Mfone workers paid, a little
After months of protests, more than 1,000 former Mfone employees yesterday received just 10 per cent of the $4.4 million they were demanding in compensation after the telecom company filed for bankruptcy in January. Court-appointed administrator Ouk Ry, entrusted with the sale of Mfone’s assets, ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mfone-workers-paid-little
Activist sent fleeing after report on graft
An opposition activist in siem Reap province’s Varin district said he has fled his home upon receiving word that men in military dress were asking about his whereabouts after he spoke to the press about allegations of military corruption stuffed into a ballot box on ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activist-sent-fleeing-after-report-graft
Firms accused of illegal logging in Ratanakkiri
Families in Ratanakiri province yesterday logged a complaint with rights group Adhoc accusing a trio of economic land concession (ELC) owners of illegally logging outside of their concession areas and felling their vital resin and palm oil trees. Chan Naroun said she was among 29 families ss='cambodia-color'>...
Adhoc defends Staffer in Incitement Claim
Human rights group Adhoc yesterday criticized a commune official in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district for accusing one of its staff of incitement and spreading disinformation after villagers traveled to Phnom Penh in March to protest over a land dispute with well known businessman Try ss='cambodia-color'>...
Preah Vihear Authorities Destroy Airfield Homes
Authorities have demolished the homes of 25 families living on the site of an obsolete airfield in Preah Vihear province’s Choam Ksan district, a rights group and the families said sunday. The families were ordered to move off the land on Wednesday, with the district governor ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/preah-vihear-authorities-destroy-airfield-homes-20688/
Factories Asked to Voluntarily Assess Safety
The Garment Manufactures Association of Cambodia (GMAC) and International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia yesterday asked factory owners to voluntarily conduct structural audits on their buildings in light of building collapses at two garment factories that killed two people and injured 23. “In the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/factories-asked-to-voluntarily-assess-safety-27319/
Cambodia marks Forest Day
Cambodia observed the Forest Day on Tuesday, urging people to plant trees in order to ensure the sustainability of forest and environment. The celebration was presided over by King Norodom sihamoni and attended by Prime Minister Hun sen and senior officials of the government, the parliament, ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-07/09/c_132525872.htm
Inspections over tainted milk start in markets
Government officials began inspecting markets across the country yesterday in search of baby formula containing an ingredient from New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra that could cause botulism, quality control representatives at the Ministry of Commerce said. “We informed all our officials directly to collect nationwide some ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/inspections-over-tainted-milk-start-markets
Gold resource in northeastern Cambodia estimated at 1.2 mln ounces
Australia’s Renaissance Minerals (Cambodia) Ltd. unveiled Thursday that it estimated that gold resource[s] at O’kvau area in Cambodia’s Mondolkiri province could be as much as 1.2 million ounces, the firm’s Managing Director Justin Tremain said. speaking during a meeting with Cambodian Minister of Industry, Mines and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Koh Kong Water Shortage Leaves Families Dry
Hundreds of families in Koh Kong province’s Khmara Phoumint City are suffering from a shortage of water, which is provided by a reservoir that dried up during the hot season, local officials said yesterday. smach Meanchey and Dang Tong communes typically receive water from the Cham ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/koh-kong-water-shortage-leaves-families-dry-24517/
Seven Feared Trapped in Gold Mine Collapse
A gold mine shaft has collapsed in Preah Vihear province, trapping at least seven miners, officials said Monday. The collapse took place in a shaft that is typically mined by up to 60 people at a time, he [Rovieng Police Chief sin Thorn]. sin Thorn said ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/seven-feared-trapped-in-gold-mine-collapse/1664837.html
Villagers protest hike in electricity expense
More than 60 villagers from Kampong Cham province’s stung Trang district staged a protest on Monday at Arak Tnort commune hall, demanding answers for a massive price hike that has accompanied the installation of electricity meters ahead of a planned switchover to state-provided power. Private company ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-protest-hike-electricity-expense
Sathapana borrows $15m for micro loans
Cambodian microfinance institution (MFI) sathapana Limited will receive $15 million in loans to provide additional support to small- and medium-size enterprises (sMEs), which make up the vast majority of the country’s businesses. The loan comes courtesy of German Investment and Development Company DEG, a subsidiary of ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sathapana-borrows-15m-micro-loans
Efforts to Prevent Opposition Petitioning Spread to Provinces
Efforts by authorities to prevent the opposition CNRP from collecting signatures for a petition asking the international community to not recognize Prime Minister Hun sen’s CPP-led government have expanded to the provinces, local and CNRP officials said sunday. In Prey Veng province, sithor Kandal district Governor ss='cambodia-color'>...
SL reps, unionists to sign deal to end strike
A nearly four-month strike, punctuated by a violent clash between unionists and police that left one bystander dead, could come to an end this afternoon. Officials from sL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd and the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CAWDU) – which represents a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sl-reps-unionists-sign-deal-end-strike
Troubling contrasts in ASEAN
Some of theSe ASEAN economieS are not like the otherS. Singapore iS 80 timeS richer than Myanmar and itS population liveS 20 yearS longer than Cambodia&rSquo;S, while Myanmar rankS 50 placeS behind Cambodia in termS of global competitiveneSS, according to a wide-ranging analySiS from the World SS='cambodia-color'>...
Joe Freeman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/troubling-contrasts-asean
Park's own Cleveland clinic
As two volunteers guided a man unsteady on his feet into a medical tent on the second day of a three-day pro-opposition demonstration at Freedom Park yesterday, Chan Bun Han instructed another to get the patient a bottle of water after they laid him on ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan, P.6
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Trade With Indonesia up but Logistics a Hurdle
Trade and tourism between Indonesia and Cambodia is growing but the two countries can still increase cooperation in those fields, according to participants in the 7th Indonesian Trade and Tourism Promotion exhibition on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich on sunday. The sale of Indonesian pharmaceuticals, food products ss='cambodia-color'>...
George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/trade-with-indonesia-up-but-logistics-a-hurdle-46146/
Three Cambodians Killed Illegally Logging Across Thai Border
Thai forestry officials killed three Cambodians who were illegally logging on Tuesday, in what they said was a shootout in Thailand’s sisaket province, a border official said Wednesday. The latest deaths bring the number of Cambodians who have been shot while logging across the border this ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-cambodians-killed-illegally-logging-across-thai-border-47532/
Official Says Logging-Related Deaths Down
The number of people shot dead while illegally logging luxury wood in Thailand decreased significantly in 2013 compared to 2012, although a Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) official provided numbers much lower than provincial police officials, whose number also differed from human rights groups. Brigadier General ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/official-says-logging-related-deaths-down-50068/