Cambodia begins to construct 3-storey stock market building in capital center
Cambodia’s securities Exchange (CsX) on Monday broke ground for the construction of a 3-storey building in the heart of Phnom Penh, the country’s capital. “The construction of the building reflects the government’s firm stance in developing the stock market and the building will build ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-01/28/c_132133406.htm
Another Taiwan Bike Maker to Move to Cambodia
It’s no finalized yet as contracts still have to be signed, but it looks as if another bike maker from Taiwan is setting up shop in Cambodia. It will the 4th one which is to benefit from the duty and quota free status Cambodia made ss='cambodia-color'>...
Gov't Requires Bus Companies To Submit Driver Information
In response to a spate of deadly bus crashes in the country, the government has ordered all bus companies to provide authorities with detailed histories of all their drivers, an official at the Ministry of Public Works and Transport said yesterday. Peou Maly, deputy director-general at the ministry’s transportation department, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Families Call for Boycott of Senator's 'Blood Sugar'
After years of futile protests demanding their land back, villagers forcibly evicted by sugarcane plantations connected to CPP senator Ly Yong Phat launched a boycott campaign yesterday targeting the international firms that sell his sugar. Thousands of families accuse the senator’s plantations of forcing them off ss='cambodia-color'>...
Preah Vihear land primed for plantation concessions
The government has reclassified 23,182 hectares of state land in Preah Vihear province for private development by three agro-industry firms, paving the way for them to secure economic land concessions (ELCs). Reclassification of state public land to state private land is a key step toward establishing ss='cambodia-color'>...
Missing girl feared trafficked
Meas Bopha, 47, sits in an outdoor pagoda over a lotus-filled pond on her property in Kampong speu, home to 10 of her 12 children, and wipes back tears as she talks about her missing teenage daughter, Bophea, who vanished one morning last week. Bophea ss='cambodia-color'>...
PM pledges pay boost
The government on Friday pledged a 20 per cent increase to the base salary of civil servants year-on-year in a move one government official insisted was based on economics, not politics. The announcement was made in a statement released over the weekend outlining government spending for ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012102959455/National-news/government-pledges-pay-boost.html
Activist sent fleeing after report on graft
An opposition activist in siem Reap province’s Varin district said he has fled his home upon receiving word that men in military dress were asking about his whereabouts after he spoke to the press about allegations of military corruption stuffed into a ballot box on ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activist-sent-fleeing-after-report-graft
Firms accused of illegal logging in Ratanakkiri
Families in Ratanakiri province yesterday logged a complaint with rights group Adhoc accusing a trio of economic land concession (ELC) owners of illegally logging outside of their concession areas and felling their vital resin and palm oil trees. Chan Naroun said she was among 29 families ss='cambodia-color'>...
Adhoc defends Staffer in Incitement Claim
Human rights group Adhoc yesterday criticized a commune official in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district for accusing one of its staff of incitement and spreading disinformation after villagers traveled to Phnom Penh in March to protest over a land dispute with well known businessman Try ss='cambodia-color'>...
Preah Vihear Authorities Destroy Airfield Homes
Authorities have demolished the homes of 25 families living on the site of an obsolete airfield in Preah Vihear province’s Choam Ksan district, a rights group and the families said sunday. The families were ordered to move off the land on Wednesday, with the district governor ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/preah-vihear-authorities-destroy-airfield-homes-20688/
Factories Asked to Voluntarily Assess Safety
The Garment Manufactures Association of Cambodia (GMAC) and International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia yesterday asked factory owners to voluntarily conduct structural audits on their buildings in light of building collapses at two garment factories that killed two people and injured 23. “In the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/factories-asked-to-voluntarily-assess-safety-27319/
Cambodia marks Forest Day
Cambodia observed the Forest Day on Tuesday, urging people to plant trees in order to ensure the sustainability of forest and environment. The celebration was presided over by King Norodom sihamoni and attended by Prime Minister Hun sen and senior officials of the government, the parliament, ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-07/09/c_132525872.htm
Inspections over tainted milk start in markets
Government officials began inspecting markets across the country yesterday in search of baby formula containing an ingredient from New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra that could cause botulism, quality control representatives at the Ministry of Commerce said. “We informed all our officials directly to collect nationwide some ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/inspections-over-tainted-milk-start-markets
Koh Kong Water Shortage Leaves Families Dry
Hundreds of families in Koh Kong province’s Khmara Phoumint City are suffering from a shortage of water, which is provided by a reservoir that dried up during the hot season, local officials said yesterday. smach Meanchey and Dang Tong communes typically receive water from the Cham ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/koh-kong-water-shortage-leaves-families-dry-24517/
Seven Feared Trapped in Gold Mine Collapse
A gold mine shaft has collapsed in Preah Vihear province, trapping at least seven miners, officials said Monday. The collapse took place in a shaft that is typically mined by up to 60 people at a time, he [Rovieng Police Chief sin Thorn]. sin Thorn said ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/seven-feared-trapped-in-gold-mine-collapse/1664837.html
Villagers protest hike in electricity expense
More than 60 villagers from Kampong Cham province’s stung Trang district staged a protest on Monday at Arak Tnort commune hall, demanding answers for a massive price hike that has accompanied the installation of electricity meters ahead of a planned switchover to state-provided power. Private company ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-protest-hike-electricity-expense
Efforts to Prevent Opposition Petitioning Spread to Provinces
Efforts by authorities to prevent the opposition CNRP from collecting signatures for a petition asking the international community to not recognize Prime Minister Hun sen’s CPP-led government have expanded to the provinces, local and CNRP officials said sunday. In Prey Veng province, sithor Kandal district Governor ss='cambodia-color'>...
SL reps, unionists to sign deal to end strike
A nearly four-month strike, punctuated by a violent clash between unionists and police that left one bystander dead, could come to an end this afternoon. Officials from sL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd and the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CAWDU) – which represents a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sl-reps-unionists-sign-deal-end-strike
Troubling contrasts in ASEAN
Some of theSe ASEAN economieS are not like the otherS. Singapore iS 80 timeS richer than Myanmar and itS population liveS 20 yearS longer than Cambodia&rSquo;S, while Myanmar rankS 50 placeS behind Cambodia in termS of global competitiveneSS, according to a wide-ranging analySiS from the World SS='cambodia-color'>...
Joe Freeman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/troubling-contrasts-asean