The Phnom Penh Post

Election ranks low: study

Cambodia’s national election in July ranked 69th out of 73 elections held worldwide between mid-2012 and the end of 2013 for electoral integrity, an election research group based at the University of Sydney and Harvard University has found. The Electoral Integrity Project (EIP) collected assessments from ...

Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/election-ranks-low-study

Long-term plans for durian

Though an occasional mango or pineapple can be spotted on Eung Uy Kheam’s sleepy farm in Kampot province, it’s the 130 durian trees that the fourth-generation farmer calls his cash crop. In Kampot, on Cambodia’s southwest coast, a pilot project led by the provincial Department ...

Chan Muy Hong and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/long-term-plans-durian

Murder down, crime up

Phnom Penh’s murder rate was halved in 2013 as compared with 2012, but the same could not be said for crime cases across the board, which jumped a whopping 62 per cent last year, municipal police announced yesterday. “There were a total of 775 cases of ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/murder-down-crime

Rare statue unearthed by Chinese developer

A Chinese-owned company in Preah Vihear’s Tbeng Mean­chey district stumbled across an 8th-century sandstone carving of the Buddha while excavating land there on Wednesday, the provincial culture department said yesterday. Oug Vireak, a deputy with the culture department, said the firm Lan Feng had been bulldozing ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rare-statue-unearthed-chinese-developer

Hun Sen suit ‘needs evidence’

A prosecutor at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court has urged a youth organiser to provide the court with more evidence in his lawsuit against Prime Minister Hun Sen, promising to hear the case if ample proof is brought. ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-suit-%E2%80%98needs-evidence%E2%80%99

Unity appeal follows vitriol

Days after warning that his ruling party was as capable and willing to protest as the opposition, and threatening a barbed-wire fence in Freedom Park to divide the two groups, Prime Minister Hun Sen was yesterday talking multi-party reform. Speaking at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unity-appeal-follows-vitriol

Garden-view condominium complex a hit with locals and foreigners alike

With the 15-storey Vimean Keo Choronai Condominium close to completion, some 70 per cent of its apartments have already been sold. Vimean Keo Choronai sits in what eventually will be an expansive, leafy garden setting on National Road 1 about 600 metres from Monivong Bridge ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/garden-view-condominium-complex-hit-locals-and-foreigners-alike

Cambodia warned, again, on intellecual property regulation

Cambodian manufacturers are at risk of being blocked from exporting to the United States for using pirated software, IT industry bodies warned yesterday. Speaking at a seminar that was held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Michael Mudd, the secretary general of the Asia-Pacific Open ...

Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-warned-again-intellecual-property-regulation

Expansive Sihanoukville property development on schedule for completion in 2017

Representatives of Borey Kuch Asia say the company has injected millions of dollars into an apartment and villa complex in Sihanoukville, and that the project will be completed in 2017, despite political uncertainties. Borey Kuch Asia project manager Tous Sapheoun said the company spent two years ...

Sum Manet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/expansive-sihanoukville-property-development-schedule-completion-2017

Vietnam, Cambodia trade volume grows, but slightly

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Vietnam increased only about 3.4 per cent last year compared to 2012, data from the Vietnamese embassy in Phnom Penh showed yesterday. An embassy official said the sluggish growth could be attributed to the political deadlock between the Cambodian People’s Party ...

May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/vietnam-cambodia-trade-volume-grows-slightly

Tragedy hits home

Seven Cambodians are now believed to have been killed and 14 injured by a falling beam at a construction site in Thailand on Tuesday, Foreign Affairs spokesman Koy Kuong said yesterday. “Cambodian embassy officials in Bangkok are working with the Thai police to find out the ...

Cheang Sokha and Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tragedy-hits-home

Coca-Cola auditors visit sugar suppliers

Third-party auditors hired by The Coca-Cola Company are conducting an audit of Cambodian sugar suppliers, NGO and community representatives said yesterday. “Coke has commissioned them to conduct an assessment on their suppliers. They will talk to all parties, the community, NGOs and the company,” said Eang ...

