NGOs push for boost in female candidates
More than 50 per cent of candidates nominated by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party in the upcoming provincial and district council elections should be women, a coalition of 12 civil society groups said in a letter on Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-push-boost-female-candidates
Governor ambushed over dispute
About 100 indigenous villagers from Ratanakkiri’s Veun sai district took the opportunity at a public forum yesterday to demand a solution from the district governor, Chum Ngel, over a land dispute they are locked in with sK Plantation, after protesting several times without getting a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/governor-ambushed-over-dispute
Prisoners to receive pardons
Hundreds of prisoners will be pardoned or see their sentences reduced on Tuesday following a request by the Ministry of Interior to the King. The royal pardons and sentence reductions, which benefit 339 inmates, coincide with Pisak Bochea Day, a celebration of the Buddha’s birth. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prisoners-receive-pardons
Talks between CPP and CNRP remain impossible due to their different positions
Kem Sokha, Vice PreSident of the Cambodian National ReScue Party, hinted about talkS with Cambodia People&rSquo;S Party to find peaceful Solution. However, he did not elaborate how to move ahead and what optionS Should be made for the breakthrough. SS='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NmZlZmVmMjA0YWF
CIMB the latest to add local insurer
CIMB Bank, Malaysia’s second-largest, has entered the insurance market via a partnership agreement signed yesterday with Cambodia Life Insurance Company (CLIC). In Meatra, director general of CLIC, said that under the partnership, CIMB had received full access to offer their insurance products to customers. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cimb-latest-add-local-insurer
Police shooting: Charges for intentional murder set
A Mondulkiri military police officer has been charged with intentional murder after allegedly shooting and killing a man who ignored an order to stop his car while passing through a protected forest in the province’s O’Raing district, Mondulkiri provincial prosecutor Khout sopheang said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-shooting-charges-intentional-murder-set
Garment-sector raises hit by falling overtime
Garment workers around the country have started picking up paychecks this month that for the first time include the $28 increase the government added to the sector’s previous minimum wage of $100. But with available overtime hours on the wane, enthusiasm for the raise is ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/garment-sector-raises-hit-by-falling-overtime-77666/
Hundreds of tuk-tuk, moto-taxi drivers protest incorrect article
About 300 tuk-tuk and moto-taxi drivers protested outside the Phnom Penh offices of the Angkor Thom newspaper on sunday morning, demanding that it correct an article about a traffic accident involving one of the drivers, according to a union official and the newspaper’s publisher. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hay Pisey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hundreds-of-tuk-tuk-moto-taxi-drivers-protest-incorrect-article-78012/
City stalls as Chroy Changva families demand intervention
About 50 people with claims to land being developed in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva peninsula protested in front of City Hall on Monday and delivered a petition on behalf of more than 100 families demanding intervention in their dispute with the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation ss='cambodia-color'>...
Major tycoons added to concessions watchlist
Fourteen companies have been added to a Ministry of Environment watchlist for purportedly failing to live up to their investment promises. The companies include firms owned by some of the country’s wealthiest and most politically connected land barons, such as Mong Reththy and sok Kong. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/major-tycoons-added-concessions-watchlist
Bus drivers want ruling respected
Former bus drivers are set to stage a protest today outside Phnom Penh sorya Transportation Company in the capital’s Daun Penh district, calling on its management to respect an arbitration ruling to reinstate most of them. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bus-drivers-want-ruling-respected
Villagers say dredging a danger, disturbance
About 50 villagers living along the Mekong River in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district protested outside their local pagoda sunday to demand that authorities take action against a company illegally dredging sand from the riverbed. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-say-dredging-a-danger-disturbance-67660/
Woman arrested for attempted human trafficking
Police arrested a woman on suspicion of human trafficking in Tbong Khmum province’s suong City on Monday, after the woman was found with a teenage girl whose parents had raised the alarm with local authorities once she went missing in Ratanakkiri province, officials said Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/woman-arrested-for-attempted-human-trafficking-71794/
Massive luxury timber haul in Mondulkiri
Forestry Administration officials in Mondulkiri province are on the lookout for illegal loggers, after finding 130 pieces of luxury-grade timber in Koh Nhek district. The find comes on the heels of 3,221 pieces of timber found in Mondulkiri’s Pech Chreada district last month. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/massive-luxury-timber-haul-mondulkiri
Workers say $128 per month is not enough to live on
Cambodian unions say they will not agree to a minimum wage proposed by the Cambodian government. Union leaders say the government’s proposed minimum wage of $128 per month will not be enough for workers to keep up with the rising cost of living in the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/workers-say-128-per-month-is-not-enough-to-live-on/2529249.html
Phnom Penh SEZ plans to list on Stock Exchange
The operator of Cambodia’s largest industrial park, the Phnom Penh sEZ, plans to list on the Cambodian securities Exchange (CsX) next year in an attempt to raise $15 million to set up another economic zone in Poipet City, according to the company and media reports. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/phnom-penh-sez-plans-to-list-on-stock-exchange-74433/
Workers say shuttered factory managers took them hostage
A Chinese-owned garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district locked up about 300 workers for two hours on Wednesday morning to force them to accept reduced salary payouts before it shuttered operations due to financial losses, union officials and the former workers said Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/workers-say-shuttered-factory-managers-took-them-hostage-77469/
Labor minister says Unions have no reason to complain
Labor Minister Ith sam Heng on Wednesday denied recent claims from a group of disgruntled unions that the government was making it nearly impossible to register branches at garment factories, and announced a new push to bring noncompliant factories in line with Cambodia’s labor laws. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/labor-minister-says-unions-have-no-reason-to-complain-77843/
More factional tensions clearly visible within Funcinpec party
Nhiek Bun Chhay, second vice president of the royalist Funcinpec party, held a press conference on Friday at his home in Phnom Penh to rail against the party’s president, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, for making decisions without consultation since returning to lead the party in January. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-factional-tensions-clearly-visible-within-funcinpec-party-78854/
Parties sign off on final draft of election law
The country’s two major political parties signed off on the final draft of a revised and highly controversial election law on Friday, with civil society groups arguing that the bill is unconstitutional due to a provision that restricts their activity during the election campaign period. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/parties-sign-off-on-final-draft-of-election-law-79243/