After Park Cleared, CNRP Leaders Called to Court
At 11:30 a.m. Saturday, municipal Security guardS and men in plainclotheS, wielding Steel barS, metal pipeS, batonS, StickS and axeS, forcibly cleared hundredS of demonStratorS from Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Freedom Park, where the oppoSition CNRP haS been proteSting againSt the government of Prime MiniSter Hun Sen SS='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/security-guards-police-clear-freedom-park-50086/
NGOs Say ‘Rose Revolution’ Case Is Baseless
Rights groups on Monday urged the government to drop its incitement charges against four people arrested last week and accused of plotting to topple the government by handing out yellow roses to security forces and urging them to turn their guns against Prime Minister Hun ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngos-say-rose-revolution-case-is-baseless-40188/
NGOs Raise Concern Over Freedom of Expression to UN
Seven NGOS have raiSed their concernS that the government iS uSing the law, media and Internet to further Stifle freedom of expreSSion, ahead of Cambodia Submitting itS firSt UniverSal Periodic Review (UPR) of human rightS to the U.N. The UPR iS the proceSS through which Geneva&rSquo;S SS='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngos-raise-concern-over-freedom-of-expression-to-un-40748/
NGOs Raise Concern Over Freedom of Expression to UN
Seven NGOS have raiSed their concernS that the government iS uSing the law, media and Internet to further Stifle freedom of expreSSion, ahead of Cambodia Submitting itS firSt UniverSal Periodic Review (UPR) of human rightS to the U.N. The UPR iS the proceSS through which Geneva&rSquo;S SS='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngos-raise-concern-over-freedom-of-expression-to-un-40748/
Environmentalists Say Dam Project Could Be Disastrous
While fears have been raised over the imminent construction of the Don sahong dam in Laos, environmentalists on Monday said Cambodia should not forget that it has a project of its own that would be equally as disastrous to the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands ss='cambodia-color'>...
Denise Hruby and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/environmentalists-say-dam-project-could-be-disastrous-44573/
Coca-Cola To Probe Seven-Year-Old Cambodian Land Grab Case
Declaring that it has “zero tolerance” towards land grabbing, Coca-Cola has agreed to investigate a long running case in Cambodia where villagers are seeking court action against a company accused of seizing their land to make way for plantations linked to the supply of sugar ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eurasia Review News Staff
http://www.eurasiareview.com/09112013-coca-cola-probe-seven-year-old-cambodian-land-grab-case/
Government Reverses Ban, Agrees to CNRP March
The Ministry of Interior announced Tuesday in a last minute meeting that it would allow the opposition CNRP to take 1,000 people through the streets of Phnom Penh to deliver a petition to the U.N. and eight foreign embassies during its three-day mass demonstration that ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/government-reverses-ban-agrees-to-cnrp-march-45694/
Teachers Told to Expel Corruption From Classrooms
Just weeks after the country’s only independent teachers’ association staged a strike for higher wages, Phnom Penh’s education chief told teachers this week that they must stop taking bribes to comply with the government’s promised reform agenda. speaking to about 500 educators, mainly school directors, from ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phann Ana
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/teachers-told-to-expel-corruption-from-classrooms-51158/
Bank Says No Railway Evictee to Be Left Behind
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said that the rehabilitation of Cambodia’s railways will not be at the expense of those who live along the lines and has pledged to address the issue. Resettlement has been a problem for the rehabilitation but a new plan ss='cambodia-color'>...
Riverside Site Not Ours, Says Vattanac
Vattanac Properties Ltd’s president has denied ownership of a building site where construction has damaged the surrounding block of historic French Colonial era buildings. Chhung Leang who is also a cofounder of Vattanac Bank has said that the site is owned by an individual but ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vattanac Sends Employees to Inspect Damage Buildings
A week after government officials ordered Vattanac Properties to halt work on a construction site causing damage to a string of colonial-era building along Phnom Penh’s sIsowath Quay, representatives from the company arrived at the scene yesterday to inspect the affected buildings. Three Vattanac employees, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bank of India looks ahead
The Bank of India will move to a larger location on Norodom Boulevard, aiming to attract increased business from both Cambodian and Indian clients, said Chief Manager sripada Rao. The Mumbai, India-based bank first opened in the Kingdom in 2009 headquartered on the capital’s Monivong ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mass fainting follows use of insecticide
More than 100 workers collapsed at the Anful Garments Factory in Kampong speu yesterday after the cloth they were working with was sprayed with insecticide on sunday, a senior provincial health official said. Or Vanthen, director of the Kampong speu provincial health department, said 144 workers ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prey Lang protesters on run after police allegedly pay a visit
TWO activists involved in last month’s Prey Lang forest protest against illegal logging fled their houses yesterday in sandan district in an attempt to evade local authorities, villagers reported. Roeun sopheap, village representative in sandan commune, said he fled his home yesterday after finding several police ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bank of Tokyo opens Phnom Penh office
Japan’s second-largest bank, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, officially opened a representative office in Phnom Penh on Friday. The office would serve as an information centre for potential investors and hoped to attract more Japanese companies, Masato Miyachi, general manager of the bank’s Asia and China division, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alleged hotel ‘ransacking’ probed
Four former workers at the Angkor Villa Hotel and Resort appeared in the Appeal Court yesterday for questioning in relation to allegations that they ransacked the hotel during a strike last year. Korng Kimlean, union president of the Cambodian Tourism and service Workers’ Federation and the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Top officials accused by election watchdog
More than 100 high-ranking Cambodian People’s Party and Royal Cambodian Armed Forces officials were named and shamed by a Cambodian election monitoring organisation yesterday at a workshop on misuse of state property. The Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) distributed a detailed list ss='cambodia-color'>...
Fashionistas Plan Extravanganza in Cambodia
2,000 some fashionistas from around Asia will descend on Phnom Penh in October for 10 days during the country’s first fashion event, costing an estimated $1 million. According to sophy Ke, president of the Cambodia Fashion Council, Cambodia Fashion Week is intended to increase domestic ss='cambodia-color'>...
Potential for more Europe exports
Cambodian exporters ought to make further use of tariff-free entry to the European Union, particularly given loosened regulations governing rule of origin, EU officials said at a trade seminar yesterday. Least Developed Countries such as the Kingdom could export to the EU duty and quota ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011080250795/Business/potential-for-more-europe-exports.html
At Least 50 Garment Workers Faint Over Two Days
At least 50 garment factory workers fainted over the past two days in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district, bringing the number of workers who have fainted in the district in August to 60, workers and union members said yesterday. N Tuesday, workers from Heart Enterprise Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...