GMAC to hold class on firing
Amid complaints from union and labour rights officials of illegal firings over the years, Cambodia’s garment factory association is holding a course on the termination process in Preah sihanouk province today. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gmac-hold-class-firing
Villagers in court: Prey Lang land activists deny charge
Forest activists accused of destroying private property told a court hearing in Kampong Thom province yesterday that they were acting to protect mainland southeast Asia’s largest evergreen forest from illegal logging. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-court-prey-lang-land-activists-deny-charge
Banking on technology in capital
The Cambodian finance industry is to celebrate the sixth Banking and Finance Conference a week from today, at a meeting that will focus on developing technology in the country’s financial sector. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banking-technology-capital
Governor to resign from post
Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Sbong Sarath will reSign on April 17 to tranSition into a poSition on the provincial council of Prey Veng following thiS May&rSquo;S council electionS, he confirmed yeSterday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/governor-resign-post
Prison without water supply after broken pipe
Phnom Penh’s Prey sar prison has been buying truckloads of water for inmates since a road construction crew broke the water pipe leading to the jail last week, officials said sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prison-without-water-supply-after-broken-pipe-66703/
Families in Try Pheap dispute petition governor
Representatives of 142 families from Pursat province’s Veal Veng district filed complaints with the provincial governor Monday seeking intervention in their land dispute with powerful timber and casino magnate Try Pheap. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-in-try-pheap-dispute-petition-governor-70405/
Hundreds to seek pardon from King
About 800 prisoners will be considered for Royal pardons or reduced sentences as part of Water Festival events, such sophan Nara, director of the Ministry of Justice’s penal department, said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-seek-pardon-king
Security officials added to top ranks of ruling party
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party has added at least 80 commanders and other security officials to its Central Committee, a move that even more closely ties security forces to the party. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kong Sothanarith,
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/security-officials-added-to-top-ranks-of-ruling-party/2628499.html
Sixth HIV-positive villager dies in Battambang
A 69-year-old man who was among the more than 240 villagers to test positive for HIV in Battambang province’s Roka commune died on saturday, local health officials said Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sixth-hiv-positive-villager-dies-in-battambang-79350/
DF Fashion staff to get back pay
More than 400 former employees of the abandoned DF Fashion Apparel (Cambodia) in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district will each receive between $500 and $600 in back pay owed to them today. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/df-fashion-staff-get-back-pay
Eviction fears: Villagers on notice over flood remedy
The filling in of a canal in the capital’s Chbar Ambpov district has prompted local villagers to push back against looming displacement, district officials and community representatives have told the Post. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eviction-fears-villagers-notice-over-flood-remedy
CNRP youth leaders denied right to receive family visits
LICADHO calls for immediate family access to all three CNRP youth leaders currently detained in Prey sar’s CC1 prison. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO)
Consult quickly: Door closing on Laos dam input period
Very quietly, with no official public announcement, the intergovernmental assessment process for Laos’s contentious Don sahong dam is almost over before anyone knew it began. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/consult-quickly-door-closing-laos-dam-input-period
Grand Twins workers to strike anew
Striking workerS at Cambodia&rSquo;S only publicly liSted garment factory yeSterday Said about 5,000 employeeS will hold a demonStration at the Phnom Penh buSineSS tomorrow after failing to achieve their demandS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/grand-twins-workers-strike-anew
NGOs urge UN states to set climate targets
Citing Cambodia’s vulnerability to climate change, civil society groups have called for global responses to the issue as the United Nations prepares for its annual climate change convention in Lima, Peru. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shane Worrell
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-urge-un-states-set-climate-targets
Apsara order: Locals on ‘state land’ told to move
Some Siem Reap familieS are balking at the ApSara Authority&rSquo;S order for them to leave their homeS &ndaSh; which were allegedly conStructed illegally &ndaSh; and move to a government-provided Settlement by Friday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/apsara-order-locals-state-land-told-move
Cambodian soldier caught fishing illegally shoots forestry official
Two soldiers in northwest Cambodia’s Battambang province fired assault rifles at two local forestry officials on Friday after the officials reported them to a local opposition party lawmaker for illegal fishing. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hum Chamroeun
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/soldier-shoots-forestry-offcial-03172015170747.html
Cambodian PM expresses condolences over capsized ship tragedy in central China
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen on Friday expressed his deepest sympathy to China and members of the bereaved families in a passenger ship mishap in central China’ s Hubei province on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia to commence talks over 2016 wage hike for garment sector next month
Cambodia will begin to discuss the annual increase of monthly minimum wage for the garment and footwear industry for 2016 in July, according to a Labor Ministry’ s statement issued late Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12240/cambodia-to-commence-talks-over-2016-wage-hike-for-garment-sector-next-month/
Rainsy and CPP: from enemies to ‘negotiating partners’
Despite his jet-black hair, sam Rainsy turned 66 in March. And it was clear in an interview with Khmer Times this week that the leader of Cambodia’s opposition is mellowing. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pierre Gillette and Emmanuel Scheffer
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12416/rainsy-and-cpp--from-enemies-to----negotiating-partners---/