HAGL called out at the UN
A Cambodian delegation to the United Nations last week used the stage to shame the World Bank’s financial arm for failing to adequately monitor investments in a Vietnamese rubber giant accused of illegal logging, forced evictions and sexual harassment. Representing 17 indigenous communities in Ratanakkiri that ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hagl-called-out-un
Instability delays CAA launching new routes
Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA) will delay the launch of its planned direct flights to Beijing, Tokyo and Singapore due to unrest in neighbouring countries, the airline said yesterday. Originally slated to open the new routes before the end of the year, tensions in Thailand and Vietnam ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/instability-delays-caa-launching-new-routes
Beds block busy road
About 100 villagers embroiled in a land dispute in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar district gathered on National Road 6A at 7am yesterday, blocking the road with wooden beds and their bodies for three hours. The protest stems from a December 15 court injunction ordering 30 villagers ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/beds-block-busy-road
Digital voter registry hits snags
Pilot tests for Cambodia’s new computerised voter registration system are off to a rough start after one commune refused yesterday to participate in the trials. The $17 million system, which uses computers to record voters’ thumbprints and photos, and issues voter card printouts, was slated to ...
Sarah Taguiam and Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/digital-voter-registry-hits-snags
Lottery firm hopes that second bet is a charm
Malaysian-backed 5D Pan Cambodian Lottery yesterday announced an official return to operations after a failed start-up in the Kingdom five years earlier. The company, who first announced in 2010 that it would start business in Cambodia, declined to detail yesterday why it did not get off ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/lottery-firm-hopes-second-bet-charm
Domestic production strengthens as F&B imports fall
Food and beverage imports to Cambodia have fallen over the past 12 months, marking a notable shift in domestic production and the public’s recognition of the “Made in Cambodia” brand, officials say. Cambodia spent around $223 million on food and beverage imports to supply the domestic ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/domestic-production-strengthens-fb-imports-fall
Strike ends as sacked workers take cash
Seven union leaders protesting against being sacked from the Vantage River Textile factory in Preah Sihanouk province each agreed yesterday to accept $300 compensation. Worker representative and sacked employee Keo Srey Pich, 22, said three hours of negotiations between the union, workers and the company, in ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strike-ends-sacked-workers-take-cash
Groups Call for Term Limits for Prime Minister
Local NGOs are urging the new National Assembly to pass term limits for the prime minister, to prevent a “dictatorship” in Cambodia. Prime Minister Hun Sen has ruled Cambodia in some capacity for 30 years, but following discussions in Phnom Penh, rights groups and development NGOs ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/groups-call-for-term-limits-for-prime-minister/2418677.html
Thailand arrests 33 Cambodians for illegal logging
Thirty-three Cambodian nationals were arrested for illegally logging rare rosewood trees in Thailand, where they are currently awaiting trial, officials said Wednesday. The arrests marked a long-called-for shift in tactics by Thai authorities: In the past, Thai soldiers and border police have often dealt with illegal ...
Saing Soenthrith and Van Roeun
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thailand-arrests-33-cambodians-for-illegal-logging-67514/
Wage decision delayed
Minister of Labour Ith Sam Heng yesterday postponed his ministry’s Labour Advisory Committee’s decision on Cambodia’s garment sector minimum wage from Friday until next month, leaving some optimistic and others dubious. In the original schedule, the minimum wage for 2015 was slated to be set in ...
Sean Teehan and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wage-decision-delayed
Language expert warns against "foreignization" under globalization
As Cambodia seeks greater integration with regional and global economies, a language expert warns against overreliance on foreign identity and language. Chan Virak, a doctorate student in culture, literacy and language at the University of Texas at San Antonio, says Cambodia should invest in its own ...
Sophat Soeung
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/language-expert-warns-against-loss-of-identity-under-globalization/2834297.html
Twin tower skyscraper proposed for capital
A Chinese and local developer are in discussions with Phnom Penh’s City Hall to build a $3 billion, 500-metre-high twin tower project in the center of the city, making it the tallest building in the capital. The project will be a joint venture between Cambodian-owned Thai ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/twin-tower-skyscraper-proposed-capital
Legal expert says draft law could inhibit future NGOs
Hundreds of opponents to a controversial law to regulate NGOs met in a hotel in Phnom Penh Tuesday, as a campaign against the passage of the legislation continues. Zach Lampell, a legal advisor at the International Center for Not-For-Profit Law, told those gathered that he had ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/legal-expert-says-draft-law-could-inhibit-future-ngos/2853608.html
Oddar Meanchey farmer steps on landmine
A farmer in his 40s was seriously injured after stepping on a mine on his property in O’Smach commune, in Oddar Meanchey province’s Samrong town on November 21. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/oddar-meanchey-farmer-steps-landmine
Ministry says Asian elephants face threat
Ministry of Environment spokesman Neth Pheaktra said the Asian elephant is being severely threatened in world sanctuaries. In Cambodia, eight elephants have recently died in wildlife sanctuaries. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-says-asian-elephants-face-threat
Police detain K Speu land grabbers
Military Police personnel, in cooperation with environmental rangers in Kampong Speu province, have cracked down on natural resource crimes and illegal encroachment of state land in Oral district’s Ta Sal commune. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-detain-k-speu-land-grabbers
Cassava prices up on delayed harvests
Cassava prices in Cambodia’s northwest corridor have skyrocketed to astonishing heights in the wake of the recent massive floods that have compromised yields in one of Kingdom’s most fertile regions. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cassava-prices-delayed-harvests
US funds Preah Vihear, Bakheng temple repairs
The US has provided $420,000 in grants for the repair and preservation of temples in Preah Vihear province and Phnom Bakheng temple in Siem Reap. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-funds-preah-vihear-bakheng-temple-repairs
Youth group claims illegal loggers have raided Roka
A senior Ministry of Environment official has rejected the Cambodian Youth Network (CYN) report detailing 100 illegal logging incidents they claim took place in early 2021 in Prey Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary in Preah Vihear province. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/youth-group-claims-illegal-loggers-have-raided-roka
Japan an active ASEAN Community builder: Chanthol
Japan has been instrumental in ASEAN connectivity development, extending a helping hand in a vast spectrum of major infrastructure projects across the Southeast Asian economic bloc, especially in the Kingdom. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/japan-active-asean-community-builder-chanthol