The Phnom Penh Post - ENGLISH: “Water Festival cancelled” plus 9 more

The Phnom Penh Post - ENGLISH: “Water Festival cancelled” plus 9 more


Water Festival cancelled

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 10:03 PM PDT

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday announced that he had cancelled the annual Water Festival to preserve funds for addressing the effects of devastating floods that continue to sweep through the Kingdom.

Another power deal for senator

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 10:03 PM PDT

The opposition has raised conflict-of-interest concerns over another agreement headed to the National Assembly today...

TV portrayal riles villagers

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 10:03 PM PDT

111014_02Former Boeung Kak lakeside residents who accepted compensation after facing forced eviction criticised a recent television portrayal of their living situation...

KRT judge ‘bowed to’ NGO pressure, says government

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 10:03 PM PDT

Recently resigned Khmer Rouge tribunal judge Siegfried Blunk has "bowed to" a sustained campaign against him by international organisations and "persistent interference" by the media...

Recruiting firm told to close

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 10:03 PM PDT

111014_03The Ministry of Labour has been ordered to permanently close the labour recruitment firm T&P following the discovery of more under-age trainees in its Kampong Chhnang centre.

Factory bows, but strike continues

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 10:03 PM PDT

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Workers striking for a second day at a garment factory in suburban Phnom Penh succeeded yesterday in having one of their eight demands met...

$10,000 compensation sought in child-sex case

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 10:02 PM PDT

The Preah Sihanouk provincial court began proceedings yesterday in the case of a 50-year-old French national...

Drug traffickers get 10 years to life in jail

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 10:02 PM PDT

111014_06Four Vietnamese nat-ionals were found guilty of drug traff-icking yesterday for their role in transporting 11 kilograms of methamphetamine across the Laos-Cambodia border in March.

Rights staffers questioned

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 10:02 PM PDT

Two staff members of a human-rights group and a journalist had maintained their innocence in the Ratanakkiri Provincial Court...

Police Blotter: 14 Oct 2011

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 10:00 PM PDT

TWO teens were hospitalised and seven arrested following a nightclub brawl in the capital's Sen Sok district on Tuesday.

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