The Phnom Penh Post

Russian Boulevard land prices rising

The west end of Street 110, also known as Russian Boulevard, is attracting increasing interest from investors and retailers because of its vital role connecting Phnom Penh International Airport with the city centre. Local real estate experts estimate that land prices along the thoroughfare have risen ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/russian-boulevard-land-prices-rising

New election? No chance: CPP

Senior government ministers yesterday rejected the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s call for Cambodia to follow the lead of Thailand and take the country back to the polls. Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng said yesterday that there was no chance a new election would ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-election-no-chance-cpp

Undercover underused: NGO

Cambodia hopes to legalise undercover investigative techniques – like covert surveillance and officers posing as criminals, which until now have fallen into a murky legal grey area – by next year. At a workshop in the capital yesterday, law enforcement officials and representatives of human rights ...

Laignee Barron and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/undercover-underused-ngo

Man fronts court over Pheap row

A man facing defamation charges was questioned in Kandal Provincial Court yesterday following his comments in a report that alleged tycoon Try Pheap was illegally logging. San Sen was quoted in a Cambodian Human Rights Task Force (CHRTF) report last month that implicated the tycoon in ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-fronts-court-over-pheap-row

Vattanac Capital preparing for eventful 2014

Phnom Penh’s growing importance as a business destination has brought with it many opportunities and infused the market with a growing sense of ambition. Few developments embody this new ambition better than Vattanac Capital Tower, which will throw open its doors this spring. “Cambodia’s seen nothing ...

Nalin Viboonchart
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/vattanac-capital-preparing-eventful-2014

Cambodia low on energy ranking

Low electrification rates and over-dependence on fossil fuel imports have contributed to Cambodia’s abysmally low ranking in the new World Economic Forum’s Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report for 2014. Cambodia ranked 120 out of 124 nations, with a so-called Energy Architecture Performance Index (EAPI) score ...

Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-low-energy-ranking

Can’t see the forest …

The percentage of Cambodia covered in forest has fallen from about 72 per cent in 1973 to only about 46 per cent in 2013, satellite image data released yesterday shows. A series of animated maps that Open Development Cambodia (ODC) produced from NASA satellite images detail ...

Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/can%E2%80%99t-see-forest-%E2%80%A6

A minor melee mars day’s events

A day of peaceful demonstrations gave way to an evening of unrest last night as a handful of protesters were removed from a small patch of land across from the United States embassy and a grup of uninvolved people threw Molotov cocktails towards riot police ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minor-melee-mars-day%E2%80%99s-events

Groups insist on equal rights

Seila, a tall, heavily made-up woman with orange-blonde hair, said she was in a park in Siem Reap last year when policemen approached her, put a gun to her head and told her if she ran, they would shoot. Legally, the Kingdom’s Constitution protects the ...

Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/groups-insist-equal-rights

Disabled integration touted

Disabled Cambodians were promised a “society without barriers” by Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday in a speech on Cambodia’s Day of Persons with Disabilities in Phnom Penh. About 1,500 disabled Cambodians marked the day at a gathering of more than 2,000 people in the capital’s Koh ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/disabled-integration-touted

Kratie wood trucked to Vietnam nightly: NGO

A Vietnamese company has been transporting thousands of dollars’ worth of illegally logged luxury timber from Kratie’s Snuol district to Vietnam on a nightly basis under the nose of authorities, an environmental protection NGO said yesterday. At least 10 trucks with an estimated five cubic metres of ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-wood-trucked-vietnam-nightly-ngo

H&M may raise prices to pay workers

Clothing giant H&M is considering raising retail prices and passing the buck onto the consumer to help pay higher wages to garment workers in poor countries. There won’t be any price increases in the short-term, but it “might be a possibility” in the future, Helena Helmersson, ...

