KR Bank Official Quizzed Over Disappearances
On his second day of questioning by prosecutors at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday, the deputy director of the foreign commerce bank during the Pol Pot regime, sar Kim Lomouth, said he feared for his safety following the purging of several superiors at the Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...
Government Denies Reports on Mining Corruption and Hun Sen
The Cambodian government on Thursday dismissed media reports in Australia linking Prime Minister Hun sen to a mining company under investigation there for corruption. Earlier this week, The Age newspaper reported on Australian documents that described officials from BHP Billiton seeking a special meeting with Hun ss='cambodia-color'>...
PPWSA pays dividends
Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) will allocate itS firSt dividend to ShareholderS Since liSting on the bourSe, on April 10. According to an announcement by PPWSA, the annual dividend will be diStributed in caSh. The dividend payout ratio iS Seven per cent, with a total dividend SS='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013040564909/Business/ppwsa-pays-dividends.html
Teacher raises made public
In the middle of an election campaign in which wages have been a prominent issue, the Ministry of Education did something out of the ordinary Monday: It made public the official pay scale it uses to remunerate its teachers. The list contains figures that are somewhat ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teacher-raises-made-public
Commune officials to solve factory disputes
In response to a growing number of strikes in the country’s highly profitable garment sector, the government trained 15 handpicked commune officials yesterday to mediate and resolve factory disputes. The training was designed to teach commune councillors to defuse and resolve conflict, Buth Ji, director of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/commune-officials-solve-factory-disputes
Reform talk from CPP
The Cambodian People’s Party is prepared to make sweeping changes during its fifth government mandate, including improving the often-criticised judiciary and prioritising social justice, a government spokesman said. This “period of reform” would see deep-seated changes across a number of ministries in response to grievances expressed ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/reform-talk-cpp
Can’t see the forest …
The percentage of Cambodia covered in forest has fallen from about 72 per cent in 1973 to only about 46 per cent in 2013, satellite image data released yesterday shows. A series of animated maps that Open Development Cambodia (ODC) produced from NAsA satellite images detail ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/can%E2%80%99t-see-forest-%E2%80%A6
(English) Cambodian Opposition Leaders Go Into Hiding Amid Protest Crackdown
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Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/clampdown-01042014123656.html
(English) USAID nutrition project to benefit mothers and young children
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The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=ZmY2MjExZjAwMDc
ប្រឈមនឹងការកាត់ជំនួយ រដ្ឋាភិបាលបង្ខំចិត្តដឹកនាំការប្រយុទ្ធប្រឆាំងអេដស៍
ក្រុមមន្ត្រីនិងអ្នកជំនាញបាននិយាយថា ម្ចាស់ជំនួយសំខាន់ពីរដែលបានគាំទ្រការប្រយុទ្ធប្រឆាំងហ៊ីវ/អេដស៍ដោយជោគជ័យជាខ្លាំងនៅប្រទេសកម្ពុជា គ្រោងនឹងកាត់ជំនួយរបស់ខ្លួនជាច្រើន ជាការដាក់សម្ពាធលើរដ្ឋាភិបាលឲ្យបង្កើនការចំណាយផ្ទាល់របស់ខ្លួន។ យោងតាមលោក លី ពេញសុន អនុប្រធានមជ្ឈមណ្ឌល ss='cambodia-color'>...
ខេមបូឌា ដេលី
http://www.cambodiadailykhmer.com/news/20801/
Commune Vote Predictable, but Margins Less So
With Sunday&rSquo;S commune electionS quickly approaching, the five main political partieS are all predicting SubStantial gainS over how they faired in the laSt election in 2007, though none deny that the ruling Cambodian People&rSquo;S Party (CPP) will continue to dominate the pollS. And with the entrance SS='cambodia-color'>...
New species, old threats to wildlife: WWF
From a devilish-looking bat to a frog that sings like a bird, scientists have identified 126 new species in the Greater Mekong area, the WWF said Tuesday in a new report detailing discoveries in 2011. But from forest loss to the construction of major hydropower projects ss='cambodia-color'>...
Workers Supplying Wal-Mart Continue Protests
About 80 workers from a garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district – which supplies women’s underwear to U.s. retail giant Wal-Mart – protested yesterday, demanding that the factory owner settle their severance payments, workers and union representatives said. Workers at the Kingsland Garment Cambodia factory ss='cambodia-color'>...
Union Tells EU, US to Not Inspect Activist Case
More than 100 moto-taxi and tuk tuk drivers who are part of a little-known workers union submitted a letter to the U.s. Embassy and the European Union Delegation yesterday, asking them not to intervene in the case of Boeng Kak activist Yorm Bopha. It is not ss='cambodia-color'>...
Garment sector: Protests go on in spite of wage rise
Four days after the Labour Advisory Committee approved a monthly minimum wage increase to $75 starting in May, more than 500 workers at the su Tong Fang garment factory yesterday demanded that their company begin the wage increase one month early. ss='cambodia-color'>...
BoC is set to expand after rapid growth
Having seen rapid growth since launching in Cambodia two years ago, the Bank of China (BoC) plans to expand its business operations here. According to a Xinhua report, BoC’s deputy governor Zhu shuming said during his visit to Cambodia last Friday that its local operations have ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013042265138/Business/boc-is-set-to-expand-after-rapid-growth.html
Water investors criticise return
Holders of shares in the Phnom Penh Water supply Authority (PPWsA) have criticised the level of dividend payment that they will receive from the company. PPWsA, which is the only company listed on the Cambodia securities Exchange (CsX), was to pay its first dividend to 1,500 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013041165029/Business/water-investors-criticise-return.html
Governor Seeks Curb in Rubber Resin Smuggling
Kompong Cham provincial governor Lun Lim Thai on Tuesday ordered authorities to step up long-running efforts to reduce the smuggling of unprocessed rubber resin from the province into Vietnam. Those smuggling resin to processors across the border should be more actively pursued and instead forced to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/governor-seeks-curb-in-rubber-resin-smuggling-46966/
Forest Falls in Ratanakkiri to the Tune of Chainsaws, Trucks
LUMPHAT WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, Ratanakkiri Province &ndaSh; From behind the corrugated metal wallS of Daun Penh Agrico&rSquo;S wood depot, the raSpy buzz of a chainSaw rattled through the Surrounding foreSt on Monday afternoon. AS the chainSaw revved and cut, a heavy-duty truck packed full of long, Sawn SS='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/forest-falls-in-ratanakkiri-to-the-tune-of-chainsaws-and-trucks-49134/
Hopes high for maid program
In one corner of the cavernous training centre, a woman patiently strips the baby blue sheets off a queen-size bed, removing the flower-patterned pillowcases and folding them neatly to one side. Under the watchful eye of an instructor, she then remakes the bed, carefully fluffing the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hopes-high-maid-program