Minimum wage talks deadlock

27 February 2013

Workers in the Kingdom’s lucrative garment and footwear industries appear close to a monthly minimum wage increase of at least $6, despite talks between trade unions, the factories’ association and the government ending in deadlock yesterday.

• Written by Shane Worrell and Mom Kunthear

Outbreak worst ever

27 February 2013

Less than two months after it began, the Kingdom’s current outbreak of bird flu has become the country’s largest on record.

• Written by Mom Kunthear and Claire Slattery

Deportee numbers dip in ’12

27 February 2013

After a record high in 2011, deportations of Cambodians from the US dropped 42 per cent last year, according to figures obtained yesterday.

• Written by Joe Freeman

Wasted youth: PM chides children of privilege

27 February 2013

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday offered praise for poor students and condemnation for wealthy scions, who too often waste the ample opportunities handed to them.

• Written by Meas Sokchea

Six injured in van crash

27 February 2013

Six tourists were injured in a crash while travelling to Siem Reap from Poipet on Monday afternoon.

• Written by Kim Sarom

Minister praises Boeung Kak fill-in

27 February 2013

Shukaku Inc, the development firm that evicted more than 4,000 families to fill in Boeung Kak lake, has been praised for “reducing poverty” in a letter from Minister of Economy and Finance Keat Chhon.

• Written by Kim Yuthana and Shane Worrell

Trust-building lunch for defence ministers

27 February 2013

In an effort to ease rising tensions along the border, Cambodian and Thai defence ministers held a “solidarity lunch” in front of the contested Preah Vihear temple site yesterday.

• Written by Vong Sokheng

Killer appeals robbery verdict

27 February 2013

A former military police officer found guilty of murdering two policemen in 2011 appealed a related robbery conviction yesterday.

• Written by Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

Sotheby’s row hits home

27 February 2013

An American prosecutor who has been battling the internat-ional auction house Sotheby’s for the repatriation of a 10th-century statue was running a fact-finding miss-ion in Cambodia this week, officials said yesterday.

• Written by Cheang Sokha and Abby Seiff

More workers rally at ongoing Naga strike

27 February 2013

About 100 chefs and kitchen staff walked off the job at the capital’s NagaWorld casino yesterday as a workers’ strike at the luxury entertainment venue entered its fifth day.

• Written by Chhay Channyda

Koh Kong evictees meet with sugar firm

27 February 2013

Two hundred families who were allegedly evicted from their land in Koh Kong province’s Sre Ambel district in 2006 by Cambodian People’s Party senator Ly Yong Phat’s LYP Group yesterday met with company representatives to demand compensation.

• Written by May Titthara

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