The Phnom Penh Post
Family, firm still at odds over land
While one of the two Phnom Penh families embroiled in a long-running land dispute with the Khun Sear Import Export Company this week accepted a compensation offer, the other says it has no plans to back down. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/family-firm-still-odds-over-land
Cassava farmers plead for gov’t help
Cassava farmers are calling on the government to standardise prices and help stabilise demand as the market for the root crop continues to prove risky for growers. Cassava exports totalled 226,000 tonnes in the first six months of the year, down 21 per cent from a ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cassava-farmers-plead-gov%E2%80%99t-help
Benefits there for the taking
Thailand will lose its beneficial tax treatment on exports to the European Union next year, and Cambodia’s manufacturing sector could be set to capitalise. Following three consecutive years of upper-middle income status as defined by the World Bank, Thailand will on January 1 lose its Generalised ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/benefits-there-taking
Youth seek tobacco curbs: org
A survey has found that while only 12 per cent of young Cambodians smoke cigarettes, more than four times that number are exposed to passive smoke every day, and a broad majority back tougher regulation of tobacco products. Mom Kong, executive director at the Cambodian Movement ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/youth-seek-tobacco-curbs-org
Activists sentenced
Nine Prey Lang forest activists received suspended one-year prison sentences at Kampong Thom Provincial Court yesterday and were ordered to pay $1,250 to a businesswoman whose hectare of cassava they were accused of uprooting, the defendants’ lawyer said. Yong Panith – who represents Mao Thea, 37; ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-sentenced
‘Acts of violence’ won’t be tolerated: premier
Prime Minister Hun Sen warned yesterday that people who instigate and commit acts of violence will face the full force of the law. In characteristically cryptic language, he told thousands of students on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich that his government would not tolerate violence. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98acts-violence%E2%80%99-won%E2%80%99t-be-tolerated-premier
Visa ‘loophole’ no friend to maids: NGOs
Cambodia’s embassy in Kuala Lumpur has played a key role in pressuring domestic workers to stay in the country despite fears for their welfare, rights groups have said. While a moratorium was placed on sending domestic workers to Malaysia in 2011 amid mounting concerns over abuses, ...
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/visa-%E2%80%98loophole%E2%80%99-no-friend-maids-ngos
PM says BRICS bank to ease dependency
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday applauded the recent creation of the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB), saying it could ease Cambodia’s dependence on institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). BRICS member nations Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa announced ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pm-says-brics-bank-ease-dependency
Flooding claims another life
The death toll from recent floods has reached six people, while inundations have caused more than 4,400 families across four provinces to be evacuated from their homes, according to the National Committee for Disaster Management. “The full extent of the damage is not known yet,” said ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flooding-claims-another-life
Cambodia ready for rice bid
Cambodia will join the bidding for the Philippine government’s latest rice import offer, a senior rice industry official says. The Philippine government’s National Food Authority (NFA) last week authorised the import of 500,000 tonnes of rice to the country. The bidding process, which is looking for the ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-ready-rice-bid
Unions up wage demands
Deposite not coming close to achieving their goal of a $160 monthly minimum garment wage, unions announced yesterday that they will raise their demands to $177 for 2015. Ken Chhenglang, acting president of the National Independent Federation Textile Union of Cambodia (NIFTUC), said about 10 union ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-wage-demands
Heavy falls may mean improved rice harvest
Rainfall over the weekend, which caused flooding in 13 provinces, could improve crop yields for rice growers, provincial authorities say. Agricultural departments in Preah Vihear, Stung Treng, Kampong Thom and Battambang provinces – some of the worst hit on the weekend – all said water was ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/heavy-falls-may-mean-improved-rice-harvest
Dismissed protests in S'ville over sacked staff
Dozens of workers in Preah Sihanouk province marched on the local labour department yesterday after three days of protests against the sacking of seven employees. ...
Pech Sotheary
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Food fight: Vendors and security feud over parking
Security guards from Derm Kor market in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district destroyed produce from nearly 100 vegetable vendors yesterday morning after ordering sellers to vacate the premises for parking. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/food-fight-vendors-and-security-feud-over-parking
Embassy asked to intervene
Boeung Kak residents delivered a petition to the Singaporean Embassy yesterday, calling on it to pressure Singapore-listed HLH Group to halt dealings with a controversial development project at the site until a land row is settled. HLH Group entered a $14.9 million purchase deal in June ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/embassy-asked-intervene
Payments made to retirees rise
The government is upping the payments made to retired and disabled civil servants, according to a July 31 subdecree by Prime Minister Hun Sen. Mut Khiev, secretary of state at the Ministry of Social Affairs, said the payments stand between 200,000 and 300,000 riel per month ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/payments-made-retirees-rise
Anti-tank mine injures three
Three people were severely hurt when a tractor in Banteay Meanchey ran over a buried anti-tank mine in a former battlefield on Thursday. ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anti-tank-mine-injures-three
Bridge ban enforced
City Hall on Friday officially issued its ban on trucks weighing more than 3 tonnes from using the Cambodian-Japanese Friendship Bridge until cracks discovered last month in a pillar on the bridge’s eastern end are repaired, a city spokesman said yesterday. Long Dimanche said police had ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bridge-ban-enforced
Croc release at dam site planned
A conservation group may release 20 baby Siamese crocodiles into the Areng Valley amid an ongoing stand-off between villagers and a Chinese firm over the construction of a controversial hydropower dam in Koh Kong province. Tuy Serey Vathana, country directory at Fauna and Flora International, said ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/croc-release-dam-site-planned
Controversial pagoda closed
Kandal province’s Tuol Reachea pagoda has been ordered shut for a week after authorities yesterday broke into the living quarters of Thean Vuthy, a man who claims to be the next Buddha, and found jewellery and other “irregular” items. The joint force from the Ministry of ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/controversial-pagoda-closed
Vendors see justice in arrest
The Friday arrest of a local businesswoman who holds the municipal contract to collect parking and stall fees from markets citywide on breach of trust charges came as no surprise to many vendors, aggrieved by what they say are her unfair business practices. Cheav Vibol, deputy ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vendors-see-justice-arrest
Migrants in ‘hurry’ to get back to work
A survey of 10 Cambodian provinces is studying the whereabouts and plans of migrant workers who were recently repatriated from Thailand, fearing crackdowns on foreign workers there after the coup. During a workshop hosted by Coordination of Action Research on AIDS and Mobility (CARAM) yesterday, Ministry ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/migrants-%E2%80%98hurry%E2%80%99-get-back-work
Flood warnings for Mekong
Heavy rains may cause dangerous flooding along the upper parts of the Mekong River in Cambodia in the coming days, a senior official at the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology warned yesterday. Mao Hak, deputy director of technical works at the Department of Hydrology and ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flood-warnings-mekong
Workers ill after fainting at factory
A lingering odour in a Sixplus Industry garment factory is aggravating the already-fragile health of its workers, 100 of whom fainted last weekend, and has forced the factory to send many of them back to health centres. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-ill-after-fainting-factory