Cambodian judge sued for threatening to shoot villagers in land disputes
Over 100 families, who live in Kampong Chhnang, filed complaints against a provincial court judge and his group for allegedly threatening to shoot them in land disputes. The residents sued San Sophat, a judge at Kampong Chhnang Provincial Court, his bodyguard, and Hem Dara, a lawyer, ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=ZWY2MTI3MmE0YmV
CNRP youths ‘to enter park’
More than 100 opposition supporters gathered in Phnom Penh yesterday morning for training in “defending freedom” ahead of a planned attempt to enter Freedom Park on Wednesday. Opposition lawmaker-elect Mu Sochua, who has been forcibly removed from the park a number of times this month, led ...
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-youths-%E2%80%98-enter-park%E2%80%99
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
Cambodian villagers want to kill medical practitioner who allegedly spread HIV with infected needles
Cambodian authorities have put into protective custody an unlicensed health worker who villagers are threatening to kill, believing he used contaminated needles that spread HIV to more than 100 people. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen called for calm on Thursday in Roka, a remote village in western ...
Beds block busy road
About 100 villagers embroiled in a land dispute in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar district gathered on National Road 6A at 7am yesterday, blocking the road with wooden beds and their bodies for three hours. The protest stems from a December 15 court injunction ordering 30 villagers ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/beds-block-busy-road
Unofficial lenders flock to the NBC seeking to be registered
More than 100 unofficial lenders have flooded into the National Bank of Cambodia seeking formal registration after the authorities announced a crackdown earlier this month on unrecognised operators. In a joint declaration from the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the NBC on February 2, officials ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/unofficial-lenders-flock-nbc-seeking-be-registered
Cambodian garment unions threaten strike after wage demand is voted down
Cambodian unions have warned of possible strikes after a tripartite working group voted down their demand for a U.S. $40 increase in the monthly minimum wage for garment factory workers. Twenty-seven representatives of unions, factory owners and the government decided in a secret vote in Phnom ...
Roseanne Gerin
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/garment-workers-wages-10302014185252.html
Unofficial lenders flock to the NBC seeking to be registered
More than 100 unofficial lenders have flooded into the National Bank of Cambodia seeking formal registration after the authorities announced a crackdown earlier this month on unrecognised operators. In a joint declaration from the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the NBC on February 2, officials ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/unofficial-lenders-flock-nbc-seeking-be-registered
NEC registers 500k voters in first four days
The National Election Committee claims to have signed up more than half a million people in its first four days of voter registration. The registration period, which began on Thursday and ends on December 1, requires more than 100,000 Cambodian citizens to be registered each day. ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-registers-500k-voters-first-four-days
Cambodia revises COVID-19 test fee and return of remaining deposit for arriving foreigners
Cambodia will charge only $100 from foreigners for each of the required two COVID-19 tests and the rest of their deposit will be returned to them. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50760155/cambodia-revises-covid-19-test-fee-and-return-of-remaining-deposit-for-arriving-foreigners/
Centuries-old trees to be preserved
After the discovery of about 100 large, centuries-old trees in Keo Seima wildlife sanctuary in Mondulkiri province, Ministry of Environment officials and rangers have set up protection and conservation measures to protect. ...
Kim Sarom
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/centuries-old-trees-be-preserved
Youth group claims illegal loggers have raided Roka
A senior Ministry of Environment official has rejected the Cambodian Youth Network (CYN) report detailing 100 illegal logging incidents they claim took place in early 2021 in Prey Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary in Preah Vihear province. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/youth-group-claims-illegal-loggers-have-raided-roka
Cambodia improves in Corruption Perceptions Index
Cambodia scored a 21 out of 100 on Transparency International’s (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2020, a one point improvement over last year’s score. ...
Brian Badzmierowski
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50808341/cambodia-improves-in-corruption-perceptions-index/
UPDATE: More than 18,000 families throughout Banteay Meanchey affected by floods
Banteay Meanchey’s authorities reported that the impact of the flood and the spread of its reach have increased with more than 18,000 families affected and more than 1,100 evacuated. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50944915/update-more-than-18000-families-throughout-banteay-meanchey-affected-by-floods/
Rising Phoenix guides farmers to organic rice
Within the tranquil heart of Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary in Stung Treng province, nearly 100 households have embarked on an adventure into rice farming. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rising-phoenix-guides-farmers-organic-rice
Bankrupt garment factory promises to pay workers
A representative of Mirea Apparel Factory in the capital’s Meanchey district had promised that more than 500 “agitated” workers would receive a month’s worth of back pay tomorrow, a union official said yesterday. Free Trade Union executive officer Um Lina said that factory representatives had also ...
Mass fainting follows use of insecticide
More than 100 workers collapsed at the Anful Garments Factory in Kampong Speu yesterday after the cloth they were working with was sprayed with insecticide on Sunday, a senior provincial health official said. Or Vanthen, director of the Kampong Speu provincial health department, said 144 workers ...
Top officials accused by election watchdog
More than 100 high-ranking Cambodian People’s Party and Royal Cambodian Armed Forces officials were named and shamed by a Cambodian election monitoring organisation yesterday at a workshop on misuse of state property. The Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) distributed a detailed list ...
Mortgage lending improving as real estate sector slowly returns to strength
Mortgages are increasingly being used by home buyers in Cambodia according to experts. Commercial banks had slowed direct loans to property development in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, though mortgage lending has increasingly filled the space, said National Valuers Association of Cambodia ...
Fashionistas Plan Extravanganza in Cambodia
2,000 some fashionistas from around Asia will descend on Phnom Penh in October for 10 days during the country’s first fashion event, costing an estimated $1 million. According to Sophy Ke, president of the Cambodia Fashion Council, Cambodia Fashion Week is intended to increase domestic ...