The Phnom Penh Post
Labour shortages in S’Ville
Aiming to one day become a major manufacturing base in Cambodia, Sihanoukville faces an uphill battle in attracting workers, provincial officials said yesterday.Yow Khemara, director of the Department of Labour and Vocational Training at Preah Sihanouk province, said Sihanoukville currently lacks about 4,000 workers in ...
Hang Sokunthea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/labour-shortages-sville
Alleged traffickers tried as more brides return
Five suspected human traffickers were tried yesterday at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for allegedly attempting to send five Cambodian women and two minors to China for marriage. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/alleged-traffickers-tried-more-brides-return
Bloggers forced to tread lightly
Cambodia’s young internet users are thinking twice before discussing politics online, say prominent bloggers, after the third case of government punitive action sparked by Facebook comments within a month.On Saturday, student Kong Raiya, 25, was charged over a Facebook post linked to him for comments ...
Shaun Turton and Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bloggers-forced-tread-lightly
Foreign visits climb at Preah Vihear
Foreign visitors to the Preah Vihear Temple increased by 25 per cent for the first six months of the year, as compared to the same period last year, while local visitor arrivals dropped for the same period, according to Ministry of Tourism statistics. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/foreign-visits-climb-preah-vihear
New union group formed
A new collective of transportation workers unions was announced on Sunday by the Cambodia Labour Confederation, Cambodia’s largest association of independent unions.The Cambodian Transport Workers Federation (CTWF) is composed of seven transportation workers unions and currently represents about 2,000 workers, according to Ath Thorn, president ...
Charles Rollet and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-union-group-formed
Massage shop front for prostitution: prosecutor
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday heard the case of a Sen Sok district massage parlour owner accused of operating his business as a front for prostitution yesterday. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/massage-shop-front-prostitution-prosecutor
Strike ends at Bavet window factory
More than 400 workers from a Chinese-owned window factory in Svay Rieng’s Bavet town returned to work yesterday following two weeks of protests that saw strikers pelt their own factory with rocks. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strike-ends-bavet-window-factory
Exam a test of nerves
As the grade 12 national exam kicked off yesterday, the Ministry of Education said early indicators suggested a marked improvement on last year’s dismal results, though incidents of students caught cheating and others buckling under the pressure of the high-stakes test remained.The two-day exam began ...
Taing Vida and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/exam-test-nerves
City says bus system loses $100K a month
The public bus service run by City Hall has been hemorrhaging about $100,000 a month, according to the local authorities.Long Dimanche, spokesman for the Phnom Penh municipality, confirmed the figure yesterday, after it was first revealed by local media following a meeting last week between ...
Hang Sokunthea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/city-says-bus-system-loses-100k-month
More than 2,000 forest crimes observed: group
The Prey Lang Community Network yesterday reported uncovering more than 2,000 cases of forestry crime so far this year in Prey Lang forest, where they say corrupt elites are decimating protected reserves with impunity. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-2000-forest-crimes-observed-group
Illegal timber seized in R’kiri
Authorities in Ratanakkiri’s Banlung town cracked down on a luxury timber storage facility over the weekend, confiscating two trucks and hundreds of pieces of illegal timber, a court official said yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-timber-seized-rkiri
Hun Sen takes one last shot at Todd
Boasting of his more than 30 years’ ruling Cambodia, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Saturday that he could teach a thing or two to the West about running a country while managing demands for change.The premier, who is Southeast Asia’s longest-serving current leader, recalled ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-takes-one-last-shot-todd
Student arrested after posting about 'revolution'
An anti-government activist has been imprisoned over a social media post in which he called for people in Cambodia to join him in a “colour revolution”, though critics of the arrest say he enjoys no political influence. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/student-arrested-after-posting-about-revolution
Maids back in Kingdom after stint in Malaysia
Two Cambodian maids were repatriated from Malaysia on Saturday after being duped by a broker into taking unlawful and unpaid jobs, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/maids-back-kingdom-after-stint-malaysia
Test takers say their prayers
On the eve of the grade 12 national exam students across Phnom Penh put down their revision notes and flocked to local pagodas and shrines yesterday, praying that they will pass the high-stakes test – and that the proctors will let them cheat.With testing starting ...
Taing Vida and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/test-takers-say-their-prayers
One job is enough, Interior Ministry tells workers
The Ministry of Interior has sent a stern warning to its officials found to be collecting salaries from other organisations, including private sector actors: stick to your day job. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/one-job-enough-interior-ministry-tells-workers
Illegal fishing nets, traps seized
Fisheries administration officials cracked down on illegal fishing activities in Kampong Cham province’s Boeung Thom lake on Saturday, seizing and destroying illegal fish traps and more than a kilometre of illegal extra-fine netting, officials said yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-fishing-nets-traps-seized
Villagers accuse firm of taking some $60,000
Over 100 members of the Prov ethnic community in Ratanakkiri province have filed a complaint with a local rights group claiming to have been defrauded for tens of thousands of dollars by a broker for an international investment firm. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-accuse-firm-taking-some-60000
Gov’t spells out inmate exit policy
The Ministry of Interior yesterday ordered all prisons across the country to release inmates scheduled to be freed on weekends and public holidays ahead of time rather than prolonging their sentence. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-spells-out-inmate-exit-policy
Productivity focus needed for farming: World Bank
Despite increased yields and the rising use of farming machinery in Cambodia’s agriculture sector, growth in the industry for 2013-14 was only between 1 and 2 per cent, with greater emphasis needed on the quality of seeds and fertilisers, as well as encouraging greater vegetable ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/productivity-focus-needed-farming-world-bank
Traffic police accuse top officials of graft
A group of Phnom Penh traffic police have filed a damning complaint to Anti-Corruption Unit President Om Yentieng, accusing their bosses of skimming their pay, promoting friends and relatives, and striking deals with private transport companies. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/traffic-police-accuse-top-officials-graft
Police ‘check’ NGO’s Koh Kong premises
Police in Koh Kong province yesterday raided a house rented by local environmental NGO Mother Nature in what its members have described as an ongoing campaign of intimidation against the group amid the detention of three of its activists. ...
Pech Sotheary and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-check-ngos-koh-kong-premises
Fines up after new rule: gov’t
The announcement last month that traffic cops will collect 70 per cent of fines they give out has already seen enforcement increase, according to a senior official at the Interior Ministry.Speaking yesterday, General Run Roth Veasna, director of the ministry’s Department of Order, said tickets ...
Charles Parkinson and Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fines-after-new-rule-govt
Coke betting big on Cambodia
Coca-Cola held the ground-breaking ceremony for its new $100 million production facility at the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone yesterday, which when completed in 2016 will double the beverage behemoth’s Cambodian output over the next six years.The new facility, which was announced last November after ...
Ayanna Runcie and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/coke-betting-big-cambodia