Minimum wage may rise for Cambodian garment workers
The Cambodia’s Ministry of Labour has scheduled a meeting on February 26 with representatives of various unions to discuss the new minimum wage for garment workers in the country. However, the Ministry expects the various workers’ unions to agree on what the new wage should ...
http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/apparel-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=120969
A factory’s fainting crisis
In a single factory that supplies some of the biggest international brands, faintings occurred every day for five years, a new investigation by the Cambodian Legal Education Centre has found. Until just weeks ago, when the management installed new fans, three to four garments workers were ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012110759624/National-news/a-factorys-fainting-crisis.html
Cambodia, U.S. sign emissions reduction agreement
Cambodia and the United States on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding on low emissions and climate resilient development in Cambodia, according to a press statement from the U.S. Embassy to Phnom Penh. The deal was inked between Cambodian Minister of Environment Mok Mareth and Rebecca ...
http://www.china.org.cn/environment/2013-05/31/content_28997411.htm
Subedi Urges Passage of Laws on Judiciary
U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi met with a senior official at the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday and reiterated a call for new legislation to be passed on governing Cambodia’s judiciary. “He did not ask us much on anything new, but he did ask for ...
Japan urges Cambodia's ruling, opposition parties to continue talks over political row
Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties to resume talks to resolve political dispute over the results of the country ‘s July 28 election. “Japan has been actively supporting Cambodia’s nation-building efforts to date,” said the Ministry’s statement released to Cambodian media ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/814239.shtml#.UkTnhdKBmN8
Ruling party debates roadways law without opposition
Ruling party members continued to meet at the National Assembly on Wednesday, discussing a draft law on roadways despite a boycott by the opposition. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has refused to participate in the new government, following 2013 elections it says were marred by ...
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/ruling-party-debates-roadways-law-without-opposition/1884674.html
Plan aims to cut road deaths
Every day, five people die in traffic accidents in Cambodia – a number the government is hoping to reduce with a new policy aimed at cutting traffic accidents by 50 per cent in 2020. The National Policy on Road Safety, passed by the Council of Ministers ...
Chhay Channyda and Lieng Sarith
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/plan-aims-cut-road-deaths
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/
Kratie land dispute goes on
Hundreds of families from Kratie province’s Snuol district who were promised new plots of land after a Vietnamese rubber firm evicted them last month have complained that provincial officials are allowing hundreds of interlopers to stake a claim instead. The 405 families were evicted from the ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-land-dispute-goes
Sobering data on drownings
Compared to their peers in the region, Cambodian children are much more likely to die by drowning, according to new estimates from the World Health Organization. The WHO, which provided country-specific statistics alongside its new Global Report on Drowning, released yesterday, estimates that the risk of ...
Joe Freeman
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/sobering-data-drownings
Cambodians flock to the net
Internet use in Cambodia grew a staggering 414 per cent since January 2014, but penetration still remains relatively low at 25 per cent, according to a new report from a Singapore-based consultancy firm. The Digital, Social and Mobile in APAC 2015 report, published yesterday by We ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/cambodians-flock-net
Russian-Cambodian satellite venture launched
A new Russian-Cambodian digital satellite television service plans to have 400,000 subscribers in the next two years with 60 channels in Khmer, English, Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese and other languages. The venture between Russia’s General Satellite and Cambodia’s Royal Group was soft-launched last night at Sofitel, with ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012072557590/Business/onetv-satellite-venture-launched.html
PPWSA plans to produce and supply more than 245 million cubic meters of clean water to the people of Phnom Penh by 2023
Sim Sitha, Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority has set up a plan to produce and supply clean water of more than 245 million cubic meters to ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501298576/ppwsa-plans-to-produce-and-supply-more-than-245-million-cubic-meters-of-clean-water-to-the-people-of-phnom-penh-by-2023/
MoEYS, KAPE, and Meta launch khmer digital literacy program syllabus to support ongoing initiative
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS), Kampuchea Action to Promote Education (KAPE) and Meta came together to officially launch a Khmer Digital Literacy Programme (KDLP) resource pack highlighting specific modules to be introduced in New Generation Schools (NGS) and other public schools as part ...
Kiripost staff writers
https://kiripost.com/stories/moeys-kape-and-meta-launch-khmer-digital-literacy-program-syllabus-to-support-ongoing-initiative
Ministry recognises Khmer Conservative Party
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Wednesday issued a proclamation letter recognising the new Khmer Conservative Party with former opposition party lawmaker Real Camerin at the helm. ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50645044/ministry-recognises-khmer-conservative-party/
Public input touted for access to information draft law
Public officials and stakeholders drafting new access to information legislation listened yesterday as speakers underlined the importance of incorporating public feedback into the long-awaited law. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/public-input-touted-access-information-draft-law
US seeks to continue funding for Khmer Rouge tribunal, ambassador says
The new US ambassador to Cambodia, William A. Heidt, says the US is currently looking at how much it can contribute to the Khmer Rouge tribunal. ...
Pin Sisovann
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/us-seeks-to-continue-funding-for-khmer-rouge-tribunal-ambassador-says/3188530.html
Scientists using DNA to track Mekong’s ‘monsters’
Environmental DNA collection could be a “silver bullet” for tracking and protecting critically endangered fish in the Mekong, according to a new report. ...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/scientists-using-dna-track-mekongs-monsters
Film interview high on PM’s UN visit
Prime Minister Hun Sen arrived in New York yesterday for a series of meetings, with making demining a key UN development goal at the top of his agenda. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16145/film-interview-high-on-pm---s-un-visit/
Cheers over lower prices at the pump
The drop in the price of gasoline and diesel, following new pricing regulations introduced last week, has been especially cheered by people whose incomes are low. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22858/cheers-over-lower-prices-at-the-pump/