Vendors face eviction to beautify beach
In May Cambodia became a member of the World’s Most Beautiful Beach Club and as a result Koh Kong provincial authorities are not renewing leasing for beachfront stores and evicting those who work there. The leases are said to have expired two months ago, and ...
Kuwait-India JV to explore for gold, iron in Cambodia
Kuwait’s Pima International Co and D&D Pattnaik Group of India have jointly established Pima D&D International Co to explore for gold and iron in Cambodia The firm plans to invest between US$10 million and $15 million in gold and iron exploration in Kampong Chhnang, Kratie and ...
Oversupply leads to a fall in pork prices
Pig prices in Cambodia have fallen by 18 percent in the past three months due to a massive oversupply of pork in the country, an official at the Cambodian Pig Raisers Association said yesterday. The reason for the oversupply is twofold: Thailand increased its pig exports ...
Seoul looks abroad for farmland
The South Korean government is looking to procure farmland aboard, approximately 380,000 hectares by the year 2018. The government is providing assistance to companies that lease arable land or buy stakes in overseas operations and are looking for such potential in Cambodia as well as ...
Villagers target new rubber plantation
Villagers in Svay Rieng province from 10 villages have taken part in an armed protest against the granting of a land concession in the forest that will turn it into a rubber plantation. The villagers claim to have been on the land since 1979 and ...
June Textile to pay workers
June Textile Factory will compensation the more than 4,000 workers in accordance with an Arbitration Council ruling, granting the workers severance pay after the Phnom Penh factory burned down. According to Albert Teoh, administration director of June Textile Factory, all workers would receive the full ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011072550603/National-news/june-textile-to-pay-workers.html
Protest planned despite warning
Kulan district villagers embroiled in a land dispute in Preah Vihear’s Srayong commune say they will follow through with a planned 200-person protest against rubber firm Siladamich Company today despite being threatened with arrest. Village representative Lem Lom, 32, said yesterday that Srayong commune police and ...
Maid death numbers shock
The Cambodian embassy in Malaysia has reported that nine migrant domestic workers have died there this year, including one on Sunday, a rights activist and an opposition parliamentarian visiting Kuala Lumpur said yesterday. After a press conference held by the Malaysian rights group Tenaganita, Moeun Tola, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011111052690/National-news/maid-death-numbers-shock.html
Missing in Malaysia: Father says concerns fell on deaf ears
The father of an 18-year-old girl who he said had been missing in Malaysia for more than a year, has filed a complaint with the rights group Adhoc against the labour firm that sent her there. Minh Ngi, 46, from Preah Vihear province, said yesterday the ...
Hun Sen calls for flood-deaths probe
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday urged provincial governors to investigate the deaths of the about 250 people who died during the flooding disaster this year in order to develop a strategy to reduce deaths from flooding. If officials could identify the factors that caused the deaths ...
US-Asean Delegation to visit Cambodia this month
A US-Asean Business Council delegation will visit Phnom Penh on March 19 and 20 to meet with government officials about current or potential investments in the country, American Cambodian Business Council President Bretton Sciaroni said. The meeting comes after a delegation of 11 Fortune 500 ...
Evictees seek criminal charges
About 50 Borei Keila evictees gathered outside Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday to again pressure officials to lay criminal charges against Suy Sophan, the owner of development firm Phan Imex, for destroying their homes and breaching an agreement to build them new ones. The former Borei ...
Study Begins for Underpass on Russian Boulevard
The Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC) is conducting a feasibility study to construct a 272-meter-long underpass that will run beneath the intersection of Phnom Penh’s Russian Boulevard and Monivong Boulevard, City Hall announced on its website Friday. “It’s a new plan and another solution to ...
More maids missing in Malaysia: parents
Parents of four girls sent to work as maids in Malaysia filed a complaint with Adhoc yesterday in Preah Vihear province saying they had not heard from their daughters for anywhere from two to nearly five years. Prak Leat, 41, said her daughter had left for ...
Activists arm with fire, photos
Kampong Thom province Villagers patrolling Prey Lang forest on motorbikes yesterday defended their decision to burn more than 360 cubic metres of timber, tear down 10 huts used by “illegal loggers” and confiscate a chainsaw, a villager representative said. “All the villagers who provide evidence about ...
Svay Rieng shooting victims get their say
The three young women wounded in last month’s factory shooting in Svay Rieng province will meet with provincial prosecutor Hing Bunchea today to give their account of the February 20 incident that has yet to produce an arrest warrant. Bun Chinda, 21, Nuth Sokhorn, 23, and ...
Borei Keila evictees ‘will die’ without aid
Borei Keila evictees sleeping under stairs at the site where their houses were bulldozed in January would die unless more aid organisations provided them with food, an NGO representative said yesterday. Amnesty International paid for the Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF) to deliver more than 1,200 ...
Two Arrested, Three Detained For Maid’s Death in Malaysia
Two Malaysian employers of a Cambodian maid were arrested and three others detained this week in Malaysia in connection with the woman’s death, Malaysian police officers said yesterday. Assistant police superintendent Suriman bin Shahrim, said Mey Sichan, 24, was discovered dead on Sunday, and her Malaysian ...
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