Villagers block land survey
Kandal provincial authorities on Sunday attempted to measure wetland in Sa’ang district’s Roka Kpuos commune but were stopped by about 100 villagers who Said the measurement overlapped with their flooded land. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-block-land-survey
Hu to Visit Cambodia Just Before Asean Summit
Chinese President Hu Jintao will pay an official state visit to Cambodia between March 30 and April 2, a trip that will coincide with the Asean-European Union Business Summit and will finish just one day before the annual Asean summit commences in Phnom Penh, an ...
Kandal villagers burn tyres to fight dredging
Nearly a hundred villagers living along a river located in Sa’ang district’s Koh Anlong Chin commune in Kandal province recently protested against the plans of one company to dredge Sand in the area. on Sunday, employees of Sand-dredging company Sok Teang Import Export, which has been ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kandal-villagers-burn-tyres-fight-dredging
Gibbons to Be Reintroduced to Angkor Forest
A pair of endangered pileated gibbons will be released today into the forest in the angkor Archaeological Park, the beginning of a project that could see the resettlement of many other animals that had been extirpated from the area, wildlife experts said. “We are hoping that ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/gibbons-to-be-reintroduced-to-angkor-forest-49157/
105 Chinese arrested at senator’s Poipet casino
More than 100 Chinese nationals believed to be wanted for crimes in their home country were arrested on Wednesday at a CPP senator’s casino in Poipet City, which had to be shut down during the operation, police said. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/105-chinese-arrested-at-senators-poipet-casino-109327/
Gambling on change
The Cambodian government is drafting a series of changes to the Kingdom’s gaming laws in a bid to draw major players from Macau and the US to the market and potentially create a new tax base from the growing, if currently illegal, online betting industry, ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gambling-change
Construction begins at bloody eviction site
More than four years after the violent forced eviction of about 800 families from Dey Krahorm in the capital’s high-rent Tonle Bassac commune, small-scale construction is finally beginning on the site. In the past month, the skeletons of a future barbecue restaurant and a beer garden ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032764726/National/construction-begins-at-bloody-eviction-site.html
Rice plots blocked at dam site
In a first step toward clearing villagers from land intended for a planned Koh Kong provincial hydroelectric dam, a Chinese development firm has blocked a road leading to plots where villagers have continued to harvest rice. officials from Tianjin Union Development Group, which was awarded a ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rice-plots-blocked-dam-site
Croc release at dam site planned
A conservation group may release 20 baby Siamese crocodiles into the Areng Valley amid an ongoing stand-off between villagers and a Chinese firm over the construction of a controversial hydropower dam in Koh Kong province. Tuy Serey Vathana, country directory at Fauna and Flora International, said ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/croc-release-dam-site-planned
Work continues at contested KDC site
A company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem forged ahead with its construction of a concrete wall around a swath of disputed land in Kompong Chhnang province Friday, despite a call from the U.N.’s human rights envoy on Thursday that ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/work-continues-at-contested-kdc-site-63906/
Grave sites a concern at Sesan
Ethnic minority villagers who live in the planned reservoir zone of the Lower Sesan II hydropower project along the Sesan and Srepok rivers have said they will not move from their homes unless the dam company and authorities pay for the removal of their ancestors’ ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/grave-sites-concern-sesan
PM says people can topple him if gov’t breaks its campaign pledges
Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Wednesday that the people could rebel to overthrow him if he did not follow through on his promises. However, he said that would be unnecessary as he would voluntarily step down if such was the case. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-says-people-can-topple-him-if-govt-breaks-its-campaign-pledges
Campaign calls to stop sexual harassment in the workplace
A campaign to stop sexual harassment at the workplace will be at the center of efforts to curb violence against women over the next year, NGo representatives said at a meeting with government officials Sunday. ...
Meghan Tribe
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/campaign-calls-to-stop-sexual-harassment-in-the-workplace-98235/
Worker dies after mass faintings in Kandal
A garment worker died on Sunday after collapsing in an economic zone in Kandal province last week with more than 400 others, according to union and labor officials, who believe her death was linked to the faintings. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/worker-dies-after-mass-faintings-in-kandal-101214/
Garment workers to get health insurance
Garment workers across the Kingdom will receive health insurance from the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) by 2018, according to officials. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24928/garment-workers-to-get-health-insurance/
Vihear Suor farmers slammed for workday pesticide use
The Khsach Kandal district hall has called on 10 farmers to attend a meeting today about the pesticides they spray on their crops after almost 300 factory workers in the nearby 7NG Economic Zone fainted on Thursday and Friday. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18069/vihear-suor-farmers-slammed-for-workday-pesticide-use/
Mass fainting hits Cerie garment factory again
A mass fainting incident occurred again yesterday at a Chinese-owned garment factory that supplies nighties, bras and children’s clothing to North American retail chain Hudson Bay, with more than 60 workers collapsing at the factory in Kampong Speu’s Samrong Tong district, after about 40 collapsed ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18487/mass-fainting-hits-cerie-garment-factory-again/
Plantation workers end strike with little gain
Nearly 200 rubber plantation workers in Mondolkiri province on Thursday ended a three-day strike over wages and working conditions, despite not having resolved their concerns with Socfin KCD, the controversial French firm that owns the plantation. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/plantation-workers-end-strike-with-little-gain-79692/
Garment factory floor collapse injures 4 in Cambodia
Four Cambodian garment workers were slightly injured on Tuesday after part of the floor in a garment factory collapsed into a pond built underneath, a local police chief confirmed. The incident occurred at 10:00 a.m. (local time) at Nishiku Enterprise in Bati district of southern Takeo ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-10/21/c_133731886.htm
Faintings up: Union report
About 1,800 people fainted at work in 2014, roughly 1,000 more than the previous year, according to Cambodian Labour Confederation (CLC) statistics surveying multiple industries in the Kingdom. Work-related deaths fell from about 96 in 2013 to 73 in 2014, while issues such as arrests and ...
Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/faintings-union-report