Gov’t gives telecom firms time to digest new draft law
The ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC) has postponed a two-day meeting with telecom firms to discuss a controversial draft law leaked to the Post last week, which details the government’s plan to assert control over the industry. A representative from one telecommunications provider who wished ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gov%E2%80%99t-gives-telecom-firms-time-digest-new-draft-law
Civil society groups appeal for international intervention for the release of 23 protesters
181 national and international non-governmental organizations handed over their petitions to foreign embassies on Thursday to seek the release of 23 people who were arrested in protest crackdowns. A group of some 50 representatives marched along the streets and submitted the petitions to the German, sweden ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=MzYwOTcwZDY5ZjV
Insurance investment in construction and property see year-on-year increases
Cambodia’s insurance business is continuing to make strides, with the total value of engineering insurance reaching approximately $4 million in 2013, a significant increase compared to 2012. According to data recently released by the Insurance Association of Cambodia, the value of engineering insurance purchased in 2013 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian, Chinese senior military officials pledge to advance ties
Cambodian and Chinese senior military officials on Monday vowed to deepen bilateral ties and cooperation for mutual benefits. The commitment was made during a meeting between Gen. Pol saroeun, commander-in-chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces ( RCAF), and sun Jianguo, deputy chief of general staff ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-03/17/c_133192523.htm
11,000 families refile old land dispute complaints nationwide
Rights group Adhoc on Wednesday helped 105 communities locked in long-running land disputes across the country refile their complaints with local courts and other state agencies in a concerted effort to push the government to finally resolve their cases. Covering a broad cross-section of the country’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Military cop investigated for alleged forest clearing
A deputy district military police chief in Kampong Thom’s santuk district is under scrutiny for allegedly clearing up to seven hectares of community forest land for personal gain, and district officials are investigating the case with the aim of presenting it at the provincial court ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/military-cop-investigated-alleged-forest-clearing
Minister calls for old car ban
Imports of older cars and vans should be banned to help reduce pollution, Minister of Industry and Handicrafts Cham Prasidh said on Monday. speaking to Cambodia’s business community at a Green Industry workshop in Phnom Penh on Monday, Prasidh said all countries had a role to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/minister-calls-old-car-ban
Strike closes most Bavet factories
All but four garment factories in svay Rieng province were closed yesterday, as a strike of thousands of workers there continued into its second week, a labour union official said. The strike, estimated to involve about 20,000 people across the province’s Tai seng and Manhattan special ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strike-closes-most-bavet-factories
Two more Anonymous Hackers arrested
Two more alleged members of the hacking group Anonymous Cambodia were arrested Thursday for attacking the website of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) and taking it offline for more than two hours this week, an official confirmed Friday. “We arrested two men and they were both sent ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-more-anonymous-hackers-arrested-57976/
New traffic law could save money and lives, study says
Better laws and enforcement that require motorbike riders and children to wear helmets could save more than 500 lives and $100 million over the next six years, a new study says. The study, undertaken by the Asian Injury Prevention Foundation, says a new law now ss='cambodia-color'>...
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/new-traffic-law-could-save-money-and-lives-study-says/1909680.html
Villagers await water
Hundreds of families in Koh Kong province have since early May been affected by drought and a lack of clean water, which is supposed to be provided by tycoon and ruling party senator Ly Yong Phat. Due to the annual drought in the province, two reservoirs ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-await-water
Cambodia delays human rights hearing for one week
A request by the Cambodian government for a delay in its universal periodic review (UPR) hearing at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, which was supposed to be Thursday, has been accepted, according to a rights group that was to deliver a statement on the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-delays-human-rights-hearing-for-one-week-61863/
UN envoy meets employers over labor unrest
U.N. human rights envoy surya subedi met with representatives of the country’s businesses and employers Thursday for talks that focused on the protection of workers’ rights and measures that can be taken to ensure that strained industrial relations do not once again erupt into violence. In ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-envoy-meets-employers-over-labor-unrest-61951/
Strike action still on table, unions say
Leaders of unions that declared a nationwide garment worker strike said the work stoppage and protests, which they temporarily suspended, will resume unless government officials renegotiate the industry’s minimum wage. The announcement was their first since authorities cracked down on strike demonstrations on January 2 and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strike-action-still-table-unions-say
Fate of teen still a mystery
The fate of Khim Saphath, the 16-year-old boy miSSing Since claSheS between Striking garment workerS and Security forceS erupted on Veng Sreng Boulevard on January 3, continueS to differentiate fatality liStS compiled by rightS groupS. He waS laSt Seen lying on the ground with a bloody SS='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fate-teen-still-mystery
Chinese humanitarian aid reaches Cambodian people in E. province
Cambodia on Wednesday continued distributing China-donated relief items to some 3,088 families, who are victims of last year’s flood, HIV/ AIDs patients, disabled people and orphans. Cambodian Red Cross president Bun Rany, the wife of Prime Minister Hun sen, and Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-03/05/c_133162740.htm
Economic police officers charged for taking payment
Two Phnom Penh economic police officers were charged with misappropriation of public funds Tuesday by the municipal court and placed in pretrial detention at Prey sar prison, according to court staff. Theng Ramy, a clerk for the court’s prosecution office, identified the charged officers as sok ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/economic-police-officers-charged-for-taking-payment-53534/
Opposition warns to end negotiation, stage protest
Opposition leader sam Rainsy warned that the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) would stop negotiation with the Cambodian People’s Party if there is no agreement on reform of members of National Election Committee (NEC). The CPP and CNRP failed to issue joint statement in their ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=MGRiYTUwYzdlMTc
Amnesty International urges Gov’t to scrap asylum seeker plans
Amnesty International on Friday lambasted a pending deal that would see people seeking asylum in Australia to be resettled in Cambodia. “Australia should be ending its offshore processing and detention of asylum seekers, not looking to outsource its refugee responsibilities to another, much poorer country,” ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/amnesty-international-urges-govt-to-scrap-asylum-seeker-plans-57996/
Staff poaching spurs bank action
Cambodia’s banking sector is looking to establish a collective fund to help recoup staff training expenses lost from competitors poaching employees off one another, Grant Knuckey, CEO of ANZ Royal said yesterday. speaking at the launch of ANZ Royal’s business confidence index in Phnom Penh yesterday, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/staff-poaching-spurs-bank-action