The Phnom Penh Post
Wrong visas: Recruitment firm accused once again
Thai immigration authorities sent 22 Cambodian migrant workers home on Sunday, saying their visas, which did not allow them to work in Thailand, had expired more than a week ago. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/wrong-visas-recruitment-firm-accused-once-again
RMA mulls listing its Kingdom food arm
Bangkok-based RMA Group is considering listing its Cambodian food and beverage business, Express Food Group, on the Cambodia Securities Exchange, with a proposed IPO later this year. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/rma-mulls-listing-its-kingdom-food-arm
April 1 debut set for new bridge
The Neak Leung bridge, which spans the Mekong River on the border between Kandal and Prey Veng provinces, will officially open to traffic on April 1, ahead of the busy Khmer New Year holiday, officials confirmed yesterday. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/april-1-debut-set-new-bridge
Duo tried after bust
Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday heard the case of a local journalist and a Chinese national accused of selling nearly 40 grams of methamphetamine to undercover police last August. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/duo-tried-after-bust
More trafficked in 2014: gov’t
A mother whose daughter was trafficked into the Malaysian sex industry has pleaded with lawmakers to help rescue her child, as new figures from Cambodia’s Interior Ministry reveal an upswing in human trafficking victims rescued last year. According to the ministry, although sex trafficking cases ...
Sen David, Buth Reaksmey Kongkea and Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/more-trafficked-2014-govt
Activist Alex arrested
Outspoken environmental activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson has been arrested by Interior Ministry officers and taken in an unmarked car to the Ministry of Interior, a rights group and witnesses have said. Cheang Sophos, a senior investigator for local rights group Licadho, said that Gonzalez-Davidson was arrested at ...
Tat Oudom and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/activist-alex-arrested
New push for maternal health
The government on Saturday announced a plan to decrease the number of maternal deaths in the Kingdom by 50 per cent in the future by promoting countrywide pregnancy-related preventative measures among women. In the recently released preliminary results of the 2014 Cambodia Demographic and Health ...
Sen David and Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/new-push-maternal-health
Auto parts firm Denso bets $19 million on plant
In a bid to ramp up vehicle production in ASEAN. auto parts manufacturer Denso Cambodia has announced the construction of a new $19 million plant in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone. The facility will produce magnetos and oil coolers with production slated to begin in ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/auto-parts-firm-denso-bets-19-million-plant
Road safety: Accidents ‘down over New Year’
The number of traffic accidents over Lunar New Year has decreased since last year due to more widespread knowledge of the upcoming traffic law, government officials and road safety experts say. ...
Mom Kunthear and Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/road-safety-accidents-down-over-new-year
Fire, faintings: Workers to return after two days off
Most employees at a shoe factory where more than 40 workers – including two pregnant women – fainted on Saturday afternoon will return to work today. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/fire-faintings-workers-return-after-two-days
Water firm calm despite cut
Revenue from the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority – the first listed company on the Cambodian stock exchange – will be cut 800 million riel ($200,000) per year as the company implements a concession plan to lower water prices. The plan was passed after the government ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/water-firm-calm-despite-cut
Laos dam ‘elephant in room’
Conservation groups have called on Prime Minister Hun Sen to address “the elephant in the room” and lobby Laos’ president to postpone his country’s controversial Don Sahong dam project when the leaders meet later this week. Arriving on Thursday, Laotian Head of State Choummaly Sayasone will ...
Vong Sokheng and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/laos-dam-elephant-room
Licadho asked to show its data
Dismissing a recent report showing a sharp increase in land disputes, the government has said such conflicts are in fact decreasing and formally called on rights group Licadho to release its findings. Licadho reported last week that it recorded about three times as many new land ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/licadho-asked-show-its-data
Military police official dismisses graft claims
A senior National Military Police commander has denied accusations he’s been skimming his officers’ wages, insisting the money docked covered their food. Via a statement by military police spokesman Kheng Tito, the deputy chief of the Security Information Department, Hong Vynal, hit back at claims on ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/military-police-official-dismisses-graft-claims
CNRP defector slams reports on departure
Opposition party defector Van Sam Oeun yesterday slammed reports that his recent move to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party was due to alleged bankruptcy and that he had been “bought” by Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/cnrp-defector-slams-reports-departure
Land disputes surge: Licadho
The number of families newly affected by land disputes last year was three times that of 2013, according to figures documented by local rights group Licadho. In a statement released yesterday, the group “strongly expresse[d] its concern” at the surge in disputes, noting that in 2014 ...
Alice Cuddy and Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/land-disputes-surge-licadho
Sanitation check-up
The Ministry of Education will ask government schools to provide information on toilet numbers, fresh water supply and vegetable gardens as part of efforts to tackle poor sanitation and nutrition discouraging students from attending class. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/sanitation-check
Mothers say children unwilling witnesses
Three mothers say they fear their sons are being coerced into fabricating molestation accusations against a man they know as the patron saint of Phnom Penh’s riverside but who police and child-protection activists say is a predator. ...
Laignee Barron and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/mothers-say-children-unwilling-witnesses
Prey Speu detention centre still going strong
Almost 450 people were rounded up from the capital’s streets last year and sent to the notorious Prey Speu social affairs centre, where in November a man died after being denied medical treatment, according to an annual report from Phnom Penh’s Social Affairs Department. ...
Sen David and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/prey-speu-detention-centre-still-going-strong
Chhouk Bandith still at large three years on
Three female garment workers who were shot by former Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith during a February 2012 factory demonstration called on the government yesterday to imprison the former politician, who has been on the run for three years as of today. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/chhouk-bandith-still-large-three-years
Trafficking victims eye homeland
A woman lured into marriage in China and a group of men forced to work on a Thai fishing boat in Indonesia are the latest Cambodians rescued after being trafficked abroad. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/trafficking-victims-eye-homeland
Recruiter, aggrieved recruits strike a deal
During negotiations yesterday, allegedly defrauded workers in Kampong Thom and a recruitment agency hammered out a deal that saw limited compensation delivered to the aggrieved would-be migrants. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/recruiter-aggrieved-recruits-strike-deal
Prosecutor accused of ‘threats’ to Singaporean
A senior Phnom Penh Municipal Court official has been accused of threatening a Singaporean businessman in an attempt to pressure him into confessing to a crime he did not commit. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/prosecutor-accused-threats-singaporean
Recruiter, aggrieved recruits strike a deal
During negotiations yesterday, allegedly defrauded workers in Kampong Thom and a recruitment agency hammered out a deal that saw limited compensation delivered to the aggrieved would-be migrants. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/recruiter-aggrieved-recruits-strike-deal