CNRP Requests Migrant Worker Draft Agreement
The opposition CNRP has written to The embassies of Singapore and Malaysia requesting copies of draft agreements with The Cambodian government on sending migrant workers to The countries that They say They were not privy to. A Ministry of Labor official last month said The government ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-requests-migrant-worker-draft-agreement-48622/
Input on NGO law over: gov’t
The government will not consult civil society groups on The latest iteration of a draft law that will regulate non-governmental organisations and associations, a senior Interior Ministry official said yesterday. Meas Sarim, deputy director-general of The General Department of Local Administration at The Ministry of Interior ...
Chhay Channyda and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/input-ngo-law-over-gov%E2%80%99t
EU Alleges Up to 30% of Cambodia Rice Imports Mixed With Vietnam Rice
The Alliance of Rice Producers and Exporters of Cambodia (ARPEC) has proposed a “Code of Conduct” for rice exporters of The country to prevent contamination of rice from oTher origins in rice exports to EU member countries. Under The Everything But Arms (EBA) trade ...
Oryza
http://oryza.com/news/eu-alleges-30-cambodia-rice-imports-are-mixed-vietnam-rice
Kampong Chhnang villagers demand return of tractors
Farmers and the authorities in Svay Rompear commune, Kampong Leng district, Kampong Chhnang province said they would continue to seek court permission to recover five tractors that authorities had impounded on March 26, ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-chhnang-villagers-demand-return-tractors
Japan firms see fresh potential in Kingdom
A delegation of more than 30 Japanese businesspeople yesterday met with the Council for the Development of Cambodia to discuss investment opportunities in the Kingdom, after seeing what they said were vast improvements in domestic legal and tax regulations. However, no definite decisions had yet ...
Announcement on the instruction of the requirement to work from home for 1-week period
09 March 2021, the Ministry of Economy and Finance released an instruction on the requirement to work from home for a 1-week period in order to prevent COVID-19 transmission which has been continually spreading in Cambodia since the community transmission event on 20 February 2021. ...
Ministry of Economy and Finance
Thor Chetha presides over the handover ceremony of the Mavic 3E drone and Bathymetric Survey
The Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology, Thor Chetha, on January 19, presided over The handover ceremony of “Mavic 3E Drone and Bathymetric” with The help of Chinese company Guang Dong and closing training courses on use for measurement and service to The water resources ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501425992/thor-chetha-presides-over-the-handover-ceremony-of-the-mavic-3e-drone-and-bathymetric-survey/
Ministries: Join BFC or lose export privileges
Two ministries on February 22 ordered factory owners and directors in the textile, garment, bag and travel-goods export sectors to register with Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) and obtain certification on working conditions. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministries-join-bfc-or-lose-export-privileges
Authorities warn union leader
Police on Friday warned labour union leader Pav Sina that if he continues to lead protests – thereby violating the rules of a court order – he will be arrested. the Collective Union of Movement of Workers leader was called to the Choam Chao commune police ...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-warn-union-leader
CDC gives nod to $3.5B in projects
The Council for Development of Cambodia (CDC) approved projects worth a total $3.5 billion in The first half of this year – a 14 per cent increase compared to The same period last year, a statement released on Saturday said. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cdc-gives-nod-35b-projects
After factory ignores ruling, garment workers to march
Employees of the Ocean Garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district continued to protest Monday against management’s decision to ignore an Arbitration Council ruling on owed wages. Cheng Chhorn, secretary general of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers, said the workers will march to ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-factory-ignores-ruling-garment-workers-to-march-64074/
Put trips to Bangkok on hold: gov’t
The government asked Cambodians to avoid all nonessential travel to Bangkok following Thailand’s imposition of martial law. “The situation is calm and we will continue monitoring it, but travellers planning to go to Thailand should hold off for now,” Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said after an ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/put-trips-bangkok-hold-gov%E2%80%99t
Cambodia's garment manufacturers calls on gov't to curb illegal strikes
The Garment Manufacturers Associations in Cambodia (GMAC) on Sunday urged The government to curb outlawed garment strikes that have occurred this week at Special Economic Zones in eastern Bavet City, which are expected to continue next week. “GMAC is disappointed that The government and local authorities ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-04/27/c_133293620.htm
FAO-led project to boost meat quality in the Kingdom
A new partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations seeks to enhance the quality of local meat by modernising facilities and raising hygiene standards, with a pilot project launched in Takeo in November. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50525749/fao-led-project-to-boost-meat-quality-in-the-kingdom/
Unions want meet with Minister to discuss Labor Law problems
While stakeholders have lauded the government’s move to establish a bond market, in a bid to raise more funds from domestic sources, they, however, expressed concern that not enough has been done to inform the public on how debt security can support government spending. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35275/unions-want-meet-with-minister-to-discuss-labor-law-problems/
Cambodia’s Economic Opportunity
While significant obstacles remain, the success of the rice sector is a potentially crucial driver in Cambodia’s prosperous and equitable development. Cambodia announced two major bilateral trade agreements recently, with the Philippines and Thailand, that are expected to further expand the country’s rice export sector. ...
http://thediplomat.com/2013/05/09/cambodias-economic-opportunity/
General Department of Identification of Ministry of Interior to facilitate the public with incorrect civil records to amend their personal information with officials
On 08 November 2017, regarding to the recent Instruction No.035 signed on 20 October 2017 by Ministry of Interior on Correction and Cancellation of Civil Registration List, the General Department of Identification of Ministry of Interior has released an announcement to urge the public, who ...
General Department of Indentification
Two ministries anticipate budget increase
The ministers of education and health said Monday They expect an 18 and 15 percent increase to Their ministries’ budgets, respectively, in The draft 2015 national budget signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday. ...
Hul Reaksmey and Chris Mueller
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-ministries-anticipate-budget-increase-71118/
Family’s world shrinks daily
Dozens of trucks, bulldozers and excavators have pushed Var Sokhoeurn to the edge of his remaining land at the Lower Sesan II dam site in Stung Treng province’s Srepok district. When Post reporters visited Sokhoeurn’s family last month, much of his land, where he grew cassava and other ...
Phak Seangly and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/family%E2%80%99s-world-shrinks-daily
The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts will investigate religious ceremonies by Vietnamese on Bokor Mountain
The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts will investigate on a scene where religious rituals have held by The Vietnamese on The Bokor Mountain, in Kampot province. This measure happened simultaneously after The Seventh Commission of The National Assembly summoned The minister to clarify on ...
Prach Chev
http://www.rfa.org/khmer/news/social-economy/ministry-of-culture-11272014000916.html