Bribes on rise for test takers
More than half a million dollars in bribes were paid to teachers during last month’s national exams by high school students in Phnom Penh alone, the authors of a new study have found. The study, conducted by the Youth Resource Development Program, found that the average ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bribes-rise-test-takers
Funcinpec leaders ‘to sell off headquarters’
High-ranking members of the royalist Funcinpec party have said they are set to file a court complaint against the party’s senior leaders for allegedly attempting to sell the party’s headquarters for their own personal gain. Sok Sa Vann, a member of the party’s steering committee, maintained ...
Vong Sokheng
http://Funcinpec leaders ‘to sell off headquarters’
Council accepts first complaint in process
Though most of the opposition complaints reviewed by the Constitutional Council have been dismissed so far, one has been deemed credible and appropriate, a council spokesman said. According to spokesman Uth Chhorn, one complaint regarding a campaign-period clash between supporters of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue ...
Cambodia's Preah Vihear heritage site receives less visitors in first nine months
The number of tourists visiting Cambodia’s Preah Vihear Temple, a world heritage site, has declined by 30 percent in the first nine months of the year, tourism data showed Wednesday. The figures provided by Preah Vihear provincial tourism department said a total of 54,000 domestic and ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/travel/2013-10/09/c_132782239.htm
CPP Government Establishes Electoral Reform Commission
The CPP government has established a 10-member inter-ministerial electoral reform commission headed by CPP Interior Minister Sar Kheng, according to a sub-decree obtained Wednesday. The opposition CNRP and rights organizations have been calling for electoral reform since July’s national election was marred by widespread allegations of ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-government-establishes-electoral-reform-commission-50972/
Cambodia's ruling, opposition parties to resume talks over electoral reform next week
Representatives of Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties will meet next Tuesday to discuss about the establishment of a mechanism for an electoral reform, the Cambodia People’s Party (CPP) said Saturday. “The ruling CPP sets 9:00 a.m. Feb. 18 as the date to meet and negotiate ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=200732
Details meted out for election panel
The first meeting of a joint election-reform committee that was agreed to last week by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party will meet for the first time on Thursday, officials from both sides said yesterday. Each side has appointed six ...
Kevin Ponniah and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/details-meted-out-election-panel
Costs don’t top brands’ concerns
In their latest bid for a $160 minimum monthly wage for the garment industry, independent unions will lead a “stay at home” strike late next week. While the chances of that figure being approved anytime soon seem slight – the government has only just announced a ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/costs-don%E2%80%99t-top-brands%E2%80%99-concerns
Mass faintings in Cambodia sicken over 200 garment workers
More than 200 Cambodian garment workers have been hospitalized after episodes of mass fainting at three factories this week, highlighting problems within an industry that is critical to the kingdom’s fledgling economy. The plants all make clothes for brands such as sportswear giants Puma SE and Adidas. Both ...
Aljazeera America News Staff
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/4/3/over-200-cambodiangarmentworkersfaintonthejob.html
Chong villagers put festive spin on dam protest
Villagers from an ethnic minority community in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley continued their blockade over the Khmer New Year holiday of an access road leading to the site of a proposed dam they say would destroy their way of life. Members of the ethnic ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chong-villagers-put-festive-spin-on-dam-protest-56708/
Garment workers continue protest after factory owner flees
About 400 garment workers who lost their jobs when their factory abruptly closed earlier this month blocked access to Canadia Industrial Park on Saturday to demand full severance pay. Workers from the Hongkong Yufeng factory, which unexpectedly closed on June 9, are demanding that management of ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/garment-workers-continue-protest-after-factory-owner-flees-62738/
Local transfers push Wing revenue
Wing, a growing Cambodian mobile payment and money transfer company, had a better-than-expected 2013. In May, Wing’s CEO Anthony Perkins estimated that the company would reach transaction volumes totaling $1 billion by the end of the year, including domestic remittances, mobile phone top ups, bills and ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-transfers-push-wing-revenue
Improved infrastructure leads to boom in apartments, condos
Infrastructure development and new condominium and apartment construction growth are boosting land prices in Toul Tompong and Deoum Thkov communes, and in Chamkarmon district by as much as 30 per cent. Kuy Vat, president and CEO of Vtrust Group, said that increased land prices in Boeung ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/improved-infrastructure-leads-boom-apartments-condos
Cambodian parties expect draft election law by month’s end
Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties expect to finalize a draft of the nation’s new election law by the end of the month as the centerpiece of key reforms promised in a July agreement that ended a nearly one-year political crisis, an official said Monday. “The two ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/draft-09082014171348.html
NagaCorp reassures investors over Cambodia licence
Cambodian casino operator NagaCorp Ltd has taken the step of reassuring investors about its casino licence rights in the country. It stated that the deal includes an exclusive right to operate a casino (NagaWorld, pictured) in the capital Phnom Penh, and the area within a ...
GGRAsia News Staff
http://www.ggrasia.com/nagacorp-reassures-investors-over-cambodia-licence/
Hun Sen pushes for migrant worker safety
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday ordered the Labour Ministry to pay attention to the safety of women migrant workers. “The Ministry of Labour must monitor the welfare of Cambodian female workers abroad to protect them from any abuse,” Mr Hun Sen said during the annual meeting ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50692037/hun-sen-pushes-for-migrant-worker-safety
Cambodia prepares for G20
If it were a Group of 180 nations meeting, Cambodia would be invited. But the Kingdom’s chances of attending the so-called G20 summit, which brings together the world’s largest economies, are unlikely, says Mey Kalyan, a government adviser who last week became the first Cambodian to ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012051456136/Business/cambodia-prepares-for-g20.html
US hears Boeung Kak women
The US ambassador at large for Global Women’s Issues – an office in the US State Department – met with five of the Boeung Kak lake female activists on Saturday in a sidelines meeting of a Lower Mekong gender policy dialogue. “It was a full ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071657436/National-news/us-hears-boeung-kak-women.html
Cambodia-Thailand trade reaches over $3.4 billion
The two-way trade between Cambodia and Thailand rose by 5.6 percent in the first five months of this year to $3,472 billion, according to the statistics from Thailand’s Ministry of Commerce. From January to May 2020, Cambodia exported $711 million worth of goods to Thailand, ...
Chea Vannak/AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50748231/cambodia-thailand-trade-reaches-over-3-4-billion/
Thai-Cambodia 2020 bilateral trade below goal by 50 percent
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Thailand for 2020 reached only half of the $15 billion target set by the two governments in 2015. Those targets had set a goal of tripling two-way trade. Two-way trade between the two nations was valued at $7.236 billion last ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50807076/thai-cambodia-2020-bilateral-trade-below-goal-by-50-percent/