Campaign focused on reducing deaths
Amid a continually rising rate of industrial accidents and deaths, the Ministry of Labour introduced a campaign focused on identifying workplace hazards before tragedy strikes. Since the ministry began keeping track of 960 Cambodian factories in 2009, workplace accidents have risen by nearly 375 per cent, ...
Sen David and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/campaign-focused-reducing-deaths
Telecoms unconsulted on cyberlaw provisions
Telecommunications companies say they are being left in the dark on the controversial draft law on cybercrime, despite provisions in the proposed law allowing prosecutors to order internet service providers to preserve data for them as part of criminal investigations. Three large telecom firms providing internet ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/telecoms-unconsulted-cyberlaw-provisions
Ibis Rice exports on horizon
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) says its Ibis Rice project has recorded a production surplus for the first time in its five-year history, prompting a bid to export the boutique product overseas. Concentrated in Preah Vihear province, Ibis Rice farmers produced more than 435 tonnes of ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ibis-rice-exports-horizon
CNRP bullish on local polls
With its campaign for subnational council elections well under way, the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party is putting forth an optimistic message about its prospects in the vote, even going so far as to predict that ruling party voters will bolster its share of the ...
Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-bullish-local-polls
Factory faintings back on rise
More than 600 workers have fainted on factory floors so far this year, compared with about 800 such incidents over the whole of 2013, a Labour Ministry official said yesterday. Pok Vanthat, deputy director of the ministry’s labour health department and head of a committee that ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factory-faintings-back-rise
APLE defends work on case
Child rights groups Action Pour Les Enfants and International Justice Mission have said they carried out a “detailed and impartial” investigation into claims of sexual abuse before removing six young boys from their families against their parents’ wishes last week. In a statement defending their work ...
Alice Cuddy and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/aple-defends-work-case
Input floated on traffic law
A coalition of NGOs are to submit to the National Assembly today a list of recommended additions to the amended traffic law, a draft of which was approved by the Council of Ministers in August. Road safety advocates hope the amended law, which creates higher fines ...
Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/input-floated-traffic-law
Manulife signs on with Wing
Third-party payments provider Wing yesterday penned a deal with Canada-based financial services group, Manulife. According to a joint statement issued by the two companies, Wing customers can now pay their Manulife insurance bills via the company’s mobile payments system. ...
Eddie Morton
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/manulife-signs-wing
KNLF remains on police radar
With 10 alleged members of the “terrorist” Khmer National Liberation Front (KNLF) facing charges of treason, police yesterday threatened further arrests in Cambodia and abroad. The KNUF, or Tiger Head Movement, was accused of attempting to bomb the Cambodia-Vietnamese Friendship Monument in 2007, and the ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/knlf-remains-police-radar
Update on Borei Keila requested
The National Assembly’s anti-corruption commission submitted a letter to the Phnom Penh Municipal Hall last week requesting an update on the resolution of the long-running dispute between evicted Borei Keila villagers and development firm Phan Imex. ...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/update-borei-keila-requested
Cambodia: New crackdown on protesters
The Cambodian government is carrying out a new wave of arrests of opposition party and social activists. Cambodia’s donors should speak out against the government’s harassment, arbitrary detention, and summary trials of peaceful protesters and the government should end the crackdown. The crackdown has ...
Human Rights Watch News Staff
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/11/13/cambodia-new-crackdown-protesters
Anger on the home front
More than 100 soldiers in Pursat province have threatened to resign en masse after being ordered to bulldoze their own lands, which are claimed by tycoon Try Pheap’s MDS Import Export Company. The threat of mass resignations came two days after a soldier, Seng Pov, took ...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/anger-home-front
Station razed, fight goes on
Members of a community in Preah Vihear province chased down a group of illegal loggers and briefly detained one of them yesterday, less than a week after the community accused the local wildlife sanctuary director of destroying their patrol station. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/station-razed-fight-goes
Thailand breaks silence on corpses
The Thai government yesterday broke its silence on charred remains found 10 days ago alleged to have been two Cambodians burned alive by Thai soldiers, saying no conclusion had been reached. Cambodia’s western neighbour has been slow to release investigative findings about what could prove to ...
Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/thailand-breaks-silence-corpses
World Cup labour on agenda
Amid reports of hundreds of workplace deaths at World Cup construction sites, Qatar invited Cambodia on Saturday to discuss implementing a long-signed agreement to send labourers there ahead of the tournament in 2022. The issue was discussed during a meeting between Foreign Ministry Secretary of State ...
Taing Vida and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/world-cup-labour-agenda
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
KDC protests to go on
One of five villagers arrested in a land dispute with politically cOnnected company KDC InternatiOnal told the Post after their release On Friday that he would keep protesting “until our community obtains a resolutiOn from the government”. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/kdc-protests-go
Protest still on: youth leader
Ignoring objections and even vague threats made by the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Cambodian activists in South Korea plan to stage a protest on Sunday ahead of a five-day summit Prime Minister Hun Sen is scheduled to attend on December 10. Around 1,500 opposition supporters intend to ...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/protest-still-youth-leader
Smugglers busted on Laos border
Three Cambodians were among 11 people captured in Laos for allegedly smuggling methamphetamine in a joint operation carried out by Cambodian and Laotian anti-drugs police. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/smugglers-busted-laos-border
CNRP’s Sovannara on trial
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court today is scheduled to hear the trial of opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party activist Meach Sovannara, who was charged with leading a violent “insurrection” after an opposition demonstration turned violent last July. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://bit.ly/1cOQ72R