Tycoon under fire for casino project
A tycoon who is building a casino and a dam in oddar Meanchy province has come under fire for displacing villagers – and possibly the military. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tycoon-under-fire-casino-project
Delays continue to constrain launch of Cambodia Airlines
For Cambodians aspiring to a career in aviation, this weekend looks promising. Almost seven months after its formal establishment, Cambodia Airlines is hosting a career fair in Phnom Penh. The airline is moving forward by looking for staff – from captains, first officers and cabin crew ...
Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/delays-continue-constrain-launch-cambodia-airlines
Rights Group Calls for Investigation of Thai Casino Torture Case
Local human rights group Adhoc has called on the government to investigate the alleged detention and torture of a Cambodian woman at a Bangkok casino where she was employed. In a statement released Friday, Adhoc said the government must push for a “full investigation” into the ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rights-group-calls-for-investigation-of-thai-casino-torture-case-49552/
Cambodian rice exports fall in Q1
As Thailand sells its rice reserves and reforms in Myanmar are rewarded with more access to markets abroad, Cambodia’s total exports of milled rice are on the decline, falling more than 10 per cent in the first quarter of this year compared with the same ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodian-rice-exports-fall-q1
Construction on two condominiums to begin in Q1
Cambodia’s growing condominium sector shows no signs of slowing down, with construction on two new condominiums set to begin in the first quarter of this year. According to real estate firm CB Richard Ellis’ December market view report, released Wednesday, work will begin on Sky Villa ...
George Styllis
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/construction-on-two-condominiums-to-begin-in-q1-75719/
Shift in CNRP's political strategy to win elections
The Cambodian National Rescue Party is making a strategic shift in its bid to win the next election: focusing less on traditional hot-button issues like government corruption and territorial disputes, and instead offering voters a series of concrete new policy initiatives. This required clear and ...
Tourist arrivals up 18 per cent
International tourist arrivals soared nearly 18 per cent in the first quarter in this year compared to the same period the year before, according to data from the Ministry of Tourism. The ministry’s official statistics report showed that Cambodia received 1,172,072 tourists in three-month period, compared ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052365790/Business/tourist-arrivals-up-18-per-cent.html
Detained migrant workers get Thai work permits
More than 20 Cambodian migrants who had been working at two pig farms in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province have been given work permits and allowed to remain in the country after they were found to have been working without proper documents. The move followed intervention from ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23701/detained-migrant-workers-get-thai-work-permits/
Rubber Firm Accused of Illegal Deforestation
A rubber company that has been repeatedly accused of encroaching on communal land belonging to an ethnic minority in Ratanakkiri province has cleared 150 hectares of forest outside of its economic land concession (ELC) in the past month, according to the senior investigator for local ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rubber-firm-accused-of-illegal-deforestation-20367/
Recruitment agencies operate without oversight
In June, after about a quarter million migrant workers returned from their jobs in Thailand fearing the military junta’s crackdown on illegal labor, Cambodia’s government announced it had slashed the cost of emigration, and would charge workers only $49 to legally return to work across ...
Phorn Bopha and Alex Consiglio
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/recruitment-agencies-operate-without-oversight-65497/
More families take deals to vacate dam site
Another 73 families in Stung Treng province have accepted the government’s offer of new land in exchange for the farms they will lose to the Lower Sesan II hydropower dam currently under construction, the second group to take the deal. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-families-take-deals-to-vacate-dam-site-109569/
Institute feeling crowded
Construction work at the site of Phnom Penh’s Buddhist Institute by Hong Kong-listed casino operator NagaCorp has caused concern among staff that the large development is driving away students. In recent days, a wall separating the institute from Hun Sen Park in Chamkarmon district’s Tonle Bassac ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/institute-feeling-crowded
Three arrested over murder of garment worker
Three garment workers were arrested in Phnom Penh over the past two days for their alleged roles in the fatal stabbing of their colleague at his home on Monday night, officials said Wednesday. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-arrested-over-murder-of-garment-worker-96033/
Workers ill after fainting at factory
A lingering odour in a Sixplus Industry garment factory is aggravating the already-fragile health of its workers, 100 of whom fainted last weekend, and has forced the factory to send many of them back to health centres. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-ill-after-fainting-factory
Work death disguised as road accident: cops
After rocks from a worksite detonation killed one of his employees, a manager at a Kratie province granite company was questioned yesterday for allegedly trying to cover up the circumstances surrounding the fatality, police said. Chinese national Chov Chinlean, 39, died after a crew from Moeung ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/work-death-disguised-road-accident-cops
Domestic workers push for protections
Forty national and foreign NGos yesterday called on the government to ratify the International Labour organization’s 2011 Domestic Workers Convention in order to better safeguard the rights of Cambodian domestic workers, both inside and outside of the country. The missive, which says that the Kingdom’s domestic ...
Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/domestic-workers-push-protections
Bavet factory ordered to close after mass faintings
The Svay Rieng provincial labor department on Monday ordered a Taiwanese-owned garment factory to temporarily close and improve its ventilation after more than 100 workers collapsed in two separate mass faintings in recent days. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bavet-factory-ordered-to-close-after-mass-faintings-78102/
Firm told to repay clients
The Ministry of Labour has given a recruitment firm 45 days to repay clients who filed a complaint alleging the company collected their money but never delivered promised jobs in Japan. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/firm-told-repay-clients
Limousine drivers strike deal with company
A group of 55 drivers who briefly went on strike last month settled their dispute with the Royal Cambodian Limousine Service over unpaid overtime wages on Monday, agreeing to accept between $600 and $700 per driver, according to a representative of the drivers. Chhay Buntha, ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/limousine-drivers-strike-deal-with-company-91462/
Shooting Victims’ Lawyers Denied Site Visit
Lawyers for the three women injured in a Feb. 20 shooting at a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Svay Rieng province were prevented from visiting the site of the shooting, allegedly on orders from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC), a lawyer and ...