Factory at center of January strikes under review
The Yakjin Trading Corporation, a South Korean company whose factory was at the center of major demonstrations earlier this year, has begun a review of its operations. ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/factory-at-center-of-january-strikes-under-review/2439828.html
Calls to end impunity aimed at court system
Hundreds of people gathered in Phnom Penh yesterday to mark the International Day to End Impunity, calling on the government to tackle the issue by reforming its court system. Speaking at the event at the capital’s Cambodiana Hotel, Preap Kol, executive director of Transparency International Cambodia, ...
Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/calls-end-impunity-aimed-court-system
Passport pickiness: Nine nations screened at airport: CIA
Travellers from nine South Asian, African and Middle Eastern nations are likely to face increased scrutiny at Phnom Penh’s airport security, according to a new release from Wikileaks. ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/passport-pickiness-nine-nations-screened-airport-cia
Fertilizer stored at Chinese man’s home seized
Local authorities investigating a house in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district confiscated more than 260 containers of fertilizer and insecticide Wednesday morning after neighbors of a Chinese man complained of a noxious smell emanating from his house, which they feared might have been a dangerous ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fertilizer-stored-at-chinese-mans-home-seized-77849/
Court postpones trial over brawl at freedom park
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has postponed today’s scheduled hearing of 11 people, including senior CNRP official Meach Sovannara, who were charged with insurrection and other crimes over a bloody scuffle at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park in July. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-postpones-trial-over-brawl-at-freedom-park-78508/
New road at Poipet to boost trade ties
Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that customs revenue from Poipet International Port on the Cambodia-Thai border was over $120 million a year, on account of heavy movement of goods across the border. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/new-road-poipet-boost-trade-ties
CNRP will not protest at Meach Sovannara trial
The opposition CNRP will neither protest at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday nor send any senior officials there to oppose the scheduled hearing of 11 of its members who stand charged with “insurrection,” opposition spokesman Yem Ponhearith said Thursday. ...
Kuch Naren and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-will-not-protest-at-meach-sovannara-trial-80829/
Coke to build $100M plant at PPSEZ
Coca-Cola will build a second factory in Cambodia, investing $100 million into a new plant in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone that will more than triple its current output, company officials said yesterday. The news comes on the heels of a meeting in November during ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/coke-build-100m-plant-ppsez
‘Kidney ring’ generals back on job at hospital
The two top officials in what was first reported as a kidney-trafficking ring based out of a military hospital, then later dismissed as a “training program”, have returned to work, a doctor employed there said. Lieutenant General Ly Sovan, 54-year-old director of Preah Ket Mealea hospital, ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98kidney-ring%E2%80%99-generals-back-job-hospital
Workers warn of bigger protest at Thai border
Hundreds of Cambodian workers warned on Monday to hold bigger and longer protest at Poipet-Kloeng Loek crossing border if Thai military doesn’t release 16 Cambodian cart workers today. According to the workers, Thai authority issued a new rule to restrict Cambodian cart workers not to allow ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=OTVmZjI0NGI5MmU
Anti-eviction activists band together at City Hall
More than 30 activists from two communities impacted by land-grabbing demonstrated together in front of Phnom Penh City Hall on Monday to demand that authorities intervene in their cases. ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anti-eviction-activists-band-together-at-city-hall-67412/
Land grab complaint filed at International Criminal Court
A British lawyer has asked the International Criminal Court to investigate “widespread and systematic” land grabbing in Cambodia over the past 14 years as a crime against humanity. The complaint filed in The Hague yesterday by lawyer Richard Rogers, who is officially representing 10 Cambodian victims, ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/complaint-filed-icc
Chan Soveth, human rights defender, dies at 51
Chan Soveth, a longtime human rights defender, died of a heart attack on Wednesday. Colleagues say he was returning from celebrations to mark International Human Rights Day. He was 51. ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/chan-soveth-human-rights-defender-dies-at-51/2553620.html
Inmates beat guard at Kompong Speu Provincial Prison
Four inmates at Kompong Speu’s provincial prison attacked a guard on Wednesday, repeatedly punching him in the face, an official said Thursday. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/inmates-beat-guard-at-kompong-speu-provincial-prison-76573/
A short fuse at City Hall, activists say
Boeung Kak community activists yesterday accused Phnom Penh Municipal Hall administrative director Mean Chanyada of rudely cutting short a meeting with their group, a charge the official denied. Boeung Kak representative Chan Puthisak characterised Chanyada’s allegedly storming out of the meeting as evidence of the city’s ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/short-fuse-city-hall-activists-say
Chhouk Bandith still at large three years on
Three female garment workers who were shot by former Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith during a February 2012 factory demonstration called on the government yesterday to imprison the former politician, who has been on the run for three years as of today. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/chhouk-bandith-still-large-three-years
Preah Sihanouk at center of new industrial plan
The Council of Ministers released a new policy on Friday aimed at boosting Cambodia’s industrial development beyond the garment and food sectors, placing Preah Sihanouk province at the center of plans to modernize the country’s economy. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/preah-sihanouk-at-center-of-new-industrial-plan-79255/
Local pol pushes on revenue at Angkor Wat
An opposition lawmaker in Siem Reap province is planning to file a complaint to the Constitutional Council to review National Assembly President Heng Samrin’s decision not to forward his request to terminate Sokimex’s Angkor Wat ticket collection licence. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/local-pol-pushes-revenue-angkor-wat
Armed robbers at large after Pursat market heist
Five robbers stole more than 4 kg of gold and platinum jewelry from a market in Pursat province’s Phnom Kravanh district on Saturday, police said Sunday. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/armed-robbers-at-large-after-pursat-market-heist-80533/
Tourist numbers at the Killing fields keep rising
The number of tourists visiting the Choeung Ek Genocidal Center, known as the Killing Fields, is estimated to be rising markedly in the first four months of 2015 compared to the same period last year, an official said. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/11635/tourist-numbers-at-the-killing-fields-keep-rising/