Adoption revamp in offing by Oz: report
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is overhauling his nation’s overseas adoption system and wants to get Cambodia involved in the process, according to Australian media. Abbott requested Attorney General George Brandis pursue fresh agreements and adoption negotiations, including with Cambodia, Bulgaria, Latvia and Kenya, the sunday ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/adoption-revamp-offing-oz-report
Myanmar garment workers threaten further strikes if demands are not met
Garment workers in Myanmar protesting over pay and factory conditions threatened to continue strikes Tuesday unless their demands are met and authorities release two of their representatives detained earlier this month. As many as 200,000 people work in garment factories in Myanmar, according to the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thiha Tun
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/strikes-02242015130920.html
New border crossing set to make trade easier
Planning for the Stung Bot checkpoint on the Thai border iS almoSt finaliSed, with the conStruction of new infraStructure to Support trade facilitation to be completed by the end of 2018, officialS Said yeSterday. VaSim Sorya, the director general of adminiStration at the MiniStry of Public SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/new-border-crossing-set-make-trade-easier
Gov’t issues own dispute data
After heaping criticism on rights group Licadho for allegedly exaggerating the seriousness of Cambodia’s land rights crisis last month, the government has released its own annual report on land disputes. In a letter the following day, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/govt-issues-own-dispute-data
Gov’t launches industrial policy
Prime Minister Hun sen said the Council of Ministers would review and pass the Industrial Development Policy 2015-2025 today, setting out a roadmap that aims to boost investment and broaden the Kingdom’s manufacturing base. The policy framework will consist of four pillars: attracting FDI to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muyhong and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/govt-launches-industrial-policy
$250k stolen in daylight heist
A sleepy village in Kampong Thom province was the unlikely site of a major gold heist over the weekend, as a gang of heavily armed robbers raided a local market in broad daylight, making away with more than $250,000 worth of cash and jewellery before ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/250k-stolen-daylight-heist
Vietnam to link China & Bavet
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung last Monday approved plans to build a new economic corridor linking China, along Vietnam’s northern border, to the Bavet International checkpoint in Cambodia, in order to facilitate increased flow of goods between the three countries. The corridor, which will take ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/vietnam-link-china-bavet
UN concerns plentiful in Geneva postmortem
A UN rights panel that grilled government delegates in Geneva last month yesterday handed down its concluding observations on how Cambodia has implemented the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which it acceded to more than two decades ago. The only positive aspects outlined by ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-concerns-plentiful-geneva-postmortem
Death toll from floods rises to 8 in 4 provinces
Four more people were confirmed dead Tuesday due to rising flood waters in several provinces, bringing the total number of fatalities in this year’s rainy season flooding to eight, while some 4,000 families have now had to evacuate their homes. National Committee for Disaster Management vice ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/death-toll-from-floods-rises-to-8-in-4-provinces-65821/
Draft law puts high price on drunk driving
Drunk drivers could be fined $1000 under a new draft traffic law approved yesterday by The Council of Ministers. The legislation includes a raft of measures aimed at reducing the number of deaths and injuries on the roads. Among the draft law’s 92 articles are new ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/draft-law-puts-high-price-drunk-driving
‘Solvable problems’ focus of fainting review
Amid reports of increased mass-fainting incidents in Cambodia’s garment sector, workers, employers and government officials gathered in Phnom Penh yesterday for a roundtable discussion on the issue. The conference, which was organised by the Cambodian Center for Independent Media, identified issues such as workday lengths and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98solvable-problems%E2%80%99-focus-fainting-review
Report calls for foreign teacher trainers, higher salaries
Cambodia must significantly increase teachers’ salaries and import the best teacher trainers from abroad in order to combat a continuously widening gap between the skills employers are looking for and those the country’s graduates are able to provide, a new report says. Facing the worst student-teacher ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/report-calls-for-foreign-teacher-trainers-higher-salaries-67184/
First buses, now trains could come to capital
As part part of its multibillion-dollar Urban Transport Master Plan, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) unveiled a modern rail system for Phnom Penh yesterday that could begin operation as soon as 2023. The trains would thin out traffic on the capital’s choked-up roads, which currently lack ss='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/first-buses-now-trains-could-come-capital
Lawmakers promise end to KDC land row
The National Assembly’s newly formed bipartisan Human Rights Commission met with representatives from the embattled Lor Peang village on Monday, promising a prompt resolution to their 12-year-old dispute over 145 hectares of land in Kompong Chhnang province. Lork Kheng, deputy chair of the commission, vowed that ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/parliamentarians-promise-end-to-kdc-land-row-67390/
Released CNRP youth called back to court
Three CNRP Youth activists facing charges of taking part in an insurrection for their alleged roles in a violent opposition protest near Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park in July have been summonsed back to court early next month. A summons signed by Investigating Judge Keo Mony calls ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/released-cnrp-youth-called-back-to-court-67654/
Civil society, tech team up
With security footage of elephants, clouded leopards and other wildlife caught on hidden cameras in Cambodia’s Eastern Plains flashing on a TV screen, Toby Eastoe of Conservation International noted that their cameras also catch other activity. Presenters ranging from anti-corruption advocates to health service workers ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/civil-society-tech-team
After mass firing, union considers new protests
More than 100 workers who were fired by a Taiwanese-owned garment factory this week for striking over demands for further benefits will meet with union leaders “as soon as possible” to discuss potentially launching protests, a union representative said Tuesday. The workers were fired by the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-mass-firing-union-considers-new-protests-67806/
Thousands of workers go on strike in Prey Veng
Some 3,000 workerS proteSted in front of a garment factory in Prey Veng province Monday, calling for larger bonuSeS and better working conditionS, according to unioniStS and factory repreSentativeS. EmployeeS of the ChineSe-owned Komchay Mear Trading factory, which produceS clothing for U.S. brand Gap, have been SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thousands-of-workers-go-on-strike-in-prey-veng-68069/
Cambodian police bust Thais with $7M in fake bills
Three Thai men arrested in Cambodia for allegedly carrying counterfeit U.s. $100 bills with a face value of more than $7 million planned to circulate the fakes in rural areas where they would be less likely to be detected, police said saturday. The men were arrested ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Washington Post News Staff
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/cambodian-police-bust-thais-with-7m-in-fake-bills/2014/09/19/80bcac08-4060-11e4-a430-b82a3e67b762_story.html
Commune officials wage hike plans announced
Interior Minister sar Kheng on Thursday announced plans to raise salaries of commune and village officials in an effort to close the gap between earnings of high- and low-ranking civil servants. The draft sub-decree, which will see wages of commune chiefs rise from 300,000 riel per ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/commune-officials-wage-hike-plans-announced-68472/