The Phnom Penh Post

Logs seized in Stung Treng

The recently created nationwide anti-logging commission seized 300 logs of illegal timber at a sawmill near a Vietnamese graveyard in Stung Treng province on Friday. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logs-seized-stung-treng

Minister decries fake journo licence plates

Information Minister Khieu Kanharith took to Facebook on Saturday to remind drivers of vehicles with illegal “press” licence plates that “it will not be a fine, but prison” if police catch them. ...

Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-decries-fake-journo-licence-plates

Sellers urged to return to site of Thailand riot

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has urged nervous Cambodian vendors to reopen their shops at a market in Thailand across the border from Poipet town after a counterfeits bust by Thai authorities resulted in a riot and arrests earlier this month. ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sellers-urged-return-site-thailand-riot

Sokha vows neutrality in Cambodia’s civil service

Cambodia’s civil servants and security forces must be politically neutral, and will be if the Cambodia National Rescue Party takes power after the 2018 election, acting opposition leader Kem Sokha told supporters in Banteay Meanchey on Saturday. ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sokha-vows-neutrality-cambodias-civil-service

Report examines KRT legacy

As parties prepare for Case 002/01 appeal hearings, set to resume on Tuesday, a new report by the Open Society Justice Initiative examines the legacy of the Khmer Rouge tribunal, identifying political interference and insufficient outreach as the court’s primary shortcomings. ...

Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-examines-krt-legacy

US trade treaty to aid kingdom's TPP ambitions

As Prime Minister Hun Sen attends the US-ASEAN Summit in California today, government officials are in the midst of ongoing negotiations with their American counterparts to formulate a trade and investment agreement, which analysts say could be a stepping stone towards one day joining the ...

Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/us-trade-treaty-aid-kingdoms-tpp-ambitions

Fumes blamed as 20 garment workers faint

Twenty female garment workers at Evergreen Apparel factory in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district fainted yesterday because of toilet fumes funnelled through the ventilation system, though heat stress and heavy workloads were also possible factors. ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fumes-blamed-20-garment-workers-faint

Saudis sign MOU on maids

Cambodia and Saudi Arabia on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding to begin work on opening a pipeline for Cambodians to work in the gulf nation, which has been routinely criticised for failing to protect migrant domestic workers from abysmal treatment and slave-like conditions. ...

Chhay Channyda and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/saudis-sign-mou-maids

Banking on human resources

Acleda Bank, Cambodia’s largest bank, is morphing its existing training centre into a full-fledged educational institution, after obtaining a licence last month. The new institute will look to provide bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration, with majors in finance and banking. The Post’s Sorn ...

Sorn Sarath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banking-human-resources

Remaining montagnards not refugees, ministry says

Less than a month after the government announced that more than 170 Montagnard asylum seek­ers would have their refugee applications processed, an Interior Min­istry spokesman said on Wednesday that the group had not met the criteria for refugee status and would be returned to Vietnam. ...

Khuon Narim and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/remaining-montagnards-not-refugees-ministry-says-108113/

Bribes alleged at Phnom Oral Sanctuary

Government rangers, paid to protect the Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary, allow loggers to process and transport illegally felled timber in exchange for bribes, an NGO alleged yesterday after conducting an undercover operation in the protected forest. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bribes-alleged-phnom-oral-sanctuary

Sugar plantation burns in Svay Rieng province

A fire burned through 45 hectares of sugarcane plantation belonging to three companies in Svay Rieng province’s Svay Tiep district on Tuesday, with one company representative suspecting that the fire was intentionally set. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sugar-plantation-burns-svay-rieng-province

US weighs in on anti-Hun Sen protest

Amid fears of a potential reprise of anti-opposition violence that flared in October, a US Embassy spokesman yesterday called on the government “to ensure that no one is threatened, punished, or harmed in Cambodia” if a planned anti-Hun Sen rally takes place as scheduled next ...

Brent Crane
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-weighs-anti-hun-sen-protest

Geopacific’s mine purchase terms amended

An Australian mining firm exploring a significant copper and gold deposit in northern Cambodia has reached an agreement with the tenement’s former owner to amend the terms of its 2013 acquisition of the project, it said this week. ...

Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/geopacifics-mine-purchase-terms-amended

Oil blocks to remain open

The government said yesterday it would postpone bidding on two vacated offshore oil blocks given the low global levels of investment flowing into petroleum exploration activities. ...

Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/oil-blocks-remain-open

Wild animals, illegal meat seized in raids

Authorities have seized more than 160 kilograms of illegal wildlife meat and several live animals during separate raids in Stung Treng and Ratanakkiri provinces over the past week. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wild-animals-illegal-meat-seized-raids

SR airport lounge to be ready by next month

Plaza Premium Group, the Hong Kong-based company that opened its first lounge in Cambodia at Phnom Penh International Airport last month, will open its second lounge in Siem Reap airport by the end of next month, according to the firm that manages the Kingdom’s three ...

Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sr-airport-lounge-be-ready-next-month

NGO notes uptick in gov’t ‘threats’ against online posters

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights released a public notice on Monday noting a “substantial increase” in the number of people being charged for making anti-government or anti-Hun Sen comments in social media. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-notes-uptick-govt-threats-against-online-posters

Maid to return from Saudi Arabia as deal nears

Consular officials yesterday were working to repatriate a Cambodian maid fleeing what she described as unfair working conditions in Saudi Arabia, even as Cambodia’s minister of labour was en route to seal a long-awaited deal to open a pipeline of workers to the Gulf nation. ...

Charles Rollet and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/maid-return-saudi-arabia-deal-nears

Alleged attackers at capitol protest to sue

The president of a tuk-tuk and motodop drivers’ association, whose members were recorded on video brutally beating protesting bus drivers over the weekend, said he would file complaints against prominent union and civil society leaders for sparking the violence his own group was accused of ...

Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/alleged-attackers-capitol-protest-sue

Vacated bodyguard HQ signals end of an era

The former headquarters of late CPP President Chea Sim’s personal bodyguard unit, which was disbanded following his death in June, is now the office of a private security firm. ...

Khy Sovuthy and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vacated-bodyguard-hq-signals-end-of-an-era-107984/

Eight rescued as boat sinks off Sihanoukville

Police, navy and civilian vessels sped to the rescue of eight people stranded 18 kilometres off the coast of Sihanoukville yesterday morning after the speedboat in which they were travelling to Koh Rong was sunk by rough seas. ...

Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eight-rescued-boat-sinks-sihanoukville

Facing threats over protests in US, CNRP seeks help

Facing threats of retaliation if Prime Minister Hun Sen is met by protests during his first official visit to the U.S. next week, the opposition CNRP said on Monday that it would seek a meeting with government officials this week over security concerns. ...

Kuch Naren and Colin Meyn
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/107833-107833/

Prey Lang network calls for protections in logging crackdown

The Prey Lang Community Network has called on the government to include the protection of the sprawling Prey Lang forest in the remit of the recently established committee to crack down on illegal logging. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prey-lang-network-calls-protections-logging-crackdown

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