Telecom staff in graft inquiry
The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has appointed a six-man team to investigate corruption allegations involving two Telecom Cambodia employees and some $230,000 missing from the state-owned company’s accounts. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/telecom-staff-graft-inquiry
Firms required to re-register online
More than 50,000 companies registered with the Ministry of Commerce will be required to re-register when the ministry rolls out its online registration system next month, a government official said yesterday. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/firms-required-re-register-online
Drought hits district in Mondulkiri
Up to 4,000 mostly ethnic minority people in Mondulkiri’s Keo Seima district are facing a water shortage after the local supplier announced service would be suspended due to impending widescale drought. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drought-hits-district-mondulkiri
Fire guts market in Stung Treng city, causing $1M in damage
More than 1,000 stalls and shops were destroyed in an overnight fire at a market in Stung Treng City, causing about $1 million in property damage, local police said on Friday. ...
Bavet city SEZs close amid violent protests
Two economic zones in Svay Rieng province’s Bavet City closed down on Thursday, sending some 30,000 workers home over what local officials said were violent protests by groups of workers demanding higher wages. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bavet-city-sezs-close-amid-violent-protests-103351/
Borei Keila families get flats, payouts
Thirty-one evicted Borei Keila community families received flats and another four families got $15,000 buyouts on Saturday as part of a “lucky draw” organised to resolve their years-long land dispute. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/borei-keila-families-get-flats-payouts
New body to address Sesan dam concerns
The Ministry of Mines and Energy has created a committee to resolve compensation and resettlement issues for 1,000 families displaced by the controversial Lower Sesan II hydropower dam in Stung Treng province. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-body-address-sesan-dam-concerns
Fires burn large parts of Battambang forest
Fires have consumed more than 2,000 hectares of Prek Toal protected area in Battambang, killing some animals and destroying the breeding sites of multiple endangered species, Prek Toal project managers said yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fires-burn-large-parts-battambang-forest
Swiss grant empowers women entrepreneurs
Cambodia Women Entrepreneurs Association (CWEA) received $50,000 from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to help develop the business and financial management skills of women entrepreneurs through training and workshops. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26163/swiss-grant-empowers-women-entrepreneurs/
Government considers delay of business registration
Fewer than half of Cambodia’s 42,000 registered businesses have met the government’s deadline for reregistering online, prompting the Ministry of Commerce to consider another extension, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/government-considers-delay-business-registration-118856/
Pensions rise in the pipeline
Retired civil servants and military veterans are to get a pension rise next month, along with the same 50,000 riel Khmer New Year allowance as serving civil servants and armed forces members. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36381/pensions-rise-in-the-pipeline/
Elections coalition has $170K shortfall
About $170,000 remains to be found for a coalition of watchdogs and civil society observers known as the “situation room” to successfully monitor all of Cambodia’s 2017 commune elections for irregularities. ...
Martin de Bourmont
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/elections-coalition-has-170k-shortfall
Ministry cracks down in orphans scandal
The Ministry of Social Affairs has decided to reintegrate more than 3,000 children in orphanages back into families after discovering the abysmal conditions of many facilities, with some having reported sexual abuse. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37654/ministry-cracks-down-in-orphans-scandal/
Union Plan Massive Demonstration in Phnom Penh
Four of Cambodia’s independent and opposition-aligned unions have informed the Phnom Penh municipality that they plan to gather 20,000 people on May 1 to march from Olympic Stadium to the National Assembly. ...
Unionist firings inspire walkout
About 1,000 workers at a Kandal province garment factory walked off the job on Saturday after management there fired eight employees who attempted to start a new union. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unionist-firings-inspire-walkout
ELC land should go to villagers: governor
The governor of Kratie province this week sent a letter to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries requesting the reallocation of more than 3,000 hectares of economic land concession (ELC) property to villagers. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/elc-land-should-go-villagers-governor
Opposition lawmaker denies he embezzled border money
Opposition lawmaker Real Camerin has written to the Anti-Corruption Unit denying accusations that he embezzled the majority of $55,000 he allegedly raised to help pay for trips to inspect the border with Vietnam. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/opposition-lawmaker-denies-he-embezzled-border-money-91809/
Two men detained, fined for smuggling snakehead fish fry
Two men were detained, fined and released Monday morning in Siem Reap province for attempting to transport 100,000 newly hatched snakehead fish from the Vietnamese border to sell to fish farmers, officials said Tuesday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-men-detained-fined-for-smuggling-snakehead-fish-fry-92011/
Protected forest ‘is finished’
In the latest government backed appropriation of protected land, nearly 20,000 hectares of the Boeung Per wildlife sanctuary have been reclassified as state private land for agro-industrial development. Two sub-decrees, obtained by The Post this week and initialed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on July ...
Prey Long Forest Protesters Rounded Up, 'Reeducated'
Authorities in Phnom Penh briefly detained about 100 villagers yesterday who were distributing leaflets to raise awareness of the ongoing destruction of Prey Long, one of Cambodia’s largest remaining primary forests. The leaflet distributors had their materials confiscated and were escorted to six commune offices ...