Agreement reached at Thai seafood factory
A conclusive settlement has been reached in the long-running dispute between a Thai seafood factory and its Cambodian employees, Cambodian ambassador to Thailand You Ay said yesterday. Rights groups and workers at the Phatthana seafood factory in Thailand’s songkhla province, which employs 1,050 Cambodians, have accused ss='cambodia-color'>...
Canadia Bank backs a rice mill in Takeo
Canadia Bank will launch a rice mill in Cambodia’s Takeo province in October, a move that insiders said could help curb the flow of unmilled rice to neighbouring Vietnam. Bank officials yesterday said they will buy Us$3 million in milling equipment, and the total cost of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Regional courts of appeal on horizon
A new system of regional appeal courts is moving closer to reality as the Ministry of Justice attempts to resolve the bottleneck of appeals in the justice system, officials said yesterday. Currently, appellants can wait up to five years or more to have their cases heard ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070257145/National-news/regional-courts-of-appeal.html
Six Charged for Making Illegal Fishing Reservoirs
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday charged six people, including a provincial director of water resources and a commune chief, for their involvement in creating illegal fishing reservoirs in Kompong Thom province. “They were charged with clearing a flooded forest for encroachment and illegally constructing ss='cambodia-color'>...
Second can factory will cater to locals’ thirst
Crown Holdings, a metal packaging company, said this week it would build a second factory in Cambodia to keep up with the Kingdom’s growing beer industry. The sihanoukville factory, which is expected to produce 725 million aluminium cans a year, will be begin operating in the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Silk producers look to sew up EU market ties
Cambodia’s silk producers say they must cut costs in order to continue reaching troubled European markets, the primary target for the Kingdom’s sericulture products. Insiders said Cambodian companies must start producing their own silk for the industry to survive. silk craftspeople import some 400 tonnes of silk ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia seeks $200m from China for rice mill
Cambodian government officials and private sector leaders have met with Chinese officials to negotiate a Us$200 million loan for the development of Cambodia’s rice sector, an official said on Tuesday. The new loan would focus on the development of the agricultural sector, primarily the construction ss='cambodia-color'>...
Court orders strikers back to work
The Kandal Provincial Court ordered thousands of striking garment employees back to work for the second time yesterday, but they will continue fighting until their demands are met, a union president said. Workers at Ang snuol district’s Tai Nan I, Tai Nan II and Camwell factorieshave ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070457188/National-news/court-orders-strikers-back.html
Locally Created Video Game Tops Apple's Downloads in Cambodia
A group of 12 Cambodians has developed a new video game for the iPhone that just two weeks after its release has become Cambodia’s most-downloaded game in Apple Inc.’s online store. since it was released on November 30, “Asva the Monkey” has had more than 3,000 ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/locally-created-video-game-tops-apples-downloads-in-cambodia-6761/
Hun Sen welcomes international investigation
Prime Minister Hun sen said this afternoon he would “welcome” an international investigation into the contested results of sunday’s election. “For the sake of free and fair elections, I welcome the international community, all political parties and the NEC to investigate this,” he told reporters, ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-welcomes-international-election-investigation
UXO kills one, injures two others in Pailin
One man was killed and two teenagers injured on sunday while cleaning unexploded ordnance they found just past the border of Pailin, in Thailand’s Chanthaburi province. sot Phy, 27, was killed on the spot, while a 14- and 16-year-old were badly injured. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lieng Sarith
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/uxo-kills-one-injures-two-others-pailin
Mass fainting at Kandal factory
About 50 garment workers fainted yesterday at the King First Industrial factory in Kandal province’s Ang snuol district, union representatives said. Khouth Touch, the Free Trade Union president at the factory, said a number of workers had experienced stomach aches and diarrhoea that morning. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mass-fainting-kandal-factory
Young child makes bird flu recovery
A 15-month-old toddler who represented the 18th confirmed case of avian influenza in Cambodia this year has recovered and was released from Kantha Bopha hospital on Friday. The little boy from Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district developed a fever on August 16, and was transferred a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/young-child-makes-bird-flu-recovery
Lucky supermarket opens three more branches
Amid growing urbanisation, Lucky supermarket opened three more branches in Phnom Penh’s suburbs over the weekend, targeting a new consumer base living around the city. With the additional branches, Lucky now counts 10 outlets in Phnom Penh, including one mini-mart at Koh Pich. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/lucky-supermarket-opens-three-more-branches
At-large official given four years in prison
Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday convicted and sentenced in absentia a senior official at the Ministry of Public Works and Transport for directing money from employees’ salaries to his own pocket. seng setha, 52, general director of the ministry’s administration and human resources department, was sentenced ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/large-official-given-four-years-prison
CPP official: Hun Sen did not propose amnesty law
A CPP official said that sam Rainsy’s recent comments over amnesty law were inaccurate. Yeap said that it was completely wrong because Prime Minister Hun sen didn’t propose this law [amnesty law] during the summit on september 16 at the National Assembly. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=ODI0ZTg4MDliMWF
Sanctuary ‘protected’
More than 2,000 hectares of the decimated Lumphat Wildlife sanctuary in Ratanakkiri province have been classified by the Ministry of Environment (MOE) as the sanctuary’s first community protected area. surrounded by three economic land concessions in Kon Mom district, the protected area is populated by a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sanctuary-%E2%80%98protected%E2%80%99
Strike over late wages at factory
Workers at a Kampot province cement factory began striking yesterday, protesting late payment of their salaries for May. The 224 employees of Cambodia Cement Chakrey Ting Factory in Kampot’s Teuk Chhou district said the company was supposed to pay them at the end of May but ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strike-over-late-wages-factory
Acleda sets aside $39M for branch expansion
Acleda Bank has reinvested $39 million of profits back into its operations instead of paying out dividends to shareholders, an announcement on its website states. It is the 11th time Alceda has opted to increase registered capital, with the latest top-up taking the bank’s total capital ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/acleda-sets-aside-39m-branch-expansion
Workers continue strike over change to pay day
About 1,000 workers from the Canteran factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district continued to strike on saturday over a decision to push back the day they are paid. The workers have been on strike since Thursday after being told they will be paid on the 10th ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/workers-continue-strike-over-change-to-pay-day-63314/