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New maid training DIY
Cambodian recruitment agencies are drawing up more extensive training programs for maids being sent to Malaysia following a lifting of a ban on the practice in December. ...
Sen David and Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-maid-training-diy
Villagers say SLC broker cheated them
Some 1,500 hectares in social land concessions granted to families in Stung Treng province are being illegally cleared and sold by the community’s land broker, according to locals and rights group Adhoc. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-say-slc-broker-cheated-them
Vietnam donates to police station in Mondolkiri
The Vietnamese province of Dak Lak is donating cash and materials to build a new police station across the border in Mondolkiri’s Koh Nhek district, according to a police official. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vietnam-donates-to-police-station-in-mondolkiri-104515/
Tonle Sap fish harvest rises, official says
The volume of fish caught to make prahok (fermented fish paste) in the first season on the Tonle Sap Lake and River rose because weather conditions were ideal, but the amount expected for the second season, which begins in February, is likely to be lower ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19468/tonle-sap-fish-harvest-rises--official-says/
Youth justice law ‘due this year’
Cambodia’s first juvenile justice law, in the works for nearly a decade, will be passed by the end of this year, according to the Ministry of Social of Affairs. ...
Zoe Holman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/youth-justice-law-due-year
Patent tax can now be paid at banks, department says
The General Department of Taxation notified patent owners that they have three months to pay taxes owed on their patents, but they can do so at banks this year for the first time, its director general said yesterday. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19467/patent-tax-can-now-be-paid-at-banks--department-says/
Another arrest warrant issued for Sam Rainsy
Another arrest warrant has been issued for opposition leader Sam Rainsy—who is living in France to avoid two years in jail for a defamation conviction—after he failed to turn up for questioning about a separate forgery and incitement case last month. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/104504-104504/
Prime minister defends traffic law, slams sister
Prime Minister Hun Sen hit back at critics of the new traffic law on Tuesday, singling out his own sister for what he said were unnecessarily negative Facebook posts. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-defends-traffic-law-slams-sister-104511/
New player joins busy telecom market
Starting today, Kingtel, a new internet and telecom service provider, will offer internet services to customers, with the company expected to launch call services within the next few months. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-player-joins-busy-telecom-market
Ministry of environment opens new building
The Ministry of Environment on Monday inaugurated its palatial new headquarters in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district, the result of a state-private land swap. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-of-environment-opens-new-building-104401/
Vendors square off with school principal
Vendors ousted from the grounds of Hun Sen Borey 100 Knorng Secondary School in Phnom Penh have accused the acting principal of corruption, including selling almost $2,000 worth of state property and forcing students to pay up to $100 to transfer to the institution. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vendors-square-school-principal
Police accuse firm, Oknha of illegal logging
In a rare move, the National Police on Monday leveled accusations of illegal logging against a number of government-granted economic land concessions (ELCs) in the eastern province of Mondolkiri, singling out a Chinese-owned rubber plantation and wealthy businessman Soeng Sam Ol. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-accuse-firm-oknha-of-illegal-logging-104389/
Rice warehouses are put back on the table in talks with China
The Ministry of Commerce announced last week a $400 million proposal by three Chinese firms to build state-run rice warehousing facilities to increase the Kingdom’s storage capacity. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-warehouses-are-put-back-table-talks-china
New traffic law hurts the poor, citizens say
The introduction of the new traffic law has hit a few potholes, with some citizens complaining that it is too tough on poor families, while analysts say people in rural areas have been left in the dark about the new law’s requirements. ...
Mom Kunthear and Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19443/new-traffic-law-hurts-the-poor--citizens-say/
Commission makes changes in first union draft law meeting
A joint commission of 10 lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties yesterday met for the first time to review the draft law on trade unions, and two of 21 articles that were flagged as controversial by unions have changed slightly. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19441/commission-makes-changes-in-first-union-draft-law-meeting/
Bus protesters vow to defy court ban
Phnom Penh Municipal Court has ordered 50 former and current drivers of Capitol Tours Bus Company to cease their protest in front of its office, but the drivers – most of whom were fired last year – said yesterday they will not only ignore the ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19442/bus-protesters-vow-to-defy-court-ban/
Government takes over reins of Angkor ticket sales
The Cambodian government officially took charge of the ticket sales at the Angkor Archeological Park on January 1, after Prime Minster Hun Sen announced in November an end to the Sok Kong-owned Sokimex’s control of the service. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-takes-over-reins-angkor-ticket-sales
CPP official also accused: Apsara authority
The Siem Reap Provincial Court last week questioned a CPP village chief concurrently with a Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) commune chief after they signed documents allowing villagers to mortgage land claimed by the Apsara Authority, officials said on Monday, but charged and jailed only the ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-official-also-accused-apsara-authority-104393/
PP gov accuses NGOs of fomenting unrest
Phnom Penh Municipal Governor Pa Socheatvong yesterday lashed out at civil society groups he blamed for instigating protests aimed at destabilising the government. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pp-gov-accuses-ngos-fomenting-unrest
Court will summon workers, owners over Bavet city riots
Factory owners and four jailed garment workers will be summoned today to appear at the Svay Rieng Provincial Court in the coming days to provide “clarification” over a series of walkouts and riots that struck two special economic zones (SEZs) in Bavet City last month, ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-will-summon-workers-owners-over-bavet-city-riots-104397/
Police gun crackdown
Stricter controls on guns – including those carried by police – will be put in place following a spate of violent crimes involving firearms in recent weeks. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-gun-crackdown
Land activist arrested, freed in Preah Vihear
An ethnic Kuoy land rights activist was detained by police in Preah Vihear province on Monday after taking part in an ongoing protest against three businesses that villagers claim encroached on their farmland, officials said. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/land-activist-arrested-freed-in-preah-vihear-104391/
Thailand-Cambodia rail link complete by December
Construction of a restored rail link with Cambodia to improve transport in the Mekong sub-region will be completed by the end of 2016, Khmer officials say. The railway connection between Aranyaprathet and Sisophon stopped in the 1970s due to internal conflicts in Cambodia. ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/815452/thailand-cambodia-rail-link-complete-by-december
Newly titled communities hope to protect more than just traditions
After three years of processing, two Phnong villages in northern Kratie province finally received community land titles on Saturday, the first to do so in Kratie province. Currently, there are two more villages with community land titles in Ratanakiri, and seven in Mondulkiri, making eleven ...
Aisha Down
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19402/newly-titled-communities-hope-to-protect-more-than-just-traditions/