Sihanoukville authorities ban fishing and docking at sites along the power line buried under the seabed
Sihanoukville provincial authorities have banned fishing and docking at sites along the power line buried under the sea to avoid impact on the lines. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501344521/sihanoukville-authorities-ban-fishing-and-docking-at-sites-along-the-power-line-buried-under-the-seabed/
New rules for digital payments
The central bank has issued new regulations governing the licensing of payment services providers (PSPs), requiring that all firms providing online services to accept electronic payments have at least $2 million in registered capital, a move expected to increase the stability of the sector and ...
Hor Kimsay and Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-rules-digital-payments
Chinese aid
Construction of a laboratory funded by Chinese money. Photo by Michael Coghlan, taken on 10 January 2014. Licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0China, while once being at odds with the current government, is now Cambodia’s largest development partner. The two nations have grown increasingly close in recent ...
Ministries and other national bodies
Nearly all of the ministries were established in 1995. A few ministries were only recently created in the post-2013 national election by a separation of one ministry into two. There are 28 government ministries and secretariats, and many national bodies. ...
Overloaded vehicles at issue
OverlOaded vehicles are cOntributing tO a mOre rapid than anticipated deteriOriatiOn Of CambOdia&rsquO;s rOad netwOrk, experts said yesterday The ADB has funded an axle-lOad cOntrOl prOgramme as part Of a US$1 milliOn technical package tO suppOrt gOvernment rehabilitatiOn Of abOut 150 kilOmeters Of the KingdOm&rsquO;s rOads. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011070550177/Business/overloaded-vehicles-at-issue.html
Overloaded vehicles at issue
OverlOaded vehicles are cOntributing tO a mOre rapid than anticipated deteriOratiOn Of CambOdia&rsquO;s rOad netwOrk, experts said yesterday. &ldquO;The cOst Of OverlOading causes prOblems tO everyOne invOlved, but it is easy tO cOntrOl damage if we have gOOd system in place. This is the Only ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011070550177/Business/overloaded-vehicles-at-issue.html
Caution: Children at work
Labour legislation in Cambodia is so weak and so often ignored that half the Kingdom’s children between the ages of seven and 14 participate in the workforce, the world’s largest federation of unions has told the World Trade organisation General Council in Geneva. Children, women and ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011110252486/National-news/caution-children-at-work.html
Strike at seafood giant
About 800 Cambodian workers in Thailand went on strike yesterday against a major global seafood exporter they accuse of exploiting them. The factory, which has been identified by workers and rights groups as Phatthana Seafood Co Ltd in Thailand’s Songkhla province, allegedly scrapped a 20 baht ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012040955512/National-news/strike-at-seafood-giant.html
Workers protest at ministry
About 100 workers from First Gawon Apparel gathered in front of the Ministry of Labour in Phnom Penh on Wednesday asking for intervention on their behalf in a dispute with their employer. The workers claim the company has not paid their salaries for more than ...
Yon Sineat
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-protest-ministry
Nepotism complaint at institute
Sixteen former staff members at the Sihanoukville provincial Multi-Technical Training Institute filed a sweeping complaint against the school’s married directors with the Ministry of Labor over the weekend. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27480/nepotism-complaint-at-institute/
Government, UN at loggerheads
Cambodia’s ambassador to the United Nations pulled no punches in his response to a joint statement from almost 40 countries condemning the government’s recent actions and threats against peaceful protests, implying in his own letter that the opposition party was participating in “unlawful and anarchic ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29841/government--un-at-loggerheads/
Minor hiccups at elections
While yesterday’s commune elections went more smoothly than past iterations, they were not free from claims of irregularities, with opposition activists bearing the brunt of the legal punishments. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minor-hiccups-elections
Timber seized at association
A Khmer-Vietnamese Association representative in Ratanakkiri yesterday denied that illegally logged timber confiscated from the group’s office in Tes Anglong village on Tuesday belonged to the association. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/timber-seized-association
Three Arrested at Border
Three Cambodians including a border patrol solider were arrested by Thai soldiers whilst they and several other villagers transported illegally logged rosewood from Thailand into Cambodia last Friday. “Seven villagers escaped and three were arrested,” said Khuon Srey Sros, cheif of oddar Meanchey Province, Thmor Daun ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012111359703/National-news/three-arrested-at-border.html
Strikers back at table
Workers from SL Garment factories and union representatives held their second round of talks at the Ministry of Social Affairs yesterday as strikes at the Levi’s, Gap and H&M suppliers continued for the 12 day straight. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052556386/National-news/strikers-back-at-table.html
The week at CSX
The price of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) stock varied only slightly between June 14 to June 21-hovering between KHR 6,600 (US$1.62) and KHR 6,700 (US$1.64). The relative stability tells investors that the stock is approaching its fundamental price, which experts SAy is between KHR 4,050 (US$0.99) and KHR 6,350 (US$1.56). ...
Confidence at central bank
As volatility strikes Asian markets in anticipation of the US Federal Reserve winding down quantitative easing – the practice of injecting money into the economy – the National Bank of Cambodia says the Kingdom will remain largely insulated thanks to an investment market still in ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013062566455/Business/confidence-at-central-bank.html
Clashes renewed at cordon
Frustrated Boeung Kak and Borei Keila community members flooded past a Daun Penh road barrier yesterday after attempting to lodge complaints with district authorities in connection with Sunday’s violence at Wat Phnom. on Sunday night, a brutal raid on a peaceful vigil of about 20 protesters ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/clashes-renewed-cordon
Silence broken at last
Notification that her son is being detained at Correctional Centre 3 in Kampong Cham came as a relief to Touch Sart yesterday, after spending nearly a week wondering whether he was even alive. Since her son, Theng Saroeun, was arrested along with 22 others at demonstrations ...
May Titthara and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/silence-broken-last
Dozens collapse at factory
Nearly 50 workers, including a woman who is seven months pregnant, fainted at a clothing factory in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district yesterday due to poor ventilation, union officials and labour-rights groups said. The 47 employees at Wanshen Clothing (Cambodia) Co collapsed at about 3pm, ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dozens-collapse-factory