National Rail Project Heralded by Eviction Notices in Poipet
Poipet City authorities have given dozens of families living along a section of railway slated for renovation 10 days to move or face forcible eviction. Poipet City Deputy Governor An Vanak said that the eviction notice was sent Monday to about 40 families, only eight of ss='cambodia-color'>...
SOS Obama protests gain traction
Capitalising on recent worldwide attention to their plight, some 200 villagers who say they’ve been robbed of their homes and land staged a vivid and stylised protest yesterday aimed at President Obama and secretary of state Hillary Clinton, calling for intervention in Phnom Penh’s land-titling ss='cambodia-color'>...
Rare hardwood sparks gunfights, corruption in Asia
KOH KONG, CAMBODIA — A Thai force dubbed the “Rambo Army” couldn’t stop the gangs, armed with battlefield weaponry, as they scoured the forests. Neither could a brave activist, gunned down when he came to investigate. Nor, apparently, can governments across southeast Asia. The root of the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.bradenton.com/2012/11/24/4291081/rare-hardwood-sparks-gunfights.html
Company Building Lower Sesan 2 Dam Gets OK to Clear Land
Representatives of a massive hydropower dam project in stung Treng province’s sesan district approached local authorities late last month informing them that the government had granted the company permission to clear 36,000 hec­tares of land for a reservoir, officials said on sunday. The 400-megawatt Lower se­san ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/company-building-lower-sesan-2-dam-gets-ok-to-clear-land-9252/
Chartered flights from Taiwan re-launched
Chartered direct flights from Taiwan to Cambodia were re-launched on February 7 by Taiwanese airline Far Eastern Air Transport, one year after the company abruptly suspended the flights over a dispute with its Cambodian airline partner over unpaid aviation fuel. six flights have been ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013021261307/Business/chartered-flights-from-taiwan-re-launched.html
3,000 Factory Workers Block Road; Protests Set to Continue
About 3,000 workers at a factory supplying clothes to U.s. brands Levi strauss and Old Navy blocked traffic for nearly five hours yesterday on National Road 4 in Kandal province, as part of a protest for more benefits and severance pay, protesters and police said. Protests ss='cambodia-color'>...
Workers Claim Police Beat Them During Factory Protest
About 10 workers were beaten by police and military police during a protest over severance payments yesterday in Kandal province, workers and union representatives said. Protests at Tai Yang Enterprises—which supplies clothing to U.s. brands Levi strauss and Old Navy—in Ang snuol district have been ongoing ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kingdom’s trade deficit widens
Cambodia’s total exports increased more than 13 per cent in the first nine months of this year, with a year-on-year comparison indicating a widening trade deficit. A private-sector representative, an exporter and an independent economist said the slow growth was mainly due to the slowing of ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012110759621/Business/kingdoms-trade-deficit-widens.html
Shipments of cargo increase by 7.3 per cent
Cargo shipments through sihanoukville’s Deep sea Port increased more than seven per cent year-on-year in 2012. Port officials say this growth is a result of Cambodia’s economic performance and an improving global economy. “It is a fast rate of growth compared with previous years. We had ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013011660801/Business/shipments-of-cargo-increase-by-7-3-per-cent.html
Activists’ Jail Sentences Under Review
A Cambodian court is asked to re-examine the jailing of Boeung Kak land activists. Cambodian authorities have asked a court to review the jailing of 13 women involved in a land dispute as protests over their sentences escalated with over 100 demonstrators threatening Thursday to march ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/boeung-kak-06142012183002.html
Thailand cracks down on exploitative factory
In a rare intervention, the Thai Labor Ministry has stepped in to stop the exploitation of migrant workers from Cambodia and Myanmar at a seafood factory in the country’s south, correspondence obtained by the Post reveals. The ministry found the Phatthana seafood factory, in songkhla province, which employs ss='cambodia-color'>...
China seen as potential market for Cambodia’s exports
The Commerce Minister said yesterday that China is a potential market for Cambodia’s garment exports and some other agricultural products while the traditional big markets of Europe and the United states are experiencing an economic slowdown. Cham Prasidh said at the sidelines of the Cambodia-China Trade ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kep first province to wrap land-titling scheme
Seven monthS after Prime MiniSter Hun Sen unveiled an ambitiouS plan to demarcate 1.8 million hectareS of State land and formally acknowledge thoSe who live on it, the completion of the firSt &ndaSh; albeit the SmalleSt &ndaSh; of eight affected provinceS haS wrapped up. Marking the SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/National/kep-first-province-to-wrap-land-titling-scheme.html
Men Questioned After refusing To Hand Over Student Donation
Authorities in Battambang province on saturday summoned two villagers from salmot district’s Ta sanh commune after they refused to hand over money to officials asking for donations to feed students working in the area as part of the government’s nationwide land titling project. Heng ss='cambodia-color'>...
Complaint Filed With UN Over Police Shooting of Civilians
A law student who filed a complaint with the Phnom Penh Municipal Court against the city’s police and military police chiefs over the fatal shooting of a bystander by authorities during a protest last month took his complaint to the U.N.’s human rights office on ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/complaint-filed-with-un-over-police-shooting-of-civilians-48961/
Cambodia at UN To Defend Rights Record
Cambodia’s opposition leader, sam Rainsy, is currently in Geneva, where the UN Human Rights Committee is reviewing the country’s rights record. Cambodian government officials are defending their rights record for the second time in four years at the Universal Periodic Review. sam Rainsy, who heads the Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-at-un-to-defend-rights-record/1839449.html
True refuge still elusive for refugees
It took three illegal border crossings, several bribed officials and six months in an overcrowded detention centre before Mohammed Ibrahim* finally arrived in Cambodia. Four years later, the ethnic Rohingya, a victim of violence and oppression in strife-torn Rakhine state in Myanmar’s west, is one of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/true-refuge-still-elusive-refugees
Creating a common language for nation’s deaf
By the age of 17, Chan Chonreasmey was yet to have a conversation with another person—not with her mother, not with her father, and certainly not with any other children. Two years ago, Ms. Chonreasmey was enrolled in the Maryknoll Deaf Development Program’s (DDP) education ss='cambodia-color'>...
Holly Robertson and Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/creating-a-common-language-for-nations-deaf-67639/
Tough times for telecom bosses in 2012
The year 2012 has seen a number of changes of personnel within different companies in Cambodia, particularly in the telecommunications sector, but also in the insurance and banking industry. According to In Channy, ACLEDA Bank’s CEO and vice chairman of the International Business Chamber Cambodia, the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013010160558/Business/tough-times-for-telecom-bosses-in-12.html
Cambodian, U.S. leaders hold talks on old debt, human rights
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen and visiting U.s. President Barack Obama met here on Monday to discuss a number of issues including old debt, human rights, democracy and forced evictions in Cambodia, a senior Cambodian official said. Hun sen also raised the issue of old ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-11/20/c_123972558.htm