Kratie land disputes to be ‘resolved by experts’
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction on Wednesday ordered 19 experts to identify the families locked in a land dispute in Snuol district, in Kratie province, and find solutions for them through economic land concessions. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-land-disputes-be-resolved-experts
Workers seek pay after owner shutters factory
Some 300 garment workers from Kbal Koh Garment factory in Chbar Ampov district in Phnom Penh, whose owner unexpectedly shut the factory in January last year, protested again outside the Ministry of Labour on Tuesday to seek compensation. ...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-seek-pay-after-owner-shutters-factory
Beat Richner: doctor to the poor children of Cambodia
Beat Richner, a Swiss pediatrician who opened a network of children’s hospitals in Cambodia at a time when quality health care was all but non-existent in that country, died Sept. 9 in Zurich. He was 71. ...
Julia Wallace
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-beat-richner-doctor-to-the-poor-children-of-cambodia/
Military police seize vehicle with army plates, rosewood
Military police in Kompong Chhnang province said they found 290 kg of rosewood in the back of an SUV with military license plates yesterday but failed to apprehend the driver, who escaped in a car that had been following his. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/military-police-seize-vehicle-with-army-plates-rosewood-94206/
Direct international flights from Sihanoukville
The national carrier, Cambodia Angkor Air, officially launched on Friday its scheduled flight services connecting Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to the Kingdom’s coastal resort in Sihanoukville, in a move that could further boost tourist arrivals. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26274/direct-international-flights-from-sihanoukville/
Protest follows failure to lower electric rates
Citizens in two communes in Svay Rieng and another in Prey Veng yesterday protested their high power bills after a local electric company failed to lower its price to 800 riel per kilowatt-hour as promised. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protest-follows-failure-lower-electric-rates
Phnom Penh municipality mulls new sky bridge
City Hall is in the midst of conducting preliminary studies to assess the feasibility of building either an overpass or an underground tunnel at the Chaom Chao roundabout in an effort to ease traffic congestion in the area. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnom-penh-municipality-mulls-new-sky-bridge
Banks to shift from growth to efficiency
Since its launch in 2005, ANZ Royal Bank has grown to become one of the top-end banks in Cambodia, and has increased its focus on core areas of e-banking, corporate clients and introducing efficiencies in its operations. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banks-shift-growth-efficiency
NBC reveals interbank fund payment service
The National Bank of Cambodia will launch a new payment system to increase inter bank activity in a move to shore up confidence in the Kingdom’s rapidly expanding banking sector, it said in a press release yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nbc-reveals-interbank-fund-payment-service
Kampot pepper prices plunge
Pepper prices in the Kingdom’s largest pepper producing region have fallen over 30 percent in the last year due to growing international supply that is leading to higher competition in the market, an industry expert said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kampot-pepper-prices-plunge
AirAsia Cambodia to debut soon
Asia’s largest budget airline AirAsia, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, plans to open a subsidiary company in Cambodia to handle an anticipated increase in the number of passengers travelling to Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Sihanoukville from Malaysia. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38372/airasia-cambodia-to-debut-soon/
Soldiers escorting logs from sanctuary: locals
Communities in Preah Vihear’s Choam Ksan district have alleged that soldiers are involved in the transportation of illegal timber in the protected forests of Kulen Prum Tep Wildlife Sanctuary, an allegation denied yesterday by a local military official. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/soldiers-escorting-logs-sanctuary-locals
Cambodia ready to host world economic forum despite inequality: official
As Cambodia prepares to host the World Economic Forum in East Asia, an official from the group that organizes the event has said the country is ready, having seen steady growth and reductions in poverty in recent years. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/cambodia-ready-to-host-world-economic-forum-despite-inequality-official/3843041.html
Cambodians falling prey to perils of migrant labour
The future remains uncertain for many Cambodian workers seeking jobs in Thailand. Most feel the process of gaining employment in the country is akin to playing the lottery, with exploitation in the job placement industry rife, and legal protection scarce ...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/316884/cambodians-falling-prey-to-perils-of-migrant-labour
Workers From 2011 Shooting Still Dealing With Medical Problems
Two women wounded in the 2011 protest shooting in Svay Rieng province have seen their conditions worsen. A total three women were shot during worker strikes by the former governor of Bavet city, Chhouk Bandith, during worker strikes in February 2011. ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/workers-from-2011-shooting-still-dealing-with-medical-problems/1845710.html
Workers strike again to demand strike pay
About 2,000 workers at Takeo province’s I-Cheng (Cambodia) Cooperation remain on strike today, after management held steady in its refusal to pay employees for days they joined in a national garment worker strike in December and this month. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-strike-again-demand-strike-pay
Gov’t says workplace injuries on the rise, reforms needed
In the face of an increase in work-related injuries, government officials gathered in Phnom Penh on Tuesday to start work on a new plan to reduce workplace accidents and to reflect on their achievements over the past five years. ...
Mech Dara and Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-says-workplace-injuries-on-the-rise-reforms-needed-66899/
Revenues from taxes tops $1B
The General Department of Taxation collected more than $1.06 billion in tax revenue in 2014 up by about 17.7 per cent on the $900 million collected in 2013, according to a statement from the tax department released yesterday. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/revenues-taxes-tops-1b
ACU warns four officials over tax collection
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) warned against four tax officials over their tax collection performance. In the letter, the Unit ordered them to stop their inactive performance, and irregularities in registering and collecting taxes, and correcting themselves in the future. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/acu-warns-four-officials-over-tax-collection-7756
New Preah Sihanouk police chief vows to restore order
The new chief of the Preah Sihanouk provincial police force Monday vowed to carry out orders to protect and monitor foreigners in the seaside city of Sihanoukville after being officially appointed to the position in a ceremony earlier in the day. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-preah-sihanouk-police-chief-vows-to-restore-order-81546/