Family’s world shrinks daily
Dozens of trucks, bulldozers and excavators have pushed Var sokhoeurn to the edge of his remaining land at the Lower sesan II dam site in stung Treng province’s srepok district. When Post reporters visited sokhoeurn’s family last month, much of his land, where he grew cassava and other ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/family%E2%80%99s-world-shrinks-daily
It’s paradise – for some
On the shore of Koh Kong province’s Kiri sakor district overlooking a cluster of islands, a flourishing new golf course lies vacant but for a handful of workers tending its empty greens. The Romanesque hotel behind it, replete with a bold central dome, luxury VIP suites ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara and David Boyle
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/its-paradise-%E2%80%93-some
Casino owner’s woes persist
The share price of Cambodian casino owner Entertainment Gaming Asia has fallen below the minimum requirement of the Nasdaq stock Market, threatening the gaming company’s Us listing, according to a statement posted on EGA’s website last week. EGA has been given 180 days – until October ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/casino-owner%E2%80%99s-woes-persist
Two’s company at CSX
It may not have all the glitter, adrenaline or the iconic tolling bell of Wall Street, but today, the uSually deSerted Cambodian Stock Exchange (CSX) will be a hive of activity. After firSt hinting at an initial public offering more than two yearS ago, garment manufacturer SS='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/two%E2%80%99s-company-csx
Arbitration’s cost and value
The Arbitration Council Foundation, credited with helping resolve about 1,700 industrial disputes, has reached verbal agreement with a swedish aid agency to receive funding until the end of 2016, a spokesman said yesterday. But members of the labour-dispute resolution body desire a more permanent solution that ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/arbitration%E2%80%99s-cost-and-value
Boost for Cambodia’s tourism
Cambodia’s Prime Minister, Hun sen, says Asia Atlantic Airlines’ upcoming flights that will connect Thailand, Cambodia and Japan will benefit the country’s tourism industry. The airline will fly from Thailand’s suvarnabhumi Airport and stop in Phnom Penh before flying to Toyko’ Narita, with full traffic rights. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/07/boost-for-cambodias-tourism/
Valentine’s targetted for blood
The National Blood Transfusion Center hopes to boost the Kingdom’s blood stocks by targetting youth donors at a second annual Valentine’s Day blood drive. This year’s February 14 campaign will target university students and youth aged 18 and older, who make up about 70 per ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khoun Leakhana
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/valentine%E2%80%99s-targetted-blood
Flooding’s deadly toll rises
The death toll from lethal floods has climbed to 27, with more than 10,000 families across 12 provinces evacuated from their homes to escape rising floodwaters, according to a report from the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM). The report, released yesterday, also shows that almost ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flooding%E2%80%99s-deadly-toll-rises
S Korean farming industry slammed
Long considered the friendlier and less exploitative option for overseas Cambodian migrants, south Korea is now being slammed by Amnesty International for a number of abuses afflicting its migrant-dominated agriculture sector. The 20,000 foreign workers fuelling south Korea’s farming industry regularly encounter intimidation, violence, excessive working ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/s-korean-farming-industry-slammed
ACU boss’s life ‘threatened’
The head of the country’s anti-graft body has said he has received two death threats since the unit responsible for directing investigations into public and private-sector corruption was established in 2010. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/acu-boss%E2%80%99s-life-%E2%80%98threatened%E2%80%99
Jailed family’s release demanded
Human rights group Adhoc has demanded the release of a couple and their 9-month-old child jailed amid a land dispute in Preah Vihear, calling their arrest a “grave human rights abuse”. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/jailed-familys-release-demanded
Villagers spurn firm’s ‘gifts’
A plantation company with its sights set on a community forest long used by local ethnic minority Jarai in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district arranged a meeting with more than 200 villagers this week to try to persuade them to sign over the woodland. Representatives of the Heng ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/villagers-spurn-firms-gifts
Cybercrime law’s status uncertain
A Ministry of Commerce official said in a speech last week that the controversial draft cybercrime law was almost ready to appear before the National Assembly, though another government official dismissed this yesterday. At a conference on cybersecurity attended by representatives of the public and private ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/cybercrime-law%E2%80%99s-status-uncertain
Factory’s workers ordered back
Thousands of employees at Grand Twins International, Cambodia’s only publicly listed garment factory, will be back at the assembly line today after nearly two weeks on strike, accepting a court order to return to work. Workers will follow the order the Phnom Penh Municipal Court issued ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/factory%E2%80%99s-workers-ordered-back
CCIM reporter’s case dropped
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has dismissed without any explanation a lawsuit filed by the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) after one of its reporters was viciously attacked by Daun Penh district security guards in May. Lay samean, a 27-year-old reporter for CCIM’s Voice of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ccim-reporters-case-dropped
Where squalor’s the norm
Abuse, discrimination, exploitation and corruption are endemic in Cambodia’s prisons, spurred on by judicial and penal systems “driven by nepotism”, according to a new report from local rights group Licadho. The report, Rights at a Price: Life Inside Cambodia’s Prisons, which was released yesterday, details a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alice Cuddy and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/where-squalors-norm
Group’s prison visit curtailed
In a move seemingly incongruent with the government’s plans to offer clemency to a number of female inmates on International Women’s Day on sunday, a local rights group announced yesterday that new restrictions introduced by authorities have forced them to cancel prison activities marking the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/groups-prison-visit-curtailed
CNRP’s Sovannara on trial
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court today is scheduled to hear the trial of opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party activist Meach sovannara, who was charged with leading a violent “insurrection” after an opposition demonstration turned violent last July. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://bit.ly/1cOQ72R
CNRP Meach Sovannara’s accident
Meach Sovannara, the CNRP lawmaker who waS let out of jail on bail in May, waS involved in a car accident on National Road 5 on ThurSday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12221/cnrp-meach-sovannara---s-accident/
Developer’s complaint tossed out
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday ended a long-running land dispute and dropped charges against four Boeung Chhouk community representatives, after the court found no evidence that residents committed violence against local businessman and developer Lao Tonmey. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/developers-complaint-tossed-out