Villagers accuse firm of taking some $60,000
Over 100 members of the Prov ethnic community in Ratanakkiri province have filed a complaint with a local rights group claiming to have been defrauded for tens of thousands of dollars by a broker for an international investment firm. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-accuse-firm-taking-some-60000
Police shut down Siem Reap Snakehead fish farm
Following the seizure of about 100,000 snakehead fish from a van in Siem Reap province last week, police on Tuesday afternoon raided the fish farm where the illegal fry came from, according to deputy provincial police chief Oum Amra. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-shut-down-siem-reap-snakehead-fish-farm-92669/
Families protest Srepok forest grab
Some 100 families from Pichreada district’s Pu Chrey commune in Mondulkiri province said a private company continues to clear forest in the Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary even after the authority made the firm sign a contract promising to stop its activities. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-protest-srepok-forest-grab
Indigenous people push for official recognition
Nearly 20 people representing more than 100 families in Koh Kong province’s Thma Baing district yesterday gathered in Phnom Penh to submit petitions at various institutions requesting intervention to gain official recognition of the Chong indigenous people in Areng Valley. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50299578/indigenous-people-push-for-official-recognition/
Villagers vow to ‘sacrifice lives’
Some 100 ethnic Banong villagers from Sre Hoy commune’s Chhul and Chhong Pang villages in Mondulkiri province’s Koh Nhek district protested on Tuesday after Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary officials allegedly uprooted wooden posts used to demarcate their ancestral burial sites. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-vow-sacrifice-lives
GDP backs farmer candidates
The Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) has included 100 farmers as parliamentary candidates in its list of 275 to compete in the July 29 elections. It says the move is a step to connect politicians with the people if they are elected. ...
Meas Sokchea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gdp-backs-farmer-candidates
US-Cambodia standoff
In late January last year, China donated 100 tanks to Cambodia. And the militaries of the two countries just celebrated their 60th anniversary of Sino-Cambodia diplomatic relations by concluding their joint annual Golden Dragon military exercises on Thursday. ...
Sek Sophal
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1439187/us-cambodia-standoff
Kandal rally enters second day
A protest by more than 100 of 300 Prestige Garment Co garment workers in front of their factory in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district’s Tbeng commune, the result of their representative being dismissed, entered its second day on Tuesday. ...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kandal-rally-enters-second-day
Seven released over selling factory goods to pay wages
Seven people who were arrested last week for attempting to sell merchandise from a factory in Kompong Speu province were released on Friday, officials said, with factory owners paying more than 100 workers part of the wages they were owed. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/seven-released-over-selling-factory-goods-to-pay-wages-96369/
Beachfront evictions begin in Sihanoukville
Authorities in Sihanoukville followed through with their long-threatened eviction of vendors from the end of the popular O’Chheuteal beach on Saturday afternoon, demolishing nearly 100 structures along the 2 km strip known locally as Ariston. ...
Peter Ford and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/beachfront-evictions-begin-in-sihanoukville-111101/
Cambodians raise questions about Angkor Beer's involvement in Don Sahong Dam
An attempt by about 100 Cambodian protesters to force the Angkor Beer company to divest its stake in the Don Sahong hydropower plant in Laos fell flat on Friday when company representatives said the brewer has no involvement in the project. ...
Eco-business Team
http://www.eco-business.com/news/cambodians-raise-questions-about-angkor-beers-involvement-in-don-sahong-dam/
Women’s day bike ride blocked by police, security guards
More than 200 activists attempting to cycle from the Ministry of Women’s Affairs to the National Assembly in Phnom Penh to mark International Women’s Day were penned in by authorities Tuesday morning after pedaling less than 100 meters. ...
Eight Nigerians get 10 years for trafficking meth
Eight Nigerians were sentenced to 10 years in prison for drug trafficking by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday following a sting operation last year that culminated with an undercover officer purchasing 100 grams of crystal methamphetamine from one of the eight. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eight-nigerians-get-10-years-for-trafficking-meth-94835/
Cambodia begins minimum wage talks after Myanmar Government approves salary for garment workers
Cambodia’s 700,000 garment and footwear workers currently earn a minimum wage of $128 a month. Last year, the lowest legal salary for Cambodian workers in the $5.7 billion industry was only $100 per month. ...
Montagnards ‘to be processed’
Immigration officials yesterday sought to dial back public remarks by Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak, who on Wednesday appeared to tell reporters that the more than 100 Montagnard asylum seekers currently waiting to have their claims assessed would be summarily deported. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/montagnards-be-processed
Women’s day bike ride blocked by police, security guards
More than 200 activists attempting to cycle from the Ministry of Women’s Affairs to the National Assembly in Phnom Penh to mark International Women’s Day were penned in by authorities Tuesday morning after pedaling less than 100 meters. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/109648-109648/
Pharmacy shut down after man dies upon taking supplement
An unlicensed pharmacy in Siem Reap City that sold a traditional Chinese nutritional supplement the manufacturer claims can treat “100 diseases” was shut down on Wednesday after a 72-year-old man died after taking a dose, officials said Thursday. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pharmacy-shut-down-after-man-dies-upon-taking-supplement-96189/
1,600 fired garment workers demand jobs back after strike
About 100 garment workers from a factory in Takeo province that supplies German sports brands Puma and Adidas protested in front of the Labor Ministry Wednesday to demand the reinstatement of about 1,600 staff fired last month for striking over inadequate benefits. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/1600-fired-garment-workers-demand-jobs-back-after-strike-100064/
Cambodian immigrants in US grapple with mental health issues
From the 1970s to the 1990s, as many as 100,000 Cambodian refugees resettled in the United States. But far from finding a sanctuary, many Cambodians in America have grappled with poverty, mental health problems and social isolation. ...
Soksreinith Ten
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-immigrants-us-grapple-mental-health-issues/3304404.html
Roadside families protest at City Hall
Nearly 100 residents living along a stretch of land running from a railway in Boeung Kak to National Road 5 have gathered again outside City Hall to demand information about the development of a new road threatening to destroy their homes. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38081/roadside-families--protest-at-city-hall/