Cambodia factories snub workers arrested in January strikes
While the smoke has long cleared on January’s violent garment strikes, for many of the 23 workers and unionists arrested and tried on charges widely considered to be baseless, the ordeal is far from over. Nine months after security forces used deadly violence to end strikes ...
Alice Cuddy, Chhay Channyda & Mom Kunthear
http://www.ucanews.com/news/cambodia-factories-snub-workers-arrested-in-january-strikes/72213
Garment factory floor collapse injures 4 in Cambodia
Four Cambodian garment workers were slightly injured on Tuesday after part of the floor in a garment factory collapsed into a pond built underneath, a local police chief confirmed. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141021/garment-factory-floor-collapse-injures-4-cambodia
Thai delegation visit border marker in Koh Kong
Undersecretary of state of Thai Foreign Affairs Ministry, along with 16 senior officials, visited border marker in Koh Kong province. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/thai-delegation-visit-border-marker-in-koh-kong-7549
Sawmills in Preah Vihear busted for illegal wood
Six sawmills in Preah Vihear province suspected of processing illegal timber were raided on Monday by police, military police and Forestry Administration officers who confiscated an undisclosed amount of luxury-grade wood product during their searches, an official said. ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sawmills-in-preah-vihear-busted-for-illegal-wood-71196/
Campu Bank sees gains in first 9 months
Cambodia Public Bank (Campu Bank), a subsidiary of the Malaysian Public Bank Group (PBB), posted strong gains during the first nine months of the year. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/campu-bank-sees-gains-first-9-months
Donaco in negotiations to buy Cambodian casino business
Donaco International Ltd has signed an exclusive term sheet to acquire “a significant gamIng and hospitality busIness In Cambodia”, the company said. It did not provide further details on the acquisition target. ...
GGRAsia News Staff
http://www.ggrasia.com/donaco-in-negotiations-to-buy-cambodian-casino-business/
Police officer killed in crash, timber falls out
A 25-year-old police officer in Mondulkiri’s Sen Monorom commune was killed in a car crash while transporting timber to sell in a nearby district on Sunday, police and authorities confirmed yesterday. Un Sokim was driving a Toyota Camry sedan loaded with timber to Keo Seima district ...
Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/police-officer-killed-crash-timber-falls-out
Python reported on the loose in Cambodian capital
A python escaped from the house of a government official and is on the loose in the Cambodian capital, a local newspaper reported Monday. It is the second such serpent to escape from the Phnom Penh home of Nhim Vanda, the first vice chairman of Cambodia’s ...
The New Age News Staff
http://www.thenewage.co.za/144803-1019-53-Python_reported_on_the_loose_in_Cambodian_capital
Presence of Vietnamese goods limited in regional market
Many types of Vietnamese goods have faced strong competition of imported products from nations in the Southeast Asian region, while local businesses have met difficulties in broadening the presence of their products in these markets. For the last ten years, many businesses in Ho Chi Minh ...
Thuy Hai
http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Business/Economy/2014/12/111809/
‘No proof’ in Koh Kong land fight: judge
Villagers in Koh Kong province were sent back to the drawing board yesterday, when the Court of Appeal upheld the provincial court’s decision that about 62 hectares of land belongs to Heng Huy Co. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-proof-koh-kong-land-fight-judge
Permit penalty: New fine in works for workers
Starting on April 1, the government will charge $5 a day for every day that a staff member of a company in Cambodia is without a work permit, according to a senior immigration official. The census is part of an overall tightening of labour laws ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/permit-penalty-new-fine-works-workers
Girl killed by UXO explosion in Kompong Speu
A 10-year-old girl was killed instantly when a piece of unexploded ordinance (UXO) detonated under the heat of a brush fire in in Kompong Speu province’s Oral district on Sunday afternoon, her commune chief said Monday. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/girl-killed-by-uxo-explosion-in-kompong-speu-77256/
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/
ASEAN economic ministers expect stronger growth in 2015
The ministers expect ASEAN’s economy to improve in 2015 to 5.1% – above the 3.5% global growth projection – based on the stronger demand in advanced economies, energised by the robust US recovery and several policy stimulus measures in the Eurozone and Japan. ...
Channel News Asia News Staff
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/asean-economic-ministers/1687244.html
In court, kidney trader denies running transplant enterprise
A woman accused of organ trafficking was tried at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday for allegedly persuading her two cousins and a neighbor to sell their kidneys in Thailand last year. Anti-human trafficking police arrested Nhem Sinuon, 29, in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district ...
Journo in court: Cameraman now facing gun charges
A Cameraman for the Ministry of information’s TVK news channel was charged by the Kandal Provincial Court yesterday with possessing an illegal firearm, among other allegations, police said. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/journo-court-cameraman-now-facing-gun-charges
Rosewood seizures drop in Banteay Meanchey: gov’t
The government says it seized less rosewood from illegal loggers in Banteay Meanchey province in 2014 than the year before thanks to stricter enforcement, following a meeting Wednesday to review its anti-logging activities in the area. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rosewood-seizures-drop-in-banteay-meanchey-govt-79555/
After visit, Refugee deal still shrouded in doubt
In 2001, Australia’s then-Conservative government first Introduced its “Pacific Solution” as a way of stoppIng an Influx of asylum seekers attemptIng to reach its shores by boat—and as a way of wInnIng votes durIng an election defIned by wedge politics. ...
Holly Robertson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-visit-refugee-deal-still-shrouded-in-doubt-79790/
Lawyers appeal sentencing of activists in ‘escape’ case
Lawyers for two opposition supporters have filed an appeal against a two-year sentence issued to each last week. Opposition supporters say the sentences have more to do with political harassment than law. ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://bit.ly/1LmtxhB
Deminer dies after mine explosion in Pailin province
A deminer was killed instantly when an anti-personnel mine exploded on Tuesday while he was clearing a field in Pailin province’s Sala Krao district, officials said. ...
Saing Soenthrith and Alex Consiglio
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/deminer-dies-after-mine-explosion-in-pailin-province-79984/