The Phnom Penh Post

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

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

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

Cambodia looks to be winner for growth for AEC: ILO

Cambodia stands to be the biggest beneficiary, in terms of GDP growth, for the first decade following ASEAN Economic Integration in 2015, according to a study released publicly today by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The ILO’s 160-page report says Cambodia could see a 19.9 per ...

Eddie Morton and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-looks-be-winner-growth-aec-ilo

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

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

CNRP to probe organ claims

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party plans to launch an investigation into organ trafficking in Cambodia following the mysterious case of an alleged kidney ring operating out of a military hospital in Phnom Penh. Mu Sochua, a CNRP lawmaker and head of the newly formed National ...

Alice Cuddy and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-probe-organ-claims

Telecom law grants ‘police powers’

Private-sector representatives today are to conclude a two-day consultation forum with the government over the controversial new draft telecommunications law. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications’ (MPT) yet-to-be-approved draft law includes provisions that grant the ministry judicial powers to indict telecom service-related operators and even everyday ...

Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/telecom-law-grants-%E2%80%98police-powers%E2%80%99

Embassy defends handling of maids

Cambodia’s embassy in Malaysia yesterday denied pressuring domestic workers from the Kingdom into renewing their visas, after rights groups told the Post last week that the embassy exploited a legal loophole to keep maids in the country. The statement came as a Malaysian employers association, which has observed the drafting ...

Sen David and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/embassy-defends-handling-maids

‘Kidney ring’ generals back on job at hospital

The two top officials in what was first reported as a kidney-trafficking ring based out of a military hospital, then later dismissed as a “training program”, have returned to work, a doctor employed there said. Lieutenant General Ly Sovan, 54-year-old director of Preah Ket Mealea hospital, ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98kidney-ring%E2%80%99-generals-back-job-hospital

R’kiri row no drag on oknha title

The Royal Palace has granted the prestigious title of oknha to politically connected businesswoman Keat Kolney, who has been locking horns for a decade with ethnic Jarai minorities in Ratanakkiri province over hundreds of disputed hectares. Kolney – who is married to Chhan Saphann, an official ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/r%E2%80%99kiri-row-no-drag-oknha-title

Jailings are a threat to deal: Rainsy

Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy yesterday said that, contrary to his speech before the National Assembly last week, the Kingdom’s political crisis would not be resolved as long as opposition activists were still being harassed by the courts. If there are still CNRP members ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/jailings-are-threat-deal-rainsy

‘Orphanage tourism’ still an issue: UNICEF

The UN Children’s Fund in Australia has warned volunteers and tourists to avoid visiting Cambodian orphanages following critical reports from the press in recent weeks. In a post on its website, UNICEF Australia said “these types of tours exploit children and their families for the financial ...

Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98orphanage-tourism%E2%80%99-still-issue-unicef

Flooding chaos drives families onto safe hill

Recent flooding has claimed another victim, a child in Kratie province who drowned, bringing the total death toll to 30, Keo Vy, cabinet director at the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), said yesterday. While water levels are declining across the 12 provinces affected by flooding, ...

Pech Sotheary and Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flooding-chaos-drives-families-safe-hill

Wrangling over wage may spur new unrest

Unions representing garment workers have pledged to reignite protests if the minimum wage for the industry is raised to only $115 next year, a sum they say was offered by the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia during a meeting on Friday. The Labour Advisory Committee (LAC) ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wrangling-over-wage-may-spur-new-unrest

Caper to free official works

Military police in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district on Monday were duped into letting a detained immigration official walk free just hours after he was arrested for alleged involvement in the cross-border illegal timber trade, police said yesterday. District military police chief Sok Min said yesterday that ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/caper-free-official-works

Floods claim two more

Flooding across 12 provinces has killed another two people, bringing the death toll to 29, an official said yesterday. The deaths occurred in Kampong Cham and Prey Veng provinces, according to Keo Vy, cabinet director at the National Committee for Disaster Management. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/floods-claim-two-more

Police officer among 3 accused of cheating

The Anti-Corruption Unit has announced that three people, including a police officer, who were arrested last week in Svay Rieng province after posing as students taking the grade 12 national exam, have been charged with using false identities. In a statement released on Monday, the ACU ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-officer-among-3-accused-cheating

Cambodia, US trade up in first half of year

Trade data from the US shows Cambodian exports to the world’s largest economy increased 6 per cent during the first six months of the year. As of June 30, Cambodian exports to the US totalled $1.4 billion, up from $1.32 billion recorded during the same six-month ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-us-trade-first-half-year

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