SL factory strikes to slow Cambodian garment industry
A sharp increase in garment factory strikes this year has raised eyebrows among industry insiders, who say the disputes could lead to a decrease in year-on-year export growth. The Arbitration Council, which hears work-related disputes such as factory strikes, saw claims nearly double during the first href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/sl-factory-strikes-to-slow-cambodian-garment-industry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012060756642/Business/strikes-hit-garment-boom.html
Investment Or Imperialism? Tracking China's Big Ambitions In Cambodia
A few years ago this scene would have played out in China. More specifically, it would have played out in a Chinese coastal region to which millions of rural folks had arrived looking for work. A huge hangar, piles of fabrics of all colors at both href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/investment-or-imperialism-tracking-chinas-big-ambitions-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
PPWSA stock to list today
Investors, along with the next two companies expected to list on the Cambodia Securities Exchange, will watch carefully this morning the action on the country’s first initial public offering, nine months after the CSX officially opened. After a book-building process that was 17 times over-subscribed, Phnom Penh href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/ppwsa-stock-to-list-today/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012041855632/Business/ppwsa-stock-floats-today.html
UN urges Cambodia to hold companies to account over land disputes
Companies that have seized land, confiscated livestock and destroyed homes and property have gone unpunished, the UN special rapporteur for Cambodia has said. Surya Subedi, professor of international law at Leeds University, said all the communities he had met raised the issue of misconduct by href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/un-urges-cambodia-to-hold-companies-to-account-over-land-disputes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/may/14/un-cambodia-companies-land-disputes
Abused Workers Back Home
A maid who fled her employer after an attempted rape and was then thrown in a detention centre just two days after she gave birth was one of 26 distressed men and women who make up the latest repatriated abuse victims from Malaysia. Detained for as href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/abused-workers-back-home/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David and David Boyle, P. 1
Global death toll of environmental activists rising, report says
In April, Chut Wutty was shot to death in the Cambodian forests he was so outspoken in defending, a slaying that outraged human rights activists suspicious of the conflicting explanations given by police. His death appears to be part of a chilling trend. Growing numbers of activists href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/global-death-toll-of-environmental-activists-rising-report-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Four face charges in incitement case
Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday summonsed three well-known rights workers and a journalist to appear for questioning next week over years-old incitement charges in connection with a long-standing land dispute. In a summons signed by deputy provincial prosecutor Chea Sopheak, the court ordered Radio Free Asia journalist Sok Ratha, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/four-face-charges-in-incitement-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian Confederation Union denied recognition again
The Cambodian Confederation of Unions has been shot down again in its bid for formal recognition as a trade union confederation, president Rong Chhun said yesterday, this time because some of its unions represent teachers. The Ministry of Labour informed the CCU in a letter obtained href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodian-confederation-union-denied-recognition-again/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Shane Worrell and Mom Kunthear, P. 1
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062256959/National-news/ccu-denied-recognition-again.html
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លោកនាយករដ្ឋមន្ត្រី ហ៊ុន សែន បានអញ្ជើញចូលរួមកិច្ចប្រជុំជាន់ខ្ពស៉លើកទី១ នៃវេទិកាស្តីពីសកម្មភាពសកលសម្រាប់ការអភិវឌ្ឍរួម តាមរយៈប្រព័ន្ធវីដេអូកាលពីថ្ងៃអាទិត្យ និងថ្ងៃចន្ទ។ href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodian-pm-attends-first-high-level-meeting-of-forum-on-global-action-for-shared-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
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MFIs defy typically slow first quarter
Total loans and deposits at the Kingdom’s microfinance institutions jumped in the first quarter of 2012 despite what is typically a slow season for the industry, insiders said yesterday. Loans outstanding reached US$708 million for the period ending on March 31, climbing 9.8 per cent from href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/mfis-defy-typically-slow-first-quarter-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Hun Sen aims to attract more Japanese money
Japan’s Sumi Wiring Systems Co Ltd launched production of automobile wiring this month, a company official said yesterday. Japanese companies such as Sumi and Minebea, a ball-bearings maker, have helped Cambodia’s manufacturing industry diversify away from garments, the country’s main manufacturing product and export, and Prime Minister Hun Sen href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/hun-sen-aims-to-attract-more-japanese-money/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia: Police Officers Kill Girl, 15, in Clash With Villagers Over Land
Security forces shot and killed a 15-year-old girl on Wednesday during a clash with about 200 villagers armed with axes and crossbows in eastern Cambodia, in the latest of several violent evictions aimed at clearing land for development. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-police-officers-kill-girl-15-in-clash-with-villagers-over-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Follow-up IPOs still on track
Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, one of two state-owned companies slated to list on the Cambodia Securities Exchange this year, yesterday called the price decline in the country’s first publicly traded company worrisome. The eight-day slide in price that neared Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority’s initial public offering href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/follow-up-ipos-still-on-track/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050956046/Business/follow-up-ipos-still-on-track.html
Kingdom’s logistics firms see diversity
Logistics firms saw a new level of diversity in Cambodian exports, a trend that would protect the economy from external shock, several shipping companies said. The Kingdom is on the right track to diversify and increase the export of agricultural products, while decreasing its reliance on href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/kingdoms-logistics-firms-see-diversity/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Land concession cancelled by PM
The Cambodian government has cancelled a 14,981-hectare concession in the Cardamom mountains granted to an Australian firm for a banana plantation, the conservation group Wildlife Alliance has reported. Wildlife Alliance has long lobbied against the concession in Koh Kong province’s southern cardamom forest on which Indochina href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/land-concession-cancelled-by-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
គណៈប្រតិភូកម្ពុជាចូលរួមកិច្ចសន្ទនាគោលនយោបាយអាស៊ីអាគ្នេយ៍ស្តីពីការថែទាំ និងការអភិវឌ្ឍន៍កុមារតូច នៅឥណ្ឌូនេស៊ី
គណៈប្រតិភូកម្ពុជាដឹកនាំដោយលោកបណ្ឌិត អ៊ុម រម្យណី រដ្ឋលេខាធិការក្រសួងអប់រំ យុវជន និងកីឡា បានចូលរួមកិច្ចសន្ទនាគោលនយោបាយអាស៊ីអាគ្នេយ៍ស្តីពីការថែទាំ និងការអប់រំកុមារតូច (SEAPD on ECCE) ដែលធ្វើឡើងនៅទីក្រុងហ្សាកាតា ប្រទេស href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodian-delegation-joins-southeast-asia-policy-dialogue-on-eccc-in-indonesia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
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Revision for Reuters
Yesterday a Reuters news story, “Insight: China gambles on Cambodia’s shrinking forests,” which also ran in today’s Phnom Penh Post and Cambodia Daily, mentioned Open Development Cambodia, and suggested that we are partnering with a local advocacy group to track concessions. This is not accurate. Like href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/revision-for-reuters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Garment sector peace sought
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on unions, employers and the Ministry of Labour to take a collaborative approach to stamping out violent protests in the garment industry, a unionist said yesterday. During a Saturday conference involving 4,000 people from more than 60 union groups, Hun href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/garment-sector-peace-sought/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012043055870/National-news/garment-sector-peace-sought.html