Lao consultants give dam the thumbs up
The controversial Don sahong hydropower dam, which Laos says it will soon build just a kilometre from the Cambodian border, will not have significant effects on the Mekong River, according to an environmental impact assessment paid for by the dam’s builder. Obtained yesterday, the report – ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lao-consultants-give-dam-thumbs
Gov’t to push rural sanitation
With the vast majority of rural Cambodians still lacking access to a toilet, and suffering the incumbent health risks, Ministry of Rural Development officials on Monday renewed long-standing intentions to improve the country’s sanitation infrastructure. Just days after World Toilet Day, the officials surveyed villages ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-push-rural-sanitation
Tanks sit between villagers, farmland
Villagers in Oddar Meanchey province’s samroang town filed a complaint to Adhoc yesterday after local authorities repeatedly failed to budge a nearby military unit, which the villagers say has stationed six tanks on their farmland and refused to grant residents access to their crops, or ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tanks-sit-between-villagers-farmland
Geopacific Resources to update capital raising for copper project in Cambodia
Geopacific Resources (AsX: GPR) is in pre-open following the AsX granting the company a trading halt, pending an announcement regarding a proposed capital raising in the form of a placement to sophisticated investors. Geopacific is focused on the highly prospective Kou sa copper project in Cambodia, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Opposition tells CPP: Agree, or talks off
Opposition leaders have given the ruling party an ultimatum: Agree to our demands by the end of the year or the talks are over. Kem sokha, Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy president, said yesterday that after discussing the matter with party president sam Rainsy, they had ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/opposition-tells-cpp-agree-or-talks
Long march to capital begins
The long journey on foot from the provinces to Phnom Penh began yesterday for hundreds of villagers and monks who intend to mark December 10’s International Human Rights Day by protesting outside the National Assembly. Parades of people, expected to grow in size the closer they ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/long-march-capital-begins
Journos claim officials are involved in logging
A group of local journalists in Preah Vihear province allege, in a complaint filed with a rights group, that authorities are involved in the sale of illegally logged timber. seven journalists, who asked that their names and respective outlets not be identified for fear of retribution ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/journos-claim-officials-are-involved-logging
Threats as police, WWF officer probe logging
Seven police officerS and an NGO Staffer in Mondulkiri province eScaped a potentially violent confrontation with illegal loggerS on WedneSday, while a Soldier who waS accompanying the group claimed he received death threatS from military police connected to the logging operation. Khleuv Krak, 40, a Royal SS='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/threats-police-wwf-officer-probe-logging
Crushing protests, CPP has abandoned constitution
King Norodom Sihamoni haS not declared a State of emergency in Cambodia. But that haSn&rSquo;t Stopped the CPP government of Prime MiniSter Hun Sen from diSregarding the ConStitution in itS effort to Stamp out demonStrationS and political diSSent in Phnom Penh. Facing maSS rallieS calling for SS='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/crushing-protests-cpp-has-abandoned-constitution-50358/
Exports of rice to fall short of 2013 goal
Cambodia’s rice exports roughly doubled in the first nine months of this year compared with the same period in 2012, according to government data released yesterday. But the figures aren’t big enough to meet official goals for 2013. The numbers show that exports of fragrant rice ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-rice-fall-short-2013-goal
US senator wants military aid tied to election probe
Opposition leader sam Rainsy has scored a late political victory in his whirlwind two-week tour to Europe and the United states to try and ramp up international pressure on the newly formed Cambodian government ahead of his return Tuesday. Last Wednesday, a prominent Republican Party senator, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-senator-wants-military-aid-tied-election-probe
CAMBODIA: H&M calls for annual minimum wage review
The Cambodian government should construct an effective annual review system for the minimum wage to ease worker unrest, according to clothing retail giant H&M. The swedish company’s comments came after CEO Karl-Johan Persson visited the country in mid-October, meeting Cambodia Prime Minister Hun sen and other ss='cambodia-color'>...
Richard Woodard
http://www.just-style.com/news/hm-calls-for-annual-minimum-wage-review_id119576.aspx
A prison by any other name . . .
Prisons across the country will soon be referred to only as “correctional centres” to change a public perception that they are places where people are simply locked up, the Ministry of Interior announced yesterday. Nuth sa An, secretary of state at the ministry, said the change ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prison-any-other-name
Poll Shows Cambodia Ranks High in ‘Global Suffering’
Cambodia ranked third worst in “global suffering” last year—behind Bulgaria and Armenia—a significant increase from 2011, when it ranked 14th worst, ac-cording to the worldwide polling group Gallup. A poll released last week on Gallup’s website says 34 percent of Cambodian respondents rated their lives as ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/poll-shows-cambodia-ranks-high-in-global-suffering-49070/
Expansive Sihanoukville property development on schedule for completion in 2017
Representatives of Borey Kuch Asia say the company has injected millions of dollars into an apartment and villa complex in sihanoukville, and that the project will be completed in 2017, despite political uncertainties. Borey Kuch Asia project manager Tous sapheoun said the company spent two years ss='cambodia-color'>...
Businesses need help fighting corruption: CAMFEBA
Corruption is weighing on businesses, and the avenues to address it are limited, according to Cambodia’s leading employer association. At a joint conference with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Cambodian Federation of Employers (CAMFEBA) in Phnom Penh yesterday, the employer representative called on the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/businesses-need-help-fighting-corruption-camfeba
Freedom Park off-limits: city
Freedom Park will remain off limits indefinitely for protesters, authorities said yesterday, despite Prime Minister Hun sen suggesting last month that a ban on public assembly was being lifted. Pich saroeun, chief of Russey Keo district’s Chroy Changva commune, said Phnom Penh Governor Pa socheatvong had ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/freedom-park-limits-city
Corruption not rampant: Hun Many
Hun Many, the youngest son of Prime Minister Hun sen and an elected lawmaker in Kampong speu province, has defended his party against allegations of nepotism, corruption and election irregularities in a foreign TV interview. In a wide-ranging Channel News Asia interview that aired on Friday, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/corruption-not-rampant-hun-many
KDC families want compensation deal revoked
Twenty-two families who have been locked in a bitter, seven-year dispute over 145 hectares of land in Kompong Chhnang province with a company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister suy sem claim they were illegally pressured into accepting compensation and filed a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kdc-families-want-compensation-deal-revoked-62215/
FTU trio held at factory by rivals in union clash
Workers aligned with the Collective Union of Movement of Workers locked three officials from the Free Trade Union inside the Ocean Garment factory in Phnom Penh for eight hours Tuesday after the two unions argued over who would represent workers in a wage dispute. Ocean’s approximately ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ftu-trio-held-at-factory-by-rivals-in-union-clash-63579/