Hundreds strike at K Speu garment factory
Workers at A & J Carter (Cambodia) Limited in Kampong speu province’s samrong Tong district protested outside the factory yesterday, continuing a strike that began five days ago. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-strike-k-speu-garment-factory
Resident of HIV village dies at 76
Another HIV-positive resident of Battambang province’s Roka commune passed away this week, marking the latest fatality in a locale where hundreds have been infected with the virus. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/resident-hiv-village-dies-76
Sam Rainsy: culture of dialogue will save Cambodia from bloodshed
At the Cambodia National Rescue Party Headquarters on sunday, the party’s president declared that bloody clashes with the government like those of July 1997 will never happen again. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12919/sam-rainsy--culture-of-dialogue-will-save-cambodia-from-bloodshed/
No action on standoff claim
Gunshots were fired in a tense standoff between two armed groups in Kampong speu province’s Phnom Oral Wildlife sanctuary last month, prompting a court investigation into what happened. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-action-standoff-claim
White Building meeting
District authorities have again moved to quash long-running rumours that residents of Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building will be evicted to make way for development. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/white-building-meeting
Senate unanimously supports for legal action against senator Hong Sok Hour
Forty-Seven SenatorS Supported thiS afternoon the authoritieS&rSquo; legal action againSt Senator Hong Sok Hour, the Senate&rSquo;S SpokeSperSon Mam Bunneang, told reporterS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/senate-unanimously-supports-for-legal-action-against-senator-hong-sok-hour-8846
Official charged after man electrocuted by fence
A district official in Banteay Meanchey province was charged with manslaughter sunday after his neighbor died when he touched an electric fence surrounding the official’s property, police said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/official-charged-after-man-electrocuted-by-fence-92356/
Cambodia will weather financial storm: experts
The global stock market tumble may take the wind out of Cambodia’s property sector, but should have muted effects on the rest of the economy, analysts said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14919/cambodia-will-weather-financial-storm--experts/
The highs and lows of needle exchanges
Drug abuse is a widespread issue with few universal solutions. But one NGO’s methods of dealing with the problem are putting it at odds with the local community. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Va Sonyka
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15041/the-highs-and-lows-of-needle-exchanges/
Ethnic minorities in Mondolkiri band together in new political party
Indigenous people in Mondolkiri province have joined together to form a new political party to give a voice to the country’s minority groups, a party official said Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ethnic-minorities-in-mondolkiri-band-together-in-new-political-party-93253/
Wastewater treatment plant improvement project in Siem Reap progresses despite weather challenges
Despite frequent storms and heavy rainfall, the progress of the project to improve siem Reap’s wastewater treatment plan continues. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501106138/wastewater-treatment-plant-improvement-project-in-siem-reap-progresses-despite-weather-challenges/
City on a hill sparks little talk
A casino complex on top of Kampot province’s Bokor Mountain will open in less than two weeks – but environmental groups are strangely quiet about the effects the development, the size of a small city, could have on Cambodia’s natural heritage. The complex, in the Preah ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chinese Embassy Petitioners Sent Packing
Just hours before Chinese President Hu Jintao landed in Phnom Penh on Friday, a group of dismayed Koh Kong province villagers whose land is under threat from a sprawling Chinese tourism project were escorted onto a bus and sent back home before they were able ss='cambodia-color'>...
CNRP Pray-In Gets Backing From Opposition Supporters
Opposition supporters have had varying reactions to the CNRP’s announcement Monday that a mass demonstration planned for this weekend would be framed as a day of prayer rather than protest, but said they would still turn out. And while the CNRP’s efforts to explain their decision, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-pray-in-gets-backing-from-opposition-supporters-41613/
Bruised but Not Beaten, Protesters Return to Wat Phnom
Anger over the violent attack on peaceful protesters at Wat Phnom on sunday night simmered at the site Monday morning, with the same demonstrators returning to confront their alleged attackers and detaining a police official they accused of spying. shortly before 11 p.m. on sunday night, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Woods and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/bruised-but-not-beaten-protesters-return-to-wat-phnom-43049/
Opposition Party Threatens Nationwide Labor Strikes
Opposition leader sam Rainsy on Wednesday announced that his party could stage nationwide labor strikes in protest of disputed election results, and said the CNRP would begin an international campaign to make the CPP government a pariah state. “In the air is an idea of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/opposition-party-threatens-nationwide-labor-strikes-43403/
National Assembly Claims CNRP Acting Unconstitutionally
The National Assembly said in a statement on Friday that the opposition CNRP is in contempt of both the Constitution and the King by claiming that the new government is illegitimate. The CNRP had accused the ruling CPP of behaving unconstitutionally by convening parliament last week ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/national-assembly-claims-cnrp-acting-unconstitutionally-43861/
Factories to lose millions
The economic fallout from garment worker protests and the industry’s response is expected to cost the key sector millions of dollars while tarnishing the country’s reputation among international buyers, interviews with suppliers and figures from previous periods of labour unrest show. Disputes over wages came to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/factories-lose-millions
National Radio Site Swapped With Land Developer
The Ministry of Information has swapped an 11-hectare plot of land in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, which was previously the site of National Radio AM 918, with a property development firm in exchange for the construction of a new radio tower and transmitter on a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/national-radio-site-swapped-with-land-developer-45419/
World Bank Says Freeze on Lending Remains
After repeatedly equivocating about whether it has lifted a 2011 freeze on new lending to Cambodia in response to the government’s forced evictions of families in Phnom Penh, the World Bank has said that the suspension is still firmly in place. “The World Bank has not ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/world-bank-says-freeze-on-lending-remains-46681/