The Phnom Penh Post

Phnong rally in Mondulkiri

About 200 ethnic Phnong villagers gathered in Mondulkiri province’s Bousraa commune yesterday to protest against several companies that hold economic land concessions in the area, which they say are destroying their traditional livelihoods. The villagers from Pech Chreada district accused the Kau Su Dak Lak Company ...

Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/phnong-rally-mondulkiri

‘Settle land dispute or else’

The head of the National Assembly’s top human rights commission has warned Banteay Meanchey’s provincial governor to settle a land dispute involving 230 disabled soldiers’ families from the province’s Malai district, saying he will be sacked if the matter is not settled within three months. After ...

Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98settle-land-dispute-or-else%E2%80%99

Audi opens dealership in capital

Automotive Asia (Cambodia), the only authorised dealer of Audi vehicles in Cambodia, opened its first showroom in Phnom Penh yesterday. The 2,000-square-metre showroom on Monivong Boulevard currently holds just two of the German carmaker’s models, the Q7 and the A8L, with prices ranging between $135,000 and ...

Hor Kimsay
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/audi-opens-dealership-capital

Sonatra takes one-year hiatus

Local stock brokerage company Sonatra Securities has announced it will completely dilute its books and put a halt on all business activities from October 1. In a press release posted on Sonatra’s website last week, the firm stated without an explanation that it was suspending all ...

Hor Kimsay
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/sonatra-takes-one-year-hiatus

Ratanakkiri villagers claim mountain

Minority villagers from Ratanakkiri’s O’Chum district climbed up a mountain to a community forest yesterday morning to challenge a company they claim is illegally felling their trees. ...

Sen David
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-villagers-claim-mountain

UNICEF slams street sweeps

Following the detention this week of homeless children as young as 1 year old at Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey Speu vocational training centre, UNICEF yesterday called for an end to street sweeps and arbitrary detentions. Three people rounded up on Sunday said in separate accounts this ...

Alice Cuddy
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/unicef-slams-street-sweeps

NGOs call for open budget process

A group of NGOs yesterday called for more detailed information on national budgets to be made public before their approval, maintaining that the public had a right to know about and comment on the expenditures that would ultimately affect their day-to-day lives. Tek Vannara, director of ...

Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-call-open-budget-process

Rice husks to pump energy to the grid

Malaysian company PMTI Energy (Cambodia) Co has signed a 10-year deal to supply Electricite du Cambodge with 48,000 megawatts of energy derived from rice husks every year. Phou Puy, president of PMTI, told the Post yesterday that about 70 per cent of the power generated from ...

Chan Muyhong
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-husks-pump-energy-grid

After mass firing, union considers new protests

More than 100 workers who were fired by a Taiwanese-owned garment factory this week for striking over demands for further benefits will meet with union leaders “as soon as possible” to discuss potentially launching protests, a union representative said Tuesday. The workers were fired by the ...

Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-mass-firing-union-considers-new-protests-67806/

Migrant kids’ schooling at risk

A plan floated in Thailand to cut state educational support to migrant workers’ children has drawn the ire of rights groups, which say thousands of Cambodian youths could be denied their basic right to education. According to Thai media, Kamol Rodklai, secretary-general of the Office of ...

Alice Cuddy and Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/migrant-kids%E2%80%99-schooling-risk

China dam discharges in Mekong

A large-scale hydropower dam in China began releasing a deluge of water from its overfilling reservoir on Friday, leaving downstream neighbours to fear imminent inundation. ...

Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/china-dam-discharges-mekong

Mass firing at Xin Fang factory

In a mass firing the scale of which has not been seen since January, Phnom Penh’s Xin Fang garment factory yesterday terminated 106 employees for protesting in front of the factory. Management at the Por Sen Chey district factory on Thursday already sacked nearly 30 striking ...

Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/mass-firing-xin-fang-factory

Civil society, tech team up

With security footage of elephants, clouded leopards and other wildlife caught on hidden cameras in Cambodia’s Eastern Plains flashing on a TV screen, Toby Eastoe of Conservation International noted that their cameras also catch other activity. Presenters ranging from anti-corruption advocates to health service workers ...

Sean Teehan
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/civil-society-tech-team

Sorya bus hullabaloo at an end

A five-month protest aimed at a Phnom Penh bus company came to an end on Thursday when Sorya Transportation Company reinstated three of 17 drivers it fired in April. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/sorya-bus-hullabaloo-end

Kem Sokha wants to boot out old officials

Opposition deputy leader and parliamentary first vice president Kem Sokha promised on Saturday to use his party’s status in parliament to summons and vote out long-serving corrupt government ministers with the help of the ruling party. ...

Meas Sokchea
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/kem-sokha-wants-boot-out-old-officials

University dorm for orphans

Ol Sok Hour, a keen and promising student, had his life turned upside down two years ago when his parents died of AIDS. Yesterday, the NGO celebrated the launch of its Graduation House, a facility that will offer accommodation and support for orphaned tertiary students. ...

Sen David and Alice Cuddy
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/university-dorm-orphans

PPWSA posts its Q2 profits

Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) earnings recovered slightly during the second quarter of the year off the back of increased public water usage, officials said. In a filing to the Cambodia Stock Exchange last week, the PPWSA posted $2.7 million in profits for the second ...

Hor Kimsay
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/ppwsa-posts-its-q2-profits

Caught up in the middle

Sheltering under a blue tarpaulin amid dense woodland in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains, Nhean* sits and waits for night to fall after a long day scouring the protected forest for luxury timber. He says he works for a broker who is a supplier to one of Cambodia’s ...

May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/caught-middle

Khmer Krom vow more protests, again

Kampuchea Krom activists are planning yet another round of demonstrations to protest remarks made by a Vietnamese embassy spokesman in June, demanding Prime Minister Hun Sen cut diplomatic ties with Vietnam until a public apology is issued. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/khmer-krom-vow-more-protests-again

Holiday brings street sweeps

In an effort to “clean” Phnom Penh’s streets ahead of the coming Pchum Ben celebrations, authorities in Daun Penh district yesterday rounded up 27 homeless people. Kim Vutha, district security chief, told the Post that authorities conducted the roundup in Wat Phnom, Srah Chak, Boeung Raing and Chey ...

Sen David
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/holiday-brings-street-sweeps

First half sees values spike for prime residential areas

Property prices in Phnom Penh’s prime residential locations increased by 13.7 per cent in the first half of 2014, while prime office development land prices increased by 7.6 per cent, according to Knight Frank Prime Asia Development Land Indices. Ross Wheble, the independent global property consultancy’s ...

Sum Manet
http://phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/first-half-sees-values-spike-prime-residential-areas

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