The Phnom Penh Post
Labour day: Unions, CPP promote factory ties
About 3,000 union representatives, teachers and senior officials from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party gathered at a ceremony on Koh Pich yesterday to mark the 129th International Labour Day – as well as to bolster support for the ruling party, one official noted. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://bit.ly/1P3pXHC
Funcinpec leaders visit china communist party benefactors
Funcinpec leader Prince Norodom Ranariddh and second vice president Nhiek Bun Chhay left for China on Sunday to meet with officials from the Chinese Communist Party, the Cambodian royalist party’s longtime benefactor and supporter. ...
Alex Willemyns and Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/funcinpec-leaders-visit-china-communist-party-benefactors-82142/
IMF sees exports to US offsetting China slowdown
Cambodia’s economy is expected to benefit from a strong recovery in the US markets and the fall of global oil prices, driving its high growth trend, according to the International Monetary Fund’s projection for the Asia-Pacific region. ...
Kimsay Hor
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Tycoon charged with murder
Tycoon Thong Sarath has been charged with premeditated murder and possession of weapons by a court in Phnom Penh after being arrested in a joint operation with Cambodian and Vietnamese police on Thursday over the killing of Shimmex Group owner Ung Meng Cheu. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tycoon-charged-murder
A million tourists gather for Angkor Sangkran
The number of tourists travelling during the three-day Khmer New Year festivities saw a dramatic increase this year, with the largest attraction – Angkor Sangkran in Siem Reap – hosting more than a million visitors last week. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/million-tourists-gather-angkor-sangkran
Mines Ministry issues new dredging licences
The Ministry of Mines and Energy has announced that it will grant two sand dredging licences around Phnom Penh Port, just days after declaring that no new licences would be issued until economic impact assessments had been carried out. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mines-ministry-issues-new-dredging-licences
CNRP’s Sovannara on trial
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court today is scheduled to hear the trial of opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party activist Meach Sovannara, who was charged with leading a violent “insurrection” after an opposition demonstration turned violent last July. ...
Meas Sokchea
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Agriculture decline to hit poor
The World Bank said last week that Cambodia will likely graduate to a lower-middle-income nation in 2015, on the back of sustained poverty alleviation, stable economic growth and progress made on reducing inequality between the rich and poor. ...
Ananth Baliga
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Rong Chhun ready to scrap
Newly appointed election monitor Rong Chhun has come out swinging ahead of today’s official swearing in of the nine new National Election Committee members, saying he is “sharpening his spurs” for a potential showdown. ...
Meas Sokchea and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rong-chhun-ready-scrap
Firm told to repay clients
The Ministry of Labour has given a recruitment firm 45 days to repay clients who filed a complaint alleging the company collected their money but never delivered promised jobs in Japan. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/firm-told-repay-clients
Corruption charges upheld against cop
Former Meachey district police chief Hy Narin has had corruption charges against him upheld by Phnom Penh Municipal Court after he allegedly misappropriated almost $700,000 from the state budget over eight years. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/corruption-charges-upheld-against-cop
Boeung Kak protesters freed but defiant
Five months behind bars has done nothing to deter Phnom Penh’s Boeung Kak activists from taking their demands to the streets. Just one day after their release from the capital’s Prey Sar prison, the female activists – often at the helm of Phnom Penh demonstrations – ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/boeung-kak-protesters-freed-defiant
Preah Sihanouk’s new top cop touts early busts
Less than a week into the role, Preah Sihanouk’s new police chief, Chuon Narin, has announced the early results of a crackdown on crimes involving foreigners, calling them the “main problem” facing the coastal city. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouks-new-top-cop-touts-early-busts
Monitors accused of complicity in logging
Officials charged with protecting Cambodia’s Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary are colluding with loggers responsible for felling at least 300 trees each day, according to activists in the area. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monitors-accused-complicity-logging
Brit hauled in on drug allegations
Police in Preah Sihanouk province yesterday arrested a British national in a guesthouse for alleged drug possession. ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/brit-hauled-drug-allegations
Vaccination fears eased: gov’t
An education campaign launched by Cambodia’s National Immunization Program (NIP) in the aftermath of last year’s HIV outbreak in Battambang has been effective in dispelling the concerns of parents hesitant to get their children vaccinated, government health bodies and the World Health Organization have said. ...
Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vaccination-fears-eased-govt
Bad year ahead for dengue
Dengue fever cases in the Kingdom have increased by nearly 80 per cent compared with the same period last year, and the Cambodia National Malaria Center (CNM) said yesterday that it expects a continued surge throughout 2015. ...
Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bad-year-ahead-dengue
Farmers to reap info flow: gov’t
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries will roll out a new Agricultural Extension Policy that will look to boost the sector by making new knowledge and technology easily accessible to farmers and communities, in a bid to increase efficiency and productivity in the sector. ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/farmers-reap-info-flow-govt
Meach Sovannara, monks, other Boeung Kok activists to be freed ahead of New Year
Meach Sovannara, a senior official of opposition party, and a monk and other Boeung Kok land rights activists including prominent activist Tep Vanny will be released ahead of Khmer New Year, said opposition lawyer Friday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/boeung-kak-protesters-freed-defiant
Minor party head denies claims
Following charges by the Appeal Court alleging that he swindled a former supporter out of $70,000 between 2009 and 2011, League for Democracy Party (LDP) president Khem Veasna yesterday criticised the Cambodian judiciary, saying that the courts were under the control of “powerful people” and ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minor-party-head-denies-claims
Residents claim threats over anti-dam slogans
Residents of Stung Treng province who are facing eviction due to the Lower Sesan II hydropower project accused local officials yesterday of threatening to arrest them if they don’t refrain from hanging banners reading “Would rather die than leave” on their homes. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/residents-claim-threats-over-anti-dam-slogans
Care lacking for victims: study
While mental health services are crucial to the recovery process for the Kingdom’s victims of human trafficking, stigma and limited resources remain a barrier in the provision of and access to those services, according to a new study published yesterday. The research, published in the International ...
Rebecca Moss
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/care-lacking-victims-study
Ratanakkiri corpse is not from VN: villager
Villagers in Ratanakkiri province discovered yesterday that a corpse previously believed to be a Vietnamese Montagnard was a local man, as they reportedly met with a United Nations official to discuss the fate of asylum seekers still hiding in the area. A group of ethnic Jarai ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-corpse-not-vn-villager
Cooperation on dolphins urged
The World Wildlife Fund has called for closer cooperation between Cambodia and Laos to protect the Mekong River dolphin, in the wake of the death this week of a female thought to be one of less than 85 left in the river. ...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cooperation-dolphins-urged