The Phnom Penh Post

Four charged over forest clearing

Four of six men arrested on Thursday for allegedly clearing more than three hectares of protected forest within Mondulkiri’s Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area were charged on Saturday, court officials and rights monitors said yesterday. Sou Sovichea, provincial deputy prosecutor, confirmed yesterday that the four suspects charged ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/four-charged-over-forest-clearing

Union leader released

Phnom Penh Municipal Police this morning released a union leader they scooped off the street yesterday evening for allegedly leading a protest despite a ban on public demonstrations. Sok Chhun Oeung, acting president of the Independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association (IDEA), left the police station ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/union-leader-released

Bulldozers bedevil busted businessman

A businessman was tried by Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday on charges of breach of trust in connection with losing six bulldozers worth an estimated $1.7 million he had hired to dig and clear land for his Por Sen Chey district business in 2008. According to ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bulldozers-bedevil-busted-businessman

B’bang village heads for border

A village of 212 hectares in Battambang’s Bavel district has nearly become a ghost town after an alleged land grab by three tycoons has forced hundreds to find work abroad, locals and a rights group said yesterday. ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/b%E2%80%99bang-village-heads-border

US House passes B Kak bill

A draft US law that would require the World Bank to regularly report to congress about the condition of families displaced or still living in the Boeung Kak lake area was approved Wednesday by the House of Representatives. The bill includes language that specifically requires the ...

Sean Teehan and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-house-passes-b-kak-bill

Capital to be hit with blackouts

Rolling blackouts between three and nine hours long hit some locations in the capital, Kandal and Kampong Speu yesterday and will continue through Sunday, according to Electricite du Cambodge. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-be-hit-blackouts

Funcinpec mass suspension

The royalist Funcinpec Party suspended 114 members from its 340-member steering committee late last month, citing the fact that they had recently been unable to fulfil their obligations, the party said yesterday. ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/funcinpec-mass-suspension

Shooting probe urged

UN rights envoy Surya Subedi wrapped up his six-day fact-finding mission to Cambodia yesterday by calling for a thorough investigation into security forces’ role in the deadly crackdown on garment workers early this month. He also offered to act as a mediator between the ruling Cambodian ...

Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/shooting-probe-urged

Anti-Vietnam talk by CNRP ‘alarms’ envoy

UN human rights envoy Surya Subedi yesterday said he was “alarmed” by anti-Vietnamese language used by the opposition party to rally its supporters, a message he said he had conveyed to Cambodia National Rescue Party leaders during his visit. Speaking at a press conference to conclude ...

Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anti-vietnam-talk-cnrp-%E2%80%98alarms%E2%80%99-envoy

Data provides illustration of a constantly changing Cambodia

Cambodia is changing fast. Over the past decade, the capital city, Phnom Penh has expanded exponentially: its bodies of water have been filled in and green spaces diminished. Rural to urban migration has changed the shape of the countryside. Great shifts are under way and ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/7days/data-provides-illustration-constantly-changing-cambodia

Man healed, held against will

Today, a month to the day after his stomach ruptured, Term Hun, 49, remains hospitalised. He was operated on and has long since healed. But without the money to pay for his treatment, the clinic refuses to let him go. After receiving emergency surgery at ...

Koam Chanrasmey and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-healed-held-against-will

Political issues not affecting property sector, for now

Despite recent political turbulence, local investors in the Phnom Penh property sector are not deterred and are still bullish on the market’s future prospects. One good example of this local optimism is Ly Hour Group, which recently announced it would invest more than $100 million to ...

Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/political-issues-not-affecting-property-sector-now

Office space demand up slightly in Q4 2013

Demand for office space in Phnom Penh in the fourth quarter of 2013 grew by five per cent over the previous quarter, according to research by local property services provider VTrust Property Company. VTrust deputy director Chrek Soknim said that growth in Q4 of last year ...

Sum Manet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/office-space-demand-slightly-q4-2013

Manhattan workers on strike again

More than 1,000 workers at the Manhattan (Cambodia) Co Ltd garment factory in Kampong Cham province are striking in the wake of factory management’s reaction to their last strike action. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/manhattan-workers-strike-again

Strike action still on table, unions say

Leaders of unions that declared a nationwide garment worker strike said the work stoppage and protests, which they temporarily suspended, will resume unless government officials renegotiate the industry’s minimum wage. The announcement was their first since authorities cracked down on strike demonstrations on January 2 and ...

Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strike-action-still-table-unions-say

Slow year for Japanese investment

The Japanese embassy is reporting a $280 million drop in Japanese investment last year, but officials were quick to say that the numbers don’t necessarily reflect slumping investor confidence in Cambodia. Japanese investment in the Kingdom reached about $47.5 million in 2013, compared to $328 million ...

Hor Kimsay and Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/slow-year-japanese-investment

Land dispute results in shooting

A Japanese national is being accused by a Preah Sihanouk farmer of shooting him over a logging dispute in Kampong Seila district, the alleged victim and a rights monitor said yesterday. Kanha Phan, 32, is alleging that Peter Ly, 39, shot him in the waist after ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-dispute-results-shooting

Housing loans up in 2013, growth expected to continue in ’14

Last year across Cambodia’s cities, more and more people decided to take the plunge and invest in housing. This should be obvious to anyone who lived in Cambodia last year. The sounds of construction or renovation were more noticeable than before in cities across the Kingdom. Data ...

Sum Manet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/housing-loans-2013-growth-expected-continue-%E2%80%9914

Despite illness, no bail for labour activist

Labour activist Vorn Pov, who is facing serious health issues while being held in pre-trial detention in Kampong Cham’s Correctional Centre 3 prison, has been denied bail by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court. His NGO-provided lawyer, San Sokunthear, immediately filed an appeal against the bail denial ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/despite-illness-no-bail-labour-activist

Villagers seek $275k payout

Villagers living in Mondulkiri’s Sen Monorom district are demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation for the loss of thousands of protected resin trees, alleging that a land concessionaire company has been illegally razing community forest since 2012.​ ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-seek-275k-payout

The Sihanoukville option

As property prices in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap continue to push upwards, many investors are quickly being priced out of these first-tier markets. Looking at second-tier cities around the Kingdom, Sihanoukville in particular stands out as an investment destination worth serious consideration. Named after the ...

Chris Horton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/sihanoukville-option

Activists to be questioned in meddling suit

Ten land activists are set to be questioned today by Preah Vihear provincial court over their involvement in halting the drilling of a well in a community forest in November last year, rights monitors said yesterday. Lor Chhan, provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc, told the Post the ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-be-questioned-meddling-suit

Official busted for alleged graft

An official at the Takeo provincial department of labour was arrested on Friday and charged for allegedly embezzling more than $310,000 from vocational teachers, the ACU and a prosecutor said yesterday. ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/official-busted-alleged-graft

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