The Phnom Penh Post
New electronics manufacturer due at PPSEZ
Thai-listed electronics manufacturer, SVI Public Limited, will be next in line to join Cambodia’s emerging light-manufacturing industry. ...
Xueying Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-electronics-manufacturer-due-ppsez
Truck stopped with huge rosewood load
An inspection of a truck transporting cassava through Siem Reap province’s Kralanh district on Tuesday revealed a massive haul of luxury rosewood. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/truck-stopped-huge-rosewood-load
Rainsy praises bipartisanship despite sentences
Only days before 11 opposition activists were imprisoned on charges widely branded as politically motivated, Prime Minister Hun Sen personally warned Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy to keep his troops in line and raised the spectre of possible jail sentences.In a text message ...
Meas Sokchea and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-praises-bipartisanship-despite-sentences
Uni team seeks maps of disputed borderline
A new team of border researchers at the Royal Academy of Cambodia yesterday called for relevant stakeholders to submit maps of the disputed Cambodia-Vietnam border, in what it says is an attempt to ensure no political party uses the thorny issue to its advantage in ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/uni-team-seeks-maps-disputed-borderline
Corruption reporting kudos for Post journos
A tale of alleged bribery in Kampot earned Post journalist Phak Seangly first place yesterday as Transparency International Cambodia awarded its first-ever prizes for Outstanding Reporting on Corruption in Cambodia. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/corruption-reporting-kudos-post-journos
China brides return to Cambodia after 2 years
Two more Cambodian women who were allegedly cheated by human traffickers into marrying Chinese men returned home yesterday. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/china-brides-return-cambodia-after-2-years
Sea dispute won’t affect diplomacy, official says
Cambodia’s close ties to China will not compromise its relationship with other regional powers, an official said after a meeting between Foreign Minister Hor Namhong and a top Chinese diplomat yesterday. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sea-dispute-wont-affect-diplomacy-official-says
Minister calls for ban on chainsaw imports
A ban on the importation of chainsaws into Cambodia could be in the offing, after agriculture officials this week called for a nationwide crackdown on the illegal logging trade. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-calls-ban-chainsaw-imports
New asylum seekers in Phnom Penh
Just days after a dozen Montagnard asylum seekers returned to Vietnam having given up on being granted refugee status, 11 more arrived in Phnom Penh over the weekend, according to the United Nations. ...
May Titthara and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-asylum-seekers-phnom-penh
Direct China cargo on course
Two Chinese shipping giants will soon sign agreements with Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (SAP), paving the way for exporters to move cargo directly from Cambodia to China, according to a senior port official. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/direct-china-cargo-course
Gov’t promises border action
A government delegation yesterday told Tbong Khmum provincial and local officials it would resolve a border dispute with Vietnam in Memot district “very soon”, as villagers blocked from their farms in the contested area by Vietnamese authorities say they fear looming food shortages. ...
Vong Sokheng and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-promises-border-action
Report slams push for rubber
Protected areas and other biodiversity hotspots across Southeast Asia are increasingly under threat from expanding rubber plantations, with Cambodia at risk of losing more ecologically important land than any of its neighbours, a recent study reports. ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-slams-push-rubber
Ministry, NGO to push training
Youth vocational training may be the key to curbing migration and combating poverty in Cambodia’s most vulnerable communities, according to child welfare NGO Pour un Sourire d’Enfant (PSE), which is helping to roll out a technical skills program for high school dropouts. ...
Rebecca Moss
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-ngo-push-training
Lawmaker’s immunity threatened
Ruling party lawmaker Chheang Vun yesterday said opposition parliamentarian Um Sam An’s legal immunity could be suspended for criticising National Assembly President Heng Samrin, but refused to specify what law, if any, the Cambodia National Rescue Party member had broken. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lawmakers-immunity-threatened
IFC loans $10 million to HKL for rural SMEs
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has given Cambodian microfinance institute Hattha Kaksekar Ltd (HKL) a loan of up $10 million, aiming to boost access to finance to small- and medium-sized enterprises in Cambodia’s rural areas. ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ifc-loans-10-million-hkl-rural-smes
Protesters decry ‘land grabbing’
About 300 protesters from Svay Rieng and Preah Sihanouk provinces marched to parliament yesterday to file petitions urging the local authorities to intervene to resolve ongoing land disputes in their homelands. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protesters-decry-land-grabbing
Fishing busts up, penalties lag
The first half of 2015 has seen a nearly 50 per cent increase in illegal fishing busts, though the vast majority resulted in no punishment for offenders, a new report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries shows. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fishing-busts-penalties-lag
Gov claims NGOs are recruiting protesters
Phnom Penh Municipal Governor Pa Socheatvong yesterday accused civil society organisations of paying land rights demonstrators to protest against a controversial NGO law that recently passed the National Assembly. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov-claims-ngos-are-recruiting-protesters
Logging baron claims tree-felling days over
Preah Vihear province Try Pheap wants to turn over a new leaf.In an exclusive interview with the Post at the opening ceremony of his vast plantation in Preah Vihear province on Sunday, the media-shy tycoon spoke of a desire to cultivate a new image – ...
May Titthara and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-baron-claims-tree-felling-days-over
Drug arrests spike in first half of year
The number of people arrested for drug trafficking during the first six months of this year has increased by 159 per cent, police officials announced on Friday. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drug-arrests-spike-first-half-year
Seafood, tourism, rice top Russia’s trading wish list
Russia is looking to up its investment in agricultural products, mainly rice and seafood, and the tourism sector in the Kingdom, after Russian Minister for Communications and Mass Media Nikolay Nikiforov met with Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol last week. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/seafood-tourism-rice-top-russias-trading-wish-list
Land rights protesters arrested
Six activists from Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila and Boeung Kak communities were arrested on Saturday morning while handing out leaflets denouncing the controversial NGO law, passed by the National Assembly last week. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-rights-protesters-arrested
Wild gaur poached in protected forest
An endangered gaur – a species of wild bovine – was reportedly shot dead near a protected forest last Wednesday in Stung Treng’s Siem Pang district. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wild-gaur-poached-protected-forest
Rainsy tells FTU to push for $180
Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) president Sam Rainsy yesterday told unionists that his party supports a minimum wage increase in the Kingdom’s garment industry to $180 per month in 2016. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-tells-ftu-push-180