Four protesters charged as lake clashes persist
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday charged four female Boeng Kak lake residents with insulting police and obstructing public officials during a protest that turned violent on Monday. Earlier in the day, dozens of residents were blocked by riot police from leaving the lake area, ...
Chevron Not ready to Pump Oil in December 2012
The chevron oil company announced it is not ready to pump offshore oil in Block A in Cambodia. Mr. Steve Glick, Chevron President said: “the company is not ready to pump oil in Block A offshore Cambodia on the set-date of december 2012, complaining that more tasks need to be completed, but expressed ...
Released Boeng Kak Women Back to Old Ways
Less than two weeks after being released from prison, the 13 women convicted in May for protesting evictions at Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak community staged their first public action yesterday. The women, joined by about as many neighbors, submitted petitions to the Australian, French, U.K. and ...
Cambodia faces risks from a credit boom, the IMF warns
The International Monetary Fund has warned that a credit boom in Cambodia poses a threat to economic growth. Banks have been cutting interest rates to win customers and private sector credit has increased by almost a third in the past 12 months, the fund said. This ...
Kratie vendors protest pricey relocation site
In an effort to improve Kratie town’s aesthetics, authorities have ordered about 300 shop owners on central roads and along the river bank to relocate their operations or face physical removal. Vendors were given until today to move to a location about a kilometre away, but ...
Missing girl feared trafficked
Meas Bopha, 47, sits in an outdoor pagoda over a lotus-filled pond on her property in Kampong Speu, home to 10 of her 12 children, and wipes back tears as she talks about her missing teenage daughter, Bophea, who vanished one morning last week. Bophea ...
PTT petrol stations filling up
Thailand’s PTT Cambodia, a subsidiary of the kingdom’s state-owned oil and gas conglomerate PTT Public Company Limited, expects to more than double the amount of petrol stations it manages in Cambodia by the end of 2017, a senior executive in the company said this week. ...
Laura Ma
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ptt-petrol-stations-filling
Opposition party wants equal committee posts in parliament: Sar Kheng
Acting Prime Minister Sar Kheng on Wednesday said that opposition leader Sam Rainsy, now doesn’t want the parliament chairmanship chair post, but equal committee posts within the parliament. Speaking to reporters after delivering certificates to 3,000 police officers, he said Sam Rainsy phoned him and told ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NGUwNzE2ZmZkYjA#sthash.zE5aIsK1.dpuf
Opposition preps plans for demos
The Cambodia National Rescue Party is not done marching. Speaking at party headquarters yesterday afternoon, CNRP leaders said they plan to establish “democracy squares” in provincial towns and cities to regain momentum lost following last week’s deadly attack on striking workers and the violent destruction of ...
Daniel Pye and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/opposition-preps-plans-demos
Sar Kheng alleges split within CNRP
Interior Minister Sar Kheng, the ruling party’s chief negotiator with the opposition, has released a statement accusing the Cambodia National Rescue Party of an internal split over what concessions could induce its 55 lawmakers to take their seats at the National Assembly. A statement released on ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-alleges-split-within-cnrp
Lower Mekong fish production estimated to be worth up to $7 bln a year
Production from freshwater capture fisheries and aquaculture in the Lower Mekong Basin is estimated to be worth up to $7 billion a year, the Mekong River Commission says. The newsletter said total first-sale value was estimated at $3.9 to $7.0 billion per year. “Over the ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ODc4MWI3YWIwNDF#sthash.cv2zcyPP.Aswun6lj.dpuf
Survey says firms confident despite deadlock
Local and foreign firms have a high level of confidence in the current economic climate in Cambodia despite the political deadlock in the country since last year’s disputed election, and are optimistic about business over the next year, according to a study to be released ...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/survey-says-firms-confident-despite-deadlock-58295/
Six tried for their part in deadly monivong bridge clashes
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday began the trial of six people for their involvement in clashes that broke out between civilians and police near Monivong Bridge after a protest on September 12. The six men were all charged with intentional violence with aggravating circumstances ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/six-tried-for-their-part-in-deadly-monivong-bridge-clashes-52459/
Boeng Kak families ask ACU to probe Senator’s land sale
Residents of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood lodged a formal complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Monday, asking it to investigate 12 current and former government officials and Senator Lao Meng Khin over the senator’s plans to sell land they say was stolen from ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/boeng-kak-families-ask-acu-to-probe-senators-land-sale-63453/
Rule changes give assembly president broad new powers
National Assembly President Heng Samrin has given himself the power to deny access to the assembly compound, including the offices of all lawmakers, to anyone not employed by the government and has barred all private citizens from testifying before—or sitting in on—assembly commission meetings. In ...
Kuch Naren and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rule-changes-give-assembly-president-broad-new%E2%80%88powers-68216/
Still no word about EBA but rice likely unaffected
Officials on Monday said the government had not received an official statement regarding the EU’s potential withdrawal of Cambodia’s Everything But Arms (EBA) scheme. The EU launched the EBA withdrawal procedure on February 12, citing “a deterioration of democracy [and] respect for human rights” in ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/still-no-word-about-eba-rice-likely-unaffected
CRF: Bumper 2021 for organic rice
Cambodia exported 11,200 tonnes of organic milled rice to international markets in 2020, a slight 1.2 per cent increase over 2019, according to the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF). While the milled-rice export sector by and large chalks up 2020’s lacklustre growth performance to the ongoing ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/crf-bumper-2021-organic-rice
Sustainability disclosure database for local firms launched
Cambodia, with support from the World Economic Forum (WEF), on May 12 launched the Supplier Database with Sustainability Dimensions (SD2) database, the first of its kind, to provide information on the sustainability operations of domestic companies. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sustainability-disclosure-database-local-firms-launched
Obligation of employers to promote the COVID-19 vaccine booster dose to workers
On 12 January 2022, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training issued a notification on the obligation of employers to promote the COVID-19 vaccine booster dose to workers.All factory owners or directors must promote and educate workers about the need for COVID-19 vaccine booster doses ...
Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training
CMAC funded for mine-free B’bang
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) has laid out long-term plans to demine 8,000ha of afflicted land in Battambang province. The project is expected to run from April 1 this year until december 31, 2025, at a cost of more than $12 million. Funding will ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-funded-mine-free-bbang