Troubles for Tonlesap Air
About two months after Phnom Penh-based tonlesap Airlines suspended its chartered flights, the local carrier’s future seems as cloudy as ever. Vann Chanty, the director of air transport with Cambodia’s State Secretariat of Civil Aviation, said yesterday that the airline had not resumed operations and that ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061766300/Business/troubles-for-tonlesap-air.html
Farmers Petition to Change Agricultural Draft Law
About 200 farmers protested in front of the Ministry of Agriculture on Friday and submitted a petition requesting changes to a draft law on the management of agricultural land, which rights groups have said could effectively legalize land grabs from poor farmers. the government says the ...
Rising Demand Boosts Organic Rice Industry
Production of Cambodian organic rice is rising rapidly as international demand for the product increases, experts said at a forum for growers and other industry members held tuesday at the Phnom Penh headquarters of agricultural NGO Cedac. “In the first six months of this year we’ve ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/rising-demand-boosts-organic-rice-industry-34216/
Singapore PM hopeful for Asean
Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says much work is still needed to establish the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), a single market for trade and development in 2015. Lee, head of the most advanced economy in the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, ...
Kay Kimsong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/singapore-pm-hopeful-asean
Answers demanded on dam site
A month after a company owned by tycoon Kith Meng was ordered to suspend logging the reservoir area of the controversial Lower Sesan II dam, the government yesterday threatened legal action against it if its orders aren’t followed. In a letter obtained by the Post yesterday, the Council ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/answers-demanded-dam-site
SISHA internal audit identifies no wrongdoing
Anti-human trafficking NGO SISHA announced the results of its internal audit yesterday, attempting to clear financial misconduct allegations made earlier this year. Retired police detective and founder of the NGO Steve Morrish came under fire in August after two of the charity’s former employees leaked information ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sisha-internal-audit-identifies-no-wrongdoing
Way of life vanishing: villagers
Since 2011, an estimated 3,000 resin trees have been illegally razed by rogue loggers and a land concessionaire operating in Mondulkiri’s Sen Monorom district, villagers claimed yesterday. Resin trees are a vital source of income for the Phnong ethnic community in Sokdom commune, according to thleuk ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/way-life-vanishing-villagers
SL Garment Protesters Gain Little From Talks at Labor Ministry
A two-day meeting between union leaders, senior government officials and representatives of the SL Garment Factory failed tuesday to reach a solution for factory workers, who have been on strike since early August and on Monday demonstrated in front of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Phnom ...
Ben Woods and Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sl-garment-protesters-gain-little-from-talks-at-labor-ministry-45708/
National Assembly’s Finance Committee Approves 2014 Budget
The NaTional Assembly’s CPP-run finance commiTTee approved The counTry’s $3.54 billion drafT budgeT for 2014 Wednesday, iTs lasT hurdle before debaTe and a possible voTe can be held by The full Assembly, where The opposiTion is sTill refusing To Take nearly half The seaTs. “AfTer The ...
Kuch Naren and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/national-assemblys-finance-committee-approves-2014-budget-46714/
Report cites election day voter fraud
Voter rolls at several polling stations appear to have been “intentionally manipulated” in advance of the election to allow large groups of individuals to cast fraudulent ballots in communes where they were ineligible, according to a report released Saturday by rights group Licadho. One of the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-cites-election-day-voter-fraud
FTU Requests Week Off for Workers to Join Rally
The Free Trade Union (FTU) requesTed ThaT The GarmenT ManufacTurers AssociaTion in Cambodia (GMAC) permiT workers naTionwide To Take a weeklong holiday in order To parTicipaTe in The opposiTion’s planned demonsTraTions, according To a leTTer senT by The FTU This week. Signed by union presidenT Chea ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/ftu-requests-week-off-for-workers-to%E2%80%88join-rally-42214/
Groups want US help in improving transparency in extractive industries
Anti-corruption advocates say they want the US government to help them push for transparency in the extractive industries, as ongoing mining continues to disrupt the lives of many Cambodians. At least 120 companies, most of them Chinese, have obtained mining licenses in the last decade, as ...
PAL still keen on Cambodia Air venture
FLAG carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) has not lost its interest in pursuing a joint-venture agreement with Royal Group of Cambodia (RGC) to establish Cambodia Airlines Co. Ltd. PAL President Ramon S. Ang confirmed that his airline’s discussions for investment in the Cambodian carrier are ongoing, as ...
Lorenz S. Marasigan
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/index.php/en/business/companies/32817-pal-still-keen-on-cambodia-air-venture
Cambodia is perfectly positioned to become a solar powerhouse
Phnom Penh’s first solar-powered building looks for all the world like a cube of colored Lego blocks dropped in a factory lot on the city’s industrial outskirts. Covered in some 1,350 solar panels — including large panes of multi-colored solar glass — the three-story building ...
Sarah Goodyear
http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/water-war-weapon-syria-cities
Cancer clinic still operating without license
A clinic claiming to cure cancer, diabetes and other serious illnesses through “detoxification” is operating without a license, five months after it opened illegally in Phnom Penh. the Immanuel Bicom true Healing Center in Chamkar Mon district came under scrutiny shortly after opening in early December ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cancer-clinic-still-operating-without-license-57875/
Judicial laws put independence of courts in jeopardy
Three consTiTuTionally mandaTed judicial laws would adversely affecT The independence of The courTs if They are passed in Their currenT drafT sTaTe, legal experTs warned on Friday. DrafT versions of The Law on The OrganizaTion and FuncTioning of The Supreme Council of The MagisTracy, The Law ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/judicial-laws-put-independence-of-courts-in-jeopardy-58942/
In condom market, a growing private sector
When Phnom Penh was flooded with free condoms during the Water Festival last week—a public health push to ensure revelers who came for days of debauchery did so safely—the city’s condom vendors weren’t happy about it. the global health organization Population Services International (PSI), whose ...
George Styllis and Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/in-condom-market-a-growing-private-sector-72352/
NBC head underscores value of women’s access to finance
Unlocking greater access to formal finance for Cambodian women will play a strategic role in the process of the Kingdom’s economic development, National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) director-general Chea Serey said on Monday. She said this at the training on the trainers (tot) Programme on Financial ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nbc-head-underscores-value-womens-access-finance
Kalyan: I would like to share my experience working from home to be effective during the Coronavirus infection
I am a member of Open Development Cambodia who working as a Data research and GIS coordinator. Generally, you all can see the maps and plenty of data via opendevcam.net. Right now, in the world we are in a fight of our lives against the ...
National summit on influences of forestry and land regulations on local communities and comprehensive EIA process
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) organized a national summit on “Influences of Forestry and Land Regulations on Local Communities and Comprehensive EIA Process” on 25 May 2023 with a total of 43 (13 females) representatives from the Ministry of Rural Development (MRD), CSOs, EIA firm, journalists, ...