The Phnom Penh Post

Governor to resign from post

Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Sbong Sarath will resign on April 17 to transition into a position on the provincial council of Prey Veng following this May’s council elections, he confirmed yesterday. ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/governor-resign-post

Dredging ferry catches fire

A sand-dredging ferry caught fire and two of its pumping machines exploded yesterday in Kandal’s Kien Svay district. The blast sent a black plume of smoke over the Mekong and caused oil to leak into the river. Yem Sokhum, Phomthom commune police chief, said that according to ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dredging-ferry-catches-fire

Education system out of its depth

When Sim Sok Toeur, 32, returned from study in Australia last April, he did so with a vision for Phnom Penh’s skyline. For Sok Toeur, a scholarship to study overseas granted him a better quality of education than was possible in Cambodia – even though ...

Maria Wirth
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/education-system-out-its-depth

Gender gains lacking: report

Cambodian women are bumping up against a steadfast glass ceiling, according to an annual report by the Cambodian National Council for Women. The report, released yesterday, tracks what the government has done to execute the prime minister’s 16 recommendations regarding women’s access to and engagement in ...

Chhay Channyda and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gender-gains-lacking-report

BreadTalk chain set to open up in the capital

Singaporean bakery chain BreadTalk will open up in two locations in Phnom Penh this July, the bakery’s franchisee confirmed yesterday. Ly Daline, CEO of Cham & Ly Corporation, whose company will run BreadTalk in Phnom Penh, said a rising middle class means changes in consumer ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/breadtalk-chain-set-open-capital

Kings of concessions

Vietnam and China lead the pack of foreign companies granted economic land concessions in Cambodia for agro-industrial development by a wide margin, new data released by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries show. According to the ministry’s annual report, released last month, since 1993 the ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kings-concessions

Exchange to receive millions

Cambodia’s stock exchange will receive a $2.5 million funding injection from the South Korean government in an attempt to draw more corporate interest from companies who may want to go public, according to a recent report on state media site AKP. The funds will go towards ...

Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exchange-receive-millions

Details meted out for election panel

The first meeting of a joint election-reform committee that was agreed to last week by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party will meet for the first time on Thursday, officials from both sides said yesterday. Each side has appointed six ...

Kevin Ponniah and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/details-meted-out-election-panel

CNRP to gauge land dispute

Lawmakers-elect from the Cambodia National Rescue Party are scheduled today to visit families in Koh Kong province affected by a long-running land dispute with Union Development Group, just weeks after the company destroyed dozens of homes there. Rights groups say that Chinese-owned Union Development has burned ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-gauge-land-dispute

Exploding bullet kills two children

Two children were killed by the explosion of an unfired rifle shell in a rice field in Battambang province on Friday afternoon, a district police officer said. Captain Phong Sarin, district deputy police chief, said that Roeun Rith, 7, and Mann Marin, 7, “saw an unexploded ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/exploding-bullet-kills-two-children

Waiting for the deluge

The Lower Sesan II dam project is a microcosm of the carving up of Cambodia. In one of the world’s most diverse river ecosystems, the ground burns. Whole forests are felled with scant regard for the law, while the project is backed by the country’s ...

Daniel Pye and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/waiting-deluge

Poverty gains ‘precarious’

Cambodia’s poverty rate fell dramatically between 2004 and 2011 – from more than 50 per cent to roughly 20 – but those gains are so precarious that a slight economic shock could send millions plunging back below the poverty line, according to a World Bank ...

Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poverty-gains-%E2%80%98precarious%E2%80%99

PM lauds military for handling of protests

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday praised the country’s armed forces for their handling of last year’s election and its deadly aftermath, saying problems they met in 2013 were solved “successfully”. Speaking at the Ministry of Interior’s annual meeting, Hun Sen avoided mentioning the fatal shooting of ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-lauds-military-handling-protests

Cambodia’s pepper takes off

Through a canopy of palm leaves, sunlight falls onto 1,000 four-month-old pepper plants, each one climbing about two feet up a wooden pole in the ground. “We will be ready to harvest pepper from here in about 18 to 20 months,” says one of Kep ...

Daniel de Carteret and Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia%E2%80%99s-pepper-takes

Smart acquisition paid off for Malaysian firm

Axiata, the Malaysia-based parent company of Cambodia’s second-largest telecommunications provider, Smart, posted a rise in total revenues for 2013 to $5.5 billion. The boost represents a 4.1 per cent increase from the fourth quarter of the previous year. Driven by its Malaysian, Bangladeshi and Cambodian operations, ...

Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/smart-acquisition-paid-malaysian-firm

Verdict today for Kbal Thnal six

In anticipation of today’s scheduled Municipal Court verdict for six men facing charges of violence and property damage in connection with a September clash on Phnom Penh’s Kbal Thnal overpass, rights groups yesterday called for their acquittal. A statement from Human Rights Watch (HRW) released yesterday ...

Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/verdict-today-kbal-thnal-six

Man protests ‘unjust arrests’, is detained

A man who intended to release birds at Freedom Park yesterday as a way of calling for those wrongfully imprisoned to be freed was himself detained on the way to the ceremony, rights group Adhoc said. The man, identified as Pheakdey, 35, was among nine people ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-protests-%E2%80%98unjust-arrests%E2%80%99-detained

Tourist deaths up 50 per cent over past year

Cambodia saw a dramatic increase in the number of tourist deaths in the past year, an annual report released by the Ministry of Interior (MoI) has revealed. Twenty-one foreign visitors died in 2013, up from 14 deaths the year prior to that, a 50 per cent ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tourist-deaths-50-cent-over-past-year

Councilors to Get Payouts Before Vote in Upcoming Elections

The ruling CPP will pay a bonus of 500,000 riel (about $125) to each of its commune councilors just weeks before they go to the polls to vote in the next elections for district, city and provincial councilors in May. According to a copy of a ...

Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/councilors-to-get-payouts-before-vote-in-upcoming-elections-52704/

Improved infrastructure leads to boom in apartments, condos

Infrastructure development and new condominium and apartment construction growth are boosting land prices in Toul Tompong and Deoum Thkov communes, and in Chamkarmon district by as much as 30 per cent. Kuy Vat, president and CEO of Vtrust Group, said that increased land prices in Boeung ...

Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/improved-infrastructure-leads-boom-apartments-condos

Trafficking fight goes on: gov’t

Although human-trafficking cases dealt with by the Ministry of Interior decreased significantly in 2013, suggesting progress was being made in tackling the crime, trafficking in persons continues to be a major challenge for the government, the ministry said in its annual report on Tuesday. According to ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trafficking-fight-goes-gov%E2%80%99t

Blood on the border

Sixty-nine Cambodians were shot dead by Thai soldiers while crossing the border illegally last year, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Tuesday at the launch of its annual report. “Cambodians were shot dead by Thai soldiers in 55 [incidents] last year in which ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/blood-border

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