Herbalife to operate in capital
Herbalife Ltd, a global nutrition company whose business practices are being challenged in a Us court and whose marketing strategies have been the subject of public criticism, will officially open a six-storey distribution centre in Phnom Penh today, according to the New York stock Exchange-listed ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/herbalife-operate-capital
Monks and Cash Rewards Save Softshell Turtles
SAMBOR DISTRICT, Kratie Province &ndaSh; A Sharply dreSSed uSher in a criSp black Shirt, black pantS and a Shiny black tie eScorted gueStS to one of Several bungalow-Style, private boothS at the Mloub Dong reStaurant on a recent evening. While the privacy the reStaurant offerS iS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/monks-and-cash-rewards-save-softshell-turtles-49329/
Groups Demand Mandatory Minimum Wage, Threaten Protest
About 100 people, including 20 monks, held a ceremony in Phnom Penh on Friday in memory of the five people killed a week beforehand when military police opened fire on protesting garment workers, and demanded that the government introduce a mandatory, sector-wide standard minimum wage. In ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/groups-demand-a-mandatory-minimum-wage-threaten-to-protest-50428/
Heavy Security Amid a Loss Of Legitimacy For CPP
The past two days have seen some of the most conspicuous displays of government control of the capital in years, with military and riot police being deployed to ensure the safety of ruling CPP lawmakers and leaders being sworn in to parliament in the absence ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/heavy-security-amid-a-loss-of-legitimacy-for-cpp-43136/
Flooding Spreads to Svay Rieng; 17 Provinces Now Affected
Svay Rieng became the lateSt province to declare emergency water levelS aS StormS continued in the weSt of the country, prolonging deadly nationwide flooding that haS killed at leaSt 83 people and affected tenS of thouSandS of familieS over the paSt month, officialS Said. Keo Vy, SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/flooding-spreads-to-svay-rieng-17-provinces-now-affected-44702/
At Embattled Factory, an Unmovable Manager
In an industry rife with labor strikes, the workers at the sL Garment Factory in recent months have been strident, and sometimes violent, in their efforts to have their demands for better working conditions met by factory bosses. Tuesday’s clash with police near Phnom Penh’s stung ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/at-embattled-factory-an-unmovable-manager-46900/
Japan to Assist Cambodia With Election Reform
Japan’s Prime Minister shinzo Abe has pledged to help Cambodia with electoral reforms, following a request by Prime Minister Hun sen to send experts to the country ahead of future polls and amid an ongoing dispute over national elections held more than three months ago. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/japan-11182013183828.html
Protesters Move Largely Unhindered by Police Checkpoints
Despite the return of police checkpoints around Phnom Penh on Wednesday morning ahead of the opposition CNRP’s latest protest against July’s still-disputed national election, most demonstrators coming in from the provinces were let through. Typifying what turned out to be a lighter security touch compared to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/protesters-move-largely-unhindered-by-police-checkpoints-45741/
Security Forces Get in Line for Chinese New Year ‘Ang Pao’ Cash
Chinese New Year is coming and crowds of uniformed police, military police, soldiers and even the stony-faced troops of Prime Minister Hun sen’s Bodyguard Unit will be queuing with expectation at the gates of the rich and powerful to receive their annual “ang pao” envelopes. In ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/security-forces-get-in-line-for-chinese-new-year-ang-pao-cash-51022/
National Rail Project on Hold ‘Indefinitely’
Work on a $143 million donor project to renovate the country’s creaking railway system, which is already over budget and years behind schedule, is now indefinitely postponed due to a lack of funds, with more than 300 km of rail still to be laid, a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/national-rail-project-on-hold-indefinitely-51323/
Gov’t suspends freedom of association for unions
Following a complaint from the Free Trade Union (FTU) over the Ministry of Labor’s refusal to register 10 local branches of its organization, a ministry official said Wednesday that the constitutional right to freedom of association has been suspended until a new trade union law ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-suspends-freedom-of-association-for-unions-53271/
Can’t fight, forced to take flight
The residents of Por sen Chey district’s Prey Chisak village could do nothing but stand and stare. Early yesterday, representatives of Green Goal, a private company tasked with measuring and marking sought-after property for Phnom Penh’s airport expansion, arrived in the village and started to measure ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/can%E2%80%99t-fight-forced-take-flight
Worse off than before
In May of 2010, just four days after their family was resettled in Battambang province, two children, accompanied by their sister-in-law, walked to a pond. stories differ as to why they were there. Rights groups say they went to bathe and collect water. Police claim ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/worse
Court overrules decision to compensate Dey Krahorm families
The Court of Appeal on Friday overruled a decision by the Municipal Court ordering the company 7NG Group to provide a total of $195,000 in compensation to 13 families whose houses were destroyed during the violent eviction of the Dey Krahorm community in 2009. “The Court ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-overrules-decision-to-compensate-dey-krahorm-families-52966/
Slow start for joint electoral reform commission
The ruling CPP agreed in principle to two of seven proposals put forth by the opposition CNRP on Monday during the first meeting of a joint electoral reform commission. Emerging from a four-and-a-half hour meeting at the senate, leaders of the CPP and CNRP working groups ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/slow-start-for-joint-electoral-reform-commission-53427/
NGOs begin to stop the rot of Cambodian teeth
Every day for weeks on end, 6-year-old srey Nuch was tormented by severe pain caused by several of her teeth rotting away. Her mother, Lay Vicheka, despaired when she heard her daughter’s cries, knowing the family was far too poor to pay a dentist to fix ss='cambodia-color'>...
Holly Robertson and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/ngos-starting-to-stop-the-rot-of-cambodian-teeth-59490/
Islands up for grabs
More than 180,000 hectares on 28 of Cambodia’s 64 islands were reclassified as state private property for 31 companies seeking land concessions between 2008 and 2010, government sub-decrees reveal. The reclassification sub-decrees, compiled by investigators at the rights group Adhoc, pave the way for firms to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Boeung Kak women kept away from NGO, reporters
Imprisoned Boeung Kak lake villagers, some crying, motioned to human rights representatives and Post reporters through a chain-link fence at Prey sar prison on Tuesday. Their efforts to talk to the visitors were futile, however, as two guards stopped anyone from approaching the 13 women sentenced ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012053056483/National-news/silent-treatment-at-prey-sar.html
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Illegally poached birds seized in Banteay Meanchey
Authorities in Banteay Meanchey province’s Mongkol Borei district seized more than 200 illegally poached birds yesterday, officers there said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegally-poached-birds-seized-banteay-meanchey