Land Rover, Jaguar enter Cambodia
Following the recent wave of luxury car brands entering the Cambodian market, RMA Cambodia’s CEO said yesterday that the firm will bring in UK brands Land Rover and Jaguar by opening a showroom before the end of the year. The newly appointed official authorised dealer will ss='cambodia-color'>...
Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/land-rover-jaguar-enter-cambodia
Families of Killed and Missing Protesters Compile Complaints
Family members of striking garment factory workers killed, wounded and missing after military police violently suppressed last Friday’s Veng sreng street protests have begun preparing complaints to file with authorities and rights NGOs. At least five people were shot dead, and more than 40 were in­jured, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Labour negotiations begin at SL Garment factoy
A meeting between factory management and representatives of more than 5,000 striking workers at one of Asia’s largest garment-processing factories yielded no progress. Ken Loo, secretary-general of the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia, has called the strike illegal because workers failed to notify the company ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/labour-negotiations-begin-sl-garment-factoy
‘Stubborn’ furniture firm vexes villagers
Twenty families from Ratanakkiri’s Kon Mom district are seeking intervention after a private company allegedly encroached on 10 hectares of their land. The unnamed company produces furniture from wood acquired from embattled Vietnamese concessionaire Hoang Anh Andong Meas, and over the course of the last two ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98stubborn%E2%80%99-furniture-firm-vexes-villagers
CNRP denied access to suspects
Phnom Penh Municipality has rejected a request from the Cambodia National Rescue Party to visit the 23 detainees held in Kampong Cham province’s Tropaing Phlong prison, also known as Correctional Centre 3. In a letter sent to the CNRP dated January 21, Phnom Penh Municipal Court ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-denied-access-suspects
Cambodia on track to attract 8 mln foreign tourists by 2020: PM
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen said Tuesday that the country is likely to receive up to 8 million foreign visitors by 2020. The premier’s optimistic forecast came after the country greeted some 4.2 million inbound tourists last year, an increase of 17 percent compared to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joseph A. Cambra
http://www.nzweek.com/world/cambodia-on-track-to-attract-8-mln-foreign-tourists-by-2020-pm-112209/
AAA takes flight from Japan to Siem Reap
Asia Atlantic Airlines (AAA) made its first flight from Japan’s Narita International Airport to siem Reap on May 3 with more than 260 tourists on board – and there are more to come. AAA ran the test flight last week before committing to two flights per ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/aaa-takes-flight-japan-siem-reap
Cambodia exports to US rise by over 10 pct
Driven by a slowly recovering American economy, Cambodian exports to the Us increased 11 per cent in the first quarter of 2014 compared with the same period last year, according to the latest Us government data. Cambodian exports from January to March totalled $771 million, up ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-exports-us-rise-over-10-pct
Japan sends experts to help Cambodia with election reforms
Japan sent a team of expert to Cambodia to identify the needs for the election reforms, according to a press statement released by the Japanese Embassy in Phnom Penh today. The Japanese Embassy said that a study team was dispatched by the Government of Japan to ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NGNmYzlkYjgzZDB
Ocean garment workers on strike after factory halts operations
About 1,000 workers protested outside Ocean Garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Pur senchey district on Wednesday to demand compensation for being out of work while the factory suspends its operations for a month due to flagging demand from buyers, a union leader said. Workers have been ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ocean-garment-workers-on-strike-after-factory-halts-operations-59954/
Tax revenue rises but at slower pace
The government’s tax revenue increased for the first five months of the year, but despite recent reforms, the growth rate is at a slower pace than for the corresponding period last year. According to data from General Department of Taxation (GDT) released on Wednesday, the state ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tax-revenue-rises-slower-pace
Canadia investigating fake $100 ‘hell notes’
Canadia Bank said on Thursday it was investigating how two fake $100 notes were allegedly given to a customer who cashed a check. The customer, Eam sopheap, a human resources manager at The Cambodia Daily newspaper, said he received two fake $100 notes from a teller ss='cambodia-color'>...
Oshua Wilwohl and Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/canadia-investigating-fake-100-hell-notes-61311/
HAGL filled in lakes: villagers
More than 100 families living in Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district have filed a complaint with authorities, claiming a rubber giant – already accused of illegal logging – filled in two natural lakes, provincial officials said yesterday. Villagers, along with government officials, say Vietnamese company Hong Anh Gai ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hagl-filled-lakes-villagers
Displaced communities ask EU to monitor funds
Residents of three displaced communities in Phnom Penh on Friday submitted a petition to the office of the European Union delegation, urging it to monitor funds it gives to the government. More than 50 protesters from the Boeng Kak, Borei Keila and Thmor Kol neighborhoods were met ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/displaced-communities-ask-eu-to-monitor-funds-62707/
At border, authorities get in way of activists
SoldierS and police blocked a group of activiStS and monkS in Kandal province&rSquo;S Koh Thom diStrict from viSiting a Section of the Cambodia-Vietnam border on Friday, activiStS Said yeSterday. Oeu Narith, preSident of the Peace Youth Group, Said armed forceS Stopped a group of about 200 SS='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/border-authorities-get-way-activists
Exploding bullet kills two children
Two children were killed by the explosion of an unfired rifle shell in a rice field in Battambang province on Friday afternoon, a district police officer said. Captain Phong sarin, district deputy police chief, said that Roeun Rith, 7, and Mann Marin, 7, “saw an unexploded ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/exploding-bullet-kills-two-children
Australian diplomat bites back
Austalian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has responded to one of her predecessors, Gareth Evans, who accused her of failing to deliver a “robust critique” when she met Hun sen on February 22 in a Friday op-ed that excoriated Cambodia’s political leaders for abuses. In an interview ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/australian-diplomat-bites-back
Infighting at garment union
Two founding members of Cambodia’s largest independent garment worker union say they were forced out of their jobs for investigating corruption. Members of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CAWDU), media outlets and several labour rights organisations received a letter dated March 14 and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/infighting-garment-union
Boxes for donations, not bribes: minister
The minister of education proposed yesterday that donation boxes for teachers be installed in schools across the country, but stressed their aim would be to diminish rather than grow a culture of bribery in the system. Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron presented the idea for the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/boxes-donations-not-bribes-minister
Education Ministry to delegate junior high exam to schools
Education Ministry officials on Monday confirmed that the ministry would no longer organize or oversee the junior high school exam, delegating the process to individual schools. As part of Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron’s reform of the graft-riddled education system, his ministry will forgo coordination of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/education-ministry-to-delegate-junior-high-exam-to-schools-56015/