Three Opposition Activists Remain in Detention After July Violence
Rights groups are calling for the release of three opposition activists who have been held in detention since violent clashes with security forces in July. The activists have been held despite a political deal last month between the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and the opposition Cambodia ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/three-opposition-activists-remaon-in-detention-after-july-violence/2422001.html
Hun Sen gives hope to villagers in land fight
Last month, Prime Minister Hun Sen was mocked for claiming in a speech on August 18 that he was unaware of a land dispute in Kratie province’s Snuol district over which villagers had repeatedly petitioned his cabinet. But Mr. Hun Sen’s admission that he was unaware ...
Mech Dara and George Wright
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-gives-hope-to-villagers-in-land-fight-67416/
Union leader re-elected despite deputy’s protest
Vorn Pao was re-elected president on Thursday of the Independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association (IDEA), a labor group comprised mostly of tuk-tuk drivers and moto-dops, in an uncontested ballot after his vice president withdrew from the race over allegations of irregularities. Sok Chhun Oeung, who ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/union-leader-re-elected-despite-deputys-protest-68223/
Thai PM to visit Cambodia to boost bilateral relations
Thai Prime Minister Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha will make an official visit to Cambodia on Oct. 30-31 to boost bilateral ties and cooperation, a senior Cambodian official said Sunday. The official added that the two leaders also pledged to enhance bilateral ties and cooperation in politics, ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141019/thai-pm-visit-cambodia-boost-bilateral-relations
Somaly Mam Foundation closes down
Months after announcing the resignation of its founder and promising to start afresh to continue its “vital work” protecting vulnerable girls in Cambodia, the U.S.-based Somaly Mam Foundation (SMF) announced Saturday that it has ceased operations, telling supporters to turn to other organizations to help ...
Chris Mueller
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/somaly-mam-foundation-closes-down-70300/
Massive satellite city’s major boulevard nearing completion
A key component of the enormous ING City satellite city south of Phnom Penh – Samdech Techo Hun Sen Boulevard – is nearing completion. It will also provide access to ING City – previously known as AZ City – which is being constructed on land ...
Factory’s workers ordered back
Thousands of employees at Grand Twins International, Cambodia’s only publicly listed garment factory, will be back at the assembly line today after nearly two weeks on strike, accepting a court order to return to work. Workers will follow the order the Phnom Penh Municipal Court issued ...
Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/factory%E2%80%99s-workers-ordered-back
Cambodian capital's only working elephant to retire in jungle
Phnom Penh’s only working elephant was blessed by a crowd of chanting Buddhist monks on Tuesday (Nov 25) as she prepared for a life of comfortable jungle retirement after three decades of giving rides to tourists. Sambo’s new home will be an ecotourism venture – ...
Channel News Asia Staff
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/lifestyle/cambodian-capital-s-only/1493254.html
Gov’t advises to bundle up
As Cambodia braces for a cold snap expected to last through early January, the Ministry of Health on Sunday evening urged citizens to take precautions against common winter maladies. In a joint statement with the World Health Organization (WHO), the ministry warned that the Kingdom is ...
Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-advises-bundle
PM appeals for the end of lax standards
While offering no concrete solutions to the issue, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday appealed for graduating engineers to be aware of generally lax building standards that could have a long-term impact on public safety. Much of Cambodia’s infrastructure was redeveloped after the civil war, and ...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-appeals-end-lax-standards
Capital tipped for ‘resilient city’ program
Phom Penh was selected on Wednesday as one of 35 cities joining a $100 million “resiliency” program meant to strengthen urban centres’ abilities to respond to shocks and stresses, including climate change, natural disasters, pollution and resource scarcity. “The intense growth occurring and projected for ...
Laignee Barron, Sarah Taguiam and Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-tipped-%E2%80%98resilient-city%E2%80%99-program
Domestic workers push for protections
Forty national and foreign NGOs yesterday called on the government to ratify the International Labour Organization’s 2011 Domestic Workers Convention in order to better safeguard the rights of Cambodian domestic workers, both inside and outside of the country. The missive, which says that the Kingdom’s domestic ...
Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/domestic-workers-push-protections
New maps show heavy deforestation in 2013
Newly released maps using U.S. satellite data show that Cambodia continued to suffer major deforestation in 2013, much of it in nominally protected forests and wildlife sanctuaries. In November 2013, the University of Maryland released what it said was the first study to combine a consistent ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-maps-show-heavy-deforestation-in-2013-76239/
Teachers push ministry over nixed scholarship
More than 400 teachers who took part in an eight-month teaching course at the National Institute of Education (NIE) are demanding the government pay them scholarship funds that were initially promised only to be later axed over cost concerns. In a petition sent yesterday to the ...
Sen David and Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/teachers-push-ministry-over-nixed-scholarship
Energy, disease risks: report
A global risk-analysis firm has released a grim – albeit partial – snapshot of Cambodia, noting that the Kingdom’s overreliance on essential resources from other countries leaves it vulnerable to instability, and that it is at “extreme risk” of a communicable-disease pandemic. The Global Risks and ...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/energy-disease-risks-report
Study finds substandard malaria drugs, but no fakes
A new report suggests counterfeit anti-malarial drugs are far less prevalent in Cambodia than previously thought, but almost a third of the legitimate medicines are of substandard quality. According to the study, published on Monday by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, none of ...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/study-finds-substandard-malaria-drugs-no-fakes
Everything But Arms treaty under scrutiny after bicycle trade problems
The European Union is increasingly scrutinising abuse of its Everything But Arms treaty with Cambodia, underscoring both the importance of the zero-tariff agreement to the Kingdom’s economy and the potential for its misuse. In Cambodia’s rice sector, fears that cheap rice from neighbouring countries is ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/everything-arms-treaty-under-scrutiny-after-bicycle-trade-problems
My dinner with Rainsy
In another effort to cement the so-called culture of dialogue between the two major parties, Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy brought their families together on Saturday for what Rainsy billed as a “historic” meal during which they posed for selfies, while ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/my-dinner-rainsy
CHRC highlights outcome of mission in Russia
The Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) today issued a statement highlighting the outcome of the three-day visit in Russia where a memorandum of understanding on the cooperation in the field of human rights between the two countries was inked. ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50672564/chrc-highlights-outcome-of-mission-in-russia
Over 1,000 constructions inspected, 27 demolished
Authorities demolished 27 constructions that were found to have posed a high risk to safety. They ordered another 636 sites to sign contracts agreeing to comply with legal procedures this year, a government report said on Wednesday. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/over-1000-constructions-inspected-27-demolished