Thai factory accused of abuses
Cambodian migrant workers at a tuna processing company in Thailand have had their passports confiscated by their employers and are effectively trapped in substandard work conditions, research released yesterday revealed. Non-profit research organisation Finnwatch said it had found a number of “problems” with working conditions at ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Arrests greet symbolic Boeung Kak gesture
Thirteen Boeung Kak women, including a 67-year-old, were arrested and forced into police vans and trucks yesterday as about 200 Phnom Penh municipal police and security officers cracked down on a 100-strong demonstration at the site. The group, which included Boeung Kak lake residents, evictees and ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Charges vague as court calls in ADHOC official
In a mysteriously vague citation, Adhoc monitoring head Chan saveth has been called to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to face charges of “providing assistance to specific perpetrators”. Although the court’s summons, which asks saveth to appear on August 24, provides no specifics as to the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Land Issues Are Dominating Talks Between Citizens, Lawmakers
Land conflicts, discrimination, corruption and inequality dominated discussions between citizens and lawmakers at forums across the country this year, according to the U.s.-based organization the National Democratic Institute (NDI). In its annual report, obtained yesterday, the NDI noted “significant consistencies in the concerns facing Cambodians across ss='cambodia-color'>...
Union boss grilled on incitement allegation
The president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions Rong Chhun appeared in Kandal Provincial Court for nearly three hours yesterday, fielding questions stemming from accusations of incitement and defamation, the union boss said. According to Chhun, his appearance was related to a complaint alleging that he had incited ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shots fired at me, says Tep Kolap
In a bizarre series of events, only days after being vindicated by the supreme Court, Phnom Penh International University rector Tep Kolap claimed to have been chased across Phnom Penh yesterday evening by men who shot at her car as she sought refuge in Prime ss='cambodia-color'>...
Boutique hotels on the rise
Local company VLK Royal Tourism Group has embarked on a joint venture with a Thai partner to build OC Hotel, a four-star boutique hotel in sihanoukville. The venture was prompted by rising demand as well as increasing tourist numbers to the coastal area off the ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Cambodia forecasts 4 mln foreign tourists in 2013
Cambodia is predicted to greet 4 million foreign visitors this year, an expected 12 percent rise year-on-year, Tourism Minister Thong Khon said Monday. “Last year, we received 3.58 million foreign tourists, up 24 percent year-on-year, and generated total revenue of about 2.2 billion U.s. dollars,” he ss='cambodia-color'>...
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General Accused of Smuggling $1M In Goods
Military police in Preah Sihanouk province Said yeSterday that they impounded four truckS carrying retail goodS worth about $1 million that a lieutenant general in the Royal Cambodian Armed ForceS had imported from Thailand without paying tax duty. The unpaid import duty amounted to about SS='cambodia-color'>...
Environmental activist Chut Wutty shot dead
Cambodia’s most outspoken activist against illegal logging was shot dead today while escorting journalists near a protected forest in Koh Kong province, where he has repeatedly attempted to expose illegal logging rackets that include military officials. Chut Wutty, the director of Natural Resource Protection Group, was ss='cambodia-color'>...
Six Questioned Over Tonle Sap Reservoirs
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday questioned six people, including a provincial director of water resources and a commune chief, over allegations that they cleared part of a flooded forest in Kompong Thom to illegally construct reservoirs on the Tonle sap. Earlier this month, military ss='cambodia-color'>...
UN Delegates Call on Cambodia to Heed Envoy's Remarks
U.N. representatives from Japan, the European Union and Australia called on Cambodia to heed recommendations made in a report on human rights and economic land concessions by the U.N.’s envoy surya subedi at the Human Rights Council in Geneva Tuesday. While the E.U. commended Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...
Court grants delay in K Chhnang land dispute
Kampong Chhnang villagers who have been hit with a new lawsuit over property that they and the wife of a senior government official both claim said yesterday that coming to court would be impossible, as they did not have a defense lawyer and needed time to locate ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tiger Air's First Flight to Cambodia Lands Monday
Tiger Airways’ first flight from singapore to Cambodia is scheduled to land at Phnom Penh International Airport on Monday morning, making it the latest airline to offer direct flights to the country. Deborah Yeo, a public relations consultant for Tiger Airways, said that beginning Monday, the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Rice exports up 2 percent over last year
Cambodia’s total export of milled rice via the single window office slightly increased by two per cent over the first nine months of this year compared to the same period last year, according to data from the Ministry of Agriculture. speaking at the Cambodian Rice Forum ss='cambodia-color'>...
Trade with Thailand increases
Trade between Cambodia and Thailand increased by about 40 per cent to Us$3 billion in the first nine months of this year in comparison with the same period last year, according to figures provided by the Royal Embassy of Thailand in Cambodia. According to Nat Vimonchandra, ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Second-hand, first in imports
Cambodia imported almost 10 times as many used clothes as new ones in the first 11 months of last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. some 79,217 tonnes of used garments worth $61.5 million were brought in during that period, compared ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Still No Donor to Take Over Communal Land Titling From Canada
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) said yesterday that it had still found no replacement donor to commit long-term to carrying on its work helping indigenous ethnic minority groups secure communal land titles once it pulls out in May. Kan Vibol, project field manager for CIDA’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thumbprint dubious: court
The legitimacy of a lawsuit filed by prominent businesswoman Chhin sokountheary, also known as “Crocodile Grandmother”, accusing Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema of abusing his power by stealing some 34 hectares of privately owned land is being called into question by the Phnom Penh Municipal ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Trees being cleared for Sesan dam
As many as 40 workers are cutting down trees, marking other trees they plan to fell in protected forest areas and piling up luxury timber in a flood-safety zone in stung Treng’s srekor commune, a local official said yesterday. Commune chief seak Mekong said the workers ss='cambodia-color'>...
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