The Phnom Penh Post
Malaria is down, not out: report
Cambodia is moving closer to its goal of eliminating malaria deaths by 2015, with the number of fatal cases declining from 93 in 2011 to 12 last year, data from a new World Health Organisation report show. ...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/malaria-down-not-out-report
Nephew of Hun Sen is made one-star general
Prime Minister Hun Sen has promoted his wayward nephew Hun Chea to brigadier general in the National Police, despite a less than sterling reputation as an upholder of law and order. Chea was promoted to the role under a Royal Decree published by the Council of ...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/nephew-hun-sen-made-one-star-general
Energy reform needed in emerging markets
Cambodia and the rest of the world’s emerging economies have been called on by the World Economic Forum (WEC) to install “effective” reforms to reinvigorate the global energy market. The WEC’s Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report 2015 was released yesterday. Cambodia ranked as having the ...
Eddie Morton
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/energy-reform-needed-emerging-markets
Tycoon’s widow says police have ‘asked us nothing’
The wife of slain businessman Eng Meng Cheu, Tang Kim Chheng, has barely been involved in the investigation of her husband’s murder, despite police having charged multiple suspects, she said in an interview yesterday. ...
Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/tycoons-widow-says-police-have-asked-us-nothing
Gov’t preps new health plan
Plans for a universal health care system will be included in the 10-year strategy to strengthen Cambodia’s social welfare, according to a government official, as a new report reveals almost three-quarters of Cambodians lack any legal health coverage. The study, released this week by the International ...
Shaun Turton
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-preps-new-health-plan
Palm sugar exports see 138pct rise
Kampong Speu palm sugar exports with geographical indication (GI) status have increased in the past year, as international buyers begin to appreciate the Cambodia-specific product. Export volumes of the sugar reached 50 tonnes in 2014, according to Kampong Speu Palm Sugar Promotion Association’s (KSPSPA) president, Sam ...
Chan Muyhong
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/palm-sugar-exports-see-138pct-rise
Plan to negotiate ends Siem Reap airport strike
Workers at Siem Reap International Airport have ended an 11-day strike after agreeing with the company on a plan to negotiate over their grievances, a union rep said yesterday. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/plan-negotiate-ends-siem-reap-airport-strike
Marching rights activists blocked at starting point
More than a hundred monks and rights activists marching to Phnom Penh for International Human Rights Day were blocked by soldiers and police at their starting point in Takeo province’s Kirivong district yesterday. ...
Vandy Muong
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/marching-rights-activists-blocked-starting-point
Khun Sear disputant set free, daughter denied bail
A Tuol Kork resident arrested last month following a complaint by a powerful businessman who wants his family’s land was released on bail yesterday. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/khun-sear-disputant-set-free-daughter-denied-bail
Capital tipped for ‘resilient city’ program
Phom Penh was selected on Wednesday as one of 35 cities joining a $100 million “resiliency” program meant to strengthen urban centres’ abilities to respond to shocks and stresses, including climate change, natural disasters, pollution and resource scarcity. “The intense growth occurring and projected for ...
Laignee Barron, Sarah Taguiam and Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-tipped-%E2%80%98resilient-city%E2%80%99-program
Show yourself: Defendants tell tycoon to meet them
A father and daughter, arrested last month following a complaint by a powerful landowner who wants their land in Phnom Penh, called on the tycoon to engage with them face to face in a courtroom hearing yesterday. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/show-yourself-defendants-tell-tycoon-meet-them
Borey 999 investors anxious
The news that tycoon Thong Sarath is wanted for questioning over the murder businessman Ung Meng Cheu, has sent a wave of nervousness through investors who have money tied up with the fugitive property developer. A cabinet deputy chief at the Ministry of Defence, Sarath ...
Sum Manet and Hin Pisei
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/borey-999-investors-anxious
Army wants students
As part of its plan to up Cambodia’s soldier count, the Ministry of Defence is recruiting 620 university students. The candidates from the 2014-2015 academic year are to be volunteers with no criminal backgrounds, according to an official announcement. The recruitment drive spans the month of ...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/army-wants-students
Gov’t stands firm on Montagnards
A UN delegation met with Ratanakkiri province’s deputy police chief yesterday afternoon to discuss the fate of 13 Montagnard asylum seekers who have been hiding in the province in recent weeks. The provincial administration, however, has continued to call for the group’s deportation. Deputy police chief ...
Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-stands-firm-montagnards
Farmers air their agriculture concerns
A lack of irrigation, rising costs of production and finding new markets to sell their produce are problems that plague Cambodian farmers, attendees at the annual National Farmers Forum were told yesterday. Organised by the Council for Agricultural and Rural Development at the Council of Ministers ...
Chan Muyhong
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/farmers-air-their-agriculture-concerns
Protest still on: youth leader
Ignoring objections and even vague threats made by the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Cambodian activists in South Korea plan to stage a protest on Sunday ahead of a five-day summit Prime Minister Hun Sen is scheduled to attend on December 10. Around 1,500 opposition supporters intend to ...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/protest-still-youth-leader
Disability benefits to be broadened by gov’t
A Ministry of Social Affairs official yesterday announced that, starting next year, the government would offer regular payments of 20,000 riel (about $5) to all disabled Cambodians, a benefit that so far has only been available to retired disabled soldiers. In an announcement that coincided with ...
Sen David
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/disability-benefits-be-broadened-gov%E2%80%99t
Election law: NGOs object to nationality rule for NEC
Election watchdogs have called on the ruling and opposition parties to reconsider a restriction on dual nationals serving as members of the overhauled National Election Committee. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/election-law-ngos-object-nationality-rule-nec
PM’s sister officially out of job
After issuing an extraordinarily public resignation announcement on her Facebook page last week, Prime Minister Hun Sen’s sister Hun Sinath has officially left her job at the Ministry of National Assembly-Senate Relations and Inspection. According to a Royal Decree that was signed on Monday, King ...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/pm%E2%80%99s-sister-officially-out-job
Gov’t forms OCA committee
Thailand and Cambodia are edging closer to rekindling negotiations over the long-contested, and presumably lucrative, Overlapping Claims Area (OCA) in the Gulf of Thailand. State-owned media, Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP), yesterday reported that the Cambodian government had established a committee charged with negotiating the development of ...
Eddie Morton
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/gov%E2%80%99t-forms-oca-committee
Companies stripped of ELCs
The government has seized more than 50,000 hectares of economic land concessions from a number of powerful companies across the Kingdom, putting the areas under the control of the Ministry of Environment, according to sub-decrees signed last week. One decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen ...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/companies-stripped-elcs
Shukaku pushes forward at Boeung Kak
Local developer Shukaku will step up construction of its controversial Boeung Kak lake development project this month, beginning work on a drainage system and corporate office, a spokeswoman told the Post yesterday. An updated master plan of Shukaku’s Phnom Penh City Centre project – an ...
Shane Worrell and Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/shukaku-pushes-forward-boeung-kak
Workers get reinstated after court’s injunction
Hundreds of workers who were fired from a Phnom Penh garment factory returned to work yesterday after Phnom Penh Municipal Court filed an injunction on Monday requiring management to reinstate them. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-get-reinstated-after-court%E2%80%99s-injunction
Tally of goods linked to child labour grows
Four more goods made in Cambodia have been linked to exploitative child labour, adding to a mounting list of items the United States considers to be produced in violation of international rights laws. The mounting number of Cambodian goods found to use child labour runs ...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/tally-goods-linked-child-labour-grows