Dam critics outline litany of risks
As villagers in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley continue to block sinohydro Corp employees from entering the area where the stung Cheay Areng dam is planned, conservationists and rights workers have spoken of the havoc it will wreak if it goes ahead. In terms of the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel Pye and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-critics-outline-litany-risks
Costs don’t top brands’ concerns
In their latest bid for a $160 minimum monthly wage for the garment industry, independent unions will lead a “stay at home” strike late next week. While the chances of that figure being approved anytime soon seem slight – the government has only just announced a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/costs-don%E2%80%99t-top-brands%E2%80%99-concerns
EdC under pressure
One month after the capital’s power provider promised to end chronic city blackouts for good this hot season, residents and businesses continue to find themselves sweltering in the heat and throwing away any spoilable goods due to the unpredictable losses of electricity. In March, Electricite du ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/edc-under-pressure
Developers see near completion of cable-stayed bridge as positive for trade and property prices
Set to open next year, Cambodia&rSquo;S firSt cable-Stayed bridge iS now more than 70 per cent complete, according the government. Chhim Phalla, director of the MiniStry of Public Work&rSquo;S Department of International Cooperation, which iS overSeeing the Neak Loeung Bridge and improvementS to National Road 1, SS='cambodia-color'>...
Siv Meng and Sum Manet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/developers-see-near-completion-cable-stayed-bridge-positive-trade-and-property-prices
Firm ordered to stop clearing land
Authorities in Pursat’s Krakor district yesterday ordered a cassava company to stop clearing land on which more than 60 families claim they have planted rice and other crops since 1997, villagers and a company official said. Following protests in Anlong Tnort commune on Tuesday, villager Lim ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/firm-ordered-stop-clearing-land
Chong villagers put festive spin on dam protest
Villagers from an ethnic minority community in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley continued their blockade over the Khmer New Year holiday of an access road leading to the site of a proposed dam they say would destroy their way of life. Members of the ethnic ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chong-villagers-put-festive-spin-on-dam-protest-56708/
SECC targets investor scams
The SecuritieS and Exchange CommiSSion of Cambodia (SECC) iS inveStigating a riSe in fraudulent get-rich-quick SchemeS that prey on Cambodian inveStorS, the market watchdog Said yeSterday. UnlicenSed inveStment SchemeS operating inSide Cambodia will go under the SECC&rSquo;S microScope, while multilevel marketing firmS that appeal to vulnerable SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kimsay Hor and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/secc-targets-investor-scams
M’kiri villagers petition over illegal logging
Nearly 200 people from 25 different communities converged on the Mondolkiri Provincial Hall Monday to file complaints and petitions calling for an end to illegal logging and environmental degradation. The action comes two days after armed commune police blocked 16 rights workers and journalists from visiting ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mkiri-villagers-petition-over-illegal-logging-57612/
Assembly passes first of three contentious laws on judicial reform
Ruling party lawmakers at the National Assembly pass the first of three draft laws in judicial reform, defying an opposition boycott and ignoring calls for further review by outside legal experts. The Law on the Organization of the Courts will put more power within the Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/assembly-passes-first-of-three-contentious-laws-on-judicial-reform/1920338.html
Economic official in K Cham Hit and run
A car belonging to Ly Thida, the director of the Kompong Cham provincial department of economy and finance, was involved in a fatal hit-and-run collision Thursday in the province’s Choeung Prey district, a police official said. District deputy police chief Cheang se said two people were ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/economic-official-in-k-cham-hit-and-run-59440/
Kratie land dispute goes on
Hundreds of families from Kratie province’s snuol district who were promised new plots of land after a Vietnamese rubber firm evicted them last month have complained that provincial officials are allowing hundreds of interlopers to stake a claim instead. The 405 families were evicted from the ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-land-dispute-goes
Migrant abuse down, not out
Fewer cases of abuse of migrants were recorded last year than in 2012, but that doesn’t mean the issue is any less serious, a forum held by rights group Adhoc was told yesterday. Torture, a lack of food, and physical and sexual abuse are just some ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/migrant-abuse-down-not-out
Cambodian govt making efforts at minimum wage reform
The Government of Cambodia is making efforts at minimum wage reform, and it has set up a committee to study the minimum wage at garment manufacturing units as a way of continually working to increase it, Labour Minister Ith sam Heng while unveiling the Ministry’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Fibre2fashion News Desk - India
http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/apparel-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=159685
Fisherman files Anti-Corruption Unit complaint
A fisherman who survived a deadly collision after his boat smashed into a towboat off the south coast earlier this year filed a complaint Tuesday with the Anti-Corruption Unit, accusing a Koh Kong Prov­incial Court judge and his clerk of corruption after the judge allowed ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha and Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fisherman-files-anti-corruption-unit-complaint-54197/
Modest campaign plans for CPP, Funcinpec
As the CNRP has taken to Phnom Penh’s streets and its provincial outposts to rally support ahead of the May 18 district, city and provincial council election, the ruling CPP said Monday it had no plans to match the opposition’s campaign push, confident that the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/modest-campaign-plans-for-cpp-funcinpec-58129/
Migrants’ kids at risk: CDRI
Fuelled by poverty and debt, more than a quarter of Cambodian adults migrate, and, in the process, many are leaving behind their children, a new report finds. Part of a four-year research project on child labour, the Cambodian Independent Research Institute’s The Impacts of Adult Migration ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron and Cheang Sokha
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/migrants%E2%80%99-kids-risk-cdri
Commerce claims that donations not political
The Ministry of Commerce has defended its solicitation of donations from private organisations as voluntary, legal and a form of corporate social responsibility. The ministry’s response comes after Post Weekend revealed on saturday, through leaked documents, that the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) made a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/commerce-claims-donations-not-political
Cambodian King seeks investigation of judge over court procedure
In a rare intervention, Cambodia’s King Norodom sihamoni has demanded an investigation over a Phnom Penh judge who interviewed an opposition party activist without his attorney being present. A lawmaker had complained to the King that Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge Keo Mony had questioned Ouch ss='cambodia-color'>...
Roseanne Gerin
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/investigation-of-judge-12152014160825.html
Loggers tell of Thai jails
The logger’s teeth were smashed with the butt of a rifle and his friend fatally shot by a Thai paramilitary force formed to provide support to the Khmer Rouge. Chakrya*, 24, had ventured across the Dangrek Mountains in Cambodia’s far north to log siamese rosewood, a ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/loggers-tell-thai-jails
OSK Indochina Bank acquired by RHB Capital
One of Malaysia’s biggest investment banks, RHB Capital, announced it will acquire OsK Indochina Bank, via the transfer of 100 per cent of OsK Investment Bank shares from parent OsK Holdings, giving OsK Holdings a 10 per cent stake in the larger Malaysian RHB Capital ss='cambodia-color'>...