Embassy asked to intervene
Boeung Kak residents delivered a petition to the Singaporean Embassy yesterday, calling on it to pressure Singapore-listed HLH Group to halt dealings with a controversial development project at the site until a land row is settled. HLH Group entered a $14.9 million purchase deal in June ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/embassy-asked-intervene
Economic growth has come at high cost, experts warn
Experts say that Cambodia’s economic growth remains fragile and unsustainable, bringing environmental degradation, social inequality and, at times, unrest to the country. Cambodia has maintained a high economic growth rate in recent years, up to 8 percent, “but that high growth comes with high costs,” said ...
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/economic-growth-has-come-at-high-cost-experts-warn/2427241.html
Countrywide census starts
Immigration officials from the Interior Ministry and Pursat province today are to begin a census of all foreigners living in the Kingdom, though it is expected to focus primarily on those of Vietnamese descent. Following a meeting in Pursat yesterday afternoon, Major General Khun Sambor, chief ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/countrywide-census-starts
Vietnam extends credit for Cambodian modernisation
Vietnam has provided neighbouring Cambodia with USD22 million in credit to support the military modernisation efforts of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). ...
Jon Grevatt
http://www.janes.com/article/42924/vietnam-extends-credit-for-cambodian-modernisation
Vietnam requests Cambodia to stop "wrongful actions of protesters": spokesperson
Vietnam foreign ministry spokesperson on Thursday requests the Cambodian administration to “take effective measures to stop those wrongful actions of protesters, which are not in line with the traditional friendship and sound relationship between Vietnam and Cambodia.” ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140911/vietnam-requests-cambodia-stop-wrongful-actions-protesters-s
Cambodian minister hails fruitful cooperation with China on media, broadcasting
Cambodian Information Minister Khieu Kanharith on Thursday admired excellent cooperation between Cambodia and China on media and broadcasting, saying that the cooperation would promote closer relations between the peoples of the two countries. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141009/cambodian-minister-hails-fruitful-cooperation-china-media-br
Kantha Bopha Children's Hospital nationalised
Siem Reap’s Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital, which has provided free medical treatment since 1998, has been transferred to the Ministry of Health, the Post has learned. ...
Cheang Sokha
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/kantha-bopha-childrens-hospital-nationalised
Still detained: No answer on bail in Juhui case
An attorney for five people arrested after a violent protest at a Kampong Cham shoe factory said yesterday he is waiting for the court to issue a decision on a bail request he filed on Friday. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/still-detained-no-answer-bail-juhui-case
Education funds to get bump
The proposed 2015 education budget is inching upwards from last year’s funding, however it still falls short of internationally recommended minimums. Education is slated to take up a $396 million chunk of the $3.75 billion draft budget, which has yet to be approved by the National ...
Laignee Barron and Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/education-funds-get-bump
Striking Juhui staff look for new jobs
Between 700 and 800 workers from the Juhui Footwear factory in Kampong Cham province have given up on trying to get their jobs back and are looking for work at other factories, while hundreds of others are still waiting for a resolution, a union official ...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/striking-juhui-staff-look-new-jobs
CNRP lawmaker challenges minister on state of roads
An opposition lawmaker Wednesday used a sitting of the National Assembly—called to pass the third and fourth chapters of the new traffic law—to demand that Transport Minister Tram Iv Tek repair Cambodia’s dilapidated roads or resign from his position. The National Assembly on Monday passed the ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmaker-challenges-minister-on-state-of-roads-73614/
Abandoned Cambodia aircraft at Noi Bai Airport to be auctioned
The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) says that the Boeing 727-200 that has been left at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi for seven years will be auctioned in the near future. ...
Cambodian PM calls for calm over HIV infections
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen called for calm Thursday, saying it was not certain that an unlicensed medical practitioner is responsible for infecting 106 people, including 19 children, with HIV in Battambang province. A joint statement from Cambodia’s Health Ministry and the World Health Organization said ...
Bopha Phorn
http://asiancorrespondent.com/129230/cambodian-pm-calls-for-calm-over-hiv-infections/
Dewhirst management ‘intimidated’ workers
Management of an English-owned garment factory yesterday refused a request by union officials to meet to negotiate a possible end of a strike that started on Thursday. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dewhirst-management-intimidated-workers
Jailed family’s release demanded
Human rights group Adhoc has demanded the release of a couple and their 9-month-old child jailed amid a land dispute in Preah Vihear, calling their arrest a “grave human rights abuse”. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/jailed-familys-release-demanded
Four arrested in raid targeting fake coffee
Police have warned coffee lovers there could be a couple of bad batches circulating and percolating in Phnom Penh after a raid on a fake coffee enterprise in Sen Sok district’s Khmuonh commune yesterday. officers arrested four men during the joint operation in Banlar Sa Et ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/four-arrested-raid-targeting-fake-coffee
Teachers union worried textbooks may be sold
A district education official in Preah Vihear may be hoarding state textbooks to sell at the market rather than distributing them to perennially book-strapped schools, according to the Cambodian Independent Teachers Association (CITA). ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teachers-union-worried-textbooks-may-be-sold
Year sees significant increase in abortions
The number of abortions performed in 2014 increased nearly 51 per cent from the year before, according to the Ministry of Health. A report released March 9 showed that the total number of miscarriages and abortions for the year were up by more than 4,000 cases ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/year-sees-significant-increase-abortions
Mafia ‘not welcome’
Cambodia’s National Police chief Neth Savoeun has told foreign embassies that it won’t tolerate “foreign mafia” in the Kingdom, in what appears to be a thinly veiled message to Russia concerning recent conflict between Russian nationals in Sihanoukville. According to the statement, Savoeun has been ...
Vong Sokheng and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/mafia-not-welcome
Malnutrition still endemic: UN
Over 40 per cent of Cambodian children under 5 years old suffer from stunted development due to poor nutrition, a rate that has not changed since 2010, according to data revealed yesterday by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). While Cambodia has put substantial work ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/malnutrition-still-endemic-un