Monks on ‘Peace Walk’ Block National Road to Protest Ill-Treatment
Monks marching toward Phnom Penh to mark International Human Rights Day on Tuesday in front of the National Assembly have continued to receive a cold reception from some pagodas along their way and blocked a national road Thursday afternoon in protest. About 100 marchers, including several ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/monks-on-peace-walk-block-national-road-to-protest-ill-treatment-48724/
Families in Boeng Kak asked to give up land for titles
Families still waiting for promised land titles in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood said Sunday that the municipal government is offering to give them their long-awaited tenure rights only if they agree to give up part of their land. About 100 Boeng Kak families were left ...
Zsombor Peter and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-in-boeng-kak-asked-to-give-up-land-for-titles-53749/
CIMB aiming to be top 10 in Cambodia
CIMB Bank plc, which aims to be among the top 10 banks in Cambodia over the next five years, is targeting more than US$100mil (RM317mil ) in deposits and US$90mil (RM285mil) in total loan size by year-end. Its deputy general manager and head of commercial banking ...
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/6/18/business/11474729&sec=
Possible benefits for Cambodia in Mekong Region trade
Cambodia could benefit more from trade in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) by implementing time and cost, cutting measures and removing constraints on exports, according to a new book by the Asian Development Bank. During a media briefing yesterday, Brimble [senior country economist and author of ...
Land petitioners return to capital
Three groups made up of nearly 100 people in land disputes from Siem Reap, Koh Kong and Kandal provinces gathered yesterday in front of the Ministry of Land Management and the Prime Minister’s cabinet office asking the institutions to resolve their problems. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50504866/land-petitioners-return-to-capital/
Villagers locked in land dispute dispersed by the authorities
About 100 security personnel were deployed yesterday to evict 600 residents who have been occupying Wat Chas pagoda in Chroy Changva district after they refused to retreat pending a Land Management Ministry decision on a petition to solve land disputes in three provinces. ...
Pech Sotheary and Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50490636/villagers-locked-in-land-dispute-dispersed-by-the-authorities/
Koh Kong protesters again return to ministry
Nearly 100 residents representing 210 families in Koh Kong province’s Kiri Sakor district that are in a dispute with Chinese company Union Development Group gathered in front of the Land Management Ministry once again yesterday to demand that officials settle their cases. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50502801/koh-kong-protesters-again-return-to-ministry/
City Hall launches five new bus routes
City Hall yesterday launched five new city bus routes using buses provided by the Japanese government. The Japanese agreed to provide 100 buses and 60 have already been delivered with 20 more arriving today. The rest will be delivered later this year. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50538462/city-hall-launches-five-new-bus-routes/
10 Cambodians die after eating dog meat, drinking wine
Cambodian health officials have been sent to a northeastern district where 10 people died and more than 100 were sickened in two separate incidents linked to the consumption of dog meat and rice wine, a medical officer said Friday. ...
Associated Press News Staff
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/ten-cambodians-die-after-eating-dog-meat-drinking-wine/3101975.html
Chroy Changvar residents protest municipality's 'land grab'
More than 100 villagers from Chroy Changvar yesterday protested a draft sub-decree that would make Phnom Penh Municipality the legal owner of 280 hectares of land that are part of the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation’s $3 billion satellite city development. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chroy-changvar-residents-protest-municipalitys-land-grab
Opposition supporters in Banteay Meanchey defect
Almost 100 opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) supporters and several dozen members of the Royalist Funcinpec Party in Svay Chek district, Banteay Meanchey province, defected yesterday to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. Among them were provincial and village-level leaders. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16929/opposition-supporters-in-banteay-meanchey-defect/
Economic zone reaches milestone
The Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) jointly operated by a China-based conglomerate and the Cambodia International Investment Development Group Co. Ltd reached a milestone yesterday with the 100th factory set up to operate in the economic and trade cooperation zone. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25859/economic-zone-reaches-milestone/
Up to 40% of Ta Khmao development sold
Up to 40 percent of the $100 million River Premium Development Company, a joint venture between local partners and Malaysian investors, has been completed and sold, said Houn Heng Eriya, the sales manager of the project in the city center of Ta Khmao. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23188/up-to-40--of-ta-khmao-development-sold/
ADB funds solar project
Cambodians will soon have access to more affordable power if the agreement signed on Monday between Electricite Du Cambodge (EDC) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to set up a 100 megawatt national solar park programme goes according to plan. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39750/adb-funds-solar-project/
Villagers want dispute resolution
About 100 residents from Koh Kong province’s Sre Ambel and Botum Sakor districts gathered to protest and block the road of Koh Kong Sugar Industry to demand the company, local authorities and relevant ministries expedite a resolution to end their land dispute. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50112239/villagers-want-dispute-resolution/
Over 200 kilograms of wildlife seized in Mondulkiri
Authorities seized more than 200 kilograms of trafficked wildlife in two cases in Mondulkiri on Wednesday. Provincial Environment Department Director Keo Sopheak said four men on two motorbikes were arrested hauling 100 kilos of illegal wildlife meat out of Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuary. ...
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/over-200-kilograms-wildlife-seized-mondulkiri
Angry villagers chase Vietnamese fishermen down Mekong river
Following a two-hour low-speed boat chase down the Mekong River in Kandal province early Thursday morning, some 100 angry villagers led by a local opposition official detained five Vietnamese nationals they say have been using illegal fishing techniques for the past three months. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/angry-villagers-chase-vietnamese-fishermen-71455/
Garment factories, unions edge closer to wage deal
Some of the unions that have been demanding a hefty $77 raise to the current monthly minimum wage of $100 for the country’s garment workers said Thursday they were willing to go as low as a $35 increase, though others refused to budge. ...
Mech Dara and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/garment-factories-unions-edge-closer-to-wage-deal-70154/
Cambodia investigates health clinic in village HIV outbreak
Cambodian officials say they are investigating a health clinic in a small village where more than 100 people have now tested positive for HIV. Authorities say they fear the repeated use of an infected needle could be causing the devastating outbreak in northwestern Battambang province. ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-investigates-health-clinic-in-village-hiv-outbreak/2563157.html
Handcart-pullers block border checkpoint over bribes
More than 100 handcart-pullers who transport goods across the Cambodian-Thai border protested at the Poipet International Checkpoint in Banteay Meanchey province on Thursday, accusing the Poipet City governor of breaking his promise to stop customs officials from demanding exorbitant bribes of them. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/handcart-pullers-block-border-checkpoint-over-bribes-76575/