Hundreds of Villagers Block Road to Protest Land Clearing
About 400 villagers in Kratie province’s snuol district blocked national road 76A for three hours yesterday to demand that authorities release a villager who had been arrested earlier in the day for allegedly inciting villagers embroiled in a land dispute, villagers and a district official ss='cambodia-color'>...
Erdos Group plans laid bare
Documents obtained by The Post have shed new light on the scale of Chinese investment connected with the controversial Boeung Kak lake real estate project. The Us$98 million project in northern Phnom Penh is the smallest of Mongolia Erdos Hongjun Holding Group’s planned investments in ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011080350842/National-news/erdos-group-plans-laid-bare.html
Proposed changes to reserve requirement meets controversy
A proposed increase in the reserve requirement would decrease lending and slow Cambodia’s economic growth, according to some bankers and experts. The National Bank of Cambodia is set to hold a meeting later this month discussing a possible raise of the reserve requirement from 12 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Union lands court KO
In a landmark ruling, the Siem Reap Municipal Court yeSterday ordered a luxury hotel to reinState 67 Sacked workerS &ndaSh; a legally binding deciSion that unioniStS have hailed aS a great moment for the judicial SyStem. The deciSion comeS after more than two monthS of proteStS, SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011102752392/National-news/union-lands-court-ko.html
Case pleaded to prime minister
More than 100 workers from Cambo Handsome One garment factory gathered outside the home of Prime Minister Hun sen on Friday and saturday, after urging him on Thursday to intervene in a dispute with the factory’s Korean owners. The move followed an appeal to the Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011120553142/National-news/case-pleaded-to-pm.html
Rubber investments in Kingdom jump 255%
Investment in Cambodian rubber plantations increased by 255 per cent in 2011 on rising global demand for the commodity. There were 20 new projects worth Us$675 million in the Kingdom last year, according to data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia. There were nine ss='cambodia-color'>...
Fuel feud leaves tourists stranded at Angkor Wat
More than 200 Taiwanese tourists traveling to and from Angkor Wat in Cambodia were delayed yesterday after Far Eastern Air Transport (FAT) unexpectedly suspended its flights to the world heritage site. The Taiwanese airline, which resumed services in April last year, leased one of its aircraft ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2012/02/22/2003526086
Airline ups stake in fuel fight
The dispute that grounded a Tonlesap Airlines plane on Tuesday and stranded more than 200 passengers in siem Reap and Taipei, Taiwain, continued yesterday, as plane owner Far Eastern Transport upped the sum it claimed Tonlesap owed for fuel. Far Eastern grounded a plane it had ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012022354679/Business/airline-ups-stake-in-fuel-fight.html
Union Leader Asks Governor To Set Statue Discussion Dates
Free Trade Union (FTU) President Chea Mony yesterday wrote to Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema, reiterating a request to set a date for talks over the construction of a statue honoring his assassinated brother, the late FTU leader Chea Vichea. Permission to build the statue was ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kompong Cham Pepper Enjoys Healthy Trade in Thailand
Though less well-known than Kampot pepper, the price of Kompong Cham province pepper has increased by 44 percent from last year and is developing a following in Thailand, farmers and vendors said. With a total of 906 hectares of land dedicated to cultivating pepper in Kompong ss='cambodia-color'>...
Worker Shortage Biggest Threat to Economy
A shortage of workers, particularly those with skills, is the biggest threat to economic growth in Cambodia today, sok Chenda, secretary general of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC), said yesterday. speaking at the Greater Mekong subregion Investment Policy Forum organized by the Organization ss='cambodia-color'>...
Equal rights sought for disabled
Rights groups pushed for increased employment of disabled Cambodians and the ratification of a UN convention on their rights at the launch of the AsEAN Disability Forum yesterday. Ngin saorath, executive director of the Cambodian Disabled People’s Organisation, said groups will draft a declaration over the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chinese Firm to Invest $100M in Rice Mill
A Chinese company from Yunnan province will invest $100 million to build a rice mill and processing plant in Cambodia with a local firm and export 200,000 tons of milled rice to China beginning this year, officials said yesterday. The Yunnan Pan-Asia Agricultural Cooperation and Development ss='cambodia-color'>...
Press release: Stung Sen was internationally recognized as a fifth Ramsar Site in Cambodia
On 06 November 2018, Ministry of Environment issued a press release announcing to the public that stung sen, which is the tallest and pristine seasonally flooded freshwater swamp forest of the Tonle sap Great Lake, has been designated as a Wetland of International Importance (also known ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry of Environment
PM criticises EU during WTO meeting
Prime Minister Hun sen has renewed accusations of double standards by the European Union over the possible suspension of the Kingdom’s Everything-but-arms trade status during his visit to Geneva. Mr Hun sen is attending a three-day meeting on Aid for Trade Global Review in switzerland and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50621146/pm-criticises-eu-during-wto-meeting/
Drop journalists’ ‘espionage’ charges, urges rights group
Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a statement on Wednesday urging Cambodian authorities to drop espionage charges which it deemed politically motivated against two former Radio Free Asia (RFA) journalists and free them of court supervision. But Ministry of Justice spokesman Chin Malin dismissed the statement ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drop-journalists-espionage-charges-urges-rights-group
Region probes social security
Cambodia will host the biannual meeting of Mekong Delta labour ministers in two weeks’ time when they will discuss having a common social security net for workers. Labour Minister Ith samheng said last week that he will meet with his counterparts from Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50639646/region-probes-social-security/
Alarming increase in road accidents and deaths
Despite multiple road safety campaigns this year, the number of accidents rose by an alarming 32 percent and the death toll jumped by 27 percent, a police report published yesterday showed. The Kingdom’s roads are notoriously deadly, with an average of five people dying per day ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50648901/alarming-increase-in-road-accidents-and-deaths/
Cambodia remains vulnerable to money laundering: FATF
Cambodia is finding it hard to shake off its reputation as a ‘haven’ for dirty money. Despite the government’s best efforts, the Kingdom remains among the countries most vulnerable to the flow of illegal money, according to the latest report coming from the Financial Action Task ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jose Rodriguez T. Senase
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50656242/cambodia-remains-vulnerable-to-money-laundering-fatf/
China a market for fragrant rice
Cambodia is campaigning to boost its luxury fragrant rice exports to China, the world’s largest market, said Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) vice-president Chan sokheang on Thursday. sokheang told The Post on Thursday that the CRF plans to achieve the quota that China provided Cambodia – ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-market-fragrant-rice