Thai flood: thousands may evacuate in Northwestern Cambodia
Due to rising water level in Thailand’s reservoirs caused by heavy rainfall, the Thai government announced the opening of a dam in sa Kaeo province, located about 20 km from the Cambodian border. This decision will potentially affect 10,000 Cambodian families in Poipet, serei sophorn ss='cambodia-color'>...
Renewed MAI flights touch down in Cambodia
Myanmar Airways International (MAI) has resumed flights between Yangon and Phnom Penh after a four-month suspension due to low demand. The MAI flight landed at Phnom Penh International Airport at 7:15pm on saturday. MAI country manager Ye Jhan told a press conference to cover the flight’s arrival ss='cambodia-color'>...
New solar powered lights for Cambodia
Cambodia’s energy sector acquired a new product yesterday with the introduction of solar powered lights from energy company Total, advancing it toward a longer term solution to meeting the population’s energy needs. An industry player described the products as a nice bridge toward seeing Cambodia supplied with ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/Business/new-solar-powered-product-launched.html
Garment Workers Go on Hunger Strike
About 90 garment workers began a hunger strike yesterday in front of the shuttered Kingsland Garment Cambodia, Co. Ltd. factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, following weeks of protests demanding unpaid wages and severance pay. “We want the owners of Walmart and H&M to know ss='cambodia-color'>...
Int’l Groups Urge Gov’t To Free Boeng Kak 15
Freedom House and several other international human rights groups condemned the conviction of 13 Phnom Penh women last week who are locked in a land dispute with CPP senator Lao Meng Khin and called for their release in a joint statement issued Tuesday. The women were arrested ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tai Yang garment strikers sacked
Garment employees who have refused to return to work after striking for three weeks no longer have jobs at Tai Yang Enterprise, which supplies Levi’s and Gap, management said yesterday. Tired of strikes the company claims are costing it Us$10,000 per day, administrative manager Ou Meng ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071657439/National-news/tai-yang-strikers-sacked.html
Villagers’ homes levelled in Pursat
A coalition of about 30 soldiers, police, forestry officials and military police armed with chainsaws razed some 40 houses belonging to villagers in Pursat province’s santre commune yesterday, claiming the villagers were illegally living in a state forest, villagers and officials said. According to resident Chin ss='cambodia-color'>...
Concerns over Cambodia's use of students in land titling scheme
Hun Sen&rSquo;S titling plan waS announced in June and iS intended to reSolve land conflict Stemming from the Khmer Rouge regime&rSquo;S ban on private property in the 1970S. Around 1,600 StudentS have been Sent around the country to demarcate 4.4 million acreS of unconteSted territory, which SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ground broken on Koh Pich for Japan-Cambodia venture
Popular Japanese hotel chain Toyoko Inn has embarked on a joint-investment with Cambodian company OCIC to build a three-star hotel on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich, to cater to the growth of foreign investors and visitors to Cambodia. The groundbreaking ceremony for the 22-storey, 304 unit Toyoko ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/Business/ground-broken-on-koh-pich-for-japan-cambodia-venture.html
Clash erupts at SL factory
Security guardS claShed yeSterday with workerS from two SL Garment factorieS that Supply Levi&rSquo;S, Gap and H&M, aS the number of employeeS proteSting exceeded 5,500 &ndaSh; or more than 90 per cent of the Staff. ProteSter Kim Voeun, 32, Said Security guardS, in the preSence of SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052456366/National-news/clash-erupts-at-sl-factory.html
Semi-skilled builders see wages drop, report says
Real wages for Cambodia’s semi-skilled construction workers fell during the past five years, according to a recent report from market research firm BDLINK Cambodia. A 36 per cent increase in the Kingdom’s consumer price index during the period put semi-skilled workers’ real wages last year ss='cambodia-color'>...
Footwear Sector To Have ‘Running Room’
Cambodia’s footwear industry has experienced significant growth over the past five years, with the number of factories doubling, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce. Meanwhile, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has announced it will monitor and report on footwear factories. As of November, 45 ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013031361901/Business/footwear-sector-to-have-running-room.html
Rubber firm is felling state forest: villagers
Villagers who confiscated land-clearing equipment during a forest patrol yesterday in Khsuem commune in Kratie province’s snuol district are claiming the equipment belongs to a rubber concessionaire attempting to expand into state land, an allegation local authorities denied. Villager representative Mom sokkin said the Binh ss='cambodia-color'>...
Boeung Kak activist to seek bail
A bail hearing for imprisoned Boeung Kak lake land activist Yorm Bopha, 29, will be held this morning at the supreme Court, her husband, Lous sakhorn, said yesterday. Bopha was arrested on september 4 last year and charged with intentional violence over the assault ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032764717/National/boeung-kak-activist-to-seek-bail.html
Cambodia's oil import down by 2 pct in 5 months
Cambodia imported 727,500 tons of petroleum in the first five months of the year, a 2 percent drop from 744,700 tons a year earlier, the figures of the Ministry of Commerce showed saturday. A liter of premium gasoline goes for 1.38 U.s. dollars in Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-07/22/c_132563149.htm
(English) CAMBODIA: Better Factories programme renewed
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Richard Woodard
http://www.just-style.com/news/better-factories-programme-renewed_id120127.aspx
Teen loses both legs in Pailin blast
A landmine blast tore both legs from a 19-year-old man as he searched a wooded area in Pailin province’s sala Krao district for bamboo shoots. Despite losing his legs, Thean Chin survived the explosion, and is receiving treatment at the Battambang Provincial Hospital, sala Krao Deputy ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teen-loses-both-legs-pailin-blast
(English) Fish exports up 10 per cent from 2012
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Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/fish-exports-10-cent-2012
(English) Garment manufacturers planning to sue unions
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Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/garment-manufacturers-planning-sue-unions
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