Deal falters, blame begins
Senior Cambodian People’s Party figures who have been at the forefront of negotiations with the opposition party yesterday offered lukewarm responses to the prospect of restarting talks that would bring an end to the opposition’s seven-month-long parliamentary boycott. Their position – that the opposition party was ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deal-falters-blame-begins
Round 2 at Phnom Penh's Borei Keila district
Four families who were violently evicted from Borei Keila in January last year built shelters yesterday in the rubbish where their houses once stood, claiming the land still belonged to them. The evictees erected small frames on the land, in the capital’s Prampi Makara district, irritating ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013031361918/National/round-2-at-borei-keila.html
Delay on maid deal: ministry
The Ministry of Labour plans to delay signing off on a controversial agreement to reopen a pipeline of Cambodian maids to Malaysia until a deal is reached on a second agreement regarding other migrant workers, a ministry official said yesterday. Labour Ministry spokesman Heng Sour told ...
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/delay-maid-deal-ministry
Asia Rice- Thai Exporters Seek Vietnamese, Cambodian Rice To Meet Deals
Demand for low-quality white rice from African buyers has forced Thai exporters to purchase additional stocks from Cambodia and Vietnam to meet orders because domestic rice is in short supply due to government buying scheme, traders said on Wednesday. The price of 25 per cent broken grade Thai ...
More Lao land deals inked
Laos has contracted firms to build and operate another significant hydro-power plant on the Mekong River system, adding to the existing furor over potential effects on downstream countries such as Cambodia from the controversial Xayaburi dam. The contracts, reportedly worth $1 billion, are for a series of three dams making ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012102559403/National-news/more-lao-dam-deals-inked.html
Singaporean Startup to Install Streetlamps in Rural Villages
A Singaporean startup is planning to install streetlamps in three villages in Kompong Chhnang province later this year in an effort to enhance safety for people making their way home at night. Fosera Lighting is raising money through an online campaign to construct 75 solar-powered streetlights ...
‘Land for vote’ deal backfires
Before casting their ballots, residents in three communes in Kulen district carefully mulled their options. On one hand, many have found themselves locked in a land dispute with the government – forced to farm their land in secret from the forestry administration. On the other, ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98land-vote%E2%80%99-deal-backfires
No reply to request for help for addicts in jail
The Health Ministry has yet to respond to a request from the Interior Ministry last week seeking assistance in dealing with drug abuse in the country’s prisons and rehabilitation centers, Interior Ministry secretary of state Nuth Sa An said yesterday. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22807/no-reply-to-request-for-help-for-addicts-in-jail/
CPP: ‘Behave or Sokha suffers’
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) spokesman warned Kem Monovithya on Thursday that her attempt to damage “national reputation and prestige” would lead to her father, Kem Sokha, receiving even harsher punishment. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-behave-or-sokha-suffers
MFI slowdown: real or illusory?
After several years of rapid growth, the expansion of credit provided by the Kingdom’s myriad microfinance institutions (MFIs) stalled abruptly last year, raising concerns poorer Cambodians could be pushed toward loan sharks to obtain credit or cover their debts, the World Bank said in its ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mfi-slowdown-real-or-illusory
‘Take it or leave it’
The uncle of a man who died in Thursday’s ceiling collapse at the Wing Star Shoes factory in Kampong Speu province claimed yesterday that the company had threatened to give the family nothing if they did not agree to an on-the-spot payout. It came as a ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065719/National/take-it-or-leave-it.html
A factory or family dilemma
Being placed on consecutive short-term contracts in Cambodia’s predominantly female-staffed garment sector is forcing many women to choose between a family and a factory job, unionists and rights groups said yesterday. Ken Chenglang, acting president of the National Independent Federation Textile Union of Cambodia, said many ...
Amelia Woodside and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factory-or-family-dilemma
‘Settle land dispute or else’
The head of the National Assembly’s top human rights commission has warned Banteay Meanchey’s provincial governor to settle a land dispute involving 230 disabled soldiers’ families from the province’s Malai district, saying he will be sacked if the matter is not settled within three months. After ...
Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98settle-land-dispute-or-else%E2%80%99
Ministry, factories strike deal
About 600,000 workers in the lucrative garment and footwear industries, roughly 95 per cent of the sector’s work force, will soon take home an extra US$10 a month, the Ministry of Labour said yesterday. Barely an hour after a protest involving garment workers at the capital’s ...
Sokha’s pardon: ‘no conditions’
Freshly pardoned CNRP deputy leader Kem Sokha yesterday claimed the pardon that exonerated him on Friday was made without any conditions or concessions from the opposition party. The acting president of the opposition, who had been under de facto house arrest since May and had been ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32752/sokha---s-pardon-----no-conditions---/
Cambodia's Hun Sen says no political motive behind recent arrests
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday lashed out at critics who claimed that the recent arrests of four opposition officials for their alleged roles in a violent protest were politically motivated, saying they had committed criminal acts and must be tried according to law. The ...
Big News Network News Staff
http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/228037539
Six months on, no justice for shootings
Six months ago today, security forces opened fire on garment workers protesting for a doubling of their minimum wage on Phnom Penh’s factory-lined Veng Sreng Boulevard. At least five people were killed in what rights groups called the worst state violence against citizens in 15 ...
Vong Sokheng and Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/six-months-no-justice-shootings
Landless Cambodians see nothing sweet in EU sugar deal
An EU scheme to boost trade with developing nations is fuelling land grabs in Cambodia, activists say, with thousands evicted from their property to make way for a booming sugar industry. Campaigners are taking their fight to European supermarkets, encouraging a boycott of Cambodian sugar, which ...
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1211528/1/.html
Governor Tells Cintri to Clean Up Its Act or Lose Contract
Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong has issued an ultimatum to Cintri, the city’s waste disposal company: Clean the streets, and keep them clean, or lose your contract. At a meeting between Cintri, City Hall and all levels of Phnom Penh officials on Monday, Mr. Socheatvong told ...
Ben Sokhean and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/governor-tells-cintri-to-clean-up-its-act-or-lose-contract-46246/
PM: No need to close Phnom Penh or Cambodia because of Omicron
Responding to rumours that the Royal Government plans to close Phnom Penh or close the country after the spread of Omicron, PM Hun Sen has declared that there is no need to for closure like in 2021 due to the high vaccination rate. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501029667/pm-no-need-to-close-phnom-penh-or-cambodia-because-of-omicron/