Court in no hurry to charge timber traders
As the government prepares to start auctioning off the 70,000 cubic meters of illegal timber it has seized so far this year, not one of the companies on whose property it was found—nor anyone else—has been charged over the wood, following months of court procedures. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-in-no-hurry-to-charge-timber-traders-113838/
US weighs in on anti-Hun Sen protest
Amid fears of a potential reprise of anti-opposition violence that flared in October, a US Embassy spokesman yesterday called on the government “to ensure that no one is threatened, punished, or harmed in Cambodia” if a planned anti-Hun Sen rally takes place as scheduled next ...
Brent Crane
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-weighs-anti-hun-sen-protest
Government studying mollusc fishery in Kampong Chhnang province
The Cambodian Fisheries Administration has begun a one-year study of a mollusc fishery in Kampong Chhnang province, the Mekong River Commission says. Launched in February and financed by the MRC Fisheries Programme, the pilot study aims to assess the status of the snail and clam fishery ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=OGQwYzQ1Yjc3ZWY
Cambodian competitiveness ranks low in global market
As Asean heads toward greater economic integration, Cambodia remains one of the least competitive countries in the world.A country is competitive when it can attract investment and sell and supply goods and services for export at an accelerating rate. According to the World Economic Forum ...
Ten Soksreinith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodian-competitiveness-ranks-low-in-global-market/3050170.html
Villagers ask for help in land disputes
Villagers in Preah Vihear province locked in land disputes with five economic land concessions belonging to sugar cane firms have urged provincial authorities to resolve their conflicts. Kroeun Vong, a villager representative in Chey Sen district, said ministry officials solved some cases by giving one hectare ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099143/villagers-ask-help-land-disputes/
Forest patrols duel in Prey Lang
As activists from Prey Lang forest received the prestigious Equator Prize in Paris on Monday, another, parallel network was asserting itself in Kampong Thom province – one with close ties to the security forces and local governor.The Prey Lang Forest Community Network (PLFCN), funded by ...
Daniel Pye and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-patrols-duel-prey-lang
More questioned in journo slaying
The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court has summonsed for questioning Kim Seanglay, a military policeman who was the subject of one of slain journalist Hang Serei Oudom’s articles on the illegal timber trade, Chhay Thi, an investigator for the rights group Adhoc, said yesterday. According to their ...
Second-hand, first in imports
Cambodia imported almost 10 times as many used clothes as new ones in the first 11 months of last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Some 79,217 tonnes of used garments worth $61.5 million were brought in during that period, compared ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030461731/Business/second-hand-first-in-imports.html
Hitachi looks to set up SEZ in Kandal province
Japanese conglomerate Hitachi on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with three major companies to conduct a feasibility study on the potential development of a new special economic zone (SEZ) in Kandal province, said the CEO of one of the signatories. ...
Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/hitachi-looks-to-set-up-sez-in-kandal-province-72712/
China stages huge military drills in South China Sea
China is holding a series of military exercises in the disputed South China Sea this week, and one of them involved live-fire drills with more than 100 ships, including some with nuclear capabilities. ...
Simone Orendain
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/china-stages-huge-military-drills-in-south-china-sea/2887161.html
Party-busting bill passed in ‘final blow’ to democracy
In what some are callIng one of the most significant threats to democracy that Cambodia has faced In a generation, the CPP-controlled National Assembly on Monday voted to give the government and courts sweepIng new powers over political parties. ...
Ben Sokhean and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/party-busting-bill-passed-in-final-blow-to-democracy-125486/
Workers blockade highway in protest of pay and conditions
Thousands of workers from the Grand Twins international garment factory—one of two companies listed on the Cambodia Stock Exchange (CSX)—blocked a major highway leading out of Phnom Penh on Friday morning to protest for better working conditions and higher wages. ...
Ouch Sony and Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/workers-blockade-highway-in-protest-of-pay-and-conditions-70971/
Parasite blamed for fish deaths in Sihanoukville
Fish farms in Sihanoukville have lost an estimated 100 tonnes of fish to an aquatic parasite infestation in the past five days, Fishery Administration officials said yesterday.The parasite, known as “marine velvet” or Amyloodinaum Ocellatum, feeds on fish tissue – giving it a powdered look ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parasite-blamed-fish-deaths-sihanoukville
Cambodia Record Significant Progress in Child Mortality
The mortality rate for children under the age of 5 in Cambodia has fallen by 64 percent since 1990, with the most marked decrease noted over the past decade, according to a Unicef report released yesterday. The report, Committed to Survival: A promise Renewed, lists Cambodia ...
Direct flights to Australia in sight, officials confirms
Cambodia and Australia are one step closer to getting daily direct flights between the two countries, an aviation official confirmed yesterday. State Secretariat of Civil Aviation deputy cabinet director Long Chheng said his department had passed the proposal submitted by a “state-owned” Australian airline and sent ...
The man in the mirror – the Enemy within
Recent politic rhetoric in Cambodia and back-pedaling by some political leaders brings to mind a classic from the late Michael Jackson “Man in the Mirror”. Below, I have inserted one paragraph from his lyrics to put things in perspective before I ramble on the about ...
T. Mohan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17536/the-man-in-the-mirror-----the-enemy-within/
Project aims to send children in orphanages home
Though they live in orphanages, an estimated 13,000 children in facilities across Cambodia have at least one living parent. As part of a sea change in government policy in a country with a checkered history with orphanages, officials in Battambang province on Tuesday kicked off ...
Janelle Retka and Chhorn Phearun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/project-aims-to-send-children-in-orphanages-home-132890/
Rights group claims continued harassment in Oddar Meanchey
NGO workers interviewing evictees in Oddar Meanchey province said police pulled their car over without cause on Saturday and tried to seize one of their cameras, the third reported case of authorities in the area harassing the group’s staff in the past month. ...
Mech Dara and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rights-group-claims-continued-harassment-in-oddar-meanchey-69650/
Investment in Cambodia's Construction Increases By 36% by H1
[The] Construction sector has attracted a total investment of 868 million U.S. dollars in the first six months of 2012, up 36 percent from 37 million U.S. dollars at the same period last year, a report from the ministry of land management, urban planning and ...
Sar Kheng acting CPP president in absence of PM
Interior MInister Sar Kheng, who was on Saturday named one of two vice presidents of the CPP, will serve as actIng president of the rulIng party and actIng premier when Prime MInister Hun Sen is absent from the country, CPP spokesman Sok Eysan said Monday. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sar-kheng-acting-cpp-president-in-absence-of-pm-86216/