Strike reaches City Hall
More than 100 workers from the Alim garment factory in Phnom Penh marched on City Hall yesterday, demanding the dismissal of four managers. Yam Thaisan, a legal officer from a union representing the workers at the Por Sen Chey district factory, said strikers had called on ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strike-reaches-city-hall
More “Empty promises” for Boeung Kak
Boeung Kak Lake residents say they’ve been given another hollow promise after Phnom Penh’s governor failed to start measuring property for land titles on Wednesday. on Monday, Governor Pa Socheatvong met with 76 Boeung Kak Lake families and, according to those in attendance, promised that land ...
Sopheak Chakrya, P.6
http://www.phnompenhpost.com
Petitioners set for Round 2 of showdown with City Hall
Protesters were due to march on four foreign embassies this morning to deliver petitions calling for the release of the 23 detainees held at the remote Correctional Centre 3 after being arrested during the crackdown earlier this month. The march – to the embassies of Germany, ...
Mom Kunthear and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/petitioners-set-round-2-showdown-city-hall
In Siem Reap, CNRP supporters are joyous, leaders vitriolic
CNRP supporters sang and danced on the streets of Siem Reap City on Thursday as party leaders continued to lambaste Prime Minister Hun Sen and his ruling CPP in the opposition party’s council election campaign. Upwards of 3,000 supporters attended this leg of the CNRP’s ...
Sek Odom and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-siem-reap-cnrp-supporters-are-joyous-leaders-vitriolic-58419/
Construction, sales of Casa Meridian to get under way this weekend
The Hong Kong-invested Casa Meridian project plans to launch sales and start construction at the end of this month. Casa Meridian is a skyscraper condominium development on Diamond Island (Koh Pich), which developers there hope will become a modern commercial and residential area of Phnom Penh ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/construction-sales-casa-meridian-get-under-way-weekend
MFI and insurance firm partner up
Chamroeun Microfinance Limited and Prevoir Kampuchea Micro Life Insurance PLC (PKMI) on Wednesday joined efforts to provide insurance to those on lower incomes. The partnership will provide health insurance to its clients at about $0.51 per month for adults and $0.26 per month for those aged between ...
Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/mfi-and-insurance-firm-partner-up-61231/
Ly Yong Phat wants TV station
Prominent tycoon and ruling party senator Ly Yong Phat has now set his sights on the media landscape. Phat, the head of LYP Group, on Friday confirmed plans that he is seeking to set up a television station. The entry of an LYP channel, proposed as part ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ly-yong-phat-wants-tv-station
UN asked to ‘address crisis’
Amnesty International and rights group Licadho in a joint statement yesterday called on UN member states to “address the country’s human rights crisis” at a UN Human Rights Council hearing in Geneva on Tuesday. The statement, which was sent to foreign embassies, the Cambodian government and ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-asked-%E2%80%98address-crisis%E2%80%99
Cambodian PM vows to protect environment for sustainable development
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday that environmental protection is the most important measure to ensure the sustainable development of economy and society. In his message on the 42nd International Environment Day that falls on June 5, Hun Sen said the government is committed to ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=NDc1ZjhjNDQ2MzF
Odor causes nearly 200 garment workers to faint at 2 factories
More than 190 workers at two separate garment factories fainted at work on Friday and Saturday, both times after complaining of foul odors, union leaders and workers said. At the Chinese-owned Sixplus Industry factory in Kandal province’s Mok Kampoul district, which makes sportswear for retail giant ...
SL protesters appeal for bail
Two suspects arrested during a deadly garment-worker demonstration in November appealed for bail at the Supreme Court yesterday. Vann Ny and Vann Norn have been detained since an intended march of striking SL Garment factory workers devolved into a riot on November 12, at which participants ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sl-protesters-appeal-bail
Unions press ahead with strike plans despite arrest threats
Union leaders planning a stay-at-home strike to demand a higher minimum wage for the country’s garment workers say they will press on with the strike after the Khmer New Year, despite the threat of arrest for anyone handing out leaflets promoting their plans. on Sunday, a ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unions-press-ahead-with-strike-plans-despite-arrest-threats-56012/
Uighurs ‘arrested’ at border
A group of 14 ethnic minority Uighurs, including six children, fleeing China were arrested on Saturday in the Thai border province of Sa Keo after Cambodian smugglers deserted them on Friday, Thai media reported yesterday. The five men, three women and six children who were apprehended ...
Amelia Woodside and Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/uighurs-%E2%80%98arrested%E2%80%99-border
Garment maker to list at $2.41 per share
Grand Twins International, Cambodia’s second stock exchange listing, will list at the lower end of its expected buy-in range, an announcement on the Phnom Penh Securities (PPS) website said yesterday. GTI is to begin trading on May 29 with nine million shares at $2.41 each, according ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/garment-maker-list-241-share
Government wants money for use of .kh suffix
The Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) on Wednesday issued a notice warning private companies and state institutions to pay their 2013 fees for using the country suffix .kh on their websites. “TRC would like to invite excellencies and okhnas that use websites with .kh to communicate ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-wants-money-for-use-of-kh-suffix-58322/
Nauru detainees informed about refugee resettlement in Cambodia
Some asylum seekers at the Australian-run immigration processing centre on Nauru have been advised they will be sent to Cambodia if they are found to be refugees. The advice preempts the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Australia and Cambodia. The ABC understands some family ...
Karen Barlow
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-21/nauru-asylum-seekers-told-about-cambodia-refugee-resettlemen/5468662
Cambodia's bourse to get 2nd listed firm after over 2-year operation
Cambodia’s fledgling stock market is set to receive the second listed company next Monday after operating with a single listed firm for more than two years, officials said Tuesday. Hong Sok Hour, Chief Executive Officer of the Cambodian Securities Exchange (CSX), said the bourse had approved ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=223532
Six Arrested For Bulldozing Flooded Forest Area
Military police joined forces with the Fisheries Administration in Kompong Thom province on Friday to arrest six men and confiscate four bulldozers being used to clear protected flooded forest in Stong district’s fisheries conservation area, officials said Sunday. District military police commander Khun Bunho said that ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/six-arrested-for-bulldozing-flooded-forest-area-61453/
Villager charged after blocking land clearance in Ratanakkiri
A villager representative in Ratanakkiri province was charged Thursday with unlawful interference in the discharge of public function after he led a group of neighbors to block a Chinese company’s bulldozer from clearing disputed land in Bakeo district on Sunday, a court official said. Morm Vanda, provincial deputy ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villager-charged-after-blocking-land-clearance-in-ratanakkiri-61961/
Garment workers demand district intervention
About 200 garment workers on Wednesday marched from the Sun Well Shoe Factory on Veng Sreng Street to the Pur Senchey district office, demanding intervention in an ongoing dispute over their wages, a union representative said. At 7 a.m., the workers left the factory, marching out ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/garment-workers-demand-district-intervention-64820/