Inside the corporate utopias where capitalism rules and Labor Laws don’t apply
Under Cambodian law, the right to organize is supposed to be ironclad. No employer, government agent or citizen may impede union activity. Inside the walls of Cambodia’s largest special economic zones (sEZs), however, In These Times’ reporters saw a system designed to tightly control the workforce by ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matt Kennard and Claire Provost
http://inthesetimes.com/features/special-economic-zones-corporate-utopia-capitalism.html
Election officials brace for Pchum Ben rush
Commune offices around the country are bracing for a surge in voter registrations over the Pchum Ben holiday that could become a make-or-miss moment in building the foundation for upcoming elections. After nearly a month of registrations, the National Election Committee reported on Tuesday that 3.5 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Michael Dickison and Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/election-officials-brace-pchum-ben-rush-118530/
CNRP calls on UN to join investigation
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has called on the United Nations to join an investigation into the beating of two CNRP parliamentarians last Monday, expressing serious doubts the Cambodian People’s Party-led government could conduct an independent inquiry into an incident it was almost immediately ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-calls-un-join-investigation
Villagers destroy gates at Ratanakkiri court
About 150 villagers, enraged by the conviction and imprisonment of three of their community representatives, yesterday destroyed the gates of Ratanakkiri Provincial Court, bursting into the courtroom only to find that the three men had already been sent to jail.The representatives – Chroeung Touch, Em ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-destroy-gates-ratanakkiri-court
First mine licensed to draw gold
In a milestone for Cambodia’s nascent mining industry, the government has issued the first commercial mining licence to Mesco Gold, giving the Indian mining firm a green light to extract and process ore at its gold project in Ratanakkiri province, industry sources said yesterday. The landmark ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/first-mine-licensed-draw-gold
Revamp of torture prevention panel called cosmetic
The government has announced plans to upgrade a sub-decree on torture prevention to the status of royal decree in order to comply with its international obligations, but observers said yesterday that the proposed changes will do little to bolster the body’s impartiality.The decision was confirmed ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida and Zoe Holman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/revamp-torture-prevention-panel-called-cosmetic
Drought spawns fish fears
Fishing communities along two of Cambodia’s principle rivers say their livelihoods are threatened by droughts that have reduced water levels and devastated fish numbers.“The Tonle sap is 3 metres lower than last year,” Long sochhet, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Fishing Communities, said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Jamie Elliott
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drought-spawns-fish-fears
Deadly flooding spurs protest
After two deaths to flooding in as many rainy seasons and another close call on Monday, villagers from Khva Village in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor District are demanding action. They say that the cause of the flooding is the extraction of soil nearby by a company ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17215/deadly-flooding-spurs-protest/
Mekong dams 'a grave threat to river'
Experts are warning that the Lower Mekong Basin may soon face depleting fish stocks, further erosion of the coastline and rising salinity that will make rice fields uncultivable. An extensive, government- funded study by the Vietnam National Mekong Committee estimates the value of fish from ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nirmal Ghosh
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/mekong-dams-a-grave-threat-to-river
China pledges new military aid to Cambodia
China and Cambodia agreed to boost their military ties following a meeting between their defense ministers on November 6 in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. Though specifics of the assistance remain unclear, Banh, who is also a deputy prime minister, indicated that it includes telecommunications ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prashanth Parameswaran
http://thediplomat.com/2015/11/china-pledges-new-military-aid-to-cambodia/
PPSEZ plans bookbuild for scaled-back IPO
Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ), the private firm that operateS Cambodia&rSquo;S moSt developed induStrial park, will hold a bookbuild for inveStorS later thiS month for an initial public offering it hopeS will raiSe up to $11.6 million for expanSion and debt repayment, according to SS='cambodia-color'>...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppsez-plans-bookbuild-scaled-back-ipo
Cambodia Airports to incentivise Sihanoukville tourism
In a bid to increase tourist arrivals and promote sihanoukville as a beach destination, Cambodia Airports, the private company that manages the Kingdom’s three international airports, announced yesterday that it will provide monetary incentives to airlines that bring in foreign visitors to the coastal city.speaking ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-airports-incentivise-sihanoukville-tourism
Dams may worsen arsenic problem: study
A Stanford UniverSity Study conducted in Cambodia haS Shed new light on the natural introduction of the poiSon arSenic into groundwater &ndaSh; an eStabliShed problem in Cambodia that could be exacerbated by hydrological development, particularly damS, reSearcherS Say.According to a report on their findingS, publiShed SS='cambodia-color'>...
Jamie Elliott
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dams-may-worsen-arsenic-problem-study
City hall announces development plans for new road
City Hall yesterday announced the preparation of infrastructure for a controversial road construction project in the Boeung Kak area near the Alserkal Grand Mosque, the largest mosque in the Kingdom, to avoid traffic jams and flooding in the area. The pilot project, inveiled in 2012, plans ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29502/city-hall-announces-development-plans-for-new-road/
UN rapporteur to visit Kingdom
Rhona Smith, the UN Special rapporteur for human rightS in Cambodia, will Start her 10-day viSit to the Kingdom today, with planS to meet government officialS, oppoSition party activiStS and civil Society workerS.&nbSp;Am Sam Ath, a Senior coordinator for rightS group Licadho, Said he waS SS='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30568/un-rapporteur-to-visit-kingdom/
More schooling for disabled children
Education Ministry officials said yesterday that there will be greater participation by disabled children in schools, announcing a plan that would allow disabled youngsters to attend schools with the rest of the country’s children by early next year. Im Koch, a secretary of state for the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33062/more-schooling-for-disabled-children/
Sand export figure doubts persist
The chairman of the National Assembly’s corruption commission says a technical explanation from the Mines and Energy Minister over alleged irregularities in sand exported to singapore is not clear enough. The controversy over the sand exports emerged after about 50 NGOs asked the Ministry of Mines ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33235/sand-export-figure-doubts-persist/
Tycoon denies timber accusations in Mondulkiri
After ignoring summonses for two months, a prominent timber tycoon accused of illegally trading luxury-grade wood in Mondulkiri province appeared at court to deny his involvement in the case. sam Ol was summonsed on October 12 to testify after the authorities’ anti-logging task force found ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tycoon-denies-timber-accusations-mondulkiri
Chevron, Sam Rainsy continue to spar over Kem Ley video
U.S. oil giant Chevron haS claShed with the former oppoSition leader of Cambodia over a requeSt to releaSe footage of the murder of prominent political analySt Kem Ley at one of itS gaS StationS in Phnom Penh laSt year, court documentS reveal.Chevron iS Seeking to SS='cambodia-color'>...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/chevron-sam-rainsy-continue-to-spar-over-kem-ley-video/3871130.html
Tbong Khmum to crack down on illegal Vietnam border checkpoints
Tbong Khmum provincial officials have announced a crackdown on illegal checkpoints along the Vietnamese border, possibly in response to a purported warning issued by Prime Minister Hun sen to provincial Governor Ly Leng to monitor the transport of timber in the province. Local media reports contend ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tbong-khmum-crack-down-illegal-vietnam-border-checkpoints