Forum planned to address prison overcrowding
The Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Prisons (GDP) is planning to hold a forum with relevant ministries, embassies, and human rights NGOs to find a comprehensive solution to ongoing overcrowding issues in prisons, as the number of inmates continues to rise. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forum-planned-to-address-prison-overcrowding
China's Zhengzhou looks to invest in Cambodian rice for export
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has announced that a delegation from Zhengzhou, the capital of China’s Henan province, has expressed interest in Cambodian products, including “high-quality and delicious rice”, and intend to process them for export to Chinese and international markets. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry: US sanctions on tycoon Ly Yong Phat and L.Y.P. Group “unjust”
Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has expressed “deep regret” over what it described as the “unjust” decision by the Us Department of the Treasury (UsDT) to impose sanctions on business tycoon Ly Yong Phat and several enterprises in the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-us-sanctions-on-tycoon-ly-yong-phat-and-l-y-p-group-unjust-
ODC Presents at BarCamp Battambang!
ODC Mapper Loch Kalyan, ODC Intern Atif Choudhury, ODC Research & Volunteer Coordinator Chan Penhleak, ODC senior Mapper Mean NaroA four-member delegation from the Open Development Cambodia team attended the two-day international technology conference BarCamp, held in Battambang. Through its theme “Empowering Youth through Technology”, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Community fisheries
Community fishery refuges, Battambang, Cambodia. Photo by Alan Brooks/WorldFish, taken on 2 November 2011. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Fishing practices in Cambodia are classified into three broad categories: small-scale or family fishing, medium-scale and large-scale or commercial fishing.In 2001, aware of the need to safeguard ss='cambodia-color'>...
Social development
A trained medical staff listens to the heartbeat of an infant at 16 Makara hospital in Preah Vihear, Cambodia. Photo by The World Bank, taken on 30 January 2013. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.social development addresses profound social problems,11 especially poverty, unemployment and social exclusion, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Detained British Biofuels Chairman Proclaims His Innocence
The British former Chairman of a troubled biofuel firm, who is in Phnom Penh’s Prey sar prision on forgery charges, has claimed he is the victim in the case for which he is awaiting trial. Gregg Fryett was arrested in Phnom Penh on March 23rd and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thai Sugar Firm Meets With Koh Kong Evictees
Koh Kong Sugar haS offered to Settle itS yearSlong diSpute with Cambodian familieS who accuSe itS plantationS of Stealing their land, but the farmerS remain wary of being able to Secure a fair deal. The firm, a SubSidiary of Thailand&rSquo;S Khon Kaen Sugar InduStry Limited (KSL), SS='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Chhorn Chansy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thai-sugar-firm-meets-with-koh-kong-evictees-46811/
Canadia park, a ghost town
On most sundays, the wide boulevard separating two rows of some 40 mustard-coloured factories in the Canadia Industrial Park is teeming with people. Garment workers who live on the premises stroll or bicycle along the road, stopping to eat at the same restaurants, patronizing the same ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joe Freeman and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/canadia-park-ghost-town
After poll, confidence dips: study
Confidence in the Cambodian economy has plummeted roughly 50 per cent in the tense post-election period, according to a market research survey of foreign business leaders working in the country. The survey, conducted by Indochina Research and seen by the Post this week, found that 98 ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/after-poll-confidence-dips-study
Two More Die in Flooding, Aid Response Slow in Phnom Penh
Two more people died in Kompong Cham province on Monday as a result of flooding that has claimed at least 30 victims since heavy rains spawned by tropical storms over the past two weeks caused the Mekong to break its banks and inundate thousands of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-more-die-in-flooding-aid-response-slow-in-phnom-penh-44002/
Locals’ Internet Access Doesn’t Equal Freedom
An increasing number of Cambodians have access to the Internet due to ownership of smartphones, tablets and the expansion of wireless broadband to rural areas of Cambodia, but access does not mean freedom from restrictions, according to a new report by New York-based Freedom House. In ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lindsey Peterson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/locals-internet-access-doesnt-equal-freedom-44939/
CPP hints at NEC reforms
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party has reiterated its commitment to carry out electoral reforms ahead of the 2017 poll in an apparent bid to appease key demands of the opposition, civil society and the international community following July’s disputed election. With rare frankness, the party says ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-hints-nec-reforms
Courts Resurrect Land Disputes After Election
The Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court has summoned for questioning three villagers accused of torching in May a shed on disputed land granted to the wife of Mines and Energy Minister suy sem. The case is another example of courts resurrecting longstanding land disputes that had gone ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/courts-resurrect-land-disputes-after-election-49671/
As Strikers Return to Work, Factories Sue Garment Unions
As garment workers continued to return to their factories Wednesday after several days of strikes that turned deadly last week, some of their employers have wasted no time in suing the unions behind the strikes, demanding compensation. Phnom Penh Municipal Court chief clerk Prak savouth said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-strikers-return-to-work-factories-sue-garment-unions-50360/
Cambodia economy remains robust in 2013 amidst challenging global economic atmosphere: WB
Cambodia’s GDP growth was projected to reach 7 percent in equivalent to 15.65 billion U.s. dollars in 2013 despite a challenging global economic environment, the World Bank said Monday. Overall macroeconomic outlook remains positive, having sustained agricultural growth, continued strong performance of the tourism sector, a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-10/07/c_132776793.htm
Debts rise along with water level
With pant legs rolled up to his knees, Hoeuy Mon trudges through a brown and green patchwork of rice fields. His four hectares are in Tkov village, Prey Veng province, about 300 metres from his home. On most of the journey, walkways enclosing each square plot ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/debts-rise-along-water-level
After prison, Bopha undeterred
Shelving any thoughtS that 14 monthS in priSon had deterred her from proteSting, Yorm Bopha ruShed to the capital&rSquo;S Borei Keila community yeSterday morning to try to Stop authoritieS from forcing evicteeS from an abandoned building. Bopha waS one of about 10 Boeung Kak activiStS called SS='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly, Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/after-prison-bopha-undeterred
Poll anger simmers in Kandal
Two weeks ago, Kandal erupted. skirmishes broke out at multiple polling stations where voters were left off the list, and at least one was forced to shut down as locals blocked what they claimed were outsiders from voting. In the end, this hotly contested province swung ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poll-anger-simmers-kandal
Questions Raised Over Forms Used for Voters With No ID
Of the nearly 800,000 forms issued to voters without identification for use in the July 28 election, about 270,000 were issued between the end of the voter registration period and the election itself, raising concerns among observers they could have been used fraudulently. According to National ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/questions-raised-over-forms-used-for-voters-with-no-id-41437/