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EU resolution passed against sugar abuses
The European Parliament has passed a resolution calling on the bloc’s executive body to urgently act on an EU preferential trade scheme found to have carried high risks of human rights violations in Cambodia through land evictions for industrial sugar development. In a January 16 resolution, ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-resolution-passed-against-sugar-abuses
Embassies abroad get reminder about graft
Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called on all embassies and consulates to accelerate visa application procedures and cease charging “unofficial” fees, in an apparent bid to stamp out corruption abroad. ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/embassies-abroad-get-reminder-about-graft
Marchers to flout ban on protests
Hundreds of civil society representatives, garment workers and community groups are expected to take to the streets this morning to deliver petitions to foreign embassies calling on the government to release the 23 people arrested during garment worker strikes earlier this month and find justice ...
Kevin Ponniah and Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/marchers-flout-ban-protests
Try Pheap loggers sued
More than 200 families filed a complaint with the Preah Vihear provincial court yesterday against two employees of logging tycoon Try Pheap who allegedly cleared 15 hectares of community forest late last year before being stopped by villagers. Huon Kino, 39, a representative of the 203 ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/try-pheap-loggers-sued
Tax hike cuts slaughterers’ profit
Almost 50 livestock slaughterers in Preah Vihear town yesterday protested a rise in taxes and fees they must to pay on their products. Pin Raksmey, chief of the committee at Kampong Pranak market, said that the problem was out of his hands. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tax-hike-cuts-slaughterers%E2%80%99-profit
Passports pledged anew
Migrant workers and students who have won scholarships abroad will now pay only a small tax fee for passports, according to a government sub-decree enacted this month that seeks to reprise a similar effort from 2008 widely perceived to have been ineffective. The latest sub-decree, signed ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/passports-pledged-anew
CNRP looks to UN, King
The opposition may be readying a formal request that the United Nations and King Norodom Sihamoni play a role in future negotiations between the Cambodia National Rescue Party and the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. On a trip to Takeo province on Saturday, CNRP deputy president Kem ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-looks-un-king
Miners encroaching: villagers
Hun Sen’s army of student land measurers may have marked ground for them in 2012, but representatives of about 20 ethnic families in Ratanakkiri province said yesterday that their combined 50 hectares of land has now been invaded by hordes of families digging for gems. Chhay ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/miners-encroaching-villagers
Union rep sidesteps gov’t meet
Rong Chhun, president of the Cambodian Independent Teachers Association, said yesterday he had been successful in postponing a meeting with the Ministry of Interior about his association, which has come under fire for allegedly engaging in political activities. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/union-rep-sidesteps-gov%E2%80%99t-meet
Trade hurt by political and labour turbulence
Cambodian trade reached a total of $15.9 billion in 2013, equaling an 18 per cent rise from 2012, according to the Ministry of Commerce. Exports were valued at $6.9 billion, up from $5.5 billion a year earlier, with garment and textiles accounting for more than 80 ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/trade-hurt-political-and-labour-turbulence
Four charged over forest clearing
Four of six men arrested on Thursday for allegedly clearing more than three hectares of protected forest within Mondulkiri’s Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area were charged on Saturday, court officials and rights monitors said yesterday. Sou Sovichea, provincial deputy prosecutor, confirmed yesterday that the four suspects charged ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/four-charged-over-forest-clearing
Union leader released
Phnom Penh Municipal Police this morning released a union leader they scooped off the street yesterday evening for allegedly leading a protest despite a ban on public demonstrations. Sok Chhun Oeung, acting president of the Independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association (IDEA), left the police station ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/union-leader-released
Bulldozers bedevil busted businessman
A businessman was tried by Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday on charges of breach of trust in connection with losing six bulldozers worth an estimated $1.7 million he had hired to dig and clear land for his Por Sen Chey district business in 2008. According to ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bulldozers-bedevil-busted-businessman
B’bang village heads for border
A village of 212 hectares in Battambang’s Bavel district has nearly become a ghost town after an alleged land grab by three tycoons has forced hundreds to find work abroad, locals and a rights group said yesterday. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/b%E2%80%99bang-village-heads-border
US House passes B Kak bill
A draft US law that would require the World Bank to regularly report to congress about the condition of families displaced or still living in the Boeung Kak lake area was approved Wednesday by the House of Representatives. The bill includes language that specifically requires the ...
Sean Teehan and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-house-passes-b-kak-bill
Capital to be hit with blackouts
Rolling blackouts between three and nine hours long hit some locations in the capital, Kandal and Kampong Speu yesterday and will continue through Sunday, according to Electricite du Cambodge. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-be-hit-blackouts
Funcinpec mass suspension
The royalist Funcinpec Party suspended 114 members from its 340-member steering committee late last month, citing the fact that they had recently been unable to fulfil their obligations, the party said yesterday. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/funcinpec-mass-suspension
Shooting probe urged
UN rights envoy Surya Subedi wrapped up his six-day fact-finding mission to Cambodia yesterday by calling for a thorough investigation into security forces’ role in the deadly crackdown on garment workers early this month. He also offered to act as a mediator between the ruling Cambodian ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/shooting-probe-urged
Retail associations urge talks
Six major retail, footwear and garment industry associations whose members account for over 90 per cent of garment imports in the US and Canada have called on the Cambodian government, the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) and unions to resume wage negotiations. The open ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/retail-associations-urge-talks
Anti-Vietnam talk by CNRP ‘alarms’ envoy
UN human rights envoy Surya Subedi yesterday said he was “alarmed” by anti-Vietnamese language used by the opposition party to rally its supporters, a message he said he had conveyed to Cambodia National Rescue Party leaders during his visit. Speaking at a press conference to conclude ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anti-vietnam-talk-cnrp-%E2%80%98alarms%E2%80%99-envoy
Data provides illustration of a constantly changing Cambodia
Cambodia is changing fast. Over the past decade, the capital city, Phnom Penh has expanded exponentially: its bodies of water have been filled in and green spaces diminished. Rural to urban migration has changed the shape of the countryside. Great shifts are under way and ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/7days/data-provides-illustration-constantly-changing-cambodia
Man healed, held against will
Today, a month to the day after his stomach ruptured, Term Hun, 49, remains hospitalised. He was operated on and has long since healed. But without the money to pay for his treatment, the clinic refuses to let him go. After receiving emergency surgery at ...
Koam Chanrasmey and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-healed-held-against-will
Political issues not affecting property sector, for now
Despite recent political turbulence, local investors in the Phnom Penh property sector are not deterred and are still bullish on the market’s future prospects. One good example of this local optimism is Ly Hour Group, which recently announced it would invest more than $100 million to ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/political-issues-not-affecting-property-sector-now
Office space demand up slightly in Q4 2013
Demand for office space in Phnom Penh in the fourth quarter of 2013 grew by five per cent over the previous quarter, according to research by local property services provider VTrust Property Company. VTrust deputy director Chrek Soknim said that growth in Q4 of last year ...
Sum Manet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/office-space-demand-slightly-q4-2013