SL Workers Demand Representatives Reinstated
About 200 workers protested outside SL Garment Factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district Wednesday demanding that managers reinstate 19 union representatives before a 15-day deadline set by the government elapses. The Council of Ministers has ordered the factory to rehire the fired unionists or face punitive ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sl-workers-demand-representatives-reinstated-47539/
146 Japanese investment projects registered at CDC
The Council of the Development of Cambodia (CDC) approved 146 Japanese qualified investment projects (QIP) as of October with a total investment capital of $2.853 billion. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50970276/146-japanese-investment-projects-registered-at-cdc/
Security sector working group to make policy recommendations
Members of the government, military and civil society met on Monday to form a working group to undertake security reform and reporting. The working group will have 26 members from a wide spectrum of government and nongovernment agencies to produce policy recommendations to Cambodia’s leaders. The formation ...
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/security-sector-working-group-to-make-policy-recommendations/1872979.html
National Petroleum Authority to Change Hands
The Cambodian National Petroleum Authority (CNPA), formerly overseen by the Council of Ministers, will be integrated into the Ministry of Mines and Energy, according to senior CPP officials, the latest cut to the vast portfolio of government bodies controlled by Deputy Prime Minister Sok An. Since ...
Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/national-petroleum-authority-to-change-hands-46796/
New scrutiny for centres
Unlicensed orphanages have six months to register with the government under new legislation that also strictly defines the circumstances under which children can live at such facilities.The sub-decree “management on children care centres” signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on September 11 sets out nine ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-scrutiny-centres
Lack of construction regulations a concern
Cambodia is experiencing a runaway property boom that must be constrained by laws and regulations in order to draw investment from European developers, which are largely absent in the country, experts said at an industry conference in Phnom Penh on Wednesday. Simon Griffiths, senior manager at ...
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/lack-of-construction-regulations-a-concern-68862/
Japan lobbies for joint meeting with ASEAN ministers of defense
A high official from the Japanese Defense Ministry (JDM) has lobbied for Cambodia and another ASEAN members to support the creation of a meeting between their defense ministers and the JDM to be held next year in Laos, according to officials at a meeting at ...
Ban Sokrith and Phun Chan Ousaphea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21309/japan-lobbies-for-joint-meeting-with-asean-ministers-of-defense/
Poor Inmates Face Worse Conditions Than Those With Money
KANDAL PROVINCE – At Kandal provincial prison on Monday, about 100 male and female prisoners and pretrial detainees assembled to play games and receive fruit and drinks from rights group Licadho, which is visiting 18 prisons around the country this week in a bid to ...
Lauren Crothers and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/poor-inmates-face-worse-conditions-than-those-with-money-48965/
Cambodian top diplomat visits troops at Preah Vihear temple to explain World Court's ruling
Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong on Saturday visited troops stationed at Preah Vihear temple territory to explain the interpretation of the recent World Court’s ruling over disputed land with Thailand. Addressing more than 1,000 soldiers at a military headquarters about 20 km ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-12/07/c_132949389.htm
PM calls for halt to ‘illegal’ protests
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday called on labour unions to immediately stop organising demonstrations and strikes to “illegally” demand benefits from factory owners. He said such actions could spin out of hand and force around two-thirds of the Kingdom’s factories, approximately 800 of the ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-calls-halt-illegal-protests
Legal group urges review of Cambodia’s bar
The human rights arm of the International Bar Association (IBA) is recommending that the membership of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) in the IBA be reviewed, raising the prospect of ejection in a scathing new report on the country’s judicial system. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/legal-group-urges-review-of-cambodias-bar-94684/
TEAC officially launched in Cambodian to boost Chinese producers
To boost Chinese investment in Cambodian garment industry, the Textile Enterprise Association of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce also know as TEAC has been officially launched in Phnom Penh.Enjoy Ho, chairman of TEAC said that they will represent the interests of Chinese textile enterprises in ...
YNFX News Staff
http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/about-us
Hun Many hailed on return with peace prize
A day after being awarded the fledgling Gusi Peace Prize in Manila, Prime Minister Hun Sen’s youngest son, Hun Many, returned home to a hero’s welcome on Thursday. ...
Ben Sokhean and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-many-hailed-on-return-with-peace-prize-101363/
Talks over garment factory’s closure bear no fruit
The Ministry of Labour met with Malaysian-owned Global Apparels Limited factory representatives, union officials and workers yesterday, to negotiate an agreement for compensation as the company closes down. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/talks-over-garment-factorys-closure-bear-no-fruit
Tobacco giant quits industry group over packaging dispute
The local arm of tobacco giant Japan Tobacco International (JTI), which makes Camel, Winston and Mevius cigarettes, has blasted the Association of the Tobacco Industry of Cambodia (atIC) for failing to ensure its members adhere to new regulations mandating graphic health warnings on cigarette packages. ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tobacco-giant-quits-industry-group-over-packaging-dispute-116040/
With job cuts on horizon, factory’s staff walks
Roughly 2,000 workers from the Malaysian-owned Global Apparels Limited garment factory in Phnom Penh went on strike yesterday after the factory announced it would be reducing staff numbers by 500 over the coming months, union representatives said yesterday. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/job-cuts-horizon-factorys-staff-walks
Budget backed without support
Members of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party voted in the National Assembly yesterday to back a 2017 national budget that outlines spending of $5 billion, but opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) members refused to give it their support. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32306/budget-backed-without-support/
Ministry to push quality control
The Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts (MIH) has started a laboratory and a department to check on the quality and safety of local products to be exported, state news agency AKP reported yesterday. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37270/ministry-to-push-quality-control/
Royal gazette to move online
The government will this year stop printing the royal gazette for sale to the public and begin publishing new editions online, an official said yesterday. ...
Mech Dara and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/royal-gazette-move-online
Ministry pushes fortnightly pay
The Labor Ministry is encouraging employers, with the support of unions, to implement article 116 of the Labor Law, which requires owners of enterprises and factories to pay their workers twice a month. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36951/ministry-pushes-fortnightly-pay/