Thai soldiers shoot dead three loggers, officials say
Thai soldiers shot and killed three Cambodian loggers and seriously injured a fourth last week after the group illegally crossed into Thailand from Preah Vihear province in search of valuable timber, officials said Wednesday. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thai-soldiers-shoot-dead-three-loggers-officials-say-77826/
Disaster alert system begins
Starting today, residents of Banteay Meanchey, Pursat and Kampong Thom provinces can enroll in a disaster-response calling service through their phones in anticipation of the impending rainy season. ...
Rebecca Moss
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/disaster-alert-system-begins
GMAC members double
The number of companies registering to become members of the Garment Manufacturing Association in Cambodia (GMAC) doubled last year, with more investment in value-added products. GMAC said the number of new members reached 120 last year, compared with 60 newcomers in 2011. “Labour-intensive industries in China ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013013061067/Business/gmac-members-double.html
Soldiers took our cameras, allege NGOs
Activists from two local rights groups yesterday accused soldiers in Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat district of seizing their cameras and stopping them from investigating a land dispute. ...
Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/soldiers-took-our-cameras-allege-ngos
Villagers fight mining venture
Nearly 70 representatives from 278 families in Preah Vihear’s Rovieng district are seeking intervention after a national mining company began drilling on their farmland last week, locals said yesterday. According to villager Yean Bunchan, 47, representatives from a company based in Kandal province called T P ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-fight-mining-venture
Krom families protest eviction
Sixty-eight Khmer Krom families in Takeo province allege they are being forcibly evicted, charged by fishery authorities with illegally occupying a nature preserve. Yesterday, three representatives from the Borei Choslar district, Sangkum Meanchey village, were summonsed to court. ...
Chhay Channyda and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/krom-families-protest-eviction
Ex-Finance Minister’s Sister Buys Up More Ethnic Jarai Lands
About 50 ethnic Jarai families in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district have sold their farmland and part of the forests their culture depends on to the sister of former Finance Minister Keat Chhon, rights group Adhoc said Monday. Last year, the ethnic minority Jarai in the district ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ex-finance-ministers-sister-buys-up-more-ethnic-jarai-lands-45093/
Areng Valley group, villagers to visit Mines Ministry
The Ministry of Mines and Energy invited the head of an NGO battling to stop construction of a highly criticized dam in a remote area of Koh Kong province to meet with ministry officials Friday. Signed by Mines Minister Suy Sem and dated April 25, the ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/areng-valley-group-villagers-to-visit-mines-ministry-57870/
Ongpin’s Atok buys Hong Kong company
Atok-Big Wedge Co. Inc., a listed company owned by the group of former Trade minister Roberto Ongpin, acquired Tidemark Holdings Ltd., a Hong Kong company that owns 25.9 percent of Forum Energy Plc, an oil and gas firm controlled by Philex Mining Corp. Atok-Big Wedge said ...
The ‘King of Koh Kong’ speaks out
Senator Ly Yong Phat, owner of the Phnom Penh Palm Sugar and Kampong Speu Sugar companies, has released a statement as a result of US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks that describe him as “The King of Koh Kong”. He answers such questions as why ...
RCAF officers jailed over university scam
Two officers with the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces were sentenced to one year each in prison for accepting bribes to secure positions for three men in the government’s National Defence University (NDU) in 2013. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rcaf-officers-jailed-over-university-scam
Rector says student was warned against activism
After a Khemerak University student was jailed in Phnom Penh on Saturday over a social media post calling for a “color revolution” in Cambodia, the school’s director Monday claimed that politics had “poisoned” students at his institution. ...
Aun Pheap and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rector-says-student-was-warned-against-activism-92373/
PPAP board adds first independent directors
Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) held its first general shareholder meeting last week, electing its first independent board members in a bid to ensure greater transparency in corporate governance, a company official said yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppap-board-adds-first-independent-directors
UN expert urges senate to reject NGO law
U.N. human rights expert Maina Kiai on Thursday urged Cambodia’s Senate not to pass a controversial NGO law that the National Assembly approved this week, warning that the legislation could have “disastrous” effects. ...
Kuch Naren and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-expert-urges-senate-to-reject-ngo-law-88701/
IT Centre at Preah Sihamoniraja Buddhist University set up under Quick Impact Projects (QIP) Scheme of Government of India
Samdech Preah Abhisiri Sugandha MahasangharajahDhipati Kitti Uddessa Pandita BOUR Kry, the Supreme Patriarch of Dhammayuttikanikaya of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Rector of the Preah Sihamoniraja Buddhist University (PSBU), Royal Government of Cambodia and Dr. Devyani Khobragade, Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Cambodia have ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501420103/it-centre-at-preah-sihamoniraja-buddhist-university-set-up-under-quick-impact-projects-qip-scheme-of-government-of-india/
Ministry urged to push law regulating alcohol ads and sale
Youth organizations and civil society organizations are calling on the Ministry of Health to push ahead with a proposed law regulating the sale of alcohol, saying that alcohol is damaging the country’s development. ...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19222/ministry-urged-to-push-law-regulating-alcohol-ads-and-sale/
Cambodia to Submit Human Rights Report to UN
Cambodia will submit a human rights report to the U.N. today for a universal periodic review (UPR), the second time it is participating in the process, according to the Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit. Under the UPR process established in 2006, the Human ...
Dene-Hern Chen and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-to-submit-human-rights-report-to-un-46006/
Mixed reaction to coal-fired plant
Cambodia’s first coal-fired power plant, which is expected to fill shortages in demand by producing an additional 100 megawatts of electricity every year, commenced full-time operations yesterday. Representatives from Malaysian company Leader Universal Ltd (LU), which built the plant, joined Prime Minister Hun Sen and ...
Hor Kimsay and Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mixed-reaction-coal-fired-plant
Mental health of trafficking victims overlooked
Survivors of human trafficking in South-East Asia require better access to health services, especially related to mental health, a study says. ...
Mike Ives
http://www.scidev.net/asia-pacific/vulnerability/news/mental-health-trafficking-victims-1.html
Fund Set Up to Raise Money For Victim of Police Shooting
An expatriate living in Phnom Penh has set up a fund to raise $3,000 over the next month to help pay the medical expenses of a student shot in the spine by a police officer at the SL Garment Factory workers’ protest last month. Hoeurn Chann, ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fund-set-up-to-raise-money-for-victim-of-police-shooting-48841/