Bavet town shooting victims summonsed again
For the second time, court officials want to question three female workers who say they were shot and wounded by former Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith at a labour protest earlier this year. The second summons, which has outraged the women, stems from a complaint that ...
Tai Yang garment strikers sacked
Garment employees who have refused to return to work after striking for three weeks no longer have jobs at Tai Yang Enterprise, which supplies Levi’s and Gap, management said yesterday. Tired of strikes the company claims are costing it US$10,000 per day, administrative manager Ou Meng ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071657439/National-news/tai-yang-strikers-sacked.html
Villagers’ homes levelled in Pursat
A coalition of about 30 soldiers, police, forestry officials and military police armed with chainsaws razed some 40 houses belonging to villagers in Pursat province’s Santre commune yesterday, claiming the villagers were illegally living in a state forest, villagers and officials said. According to resident Chin ...
High electricity rates spark Kompong Cham protest
Residents in Kompong Cham province’s Kompong Siem district yesterday continued to protest in front of a commune official’s house for a second straight day over a private electricity provider whose rates they say are too high. Protesters say that Loun Sopheap Electric Company is still charging ...
The week at CSX
The price of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) stock varied only slightly between June 14 to June 21-hovering between KHR 6,600 (US$1.62) and KHR 6,700 (US$1.64). The relative stability tells investors that the stock is approaching its fundamental price, which experts say is between KHR 4,050 (US$0.99) and KHR 6,350 (US$1.56). ...
Cambodia, Among Others, Feeding China's Demand for Timber
The growing market for timber in China is leading to widespread logging around the world, including in Cambodia, according to a report released yesterday. The report from London-based NGO the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) – entitled Appetite for Destruction: China’s trade in illegal timber – outlines ...
Regional Workers Need More Protection, Advocate Says
With Thailand threatening to oust undocumented workers, Asean must do more as a region to protect its migrant workers, a leading rights advocate says. More and more workers are crossing the borders between Asean countries, and the region looking to lower trade barriers, so workers need ...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/regional-workers-need-more-protection-advocate-says/1574026.html
RISDA To Open Two Plantations In Cambodia
The Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority (RISDA) is opening two plantations in Cambodia, its director-general Datuk Wan Mohamad Zuki Mohamad said Wednesday. He said discussions had been held with the companies that would be tasked with managing the plantations last week. “We are now awaiting approval ...
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/ge/newsgeneral.php?id=964158
Rubber firm is felling state forest: villagers
Villagers who confiscated land-clearing equipment during a forest patrol yesterday in Khsuem commune in Kratie province’s Snuol district are claiming the equipment belongs to a rubber concessionaire attempting to expand into state land, an allegation local authorities denied. Villager representative Mom Sokkin said the Binh ...
Navy arrests 4 Cambodian rosewood smugglers
Royal Thai Navy ships intercepted a Cambodian fishing boat illegally smuggling 10 million baht in Siamese rosewood out of the kingdom. The HTMS Chao Phraya staffed with military, customs and forestry office personnel captured the 18-meter-long fishing vessel carrying 296 logs in its fish holds ...
http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/navy-arrests-4-cambodian-rosewood-smugglers-25782?ref=pmci
Cambodia's trade with Japan up 24 pct in 8 months
The two-way trade between Cambodia and Japan has hit $503 million in the first eight months this year, up 24 percent over the same period last year, the figures from the Japan External Trade Organization said Tuesday. Cambodian exports to Japan rose 39 percent to $358 ...
Global Times Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/816224.shtml#.UlS3adKBmN8
Family evicted after ‘Death threats’
An ethnic Jarai family has been evicted from their Ratanakirri province village where they say they received death threats over a land dispute. This is the third time the family has abandoned their home after they field a lawsuit against three commune authorities in 2011, alleging ...
Phak Seangly, P.6
http://www.phnompenhpost.com
Ningbo Thermal to Establish JV in Cambodia
Ningbo Thermal Power (shse:600982) will invest less than USD 16.67 million in building a thermal power arm to develop a heat and power cogeneration project in Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ), Cambodia. The joint venture will be responsible for building the heat and power cogeneration ...
Menafn.Com News Staff
http://www.menafn.com/7e447384-ee07-4dd1-b250-d464da6e40c1/Ningbo-Thermal-to-Establish-JV-in-Cambodia?src=main
Thailand hands out Bt6-million aid to Cambodia flood victims
Thailand Monday handed out a financial aid of Bt6 million to Cambodia to help its flood victims. Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul formally handed out the aid to the Cambodian ambassador to Thailand You Ay. nitially, the government would provide barges to help Cambodia but when ...
The Nation News Staff
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Thailand-hands-out-Bt6-million-aid-to-Cambodia-flo-30217589.html
Cambodia malaria cases down 40 pct in 2013
Cambodia recorded 41,850 malaria cases in 2013, down 40 percent from 69,550 cases a year earlier, a health official said Sunday. The disease killed 12 people last year, down 74 percent from 46 deaths a year earlier, Char Meng Chuor, director of the National Center for ...
Philippines Star News Staff
http://www.philstar.com/world/2014/01/19/1280640/cambodia-malaria-cases-down-40-pct-2013
City Hall to shepherd public bus operation
City Hall has taken over the recently launched public bus route in Phnom Penh pending a review of the Chinese-owned firm that is contracted to run the fledgling service, a company official said yesterday. Lim Andre, Global (Cambodia) Trade Development’s manager in Phnom Penh, said yesterday ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-hall-shepherd-public-bus-operation
IMF projects further acceleration in Cambodian growth
The International Monetary Fund is projecting further modest acceleration in Cambodia’s rate of economic expansion over the next five years. In the latest World Economic Outlook released Tuesday, the IMF projects that Cambodia’s gross domestic product will grow from an estimated 7.0 percent last year to ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=M2VkZmJjNTE5ZjU
Cambodian King returns from visit to France
Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni arrived in Phnom Penh, capital city of Cambodia, on Monday morning after the tour to France for two weeks to strengthen and expand bilateral ties and cooperation. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-05/12/c_133327201.htm
HAGL filled in lakes: villagers
More than 100 families living in Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district have filed a complaint with authorities, claiming a rubber giant – already accused of illegal logging – filled in two natural lakes, provincial officials said yesterday. Villagers, along with government officials, say Vietnamese company Hong Anh Gai ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hagl-filled-lakes-villagers
Cambodia opposition leader Sam Rainsy endorsed by parliament, ends year-long stalemate
Cambodia’s parliament endorsed opposition leader Sam Rainsy as a lawmaker on Monday as part of a deal with long-term rival Prime Minister Hun Sen that both leaders hailed as an end to a year-long political crisis. Cambodia has been without an effective parliament since Sam Rainsy’s ...
Prak Chan Thul
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/28/us-cambodia-politics-idUSKBN0FX0I720140728