The Phnom Penh Post
Private sector warns government that high costs imperil investment
Private sector representatives are deeply concerned by the government’s inability to reduce the cost of doing business in the Kingdom, and they warned yesterday that the country would start to lose investors if the situation did not improve. ...
Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/private-sector-warns-government-high-costs-imperil-investment
Royal Group plan for Sihanoukville beach cleared of businesses remains a mystery
More than a month after businesses on a prime stretch of Occheuteal Beach were told to pack up and leave, officials in Preah Sihanouk province are still unaware of local conglomerate Royal Group’s plans for the space. Evictions on the beach began around Christmas time, ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/royal-group-plan-sihanoukville-beach-cleared-businesses-remains-mystery
Former Funcinpec officials file membership complaint
Six officials have filed a complaint to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court asking for their Funcinpec membership to be reinstated after they were removed from the party by its leader, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, at the end of last month. ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/former-funcinpec-officials-file-membership-complaint
Government unit publishes 132-page treatise on threat of ‘colour revolution’
The Council of Ministers released a no-holds-barred book about its efforts to root out a purported foreign-backed “colour revolution” in Cambodia yesterday, lashing out at superpowers like the United States for supposedly trying to cause “immeasurable catastrophe” in the country. ...
Mech Dara and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/government-unit-publishes-132-page-treatise-threat-colour-revolution
Hun Sen lauds Korean détente at Pyeongchang
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday lauded the short-term “reconciliation” between North and South Korea as they compete under a united flag at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, taking a swipe at countries he claimed were “dissatisfied” with the united front. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-lauds-korean-detente-pyeongchang
Freed Mother Nature activists decry ‘injustice’
Two Mother Nature activists, who were released from prison yesterday, said they had been “robbed” of their freedom for the past five months after being arrested for documenting suspected illegal sand-bearing vessels in Koh Kong without evidence that they had committed a crime. ...
Yesenia Amaro and Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/freed-mother-nature-activists-decry-injustice
Government lays out plan for non-tax revenue
The Ministry of Economy and Finance held a workshop yesterday to finalise a draft on a sub-decree managing non-tax revenue sources, part of the government’s attempt to improve its revenue collection. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-lays-out-plan-non-tax-revenue
Second land protest in Kratie
Representatives of more than 400 families in Kratie’s Snuol district protested yesterday following the temporary detention of two fellow community members at a demonstration the day before, when locals blocked a road to demand the government find a solution to their land dispute with a ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/second-land-protest-kratie
Pursat official arrested for falsified paperwork
The head of the bidding office for Veal Veng district in Pursat province was sent to pre-trial detention yesterday on allegations of falsifying paperwork for locals seeking land ownership documents. Heng Donin, Pursat Provincial Court spokesman, confirmed the detention and said district bidding chief Prak ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pursat-official-arrested-falsified-paperwork
Development plans for Koh Rong and nearby islands unchanged by marine park
Businesses expect the establishment of Cambodia’s first marine national park covering seven coastal islands to boost tourism in the area, while government officials said yesterday it would not affect private development scheduled for the islands. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/development-plans-koh-rong-and-nearby-islands-unchanged-marine-park
Cambodia’s progress on gender equality questioned
In its annual report signed yesterday, the Cambodian National Council for Women lauded the government’s efforts to increase gender equality throughout society, though women’s rights activists today raised doubts about the achievements.The council highlights in the report that the economic and political status of women ...
Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodias-progress-gender-equality-questioned
Grab rolls out motorbike service in capital
Singapore-based ride hailing app Grab has added motorbike taxis to its inventory in Phnom Penh, becoming the first app of its kind to offer the popular motodop service. ...
Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/grab-rolls-out-motorbike-service-capital
CNRP visited by Thai officials after protester extradited
Cambodian opposition figures seeking asylum in Thailand have been visited by Thai police in recent days, fuelling fears they may be deported back to the Kingdom. Scores fled Cambodia after the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party was forcibly dissolved following the arrest of its president, ...
Ben Sokhean and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-visited-thai-officials-after-protester-extradited
Ministry meets with protesting garment workers following factory closures
Officials from the Ministry of Labour met with former workers from three garment factories in the capital’s Por Senchey district this morning after the owner absconded without warning last week, leaving 2,000 workers without their severance or salary for the month of January. ...
Yon Sineat and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-meets-protesting-garment-workers-following-factory-closures
More than 140 unexploded mortar rounds found at Pursat school
A farmer preparing a plot of land for a vegetable garden found a cache of unexploded 60mm mortar rounds from the 1970s on the campus of a secondary school in Pursat province’s Kandieng district over the weekend. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-140-unexploded-mortar-rounds-found-pursat-school
UN-backed sustainable fellowship announced
Co-working space Impact Hub, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has launched a new Sustainable Development Goal Fellowship intended to assist entrepreneurs in cultivating innovative and sustainable projects. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/un-backed-sustainable-fellowship-announced
Huge fire kills adult and child in Mondulkiri
A massive fire killed two people, one of them a child, and destroyed at least 220 market stalls in Mondulkiri’s provincial capital of Sen Monorom town early on Saturday. ...
Kuoch Masy and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/huge-fire-kills-adult-and-child-mondulkiri
Senate campaign kicks off with only CPP staging big rally
The Senate election campaign kicked off with little fanfare on Saturday, with only the ruling Cambodian People’s Party holding a large public event. The campaign period will last 14 days, ending two days before the February 25 polls. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/senate-campaign-kicks-only-cpp-staging-big-rally
Cambodia’s economic freedom down slightly last year: report
Cambodia’s economic freedom score dropped seven ranks in the annual Economic Freedom Index released by the Heritage Foundation, a US-based, conservative-leaning think tank. The 0.8 point dip in the score from last year put Cambodia’s economy in the “Mostly Unfree” category, ranking 101 out of ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodias-economic-freedom-down-slightly-last-year-report
Police seek Cham leader for maids sent to Saudi
Anti-human trafficking police are seeking the arrest of prominent Cham Muslim community leader and former Social Affairs Ministry official Ahmad Yahya for sending roughly 20 women to Saudi Arabia to work as maids more than a decade ago, after arresting his nephew last week. ...
Yon Sineat and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-seek-cham-leader-maids-sent-saudi
Hun Sen orders crackdown on overloaded trucks
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday ordered a crackdown on overloaded and modified trucks on Friday, threatening to fire officials who let drivers off easy and to imprison drivers who protest. The prime minister issued the order at the groundbreaking of a bridge in Kampong ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-orders-crackdown-overloaded-trucks
Plots given to some in land dispute with gold mining firm
Officials with the Preah Vihear Land Management Department last week measured plots of land for 16 of the 56 families who last month filed a petition seeking intervention in a land dispute with gold mining firm Delcom. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/plots-given-some-land-dispute-gold-mining-firm
Villagers displaced by Lower Sesan II Dam will get facilities: government
In an apparent reversal, Stung Treng province authorities on Friday said they would build public infrastructure for the 83 households from Srekor and Kbal Romeas villages who were displaced by flooding from the reservoir of the controversial Lower Sesan II Dam but declined to move ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-displaced-lower-sesan-ii-dam-will-get-facilities-government
Families dispute mine land in Preah Vihear
Officials from the Preah Vihear provincial Land Management Department and Rovieng district yesterday inspected a piece of land at the centre of a dispute between gold mining company Delcom and 56 families following a petition the families filed last month at the Ministry of Land ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-dispute-mine-land-preah-vihear