Medical trips await 9 of 23
Nine of the group of 23 workers and labour activists who were released from custody and given suspended sentences on Friday over January’s garment employee protests will receive medical care in Thailand, rights group Licadho said yesterday.
A number of the men were beaten by security
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/medical-trips-await-9-23
E-Commerce Law goes ahead with WB funding
A draft law on e-commerce that would regulate electronic trade in Cambodia will arrive at the Council of Ministers in August, following revision by two other state institutions, officials at the Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday.
Orm Dararith, director of the Ministry of Commerce’s legal department,
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/e-commerce-law-goes-ahead-with-wb-funding-60518/
Capital to host tourism fair
For the first time in the event’s 37-year history, Cambodia is to host the annual Pacific Asian Tourism Association Travel Mart (PTM), an annual tourism trade fair organised by the multinational tourism body.
So Visothy, director of marketing and information at the Ministry of Tourism, said
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/capital-host-tourism-fair
Cambodia the focus of new IT training course
Cambodia boasts one of the youngest populations in Southeast Asia, with youth under 30 making up nearly 68 percent of the total number of people in the country, according to the United Nations.
And its young demographics and relatively cheap labor are just a few of
Park Eun-Jee
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2990542
Wage group agrees on January 1 raises
The group in charge of determining the national minimum wage for the garment sector yesterday agreed to increase salaries annually on January 1, determined by discussions that are to take place in the final quarter of each preceding year, officials said.
The agreement was signed during
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wage-group-agrees-january-1-raises
Will the World Cup hurt productivity?
Once every four years, when the FIFA World Cup rolls around, business surveys and studies are inevitably released telling us that all those hours spent watching football, thinking about football and talking about football have a tangible effect on the global economy.
During the 2010 World
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/will-world-cup-hurt-productivity
Eyes turn to legislation passed without CNRP
After months of decrying the one-party National Assembly as illegitimate and vowing to amend any flawed legislation passed during a parliamentary boycott, the Cambodia National Rescue Party, by agreeing to take its seats yesterday, is about to get its chance.
In the roughly 10-month period since
Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eyes-turn-legislation-passed-without-cnrp
Government rolls out new agriculture policy
The Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday released a draft policy to strengthen the agriculture sector by educating farmers on how to gain greater access to markets and increase their productivity by using sustainable farming methods.
The Agriculture Extension Policy, drafted in cooperation with USAID, aims to
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/government-rolls-out-new-agriculture-policy-65282/
Hun Sen demands bus lines
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday used the inauguration of the Stung Meanchey overpass to call for the speedy formation of a government bus authority, as the capital eyes two new planned routes and 18 by 2020.
During his speech at the site of the approximately $19
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-demands-bus-lines
Sam Rainsy under attack for effort to freeze aid to Cambodia
Spokesman for the Press and Quick Reaction Unit of the Office of Council of Ministers blamed Sam Rainsy for his effort to convince foreign countries to freeze aid to Cambodia.
Sam Rainsy left Cambodia last Thursday for Europe in his effort to convince the European countries
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=ZmQ4MThjNzU3MDc
China provides military trucks and uniforms to Cambodia
China on Friday delivered 26 military trucks and 30,000 sets of military uniforms to Cambodia in order to help relieve the difficulties of the Cambodian army.
At a handover ceremony held at the Trucking Battalion No. 99 on the outskirts of the capital Phnom Penh, Chinese
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-02/07/c_133097174.htm
Big dip in illegal fishing: gov’t
Cambodian authorities intervened in far fewer illegal fishing cases last year compared with 2012, when Prime Minister Hun Sen first banned commercial angling nationwide in a bid to replenish waterways and aid small-scale fishermen.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, which released an
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/big-dip-illegal-fishing-gov%E2%80%99t
Talks over political dispute still underway secretly: Cambodian PM
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that negotiations between his ruling party and the opposition party over political dispute have been conducted secretly.
“The opposition has announced to suspend talks with the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), but in fact, the talks are still underway secretly,”
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-04/07/c_133243802.htm
R’kiri bust ends with $5,000 fine for logging
Forestry officials arrested four men and confiscated two pickup trucks containing illegally logged luxury timber en route to Vietnam on Sunday in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district before releasing both the men and the timber after fining them thousands of dollars, officers and a rights group representative
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/r%E2%80%99kiri-bust-ends-5000-fine-logging
Cambodia's garment, footwear exports up 16 pct in Q1
Garment and footwear industry, Cambodia’s largest income earner, reported a 16 percent surge in exports in the first three months of 2014, the figures of the Ministry of Commerce showed Monday.
The Southeast Asian nation exported apparel and footwear products in equivalent to 1.56 billion U.S.
ASEAN - China Centre News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-04/28/c_133295843.htm
Electronics workers call for child care
About 700 workers at a Svay Rieng province electronics factory were to demonstrate for the third day today after management refused their demands for access to child care and the reinstatement of five union leaders.
The provincial department of labour yesterday proved unable to sway management
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/electronics-workers-call-child-care
Out of jail, garment worker sees uncertain future
When Pang Vunny walks around his rented room just off of Veng Sreng Boulevard, he waves his hand from side to side in front of him, like a man feeling his way in the dark.
Ever since he was arrested and badly beaten on January 2
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/out-jail-garment-worker-sees-uncertain-future
Cambodia sees 83 pct drop in dengue fever cases in first half
Cambodia has reported 1,005 dengue fever cases in the first six months of 2014, down 83 percent from 6,039 cases in the same period last year, a health official said Friday.
Char Meng Chuor, director of the National Center for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control, said
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2014-07/04/c_133460228.htm
Cambodia's rubber exports up 91 pct in H1
Cambodia has seen a 91 percent rise in dry rubber exports in the first half of 2014 as revenue from the exports increased only 3 percent due to global decline of rubber prices.
During the January-June period this year, the country exported 42,190 tons of dry
ASEAN-China Center News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-07/29/c_133518119.htm
Unions say gov’t blocking branch registrations
In March, the Ministry of Labor for the first time began requiring union leaders to submit proof they had no previous criminal convictions before they would be allowed to register a new union or local branch.
Now, the country’s leading unions say worker representatives are struggling
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unions-say-govt-blocking-branch-registrations-66958/
