Firm has soldiers in pocket, say villagers
Hundreds of families in Banteay Meanchey province’s Thma Puok district filed a complaint yesterday to rights group Adhoc, claiming their community farmland is being bulldozed by a company under the protection of soldiers. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/firm-has-soldiers-pocket-say-villagers
Truck ban for bamboo collectors
More than 50 villagers who collect bamboo and rattan in the forests of Kampot’s Teuk Chhou district called on Kampot provincial hall for intervention yesterday after their trucks were banned from the area. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/truck-ban-bamboo-collectors
Chainsaws confiscated by villagers
Ethnic Phnong villagers in Mondulkiri province’s sen Monorom district will file a complaint with rights group Adhoc today against three men who allegedly illegally logged 10 cubic metres of timber from their forest. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chainsaws-confiscated-villagers
Transparency keeps driving improvements in working conditions
The International Labour Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) programme today releases its 2nd online transparency report showing how individual garment factories measure up on key working conditions. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Better Factories Cambodia
Buddha statue not wanted
Ethnic Tumpoun residents from Ratanakkiri’s Banlung district sent petitions to authorities yesterday to protest plans to erect a Buddha statue at Yeak Loam Lake, saying it will bring bad luck to their villages. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/buddha-statue-not-wanted
Marching rights activists blocked at starting point
More than a hundred monks and rights activists marching to Phnom Penh for International Human Rights Day were blocked by soldiers and police at their starting point in Takeo province’s Kirivong district yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vandy Muong
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/marching-rights-activists-blocked-starting-point
Cambodia's tax revenue reaches nearly 1 bln USD in 11 months
The Cambodia’s General Department of Taxation reported Friday that it collected 959 million U.s. dollars in taxes during the first eleven months of 2014, up 20 percent over the same period last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=258244
Judicial reshuffle: Top judiciary posts filled by Sihamoni
King Norodom Sihamoni yeSterday Shook up the compoSition of the Supreme Council of the MagiStracy, officially inStituting Seven new memberS to the body overSeeing the nation&rSquo;S judiciary, while alSo diSbarring one former proSecutor. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/judicial-reshuffle-top-judiciary-posts-filled-sihamoni
One-use syringe eyed
Amid an ongoing investigation into the massive HIV outbreak in Battambang’s Roka commune, health officials yesterday said that they are requesting that auto-disabled syringes be exclusively used for administering injections in Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/one-use-syringe-eyed
Gov’t seizes hundreds of logs inside Ratanakkiri sanctuary
Environment officials in Ratanakkiri have over the past 10 days confiscated more than 500 pieces of valuable sokrom wood found stockpiled throughout the province’s Lumphat Wildlife sanctuary by illegal loggers, officials said sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-seizes-hundreds-of-logs-inside-ratanakkiri-sanctuary-79310/
Cambodia ‘measles free’, WHO reports
The World Health Organization has declared Cambodia measles-free, having not registered a confirmed case in over three years, marking a success in combating what was once the country’s most deadly communicable disease. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/cambodia-measles-free-who-reports
Thirty-six still ill after eating tainted sandwiches
Thirty-six villagers remained hospitalized Monday afternoon after about 800 fell ill on saturday from eating tainted sandwiches distributed at a World Vision event in siem Reap province’s Chi Kreng district, officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Maria Paula Brito
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thirty-six-still-ill-after-eating-tainted-sandwiches-81086/
Heads meet to save regional rubber industry
Cambodian rubber industry representatives met with Asia’s major exporters of the commodity last week to set a floor price for natural rubber in an effort to salvage an industry suffering from plummeting values. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/heads-meet-to-save-regional-rubber-industry-70004/
Evictees demand land within their communities
About 50 protesters, mainly from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak and Borei Keila communities, demonstrated Wednesday morning outside City Hall to demand that governor Pa socheatvong help them stay within their eviction-hit communities. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/evictees-demand-land-within-their-communities-76911/
EU seeks negotiation on timber agreement
As Vietnam and Laos negotiate to enter a European Union trade agreement aimed at improving forestry governance, the EU – one of the world’s top timber importers – is urging Cambodia to join the scheme. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/eu-seeks-negotiation-timber-agreement
Strike-leading union head arrested in Phnom Penh
The pugnacious leader of an independent workers union was arrested outside a garment factory on Phnom Penh’s industrial outskirts Tuesday morning for leading what police described as “illegal striking and an anarchic union.” ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/strike-leading-union-head-arrested-in-phnom-penh-77342/
Palm oil exports up, while profits dip
Exports of crude palm oil from the Mong Reththy company – the Kingdom’s sole producer of the product – increased 16 per cent last year, although prices were down about $200 per tonne from 2013. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/palm-oil-exports-while-profits-dip
King Sihamoni approves two new election laws
King Norodom Sihamoni Signed off on the country&rSquo;S two new election lawS laSt week in an unpublicized action that entered the controverSial pieceS of legiSlation into legal force, an oppoSition lawmaker Said Monday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/king-sihamoni-approves-two-new-election-laws-81082/
More than 100 illegal slot machines seized in capital
More than 100 slot machines worth over $1 million in total were seized in a police raid on a warehouse in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district on Monday, an Interior Ministry official said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-100-illegal-slot-machines-seized-in-capital-81548/
Cham students evacuated from Yemen
Sixteen Cambodian StudentS Studying in war-torn Yemen were Scheduled to fly out of Oman&rSquo;S capital, MuScat, late Monday night and were expected to arrive in Phnom Penh at 3 p.m. TueSday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chris Mueller and Chhorn Chansy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cham-students-evacuated-from-yemen-81978/