Kevin Ponniah and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/coca-cola-auditors-visit-sugar-suppliers

Path toward adoptions progressing

Marking the next step to the Kingdom’s resumption of international adoptions, the Ministry of Social Affairs distributed for the first time copies of all adoption-related prakases, or edicts, to international representatives and adoption agencies in the capital yesterday. ...

Amelia Woodside and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/path-toward-adoptions-progressing

Letting it ride: NagaCorp lifts lid on large-scale expansion

NagaCorp recently announced it would invest $369 million in its latest project opposite the Buddhist Institute. The Hong Kong-listed casino operator’s latest Phnom Penh venture, Naga2,will include a casino, a hotel and a conference hall. The announcement of the investment by NagaCorp, Cambodia’s biggest casino operator, was ...

Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/letting-it-ride-nagacorp-lifts-lid-large-scale-expansion

A year after trial, still free

One year ago today, ex-Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith smiled as he sat before a judge at the Appeal Court in Phnom Penh on the first day of his trial for shooting and badly injuring three unarmed garment workers at a protest in Prey Veng ...

May Titthara and Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/year-after-trial-still-free

‘River town’ project sees budding prospects in sales

Borey River Town, a residential property development around three kilometres northeast of downtown Phnom Penh on National Road 6A has been selling well for the first two months of the year, according to Teng Rithy, the development’s general manager. Rithy said that the rate of sales ...

Moeun Nhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/%E2%80%98river-town%E2%80%99-project-sees-budding-prospects-sales

Forest promises ‘unfulfilled’

As illegal logging con­tinues to take a toll on the country’s woodlands, civil society groups yesterday called on the government to stay true to its commitment of providing an extra two million hectares of community forest by 2029. During a two-day conference in the capital, participants ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-promises-%E2%80%98unfulfilled%E2%80%99

Forest felled illegally, trio tells court

Three villagers in Mondulkiri’s Sen Monorom district appeared in court yesterday after filing a complaint against a land concessionaire for illegally bulldozing community forest. The three represented more than 160 Phnong villagers in allegations that the provincial deputy governor’s company cleared 30 hectares of community forest ...

Phak Seangly
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-felled-illegally-trio-tells-court

‘Cambodian’ workers die in Thailand

Two Cambodian nationals are among those reported dead following the collapse of a beam at a construction site yesterday on the outskirts of Bangkok. The death toll stood at 11 as of 4pm yesterday, while another 17 were reported injured. A concrete beam fell down at the ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98cambodian%E2%80%99-workers-die-thailand

No oil for up to five years: Cambodian government

It will be years before oil starts to be produced by energy giant Chevron’s offshore site in the Gulf of Thailand, a senior Cambodian official said yesterday. Meng Saktheara, secretary of state at the Ministry of Mines and Energy, said that negotiations over taxation have continued ...

Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/no-oil-five-years-cambodian-government

Mixed reaction to coal-fired plant

Cambodia’s first coal-fired power plant, which is expected to fill shortages in demand by producing an additional 100 megawatts of electricity every year, commenced full-time operations yesterday. Representatives from Malaysian company Leader Universal Ltd (LU), which built the plant, joined Prime Minister Hun Sen and ...

Hor Kimsay and Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mixed-reaction-coal-fired-plant

At-large official given four years in prison

Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday convicted and sentenced in absentia a senior official at the Ministry of Public Works and Transport for directing money from employees’ salaries to his own pocket. Seng Setha, 52, general director of the ministry’s administration and human resources department, was sentenced ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/large-official-given-four-years-prison

Grave sites cleared by rubber firms: NGOs

Four Vietnamese rubber firms are responsible for destroying an estimated 1,000 hectares of community forest, including an indigenous graveyard, in Ratanakkiri’s Andong Meas district, a group of NGOs have claimed. The land dispute involving 196 families living in Talav commune dates back to 2011, Chhay Thy, ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/grave-sites-cleared-rubber-firms-ngos

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