Trafficker gets 10 years
The manager of Giant Ocean International, a now-defunct recruitment firm notorious for abuse scandals, was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in jail for trafficking hundreds of Cambodian fishermen to work in slave-like conditions overseas. Taiwanese national Lin Yu-shin, who ran the firm, was arrested in May ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trafficker-gets-10-years
Maids ‘abused’ in Singapore
At least three Cambodians who have travelled to work as maids in singapore since August last year as part of a pilot scheme have complained to worker welfare groups there about employer abuse and poor working conditions, including molestation and the slapping of a worker. In ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/maids-%E2%80%98abused%E2%80%99-singapore
Governors of Preah Sihanouk, Ratanakkiri and Pursat replaced
The governors of Preah sihanouk, Ratanakkiri and Pursat provinces have been replaced by Royal Decree, according to officials, with the first of the transfer ceremonies being carried out Thursday morning. sborng sarath, the governor of Preah sihanouk province, was replaced Thursday by Chhit sokhom, the former ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/governors-of-preah-sihanouk-ratanakkiri-and-pursat-replaced-58415/
CPP to debate draft judicial laws this month
The National Assembly has scheduled a plenary session on May 20 to discuss three controversial draft laws on judicial reform, a senior ruling party lawmaker confirmed sunday. The parliamentary meeting will be the third plenary session since last year’s disputed national election, each of which have ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-to-debate-draft-judicial-laws-this-month-58487/
App aims to report bribes
Cambodians may soon find it easier than ever to report official corruption, and not just to the authorities or their friends and neighbours, but to the whole world, thanks to the impending launch of a Khmer-language version of the graft-reporting smartphone app Bribespot. Already popular in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/app-aims-report-bribes
Supply drives office rentals to highest in region
Demand for top-quality workspace in Phnom Penh is increasing, so much so that property firm Knight Frank has labelled the capital as the fastest-growing city for rented prime office space in the entire Asia Pacific region. The firm’s June 3 quarterly report, which marks the first ss='cambodia-color'>...
Annie Lee
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/supply-drives-office-rentals-highest-region
Release quickly follows deal
A jubilant crowd of opposition supporters burst into cheers yesterday afternoon as seven Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers-elect and one party activist were released on bail just hours after an announced rapprochement between the CNRP and the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. They walked free through exits ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joe Freeman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/release-quickly-follows-deal
Bodies pulled from rubble
After four days of waiting amid a mounting death count, Yat Meng got a call that his younger brother, Pheng, was found dead yesterday, buried under the concrete slabs of a collapsed condominium just north of Bangkok. Pheng, 20, was one of two dead Cambodian migrant ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bodies-pulled-rubble
Police say mistake made, kidney transplants legal
After a two-month investigation, police were confident enough to arrest and interrogate nine people on saturday over an alleged kidney trafficking ring at the state-run Preah Ket Mealea military hospital, including its director Ly sovann, a lieutenant general in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). But ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Alex Consiglio
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-say-they-made-mistake-kidney-transplants-legal-66261/
Cambodian court frees 3 opposition activists on bail
Cambodia’s Appeal Court on Friday granted bail to three opposition youth activists, who were arrested early this month for alleged involvements in a violent protest last month, a defense lawyer confirmed. “Appeal Court’s Judge seng sivutha decided to release the trio on bail,”Chen Lida, a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-08/22/c_133576343.htm
Disgruntled nursing students petition Parliament
About 20 nursing students from the privately run International science Institute petitioned the National Assembly on Wednesday to demand action against their school, which they claim is unlicensed and providing them with a substandard education. The school opened in 2012 and currently has about 160 students, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/disgruntled-nursing-students-petition-parliament-76907/
Sar Kheng says parties must ‘reorient’ to save deal
Interior Minister sar Kheng said Thursday that the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP must “reorient” and meet regularly to ensure they are not straying from the terms of last year’s July 22 political deal. In a joint press conference following a meeting with opposition lead­er sam ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sar-kheng-says-parties-must-reorient-to-save-deal-77002/
Elderly deaths in ‘HIV village’
The death toll is increasing in Battambang’s Roka commune, which has been plagued by a massive HIV outbreak, as health officials confirmed yesterday that two more HIV-positive villagers succumbed to illnesses despite undergoing antiretroviral treatment (ART). The two elderly women, aged 74 and 75, died on ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/elderly-deaths-hiv-village
Police arrest 9 for suspected kidney ring at military hospital
Police arrested nine people, including Chinese and Vietnamese nationals, on saturday in connection with a kidney trafficking ring involving the state-run Preah Ket Mealea military hospital, officials said sunday. Among the nine are the hospital’s director, deputy director and a Chinese professor who was training Cambodian ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thai Sugar Company Accused of Rights Abuse in Cambodia
A Thai sugar company with major shares in Cambodian sugar cane is being investigated for human rights violations in operations along the border between the two countries. The National Human Rights Commission of Thailand recently investigated allegations that villagers were forced from their homes to make ss='cambodia-color'>...
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/thai-sugar-company-accused-of-rights-abuse-in-cambodia/2411955.html
Experts say let bird fly
Wildlife experts fear for the health of a migratory vulture from Central Asia after it was captured by villagers in Kampot province’s Teuk Chhou district and taken to a notorious private zoo. The Himalayan vulture, also known as the Himalayan griffon, which rarely visits Cambodia, was ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/experts-say-let-bird-fly
Unions wary of energy plan
Some labour unionS are SuggeSting reformS to State energy provider Electricite du Cambodge&rSquo;S (EdC) plan to grant energy diScountS to garment workerS in Phnom Penh, Saying yeSterday that the current arrangement iS “too complex to implement”. According to the new plan, workerS are entitled to SS='cambodia-color'>...
Sarah Taguiam and Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-wary-energy-plan
Cambodian court under fire from opposition, NGOs on second day of Kem Sokha trial
A court in Cambodia held the second day of hearings in the treason trial of opposition leader Kem sokha on Thursday, as the defendant’s party decried what it called a “political show” orchestrated by the government and authorities came under fire for refusing observers access ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Lipes
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/fire-01162020171920.html
Transport minister answers questions on road quality
Speaking before the Supreme ConSultation Forum on WedneSday, MiniSter of Public WorkS and TranSport Sun Chanthol admitted hiS miniStry&rSquo;S ShortcomingS in the management of public conStruction workS that have contributed to the faSt deterioration of local roadS. The Supreme ConSultation Forum Summoned Sun Chanthol to SS='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/transport-minister-answers-questions-road-quality
Hun Sen: Gov’t will never sacrifice national interest
Prime Minister Hun sen on Friday defended his rule against detractors who claim that the government often acts to please certain foreign powers. The prime minister said all his decisions have been for the benefit of the Kingdom and urged countries to support Cambodia’s development ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/hun-sen-govt-will-never-sacrifice-national-interest