Daniel de Carteret and May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hm-may-raise-prices-pay-workers

Ponzi scheme suspects’ cases sent to court: ACU

Three alleged members of a money-laundering operation worth more than $11 million who were arrested earlier this year in Phnom Penh have had their cases sent to court and are now awaiting trial, Om Yentieng, head of the Anti-Corruption Unit, said yesterday. The three suspects – ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ponzi-scheme-suspects%E2%80%99-cases-sent-court-acu

Int’l trips fuel CNRP machine

As opposition party leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha returned from separate overseas trips yesterday, the party said it had more than enough cash to finance continuous mass demonstrations, with the bulk of funds coming from Cambodians living abroad. Today’s demonstrations in Phnom Penh and Siem ...

Meas Sokchea and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/int%E2%80%99l-trips-fuel-cnrp-machine

Pursat families ordered to move

Twenty-nine families living in Pursat province have been given less than a month’s notice to pack up their belongings and move off state forest grounds. Local authorities handed out the 30-day eviction order on Sunday, according to Chhorn Khorn, a resident living in Phnom Kravanh district’s ...

Pursat families ordered to move
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pursat-families-ordered-move

Kids key in disaster planning

Stronger disaster planning is needed to avoid future devastation and loss of life caused by flooding, according to a report published by World Vision yesterday. The report, titled Cities Prepare, recommends that the Cambodian government and civil society work to place “a stronger emphasis on disaster risk ...

Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kids-key-disaster-planning

Cambodia’s telecom agency firm on fees

Cambodia’s telecommunications ministry yesterday defended intervening in the market by fixing minimum prices for mobile phone calls, rationalising the base charges as necessary to stem the loss of tax revenue and avert a monopolised industry. The floor price was introduced in 2009 to prevent the demise ...

Chan Muy Hong and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia%E2%80%99s-telecom-agency-firm-fees

Illegal logging suspects arrested

Two men were arrested and charged on Sunday with smuggling more than 2,000 kilograms of luxury-grade rosewood from Kampong Thom to Siem Reap town, anti-crime officials said yesterday. Thanh Ti, 21, and Viet Thy Thanh, 19, were caught manning a truck transferring 2,400 kilograms of rosewood ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-logging-suspects-arrested

Police pledge ‘no guns’ at today’s rallies

National Police and military police officers deployed to International Human Rights Day events and an opposition rally in the capital today will not carry guns or live ammunition, spokesmen for the respective authorities said yesterday. Effectively vowing to avoid a repeat of two fatal police shootings ...

Shane Worrell and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-pledge-%E2%80%98no-guns%E2%80%99-today%E2%80%99s-rallies

Sea Festival fails seafood vendors

Droves of seafood sellers descended on the normally sleepy Kep province this past weekend, attempting to capitalise on a tourism festival set up to drive dollars to Cambodia’s coastal areas. But overcrowding and blocked roads pushed prices down and kept customers away, according to vendors. The ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sea-festival-fails-seafood-vendors

Women’s health gets $14m boost

Taking strides to curb Cambodia’s high maternal and child mortality rates, health officials yesterday launched a $14 million initiative to improve women’s limited access to reproductive health care. During the three-year Partnering to Save Lives campaign, funded by AusAid, NGOs Care Cambodia, Marie Stopes and Save ...

Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/women%E2%80%99s-health-gets-14m-boost

Police arrest 10 in illegal fishing bust

Kampong Cham police officials arrested 10 suspects on Sunday for illegally fishing the Mekong River in Koh Sotin district. “Seven are Vietnamese and other three are Muslim Cambodians. They used illegal equipment to fish in the Mekong River, such as four motor boats, trawls and two ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-arrest-10-illegal-fishing-bust

New weapon in battle with drug-resistant TB

Researchers at the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases have isolated a new class of drugs that could be used to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis, a disease that affects thousands of Cambodians, according to a report published in the journal Science Translational Medicine last week. The drugs, called indolcarboxamides, work ...

Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-weapon-battle-drug-resistant-tb

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