs of the expensive upgrades are being placed on drivers. ...
Sovann Sreypich
https://cambojanews.com/policy-improves-garment-workers-safety-but-leaves-bus-drivers-deep-in-debt/
Cambodian Government Promises Cities 100% Clean Water by 2025
Prime Minister Hun Sen promised that 100% of people living in Cambodia’s cities and towns will have access to clean running water by 2025. ...
Sovann Sreypich
https://cambojanews.com/cambodian-government-promises-cities-100-clean-water-by-2025/