Million-tonne goal still a challenge
It has been more than two years since the Cambodian government issued a rice export policy in June 2010, aiming to export a million tonnes of milled rice by 2015. However, a shortage of capital to buy unmilled rice, known as “paddy”, together with high ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/Special-Reports/million-tonne-goal-still-a-challenge.html
Angkor Gold cashes in on Cambodia
It has been just over a year since Vancouver-based Angkor Gold (ANK-V) went public with its stable of Cambodian exploration projects, and it is looking like the company’s early mover strategy in the developing southeast Asian nation might be poised to pay off. To kick ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.northernminer.com/news/angkor-gold-cashes-in-on-cambodia/1001981285/?type=HotSectors
Cambodian worker alleges Thai police of humiliating treatment, abuse
A Cambodian migrant worker has alleged that he and dozens of fellow migrants were arrested, beaten, stripped naked and shaved bald by Thai police, who then extorted money from them just because they did not have the correct location on their working visas. The allegation is ss='cambodia-color'>...
Luxury Motor Show takes on Used Car Market
At Cambodia’s first ever international motor show over the weekend, top-end car manufactures including Mercedez-Benz, BMW and Ford presented their luxury range of sUV’s, sedans pickup trucks and motorbikes. Vehicle imports to Cambodia, which include cars, trucks and motorcycles, more than doubled to 1.9 million ss='cambodia-color'>...
Families in Land Dispute With City Detained for Questioning
Three men locked in a land dispute with Phnom Penh authorities were questioned both by the police and the municipal court Wednesday after they were accused of destroying property on land the government has swapped with a private firm. Ly Bun Heang, said that he, his ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-in-land-dispute-with-city-detained-for-questioning-32193/
UK Sugar Firm Investigating Child Labor Claims
U.K. sugar firm Tate & Lyle on Wednesday said it was looking into recent allegations of child labor on two plantations in Koh Kong province it has been buying sugar from since 2010, but rebuked NGOs for not bringing the claims to its attention sooner. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/uk-sugar-firm-investigating-child-labor-claims-36637/
Sugar Playing Catch-Up With Spice
Dotted with rice fields flanked by palm trees, Cambodia’s southeastern province of Kampong speu is nothing short of picturesque. But behind the idyllic exterior is an on-going struggle to turn this region’s natural beauty into a global attraction and improve the lot of poor local farmers, ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.iede.co.uk/news/2013_1290/sugar-playing-catch-spice
Blackouts tell tale of two cities
It is barely dawn in the quiet suburb of Phnom Penh Thmey, but already the silence has been pierced by the cacophony of generators. On some streets, nearly every household has one of the machines burning through diesel in a bid to fill their basic electricity ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032764725/National/blackouts-tell-tale-of-two-cities.html
Subedi Protest Linked to CPP-Aligned Youth Group
Despite the apparent spontaneity of a protest against U.N. human rights envoy surya subedi at a university in Phnom Penh on Tuesday night, it emerged Wednesday that one of the apparent leaders of the demonstration is associated with a youth organization aligned with the ruling ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/subedi-protest-linked-to-cpp-aligned-youth-group-26156/
Family Accepts $9000 over Collapse Death
The family of a worker who was killed when a ceiling collapsed at Kompong spue province footwear factory lasts week has accepted 9,000 in compensation, and in return has agreed not file a complaint against the company, the deceased’s wife said yesterday. Rim sarouen, 22, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Police Detain Protesting NagaWorld Staff
Nineteen NagaWorld casino employees were detained Tuesday afternoon as police attempted to break up a protest of more than 500 workers who had picketed in front of the casino for the past six days, demanding the company increase their salaries. The workers had been striking non-violently ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-detain-protesting-nagaworld-staff-31336/
Tonle Sap Airlines suspends its flights
Local charter carrier Tonle Sap AirlineS haS SuSpended flightS until June, in what appearS to be the lateSt of a SerieS of diSruptionS affecting the airline, which haS alSo recently encountered financial turbulence. The airline, which operateS chartered flightS from Siem Reap to China, Taipei, and SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050965498/Business/tonle-sap-airlines-suspends-its-flights.html
Families seek to Farm Land Claimed by RCAF
Some 300 familieS from Bantey Meanchey province&rSquo;S Preah Netr Preah diStrict-embroiled in two Separate long-running diSputeS with Royal Cambodian Armed ForceS (RCAF)-yeSterday Submitted complaintS to the provincial governor aSking for permiSSion to temporarily farm on the land until the ownerShip diSpute iS reSolved, villagerS and SS='cambodia-color'>...
Rice plots blocked at dam site
In a first step toward clearing villagers from land intended for a planned Koh Kong provincial hydroelectric dam, a Chinese development firm has blocked a road leading to plots where villagers have continued to harvest rice. Officials from Tianjin Union Development Group, which was awarded a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rice-plots-blocked-dam-site
Water Authority Share Price Hits New Low
The usually static share price of the Phnom Penh Water supply Authority (PPWsA), still the only company listed on the Cambodia securities Exchange (CsX), fell Monday to its lowest price since it began trading more than two years ago. At the close of business Monday, the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/water-authority-share-price-hits%E2%80%88new-low-42002/
Beauty Shop Owner Sues CNRP for Vandalism
The owner of a Phnom Penh beauty products shop has filed a complaint against some of the CNRP’s top brass, claiming they incited demonstrators to vandalize her business and caused $200,000-worth of damage on sunday evening. Chhim Vattey, owner and director of Clinique De Beaute Luxe ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/beauty-shop-owner-sues-cnrp-for-vandalism-42693/
Police in strike shootings to be investigated
Police officers who defied orders not to open fire on rioting garment workers on Tuesday – an act that resulted in the fatal shooting of 49-year-old rice vendor Eng sokhom – could lose their jobs, a National Police spokesman said yesterday. Kirt Chantarith told the Post that a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shane Worrell and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-strike-shootings-be-investigated
Preah Vihear Residents Protest Future Eviction
Fifty-three families in Preah Vihear province’s Kulen district on sunday protested outside the headquarters of a Malaysian company that is threatening to clear villagers’ farmland to make way for a rubber plantation, rights groups and officials said Monday. The families, who live in srayong commune’s srayong ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/preah-vihear-residents-protest-future-eviction-47273/
Illicit Trade Linked to $130M In Losses
A report released by a U.s. financial research firm today says that Cambodia lost an average of $133 million per year between 2002 and 2011 through crimes such as import and export tax evasion, illegal movements of money and smuggling. The report, released by Global Financial ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/illicit-trade-linked-to-130m-in-losses-49163/
Senior Government Officials Rebuff Opposition Protesters’ Demands
Senior government officialS Said Monday that they will not bow to the demandS of oppoSition proteSterS to unSeat Prime MiniSter Hun Sen, but remained coy over the government&rSquo;S likely reSponSe if the daily proteStS continue. The oppoSition CNRP, which haS rejected the official reSultS of the SS='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/senior-government-officials-rebuff-opposition-protesters-demands-49770/