(English) Chainsaws stayed busy in past year
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Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chainsaws-stayed-busy-past-year
Factory for named brands slammed for faintings
Low wages and a lack of occupational health and safety measures led to a mass fainting on Tuesday at a Phnom Penh garment factory that produces clothes for well-known brands Wal-Mart, Target and Reebok, according to a statement released by the Community Legal Education Center ...
សហគមន៍ស្នើដោះស្រាយវិវាទដីធ្លីដោយតម្លាភាព
ក្នុងការប្រារព្ធទិវាសហគមន៍ក្រីក្រក្នុងទីក្រុងអង្គការសង្គមស៊ីវិលដែលធ្វើការពាក់ព័ន្ធនឹងដីធ្លីនិងប្រជាសហគមន៍ដីធ្លីក្នុងរាជធានីភ្នំពេញបានស្នើជាថ្មីឲ្យអាជ្ញាធរ និងស្ថាប័នពាក់ព័ន្ធដោះស្រាយវិវាទដីធ្លីដោយសន្តិវិធីតម្លាភាពនិងឈរលើគោលការណ៍ច្បាប់ ចៀសវាងការបណ្តេញចេញដោយបង្ខំ ការប្រើអំពើហិង្សា និងការប្រើប្រាស់ប្រព័ន្ធតុលាការគាបសង្កត់ទៅលើប្រជាពលរដ្ឋ។ ការស្នើនេះ បានធ្វើឡើងនៅក្នុងវេទិកាស្ដីពីសេរីភាពបញ្ចេញមតិ និងការអភិវឌ្ឍទីក្រុងដោយមានការចូលរួមពីសហគមន៍ក្រីក្រតំណាងសហគមន៍ជាង៤០ និងអង្គការសង្គមស៊ីវិលសរុបប្រមាណ ២០០នាក់ កាលពីថ្ងៃម្សិលមិញ នៅសាលារៀនអន្តរទ្វីបអាមេរិកាំង។ ...
ប៉ិច សុធារី
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Prey Long Forest Patrols Cut Short by Torrential Rain
Community groups have aborted their coordinated patrol of Prey Long forest in search of illegal logging because of heavy rain, a Community member said yesterday. The Prey Long People’s Network had planned to continue its patrol-which began Friday and had already found at least 65 cubic ...
Bonna Reality inks deal with Malaysian real estate developer
Bonna Realty Group yesterday signed an agreement with the National 6A Investment, a Malaysian real estate developer, to be an authorised sales agent for a 10-storey condominium that is currently being constructed and is expected to be finished by the end of 2014. The National 6A ...
Local Police Try to Shut Down Land Meeting
Local police in Ratanakkiri province’s Veun Sai district yesterday tried to shut down a community meeting in which villagers were being educated about land rights, because it was being held without permission, rights workers said. According to Pen Bonnar, provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc, two ...
Rising tourism prompts ABA growth in Siem Reap
The Advanced Bank of Asia (ABA) is expanding its Siem Reap operations to take advantage of the growing tourism sector. The bank is moving out of its 160-square-metre Sivutha Street office into a 1,080-square-metre, three-level office across the road, and it is now one of the ...
Firm Ordered to Temporarily Stop Clearing in Prey Long Forest
Authorities in Kompong Thom province have ordered the owners of a Vietnamese rubber company to temporarily cease the clearing of part of Prey Long forest after local farmers alleged that the firm was encroaching on villagers’ land. About 300 members of the Prey Long People’s Network ...
Cambodia Criticized for Asean Meeting Failure
The “one community, one destiny” motto Cambodia adopted when it took over the rotating chairmanship of Asean this year could not have sounded more hollow as it did Friday when the 10-member bloc failed to produce a joint closing statement for the first time in ...
Villagers in Kampong Chhnang win land back
Prime Minister Hun Sen has reclassified 4,158 hectares of a massive land concession owned by the wife of Senator Lao Meng Khin from his own party for displaced families in Kampong Chhnang province. A jubilant representative of the 4,506 families who have long battled against ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012113060025/National-news/villagers-win-back-land.html
Hundreds fired after garment strike ends
Management at one of Asia’s largest garment producers yesterday fired at least 600 employees, days after thousands returned to work following a two-week strike. Most of the workers fired by SL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd – which supplies Gap, Levi’s and H&M – were members of ...
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-fired-after-garment-strike-ends
SMEs look to regional buyers
Cambodia’s ASEAN Economic Minister yesterday urged small and medium-size enterprises to focus on countries in Southeast Asia, rather than Europe and the United States, for export destinations. Cham Prasidh, also the minister of commerce, said yesterday that regional markets have traditionally held a second place to ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012053056469/Business/smes-look-to-regional-buyers.html
Family evicted after ‘Death threats’
An ethnic Jarai family has been evicted from their Ratanakirri province village where they say they received death threats over a land dispute. This is the third time the family has abandoned their home after they field a lawsuit against three commune authorities in 2011, alleging ...
Phak Seangly, P.6
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(English) As fish stocks vanish, locals flout law to survive
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Phorn Bopha and Alex Consiglio
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-fish-stocks%E2%80%88vanish-locals-flout-law-to-survive-63567/
(English) Forest almost gone: Adhoc
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Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-almost-gone-adhoc
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មន្ដ្រីឲ្យដឹងថា ការប្រមូលផលត្រីក្នុងរដូវប្រមូលផលឆ្នាំនេះនឹងមានចំនួន ៧០ ម៉ឺនតោនដូចឆ្នាំមុនដោយសារតែកម្រិតទឹកជំនន់ទាបកាលពីប៉ុន្មានខែថ្មីៗនេះ។ ...
ចាន់ មុយហុង
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Banong Families Receive Communal Land Titles
More than 70 ethnic minority Banong families from two separate villages in Moldolkirri province’s Keo Seima district received communal titles to a combined 1,031 hectares of ancestral land from the Land Management Minister Im Chhun Lim on Saturday. Communal land titles were established under the 2001 ...
Cambodia urges to boost country's exports
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday urged local producers to increase production in order to boost the country’s exports when the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) turns into a community at the end of 2015. He [Hun Sen] said when ASEAN became [sic] ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-06/06/c_132436133.htm
Illegal Logging Threatens UN’s Carbon Trading Project
The military’s ongoing clearing of community forests in Oddar Meanchey province risks derailing Cambodia’s first forest-based carbon trading scheme backed by the U.N., according to the latest assessment of the project. community forest groups, who stand to earn millions from the project, said on Wednesday that ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-logging-threatens-uns-carbon-trading-project-21395/
Village patrols seize land-clearing tools
Jarai villagers in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district escalated the defense of their protected land this weekend, confiscating the keys and batteries of bulldozers owned by the Vietnamese company they claim has been illegally clearing the area, community leaders said yesterday. The move comes after a number of ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050665426/National/village-patrols-seize-land-clearing-tools.html