Final mission for volunteers
In their final deployment as part of Prime Minister Hun sen’s national land-titling program, 55 student youth volunteers will be sent to measure 50,000 hectares of land following a nearly six-month moratorium on the program. The deployment was officially launched at a ceremony in Kandal province ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/final-mission-volunteers
Flood toll expected to rise further, gov’t warns
Flooding continues to ravage 15 of Cambodia’s 23 provinces, acutely affecting Banteay Meanchey, Battambang, Pailin and siem Reap, and claiming 83 lives, according to the latest figures released by the National Committee for Disaster Management. Nhim Vanda, first deputy chairman of the NCDM, confirmed that while ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flood-toll-expected-rise-further-gov%E2%80%99t-warns
‘Blocked’ monks block road
More than 80 monks and activists marching to Phnom Penh for International Human Rights Day blocked National Road 5 in Kampong Chhnang town yesterday evening after local authorities allegedly pressured a pagoda to deny them permission to rest there. Independent Monks Network head But Buntenh claimed ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98blocked%E2%80%99-monks-block-road
New lottery bets on success
Malaysian-owned company VW Win Holdings Plc launched lottery operation Camloto in the Kingdom this week, making it the second to go live in as many months. Camloto CEO Jimmy Kong unveiled the new start-up, which will draw its first ball tonight on all major TV stations, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-lottery-bets-success
Digital Divide staff back on job
A week-long strike involving more than 100 work-study participants at Phnom Penh-based NGO Digital Divide Data ended on sunday following talks conducted by the social enterprise’s CEO, who flew in from New York to attend to the matter, participants and management said yesterday. Program participants, who ss='cambodia-color'>...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/digital-divide-staff-back-job
No oil for up to five years: Cambodian government
It will be years before oil starts to be produced by energy giant Chevron’s offshore site in the Gulf of Thailand, a senior Cambodian official said yesterday. Meng saktheara, secretary of state at the Ministry of Mines and Energy, said that negotiations over taxation have continued ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/no-oil-five-years-cambodian-government
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/