The Phnom Penh Post

Cambodia’s young users

Injecting methamphetamines is on the rise in Cambodia, particularly among younger addicts, as recreational users have begun to switch from smoking and pill-popping to mainlining, a report by the Australian National Council on Drugs suggests. The report, released yesterday, details how amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) and their ...

Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia%E2%80%99s-young-users

Meet eyes Angkor management

Representatives from countries and preservation organisations across the globe gathered in Siem Reap yesterday as Prime Minister Hun Sen officiated the kickoff of an intergovernmental conference focused on Angkor Wat. The event marks the third once-per-decade conference of the International Coordinating Committee for the Safeguarding ...

Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/meet-eyes-angkor-management

Mangrove ‘bulldozed for rubber plantation’

Some 1,200 hectares of flooded mangrove forest in two communes of Kampong Cham province have been bulldozed and filled in, robbing more than 700 families of the long-standing source of their livelihood, villagers there said yesterday. Villagers in Tuol Snuol commune in Kroch Chhmar district and ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mangrove-%E2%80%98bulldozed-rubber-plantation%E2%80%99

‘Blocked’ monks block road

More than 80 monks and activists marching to Phnom Penh for International Human Rights Day blocked National Road 5 in Kampong Chhnang town yesterday evening after local authorities allegedly pressured a pagoda to deny them permission to rest there. Independent Monks Network head But Buntenh claimed ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98blocked%E2%80%99-monks-block-road

A prison by any other name . . .

Prisons across the country will soon be referred to only as “correctional centres” to change a public perception that they are places where people are simply locked up, the Ministry of Interior announced yesterday. Nuth Sa An, secretary of state at the ministry, said the change ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prison-any-other-name

Border beat goes on for opposition

Returning to a long-time party priority, opposition lawmakers yesterday said they will travel to Kampong Cham’s Memot district today to investigate claims that Vietnamese troops were forcing farmers off land that rightfully belongs to Cambodia. Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker-elect Mao Monyvan, who ran in Kampong ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/border-beat-goes-opposition

High hopes for fishing season

The largest fish harvest of the year is approaching, and Phnom Penh’s fish markets are about to get busy. In short, it’s December and so prahok season is upon us. A traditional Cambodian fish paste, prahok is made from fermented Siamese mud carp called trey riel in ...

Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/high-hopes-fishing-season

Hong Kong delegates talk Cambodian rice

Thirty-four delegates from the Rice Merchants’ Association of Hong Kong made their first visit to Cambodia on Wednesday to explore more opportunities in the local milled rice sector. David Van, deputy secretary general of the Alliance of Rice Producers and Exporters of Cambodia, said the point ...

Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hong-kong-delegates-talk-cambodian-rice

SISHA internal audit identifies no wrongdoing

Anti-human trafficking NGO SISHA announced the results of its internal audit yesterday, attempting to clear financial misconduct allegations made earlier this year. Retired police detective and founder of the NGO Steve Morrish came under fire in August after two of the charity’s former employees leaked information ...

Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sisha-internal-audit-identifies-no-wrongdoing

‘Wintery’ weather warning

As temperatures drop during the cool season, children, infants and the elderly should take extra measures to ward off common seasonal illnesses, officials from the Ministry of Health said on Wednesday. In a press release issued by the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization’s ...

Mom Kunthear and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98wintery%E2%80%99-weather-warning

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

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