Fellow villagers pray for land rights activists
Borei Keila protesters, including many who live in squalor under staircases at the site, have already been compensated for losing their homes and have no right to demand more, Suy Sophan, the owner of developer Phan Imex, told the Post yesterday. About 200 supporters from the ...
R'Kiri duo charged in death of reporter
A Ratanakkiri provincial court has charged a married couple with premeditated murder in the grisly killing of Vorakchun Khmer newspaper reporter Hang Serei Oudom, whose body was found axed to death in the back of a car last week. The suspects, An Bunheng and his wife, ...
Protesters Stage EU faint-ins
In a year in which more than a thousand Cambodian garment factory workers have fainted on the job, activists across Europe are demonstrating for higher wages and better working conditions in the Kingdom’s factories. Throughout the past week, demonstrators mimicked faintings by collapsing on the floors ...
Villagers Claim Chief Signed Away Their Land
Sixteen ethnic minority families in Ratanakkiri province have claimed that they are being forced from their land after a commune chief signed it away, and that commune borders have been redrawn to dispossess them. On Friday, the families, who have been living on 30 hectares of ...
Cham families agree to move from the riverbank
More than 100 Cham families living in boats on the banks of Phnom Penh’s Chroy Chongva peninsula have agreed to relocate upriver after they celebrate the end of the holy month of Ramadan over the weekend, a community representative said on Friday. Matt Kriya, a representative ...
Villagers Claim Injustice in Land-titling Project
More than 200 villagers living on an economic land concession on Pursat province say they were unfairly left out of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s nationwide land-measuring program after local authorities on Saturday printed the names of families eligible for land titles. Chhuon Khurn, chief of Phteah ...
Villagers Petition Against Dam
Ethnic minority villagers expecting to be displaced by a proposed Chinese-built hydroelectric dam in northeastern Cambodia are asking the country’s parliament not to approve a law providing financial guarantees for the project. Villagers living along three rivers that will be affected by the dam spoke ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/villagers-02142013163955.html
Officer Suspended Over Land Program Graft
A local police official in Ratanakkiri province has been suspended for demanding money from villagers before adding their names to a list of people eligible for Prime Minister Hun Sen’s new land-titling program, police and villagers said yesterday. A total of 1,100 student volunteers are being ...
Cambodia plans to ask finance from China to build 300 to 500 km rural roads annually
Samdech Prime Minister Hun Sen said this week that he will talk with Chinese leaders especially his Chinese counterpart PM Wen Jiaboa about finance to build 300-500 km rural roads in the country in contribution of helping poverty reduction and living conditions of the local ...
S'ville Families Get New Court Eviction Order
More than 100 families who had their evictions delayed on Thursday in observance of a nationally broadcast speech by Prime Minister Hun Sen have once again been ordered to move out, according to local officials. Provincial governor Sboang Sarath said yesterday that the provincial court had ...
Families complain to volunteers
Twelve families from Koh Kong province on Nov. 6 filed a complaint with Prime Minister Hun Sen’s youth volunteers and the Department of Land Management, requesting assistance in a land dispute with businessman, Heng Huy. Pok Yon, the families’ representative, said that earlier this year, Heng ...
Kampot pepper in demand
Demand for Kampot pepper, the first Cambodian product to receive Geographical Indication (GI) status, is outpacing current supply even as areas of cultivation are expanding. Industry experts say the fast-growing demand is a result of the pepper’s newly earned GI label, which attests to its quality ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013040164802/Business/kampot-pepper-in-demand.html
Advocacy Group Calls to End Mistreatment of Khmer Krom
A local minority-rights advocacy group has called on the government to end the mistreatment of Khmer Krom people and recognize their rights as citizens of Cambodia as the world marks International Human Rights Day on Tuesday. The Khmer Krom, or “lower Khmer,” refers to ethnic Khmer ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/advocacy-group-calls-to-end-mistreatment-of-khmer-krom-48967/
Poll Shows Cambodia Ranks High in ‘Global Suffering’
Cambodia ranked third worst in “global suffering” last year—behind Bulgaria and Armenia—a significant increase from 2011, when it ranked 14th worst, ac-cording to the worldwide polling group Gallup. A poll released last week on Gallup’s website says 34 percent of Cambodian respondents rated their lives as ...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/poll-shows-cambodia-ranks-high-in-global-suffering-49070/
(English) Opposition leader Sam Rainsy leads protest in Geneva against Hun Sen’s government
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The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=ZDI2YzUzOGNiMWQ
(English) Hun Sen: Minimum wage of workers cannot be increased to USD160
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Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=M2EzNmZiZGVkNjA#sthash.0G8ytVha.dpuf
(English) Mysterious bones stoke conspiracy
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Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mysterious-bones-stoke-conspiracy
អ្នកភូមិបន្តការតវ៉ា តែក្រុមហ៊ុននៅបន្តលុបបឹងដដែល
កាលពីម្សិលមិញ អ្នកភូមិជាង៣០០នាក់ដែលរស់នៅជុំវិញបឹងសំរោង ក្នុងខណ្ឌព្រែកព្នៅ ក្រុងភ្នំពេញ បានតវ៉ាបីថ្ងៃជាប់ៗគ្នាប្រឆាំងក្រុមហ៊ុនឯកជនមួយ ដែលពួកគេនិយាយថា បាននិងកំពុងបូមខ្សាច់លុបបឹង ដែលជាការគំរាមកំហែងដល់របររកស៊ីរបស់កសិករ និង ...
បែន សុខហ៊ាន
http://www.cambodiadailykhmer.com/news/16792/
(English) Capital clash sees 10 injured
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Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-clash-sees-10-injured
លក្ខខណ្ឌការងារ និងថ្លៃឈ្នួលកម្មករសំណង់មានភាពខុសគ្នាទៅតាមការដ្ឋានសំណង់
ខណៈវិស័យសំណង់រីកចម្រើនបានទាក់ទាញអ្នករស់នៅជនបទមកធ្វើការនៅទីក្រុងលក្ខខណ្ឌការងារសំណង់មានភាពខុសគ្នារវាងការធ្វើសំណង់នៅតាមអគារខ្ពស់ៗ និងនៅតាមការដ្ឋានសំណង់បូរីទាំងថ្លៃឈ្នួល និងការរស់នៅ។យោងតាមក្រសួងរៀបចំដែនដី នគរូបនីយកម្ម និងសំណង់បាន ...
Kali Kotoski និង ស៊ុំ ម៉ាណេត
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