Gov’t called upon to stamp out child labor
The government must make more of an effort to not only eradicate child labor, but also its underlying causes, and ensure that children attend school, local rights group Licadho said Thursday. in a statement released ahead of World Day Against Child Labor, the group said the ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-called-upon-to-stamp-out-child-labor-61337/
Domestic worker day to see maids rally for rights
About 100 domestic workers planned to gather today in front of the Ministry of Labour to mark international Domestic Workers Day by calling on the government to do more to ensure their rights. Vun Samphors, president of the Cambodian Domestic Workers Network (CDWN), told the Postthat participants ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/domestic-worker-day-see-maids-rally-rights
New Mekong bridges slated for Phnom Penh
The Council of Ministers this week announced two new spans across the Mekong River in the vicinity of the capital, one connecting the Chroy Changvar peninsula to Kandal’s Khsach Kandal district and another connecting Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district with Kandal’s Lvea Em. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-mekong-bridges-slated-phnom-penh
Cambodia, Seychelles sign 6 deals to pave way for cooperation
Cambodia and Seychelles on Thursday inked six documents to pave the way for bilateral cooperation in the fields of politics, trade, investment, tourism, agriculture, and air services. The deals were made during the two-day visit of Seychelles Foreign Minister Jean-Paul Adam to Cambodia. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/africa/2014-10/16/c_133721159.htm
Livestock law near approval
A draft law on animal health and production is expected to be approved by the December 2015 Asean Economic Community (AEC) deadline, government officials say. Soun Sothoeun, deputy director of animal health and production at the Ministry of Agriculture, said on Friday that the new law ...
Chan Muyhong
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/livestock-law-near-approval
Provincial officials delay UN search for Montagnards
Provincial authorities in Ratanakkiri province on the Vietnam border have yet to allow a team of UN workers to actively seek out a group of Montagnards potentially seeking asylum. UN refugee workers met with provincial officials for more than an hour on Wednesday, but no permission ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/provincial-officials-delay-un-search-for-montagnards/2562662.html
Banh says military shows bias toward the gov’t
Defense Minister Tea Banh joked Tuesday that the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) are “biased to the right people” in protecting the government from destabilizing political agitators. Speaking at the annual review of the military’s activities at the Defense Ministry, General Banh said the armed forces ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/banh-says-military-shows-bias-toward-the-govt-79059/
Government considering national oil company
The Ministry of Mines and Energy is in the early stages of developing a national oil company, a ministry spokesman said Wednesday. Meng Saktheara, who is also a secretary of state, said his ministry had been working with the Finance Ministry to assess the risks of ...
Kang Sothear and Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-considering-national-oil-company-79538/
P Vihear families call on gov’t to stop logger
After almost five years of alleged illegal logging in Preah Vihear province’s Preah Rokar community forest by a local businessman, more than 100 villagers yesterday petitioned the provincial authorities to shut down his handicrafts company. The villagers say that the woodworking operation, owned by businessman Sar ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/p-vihear-families-call-govt-stop-logger
Prime Minister says test scores warning to students
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday said the pass rate of 25 percent in last month’s grade 12 national exam served as a warning that students could no longer pay their way through school and urged students who failed the exam to embrace their second ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-says-test-scores-warning-to-students-67414/
Railroad protesters lobby ADB
About 50 villagers who live near railway lines in Phnom Penh gathered outside the Asian Development Bank yesterday morning to again demand more detailed information about what will happen to them during forthcoming phases of a bank-funded railway rehabilitation project. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Kevin Ponniah
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/railroad-protesters-lobby-adb
Businesses must pay property tax by October
Businesses registered in Cambodia have until the end of the month to pay their annual property tax to the country’s General Department of Taxation (GDT). According to the GDT, business owners must pay by September 30 to avoid being fined. ...
George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/businesses-must-pay-property-tax-by-october-67827/
Neuroscience center opens at hospital
Cambodia launched its first full-scale public neuroscience centre at Calmette Hospital in the capital yesterday. The $10.8 million, 90-bed Centre De Neurosciences – complete with a neurosurgical ward and research unit – will seek to treat patients regardless of their ability to pay. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/neuroscience-centre-opens
Round two: Thousands sign up for final re-test
More than 68,000 grade 12 students have signed up for a second and final shot at the high stakes national exam next Monday, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport reported. That’s all of the students who failed – and most who failed to show ...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/round-two-thousands-sign-final-re-test
Regional officials meet over rubber fall
Officials from Southeast Asia’s natural rubber-producing nations met in Kuala Lumpur yesterday for the 12th international Tripartite Rubber Council (ITRC). Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) joined ITRC core nations – Thailand, indonesia and Malaysia – for the event, which is being touted as a joint ...
May Kunmakara
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/regional-officials-meet-over-rubber-fall
Cambodian, Chinese firms sign deals for business cooperation
Cambodian and Chinese companies on Monday signed five agreements for business cooperation and joint ventures in construction and agriculture. The deals were signed on the sidelines of an annual Cambodia Import-Export Exhibition here under the presence of Cambodian Commerce Ministry Secretary of State Kem Sithan. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141215/cambodian-chinese-firms-sign-deals-business-cooperation
Rice federation votes, approves export fee
The newly formed Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) voted Monday to require its members pay an export fee of $0.50 per metric ton of long-grain white rice and $1 per ton of fragrant rice in order to raise money for educating farmers and marketing Cambodian rice ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/rice-federation-votes-approves-export-fee-77253/
Myanmar, Cambodia seek investors for rice business
Two Southeast Asian countries not particularly known for large agricultural exports, Myanmar and Cambodia, have both declared that they want to participate in the global rice business by intensifying rice farming and milling across their respective countries with the help of foreign investors, including from ...
Arno Maierbrugger
http://www.gulf-times.com/eco.-bus.%20news/256/details/426906/myanmar,-cambodia-seek-investors-for-rice-business
Cambodia: local people risk everything to defend national park sold off to highest bidders
Botum Sakor national park is one of Cambodia’s biodiversity hotspots, where indigenous tribes have long lived in harmony with the forest and its wildlife, writes Rod Harbinson. But now they are being violently evicted as the park is being sold off piecemeal to developers for ...
Rod Harbinson
http://bit.ly/1NdKSoz
Lack of sweet deals turning Cambodia’s palm sugar industry sour
There is a growing demand for palm sugar in the marketplace. But producers are unhappy that they have not been paid fair prices by middlemen. The fair price for a kilo of raw palm sugar varies from US$0.41 to US$0.70. But the producers get much ...
Tan Ju-Eng
http://bit.ly/1IL9QKU