Spending in NagaCorp casino drops
Spending in NagaCorp’s casino has dropped by about 4.4 per cent in the first quarter of the year compared with the same period last year. Some $1.17 billion was gambled in the casino from January to March this year, said a company quarterly report released last ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052865866/Business/spending-in-nagacorp-casino-drops.html
Poipet project: Gaming firm starts build on slot hall
Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc, which today will launch its Dreamworld Casino in Pailin, also will break ground on a slot hall project in Poipet, near the Thai border, on Thursday, according to a company statement. ...
A confronting force on streets
As protests against land grabbing have increased in Phnom Penh in the past five years, so too have violent crackdowns by the authorities. Police have been criticised for their treatment of protesters – which has included beatings with electric batons and kicks to the stomach of ...
Shane Worrell and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/confronting-force-streets
Police arrest another Russian over casino brawl in Sihanoukville
A Russian man wanted for his involvement in a violent brawl at Sihanoukville’s Queenco casino in February was arrested and jailed Tuesday evening after leading more than 20 police on an hour-long motorbike chase through the coastal town, officials said. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-arrest-another-russian-over-casino-brawl-in-sihanoukville-81138/
Prime Minister announces closure of casinos from April 1 and will hold meeting tomorrow to review the law that put country in emergency state
This morning, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced the closure of the casino, which will be implemented from April 1. He also announced that a meeting will be held on Tuesday to review the law that put the country in emergency state. ...
Niem Chheng
https://bit.ly/2UrrKAV
NagaWorld unionists ask court to tell them their bail conditions
Six NagaWorld union members want the Phnom Penh court to tell them the exact conditions under which they were given bail, after union president Chhim Sithar was arrested in November for allegedly violating a court-ordered travel ban. ...
Pa Sokheng
https://vodenglish.news/nagaworld-unionists-ask-court-to-tell-them-their-bail-conditions/
Officials on run after journalist reports threats, illegal timber
A reporter in Mondulkiri province who climbed a mango tree to look into a police official’s compound for a rumored stash of illegal timber over the weekend says he was later detained and threatened with a beating. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-on-run-after-journalist-reports-threats-illegal-timber-115055/
‘Fake news’ being investigated
The Ministry of National Defence is cooperating with involved authorities to investigate a case of alleged fake news that said a well-known deputy commander supported the Cambodia National Rescue Movement. Ministry spokesman Chhum Socheat said the Ministry of National Defence was cooperating with authorities to investigate ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106512/fake-news-investigated/
PM praises media for efforts on ‘fake news
Prime Minister Hun Sen praised journalists and a large number of local press institutions for making efforts to prevent the spread of fake news propagated by “rebels” and opportunists who intended to incite social unrest against the government. Hun Sen’s statement was made through a ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-praises-media-efforts-fake-news
H&M tries exclusivity agreement
Clothing giant H&M is testing the garment production waters by entering into exclusivity agreements with factories in Cambodia and Bangladesh, according to a report from Bloomberg News yesterday. This means that Sweden-based H&M would buy all of the factory’s output. H&M, it seems, would still be ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hm-tries-exclusivity-agreement
Government shuts down misleading websites
The government has ordered internet service providers (ISPs) to block websites and social media accounts of nine domains representing at least three news outlets, claiming the organisations are spreading misleading information and discrediting the government. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501326261/government-shuts-down-misleading-websites/
Cambodian-Chinese Media Urged To Collaborate In Combating Fake News
Minister of Information of Cambodia Neth Pheaktra has called on Cambodian and Chinese journalists to work together to protect the integrity of international news by combating fake news and information interference to promote the building of a Community of Common Destiny for humanity. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501394385/cambodian-chinese-media-urged-to-collaborate-in-combating-fake-news/
US Firm to Open Its Second Casino in Cambodia
A U.S.-listed gaming company is set to open its second casino in Cambodia next month, the company said as it announced its revenues had grown to more than $20 million in 2012. Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc. (EGA), which is backed by Macau-based Melco International Development Limited ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/us-firm-to-open-its-second-casino-in-cambodia-14421/
NagaWorld Workers Reinstated After Protests
Following six straight days of protests by hundreds of staff at NagaWorld Casino, Casino management yesterday agreed to reinstate four senior workers and said they would consider increasing the entire staff’s minimum wage. Between 500 and 1,000 workers had been demonstrating over what they said were ...
Drugs: our man in Cambodia
The inquiry that targeted Hun To, dubbed Operation Illipango, investigated the shipment of heroin into Australia from Cambodia in loads of timber. Hun To, a nephew of Prime Minister Hun Sen, is a powerful and feared figure in Cambodia. He was once considered a close business ...
http://www.theage.com.au/national/investigations/drugs-our-man-in-cambodia-20120325-1vsiz.html
Casino building part of 'secret strategy' to protect Cambodia borders
Hun Sen, the prime minister of Cambodia, has said allowing the construction of a spate of casinos on the border was part of a “secret strategy” to protect the country’s territory from its neighbours. In a five hour speech addressing border demarcation issues with Vietnam, he ...
Two Years In, Kampot Casino Downsizes
The Ha Tien Vegas Entertainment Resort and casino in Kampot Province along the Vietnamese border announced yesterday that it has sacked 500 employees and shut down its 130-room resort less than two years after it became the first casino to open in the province. The company said ...
Thais hit Cambodia casinos to sidestep junta betting blitz
Desperate for a flutter during a junta crackdown on gambling at home, Thais are making a beeline for casinos in a seedy Cambodian border town — which has already been deluged by migrants also fleeing the kingdom. For over a decade Poipet, a scruffy, vice-ridden frontier ...
Business World Online News Staff
http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=World&title=Thais-hit-Cambodia-casinos-to-sidestep-junta-betting-blitz&id=89616
Poipet fire kills 26 and injures 57
The blaze that tore through a Poipet casino has killed 26 people and injured 57, with most of the victims Thai, Banteay Meanchey Provincial Governor Oum Reatrey said. ...
Chhorn Raksmey
https://kiripost.com/stories/poipet-fire-kills-26-and-injures-57
Corruption not rampant: Hun Many
Hun Many, the youngest son of Prime Minister Hun Sen and an elected lawmaker in Kampong Speu province, has defended his party against allegations of nepotism, corruption and election irregularities in a foreign TV interview. In a wide-ranging Channel News Asia interview that aired on Friday, ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/corruption-not-rampant-hun-many