The Phnom Penh Post

Bail request for Pov as union seeks property

A union leader among 21 workers and activists arrested in January demonstrations will appear in the Court of Appeal to argue for bail next week, despite the same court denying his request last month. Vorn Pov, president of Independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association (IDEA), and ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bail-request-pov-union-seeks-property

Burger King chain to expand

Burger King will launch another three restaurants in Cambodia by the end of the year, according to a company official, in a move that will bolster the fast food chain’s share of a market dominated by KFC. Somach Sovary, support manager for Burger King Cambodia, said ...

Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/burger-king-chain-expand

Infighting at garment union

Two founding members of Cambodia’s largest independent garment worker union say they were forced out of their jobs for investigating corruption. Members of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CAWDU), media outlets and several labour rights organisations received a letter dated March 14 and ...

Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/infighting-garment-union

Silent killer taking toll

Villagers emerge from the shade of their homes and gingerly roll up their sleeves, turning their palms upwards to reveal skin braided with dark lesions, ulcers and decaying tissue. They point to houses up and down the street where people have died of symptoms like ...

Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/silent-killer-taking-toll

Troops rallied for PM

A day after a bipartisan election reform committee put the neutrality of proposed areas of reform, Defence Minister Tea Banh reiterated that the armed forced would not tolerate opposition supporters calling for Hun Sen to step down. ...

Vong Sokheng, P.2
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Campaign focused on reducing deaths

Amid a continually rising rate of industrial accidents and deaths, the Ministry of Labour introduced a campaign focused on identifying workplace hazards before tragedy strikes. Since the ministry began keeping track of 960 Cambodian factories in 2009, workplace accidents have risen by nearly 375 per cent, ...

Sen David and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/campaign-focused-reducing-deaths

City Mall DVD shops raided

Police raided four shops in Phnom Penh’s City Mall yesterday for allegedly selling pirated movies, a move that came a week after mall DVD vendors shut up shop to avoid a planned raid, the details of which were leaked beforehand. Officers conducted yesterday’s raid accompanied ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-mall-dvd-shops-raided

Three on trial over ‘bribery’

Three people, including a former court clerk, stood trial yesterday, accused of unlawfully using court positions to conduct threats and bribery in Banteay Manchey province last year. Phnom Penh Municipal Court investigating judge Sous Sam Ath said former clerk at Banteay Meanchey provincial court Suong Sok ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-trial-over-%E2%80%98bribery%E2%80%99

Tea Banh 'hurt' by calls for PM to step down

A day after a bipartisan election reform committee put the neutrality of the armed forces into a list of proposed areas of reform, Defence Minister Tea Banh reiterated that the armed forces would not tolerate opposition supporters calling for Hun Sen to step down. ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tea-banh-hurt-calls-pm-step-down

Julie Bishop to meet with Sam Rainsy

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy will meet Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop at the Australian Parliament on Wednesday, the Cambodia National Rescue Party announced yesterday. ...

Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/julie-bishop-meet-sam-rainsy

Thai envoy denies killings on border

Thailand has denied its forces shot dead 12 Cambodian loggers who crossed the border illegally on March 5, Cambodian Foreign Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong said yesterday. During a meeting with Ministry of Foreign Affairs representative Long Visalo, Thai ambassador Touchayoot Pakdi said Thai soldiers had made ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thai-envoy-denies-killings-border

Wing Star workers walk out

Provincial Ministry of Labour officials will today meet with union representatives and management at the factory where a ceiling collapse killed two workers last May, in an attempt to resolve a strike. About 5,000 employees at Wing Star Shoes, an Asics supplier, walked off the job ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wing-star-workers-walk-out

Viriyah firm plans move in Cambodia

Thailand’s Viriyah Insurance, one of the biggest firms of its kind in the country, is seeking to expand its motor vehicle business in Southeast Asia, according to a report yesterday in the Bangkok Post. ...

Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/viriyah-firm-plans-move-cambodia

US bomb uncovered

A 250-kilogram piece of unexploded ordnance (UXO) left behind from the US’s extensive bombing campaign here was found on Saturday by construction workers digging in Kandal province’s Ksach Kandal district, and was safely removed yesterday, Cambodian Mine Action Centre authorities said. ...

Lieng Sarith
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-bomb-uncovered

Exports of bicycles to dip in 2014

Cambodia’s bicycle exports to the European Union are expected to decline this year after changes to EU trade preferences in early January excluded Malaysian and Singaporean parts from the scheme. Under EU preferences, a bicycle is considered a Cambodian product when at least 30 per cent ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-bicycles-dip-2014

Standoff in Areng Valley continues

Seven Chinese nationals were prevented from entering the Areng Valley in Koh Kong province yesterday as locals continued their standoff with the operator of the Stung Cheay Areng dam concession, villagers at the scene said. Ven Vorn, a community leader among those blocking a road used ...

Phak Seangly and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/standoff-areng-valley-continues

Education boost needed: PM

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday encouraged Cambodia to pick up the slack on its higher-education system in order to bolster the country’s economic competitiveness. “Training human resources is necessary to developing the labour market and encouraging investments,” the premier said during the Royal University of Law ...

Chhay Channyda and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/education-boost-needed-pm

Porsche dealership to open

The newly appointed local distributor of German carmaker Porsche broke ground yesterday on a $2 million dealership that is set to open within eight months across from the Phnom Penh International Airport on Russian Boulevard. Equipped with four service bays, the planned Porsche Centre Phnom Penh ...

Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/porsche-dealership-open

Clean water keeping kids in school: report

Keeping students in school may not be as straightforward as providing them with clean water, but a filtered drinking supply makes them less likely to take sick days, research published on Friday shows. The study, conducted by a UK-based medical school, compared drinking water access in ...

Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/clean-water-keeping-kids-school-report

Proposed Iran loan under fire

Opposition lawmakers-elect yesterday lambasted reports that Cambodia has asked Iran for a $54.45 million loan. Following an official visit to Tehran last week by a delegation from the National Assembly led by First Vice Chairman Nguon Nhel, Cambodia’s official news agency, Agence Kampuchea Press, reported that ...

Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/proposed-iran-loan-under-fire

Dam route blocked

Desperate ethnic minority villagers in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley have blocked a road that was to be used to transport heavy machinery onto their lands to start construction of the highly controversial Stung Cheay Areng dam, according to villagers and officials. Three Chinese employees of ...

Phak Seangly and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-route-blocked

Sugar on EU visit’s agenda

European Union Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht will visit Cambodia this week, the European Commission announced, with rights groups hoping that land grabbing related to sugar plantations will be high on the agenda. Following bilateral meetings in Brussels last week between Cambodia and the EU during ...

Kevin Ponniah and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sugar-eu-visit%E2%80%99s-agenda

Solar move at PPWSA to cut costs

The Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) installed a solar power generation system last week in an effort to reduce electricity bills by about $200,000 a year. The solar power system, which was funded by the Japanese government, was installed at the PPWSA’s water treatment facility ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/solar-move-ppwsa-cut-costs

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