Exports to Thailand still blocked
Agricultural exports to Thailand are still being blocked at the border by Thai authorities over concerns that officials’ seals and certificates of origin are being forged, as Cambodian officials try to resolve the issue. The Ministry of Commence on Friday issued a statement stressing that the ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29025/exports-to-thailand-still-blocked/
City hall pulls plug on market fee collector
Phnom Penh City Hall plans to replace the controversial contractor in charge of collecting parking and stall fees from markets around the city, according to a letter from the Council of Ministers posted on social media yesterday. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-hall-pulls-plug-market-fee-collector
Labor leader wants unionists’ charges dropped
A prosecutor at the Kompong Speu Provincial Court said on Wednesday that charges would stand against five union officials who were released on bail last month after they were arrested during a brawl with a rival association, despite calls by a prominent labor leader to ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/labor-leader-wants-unionists-charges-dropped-108658/
Reformed tech industry body looks to boost ‘digital economy’
Representatives of Cambodia’s tech sector say they are ready to help the country take advantage of global advances in information and communication technology (ICT), after recent reforms to the main body representing the industry. The management of the ICT Federation of Cambodia was overhauled in ...
Aun Chhengpor
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/reformed-tech-industry-body-looks-to-boost-digital-economy/3408025.html
Parents using toxic balms on babies: report
Cambodian parents are commonly using medicinal balms and oils such as “Tiger Balm” on their newborn children despite potentially toxic effects, according to a new report. ...
Erin Handley and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parents-using-toxic-balms-babies-report
Tourism a key revenue generator for SMEs
Cambodia’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) earned $1.9 billion in revenue last year from the tourism sector, and could increase this amount further by reducing imports, an industry spokesman said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tourism-key-revenue-generator-smes
New salary bump for civil sector employees
Civil servants will see their salaries raised again from January as part of incremental annual pay increases scheduled through 2018, the government announced yesterday.Next year’s raise will mean about 200,000 civil servants will have their basic salaries increased by 12 per cent from the current ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-salary-bump-civil-sector-employees
Central bank moves to spark Interbank lending
The National Bank of Cambodia has decreased the minimum value of negotiable certificates of deposit (NCDs) in a bid to promote interbank lending in the Kingdom’s crowded financial industry. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17371/central-bank-moves-to-spark-interbank-lending/
Team finds fish deaths due to lack of oxygen
Experts from the Institute of Standards of Cambodia (ISC) inspected Chinese-owned Rui Feng sugar company’s factory this week after suspicions that its runoff had caused last month’s mass fish deaths in Preah Vihear. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/team-finds-fish-deaths-due-lack-oxygen
Private sector warns government that high costs imperil investment
Private sector representatives are deeply concerned by the government’s inability to reduce the cost of doing business in the Kingdom, and they warned yesterday that the country would start to lose investors if the situation did not improve. ...
Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/private-sector-warns-government-high-costs-imperil-investment
Talks on maid MoU slated for summer
A Memorandum of Understanding aimed at protecting maids sent to Malaysia may make headway in the next two months, a government official has said. Secretary of State for the Ministry of Women’s Affairs San Arun said a meeting with Malaysian officials on an MoU is expected ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050755997/National-news/maid-mou-inching-forward.html
Exports to US rise by 0.2 per cent
Cambodia’s total exports to the United States increased by 0.2 per cent over the first 10 months of the year, a year-on-year analysis from the US Department of Commerce showed. The data showed exports to the US totalled $2.296 billion between January and October this ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2012122160403/Business/exports-to-us-rise-by-0-2pc.html
Korean College for Siem Reap
Cheju Halla, a Korean university, plans to build a university of tourism and hospitality in Siem Reap next year, Tourism Minister Thong Khon told reporters yesterday at a meeting with Han Soo Kim, the new South Korean ambassador to Cambodia. The Ministry of Tourism has requested ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062156924/Business/korean-college-siem-reap.html
Climate report paints dismal picture for region
As much of the country grapples with crippling floods, a comprehensive report on global climate change released yesterday predicts the situation could be poised to get even worse. According to the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as the planet grows warmer, cyclones making ...
Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/climate-report-paints-dismal-picture-region
Suspects to wear saffron
Suspects on trial already detained by authorities will now be forced to wear a prison uniform to court, a director at the General Department of Prisons at the Ministry of Interior said yesterday. About 7,000 of the new uniforms will be distributed to prisons nationwide, he ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/suspects-wear-saffron
Weak enforcement for strong acid
Kneeling outside a motodop and car battery store on Monivong Boulevard in the capital, a 15-year-old boy spends his days piping acid into batteries with his bare hands. His employer says she has no idea that Cambodia, as well as having an Acid Control Law – ...
Amelia Woodside and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/weak-enforcement-strong-acid
Labor Unions agree to one time hike in wage
Around 40 Labor Unions in Cambodia have all agreed to pursue the third formula given by the Ministry of Labor, of a one time hike in minimum wage for footwear and garment factory employees in 2014. The Labor Unions agreed to pursue the hike in salary ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=MWNmYzg4Yjc2YjJ
Cambodia to meet Malaysia over maids MoU
The Ministry of Labor said Wednesday that the government has agreed on a final draft of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Malaysia regarding sending Cambodian maids to work there, but that no timeframe for the signing of the agreement has been set. Following reports of ...
Denise Hruby and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-to-meet-malaysia-over-maids-mou-53635/
Minister calls for construction of plastic recycle plants in Bavet, Sihanoukville
Say Sam Al, Minister of Environment, on Thursday called for construction of plastic recycle plants in Bavet and Sihanoukville. Speaking at the meeting, the minister said that in the last 20 years Ministry of Environment as well as Cambodian government didn’t allow trash recycle in ...
The Cambodia Herlad
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NzAwNDJmMjdmZTN
Hand, foot and mouth disease reoccurs in Cambodia, killing 1
Hand, foot and mouth disease ( HFMD), which is caused by enterovirus 71 (EV-71), has reappeared in Cambodia and recently killed a boy and sickened seven other children, a local Kampuchea Thmey Daily newspaper reported Wednesday. Dr. Ly Sovann, chief of the Health Ministry’s Communicable Disease ...
Asean - China Centre News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-04/24/c_133286742.htm