Three injured in clash between rival Labor Unions
Three members of the Free Trade Union were hospitalized after being beaten by members of a rival union during a protest Wednesday morning at the sH International garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Pur senchey district, union and police officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-injured-in-clash-between-rival-labor-unions-85350/
Official arrested for botched op
The director of the Stung Treng Provincial Health Department and owner of the Stung Treng Sekong Clinic waS arreSted and Sent to court yeSterday after a doctor under hiS charge performed a botched abortion that reSulted in a woman&rSquo;S death. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/official-arrested-botched-op
RCAF soldier detained in thailand over deadly hit-and run
A Royal Cambodian Armed Forces soldier was arrested by Thai authorities Wednesday on suspicion of a hit-and-run that killed a man across the border and was being detained Friday at a courthouse in Thailand’s Chonburi province, officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rcaf-soldier-detained-in-thailand-over-deadly-hit-and-run-86045/
Assembly passes part of 2013 budget despite opposition
Sixty-Seven CPP lawmakerS on Monday approved the government&rSquo;S revenueS and expenditureS from 2013 deSpite the proteSt of 43 oppoSition CNRP lawmakerS, who Said reported revenueS were inordinately low and called on the government to carry out a tranSparent audit. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/assembly-passes-2013-budget-despite-opposition-of-cnrp-86896/
Gov’t sweetens deal for Sesan Dam families
As work moves ahead on the controversial Lower sesan 2 dam in stung Treng province, the Ministry of Mines and Energy met Tuesday with representatives of more than 250 families still refusing to make way for the dam’s reservoir. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-sweetens-deal-for-sesan-dam-families-86997/
Ruling party MP slammed for blocking press briefing on Cambodia NGO law
A rights group and journalist organization on Thursday slammed a lawmaker from Cambodia’s ruling party for barring an opposition MP from addressing the media with his concerns over a controversial draft law on nongovernmental organizations currently under review by parliament. ss='cambodia-color'>...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/lawmaker-07022015153933.html
Jarai: police OK’d logging
Members of the ethnic Jarai community in Ratanakkiri’s Andong Meas district have lodged a complaint with the provincial court, demanding that it take legal action against four Vietnamese nationals and two Cambodian border officials for offences related to illegal logging. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/jarai-police-okd-logging
King to lend a hand on national tree planting day
King Norodom Sihamoni will participate in a tree-planting event in Kampong Thom today, along with government officialS and memberS of the public, aS part of a nationwide celebration that aimS to draw attention to converSation of Cambodia&rSquo;S foreStS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13031/king-to-lend-a-hand-on-national-tree-planting-day/
Border activists fall short of mark
Most of the more than 2,000 activists who traveled to a disputed area of the border with Vietnam in svay Rieng province’s Kompong Ro district yesterday afternoon were not permitted to reach their ultimate goal – Border Post 203. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ros Chanveasna and Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13464/border-activists-fall-short-of-mark/
Ex-Takhmao police chief confesses to dealing meth
The former chief of police in Kandal province’s Takhmao City on Wednesday confessed that he had become a drug dealer after he was arrested on Tuesday in possession of 13 small packages of crystal methamphetamine, officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ex-takhmao-police-chief-confesses-to-dealing-meth-89258/
Capitol tours bus company, 5 drivers remain deadlocked
Following a meeting at the Labor Ministry’s conflict resolution department Thursday, the Capitol Tours bus company and five of its drivers—who claim they were fired for attempting to organize a union—remained deadlocked over their reinstatement. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/capitol-tours-bus-company-5-drivers-remain-deadlocked-89321/
Vietnamese, Cambodians owe debt of gratitude to one another
Villages of Vietnamese people were set up in Ratanakiri Province of Cambodia in the 1960s, and Cambodian villages were built in Vietnam for people to flee from the Pol Pot regime the following decade. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tuoitrenews.vn News Staff
http://tuoitrenews.vn/features/29485/vietnamese-cambodians-owe-debt-of-gratitude-to-one-another
Credit bureau brings rural lenders into the fold
Five rural credit operators signed an agreement to join the Credit Bureau Cambodia on Thursday as the watchdog and the National Bank of Cambodia ramp up efforts to better monitor the country’s expansive, but largely informal, rural lending industry. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear and Tsz-kwan Ho
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/credit-bureau-brings-rural-lenders-into-the-fold-90227/
Street seller charged for beating Thai tourist to death
A street seller who beat a Thai tourist to death with a pole outside a restaurant in Koh Kong province’s Khemara Phoumint City on Tuesday night was charged with murder by the provincial court on Wednesday, officials said Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/street-seller-charged-for-beating-thai-tourist-to-death-90219/
Ministry slams NGOs for criticism of Prime Minister
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs released a statement Thursday expressing its “grave regret” at a joint NGO statement that criticized Prime Minister Hun sen for a speech in which he referred to an unnamed female protester as a female animal. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Chhengpor and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-slams-ngos-for-criticism-of-prime-minister-91093/
Trafficking arrests protested
About 200 people gathered in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district on sunday demanding the release of two women who were arrested last week for allegedly chaining up their 13-year-old niece and selling her for sex. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trafficking-arrests-protested
Four years for lakeside
About 40 members of the Boeung Kak community gathered yesterday to mark the fourth anniversary of a landmark government regulation that provided land to some of those dispossessed by the lake’s filling but left many others out. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/four-years-lakeside
Bus crash death toll reaches 17
The number of casualties from last week’s fatal bus crash in the Dankrek Mountains rose to 17 on Friday, after victim sem sambath, 58, succumbed to her injuries, siem Reap Provincial Hospital director Pen Phalkun said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bus-crash-death-toll-reaches-17
Border dispute turned into ‘popularity contest’
The newly formed Grassroots Democracy Party (GDP) called on the country’s two largest political parties to put the national interest ahead of their own, as it released documents outlining its internal structure and code of ethics over the weekend. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14481/---border-dispute-turned-into-popularity-contest---/
On trial, former counselor to Vietnam denies forging letter
Cambodia’s former deputy consul-general to Ho Chi Minh City denied forging a document to help a private company smuggle luxury-grade wood into Vietnam during the first day of his trial at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/on-trial-former-counselor-to-vietnam-denies-forging-letter-91891/