Arrested Land Officials Now Free on Bail
Four Land Management Ministry officials charged with corruption last week were released on bail yesterday, less than five days after arriving at Prey Sar prison for detention ahead of trial, officials said. Srung Leang, director of the prison’s center no. 1, said he received the written release order ...
Eviction Protest Held Outside Donor Meeting
Anti-eviction activists from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak and Borei Keila neighborhoods, dressed as white doves, protested yesterday in front of the Council for the Development of Cambodia, where the country’s donors were meeting with top government officials to discuss the country’s reform targets. Donning paper helmets ...
Poorest nations win intellectual property waiver
The world’s poorest nations have won an eight-year extension of a waiver on intellectual property rules at a session of the World Trade Organisation’s TRIPS Council. A session of the 159-nation WTO’s TRIPS (trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights) Council has ruled the waiver for 34 ...
Mekong forest facing sharp decline: WWF
BANGKOK: Demand for farmland may strip the Greater Mekong region of a third of its remaining forest cover over the next two decades without swift government action, a leading conservation group warned Thursday. Forests are being cleared for commodities such as rubber and rice while illegal logging is decimating ...
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/mekong-forest-facing-sharp-decline-wwf/661574.html
Workers Get Benefits, Not Jobs
India’s ambassador to Cambodia, DInesh Patnaik, said yesterday that his government will pay outstandIng benefits to about 30 restoration workers who lost their jobs at Siem Reap provInce’s Ta Prohm temple In February – but will not reInstate them. The entire restoration team – more than ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050965505/National/workers-get-benefits-not-jobs.html
New Kompong Thom Governor Vows to Give Land to Evictees
The newly appointed Kompong Thom provincial governor on Tuesday promised more than 500 families who were forcefully evicted by a Vietnamese rubber plantation more than three years ago that they would be given replacement land to farm on early next month. Security forces evicted villagers from ...
ASEAN power chiefs to follow up power grid plan
Leaders of ASEAN power utilities and authorities gathered on Thursday to follow up the progress of the ambitious ASEAN power grid action plan, which was set to inter-connect power lines in the 10 ASEAN member states by 2020. Speaking to reporters after the opening ...
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2013-05/23/content_16525904.htm
Cambodia suspends military co-operation with US, other nations amid election standoff
ambodia has suspended international military co-operation programs with the United States and others following that country’s recent, disputed election, the State Department said Monday. The reason for Cambodia’s action was not immediately clear. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters that Cambodia’s Defence Ministry has postponed ...
Sealed docs our call: council
The Constitutional Council yesterday said it has the power to order the National Election Committee to open the sealed documents monitors say could prove election irregularities, but stopped short of saying it would actually do so. Election monitors have called on the NEC to open documents ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sealed-docs-our-call-council
Property prices stagnant following election
Although house prices increased sharply in early 2013, they have remained stagnant following the national election last month. Kuy Vat, the President and CEO of VTrust Group, said housing prices in many projects remain unchanged, because most customers are waiting for the formation of the new ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/property-prices-stagnant-following-election
Toyota to import used cars
Toyota Cambodia unveiled plans yesterday to add second-hand vehicles to its showroom in response to consumer preference for less expensive cars and a competitive grey market full of unauthorised dealers. Kong Nuon, chairman of Toyota Cambodia, the country’s largest car dealer, said that while demand for ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/toyota-import-used-cars
Striking Power Plant Trainees Get Wage Raise
More than 170 trainees at a Chinese-backed power plant under construction in Preah Sihanouk province ended a five-day protest on Monday after securing higher wages from their employer, according to a union representative and provincial official. Khmer Workers Power Federation Union president Chey Sovann, who negotiated ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/striking-power-plant-trainees-get-wage-raise-39520/
Top cop told to catch Bandith
Minister of interior Sar Kheng sent a letter to the National Police last week asking it to step up its search for Chhouk Bandith, the former Bavet town governor convicted of shooting three garment workers at a factory protest last year. interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak ...
May Titthara and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/top-cop-told-catch-bandith
Thousands flee reservoir
Surging floodwaters led officials to declare a state of emergency at a commune in Banteay Meanchey province on Saturday night after the Trapaing Thma reservoir expanded an estimated 200 metres. Many of some 2,000 families living close to the Khmer Rouge-era reservoir in Phnom Srok district ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thousands-flee-reservoir
KOICA ផ្តល់ $២,៥ លានអភិវឌ្ឍផ្សារមូលបត្រកម្ពុជា
រដ្ឋាភិបាលសាធារណរដ្ឋកូរ៉េខាងត្បួងតាមរយៈទីភ្នាក់ងារសហប្រតិបត្តិការអន្តរជាតិកូរ៉េ (KOICA) បានផ្តល់ហិរញ្ញប្បទានឥតសំណងចំនួន២,៥ លានដុល្លារអាមេរិក ដល់កម្ពុជាសម្រាប់អភិវឌ្ឍទីផ្សារមូលបត្រនៅកម្ពុជា និងធ្វើការទាក់ទាញក្រុមហ៊ុនឯកជនឲ្យធ្វើការបោះផ្សាយមូល ...
ម៉ៃ គុណមករា
http://www.postkhmer.com/business/business/111038-koica-
(English) ADB report finds gov’t shirking duty
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Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/adb-report-finds-gov%E2%80%99t-shirking-duty
(English) Life as a brokered wife
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May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/life-brokered-wife
អភិបាលរាជធានីភ្នំពេញសន្យាជាថ្មីម្តងទៀតជួយអ្នកភូមិដែលត្រូវបានបណ្តេញចេញពីដីធ្លី
កាលពីថ្ងៃសុក្រ លោក ប៉ា សុជាតិវង្ស អភិបាលរាជធានីភ្នំពេញបានទៅសួរសុខទុក្ខអ្នកភូមិសហគមន៍បុរីកីឡាដែលត្រូវបានបណ្តេញចេញ ដែលឥឡូវនេះរស់នៅកន្លែងគំនរចាក់សំរាមនៅក្បែរអតីតលំនៅដ្ឋានរបស់ខ្លួន ហើយជាថ្មីម្តងទៀតលោកបានសន្យាសាង ...
(English) Clean water access ‘improves’
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Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/clean-water-access-%E2%80%98improves%E2%80%99
(English) On the World Cup clock
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Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/world-cup-clock