Dam villagers demand titles
Fearing loss of land, about 150 farmers in svay Rieng province yesterday marched to the provincial hall, filing a petition that demands land titles on their property. Many villagers in svay Chrum district’s Chhoeuteal commune lost parts of their property in 2011, when a dam was ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-villagers-demand-titles
World Bank in spotlight
As the World Bank considers supplying fresh loans to Cambodia, a new study uses the country as exhibit A for how the financier effectively sponsors corporate land grabs at the expense of the rural poor it purportedly helps. Three years ago, the bank’s own inspectors found ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/world-bank-spotlight
Meeting suggests dam project moving ahead
Despite reports that Prime Minister Hun sen recently offered assurances that construction of the controversial stung Cheay Areng hydropower dam would not be allowed to begin in the near future, local officials are allegedly pushing forward with plans to relocate villagers. Multiple provincial, district and village ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alice Cuddy and May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/meeting-suggests-dam-project-moving-ahead
Authorities warn union leader
Police on Friday warned labour union leader Pav Sina that if he continueS to lead proteStS &ndaSh; thereby violating the ruleS of a court order &ndaSh; he will be arreSted. The Collective Union of Movement of WorkerS leader waS called to the Choam Chao commune police SS='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-warn-union-leader
Information minister launches ‘Get Your Sexy Back’ campaign
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith this week launched a marketing campaign titled “Get Your sexy Back,” aimed at promoting a culture of moderate alcohol consumption among young people by linking excessive drinking to a loss of sexual attractiveness. Launched on Monday and presided over by the long-serving ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/information-minister-launches-get-your-sexy-back-campaign-73999/
Election NGOs to begin testing new voter registration system
Testing of a computerized voter registration system will begin next month in the hopes of addressing flaws in the current system, which remains susceptible to election fraud, a coalition of NGOs working to promote democracy in the country announced Thursday. The Electoral Reform Alliance (ERA) has ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/election-ngos-to-begin-testing-new-voter-registration-system-74513/
Rainsy takes credit for falling energy prices
CNRP President sam Rainsy on Friday told supporters that the opposition party was responsible for recent government efforts to lower gasoline and electricity costs and said he would work to keep alive the new “culture of dialogue” with the CPP, despite Prime Minister Hun sen calling ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/opposition-leader-takes-credit-for-falling-energy-prices-76617/
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