Prison population swells
Cambodia’s badly overcrowded prison population leapt by nearly 20 per cent in the first 10 months of this year, government data show, raising serious health concerns.The figures, released by the Interior Ministry’s general department of prisons yesterday, show that there were 17,522 prisoners in jails ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prison-population-swells
One province, one SME zone
Next year will be breakout year for Cambodia’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs), with specific zones being organized in each province to promote productivity, quality and regional competitiveness, the president of the SME federation said yesterday. Te Taing Por, president of the Federation of Associations ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30599/one-province--one-sme-zone/
Cambodia's food service industry gains new player
Triasia Group, headed by Japanese CEO Yokoi Tomoyuki, will open its first Kiriya café in November, with plans already in place to open six more along with some Japanese and European restaurants and a coffee bean manufacturing and export operation. Triasia Group also aims at being ...
National Electricity Provider Warns of Dry-Season Power Cuts
The national electricity provider has warned residents in Phnom Penh and in Kompong Speu and Kandal provinces to expect power outages in the coming months as supply would likely fall short of demand throughout the dry season. In a statement issued Friday, Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/national-electricity-provider-warns-of-dry-season-power-cuts-6384/
Cambodian, Vietnamese militaries ink deals for quarry, rubber development projects
Cambodian and Vietnamese Defense Ministries on Friday signed two documents relevant to a joint venture for establishing a quarry and a rubber plantation project in Cambodia. According to a document briefed to reporters at the signing ceremony, the two deals included a quarry site establishment in ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-11/30/c_132011035.htm
Costs outweigh the benefits of foreign direct investment: FAO
Cambodia has been featured as a case study in a new report launched by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) focusing on the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing nations’ agricultural sectors. While the report acknowledges the positive effects ...
Sick of courts, villagers curse
In a sign that they no longer have faith in the court system, more than 100 villagers in Kampong Chhnang province placed their fates in the hands of a higher power yesterday, and prayed for misfortune to rain down on a company with whom they’ve ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/National/sick-of-courts-villagers-curse.html
After Threats to Cut Pay, Garment Workers Strike
Nearly 2,000 workers at the Gawon Apparel Co. garment factory in Kandal province’s Takhmao City protested in front of the factory yesterday after they were informed that they would lose pay for any days missed during the commune election, which takes place Sunday, union representatives ...
Hun Sen Appeals for Kep's Vines to Be Tamed
Prime Minister Hun Sen appealed yesterday for developers and landowners in Kep City to build fences around their neglected properties to prevent vines from creeping onto the street of the coastal resort. Since much of the land in Kep City is owned by investors who live ...
Villagers Hit as Pond Dries Up
Hundreds of residents in five villages in southern Cambodia have been deprived of their sole source of water as a massive pond in their area has dried up, villagers said. The affected villagers of Sre Ronnong commune in Takeo Province’s Tram Kork district have been buying ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/water-02012013195339.html
More SIM cards sold, providers to shrink
Sales of SIM cards reached 19.7 million last year, a 21 per cent rise from the 16.2 million sold in 2011, data from the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication (MPTC) shows. In contrast to the use of SIM cards, the number of telco operators decreased. In ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013031861984/Business/more-sim-cards-sold-providers-to-shrink.html
Gem miners ordered to halt excavation by gov’t
The Pailin provincial governor has ordered a gem-mining firm to stop excavating land in a conservation area, local officials said yesterday. According to Lim Bou, chief of Boya-kha commune in Pailin town, local authorities received the order after it came to light that a firm ...
Phak Seangly and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gem-miners-ordered-halt-excavation-gov%E2%80%99t
Dredging for development
With some people eating lunch off a tablecloth on the ground as children played in the distance, the scene in a small village in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district yesterday afternoon looked somewhat like a picnic. But villagers had gathered there, a few metres from a ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dredging-development
Villagers agree to remeasuring of disputed land
Villagers caught in a land dispute with an agribusiness firm in Kompong Speu province Wednesday attempted to reclaim farmland they say is theirs, but were thwarted by provincial authorities, who appeased them by promising to measure the land again. About 250 families in Phnom Sruoch district ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-agree-to-remeasuring-of-disputed-land-63077/
Mekong floodwaters already above late July levels of 2011
Mekong floodwaters have risen sharply this week and have already surpassed the levels seen at this time of the year during the devastating floods of 2011. In Phum Thom commune in Kien Svay district in Kandal province, local residents observed floodwaters rising about two meters between ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=M2ViMTlkMmFjZTg
Khmer Krom protesters burn Vietnamese flag
Monks and nationalist protesters burned a Vietnamese flag in front of the Vietnamese Embassy on Tuesday as the embassy continued to ignore calls to apologize for comments made by a diplomat in July. About 600 protesters gathered at the embassy once again to press for a ...
Mech Dara and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/khmer-krom-protesters-burn-vietnamese-flag-66356/
Cambodians launch fresh rally against Aussie refugee deal
More than 100 human rights activists, youths and Buddhist monks marched on streets here on Friday in the latest round of protests against a refugee deal that Cambodia signed with Australia last month. Under the deal, Australia will send refugees, who intend to seek asylum in ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-10/17/c_133723949.htm
Amid overcrowding, prison numbers rise
Prison overcrowding continues to be a major issue plaguing Cambodia, Ministry of Interior officials said on Monday, as they revealed a 3 per cent increase in population at correctional facilities and prisons nationwide. In 2014, the number of prisoners rose from 14,702 in 2013 to 15,165 ...
Pech Sotheary and Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/amid-overcrowding-prison-numbers-rise
Inflation down as global oil prices ease off
Cambodia experienced low inflation of around 1 per cent over the last three months thanks to a decline in oil prices, according to the latest data from the National Institute of Statistics. Inflation went from 0.8 per cent in January to 1.2 per cent in February, ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/inflation-down-global-oil-prices-ease
Cambodia logs top spot
Forest loss in Cambodia has accelerated faster than any other country in the world since 2001, according to a leading resource-monitoring initiative.Satellite data released by Global Forest Watch (GFW) suggest that Cambodia also has experienced the highest rate of tree-cover loss in the world over ...
Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-logs-top-spot