Court rules in tycoon’s favour
Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday ruled in favour of a mining tycoon and convicted a Chinese-Cambodian widow of defaming the oknha during an embittered land dispute. sok Neang Gek, 46, an interpreter at a garment factory in the capital, was fined $1,000 and ordered to compensate ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/court-rules-tycoon%E2%80%99s-favour
Officials protect private company’s machines
Chroy Changva district security guards Thursday stopped villagers from preventing a private company from pumping sand onto the wetlands behind their homes. The Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC) is building a $3-billion real estate project, known as “Chroy Changva City, City of the Future,” on the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-protect-private-companys-machines-61335/
Hundreds plea for PM’s help
Hundreds of families descended on Phnom Penh yesterday to ask Prime Minister Hun sen and the United Nations to intervene in three separate land disputes. More than 800 families from across the country gathered in front of Wat Botum at about 9am, where they submitted petitions ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-plea-pm%E2%80%99s-help
China fuels Cambodia’s airline growth
The Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation says Cambodia’s aviation market grew briskly for the second consecutive year as national and foreign airlines added routes to China amid a surge in Chinese nationals visiting the country. The centre reported Cambodia has emerged as one of the fastest ss='cambodia-color'>...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/02/china-fuels-cambodias-airline-growth/
Cambodia’s export to EU skyrockets
Despite the depressed market conditions throughout Europe in 2013 Cambodia’s export to the EU skyrocketed. The country is well under way to take over Taiwan’s leading position in bike export to Europe. Between January and October 2013 Cambodia’s bike export showed a huge increase of no ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jack Oortwijn
http://www.bike-eu.com/Sales-Trends/Market-trends/2014/2/Cambodias-Export-to-EU-Skyrockets-1463329W/
Cambodia’s tourism short of staff
Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism says the country’s tourism sector is growing at an unsustainable rate that will cause a massive shortfall in skilled tourism-related labour. The ministry’s statistics department director, Kong sopheareak, told local media that as tourist arrivals increase substantially every year, the challenge is ss='cambodia-color'>...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/05/cambodias-tourism-short-of-staff/
Sambo’s return to city nixed
Sambo the elephant will not be allowed to return to work in Phnom Penh, becauSe both City Hall and the ForeStry AdminiStration oppoSe the idea, the FA&rSquo;S director-general Said yeSterday. The 54-year-old Sambo left the city in 2012 after decadeS of entertaining and giving rideS to SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sambo%E2%80%99s-return-city-nixed
CNRP bashed at CPP’s birthday
A ceremony marking the founding of the Kampuchean People’s Revolutionary Party in 1951 – a forerunner of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party – was used on saturday to lambaste the opposition for not joining the National Assembly following disputed elections last July. “Taking actions contrary to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-bashed-cpp%E2%80%99s-birthday
‘People’s congress’ to test ban
Opposition leaders yesterday announced plans to hold a thousands-strong “people’s congress” in the capital’s Freedom Park on sunday, despite a ban on gatherings at the site. Cambodia National Rescue Party president sam Rainsy and vice-president Kem sokha, following their return from overseas trips to Australia, New ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98people%E2%80%99s-congress%E2%80%99-test-ban
Iffy factory supplying LA’s finest
A Phnom Penh-based factory supplying uniforms for police officers and firefighters in the Us city of Los Angeles continues to break Cambodian labour laws, a report to be publicly released today says. Kin Tai Garment factory, a supplier to 5.11 Tactical – which sells the uniforms ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/iffy-factory-supplying-la%E2%80%99s-finest
Planning delays oil refinery’s progress
Construction on Cambodia’s $2.3 billion oil refinery has been set back again, this time due to planning delays, the project’s local partner, Cambodia Petrochemical Company (CPC), confirmed yesterday. The landmark oil refinery was slated to begin construction in December 2013 following a $1.67 billion loan from ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/planning-delays-oil-refinery%E2%80%99s-progress
March to PM’s house halted
Representatives of more than 400 families who watched as their homes were burned during an eviction this month in Kratie’s snuol district were blocked by authorities yesterday as they attempted to take their grievance to Prime Minister Hun sen’s doorstep. Though tensions initially ran high, the ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/march-pm%E2%80%99s-house-halted
Wildlife trade endangering Cambodia’s fauna
In many restaurants in Phnom Penh, wild meat is readily available. Walk into one of these, and you’ll be able to order deer, wild pig or even monitor lizards. some places sell even rarer meat, from endangered animals like the pangolin. Wildlife conservation officials say the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/wildlife-trade-endangering-cambodias-fauna/1943063.html
Villagers block man’s burial wish
More than 100 villagers in Kompong Thom province blocked a funeral procession in stung sen City on saturday to prevent the burial of a recently deceased ethnic Vietnamese man on land he owned in the vicinity of a local primary school, villagers and an officials ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kdc-families-want-compensation-deal-revoked-62215/
Confusion surrounds ministry’s kidney program
The Ministry of Defense’s account that an alleged kidney trafficking ring at its Preah Ket Mealea military hospital was in fact a fully legal training program in partnership with China’s Defense Ministry was met with questions and confusion Tuesday. A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Alex Consiglio
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/confusion-surrounds-ministrys-kidney-program-66345/
Cambodia’s tourism slows a mite
Cambodia’s tourist arrivals registered a 0.3% decline in June according to the country’s statistics and tourist Information Department. The country attracted 300,454 visits compared to 301,412 during the same month last year. Released officially by the Ministry of Tourism, last week, data showed Vietnam led the field ss='cambodia-color'>...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/08/cambodias-tourism-slows-a-mite/
Cambodia’s elderly faces increasing hardships
Like many developing countries, Cambodia’s mainly agricultural society is changing fast, driven by urbanization and falling fertility rates. As young workers move to the cities, older people are staying back in the villages, where they have little support. Although former civil servants and soldiers get ss='cambodia-color'>...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-elderly-facing-increasing-harships/2516170.html
Rubber smuggling threatens industry’s recovery
An illicit cross-border rubber trade is thriving in Cambodia amid plummeting global prices and is threatening legitimate processing operations in the country, according to business owners and industry experts. And while Cambodia’s natural rubber export tariffs are set at between 2 and 10 percent, Vietnam ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/rubber-smuggling-threatens-industrys-recovery-73210/
Kek’s NEC eligibility in doubt
Although Prime Minister Hun sen and opposition leader sam Rainsy on Friday agreed that no member of an overhauled National Election Committee could have multiple nationalities, it remains unclear whether rights activist and triple national Pung Chhiv Kek is out of the running for the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah and Meas Sokchea
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/kek%E2%80%99s-nec-eligibility-doubt
Garment factory’s concessions end strike
About 1,000 workers at a Takeo province garment factory who have been on strike since Monday are due to return to work today after negotiations between union representatives and the factory wrapped up successfully Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/garment-factorys-concessions-end-strike-76061/