Tension builds before next ‘black Monday’
Security forces including riot police were deployed to Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila neighborhood on Tuesday to keep a watchful eye over activists in the area, as rights groups, undeterred by arrests of eight protesters on “Black Monday,” began planning next week’s demonstration. ...
Ben Sokhean and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tension-builds-before-next-black-monday-112432/
Gender-based pay gap persists: Oxfam study
Asia’s economic success has been carried on the shoulders of poor women, whose higher load of work has been unequally compensated and undervalued, according to an Oxfam report released on Tuesday. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gender-based-pay-gap-persists-oxfam-study
Hun Sen gives ousted director new Ministry job
Prime Minister Hun Sen appointed the former director of Phnom Penh’s health department to a new position at the Ministry of Health on Monday, two days after he stripped the official of his erstwhile position during an on-air call to the popular ABC radio station. ...
Kuch Naren and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-gives-ousted-director-new-ministry-job-116720/
Loan discussed, deals inked with Medvedev
Prime Minister Hun Sen met with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, at Phnom Penh’s Peace Palace yesterday morning where the duo discussed an outstanding Soviet Union-era debt and signed off on deals ranging from cooperation in nuclear power to exchanging information on money laundering. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/loan-discussed-deals-inked-medvedev
Vietnam border sealed against loggers
Cambodia’s military police said yesterday that they have sealed the Vietnam border against wood transport following a major crackdown on two tycoons’ logging warehouses on Sunday. Local observers and experts, however, suggested the actions were little more than a hiccup for a long-tolerated illicit trade. ...
Mech Dara, Igor Kossov and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vietnam-border-sealed-against-loggers
Assembly asks Sokha to provide ‘clarification’
The National Assembly issued a statement on Monday calling on deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha to respond to a complaint filed by a group of students last week over audio recordings leaked online that purport to be Mr. Sokha flirting with a mistress. ...
Phuon Chanserei Vuth
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/assembly-asks-sokha-to-provide-clarification-110241/
Commission, EU to discuss subsidies
Members of the opposition will join their ruling party counterparts on the National Assembly’s (NA) Second Commission on Economics, Finance, Banking and Auditing in a meeting today with a European Union (EU) technical working group to discuss EU subsidies to Cambodia. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27759/commission--eu-to-discuss-subsidies/
Stock market to boost SMEs
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) may soon be listed on the Cambodian stock exchange, following the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Federation of Associations for Small and Medium Enterprises (FASMEC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC) on Thursday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30295/stock-market-to-boost-smes/
Multimedia project gives help to young Cambodians braving the job market
The project Klahan9—from the Khmer word Klahan, meaning “brave”—is a multimedia initiative that aims to help youths make better decisions about their careers. The show is broadcast live on Sundays between 1pm and 2pm on FM103. ...
Luxury timber seized in Pursat, Ratanakkiri
Authorities have seized large amounts of luxury wood following busts on two separate illegal timber transporters in Pursat and Ratanakkiri provinces.Local Forestry Administration officials together with Phnom Kravanh district police forces on Friday reported intercepting some five tractor loads containing 29 tbeng logs. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/luxury-timber-seized-pursat-ratanakkiri
H&M to step up monitoring of local suppliers
H&M and global union federation IndustriALL on Tuesday signed off on a deal aimed at improving conditions for the 1.6 million workers at the 1,900 factories around the world filling orders for the Swedish clothing giant that will include a new oversight committee in Cambodia. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hm-to-step-up-monitoring-of-local-suppliers-99405/
Seventh Chinese man arrested for kidnapping
Military police in Phnom Penh on Wednesday arrested a seventh suspect in the kidnapping of three Chinese men freed on Monday from their captors, who had detained them for two months in a bid to make them pay back loans with the help of their ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/seventh-chinese-man-arrested-for-kidnapping-103263/
Cambodian youth party to register for official status
The Cambodian Youth Party has gathered the 400 members and 3 million riel necessary to register as a political party, its founder said on Friday, adding that he planned to file paperwork with the Interior Ministry on Monday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodian-youth-party-to-register-for-official-status-106952/
Amendments to drug law coming, if slowly
Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sar Kheng said yesterday that his decision regarding a request from the National Police to amend the drug law will depend on the results of a study by the National Authority for Combating Drugs on drug addicts currently serving ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20919/amendments-to-drug-law-coming--if-slowly/
Koh Kong locals seek land’s return
Representatives of 526 Koh Kong families hopped on their motos on Friday morning to deliver petitions to their district town halls calling for the return of land taken from them by a 2006 economic land concession (ELC), as well as compensation for lost crops. ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-locals-seek-lands-return
HRW slams government over lawmaker attack case
The investigation and trial following the brutal attack on two opposition lawmakers by members of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s personal bodyguard unit last year has all the hallmarks of a “blatant cover-up,” according to a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday. ...
Khy Sovuthy and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/topstory/hrw-slams-govt-over-lawmaker-attack-case-113110/
Grand Twins profit falls by 69.5%
Grand Twins International (GTI), a Taiwan-owned listed company on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX), declared a dividend payout ratio of 50 percent of its net profit after tax for the 2015 financial year. The dividend distribution will be made on the 30th of this month. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26166/grand-twins-profit-falls-by-69-5-/
Three forex giants hold sway
A recent study on the role of Cambodia’s moneychangers found that three private forex traders control two-thirds of the total demand for riel currency and exert more influence on foreign currency exchange rates than the central bank, raising the possibility of collusion in fixing rates. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/three-forex-giants-hold-sway
Poipet children face abuse
The trend of Cambodian workers flocking to Thailand can have a devastating ripple effect on children living on the margins in the border town of Poipet, where they face a litany of risks such as drug use, sexual abuse and physical violence, according to a ...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poipet-children-face-abuse
Monitor’s results CPP took about 50% at election
Transparency International (TI) Cambodia yesterday said that the ruling Cambodian People’s Party appeard to have won 49.4 percent of the nationwide popular vote on June 4 based on the stations it monitored, nearly six percentage points ahead of the CNRP’s 43.2 percent. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monitors-results-cpp-took-about-50-election