New laws on judiciary due by ‘end of month’
The Ministry of Justice is kicking into overdrive its long-stagnated efforts to finish three fundamental laws on the function of the judiciary, saying it hopes to complete the laws – which it characterises as key judicial reforms – by the end of the month, the ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-laws-judiciary-due-%E2%80%98end-month%E2%80%99
Teachers Told to Expel Corruption From Classrooms
Just weeks after the country’s only independent teachers’ association staged a strike for higher wages, Phnom Penh’s education chief told teachers this week that they must stop taking bribes to comply with the government’s promised reform agenda. Speaking to about 500 educators, mainly school directors, from ...
Phann Ana
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/teachers-told-to-expel-corruption-from-classrooms-51158/
Kazantip ‘totally canceled’; police deployed
Authorities in Preah Sihanouk province have had yet another change of heart about the notoriously wild Kazantip music festival, pulling the event from Sihanoukville’s Koh Puos island for a second time, with one official citing a desire to dissuade “indecent tourism.” ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kazantip-totally-canceled-police-deployed-78161/
Tuk-tuk groups clash with metal pipes, chains
Two rival groups of tuk-tuk drivers clashed Monday evening in front of Phnom Penh’s railway station in Daun Penh district, beating each other with metal pipes and chains over a dispute regarding passengers, police said Tuesday. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tuk-tuk-groups-clash-with-metal-pipes-chains-79047/
South Koreans nabbed in Siem Reap over voIP scam
Seven South Korean nationals were arrested in Siem Reap province Monday on suspicion of attempting to extort money from foreigners through Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, after a further six were detained for allegedly committing the same crime last month, an immigration official said ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/south-koreans-n
Drug sting snares policeman’s son, commune council member
The son of a police lieutenant colonel and a member of a commune council were among four people arrested Thursday in Kompong Thom province for dealing drugs and were remanded in custody, a court prosecutor said Friday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/drug-sting-snares-policemans-son-commune-council-member-79248/
Areng valley activist denies illegal logging allegations
An environmental activist in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley on Monday denied building an ecotourism information center with illegally logged wood after he was summoned to the local court to answer questions over alleged forestry crimes. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/areng-valley-activist-denies-illegal-logging-allegations-78939/
Rights groups wary of ban on internet cafés
Rights workers cautioned yesterday that a sweeping ban on internet cafés near schools was little more than a thinly veiled act of censorship. Issued last month by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, the circular says all internet cafés within 500 metres of a school must ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/National/rights-groups-wary-of-ban-on-internet-cafes.html
Ministry to investigate complaint from seamen
The Interior Ministry’s anti-human trafficking department will investigate a complaint made against a local maritime school Tuesday by seven Cambodian seamen who fled from a pair of cargo ships last month after enduring what they described as slave-like conditions, an official said. ...
Anthony Jensen and Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-to-investigate-complaint-from-seamen-93697/
Japanese firm plans Cambodian fund for later this year
Japanese fund manager Asset Design plans to launch a Cambodian equities fund in late 2011. The fund would target large returns after the Kingdom opened its stock exchange this month, an Asset Design executive said yesterday. Asset Design expected the scale of the fund to ...
Property sector recovery highlighted
Cambodia’s property sector is said to be recovering from the global financial crisis according to experts. There has been a 10 percent increase in the number of transactions since 2009 with foreign investment a key aspect of the growth. The formation of anti-corruption laws has ...
Food safety draft law under study
The draft Law on Food Safety is now being studied by the Council of Ministers and is expected to be approved before the end of the year, government officials said. Tech Seak Ngon, general department of customs and excise deputy director, yesterday told a press ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50600367/food-safety-draft-law-under-study/
King ‘rehabilitates’ Kong Korm and son to pave way for return
King Norodom Sihamoni on Tuesday granted “rehabilitation” to Kong Korm and his son Kong Bora – the first of 118 opposition officials banned from politics for five years to request a royal decree – allowing them to return to the political fold. The 118 high-ranking ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/king-rehabilitates-kong-korm-and-son-pave-way-return
Forced marriages turn women into slaves: report
About 55,000 Cambodians are victims of forced marriage in Cambodia and they comprise 22 percent of the estimated 256,800 people in modern slavery in Cambodia, according to an Australian NGO’s findings cited in the Global Slavery Index report released yesterday. ...
Sonny Inbaraj Krishnan and Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25615/forced-marriages-turn-women-into-slaves--report/
Labor Leaders Speak Out Against Union Law
Labor leaders in Cambodia have expressed concerns over pressures placed on their freedom to organize and mobilize garment workers following the implementation of a contentious law governing unions earlier this year. ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/labor-leaders-speak-out-against-union-law/3403414.html
Unions: change minimum wage law
More than 40 unions have joined together to ask the Labor Ministry to make changes to 10 articles in the draft Minimum Wage Law, saying the Law did not cover all sectors and restricted the rights of union representatives in wage negotiations among a host ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33063/unions--change-minimum-wage-law/
Hun Sen calls for closure of anti-trafficking group after CNN report
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called for the closure of a Christian anti-trafficking NGO during a heated tirade at a graduation ceremony, condemning them and CNN for broadcasting an “insulting” story about girls who were sold into sexual slavery by their own mothers. ...
Kong Meta, Erin Handley and Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-calls-closure-anti-trafficking-group-after-cnn-report
Student group suspended for ‘violating law on NGOs’
A student group was suspended by the Ministry of Interior yesterday for a series of violations of the Law on Associations and Non-governmental Organisations (Lango), including the highly controversial Article 24, which requires organisations to remain “politically neutral”. ...
Soth Koemsoeun and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/student-group-suspended-violating-law-ngos
Kingdom a one-man show, report asserts
It’s a mistake to consider Cambodia a nation under authoritarian rule by a single party; it comes down to a single man – Prime Minister Hun Sen, a new paper argues. ...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-one-man-show-report-asserts
Minimum wage for all in sight
A new law on a national minimum wage for all workers will come into force by the end of the year, the Labor Minister said, after union and employer representatives met officials to discuss the issue yesterday. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37653/minimum-wage-for-all-in-sight/