Protesters put sugar firm’s wall on hold
Roughly 30 villagers locked in a land dispute with Koh Kong Sugar protested at a construction site yesterday where they say the company was attempting to erect a concrete barrier on disputed land. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protesters-put-sugar-firms-wall-hold
Gov’t drought relief efforts can’t reach 500,000 people
Around 500,000 Cambodians who face water shortages still have not received government assistance since drought relief efforts began on April 26, according to the National Committee for Disaster Management. ...
Sen David and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-drought-relief-efforts-cant-reach-500000-people
Super Drilling completes intricate Ta Prohm project
Super Drilling Private Limited is pleased to officially announce that it has wrapped up its project for renovating and restoring drainage systems to protect the Ta Prohm temple ruins in Siem Reap, Cambodia. ...
Firms flimsy on corporate governance
Cambodia has an opportunity to improve its corporate governance, addressing issues in this field that are increasingly important to international companies considering investment, an official from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has said. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/firms-flimsy-corporate-governance
Child traffickers get seven years each
Six Cambodian women were convicted by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court and sentenced to seven years in prison each for conspiring to traffic three Cambodian girls to be sold as brides in China. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/child-traffickers-get-seven-years-each
Border scrap off talks agenda
The territorial conflict between Thailand and Cambodia will not be discussed during Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s visit to Thailand this week, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha says. ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/796340/border-scrap-off-talks-agenda
New program to fight gender-based violence
Physical, sexual and emotional violence against women is “common” in Ratanakkiri’s ethnic minority communities, and mostly committed by the victims’ husbands, a new gender-based violence report by CARE Cambodia has found. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-program-fight-gender-based-violence
Drought hits district in Mondulkiri
Up to 4,000 mostly ethnic minority people in Mondulkiri’s Keo Seima district are facing a water shortage after the local supplier announced service would be suspended due to impending widescale drought. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drought-hits-district-mondulkiri
HLH Group awards construction project in Cambodia for US$36.8m
HLH Group, listed on the Singapore Exchange main board, on Thursday said it has awarded a construction project in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, to Yanjian Group (Cambodia) Co Ltd for about US$36.8 million. ...
Police confiscate 34 national IDs with Vietnamese names
Authorities near the Vietnamese border in Kandal province’s Koh Thom district say they will investigate 34 national identification cards seized from local police because they bear names that “do not sound Cambodian.” ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second2/police-confiscate-34-national-ids-vietnamese-names-117795/
Anti-graft body opens investigation into Sokha
The government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Thursday announced it was launching an official investigation into allegations that deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha made unlawful land and apartment purchases for a mistress. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anti-graft-body-opens-investigation-into-sokha-110386/
Border police official arrested over fatal shooting in Vietnam
A police official from Takeo province was arrested in Vietnam on Saturday night after fatally shooting one man and injuring a second at a restaurant just across the border, officials said on Sunday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/border-police-official-arrested-over-fatal-shooting-in-vietnam-115562/
Sesan locals agree to new village
Families refusing to relocate from their homes near the Lower Sesan II dam have said they will all leave if they can establish a new village on their community forest and ancestral lands. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5087808/sesan-locals-agree-new-village/
Massive skyscraper floated again
Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that a 600-metre building would be constructed in Cambodia, though he did not mention specifics and similar projects proposed in the past have stalled before construction. ...
Robin Spiess and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/massive-skyscraper-floated-again
First lady: improve child healthcare
Cambodia’s first lady appealed to civil servants and health workers to improve efforts to reduce maternal and child deaths in conjunction with the National Day on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health today. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35662/first-lady--improve-child-healthcare/
Questions raised over garment statistics
While Cambodia’s garment sector exhibited solid growth last year, employment levels declined, raising concerns about a potential rise in unregulated subcontracting, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a report released yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/questions-raised-over-garment-statistics
Rain, hail kills one, destroy 200 homes
Severe rain and hail storms hit several provinces on Tuesday leaving one person dead, more than 10 injured and nearly 200 houses destroyed or damaged, the National Committee for Disaster Management reported yesterday. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013053065945/National/rain-hail-kill-one-destroy-200-homes.html
CPP proposes new rules in election law talks
The ruling CPP, which has long used election-time generosity as a central campaign strategy, proposed a rule that would ban vote-buying on Friday during ongoing bipartisan talks to write a new election law. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-proposes-new-rules-in-election-law-talks-78466/
Cambodia turns to International Migration body to resettle refugees
Cambodia has reached out to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for help with resettling refugees it has agreed to take from Australia under a controversial deal signed last month, according to an IOM spokesman. ...
Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-turns-to-international-migration-body-to-resettle-refugees-70967/
Cambodian villagers angry over HIV outbreak
Cambodia’s prime minister appealed Thursday to villagers in northwestern Cambodia not to lynch an unlicensed medical practitioner who they suspect caused more than 100 people to become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. ...
Fox News Staff
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/12/18/cambodian-villagers-angry-over-hiv-outbreak/