The Phnom Penh Post

Protest over Khmer Rouge land dispute

About 80 villagers calling for the release of two former Khmer Rouge soldiers allegedly arrested for illegally occupying land in Malai district rallied outside Banteay Meanchey Provincial Hall, locals and rights group Adhoc said yesterday. Community representatives Ly Khley and Hoeun Vy were detained on Tuesday ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protest-over-khmer-rouge-land-dispute

De Castle Royal launches leaseback program

In a first for Phnom Penh, South Korean condominium developer Nury D&C has teamed up with SBI Royal Securities to offer condominium buyers a leaseback arrangement on the remaining condo-miniums and condo-minium blocks for sale at De Castle Royal. The 32-storey De Castle Royal has a ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/de-castle-royal-launches-leaseback-program

Fishermen allege lot sold to businessman

One hundred fishermen in Banteay Meanchey province’s Sisophon town filed a complaint with local authorities yesterday, accusing a provincial fisheries administration official in Phniet commune of selling their subsistence fishing lot to a businessman. ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fishermen-allege-lot-sold-businessman

Two flee summons in long-running dispute

Two villagers in Kampong Chhnang province’s Kampong Trolach district have fled their homes for safety reasons after getting an alarming summons from police in response to their refusal to accept relocation money from KDC International Company, which has been feuding with locals over land for ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-flee-summons-long-running-dispute

BK evictees lose battle on plot size

Fourteen families evicted from Boeung Kak were left disappointed again yesterday when Phnom Penh’s governor ignored their calls to increase the size of land plots authorities had offered them. During a three-hour meeting, Governor Pa Socheatvong held firm on a 2011 decision that the families would ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bk-evictees-lose-battle-plot-size

Wage-setting meet up in air

Exactly who will participate in a workshop to set the minimum wage in the garment sector with the Ministry of Labour this week remained unclear yesterday, with some key figures saying they had not yet been invited. During the workshop, to be held on Thursday and ...

Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wage-setting-meet-air

Monks fight alleged overstep

A deputy district governor and a land tycoon are allegedly attempting to seize land deemed sacred by about 700 monks and residents who gathered yesterday in protest outside the unfinished Wat Kohbodhivong in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district. Banner-wielding participants said that tycoon Chheang Paksour and ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monks-fight-alleged-overstep

Minister calls for old car ban

Imports of older cars and vans should be banned to help reduce pollution, Minister of Industry and Handicrafts Cham Prasidh said on Monday. Speaking to Cambodia’s business community at a Green Industry workshop in Phnom Penh on Monday, Prasidh said all countries had a role to ...

Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/minister-calls-old-car-ban

Strikes still on in some provinces

Unrest in the garment sector spread yesterday, as hundreds of workers from Kandal province demonstrated outside their factory. The 700 workers at Unity Fashion factory walked off the job after managers said they would dock wages of workers who did not show up on April 17, ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strikes-still-some-provinces

Chinese gov’t invests in language courses

In an effort to bolster China’s cultural influence and expand bilateral ties, the Chinese government last week donated $203,000 to support the Kingdom’s increasingly popular Chinese-language classes. The funding was transferred last Thursday to the Chinese Association in Cambodia, which said it plans to expand class ...

Laignee Barron and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chinese-gov%E2%80%99t-invests-language-courses

Two flee summons in long-running dispute

Two villagers in Kampong Chhnang province’s Kampong Trolach district have fled their homes for safety reasons after getting an alarming summons from police in response to their refusal to accept relocation money from KDC International Company, which has been feuding with locals over land for ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-flee-summons-long-running-dispute

IFC investigates over ‘land-grabbing link’

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has launched an internal investigation into a complaint lodged against the institution for investing in a Vietnamese rubber firm accused of illegal logging and land grabbing in Ratanakkiri, an NGO and villager said yesterday. Earlier this month, representatives of the IFC’s ...

Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ifc-investigates-over-%E2%80%98land-grabbing-link%E2%80%99

Failing to sew up support

Cambodian stockbrokers yesterday admitted to a disappointing level of investor interest in Grand Twins International’s (GTI) initial public offering. Garment industry unrest, distrust in the private sector and a lack of liquidity in the market were all said to be discouraging investors from buying into the ...

Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/failing-sew-support

Old problems persist in new NGO draft law

The latest version of the government’s draft law on NGOs, which was approved by the Council of Ministers in January, is identical to an earlier version made available to civil society in 2011, with several outstanding concerns still intact, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights ...

Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/old-problems-persist-new-ngo-draft-law

Clock ticks on C.CAWDU bail bid

Embattled union leader Ath Thorn yesterday said that he had begun a fundraising effort, trying to come up with $25,000 in bail money by the end of the week. Thorn, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CAWDU), said union members would begin ...

Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/clock-ticks-ccawdu-bail-bid

R’kiri bust ends with $5,000 fine for logging

Forestry officials arrested four men and confiscated two pickup trucks containing illegally logged luxury timber en route to Vietnam on Sunday in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district before releasing both the men and the timber after fining them thousands of dollars, officers and a rights group representative ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/r%E2%80%99kiri-bust-ends-5000-fine-logging

Lack of funds delays railway

The China Railway Group’s planned $7.5 billion Cambodian north-south railway line has been delayed due to funding shortages, according to the company’s top official. Originally slated to begin construction last year, China Railway’s chairman, Li Changjin, told the South China Morning Post that work on the 400-kilometre railway ...

Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/lack-funds-delays-railway

Military cop investigated for alleged forest clearing

A deputy district military police chief in Kampong Thom’s Santuk district is under scrutiny for allegedly clearing up to seven hectares of community forest land for personal gain, and district officials are investigating the case with the aim of presenting it at the provincial court ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/military-cop-investigated-alleged-forest-clearing

Criticism is sour grapes, says minister

The justice minister yesterday defended three long-awaited laws on judicial reform which were approved by the Council of Ministers last week in a move slammed by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) as lacking transparency. Minister of Justice Ang Vong Vathana said that the “three ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/criticism-sour-grapes-says-minister

Borei Keila activists go to PP court

Seven Borei Keila community activists were summonsed to Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday to back up a complaint they filed accusing high-ranking Prampi Makara district officials of assault for their role in the violent dispersal of demonstrators in February. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/borei-keila-activists-go-pp-court

Arrests after vendors rally in Sisophon

Three people were arrested in Banteay Meanchey province on Friday during a protest in which more than 400 vendors rallied against orders to move to new market sites. In what authorities said was an effort to “restore public order”, police and military forces were deployed to ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/arrests-after-vendors-rally-sisophon

State violence against reporters condemned

The Club of Cambodian Journalists has condemned the alleged beating by military police of three journalists while were covering illegal logging and called for the government to open an investigation and take legal action. In a statement published on Friday, the CCJ voiced its concern for ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/state-violence-against-reporters-condemned

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