Crackdown yields major timber haul
Authorities in Stung Treng province have confiscated some 651 pieces of “luxury timber” from three communes in Se San district over the past week in an ongoing operation to crack down on illegal logging in the area, police said. The goods were confiscated just as a ...
Cambodian police trained to fight money laundering, terror financing
With an aim of facing the growing challenge in Southeast Asia concerning money laundering and the financing of terrorism, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime has stepped in to provide Cambodian police with skills in order to curb this threat, according to a statement ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/130826/cambodian-police-trained-fight-money-laundering-terror
Cambodia’s tobacco tax to go up, slightly
In less than two months, smokers indulging in Cambodia’s inexpensive cigarettes will have to reach a little deeper into their wallets. Starting in July, the tax on cigarettes will jump from 20 per cent to 30 per cent of the retail price, with a tax base ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia%E2%80%99s-tobacco-tax-go-slightly
Cambodia expresses 'deep concern' over maritime disputes
The Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent a diplomatic note to the Vietnamese Embassy expressing deep concern over recent developments and incidents in the East Sea. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=MTlkNmI5ZDU5YmF
Ministry Seeks to Quash Measles, Rubella Vaccination Rumors
The Ministry of Health has moved to calm public fears over the safety of the measles and rubella (MR) vaccine, which was administered to 4.5 million Cambodian children in the last three months of 2013, as rumors circulate that it poses sinister health risks, according ...
Simon Henderson and Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-seeks-to-quash-measles-rubella-vaccination-rumors-51213/
UN envoy making informal visit
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association will arrive in Cambodia on February 5, his office announced on Friday. ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-envoy-making-informal-visit
UN panel grills Cambodians
Sitting in Geneva before a panel of international experts chosen by the UN, Cambodian delegates yesterday did their best to dodge a series of pointed questions regarding the Kingdom’s adherence to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Phrases such as “I don’t know ...
Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/un-panel-grills-cambodians
‘Settle land dispute or else’
The head of the National Assembly’s top human rights commission has warned Banteay Meanchey’s provincial governor to settle a land dispute involving 230 disabled soldiers’ families from the province’s Malai district, saying he will be sacked if the matter is not settled within three months. After ...
Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98settle-land-dispute-or-else%E2%80%99
Thirteen ethnic Montagnards from Vietnam seek refugee status in Cambodia
More than a dozen ethnic Montagnards are hiding in the jungles of northeastern Cambodia after fleeing alleged religious persecution across the border in Vietnam, a member of a hill tribe living in the area said Monday. The 13 Christian Montagnards, who crossed into Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/montagnards-11242014144636.html
Law on Water Resources should be amended to ensure water security: Expert
Although substantial results have been achieved after nine years of implementing the Law on Water Resources 2012, some shortcomings have been revealed, resulting in ineffective use of water and causing loss of budget revenue, according to Chau Tran Vinh, Director of the Department of Water ...
No consensus on next move in SL drama
After the management of an embattled garment factory this week refused to follow a government order to reinstate 19 dismissed union leaders and activists, unionists and observers are at a divergence of opinion over how the state should respond. “It’s fairly unprecedented,” Dave Welsh, country director ...
Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-consensus-next-move-sl-drama
Cambodian, Thai senior officials discuss cooperation over migrant workers
Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong met on Tuesday with visiting Permanent Secretary and Acting Minister of Thai Foreign Ministry Sihasak Phuangketkeow to discuss cooperation over migrant workers. More than 250,000 Cambodian migrant workers, mostly undocumented, fled Thailand last month at rumors that the Thai junta would ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-07/01/c_133452205.htm
Overwork, Exhaustion to blame for mass fainting
About 50 workers at the M&V manufacturing factory in Kampong Chhnang province fainted yesterday morning due to overwork and exhaustion in the factory’s third fainting incident this year, officials said yesterday. Noun Sam Ol, Free Trade Union representative at M&V, said that the collapse of a ...
Sides dig in over minimum wage
Unions and the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) are unlikely to walk out of their final minimum wage meeting today with an agreed-upon increase for workers, industry insiders said yesterday. Both parties have reaffirmed their respective positions: GMAC secretary-general Ken Loo said yesterday that “nothing’s ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013031161866/National/sides-dig-in-over-minimum-wage.html
Kingdom to reach rice target
Following a considerable increase in Cambodia’s milled rice exports in the first four months of the year, Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh said he was optimistic the Kingdom’s rice exports would reach the 2015 target of one million tonnes. With this year’s export figures notably higher ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051065539/Business/kingdom-to-reach-rice-target.html
Laos on international unregulated logging list
A consultation workshop on the Forestry Legality Compendium held in Vientiane on 6 November revealed that Laos is one of many countries still on the list of those where unregulated logging takes place. Laos is listed because internationally it is considered that some aspects of Forest management ...
CNRP to try to visit jailed 23
Opposition party members will lead a delegation to the doors of Kampong Cham Correctional Centre 3 on Tuesday in the hope of visiting the 23 people imprisoned there following a violent crackdown on striking garment workers in early January. Despite having previously been denied access to ...
May Titthara and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-try-visit-jailed-23
We are the answer to Vietnam's drastic plastic problem
I have been saving more than $100 each month by cooking my own meals and not buying takeaways or deliveries. But saving money was not my initial motivation. It was to cut down on the use of plastic as much as possible. “When I pour your coffee ...
Luu Dinh Long
Governor Seeks Curb in Rubber Resin Smuggling
Kompong Cham provincial governor Lun Lim Thai on Tuesday ordered authorities to step up long-running efforts to reduce the smuggling of unprocessed rubber resin from the province into Vietnam. Those smuggling resin to processors across the border should be more actively pursued and instead forced to ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/governor-seeks-curb-in-rubber-resin-smuggling-46966/
Construction material imports on the increase
A return to work on larger construction projects in Cambodia is leading to an increase in the impartation of construction materials, experts said yesterday. Cambodia’s construction materials are generally imported from China, Vietnam and Thailand, and also as far afield as Europe, said Khuon Savuth, Statistics ...