Garment workers protest over unpaid wages
Nearly 1,000 workers from three factories in Phnom Penh’s Por senchey district yesterday protested after learning that their employer has fled without paying their January wages. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50107383/garment-workers-protest-unpaid-wages-2/
Cambodia arrests 8 for painting ‘SOS,’ plastering rooftops with Obama’s picture seeking help
One thing President Barack Obama will not see in Cambodia is pleas for help painted on rooftops near the airport. Authorities on Thursday arrested eight villagers who had hoped to attract the attention of Air Force One by plastering the U.s. president’s picture on their rooftops ss='cambodia-color'>...
Easing sex trade laws ‘could lower’ HIV rate
Decriminalising sex work could slash the world’s HIV infections by a third or more, according to a new study. Published yesterday in health journal The Lancet, the paper says that punitive treatment of sex workers can “elevate HIV acquisition and transmission risks”. In Cambodia, which has southeast Asia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/easing-sex-trade-laws-%E2%80%98could-lower%E2%80%99-hiv-rate
Leprosy Dark Spot Healed by Early Detection
It started with a small, dark spot on Oeur Pisey’s left arm: A spot that he simply ignored. slowly, other spots appeared. They soon covered Mr. Pisey’s thighs, upper body, and eventually, his face. A local health clinic in Kompong Cham province told him not to worry: ss='cambodia-color'>...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/leprosy-dark-spot-healed-by-early-detection-51173/
In Stung Treng, forests fall before they’re washed away
On the SeSan and Srepok riverS in the northeaSt, boatS of all ShapeS and SizeS lug timber back and forth between the bankS. Men wait on craggy land alongSide the water with jerry-rigged wincheS and homemade vehicleS to drag preciouS cargo up Steep inclineS. Fallen SS='cambodia-color'>...
Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-stung-treng-province-communities-fell-their-forests-before-they-are-washed-away-67369/
Ebola measures have been taken, gov’t tells investors
As world leaders vowed to dramatically step up the global response to the Ebola virus this week, the Cambodian government sought to reassure investors that they are making adequate preparations to contain an outbreak in the Kingdom. speaking at an American Chamber of Commerce luncheon yesterday, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel de Carteret
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/ebola-measures-have-been-taken-gov%E2%80%99t-tells-investors
CNRP seeks to supplant vietnamese prayer sites
CNRP spokesman Yem Ponhearith said on Monday that he plans to summon four government ministers to parliament to determine whether a remote area of Kampot province’s Bokor Mountain used for prayer ceremonies by Vietnamese tourists could be turned into a Cambodian cultural site. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-seeks-to-supplant-vietnamese-prayer-sites-78107/
US launches 16 mln USD nutrition, sanitation project in Cambodia
The United StateS Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday unveiled a five-year Integrated Nutrition, Hygiene and Sanitation project in Cambodia, which iS eStimated to coSt 16 million U.S. dollarS, according to a preSS Statement from the U.S. EmbaSSy to Cambodia. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-09/08/c_133627929.htm
Rice federation seeking loan
The Cambodian Rice Federation (CRF) is seeking financing from China’s Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) to build much-needed infrastructure such as warehouses and drying facilities to hopefully increase milled rice export capacities. sok Puthyvuth, president of the CRF told the Post yesterday that the CRF had set up ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-federation-seeking-loan
Nine Montagnard asylum seekers join 23 others in Ratanakkiri
Nine more Montagnard asylum seekers crossed into Ratanakkiri on Tuesday, bringing the total number hiding in the province’s O’Yadaw district to 32, a police official said Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nine-montagnard-asylum-seekers-join-23-others-in-ratanakkiri-77831/
Shoot-out after Laotians snared in drug sting
Stung Treng provincial military police and at leaSt four Laotian drug SmugglerS exchanged gunfire along the Lao border TueSday after a man waS arreSted for attempting to Sell more than 1.5 kg of cryStal methamphetamine to undercover officerS, an official Said WedneSday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/shoot-out-after-laotians-snared-in-drug-sting-78704/
UN human rights envoy wants quick solution to montagnard situation in Cambodia
A United Nations human rights expert has called for a speedy solution to the situation of the Montagnards from Vietnam still hiding in the forests of northeastern Cambodia, after crossing the border to escape alleged persecution. About 13 of the 50 Montagnards—Christian indigenous people from ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ratha Visal
http://bit.ly/18FL4z8
New Sesan, new study: NGO
Rights advocates have called for construction of the Lower sesan II hydropower dam in Cambodia’s stung Treng province to be halted until new environmental and social impact assessments can be carried following changes allegedly made to the project’s plans. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/new-sesan-new-study-ngo
Inditex, H&M agree to pay more for clothes from Cambodia
Fashion brands, including Europe’s biggest clothing retailer Inditex sA (ITX) and Hennes & Mauritz AB (HMB), said they are willing to pay more for clothes made in Cambodia, backing a trade union campaign for higher wages. The chains are among eight clothing retailers that include Next Plc (NXT) and Primark that have ss='cambodia-color'>...
Gabi Thesing
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-19/inditex-h-m-agree-to-pay-more-for-clothes-from-cambodia.html
Three convicted in UK over Cambodian biofuel scam
A London court on Friday convicted three British men of conspiracy to commit fraud following an investigation by the U.K.’s serious Fraud Office (sFO) into a British biofuel firm that swindled investors in its Cambodian venture. Gary West, the former director of sustainable Agro Energy (sAE); James ss='cambodia-color'>...
George Styllis
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-convicted-in-uk-over-cambodian-biofuel-scam-73778/
UK’s role in Cambodia’s mine-free 2025 initiative applauded by CMAA
Ly Thuch, first vice-president of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA), has reiterated that mine clearance work across the country has brought nothing but smiles and happiness, with more and more people living in safety, free from the threat of the silent ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kim Yutharo
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/uks-role-cambodias-mine-free-2025-initiative-applauded-cmaa
Cambodia Airlines to add planes
Cambodia Airlines plans to spend $1.5 billion to acquire up to 22 planes, a move that might see the new airline’s eventual fleet size overtake that of national carrier Cambodia Angkor Air. “We [will be] starting to deploy 16 to 22 aircraft immediately once it’s ready ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051065531/Business/cambodia-airlines-to-add-planes.html
Full text of White House statement on US-ASEAN Leaders Meeting
On November 19, 2012, President Obama met with the leaders of the 10 member states of the Association of southeast Asia Nations (AsEAN) to deepen our diplomatic, economic, security, and people-to-people ties with the key Asian multilateral organization. With a population of approximately 620 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vendors face eviction to beautify beach
In May Cambodia became a member of the World’s Most Beautiful Beach Club and as a result Koh Kong provincial authorities are not renewing leasing for beachfront stores and evicting those who work there. The leases are said to have expired two months ago, and ss='cambodia-color'>...
US, ASEAN urged to push rights in Cambodia
Twelve civil society organizations submitted a joint statement asking the Us government and heads of democratic AsEAN members to raise issues of human rights violations in Cambodia and the misuse of courts to stifle the opposition at next week’s Us-AsEAN summit in California, in order ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21239/us--asean-urged-to-push-rights-in-cambodia/