Teachers group urges ministry to open access to exam
Cambodia’s Independent Civil Servants Association (CICA) has written to the minister of education to request teachers and education officials be given equal access to an exam allowing them to move up the ministry’s pay scale. The association claims the ministry has made recent changes to a ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teachers-group-urges-ministry-open-access-exam
Over 2,000 Cattle Infected With Foot-and-Mouth
More than 2,000 cattle in Svay Rieng province are infected with the potentially fatal foot-and-mouth disease, officials said yesterday. Pen Chhanthy, chief of the provincial animal health and production office, said that cattle in six districts of Svay Rieng had returned positive tests for the ...
Ben Sokhean, P.18
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/
Cambodia says outlawed strikes adversely affect investment climate
Cambodian Ministry of Labor said Friday that outlawed strikes have frightened employers and worsened investment climate in the country. “The ministry calls for the (opposition) Cambodia National Rescue Party and six trade unions to immediately stop inciting workers to commit violence, road blockade, and destruction of ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-01/03/c_133017093.htm
Staffers walk at tech NGO
More than 100 work-study participants employed by NGO Digital Divide Data (DDD) in the capitol’s Chamkarmon district jumped on the strike bandwagon on Monday, demanding the same monthly wage garment workers are calling for, a union representative said yesterday. Employees are charged with transforming physical documents ...
Chhay Channyda and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/staffers-walk-tech-ngo
Man healed, held against will
Today, a month to the day after his stomach ruptured, Term Hun, 49, remains hospitalised. He was operated on and has long since healed. But without the money to pay for his treatment, the clinic refuses to let him go. After receiving emergency surgery at ...
Koam Chanrasmey and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-healed-held-against-will
CNRP, report authors ‘plotted’, Sok An says
Deputy Prime Minister Sok An yesterday accused the NGOs behind a report critical of the election process of plotting a revolution with the opposition party. Speaking to 1,500 high-ranking government officials and members of the military, An said those behind the Election Reform Alliance (ERA) report, ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-report-authors-%E2%80%98plotted%E2%80%99-sok-says
Rip-offs strike wrong chord
Slapping Khmer song lyrics over international hits or ripping off the creative content of foreign-produced music videos is a practice in the Kingdom that must end within one year, Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts officials said at a conference in the capital yesterday. A crackdown ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rip-offs-strike-wrong-chord
Fear ‘making bloggers, reporters self-censor’
Cambodian bloggers and journalists often self-censor out of fear that they could face legal or physical threats, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights said in a report on freedom of expression released yesterday. The policy brief, a summary of six roundtable discussions held over the past ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fear-%E2%80%98making-bloggers-reporters-self-censor%E2%80%99
Locals seeking justice after ‘broken deal’
Villagers in Ratanakkiri’s O’Chum district are demanding their land back, claiming buyers from a local company failed to uphold a 2007 deal. The 66 ethnic Kreung families filed a complaint on Friday after workers from a nearby rubber plantation started to slash and burn the 400 ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/locals-seeking-justice-after-%E2%80%98broken-deal%E2%80%99
Kuoy villagers block firms
Some 200 ethnic Kuoy minority villagers in Preah Vihear’s Chheb district blocked tractors belonging to a Chinese company from bulldozing their rice crops yesterday, the same day that district authorities received a letter from the Interior Ministry instructing them to broker an agreement between villagers ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kuoy-villagers-block-firms
Village stoning breeds fears
Ever since some 500 people laid siege to the home of traditional healer pov Sovann, dragged him out and brutally stoned him to death over the course of eight hours on Sunday, two opposing sets of fears have gripped members of his community in Takeo ...
Vong Sokheng and Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/village-stoning-breeds-fears
More Phnom Penh residents facing possible eviction
Dozens of villagers in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district are facing eviction after the National Cadastral Commission announced last week that a number of areas in Tuol Sangke commune are earmarked for future redevelopment. The commission’s plans for new projects, including a road widening, were posted ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-phnom-penh-residents-facing-possible-eviction-58031/
Hundreds more register for Kratie concession
The number of families who have registered for space on a social land concession intended for farmers evicted from land in Kratie province—who held a series of protests last month in Phnom Penh—has more than doubled, with hundreds of newcomers registering, according to a deputy ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hundreds-more-register-for-kratie-concession-60711/
Kampong Thom temples next on UNESCO wish list
Kampong Thom’s Sambor Prei Kuk temple complex will be the next Cambodian site nominated for inclusion on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, Deputy Prime Minister Sok An announced yesterday at the 20th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (IPPA). The seventh-century complex, which predates Angkor Wat by ...
Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-thom-temples-next-unesco-wish-list
Despite illness, no bail for labour activist
Labour activist Vorn Pov, who is facing serious health issues while being held in pre-trial detention in Kampong Cham’s Correctional Centre 3 prison, has been denied bail by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court. His NGO-provided lawyer, San Sokunthear, immediately filed an appeal against the bail denial ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/despite-illness-no-bail-labour-activist
Phnom Penh Governor tells officials to monitor city’s markets
Acting on direct orders from Prime Minister Hun Sen, Phnom Penh Municipal Governor Pa Socheatvong on Tuesday called on municipal officials to strictly monitor the companies that collect daily fees from the city’s market vendors. Mr. Hun Sen called out the governor in a speech on ...
11,000 families refile old land dispute complaints nationwide
Rights group Adhoc on Wednesday helped 105 communities locked in long-running land disputes across the country refile their complaints with local courts and other state agencies in a concerted effort to push the government to finally resolve their cases. Covering a broad cross-section of the country’s ...
Military cop investigated for alleged forest clearing
A deputy district military police chief in Kampong Thom’s Santuk district is under scrutiny for allegedly clearing up to seven hectares of community forest land for personal gain, and district officials are investigating the case with the aim of presenting it at the provincial court ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/military-cop-investigated-alleged-forest-clearing
Minister calls for old car ban
Imports of older cars and vans should be banned to help reduce pollution, Minister of Industry and Handicrafts Cham Prasidh said on Monday. Speaking to Cambodia’s business community at a Green Industry workshop in Phnom Penh on Monday, Prasidh said all countries had a role to ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/minister-calls-old-car-ban
Battambang, tourism, UNESCO officials talk World Heritage plans
UNESCO, the Battambang provicial government and tourism officials held talks yesterday on plans to list the province on the UN arm’s World Heritage Cities Program. As part of the first of several conferences on sustainable tourism for the conservation of cultural and natural heritage and the ...
Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/battambang-tourism-unesco-officials-talk-world-heritage-plans