The Phnom Penh Post
PM’s eldest denies bribe allegations
Hun Manet, a senior military official and eldest son of Prime Minister Hun Sen, took to Facebook this weekend to defend himself from unnamed detractors who, he said, had accused him of spending millions of dollars buying Cambodian expatriates’ support during a youth recruitment drive ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pms-eldest-denies-bribe-allegations
Mixed outlook for this year’s catch of trey riel
The season for making prahok, the fermented fish paste that is a staple of the Cambodian diet, has opened this month amid mixed forecasts for the annual catch.Prahok production, which fuels the Kingdom’s largest annual fish harvest, sustains the incomes of thousands of Cambodians, particular ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mixed-outlook-years-catch-trey-riel
Koh Rong projects ‘will not bring pain’, DPM says
Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng has sought to reassure residents of Koh Rong, an island off the coast of Preah Sihanouk province that has been leased to a local tycoon, that they would not be adversely affected by planned development projects. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-rong-projects-will-not-bring-pain-dpm-says
Eight return from China, Malaysia
The Foreign Ministry announced on Saturday the rescue of eight trafficked Cambodian women who worked either as maids in Malaysia or were tricked into becoming brides to men in China.Of the eight women, five worked as domestic workers in Malaysia and three were married off ...
Charles Rollet and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eight-return-china-malaysia
Minister encourages food safety following deaths
Minister of Health Mam Bunheng yesterday asked the public to stop drinking rice wine and eating sick animals after 19 people died and 170 fell ill in Kratie province over the past month. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-encourages-food-safety-following-deaths
Royal Group set to build hotel on Koh Rong
The Royal Group, in partnership with a Thailand-based Swiss investor, will build a 148-room five-star hotel on Preah Sihanouk’s Koh Rong island, with the group having completed a ground-breaking ceremony on Saturday. ...
Kun Kourchettana
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/royal-group-set-build-hotel-koh-rong
CNRP boycott puts parliament perks at risk: CPP
Cambodia’s embattled opposition risks losing its official salaries and government-provided Lexuses if it continues to boycott sessions of the National Assembly, a ruling party spokesman said yesterday.The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party began boycotting parliamentary sessions at the end of last month when it pulled ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-boycott-puts-parliament-perks-risk-cpp
The Kingdom’s biggest dirty little trade secret
More than $15 billion exited Cambodia in illicit capital flows over the past decade, stripping the economy of money that could have been used for development, a new report showsA staggering amount of money was funnelled out of Cambodia in shady transactions over the past ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-biggest-dirty-little-trade-secret
Thai border shooting injures two loggers
Thai soldiers opened fire on a group of 17 illegal loggers yesterday evening, wounding two, police said.The group had illegally crossed the border into Thailand in Oddar Meanchey province under cover of darkness when they encountered a Thai patrol, according to Brigadier General Men Leu, ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thai-border-shooting-injures-two-loggers
Human Rights Day protest stays peaceful
Close to 2,000 people, including monks, NGO workers and citizens, marched peacefully to the Ministry of Justice yesterday morning, defying City Hall’s ban on the Human Rights Day protest.Demonstrators from 16 different provinces marched from three separate locations – the Senate, Chenla Cinema and Wat ...
Pech Sotheary and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/human-rights-day-protest-stays-peaceful
Local salt revenues drying up
Salt producers in Kep and Kampot say their revenues have plummeted over the last two years as cheaper and better-quality salt from Thailand floods the local market.Bun Baraing, co-director of the Kep-Kampot Salt Producers Community, said local consumers have switched to imported Thai salt, which ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-salt-revenues-drying
LGBT groups call for greater acceptance
The rights of LGBT people took centrestage at an event to celebrate Human Rights Day at the FCC mansion in Phnom Penh yesterday.Organised by NGO CamAsean, which advocates on behalf of marginalised people, the morning conference included a rap performance by lesbian and transgender teenagers, ...
Jamie Elliott and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lgbt-groups-call-greater-acceptance
Doctor group subject of police investigation
Police in Siem Reap province yesterday shuttered an unlicensed medical clinic they say was using more than 100 unregistered medicines, though the clinic’s owner insisted the raid was in response to rival clinics complaining about their prices being undercut by his charitable operation. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/doctor-group-subject-police-investigation
Report slams dam payouts
Households displaced by the massive Lower Sesan II hydropower dam project in Stung Treng province are being under-compensated by as much as $80,000, according to a new study.The research, published by the Rivers Coalition of Cambodia and led by political aspirant Kem Ley, found that ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-slams-dam-payouts
Hotel boom leaves hospitality sector with an empty feeling
As the number of boutique hotels rises rapidly in Phnom Penh, hoteliers say they have seen their occupancy rates drop this year due to the increased offerings – as well as the economic downturn in Europe and terrorism scares in the region. ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hotel-boom-leaves-hospitality-sector-empty-feeling
Child abuse costs Kingdom: study
Violence against children cost Cambodia approximately $168 million in 2013, or just over 1 per cent of GDP, according to a new report from the government and UNICEF that explores the economic impacts of physical abuse.Titled The economic burden of health consequences of violence against ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/child-abuse-costs-kingdom-study
PM vows to keep out Islamic State
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday cautioned against complacency in the global fight against the so-called Islamic State, pledging that Cambodia would not become a safe country for jihadists plotting to attack countries in the region. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-vows-keep-out-islamic-state
Illegally poached birds seized in Banteay Meanchey
Authorities in Banteay Meanchey province’s Mongkol Borei district seized more than 200 illegally poached birds yesterday, officers there said. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegally-poached-birds-seized-banteay-meanchey
Stock market rings in PPAP
Shares in Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) debuted on Cambodia’s sleepy stock exchange yesterday morning, ending the day at 5,140 riel ($1.28), down 1.15 per cent from the 5,200 riel opening price, after a lukewarm session of sideways trading that dashed some investors’ hopes for ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/stock-market-rings-ppap
Gov’t urged to hasten work on alcohol law
Alcohol experts and victims of excessive drinking came together yesterday to urge the government to speedily adopt a law controlling the consumption and sale of booze that was first drafted in 2008. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-urged-hasten-work-alcohol-law
Toll expressway route unveiled
The Kingdom has settled on a route for a planned $2.5 billion high-speed toll road from Phnom Penh to the Vietnamese border in Bavet, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency revealed in a seminar yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/toll-expressway-route-unveiled
Rice harvest estimates taken with a grain of salt
New government estimates on this year’s rice production and forecasts for next year’s crop may be overly optimistic, industry experts say, factoring in the impact of a drought that damaged crops and is expected to carry over into the next dry season harvest.The Ministry of ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-harvest-estimates-taken-grain-salt
Garment sector weighs new reforms
Garment and footwear industry stakeholders yesterday converged in Phnom Penh to discuss how to develop the sector to be sustainable and competitive.Run by the French Development Agency (AFD), the textiles conference at the capital’s Sunway Hotel heard that improving employees’ living and working standards, and ...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/garment-sector-weighs-new-reforms
Human Rights Day marches gathering steam despite gov't obstacles
Authorities in Siem Reap yesterday blocked a march celebrating International Human Rights Day (IHRD), as officials in Phnom Penh reiterated their threat to shut down a planned mass rally in the capital on Thursday.As IHRD, officially on December 10, approaches, associated demonstrations across the Kingdom ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/human-rights-day-marches-gathering-steam-despite-govt-obstacles