Chhay aims to purge Nat'l Assembly of ‘ghosts’
Senior oppoSition lawmaker Son Chhay haS formally requeSted that the entire Staff liSt of the National ASSembly&rSquo;S more than 1,000-Strong Secretariat be turned over to him for inveStigation aS part of a bid to root out “ghoSt” workerS and nepotiStic appointmentS. AS part of hiS one-man SS='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary and Kevin Ponniah
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/chhay-aims-purge-natl-assembly-%E2%80%98ghosts%E2%80%99
Grand Twins revenue plunges
Grand Twins International (GTI), one of two listed firms on the Cambodian stock Exchange, has blamed third-quarter revenue losses on garment-worker demonstrations in December and January. On November 21, GTI posted a 40 per cent decline in revenue to $10.9 million for the three-month period ending ss='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/grand-twins-revenue-plunges
Fears abound in HIV village
Three months after their community was shaken by a mass outbreak of HIV, support continues to pour in for residents of Battambang province’s Roka commune. But amid fears generated by the death of several elderly residents and the belief the funding could soon dry up, they ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/fears-abound-hiv-village
PM: Media is gov’t development partner
Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday commended three ministers for being open to journalists. Addressing some 6,000 attendees during the 4th media correspondents’ gala at the capital’s Koh Pich Convention and Exhibition Centre, he said Minister of National Defence Tea Banh, Minister of Interior sar ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-media-govt-development-partner
Manhunt for ringleaders of Preah Sihanouk land dispute clash
Preah Sihanouk provincial authoritieS on Sunday warned of legal action againSt the ringleaderS and accompliceS behind claSheS between police and reSidentS on Friday, which Saw three people injured and three otherS detained for queStioning. On Friday, Ream National Park rangerS in cooperation with Prey Nop SS='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/manhunt-ringleaders-preah-sihanouk-land-dispute-clash
Ministry looking to lower workers’ night shift wages
The Ministry of Labour is looking to reduce night shift workers’ wages to bring them in line with day rates. This, it said, will increase Cambodia’s competitiveness. However, unions and workers have slammed the move. Minister of Labour and Vocational Training Ith sam Heng sent ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khorn Savi |
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-looking-lower-workers-night-shift-wages
Ministry inspires youth to preserve natural resource
The Environment Ministry held a tree-planting drive in Kampong Thom province to mark Valentine’s Day by encouraging youths to love and protect natural resources. A religious ceremony was held to mark five huge trees and protect them from being cut down. Attendees were also told ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50691806/ministry-inspires-youth-to-preserve-natural-resource
Accused secessionist in Kratie to meet with the press
The man police allege was behind a so-called secession plan in Kratie province – an accusation used to justify a crackdown in which a teenager was killed last week – plans to hold a press conference to defend himself in the next two days, his ss='cambodia-color'>...
Striking the right balance
The number of strikes in Cambodia’s garment industry could be set to dip and workers could be on their way to free lunches after both sides of the industry signed a two-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday. The MoU – inked by the Garment Manufacturers Association (GMAC) in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Anti-loggers held back by FA officials
Forestry Administration officials reportedly blocked vehicles in three provinces from travelling to Koh Kong town yesterday on their way to the site where prominent environmental activist Chut Wutty was shot last month. But hundreds of others from six provinces in a convoy of 27 vans made it ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chut Wutty slain: another chapter in bloody history
With his slaying yesterday in the jungles of Koh Kong province, Chut Wutty becomes one of the highest-profile members yet on a dark list of Cambodian activists who have been killed for making a stand against greed and corruption. Although the details of his death remain ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia deal says refugees will be settled outside Phnom Penh
The deal signed with Cambodia by immigration minister scott Morrison will see refugees held on Nauru resettled “outside” Phnom Penh. As foreign minister Julie Bishop defended the deal on sunday, a copy of the memorandum of understanding with Cambodia, which has been posted on Morrison’s official ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/27/cambodia-deal-says-refugees-will-be-settled-outside-phnom-penh
Cambodia: amid human rights progress, UN expert calls for more reform
Cambodia may be on the verge of a new era in human rights protection, an independent United Nations human rights expert declared today, adding that while the political momentum in the country was headed in a “positive direction,” a strong human rights infrastructure was still ss='cambodia-color'>...
UN News Centre Staff
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=48815#.VCkNr_mSxqU
Massive crack in ‘White Building’ widens
A four-story crack in the south-facing side of Phnom Penh’s aging “White Building”—which first appeared in early February as a pile driver broke up earth inside an adjacent construction site—widened over the weekend, shortly after a meeting between worried tenants and the firms behind a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/massive-crack-in-white-building-widens-79358/
Project aims to build latrines in rural areas
A new US$10.9 million grant from the&nbSp;Bill & Melinda GateS Foundation&nbSp;will fund a three-year project by international development NGO&nbSp;EaSt MeetS WeSt&nbSp;(EMW) to improve Sanitation and hygiene among the poor in rural Cambodia and Vietnam. According to EMW, the program SeekS to combat the negative effectS of SS='cambodia-color'>...
Toll trains said to stop March 31
Toll Group has informed the Cambodian government that it will suspend all railway operations and lay off half of its Cambodian staff at the end of the month, according to a source familiar with the situation. The Australian logistics firm, which in partnership with Royal Group ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012032055123/Business/toll-trains-said-to-stop-march-31.html
Historic US aid project
A new USAID-funded malaria project in Myanmar will draw on prevention, treatment and containment modelS developed in Cambodia, and underScoreS the emergence of cloSer relationS between WaShington and Naypyitaw, health officialS Said yeSterday. The US$24 million project will expand the effort to contain drug-reSiStant malaria, which SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011120153090/National-news/historic-us-aid-project.html
PM calls for tougher scrutiny on pardons
Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday told the Ministry of Justice to re-check pardon applications from convicted robbers and drug dealers, saying that recidivism is a big problem in the Kingdom.The premier’s statement, made in a speech on Koh Pich, follows a turbulent weekend rife with ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-calls-tougher-scrutiny-pardons
Preah Vihear villagers band at PM residence in Phnom Penh, seek resolution to land dispute
Some 200 villagerS from Preah Vihear province gathered at Prime MiniSter Hun Sen&rSquo;S reSidence in Phnom Penh on ThurSday to deliver a petition Seeking a reSolution to their long-running land diSpute. They alSo Sought the&nbSp;releaSe of 13 villagerS&nbSp;who had been detained Since January 19 for SS='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-villagers-band-pm-residence-phnom-penh-seek-resolution-land-dispute
Preah Vihear court drops charges against villagers
The Preah Vihear Provincial Court has dropped all charges against eight ethnic Kuoy villagers who were in a land dispute with the Hengfu Group sugar Industry Co Ltd since 2014. Wednesday’s decision was made by the judge who tried the case on June 10. The eight ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-court-drops-charges-against-villagers