Made here, owned there
At the end of a well-paved road just past the city’s airport sits a cluster of factories. Each one is barely discernible from the next – grey concrete walls and blue aluminium roofs. But one factory in the lot, MAG (Cambodia), is different. In a country ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/made-here-owned-there
Forests Are Key to Climate Protection, UN Says
Destruction of Cambodia’s forests is one of the biggest threats to the country’s ability to effectively deal with the effects of climate change, the UN warned in a new report to be released today. Cambodia is one of the most vulnerable countries in the region ...
Residents From Borei Keila Push Back Police
About 40 former Borei Keila residents yesterday pushed back roughly 100 police and military police who threatened to demolish temporary shelters belonging to 16 families still clinging to their land, residents and rights groups said. Prampi Makara district police armed with riot shields, military police and ...
Poipet Casino Dragging Feet on Promise
A casino in Poipet that pays wages only in Thai baht is yet to fulfil its promise to improve conditions for its 500 workers, a union representative said yesterday. Workers are still working 12-hour days – often without a break – at the Tropicana Casino, one ...
Remittance Contributes Social And Economic Development
Cambodia, as one of the least developed countries and one of the poorest in the Greater Mekong Subregion, is an active participant in migration within the country, within the region and between the subregion and other regions. According to National Institute of Statistics in 2008, 26.52 percent of the Cambodian population ...
More funding of media a good investment, experts say
The genocides in Cambodia and Rwanda were both aided by local media and propaganda, and the role of foreign media covering them is often criticized as insufficient. In interviews with VOA Khmer, media experts said more funding of that sector could help prevent such errors ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/more-funding-of-media-a-good-investment-experts-say/1900410.html
Trash piling up in temple town
Residents of Wat Damnak village, just one kilometer from Pub Street, still resort to burning their rubbish when trash collection is slow. ...
Naomi Collett Ritz
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15459/trash-piling-up-in-temple-town/
Opposition members defect to CPP
Fifty-one opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party members defected to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party on Saturday, according to the CPP. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/opposition-members-defect-cpp
Borei Keila families take compensation
Almost 20 Borei Keila families have decided to accept compensation in one of the country’s most prominent and longstanding land disputes. ...
Soth Koemsoeun and Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/borei-keila-families-take-compensation
GMAC trains companies how to resolve labor disputes
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) says it will hold a one-day training course on procedures to resolve labor disputes on Tuesday. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=OTcwMDFiYjIwY2U
Possible measles cases prompt investigation
Ministry of Health officials are investigating two suspected measles cases – one in Phnom Penh and another in Svay Rieng province. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/possible-measles-cases-prompt-investigation
Pestech plans to list subsidiary on CSX
Malaysian power infrastructure provider Pestech International has announced plans to list one of its indirect wholly owned Cambodian subsidiaries on the local stock exchange. ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pestech-plans-list-subsidiary-csx
Cambodia sends 184 peacekeepers to Lebanon for UN mission
Cambodia on Thursday dispatched the fifth batch of 184 peacekeepers to Lebanon to replace the fourth group, whose one-year United Nations peacekeeping mission has ended. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2014-12/18/c_133863193.htm
For speech and swallowing disorders, a lack of attention
About one in 25 Cambodians have speech and swallowing disorders, with tens of thousands dying each year due to related complications, according to experts. ...
Maria Paula Brito and Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/for-speech-and-swallowing-disorders-a-lack-of-attention-88346/
Four arrested for beating Chinese men
Four people were arrested in Sihanoukville on Saturday for beating two Chinese men after one of them caused a fatal road accident on Friday, police said Sunday. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/four-arrested-for-beating-chinese-men-94096/
Mekong tourism fest opens
The Mekong Tourism Festival, with the Mekong Food Tourism Summit as one of the highlights, starts today in the Kingdom’s tourist haven of Sihanoukville. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26835/mekong-tourism-fest-opens/
PM tells politicians to play nice
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on political parties to avoid insulting and degrading one another as campaigning intensifies ahead of commune elections in June. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36953/pm-tells-politicians-to-play-nice/
Vietnam timber smugglers given jail sentence
Seven Vietnamese nationals who are tied to a timber smuggling ring along with top Mondulkiri provincial officials were sentenced to one year in prison yesterday. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vietnam-timber-smugglers-given-jail-sentence
Draft law could mean a crackdown on online freedom, expert says
A draft telecommunications law is causing concern from rights groups, who say it threatens freedom of speech online, one of the few spaces open to political discussion. ...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/draft-law-could-mean-a-crackdown-on-online-freedom-expert-says/2624768.html
Cambodia ranks poorly in rule of law index
Cambodia received one of the lowest scores in the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index 2015, released Tuesday, ranking 99 out of 102 countries surveyed. ...
Holly Robertson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-ranks-poorly-in-rule-of-law-index-84889/