Cambodia's 'worst year’ for land disputes
More than 200 people were arrested while defending their land in 2012 – a year human rights groups described yesterday as Cambodia’s “worst” for land disputes. Of the 201 people arrested – a figure that more than doubled the 2011 total – 29 were imprisoned, mostly ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013012460955/National/cambodia-s-worst-year-for-land-disputes.html
18th Annual Cambodia STEM Festival: A Resounding Success in Promoting Green Innovation and Sustainability
The 18th Annual Cambodia STEM Festival (ACSF) is taking place at Aeon Mall Mean Chey on May 10-11, 2024, marking yet another successful year of inspiring innovation and promoting STEM education. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501486612/18th-annual-cambodia-stem-festival-a-resounding-success-in-promoting-green-innovation-and-sustainability/
Silk centre calls on private sector to take sericulture to the next level
Following a very successful year for the Kingdom’s sericulture sector in which its foundations have been cemented, the silk centre at the Royal University of Phnom Penh is ready for expansion. ...
Another three textile union reps arrested
Police arrested another three union representatives on Friday for allegedly inciting garment workers to strike and protest in front of their factory over the past few weeks, this time in Kandal province. It follows the arrest last week of six representatives of another union ahead of ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/another-three-textile-union-reps-arrested-58456/
Government raises retirement age for civil servants to 60
The Ministry of Civil Service released a letter on Thursday addressed to senior leaders of all institutions in the Kingdom announcing a change in the retirement age of civil servants. In compliance with Article 26 of the Law on Social Security Fund, civil servants, regardless ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-raises-retirement-age-civil-servants-60
The 15th Cambodian and Import-Export Goods Exhibition
On 27 June 2022, the Ministry of Commerce issued a notification on the 15th Cambodian and Import-Export Goods Exhibition.The Ministry of Commerce of the Kingdom of Cambodia has the honor to inform the public that the Ministry is going to organize “The 15th Cambodian and ...
Ministry of Commerce
Government approves 269 trademarks
The Ministry of Commerce approved 269 business trademarks this year, bringing the total number of such registrations at the ministry to 4,186 – an increase from 3,917 last year, its annual report said. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-approves-269-trademarks
Number of casinos jumps by 53% in 2018
Cambodia granted 52 licences to casinos last year, bringing the total awarded to 150 at the end of 2018, thanks largely to a surge in gambling businesses in the Kingdom’s Preah Sihanouk province. ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/number-casinos-jumps-53-2018
Securities companies to provide market liquidity
A new initiative aimed at encouraging more trading on Cambodia’s persistently quiet stock exchange will allow securities underwriters and dealers to become liquidity providers who can hold and trade shares in listed companies. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://bit.ly/2ak6Xdl
Cargo Traffic Grows at Sihanoukville Port
The total weight of goods transported through the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port in the first six months of the year was up 15 percent compared with the same period last year, according to figures released Thursday. Some 1.51 million tons of goods passed through the port in ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/cargo-traffic%E2%80%88grows-at-sihanoukville-port-34628/
Cambodia targets small and medium enterprises from Japan
Prime Minister Hun Sen said that Cambodia was eager to have Japanese investors to build factories and produce goods for exports to the world market. The premier made comments during his meeting on Sunday with Tishimitsu Gotegi, Minister of Ministry of Economy, Commerce and Industry of ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=OGMyOTU2M2QzMGI
New owners, old story
An existing moratorium on economic land concessions should be no impediment to pouring more cash into the Kingdom’s booming, and highly criticised, rubber trade, industry executives in the capital heard yesterday, as many current ELCs can simply be recycled to a new crop of investors. Ly ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-owners-old-story
Asia heatwave: Ministry says Cambodia temperatures could reach 42 °C, as at least 30 die in Thailand from heat
As Cambodia swelters under one of the most extreme heatwaves in recent years – with temperatures predicted to reach 42 °C – neighbouring Thailand has seen at least 30 deaths attributed to the high temperatures this year. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501478750/asia-heatwave-ministry-says-cambodia-temperatures-could-reach-42-c-as-at-least-30-die-in-thailand-from-heat/
Sleeker tax system nets more revenue
Efforts to introduce an effective, modern taxation system appear to be paying off as government coffers swelled last year, giving the state more revenue to use for development at a time when donor aid is drying up. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sleeker-tax-system-nets-more-revenue
Justice ministry to join committee to settle strikes
Officials at the Ministry Of Justice will join members Of the Labor Ministry, local authorities, police and provincial governors on the Committee for the Settlement Of Strikes and Demonstrations after a union leader requested they be included. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25283/justice-ministry-to-join-committee-to-settle-strikes/
Japanese investment worth $1.6 billion in 2017
With over 130 registered projects in banking, manufacturing, agriculture, service and infrastructure, among other sectors, Japanese investment in the kingdom was valued at $1.6 billion in 2017, according to the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109243/japanese-investment-worth-1-6-billion-2017/
Students protest over inability to sit exams
Nearly 200 midwives and nursing students at the International University in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district protested yesterday after reportedly being denied the necessary documents required to sit the Ministry of Health’s state civil servant exam this summer. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/students-protest-over-inability-sit-exams
Trafficking, trauma linked: study
Nearly two-thirds of surveyed survivors of human trafficking in Southeast Asia show symptoms of depression, while another 40 per cent suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a new study. ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/trafficking-trauma-linked-study
Largest-ever meth case goes to trial; suspects claim innocence
A young woman accused in the largest methamphetamine seizure in Cambodian history stood trial at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday, retracting her initial admission of guilt and pinning the blame on her former lover. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/largest-ever-meth-case-goes-to-trial-suspects-claim-innocence-115114/
Finance ministry sets forth rough plans for 2016 budget
The Ministry of Finance unveiled its strategic plan for next year’s budget during a forum Tuesday at the ministry in Phnom Penh, placing a focus on increasing state revenue, ramping up industrial productivity and spreading the benefits of economic expansion. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/finance-ministry-sets-forth-rough-plans-for-2016-budget-81622/