Electronics workers call for child care
About 700 workers at a Svay Rieng province electronics factory were to demonstrate for the third day today after management refused their demands for access to child care and the reinstatement of five union leaders. The provincial department of labour yesterday proved unable to sway management ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/electronics-workers-call-child-care
Beeline Weighs Future Options in Cambodia
VimpelCom Ltd., the Russian mobile telephone operator that runs the Beeline brand in Cambodia, is reviewing its assets in Cambodia to decide whether it should stop doing business here or merge with another firm in the country, an official at the company said yesterday. “We will ...
Varying Degrees of Progress Shown in Development Report
The government has made “remarkable development progress” in successfully guiding the country through the global financial crash of 2008, ensuring economic stability and enabling the government to meet the Cambodian Millennium Development Goal on poverty reduction, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. Speaking at the launch ...
Work on 6th Chinese-funded bridge in north Cambodia nears completion
Work on the 6th Cambodia-China Friendship Mekong-Stung Treng Bridge here in northern Cambodia is nearing completion after a 25-month construction, officials said Sunday. Tram Iv Tek, Cambodian Minister of Public Works and Transport, said the 1,731-meter bridge, being built by the Shanghai Construction (Group) General Company, ...
Xinhuanet news
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-06/08/c_133391624.htm
Protesters not happy with ministry’s offer
Some 200 villagers from Koh Kong province in a longstanding dispute with the Koh Kong Sugar Industry Co Ltd were prevented by the capital’s Daun Penh district authorities from protesting at the home of Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday. On Monday, the Ministry of ...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protesters-not-happy-ministrys-offer
Ratanakkiri Temple Now in Land Concession
Like most millennium-old structures discovered in the forests of Cambodia, the locals had known all along about this one. Jarai minority villagers in this remote spot in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district not only knew about it, but they revered the red-brick temple, using it as a ...
Kuch Naren and Michelle Vachon
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ratanakkiri-temple-now-in-land-concession-47779/
FTU trio held at factory by rivals in union clash
Workers aligned with the Collective Union of Movement of Workers locked three officials from the Free Trade Union inside the Ocean Garment factory in Phnom Penh for eight hours Tuesday after the two unions argued over who would represent workers in a wage dispute. Ocean’s approximately ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ftu-trio-held-at-factory-by-rivals-in-union-clash-63579/
New study reveals catastrophic loss of Cambodia's tropical flooded grasslands
Around half of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grasslands have been lost in just 10 years according to new research from the University of East Anglia. The seasonally flooded grasslands around the Tonle Sap, Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, are of great importance for biodiversity and a ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-03-reveals-catastrophic-loss-cambodia-tropical.html
Strike ends at Bavet window factory
More than 400 workers from a Chinese-owned window factory in Svay Rieng’s Bavet town returned to work yesterday following two weeks of protests that saw strikers pelt their own factory with rocks. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strike-ends-bavet-window-factory
Workers strike, accuse factory managers of attack at protest
Workers striking at Phnom Penh’s Quantum Clothing factory have filed a complaint against their managers for allegedly attacking two workers during a protest Wednesday outside the factory, according to a union representative and police official. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/workers-strike-accuse-factory-managers-of-attack-at-protest-78695/
Maid to return from Saudi Arabia as deal nears
Consular officials yesterday were working to repatriate a Cambodian maid fleeing what she described as unfair working conditions in Saudi Arabia, even as Cambodia’s minister of labour was en route to seal a long-awaited deal to open a pipeline of workers to the Gulf nation. ...
Charles Rollet and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/maid-return-saudi-arabia-deal-nears
Improve labour conditions or face fines
In a push to improve conditions for workers, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has issued a warning to establishments nationwide. The ministry will take legal action against any enterprise that is negligent or refuses to improve working conditions. Enterprises must ensure the safety, ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501240208/improve-labour-conditions-or-face-fines/
Forty faint at Svay Rieng SEZ factory
Officials blamed food poisoning for sparking the mass fainting Of about 40 garment workers in a factory in the Svay Rieng border town Of Bavet on Monday afternoon. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forty-faint-svay-rieng-sez-factory
Cambodia looks at easing visa requirements
Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism is looking at the possibility of relaxing visa requirements for cruise visitors. ...
Asia Cruise News Staff
http://www.asiacruisenews.com/News/Cambodia-looks-at-easing-visa-requirements/3w3c557.html
Foreign visits climb at Preah Vihear
Foreign visitors to the Preah Vihear Temple increased by 25 per cent for the first six months of the year, as compared to the same period last year, while local visitor arrivals dropped for the same period, according to Ministry of Tourism statistics. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/foreign-visits-climb-preah-vihear
Sexual harassment at work costs garment industry $89 million a year
Sexual harassment in the workplace could have an indirect cost to the garment industry of up to $89 million per year, said Care Cambodia’s acting country director Jan Noorlander. Speaking at a Business of Women at Work forum yesterday, Mr Noorlander said the organisation was very ...
Cambodian parliament passes fire prevention law
Cambodia’s National Assembly on Tuesday adopted a draft law on fire prevention with jail term punishment for arsonists, neglected firefighters, and false information providers on fires. Ninety-four out of ninety-seven lawmakers, who were present at the session, passed the law, saying it would help maintain security, ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-05/07/c_132365226.htm
US offers tips for cybercrime team
Cambodian police, prosecutors and policymakers were hosted in Washington recently by the US government, as part of America’s efforts to support the drafting of the Kingdom’s controversial cybercrime law. ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-offers-tips-cybercrime-team
Sub-Decree aims to better regulate pharmacies
Prime Minister Hun Sen has signed a sub-decree to better regulate pharmacies, a business fraught with fake drugs and fake diplomas. The new sub-decree of the Pharmacists’ Code of Ethics contains 71 articles. They ban distribution of fake drugs and the use of titles not ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sub-decree-aims-to-better-regulate-pharmacies-55138/
Financial Institute of Cambodia prepares people for a career in the stock exchange
The executive director at the Financial Institute of Cambodia (FIC) says 726 students have completed courses so far at FIC since it opened in early 2011. Tith Seyla, who earned his bachelor’s degree from the Royal University of Law and Economics followed by a master’s ...