The Phnom Penh Post
Senator’s son-in-law rejects land grab claim
The son-in-law of Senator Kok An has rejected accusations the tycoon is attempting to grab six hectares of land from a plot he sold to a South Korean development company 10 years ago. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/senators-son-law-rejects-land-grab-claim
Floods wreak havoc
Residents of Kampot province continued to feel the devastating effects yesterday of widespread flooding in the area caused by the opening of the Kamchay Hydropower Dam, which has left thousands temporarily homeless and crippled local businesses.Keo Vy, spokesman of the National Committee for Disaster Management ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/floods-wreak-havoc
Climate change ‘leadership needed’
Senior officials from the Environment Ministry have called on the developed world to provide more assistance in the battle against climate change, which they said Cambodia is working hard to address. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/climate-change-leadership-needed
Telecom staff in graft inquiry
The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has appointed a six-man team to investigate corruption allegations involving two Telecom Cambodia employees and some $230,000 missing from the state-owned company’s accounts. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/telecom-staff-graft-inquiry
Authorities seize logs in K Speu
Over 100 logs of luxury timber from Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary in Kampong Speu province were seized by authorities in Chbar Mon town on Tuesday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-seize-logs-k-speu
Gov’t urges caution as pig disease declines
The Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday that the spread of the swine illness “blue-ear disease” is starting to decline, but urged for strict controls to be maintained on the transport of pigs around the country. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-urges-caution-pig-disease-declines
Capital’s port on course for IPO
Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) will hold a meeting next week to review the submitted financial statements of Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP), Cambodia’s second-largest port, and to consider its eligibility to list and trade its securities on the stock exchange, a CSX official said yesterday. ...
Sorn Sarath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/capitals-port-course-ipo
Effigy disaster averted: Sar Kheng
A plan to burn an effigy of Prime Minister Hun Sen at a Cambodia National Rescue Party rally in the capital two years ago would have led to the deployment of heavily armed security forces had ex-US ambassador William Todd not intervened to stop the ...
Meas Sokchea and Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/effigy-disaster-averted-sar-kheng
Employee allegedly hit at protest
A protest over attendance bonuses among workers at a factory in southern Phnom Penh turned violent yesterday morning, after the factory owner’s driver allegedly assaulted a worker. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/employee-allegedly-hit-protest
The knowledge economy
Like many children in Cambodia, Puthea* learned from a young age that good grades don’t come cheap.Before leaving for school, the grade 3 student collects lunch money from his mother along with a bribe he pays to his teacher in exchange for what should be ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/knowledge-economy-0
Team clears clinic in child death
A Banteay Meanchey province clinic accused of malpractice after the death of a 4-month-old baby last week was cleared of wrongdoing by a group of investigators from the provincial Health Department. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/team-clears-clinic-child-death
Tourism duo took bribes: ministry
Two officials from the Ministry of Tourism were found by the ministry to have taken bribes of up to $3,000 from candidates for tour-guide examinations in Siem Reap, though neither of the officials have been fired. ...
Chhay Channyda and Zoe Holman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tourism-duo-took-bribes-ministry
Televise NA sessions, Kem Sokha proposes
Ruling and opposition party representatives yesterday agreed that National Assembly sessions should be televised and aired on radio to give Cambodians a greater window into the work of their elected representatives. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/televise-na-sessions-kem-sokha-proposes
Road delays in store
Phnom Penh Muni-cipal Hall has given notice of an expected 45 days of congestion from mid-September during construction at the intersection of Russian and Mao Tse-Tung boulevards in Tuol Kork district, asking for understanding from those affected. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/road-delays-store
Plan hatched to save Ibis
A new 10-year action plan proposed by a host of NGOs aims to reverse the fortunes of Cambodia’s national bird, the giant ibis, which faces increasing pressure from human encroachment in its dwindling habitat.With fewer than 200 mature individuals now believed to survive in the ...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/plan-hatched-save-ibis
Port’s IPO just months away
Cambodia’s second-largest port, Phnom Penh Autonomous Port, says it plans to have its initial public offering before the end of the year.The Post’s Sorn Sarath sat down with the port’s chairman and CEO, Hei Bavy, this week to talk about the progress of the IPO ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ports-ipo-just-months-away
Poacher flees police in M’kiri after killing endangered deer
Forestry Administration officers confiscated the hacked-up body of an illegally hunted sambar deer in Mondulkiri province on Sunday, though the poacher avoided arrest by escaping into the protected forest where the bust took place. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poacher-flees-police-mkiri-after-killing-endangered-deer
Tien Tien workers find jobs, seek pay
About 90 per cent of workers from the Tien Tien factory in Kandal province, whose Chinese owner disappeared leaving some $30,000 in unpaid wages last month, have found new jobs according to staff and union officials. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tien-tien-workers-find-jobs-seek-pay
New bourse rules to lure SMEs
Cambodia’s market regulator has released listing criteria for a new trading platform – with reduced accounting and capital requirements – aimed at making it easier for small- and mid-sized firms to list on the fledgling stock exchange, Sok Dara, deputy director general of the Securities ...
Sor Chandara and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-bourse-rules-lure-smes
Girls outdo boys – again
The results of this year’s much-improved grade 12 national exams have left some with less to celebrate than others, as government data showed a continued large disparity between male and female performances as well as across provinces.According to detailed results released on the Ministry of ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/girls-outdo-boys-again
Outbreak turns consumers away from pork
Pork sales at local markets have taken a hit following the recent outbreak of blue-ear pig disease as fears have spread among consumers that the meat is not fit for human consumption, pork vendors said yesterday.First identified in Siem Reap in mid-August, Porcine Reproductive and ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/outbreak-turns-consumers-away-pork
Trucks carrying timber seized in Kampong Speu
Four large trucks thought to be carrying illegal timber were stopped and impounded in Kampong Speu province by local authorities on Friday morning. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trucks-carrying-timber-seized-kampong-speu
Migrant workers to return from Thailand
Thailand will free five Cambodian migrants jailed for working illegally, who will be returned alongside some 100 other nationals as part of a joint crackdown on migrant labour. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/migrant-workers-return-thailand
Poipet rainfall ‘not alarming yet’: official
Heavy rains in Poipet town have yet to reach a “serious” level, according to the government, despite widespread flooding in recent days. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poipet-rainfall-not-alarming-yet-official