Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “List of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Companies in Cambodia”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “List of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Companies in Cambodia” by adding 22 new CSR data. This dataset provide a comprehensive and insightful overview of corporate initiatives that have a significant impact on the social and environmental ...
Shorten Buildings or We Will, City Hall Tells Two Developers
The Phnom Penh municipal government will today issue announcements to two property developers ordering them to partially demolish buildings near the Royal Palace in order to reduce their height to comply with the original planning agreements, an official said. The two buildings—one owned by Vattanac Properties ...
Aun Pheap and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/shorten-buildings-or-we-will-city-hall-tells-two-developers-45510/
No Demolition Yet as Buildings’ Deadline Nears
There was little sign Wednesday that two new buildings near the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, which have been ordered to reduce their height, were any closer to demolition Wednesday, despite the approach of a one-month deadline from City Hall. Phnom Penh municipal officials said last ...
Aun Pheap and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/no-demolition-yet-as-buildings-deadline-nears-46960/
Government’s Trade Union Law may limit freedom of association
A draft trade union law that the government has pledged to introduce by the end of the year includes provisions that will allow for unions to be suspended if their activities are deemed illegal, the head of Cambodia’s largest employers association said Wednesday. Van Sou Ieng, ...
Hul Reaksmey and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/governments-trade-union-law-may-limit-freedom-of-association-54042/
EU Won’t Investigate Land Concessions—for Now
The trade commissioner and foreign affairs representative of the European Union (E.U.) have turned down a request from 13 members of the European Parliament that they immediately investigate Cambodia’s much criticized economic land concessions, but said they were monitoring the issue closely. In a March letter ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eu-wont-investigate-land-concessions-for-now-25194/
Election Monitors Submit Request to Review NEC Documents
Independent election monitors and civil society groups submitted a request to the National Election Committee (NEC) on Friday asking to review post-election voter rolls and Identity Certificates for Elections (ICE) forms in seven provinces in which reports of election irregularities were widespread on July 28. The ...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/election-monitors-submit-request-to-review-nec-documents-38287/
CNRP’s Kem Sokha Refutes Claim That the Party Is Divided
CNRP vice president Kem Sokha on Monday denied claims made by Interior Minister Sar Kheng’s cabinet chief that leaders of the opposition party were making conflicting demands of the ruling CPP. The two parties have been locked in a political stalemate since July’s election, with the ...
Khy Sovuthy and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrps-kem-sokha-refutes-claim-that-the-party-is-divided-45109/
Education to Receive 20% Boost in 2014 Budget
The Education Ministry on Monday said it was in line for a near 20 percent hike from the government’s $3.52 billion draft budget for 2014, approved by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cabinet on Friday, though other details of how money was to be allocated remained ...
Zsombor Peter and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/education-to-receive-20-boost-in-2014-budget-46127/
Leprosy Hospital Expands as Cases Increase
About 20 leprosy patients have been treated at a rehabilitated and expanded wing of the Battambang Provincial Referral Hospital, the second hospital to offer professional treatment for leprosy patients in Cambodia. “We have two doctors and one nurse who specialize in leprosy treatment, and in the ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/leprosy-hospital-expands-as-cases-increase-46778/
Minister Says Set Phone Call Prices ‘Temporary’
The minister of posts and telecommunications on Monday insisted an edict ordering the country’s seven mobile phone operators to abide by a law that sets minimum prices for calls is only temporary. Prak Sokhon, the newly-appointed posts and telecommunications minister, said the order was necessary because ...
Joshua Wilwohl and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/minister-says-set-phone-call-prices-temporary-48975/
Community Marks Fifth Anniversary of Violent Eviction
About 150 members of the former Dey Krahorm community in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district marked the fifth anniversary on Friday of the day mechanical excavators, security guards and authorities destroyed their homes to make room for a real estate project. Much like on past anniversaries, ...
Khuon Narim and Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/community-marks-fifth-anniversary-of-violent-eviction-51017/
Addicts’ lifeline to go
Every morning, right about 8am, Vuthy* starts to feel out of sorts. On the way from his home in Meanchey district to the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital, where he receives treatment, he breaks into a sweat. Vuthy is one of about 140 former heroin addicts who ...
Stuart White and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/addicts%E2%80%99-lifeline-go
Students Urge All Sides to Keep Election Protests Peaceful
More than 200 students and opposition supporters marched Sunday around Phnom Penh’s Wat Phnom with flowers in hand, urging parties to refrain from violence during Saturday’s protest against last month’s contested national election results and for recent incitement charges against two students to be dropped. The ...
Zsombor Peter and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/students-urge-all-sides-to-keep-election-protests-peaceful-41556/
Violence begets violence
A mob of 500 villagers beat a man to death in Kampong Cham province yesterday after he allegedly slaughtered his wife and stepdaughter with a pair of scythes and reportedly taunted the assembled crowd with his wife’s severed hand. Police said Laing Pises, 48, used the ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/violence-begets-violence
Treating a common but misunderstood disability
Born with cerebral palsy, 5-year-old Chhen Sivong has trouble walking, standing and raising his arms, but he also struggles with an even more fundamental motor skill: swallowing. Around the time he turned one, the little boy began having problems eating solid food, which upset both Sivong ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/treating-a-common-but-misunderstood-disability-53425/
In Cambodia, Cyber Casinos Fall Into a Legal Gray Area
In 2010, the Ha Tien Vegas Entertainment Resort, a casino investment on Kampot province’s border with Vietnam that included luxury karaoke rooms and suites, launched with high hopes of attracting Vietnamese gamblers. At the end of December, Ha Tien Vegas closed down. To the north, in ...
Outcomes of the MoVT Annual Report Conference 2015-2016
On 17th and 18th of February 2016, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training has organized the Annual Report Conference 2015-2016 on the implementations of strategic plan for Development of Labour and Vocational Training 2014-2018. In summary, the ministry has offered career choices and job ...
Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training
Blueprint for a reformed NEC
In the week before the National Election Committee was formed in December 1997, Chheng Phon predicted he had a tough road ahead. “If you ask me personally, I must say I do not want this job,” the inaugural boss told the Post from the banks of a canal ...
Shane Worrell and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/blueprint-reformed-nec
Key donors endorse election
The governments of Australia and France have congratulated Prime Minister Hun Sen on his election victory, becoming the first key Western donors to do so since the official election results were released on September 8. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also offered his congratulations to Hun Sen ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/key-donors-endorse-election
Vattanac Capital preparing for eventful 2014
Phnom Penh’s growing importance as a business destination has brought with it many opportunities and infused the market with a growing sense of ambition. Few developments embody this new ambition better than Vattanac Capital Tower, which will throw open its doors this spring. “Cambodia’s seen nothing ...
Nalin Viboonchart
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/vattanac-capital-preparing-eventful-2014