Activists call on government to adopt forest law
Members of the Prey Lang Community Network yesterday called on the government to approve a forest preservation sub-decree that has been in draft form since 2011. Hoeun sopheap, representative of the Kampong Thom provincial Prey Lang community, said the sub-decree would help protect the biodiversity of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nearly 1,000 workers fired from Winson International garment factory
Eight hundred and sixty-eight workers have been fired from the Winson International garment factory after they refused to obey a Kampong speu Provincial Court injunction last week ordering them back to work within 48 hours. Free Trade Union official Ry sithinet said yesterday that the workers, ss='cambodia-color'>...
New CAA Fleet To Take Flight
Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA) intends to acquire seven more planes by 2015, more than doubling its existing fleet of five, as the airline plans new routes in the next few years to China, south Korea, Hong Kong and India. The plan was unveiled at an industry ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013042665258/Business/new-caa-fleet-to-take-flight.html
Call for Arsenal to Drop Links With Rubber Firm
An online petition has been launched calling on English Premier League football club Arsenal to break its ties with a Vietnamese rubber company accused of land grabbing and deforestation in Cambodia. A report by London-based Glob­al Wit­ness this month named Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) as ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/call-for-arsenal-to-drop-links-with-rubber-firm-26801/
Cambodia Far From Intellectual Property Targets
Cambodia is still a way off implementing World Trade Organization (WTO) rules on intellectual property rights, despite a deadline to do so in just over a month. At the end of June, the group of the world’s 49 least developed countries (LDCs), including Cambodia, run out ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/cambodia-far-from-intellectual-property-targets-26805/
Recovering supply lifts car sales
Thanks to a more stable and undisturbed supply chain, sales of new cars in Cambodia have risen dramatically over the first six months of this year compared with the same period in 2012. But the purchases pale in comparison to the country’s thriving second-hand market. Kong ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013070466651/Business/recovering-supply-lifts-car-sales.html
Malaysian motos to enter market
Naza Bikes sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Malaysia-based Naza Group of Companies, will enter Cambodia’s crowded motorbike sector, according to the local brand manager. “[Business] will probably be launched on the first of next month,” Hay Chamreoun, the manager, said yesterday, adding that construction for the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/malaysian-motos-enter-market
Last Three Kratie Province ‘Secessionists’ Released from Prison
It was not the hero’s welcome that greeted Mam sonando when more than a thousand boisterous supporters cheered his release from Prey sar prison Friday and lifted the popular radio station owner onto their shoulders for an impromptu parade. But for the three unheralded farmers caught ss='cambodia-color'>...
Workers begin Clearing Land for Lower Sesan 2
Workers in stung Treng province have begun clearing forested land with chainsaws in order to make way for the reservoir of a massive hydropower dam that has drawn ire from local villagers who say they have not been informed about the dam’s construction plans. The National ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/workers-begin-clearing-land-for-lower-sesan-2-16743/
H&M Says Garments Made in Cambodian Factory Without Approval
Hennes & Mauritz AB, Europe’s second-biggest clothing retailer, said some H&M garments were produced without its knowledge or approval at a factory in Cambodia where workers were injured in a partial building collapse this week. A supplier of the stockholm-based company placed two minor orders with ss='cambodia-color'>...
Electricity co-operation crucial
Co-operation on the exchange of electricity will be very important in making the 10-country ASEAN bloc move forward to a Single market by 2015, expertS Said, but a Shortage of power Supply in each country remainS a challenge. Speaking to reporterS yeSterday after the opening of SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052465820/Business/electricity-co-operation-crucial.html
Cargo Traffic Grows at Sihanoukville Port
The total weight of goods transported through the sihanoukville Autonomous Port in the first six months of the year was up 15 percent compared with the same period last year, according to figures released Thursday. some 1.51 million tons of goods passed through the port in ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/cargo-traffic%E2%80%88grows-at-sihanoukville-port-34628/
Rainsy, Sokha Draw Large Crowds in Siem Reap
SIEM REAP CITY/KOMPONG THOM CITY &ndaSh; OppoSition leaderS Sam RainSy and Kem Sokha led a parade of more than 20,000 SupporterS on WedneSday through the StreetS of Siem Reap City in what waS the Second-largeSt turnout for an oppoSition rally Since Mr. RainSy landed in SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/rainsy-sokha-draw-large-crowds-in-siem-reap-36614/
Cambodian PM to visit Macau in September
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen will visit Macau in september to participate in the second Global Tourism Economy Forum. Prime Minister Hun sen called for more investment in the country by Chinese and Macau entrepreneurs, and direct flights between Cambodia and Macau. According to Xinhua, the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.macaudailytimes.com.mo/macau/43622-cambodian-pm-to-visit-macau-in-september.html
7 Cambodian Workers Arrested at Nike Contractor
Cambodian police clashed Monday with workers at a factory that makes clothing for the U.s. sportswear company Nike, arresting seven, in the latest violence linked to a strike over salaries, union organizers and rights activists said. The protest at the Taiwanese-owned sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing plant ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hun Sen Mocks Opposition Request for Donors to Freeze Aid
Prime Minister Hun sen on saturday rebuked the opposition for urging foreign donors to refrain from signing any new agreements with the government until after the election and boasted of a new $26 million handed over last week by the European Union (E.U.) E.U. Ambassador ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-mocks-opposition-request-for-donors-to-freeze-aid-31547/
Work of Observers Key to Fair Election, Monitor Says
WASHINGTON DC &ndaSh; The head of the election monitoring group Comfrel SayS a number of election irregularitieS and fraud have taken place during the campaign period, aS obServerS prepare for Election Day on Sunday. Voter liStS have numerouS flawS, with Some people unable to find their SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/work-of-observers-key-to-fair-election-monitor-says/1710055.html
Election worries for tourists
Chris Leyland had forgotten about Cambodia’s national elections when he made plans to travel into Phnom Penh from Vietnam with Jess Jackson, 34, and her two children. Had Leyland, a 41-year-old from Oxford, UK, remembered that it wasn’t going to be a normal weekend in Cambodia, ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/election-worries-tourists
Rights Groups Rebuke Petitions Endorsing CPP Election Win
Rights groups on Wednesday called on authorities to stop circulating petitions asking people to support preliminary results from last month’s national election showing a win for the ruling CPP and promising not to join any demonstration called by the opposition. With both the CPP and opposition ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/rights-groups-rebuke-petitions-endorsing-cpp-election-win-40506/
Tata moves in on agriculture
India-based Tata International Ltd announced yesterday that it would import and distribute its Farmtrac Tractors in Cambodia to profit from the country’s growing agricultural sector. speaking at the launching ceremony at the Koh Pich exhibition centre, Jitendra Manghinani, country manager of Tata south East Asia (Cambodia), ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tata-moves-agriculture