The Phnom Penh Post
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
Embassy defence: Ministry offers reply to criticism
The government this weekend hit back at criticism of its embassies in China, Malaysia and Thailand, insisting that they are helping migrants in need. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/embassy-defence-ministry-offers-reply-criticism
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
Labour’s 10 per cent rule
The Ministry of Labour has issued a prakas urging employers to follow existing regulations in the Labour Law that limit foreign workers to 10 per cent of the total workforce at any one company. It has warned that failure to stay within this limit – or ...
Sen David and Kevin Ponniah
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/labour%E2%80%99s-10-cent-rule
Competitiveness ranking slips
A lack of innovation has contributed to Cambodia dropping seven spots on the World Economic Forum’s 2014-15 Global Competitiveness Report (GCR), which was released on Wednesday. The Kingdom ranked 95th out of 144 countries, down from 88th in the previous report, according to the GCR. Apart ...
Hor Kimsay
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/competitiveness-ranking-slips
Draft law to address underage drinking
A draft law regulating the purchase and consumption of alcohol in Cambodia will, if passed, set the country’s legal drinking age at 21 years old, according to officials involved with the legislation, which many see as a tool to fight excessive youth drinking and drunken ...
Joe Freeman
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/draft-law-address-underage-drinking
Cambodia set to take second go at rice bid
Despite failing in its latest attempt to win the Philippine government’s bid to import rice, Cambodia will once again throw its hat into the ring when the offer is reissued, industry representatives said yesterday. ...
Chan Muyhong
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-set-take-second-go-rice-bid
Plan for airport faces resistance
Talks between officials in Preah Vihear province and local villagers whose land is in the way of a proposed domestic airport hit some turbulence on Tuesday, as homeowners bristled over the various forms of compensation being offered. ...
Sen David
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/plan-airport-faces-resistance
Don’t judge census: Sar Kheng
A day after the first results of the countrywide census of foreigners were revealed, Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday called on politicians to reserve judgement. ...
Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/don%E2%80%99t-judge-census-sar-kheng
Hun Sen says business breeds bribes
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday defended his government, saying its reputation for corruption is undeserved, laying blame on the private sector for initiating the bribe process and calling out international development partners for applying double standards. Speaking at the Eighth Regional Conference of Anti-Corruption Intiative for ...
Chan Muyhong
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/hun-sen-says-business-breeds-bribes
Union leader says charges baseless
One of six union leaders charged and summonsed for questioning over a strike that ended in government forces shooting dead at least five people in January has sent a message to authorities to hurry up and get his hearing over with. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/union-leader-says-charges-baseless
Protests in city, province keep going
Thousands of employees from two Taiwanese-owned factories continued striking for better working conditions yesterday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/protests-city-province-keep-going
Logistics reforms ‘needed to increase competitiveness’
Cambodia needs to develop a trade logistics plan to align the Kingdom with the regional production network and increase its competitiveness as an investment destination, a senior World Bank economist said yesterday. ...
Chan Muyhong
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/logistics-reforms-%E2%80%98needed-increase-competitiveness%E2%80%99