Short-lived retirement for Sambo?
Two years after she was walked out of the city in the middle of the night to a quiet life of retirement on the outskirts of the capital, sambo, Phnom Penh’s iconic and much-beloved elephant, might soon be back at work entertaining tourists. With funding for ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/short-lived-retirement-sambo
Questions raised over land sale at lakeside
Developer Shukaku haS Sold off cloSe to 1.3 hectareS of land at the capital&rSquo;S controverSial Boeung Kak lake Site to a Singapore-liSted HLH Group company, according to a Statement from HLH. HLH SubSidiary D&rSquo;LotuS Development purchaSed the land at Boeung Kak in Daun Penh diStrict for SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/questions-raised-over-land-sale-lakeside
Hun Sen Issues Directive for Payment of Civil Servant Salaries
Prime Minister Hun sen has issued a directive for the ministries of Public Function and Finance to cooperate with state institutions to ensure that civil servants are paid by the fourth week of every month. The directive, signed by Mr. Hun sen and dated January 29, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Forest almost gone: Adhoc
About 200 families from Mondulkiri’s Keo seima district filed a complaint on sunday against a Vietnamese-owned company alleged to have razed more than 3,500 hectares of community forest since 2010, villagers and a rights group said yesterday. A rubber concessionaire identified as sovan Reachsey has been ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-almost-gone-adhoc
Labour leaders decry bail payment and nine arrests
Labour union leaders denounced the government yesterday, alleging unfair treatment in the wake of nine union worker arrests last week and a hefty bail payment by a union president yesterday. Ath Thorn, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CAWDU), yesterday paid $25,000 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/labour-leaders-decry-bail-payment-and-nine-arrests
Gunawadh back as TVK director eleven days after resignation
Kem Gunawadh was reinstated as director-general of state broadcaster TVK on Wednesday, less than two weeks after his highly publicized resignation for failing to live broadcast the annual Royal Plowing Ceremony, according to a statement signed by Information Minister Khieu Kanharith. Acting Director-General Pang Nath denied ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/gunawadh-back-as-tvk-director-eleven-days-after-resignation-59948/
Cambodian authorities take two more opposition MPs into custody
Thursday while a court summoned its deputy chief for questioning following violent clashes when party supporters tried to force the reopening of Freedom Park in the capital. Elected members of parliament Nut Rumduol and Long Ry were taken into custody by policemen in plain clothes from ss='cambodia-color'>...
Parameswaran Ponnudurai
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/violence-07172014203608.html
Cambodian PM's China tour produces fruitful outcome: official
The visit of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen to Beijing, capital of China, came to an end successfully, bringing closer relations between the two nations, a Cambodian senior official said on sunday. Hun sen toured in Beijing from Friday to sunday to attend the Dialogue ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-11/10/c_133777350.htm
Kandal villagers burn tyres to fight dredging
Nearly a hundred villagers living along a river located in sa’ang district’s Koh Anlong Chin commune in Kandal province recently protested against the plans of one company to dredge sand in the area. On sunday, employees of sand-dredging company sok Teang Import Export, which has been ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kandal-villagers-burn-tyres-fight-dredging
Unions in push for park rally
As the razor-wire came down from Freedom Park on Wednesday, a group of unions quickly filed a request to be the first people to hold a demonstration inside the park since it was put into lockdown in early January. The letter, obtained by the Post yesterday, calls on ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-push-park-rally
Dam ‘redesign’ a mystery
Amid a lawsuit and a chorus of dissent, developers of the first lower Mekong mainstream hydropower project, the massive Xayaburi dam, have quietly submitted a long-anticipated, multimillion-dollar redesign plan, the Post has learned. What exactly has been changed about the 1,260-megawatt dam, which environmentalists contend will ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-%E2%80%98redesign%E2%80%99-mystery
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'>...