The Phnom Penh Post
Malaysian firm to list on Cambodian stock market
Cambodia’s fledgling stock exchange could receive a much-needed boost after Malaysian-owned power infrastructure provider Pestech Cambodia officially submitted its application for an initial public offering on the CSX, industry insiders said yesterday. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/malaysian-firm-list-cambodian-stock-market
CPP set to sweep Senate
The Cambodian People’s Party is poised to sweep every single elected Senate seat in upcoming elections in February, despite its assurances that multiparty democracy is thriving after the dissolution of the main opposition party. ...
Ananth Baliga and Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/cpp-set-sweep-senate
Workers protest over ‘RCAF’ factory guards
Roughly 100 garment workers protested again in front of Pou Yuen Enterprise Ltd yesterday amid allegations that the shoe factory hired Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldiers to act as security guards for the company. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-protest-over-rcaf-factory-guards
Whistleblower law nearly done: ACU
Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) boss Om Yentieng has said the Kingdom’s whistleblower and witness protection draft law was nearly complete, while at the same time lashing out at Transparency International Cambodia for not assisting in the process, something the group flatly denied. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/whistleblower-law-nearly-done-acu
Families sign up for plan to save birds
A conservation scheme begun eight years ago in Preah Vihear province, in which farmers are recruited to grow organic rice for the international market in exchange for protecting local ecology, has successfully signed up 43 new families in Stung Treng province over the last year, ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-sign-plan-save-birds-0
Court upholds decision to deny bail for RFA duo
The Appeal Court yesterday upheld a decision by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court earlier this month to deny bail for two former Radio Free Asia reporters accused of “espionage”, with the pair’s lawyer calling the decision unfair. ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/court-upholds-decision-deny-bail-rfa-duo
Agriculture sector has seen its share of empty promises
The promises of Chinese agro-industrial investment have been recurrent: Hyped up by local officials and media outlets, with photographs of handshakes and earnest negotiation posted across social media, major deals are announced between government ministries and visiting delegations. ...
Agriculture sector has seen its share of empty promises Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/agriculture-sector-has-seen-its-share-empty-promises
The NGO flying drones to map flooding
In a freshly bulldozed lot in Kampong Krabao commune, across the Stung Sen River from Kampong Thom’s provincial capital, a team from the Czech NGO People in Need (PIN) is preparing a small Styrofoam drone for a survey flight. ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon and Rinith Taing
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-flying-drones-map-flooding
Oddar Meanchey carbon scheme used by Virgin ‘does not work’
Claims the military is involved in systematically clearing forest in Oddar Meanchey province in an area meant to be protected by a carbon credit scheme involving Virgin Atlantic have prompted the UK-based airline to launch an investigation into the program. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/oddar-meanchey-carbon-scheme-used-virgin-does-not-work
WWF gets EU funds for conservation in Mondulkiri
The European Union will be funding conservation efforts in Mondulkiri’s Srepok and Phnom Prich wildlife sanctuaries to the tune of $3.3 million over the next five years, according to a press release yesterday. The project, Advancing CSOs Capacity to Ensure Sustainability Solutions (ACCESS), will be ...
Yon Sineat
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wwf-gets-eu-funds-conservation-mondulkiri
Cambodia’s citric acid exports prompt investigation in Europe
The European Commission has announced it is investigating the potential laundering of Chinese shipments of citric acid through Cambodia, allowing Chinese manufacturers to flout export restrictions. The European Commission (EC) imposed duties on Chinese citric acid in early 2015 after determining that the chemical was being ...
Robin Spiess and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodias-citric-acid-exports-prompt-investigation-europe
New Thai regulations for migrants hit by delay
New Thai regulations imposing stiff punishments on undocumented migrants, their brokers and their employers set to come into force on January 1 will likely be delayed by three to six months, according to Cambodian Minister of Labour Ith Sam Heng. ...
Yon Sineat
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-thai-regulations-migrants-hit-delay
Apparently flouting party law, Funcinpec requests Chinese funding
Following a meeting with a Chinese delegation yesterday morning, Funcinpec President Prince Norodom Ranariddh claimed to have requested monetary assistance from China, an apparent violation of the Law on Political Parties. ...
Andrew Nachemson and Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/apparently-flouting-party-law-funcinpec-requests-chinese-funding
Bokor church transferred for update
On Christmas Eve, the Cambodian government transferred control of the abandoned church on Bokor Mountain to a Catholic community, with plans to renovate the dilapidated house of worship. ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bokor-church-transferred-update
Agriculture Ministry to ink $50 million mango pact
The Agriculture Ministry is set to sign a mango export investment deal with a Chinese firm worth up to $50 million, the second such deal in the country, Agriculture Minister Veng Sokhon said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/agriculture-ministry-ink-50-million-mango-pact
Group ends its probe of chemical weapons
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) wrapped up its investigation into chemical substances left behind by US bombing during the Vietnam War this weekend, according to government newswire AKP. ...
Phak Seangly and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/group-ends-its-probe-chemical-weapons
Industrial development plan to boost economy is ‘90%’ on track
An ambitous 10-year plan to boost the country’s industrial development is “90 percent” on track and has earned the approval of Prime Minister Hun Sen, government representatives said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/industrial-development-plan-boost-economy-90-track
As deadline passes, Borei Keila residents reject final offer
A deadline for a group of Borei Keila residents to accept compensation or leave their homes with nothing passed on Friday, with none of the residents agreeing to move to a resettlement site, and authorities saying they have no right to remain, but with no ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deadline-passes-borei-keila-residents-reject-final-offer
Four parties to square off in February Senate vote
The National Election Committee (NEC) said only four political parties had registered to contest the February Senate elections, from which the country’s main opposition, the Cambodia National Rescue Party, will be excluded following its widely condemned dissolution by the Supreme Court in November. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/four-parties-square-february-senate-vote
Hun Sen says Cambodia is self-sufficient and does not need other countries to ‘destroy peace anymore’
Prime Minister Hun Sen repeated his insistence that Cambodia is self-sufficient and does not need the support of outside countries on Saturday, while continuing to equate “peace” with development. ...
Malaysia firm to bring Oddar Meanchey onto national power grid
Malaysian-owned power infrastructure provider Pestech (Cambodia) Ltd has won a $26 million job to start on a new electricity project in Cambodia that will see Oddar Meanchey province connected to the national power grid, according to a filing on the Malaysian stock exchange. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/malaysia-firm-bring-oddar-meanchey-national-power-grid
Abandoned documents at raided cockfighting ring suggest a network of local payoffs
A trove of documents left behind by law enforcement officials at a recently shuttered cockfighting ring allegedly owned by the nephew-in-law of Hun Sen appears to show organised payments to police and government officials across Kandal province. ...
Mech Dara and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-post-depth/abandoned-documents-raided-cockfighting-ring-allegedly-owned-hun-sens-law
Sokha laywers snub questions
Jailed opposition leader Kem Sokha’s lawyers yesterday boycotted the questioning of their client on “treason” charges at Trapaing Phlong Prison to protest the judge’s decision not to question him at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sokha-laywers-snub-questions
Deadline arrives for Borei Keila residents
Villagers in one of Phnom Penh’s fiercest land disputes said yesterday they are determined to stay in Borei Keila despite today’s deadline to either accept compensation or leave with nothing. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deadline-arrives-borei-keila-residents