Vendors square off with school principal
Vendors ousted from the grounds of Hun Sen Borey 100 Knorng Secondary School in Phnom Penh have accused the acting principal of corruption, including selling almost $2,000 worth of state property and forcing students to pay up to $100 to transfer to the institution. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vendors-square-school-principal
Royal group ordered to dismantle jetty on O’tres beach
Six months after it started construction, Kith Meng’s Royal Group has been ordered to demolish a nearly finished jetty on O’Tres Beach near Sihanoukville, with local officials saying the tycoon’s company was never granted permission to build it in the first place. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/royal-group-ordered-to-dismantle-jetty-on-otres-beach-106093/
Siem Reap residents protest unwanted address change
About 70 residents from a village in Siem Reap’s Ampil commune yesterday submitted a petition to provincial officials requesting that they not be switched to the authority of neighbouring Nokor Thom commune, though at least one local official claimed the matter was long decided. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/siem-reap-residents-protest-unwanted-address-change
Thailand, Cambodia eye MICE links
Tourism industry executives and government officials from Thailand and Cambodia gathered in Phnom Penh yesterday for a roadshow on the meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) segment of the tourism industry to find ways to work together to drive new business. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24305/thailand--cambodia-eye-mice-links/
Vietnam flights to broaden coastal tourism
Sihanoukville’s tourism industry has welcomed news that the country’s flagship airline will commence scheduled service between Sihanoukville and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam next month, but said the coastal city could benefit greatly from more international flights. ...
Ayanna Runcie and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/vietnam-flights-broaden-coastal-tourism
MEF and USAID launch transparency initiative
USAID and the US Treasury Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) have launched a joint initiative with the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) to improve fiscal transparency and accountability in the management of public finances, according to a press release issued yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mef-and-usaid-launch-transparency-initiative
Online recruitment portals seek competitive advantage
German-backed online job recruitment portal Everjobs officially announced plans yesterday to conduct its first career fair in Cambodia. The company, which entered into Cambodia a year ago, joins the ranks of numerous online job portals aiming to dominate the recruitment market. ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/online-recruitment-portals-seek-competitive-advantage
Adoption agreement signed with Catalonia
Seven years after Cambodia put a stop to its own international adoption programs, the Catalan regional government in Spain signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Social Affairs on Tuesday that will allow its residents to adopt Cambodian children. ...
Janelle Retka and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/adoption-agreement-signed-with-catalonia-113847/
White building to be renovated
While residents of the iconic White Building in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district welcome a Ministry of Urban Planning and Construction project to develop the pre-Khmer Rouge-era structure, it remains to be seen whether the development will move forward without issues. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26292/white-building-to-be-renovated/
New parties to register
As Cambodia inches closer to the 2017 commune elections, the Interior Ministry has implored all of the Kingdom’s political parties to get their affairs in order and finish the necessary paperwork so their organization is listed on the ballot. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27603/new-parties-to-register/
Sihanoukville beach vendors protest new relocation notice
Vendors along O’Chheuteal Beach yesterday protested against a new Preah Sihanouk provincial project that requires them to build new stalls – set back from their current ones – before the Sea Festival starts on December 17, in order to expand the beach area for tourists. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sihanoukville-beach-vendors-protest-new-relocation-notice
Prime minister seeks $300 million from china for rice sector
In the latest effort to mitigate the impact of plummeting rice prices, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday that the government was seeking $300 million from China to boost the capacity of rice millers and provide funds to them for purchasing paddy from farmers. ...
Kuch Naren and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-seeks-300-million-china-rice-sector-118209/
Rights report decries sugar firm’s tactics
Asia’s largest sugar producer, Mitr Phol, is responsible for violating the rights of hundreds of villagers in Oddar Meanchey who saw their land grabbed, homes destroyed and livestock killed to make way for plantations, according to the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRCT). ...
Phak Seangly and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rights-report-decries-sugar-firms-tactics
Changing climate has major impacts for under-prepared Cambodia
Cambodia is ranked one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. Many of its people rely on agriculture, and the changes to the country’s climate, whether more droughts or more floods, makes them particularly vulnerable. ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/changing-climate-has-major-impacts-for-under-prepared-cambodia/3073169.html
Tycoon reelected president of two chambers of commerce
Kith Meng, chairman of the Royal Group, was reelected president of the Cambodia Chamber of Commerce yesterday in a landslide vote at its Phnom Penh office. The tycoon, whose interests span television, banking, telecoms and property, was also reelected president of the Phnom Penh Chamber ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18177/tycoon-reelected-president-of-two-chambers-of-commerce/
Saudis sign MOU on maids
Cambodia and Saudi Arabia on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding to begin work on opening a pipeline for Cambodians to work in the gulf nation, which has been routinely criticised for failing to protect migrant domestic workers from abysmal treatment and slave-like conditions. ...
Chhay Channyda and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/saudis-sign-mou-maids
Officials’ service passports to be revoked at borders
Government officials who travel overseas for work will have to turn over their service passports when they return to Cambodia starting this month due to misuse of the documents to overstay official trips and partake in unrelated work, according to a Foreign Affairs Ministry statement. ...
Saing Soenthrith and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/109715-109715/
Union law sees major amendments, still lacks blessing of workers
As a result of the meeting with the specialist commissions, Minister of Labor Ith Samheng said that nearly 50 percent of the comments given by union leaders, business owners, development partners and the government were used to make changes in the draft union law yesterday. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22634/union-law-sees-major-amendments--still-lacks-blessing-of-workers/
Small-scale sand dredging business shut down
A small-scale sand dredging business on the banks of Sraeng lake in Banteay Meanchey’s Teuk Cho commune was shut down yesterday by Preah Net Preah district authorities after it was found to be operating without a license, according to district governor Ly Sovannarith. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22745/small-scale-sand-dredging-business-shut-down/
Experts convene 2nd council on Preah Vihear temple
The International Coordinating Committee (ICC) for Preah Vihear held its second meeting in Siem Reap City on Monday to discuss ongoing efforts to preserve the 12th century Hindu temple and turn the majestic but remote site into a popular tourist destination. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/experts-convene-2nd-council-on-preah-vihear-temple-110245/