New protection for giant ibis
A newly demarcated wildlife and forest protection zone designed to safeguard Cambodia’s national bird, the giant ibis, along with a number of other endangered species, has been approved after more than 10 years in the making. A government sub-decree approving a protection zone spanning 66,932 hectares ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-protection-giant-ibis
Commerce Minister calls on checkpoint officials to crackdown on expired goods
Commerce Minister asked officials at all border checkpoints to prevent and crackdown on expired products. Thong Thira, Banteay Meanchey’s head of Department of Commerce, said that about 71 percent of 700,000 people living in Banteay Meanchey are farmers. He said the province has big 20 ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=OWFjOTZkZjI0OTh
Direct Japan flights set to take off later in year: PM
Japan will introduce direct flights to and from Cambodia this year in an effort to bolster trade, investment and tourism between the two nations, Prime Minister Hun sen said on Friday. Hun sen announced the plan at a meeting with a delegation led by Hideo ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/direct-japan-flights-set-take-later-year-pm
Koh Kong dam online since late last year
Cambodia’s largest hydropower plant to date, the stung Russey Chrum, is operational. The 338-megawatt dam, located in Koh Kong’s Mondul sima district forest, produced and transmitted electricity to Phnom Penh last month, according to its developer, China Huadian Corporation. “It is the biggest and best dam we ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-dam-online-late-last-year
Warrant for missing tax man
The Anti-Corruption Unit on Monday ordered the arrest and imprisonment of a former Preah Vihear province tax official who was convicted in absentia in December and sentenced to three years in prison for exploiting his position for personal gain. According to the ACU’s announcement, former provincial ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/warrant-missing-tax-man
Grave sites cleared by rubber firms: NGOs
Four Vietnamese rubber firms are responsible for destroying an estimated 1,000 hectares of community forest, including an indigenous graveyard, in Ratanakkiri’s Andong Meas district, a group of NGOs have claimed. The land dispute involving 196 families living in Talav commune dates back to 2011, Chhay Thy, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/grave-sites-cleared-rubber-firms-ngos
Cambodia to host Open Source Tech Conference
Phnom Penh will host one of Asia’s biggest technology conferences later this month. FossAsia, a conference on open source and free software, will be held in the capital Feb. 28 to March 2—a free event open to students, developers and entrepreneurs. Technologies discussed at the conference will ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-to-host-open-source-tech-conference/1858192.html
Gov’t passes buck on faintings
Mass faintings in Cambodia’s garment factories do not occur as a result of long hours and arduous working conditions, but from workers’ failure to care for their own health, according to the National social security Fund (NssF) director. During an annual meeting, which mainly focused on ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-passes-buck-faintings
CNRP seeks reform input
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party will hold a seminar this morning on election reform to “seek input” from civil society and election monitors ahead of the second meeting of a bipartisan election reform committee on Monday. According to an invitation issued on Tuesday, the CNRP ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-seeks-reform-input
Funcinpec continues to receive Chinese Communist Party support
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is providing financial and material support to the beleaguered Funcinpec Party to cover its rent, electricity, transportation and general administration expenses, as well as offering political training to its younger members, senior leaders of the royalist party said Wednesday. Funcinpec was ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/funcinpec-continues-to-receive-chinese-communist-party-support-54553/
New policy to combat corruption in schools
The Education Ministry will reconfigure how it ranks high school graduates seeking placement at state universities as part of its campaign to promote accountability in the school system, Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron announced on Friday. Delivering closing remarks at the Education Ministry’s annual meeting, Mr. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and Emily Wilkins
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-policy-to-combat-corruption-in-schools-54886/
Acid attack wife charged, imprisoned
A 26-year-old woman who allegedly disfigured her husband’s face and body in an acid attack Tuesday has been charged and sent to pre-trial detention in Banteay Meanchey province, police said Thursday. Tor Rachany is accused of pouring half a liter of strong acid over her husband, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/acid-attack-wife-charged-imprisoned-57370/
A way of life falls with trees
The Phnong ethnic minority in Mondulkiri province have heard the promises of development before. With increasing investment and the selling off of the region’s forests will come new roads and schools, they are told. But people in this ancient community, tired of seeing their sacred forests handed ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/way-life-falls-trees
Longans longing for storage
The amount of land used to grow longans has doubled in the past two years, but a lack of supply-chain infrastructure is hampering farmers’ ability to get top dollar for their product, the fruit’s body says. sreng sreang, deputy director of the Pailin Longan Farmers’ Community ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/longans-longing-storage
New chairman of the Cambodia Rice Federation viewed with suspicion by local media; agenda will focus on raising rice quality, lower borrowing rates
The newly-formed Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF), a body that aims to unite the rice sector under one representative body in the country, just elected its first chairman and he happens to be the son of Cambodia’s deputy prime minister. He is also the CEO of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Oryza News Staff
http://oryza.com/news/rice-news/new-chairman-cambodia-rice-federation-viewed-suspicion-local-media-agenda-will-focus
March for the Environment Halted by Police
Some 400 StudentS, monkS and activiStS were Stopped from a peaceful march for Environmental Day on ThurSday, aS they Sought to deliver petitionS to the MiniStry of Environment and other inStitutionS calling for an end to deforeStation. Cambodia&rSquo;S foreStS provide many ServiceS to the rural poor, SS='cambodia-color'>...
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/march-for-the-environment-halted-by-police/1930290.html
Work on 6th Chinese-funded bridge in north Cambodia nears completion
Work on the 6th Cambodia-China Friendship Mekong-stung Treng Bridge here in northern Cambodia is nearing completion after a 25-month construction, officials said sunday. Tram Iv Tek, Cambodian Minister of Public Works and Transport, said the 1,731-meter bridge, being built by the shanghai Construction (Group) General Company, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet news
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-06/08/c_133391624.htm
Kompong Cham officials accused of extortion
The Anti-Corruption Unit revealed Monday that the director of Kompong Cham provincial Treasury Department Kol Thearin and officials under her are being investigated for allegedly embezzling money from local development projects and extorting bribes from developers, according to a statement from the ACU. ACU chairman Om ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kompong-cham-officials-accused-of-extortion-61063/
Rights Groups Urge Censure of Thailand Over Abuses in Fishing Industry
Human rights workers say the Us and other countries should censure Thailand over fisheries practices that mean near-slavery for many Cambodians and others. An investigative report by the UK-based Guardian newspaper exposed serious abuses in the Thai fishing trade, where workers are cheated of pay, kept ss='cambodia-color'>...
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/rights-groups-urge-censure-of-thailand-over-abuses-in-fishing-industry/1935496.html
CNRP lawmaker-elect to visit contested area
An opposition lawmaker-elect pledged yesterday to visit an undemarcated section of the border in svay Rieng province to investigate allegations that Cambodian farmers have been blocked by Vietnamese soldiers from using land they previously farmed for years without problem. svay Rieng lawmaker-elect Real Camerin said that ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-lawmaker-elect-visit-contested-area