Migrants to Korea jump
More Cambodian migrant workers headed to South Korea in the first half of this year than in all of 2011, data from the Ministry of Labour shows.
A suspension on Vietnamese migration, coupled with an improving Korean economy, primarily accounted for the jump, officials say.
Working
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Cop nabbed in timber bust
The Anti-Corruption Unit has arrested a military police officer accused of involvement in an illegal luxury timber racket in Pursat province’s Krakor district – an area where government investigators conceded that complicity by the powerful was rife.
On Saturday, the anti-graft agency arrested military police officer
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Forte set to insure travellers on the net
Forte Insurance, a leading general insurance company in Cambodia, officially launched the region’s first online travel insurance product. Officials and insiders said the product is to serve the growing number of Cambodian outbound tourists.
Youk Chamroeunrith, Forte Insurance general manager, told the Post yesterday that
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Subedi ‘shocked’ by evictions
One of the first things UN Special Rapporteur Surya Subedi did on his week-long fact-finding mission in Cambodia was visit the grave of slain environmentalist Chut Wutty.
It wasn’t on the itinerary, but Subedi, rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, said he wanted
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First life insurance company launches in Cambodia
The Kingdom’s first life insurance company, Cambodian Life, launched yesterday, courting a market almost entirely unfamiliar with the service.
Industry insiders said demand for the products would need time to grow.
The establishment of Cambodian Life in the Kingdom would develop confidence in the market and
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Free Trade Union breaks from ally
Free Trade Union president Chea Mony has announced that his union will leave the Cambodian Confederation of Unions and sever all ties with its long-time ally, the Cambodian Independent Teachers’ Association.
In a letter to Minister of Labour Vong Sauth, dated June 27 and obtained by
Road blocked as strike escalates
Thousands of workers from factories owned by Tai Yang Enterprise in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district blocked National Road 4 for more than seven hours yesterday to push the company to meet their demands.
May Sopheaktra said workers decided to block the road after the companytried
Daun Penh Vagrants Rounded Up Prior to Asean
Authorities in Daun Penh district rounded up more than 80 homeless people, drug users and prostitutes ahead of this week’s high-level meetings for Asean and regional delegates in Phnom Penh, a district official said yesterday.
District governor Sok Sambath said that the 82 people rounded up
New ADB-Cambodia director vows to focus on inclusive growth, boosting partnership
Newly-appointed Asian Development Bank’s director for Cambodia Eric Sidgwick said Wednesday that promoting inclusive and environmentally sustainable growth that will help improve the quality of life of Cambodians, especially those who are most vulnerable, are his key focus areas.
“This is an exciting time to be
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Illegal loggers, trafficker return
Fourteen Cambodian men jailed in Thailand for drug trafficking or illegal logging have been released in the past week after reaching the end of their sentences, a border official said yesterday.
Touch Ra, director of the Chaom Sangam Cambodia-Thailand border checkpoint in Oddar Meanchey province, said
Cambodia breaks ground for 3rd flyover in capital
Cambodia on Monday broke ground for the construction of a 19-million-U.S.-dollar flyover in Phnom Penh’s southwestern part to meet the growing number of vehicles.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said it will take 28 months to complete the construction of the 429-meter flyover.
“The sky bridge will not
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Chinese officials to dam site
China has reportedly dispatched embassy officials to investigate a major breach at the Chinese-built Stung Atai dam in Pusat province on Saturday, which swept away four men, three of whom are still missing.
Yang Tian Yue, spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh, told local
Hun Sen Denounces Televised Comments on Passport Fees
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday criticized the Cambodian News Channel (CNC) for broadcasting an interview with an NGO worker who had claimed on air that the large number of illegal Cambodian workers to Thailand was due to high cost of obtaining a Cambodian passport.
Speaking at
Adhoc Requests Cancellation of 2 Vietnamese Land Concessions
Rights group Adhoc has requested that the government cancel economic land concessions held by two Vietnamese companies in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district, on the grounds that the firms are logging and exporting wood illegally.
“Adhoc calls on the Royal Government of Cambodia to immediately cancel the
Finance Ministry To Tackle Graft With ‘Rewards’
Finance Minister Keat Chhon announced a new plan on Thursday to cut down on rampant state corruption by dispersing three-quarters of non-tax revenue to ministries and their employees as financial “rewards.”
With Anti-Corruption Unit chief Om Yentieng by his side, Mr. Chhon laid out the bare
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New palm oil plant for $16m
Mong Reththy Group (MRG) will begin construction on a US$16 million crude palm oil refinery next month in Preah Sihanouk province, where several thousand hectares of palm trees are grown, insiders said yesterday.
Mong Reththy, president of the eponymous firm, told the Post that his company
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Koh Kong Families Ask Hun Sen for Help in Dispute
More than 40 families from Koh Kong province gathered on Friday outside Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Phnom Penh home to ask him to intervene in their land dispute with provincial forestry administration, village representatives said yesterday.
According to one villager, 37-year-old Sam Sary, 47 families delivered
Maid complaints on the rise
The number of complaints filed in Kampong Chhnang province by the families of maids working in Malaysia has jumped exponentially compared to the same period last year, a rights worker told the Post yesterday.
Provincial Adhoc coordinator Soum Chankea said 39 requests for the NGO’s intervention
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Defence homes in on assumptions of rank
During the final day of testimony by Sar Kimlomouth at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday, the defence team for co-accused Khieu Samphan sought to weaken the ties between their client and the Ministry of Commerce, within which Sar Kimlomouth, a former banker within Democratic Kampuchea,
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Tales of ‘blood-stained’ sugar
The European Union should immediately remove trade preferences it gives to Cambodian sugar companies accused of human-rights violations including land grabs, representatives of the affected communities told a press conference in Phnom Penh yesterday.
Community representatives from Koh Kong, Kampong Speu and Oddar Meanchey provinces said
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