Mitr Phol families petition for land
Villagers who have lost their land first to a Thai sugar company supplying Coca-Cola and then to a military unit in Oddar Meanchey province’s samroang district yesterday petitioned the Agriculture Ministry to ask for it back. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mitr-phol-families-petition-land
Draft law sets legal drinking age at 21, highest in region
The Health Ministry has drafted Cambodia’s first-ever law to control the sale and consumption of alcohol, which imposes a minimum legal drinking age of 21 and would fine retailers who sell liquor to anyone underage. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Simon Henderson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/draft-law-sets-legal-drinking-age-at-21-highest-in-region-85785/
Over 3,000 illegal doctors in country: Ministry
A Health Ministry official said Thursday that an investigation in the wake of a devastating HIV outbreak in Battambang province’s Roka commune late last year had revealed more than 3,000 unlicensed doctors operating across the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/over-3000-illegal-doctors-in-country-ministry-85893/
$65 mln loan to expand microfinance
Three Thai banks have joined IFC’s $65 million syndication loan to a Cambodian microfinance institution to boost the access to funding of micro, small, and medium rural and agricultural enterprises, most of which are owned by women. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Va Sonyka
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12730/business-briefs/
CPP commune chief arrested by ACU authorities
A CPP commune chief in Koh Kong province’s sre Ambel district was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on saturday, with an official saying Tuesday that he had demanded exorbitant fees to sign land-sale documents. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-commune-chief-arrested-by-anti-corruption-authorities-86982/
Cambodia union warns about fainting garment factory workers
The president of one of Cambodia’s largest labor unions representing the apparel sector expressed concern on Thursday about the growing number of garment factory workers fainting from overwork and harsh factory conditions during the past few days. ss='cambodia-color'>...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/union-warns-about-fainting-garment-factory-workers-07022015155840.html
Council of ministers official slaps schoolgirl
A Council of Ministers official was arrested in Phnom Penh on Wednesday after he showed up at his daughter’s high school and slapped her classmate following a fight between the two teenagers, police and witnesses said Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Huot Chanpav
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/council-of-ministers-official-slaps-schoolgirl-87243/
Spat between lawmakers continues
CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun wrote to National Assembly President Heng samrin on Thursday to complain that CNRP lawmaker Um sam An broke the parliament’s rules by attempting to be interviewed while Mr. Vun himself was being interviewed. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/spat-between-lawmakers-continues-87253/
CNRP members want lawmaker sanctioned
About 25 CNRP members from svay Rieng province traveled to Phnom Penh on Thursday to demand that opposition lawmaker Kong sophea be removed from the party’s provincial working group for promoting his friends, but left empty-handed. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-members-want-lawmaker-sanctioned-87251/
Exam budget surplus: Gov’t
The Ministry of Education plans to spend less than its allocated $3 million budget for the upcoming high school exit exam due to a decrease in this year’s exam registrants, an education official confirmed yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/exam-budget-surplus-govt
Kingdom is prime for first slaughterhouse
Riding the wave of rising demand for beef in Asia, Cambodia’s long-awaited slaughterhouse could not come soon enough, with an emerging middle class in Cambodia also hungry for more premium meat from Down Under. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xueying Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/kingdom-prime-first-slaughterhouse
Anti-dredging activists refuse to meet with gov
Activists yesterday continued their campaign to drive out sand dredging companies from Koh Kong province’s Botum sakor district, refusing a meeting with local authorities and instead holding a 100-strong protest outside the district hall. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anti-dredging-activists-refuse-meet-gov
District officials deny accusations of extortion, corruption
A slew of anonymous graft accusations against two district officials—accompanied by responses of denial—were posted separately to the website of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Friday, continuing the agency’s recent surge in such exposure. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/district-officials-deny-accusations-of-extortion-corruption-92323/
Vietnamese migrants nabbed at ACLEDA building
Twenty undocumented Vietnamese laborers are being held for deportation after they were arrested Friday during a raid on a construction site for a new Acleda Bank branch in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district, an immigration official said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vietnamese-migrants-nabbed-at-acleda-building-92327/
Rector says student was warned against activism
After a Khemerak University student was jailed in Phnom Penh on saturday over a social media post calling for a “color revolution” in Cambodia, the school’s director Monday claimed that politics had “poisoned” students at his institution. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rector-says-student-was-warned-against-activism-92373/
Factory sequestering unionists from others
Eight union representatives at a Chinese-owned window factory in svay Rieng’s Bavet town say they are being illegally detained by security guards in a separate room at work each day after leading recent protests. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factory-sequestering-unionists-others
Railway families file separate complaint against ADB bank
Another group of families living along Cambodia’s dilapidated railway tracks is filing a complaint with the compliance review panel of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), accusing the lender of failing to abide by its own resettlement policies. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/railway-families-file-separate-complaint-against-adb-bank-92933/
NEC chief still firmly in place
The National Election Committee has no plan to replace its secretary general, Tep Nytha, despite a pledge after the revamped body’s approval earlier this year to name someone new to the post within three months. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shaun Turton and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-chief-still-firmly-place
Efficiency on factory floor boosts GTI profit
Cambodia’s second listed company Grand Twins International (GTI) posted an increase in profits for the quarter ending June 30, as the company, despite losing revenue, was able to reduce the costs and improve worker productivity. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/efficiency-factory-floor-boosts-gti-profit
Largest ever Elephant survey conducted in Mondolkiri
As part of the country’s largest ever elephant survey, 1,300 dung samples have been collected in Mondolkiri province in an effort to ascertain how many of the pachyderms remain in the province and where they live. ss='cambodia-color'>...
George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/largest-ever-elephant-survey-conducted-in-mondolkiri-93530/