The Phnom Penh Post

Illegal miners tread carefully

In a remote part of Ratanakkiri, Lan Yorn ekes out an existence mining for gems. In his quest to provide for his family, Yorn engages in highly dangerous work illegally digging mines as deep as 12 metres with only the most basic of equipment. Government officials ...

Shane Worrell and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-miners-tread-carefully

UD Trucks to arrive in Kingdom

Japan-based UD Trucks Corporation is planning on selling its new heavy duty transport vehicle, the 2013 UD Quester, in Cambodia. Volvo Group-owned UD Trucks also launched the latest versions of the UD Quon, UD Fuel Demonstrator, UD Quester and Volvo FH at the Tokyo Motor Show ...

Chhim Sreyneang
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ud-trucks-arrive-kingdom

Rule hanging over NA

A ruling party lawmaker and parliamentary spokesman said yesterday that the National Assembly will consider invoking an internal rule that could force the opposition party to replace its elected lawmakers with lower-ranked candidates from within the party if their boycott continues beyond a deadline. Principle 83 ...

Kevin Ponniah and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rule-hanging-over-na

Price rules pulled due to election

The government in May held back on implementing widely unpopular rules that would have raised the price of mobile phone calls so as to not upset consumers – and potential voters – just months ahead of the national election, according to Cambodia’s independent telecommunications regulator. “Before ...

Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/price-rules-pulled-due-election

Gov’t looks to 2014 for adoptions

The long-awaited resumption of international adoptions may finally occur in the new year, officials from the ministries of Justice and Social Affairs said yesterday, though no time table is yet in place. While the freeze on adoptions – put in place in 2009 with the passage ...

Amelia Woodside and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-looks-2014-adoptions

Rally to include capital

The Cambodia National Rescue Party has said it plans to expand the mass demonstration already slated for Tuesday in Siem Reap to include another large rally in the capital. The CNRP announced late last month it was moving its first in a series of new rallies ...

Meas Sokchea and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rally-include-capital

Chinese TV station to launch

Cambodia could soon get its first Chinese-run digital television station, the latest local project hailing from a country that represents one of the Kingdom’s largest foreign investors. Yu Hua, deputy director of Yunnan Mobile Digital TV Corporation, based in China’s Yunnan province, met with Cambodia’s Minister ...

Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chinese-tv-station-launch

Hope for freedom of information?

Representatives from civil society and the opposition gathered yesterday to push for the adoption of an access to information law – a move that comes less than a month after Prime Minister Hun Sen urged the Ministry of Information to hasten its development. Two laws dealing ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hope-freedom-information

Try Pheap ‘defamers’ to see court

Two people who were quoted in a report implicating tycoon Try Pheap in illegal logging have been issued fresh summonses to appear in Kandal Provincial Court on defamation charges. Sen San and Ouk Sambo were originally scheduled to appear in the court last Friday, but San ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/try-pheap-%E2%80%98defamers%E2%80%99-see-court

Underage defendants routinely jailed: report

A semiannual study of defendants’ rights in Cambodian courts released this week found an alarming prevalence of pre-trial detention in cases involving juvenile suspects, who are routinely blended with adult prison populations. The Cambodian Center for Human Rights’ sixth semiannual report of trial rights, which cited ...

Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/underage-defendants-routinely-jailed-report

Minimum call charges apply: TRC

Mobile phone call promotions undercutting the government’s minimum pricing regulations are to be outlawed – again. Minimum charges will be applied to mobile phone calls from on Thursday with the return of the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia’s (TRC) rules on call tariffs, the regulator confirmed yesterday. On ...

Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/minimum-call-charges-apply-trc

Foreign press ‘interfering’: CPP lawmaker

A senior ruling party official yesterday accused foreign journalists and media outlets in Cambodia of interfering in the Kingdom’s governance and urging political instability. Speaking to reporters in the capital, Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker and National Assembly spokesman Chheang Vun said a number of journalists – ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/foreign-press-%E2%80%98interfering%E2%80%99-cpp-lawmaker

Aspara International's China flights delayed

The launch of a new airline promising regular flights between Phnom Penh and China has been stalled, awaiting government approval. Apsara International Air – co-owned by Chinese and Cambodian investors – now plans to begin operations sometime in 2014 as talks between the airline and the ...

May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/aspara-internationals-china-flights-delayed

Convicted killer back on stand

More than six years after the slaying of Free Trade Union president Hy Vuthy, one of the men convicted of his murder, Chan Sophorn, 35, appeared in court yesterday for a retrial. Sous Sam Ath, the judge presiding over the case at the Phnom Penh Municipal ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/convicted-killer-back-stand

Man dies in illegally dug gold mine

A 31-year-old man was killed on Monday when part of an illegally dug gold mine collapsed in Battambang’s Phnom Proek district, commune officials said yesterday. Bon Boern, 31, died at the scene, while Ath Kri, 21, was treated at the provincial hospital for a head injury, ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-dies-illegally-dug-gold-mine

Official blames villagers for deforestation

Government officials yesterday laid the blame for Cambodia’s deforestation on villagers gathering firewood. “Every day, they need fuel for cooking – that’s a lot of logging,” Chheng Kimsun, director general of the Forestry Administration, said at a workshop aimed at addressing sustainable forest management. Gathered at the ...

Phak Seangly and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/official-blames-villagers-deforestation

Fund report lacking, BBC show claims

An investigation by BBC news program Panorama into the misuse of Global Fund aid to Cambodia has claimed that the Fund “watered down” a report released last month, which exposed a network of corruption in Cambodia’s health sector. But Panorama, which obtained a leaked copy of the original ...

Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fund-report-lacking-bbc-show-claims

One-third of citizens ‘suffering’: Gallup poll

Cambodia has the dubious distinction of coming in third place in a survey released this week purporting to measure countries’ suffering. In the well-being poll compiled by US research company Gallup, more than a third of Cambodian respondents rated their quality of life as abysmally low, ...

Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/one-third-citizens-%E2%80%98suffering%E2%80%99-gallup-poll

Luxury wood charge floated

About 300 cubic metres of luxury timber is being felled every day and transported on boats to Vietnam and Thailand from four districts in Koh Kong province, according to an investigation by a local rights group. Chea Hean, director of the Natural Resource and Wildlife Preservation ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/luxury-wood-charge-floated

Capital to launch trial bus route

Phnom Penh commuters fed up with navigating the city’s increasingly busy streets will have a chance to test a new public bus service beginning in February. Phnom Penh Municipality spokesman Long Dimanche yesterday confirmed a one-month trial of a bus service along a 7.5-kilometre route running ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-launch-trial-bus-route

Final mission for volunteers

In their final deployment as part of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s national land-titling program, 55 student youth volunteers will be sent to measure 50,000 hectares of land following a nearly six-month moratorium on the program. The deployment was officially launched at a ceremony in Kandal province ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/final-mission-volunteers

SL reps, unionists to sign deal to end strike

A nearly four-month strike, punctuated by a violent clash between unionists and police that left one bystander dead, could come to an end this afternoon. Officials from SL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd and the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CAWDU) – which represents a ...

Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sl-reps-unionists-sign-deal-end-strike

Bank exits rubber firm: NGO

Global Witness, a United Kingdom-based NGO, has alleged that Deutsche Bank has dropped the majority of its holdings in a Vietnamese company that operates rubber plantations in Cambodia, amid accusations the firm is involved in land grabbing and illegal logging. In a statement released today, Global ...

Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bank-exits-rubber-firm-ngo

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