To Phnom Penh Relief, Dam Starts Operating
The Kirirom III Hydropower Station in Kompong Speu province Started operating laSt month, providing 18 megawattS of electricity to both Kompong Speu and Phnom Penh, an official at State-owned Electricite du Cambodge Said yeSterday. The additional power from the $47 million dam will help alleviate Phnom SS='cambodia-color'>...
Storms swamp capital streets in drain strain
Despite recent efforts by the authorities to improve drainage systems around the capital, heavy flooding and swamped roads were the norm over the past week as the kick-off to the rainy season saw pelting rain almost every afternoon, residents say. Old drainage systems put in place ss='cambodia-color'>...
Wait Out Elections, Firm in Land Dispute Told
Despite facing criminal charges, 70 villagers from Kompong Chhnang province embroiled in a long-running land dispute with the KDC Development Company have moved back onto the contested land, court officials and villagers said yesterday. KDC, which is owned by Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy suy ss='cambodia-color'>...
Boeung Kak 13 case shifts to Appeal Court
The case of the 13 imprisoned Boeung Kak women is in the hands of the Appeal Court now, the women’s defence lawyer said yesterday. Lawyer Harm sunrith said that Phnom Penh Municipal Court had sent the case to the Appeal Court on Tuesday, adding that he ss='cambodia-color'>...
Union leader attacked with brass knuckles and cleaver
A union representative led a 1,000-strong protest at a garment factory in the capital’s Russey Keo district yesterday, alleging the company hired a gangster to beat him up on sunday – a claim the manager has denied. Chhim sam On, a union leader with the Coalition ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Cassava exports to China up, but production lags
Chinese-owned Avic International plans to export 8,000 tonnes of dried cassava from Cambodia to the Chinese market this year. According to Chan saron, minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, there are currently 31 companies listed as exporting cassava to China from Cambodia, but only 17 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Protests Over Mondulkiri Electricity Prices Resume
About 100 residents of Mondulkirri province’s sen Monorom City have protested yesterday for the third time in the past 2 weeks in front of the provincial office of state electricity provider Eletricite du Cambodge (Edc), demanding that their electricity be decreased. Vann Neang, who ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia reports 60 pct rise in internet users last year
Cambodia recorded about 2.7 million internet users as of December last year, a 60 percent rise year-on-year, a senior official said Thursday. Meanwhile, he said the country has 6 mobile phone operators. As of last year, those operators had sold out 19.1 million sIM cards, ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2013-03/14/c_132234173.htm
Aero Aiming To Open Up Kingdom
Local private airline Aero Cambodia intends to launch domestic chartered flights by the end of this year once it receives approval from the government. The airline is preparing to apply for its air operator certificate from the state secretariat of Civil Aviation (ssCA) and hopes to ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032964777/Business/aero-aiming-to-open-up-kingdom.html
Dad ‘Threatened’ by Court
The father of three youths allegedly beaten by DM Group workers earlier this month said court officers yesterday threatened to imprison him if he did not agree to compromise with the company and drop the case. Ry sarun appeared at Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday to answer ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052265776/National/dad-threatened-by-court.html
Villagers blame rubber company
Villagers in Preah Vihear’s Kulen district are seeking the assistance of rights group Adhoc, claiming a Malaysian rubber company has stopped them from receiving land titles. sok Yam, 48, one of the four representatives of the sro Yong commune residents, said members of 72 families thumbprinted ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-blame-rubber-company
Former Mfone Staff Enter Second Day of Protests
About 300 former employees of bankrupt mobile phone operator Mfone continued to protest yesterday outside the company’s closed Phnom Penh offices, demanding severance payments totaling $4.4 million for 1,092 workers. But Vong savan, deputy secretary-general of the Labor Dissolution Commission at the Ministry of social ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian Vtrust plans CSX floating
Local real estate company Vtrust Property Group plans to engage an underwriter in as little as two years to help it list on the Cambodia stock Exchange, the company’s chairman, Kuy Vat, said yesterday. The company is now preparing the necessary documents on its business, corporate ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032764710/Business/cambodian-vtrust-plans-csx-floating.html
Village patrols seize land-clearing tools
Jarai villagers in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district escalated the defense of their protected land this weekend, confiscating the keys and batteries of bulldozers owned by the Vietnamese company they claim has been illegally clearing the area, community leaders said yesterday. The move comes after a number of ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050665426/National/village-patrols-seize-land-clearing-tools.html
Villagers Make Heady Claims Against NGO
Families living in Koh Kong province have called on the provincial governor to intervene in what they claim are ongoing land disputes with Forestry Administration authorities and conservation NGO Wildlife Alliance. Thirty-eight families from Mondul seima and Khemarak Pumin districts have 110 hectares of land between ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051065550/National/villagers-make-heady-claims-against-ngo.html
SL strikers go back to work today
Thousands of striking garment workers are set to return to work today, as more than two weeks of demonstrations at one of Asia’s largest garment factories come to a close. Meas sotha, a shareholder at sL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd, and Kong Athit, vice president of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sl-strikers-go-back-work-today
Timber cache hidden in plantation
A raid on an orange plantation netted more than five cubic metres of illegally logged rosewood and other luxury-grade timber in Pursat’s Kravanh district on Friday, local officials said. More than 25 police officers, forestry administration officials and environment ministry officers conducted the operation, which found ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
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New Picture Book for Kids Published in Khmer
Cambodia Airports and the NGO sipar, an organization that supports literacy and the publishing sector in Cambodia, jointly released a Khmer- and English-language book for toddlers about transportation Wednesday morning. “The Picture Book on Vehicles” is part of sipar’s first collection of books for toddlers written ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-picture-book-for-kids-published-in-khmer-47537/
Car Maker Mazda Opens in Cambodia
Japanese automaker Mazda opened its first showroom in Cambodia on Wednesday, making it the third foreign car company to move into the country since the beginning of the year. “Mazda starts selling in Cambodia from today,” said Chanthan Ngon, general manager of HGB Auto, the company’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/car-maker-mazda-opens-in-cambodia-39630/
(English) Justice sought two years on
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Khouth Sophak Chakrya
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