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More Than 1,000 Faintings Reported in Cambodian Factories This Year
The faintings between January and August were much higher than the 802 reported in the whole of last year, while only one factory worker died in the workplace in 2013, the Free Trade Union of Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia (FTUWKC) said in a ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/faintings-08212014140815.html
Unions say gov’t blocking branch registrations
In March, the Ministry of Labor for the first time began requiring union leaders to submit proof they had no previous criminal convictions before they would be allowed to register a new union or local branch. Now, the country’s leading unions say worker representatives are struggling ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unions-say-govt-blocking-branch-registrations-66958/
Land at risk: Families in Kratie wary over moves
Kratie town and provincial administrators met with representatives of families living alongside Kratie Town Hall yesterday after receiving a petition expressing villagers’ concern that the town hall planned to expand its premises onto their land. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-risk-families-kratie-wary-over-moves
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
Cambodian, U.S. senior military officials pledge to enhance ties
Cambodian and the U.S. senior military officials met here Wednesday and vowed to strengthen and expand bilateral ties and cooperation for mutual benefits. The commitment was made between Gen. Pol Saroeun, commander-in- Chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF), and visiting Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-08/20/c_133571371.htm
Groups Call for Term Limits for Prime Minister
Local NGOs are urging the new National Assembly to pass term limits for the prime minister, to prevent a “dictatorship” in Cambodia. Prime Minister Hun Sen has ruled Cambodia in some capacity for 30 years, but following discussions in Phnom Penh, rights groups and development NGOs ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/groups-call-for-term-limits-for-prime-minister/2418677.html
Temple may be heritage site
Sambor Prei Kuk, the seventh-century temple of the pre-Angkorian Chenla Kingdom built by Isanavarman I, is to be submitted for consideration as a World Heritage Site to UNESCO. The announcement came yesterday at a seminar on research and conservation on the temple complex, the most important ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/temple-may-be-heritage-site
Results of agriculture census out
The Ministry of Planning is to release today preliminary results of Cambodia’s first agricultural industry census, which promises to provide the biggest ever snapshot of the key sector. According to a press release issued yesterday by the ministry, the census’ preliminary results will include the number ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/results-agriculture-census-out
NGO says legal action over land disputes on the rise
The number of people charged in land disputes across the country so far this year has already surpassed the number of charges in all of 2013 in what rights group Adhoc on Tuesday called an “alarming” increase in legal action against those wrapped up in ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-says-legal-action-over-land-disputes-on-the-rise-66873/
Gov’t says workplace injuries on the rise, reforms needed
In the face of an increase in work-related injuries, government officials gathered in Phnom Penh on Tuesday to start work on a new plan to reduce workplace accidents and to reflect on their achievements over the past five years. ...
Mech Dara and Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-says-workplace-injuries-on-the-rise-reforms-needed-66899/
CNRP seeks prison visit
The National Assembly yesterday agreed to forward to the Ministry of Interior a request from five Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers to visit the five Lorpeang villagers jailed over their involvement in their ongoing land dispute with KDC International. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-seeks-prison-visit
No protest permission needed: CCHR
A prominent rights group on Monday wrote to Minister of Interior Sar Kheng, calling on him to remind ministries and local authorities that demonstrators do not require their permission to hold public gatherings. ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-protest-permission-needed-cchr
Flood death toll rises to 35
Floods caused by heavy rains and increase of water level in Mekong river have claimed 35 lives, Nhim Vanda, first vice chairman of National Committee for Disaster Management. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=NzRlOWM4YmJiZGR
Laos halts construction project of controversial Don Sahong hydropower dam: envoy
Laos has suspended the construction project of controversial 260-megawatt Don Sahong hydropower dam on the lower Mekong River following requests from other countries, newly-designated Laos ambassador to Cambodia Prasith Sayasith said Tuesday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140819/laos-halts-construction-project-controversial-don-sahong-hyd
Cambodia Orders Halt to Anti-Vietnamese Protests After Flag Burning Incident
suspend protests against Vietnam over a territorial dispute as Phnom Penh expressed “regret” to Hanoi over the burning of a Vietnamese flag during the demonstrations last week. Horn Nam Hong met at his office with the head of the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation, Thach Setha, who agreed ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/protests-08192014163708.html
Cambodia, Laos achieve 86 percent of border demarcation
Cambodia and Laos have so far achieved 86 percent of joint border demarcation and the two neighbors vowed to fully complete it as soon as possible, a spokesman said Tuesday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140819/cambodia-laos-achieve-86-percent-border-demarcation
Cambodia to establish int'l committee for safeguarding, developing world heritage Preah Vihear
ambodia is working with UNESCO to form an International Coordinating Committee for the Safeguarding and Development of the Historic Site of Preah Vihear (ICC-Preah Vihear), Deputy Prime Minister and Cabinet Minister Sok An said Tuesday. Speaking during a meeting with South Korean Ambassador to Cambodia Kim ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/2014-08/19/c_133568463.htm
Push to transform bright female students into future gov’t leaders
As a child growing up in a poor family in Banteay Meanchey, Yang Leaphea struggled to imagine a world outside her province. She turned to her desperately under-resourced local library, but found few books there to expand her horizons. All that changed when the intelligent daughter ...
Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/push-to-transform bright-female-students-into-future-govt-leaders-66806/
New airline gets closer to launch
Cambodia Bayon Airlines will soon import two Modern Ark 60 aircrafts from the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), with plans to begin domestic flights before the end of the year, a company representative said yesterday. Bayon will sign an agreement with AVIC on Thursday ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-airline-gets-closer-launch
Quality control to lift exports
China will work with Cambodian officials to broaden the range of agricultural products that the Asian economic giant allows to be imported from the Kingdom, government officials said yesterday. Ken Ratha, spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, confirmed that China’s General Administration, Quality Supervision, Inspection and ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/quality-control-lift-exports
Capital clash sees 10 injured
At least 10 people, one a 4-year-old child, were injured in a clash in the capital yesterday when security forces used electric batons to disperse about 300 villagers from Kratie province embroiled in a land dispute with a South Korean agribusiness. The villagers, from Kratie’s Snuol ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-clash-sees-10-injured
Cambodia, China to jointly establish technology transfer center
Cambodia and China on Monday signed an agreement toward establishing a Cambodia- China Technology Transfer Center, aiming to utilize science and technology for socio-economic development, officials said. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140818/cambodia-china-jointly-establish-technology-transfer-center
30 pct of students passes high school exam in Cambodia
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that an estimated 30 percent of the 93,456 applicants passed their high school graduation exam early this month because the country took strict measures to enhance the quality of education sector. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140818/30-pct-students-passes-high-school-exam-cambodia
Cambodia’s tourism slows a mite
Cambodia’s tourist arrivals registered a 0.3% decline in June according to the country’s statistics and tourist Information Department. The country attracted 300,454 visits compared to 301,412 during the same month last year. Released officially by the Ministry of Tourism, last week, data showed Vietnam led the field ...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/08/cambodias-tourism-slows-a-mite/