Cambodia has 960 garment, footwear factories: labor minister
Garment and footwear industry, Cambodia’s largest foreign exchange earner, currently consists of 960 factories, employing some 620,000 workers, labor minister Ith Samheng said Thursday. The sector made a revenue of 5.5 billion U.S. dollars last year, accounting for around 80 percent of the country’s total exports, ...
Asean - China Centre News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-04/24/c_133287164.htm
U.S. holds intellectual property rights workshop for Cambodian, Lao officials
The United States government on Tuesday organized an intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement workshop for some 50 Cambodian and Lao law enforcement officials. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-03/25/c_133212172.htm
Ministry of Labor knights Australian industrial commissioner
The Arbitration Council says the Ministry of Labor has knighted an Australian industrial commissioner for his long period of work as an honorary advisor to the council. In a statement posted on its website Friday, the council said Labour and Vocational Training Minister Ith Samheng awarded ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=OTZiMjJhNTM1NzQ
First sentence given for facebook comments
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday fined a 29-year-old hairstylist and make-up artist 2 million riel, or about $500, and ordered her to pay 5 million riel, or about $1,250, in compensation to a rival beauty parlor owner she defamed on Facebook. The sentence is ...
Eang Mengleng And Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/first-sentence-given-for-facebook-comments-51649/
Union leader rejects video, photo evidence
During his second day under questioning on charges of inciting violence and property damage at a January 2 protest, union leader Vorn Pao was presented with photographs showing his tuk-tuk packed with rocks, and a video of him calling on low-ranking police to turn their ...
Eang Mengleng and Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/union-leader-rejects-video-photo-evidence-59326/
Staff of suspended factory demand wages
About 70 workers from the Xing Chang Sin factory marched to the Ministry of Labor on Friday to demand intervention after the factory allegedly failed to pay wages for the past two months. Vong Sovann, deputy director general at the Labor Ministry’s general department of ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/staff-of-suspended-factory-demand-wages-65571/
Acleda to sell vehicle tax stamps
Cambodia’s government yesterday announced it had chosen the largest local bank, Acleda Bank Plc, to be its partner for vehicle tax stamp sales. Acleda will operate for the General Department of Taxation of the Ministry of Economy and Finance in all 23 provinces and Phnom Penh. Sim Eang, royal ...
Scholarship opportunity in higher education
The Prayuters Library Program is delighted to announce a scholarship opportunity for Grade 12 students in Preah Vihear province. The application opens for students holding a high school diploma or an equivalent certificate for pursuing a bachelor’s degree. Additionally, students who did not pass the ...
Open Development Cambodia Organization
Cambodia, Colombia ink deal for political consultation mechanism
Cambodia and Colombia on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment of a political consultation mechanism in order to strengthen the bilateral relations and cooperation. The deal was inked between Ouch Borith, Secretary of State of Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Patti Londono, ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-04/08/c_132292534.htm
Cambodia’s students to get schooled in tourism
Young Cambodians will now learn about tourism in grades 11 and 12, according to the new curriculum for public education that was launched yesterday. The development is aimed at enhancing quality in the tourism sector, officials said during a press conference. The new curriculum covers the ...
Negotiations Fail as Worker, Opposition Protests Continue
Tens of thousands of workers protested in front of the Ministry of Labor on Monday, after negotiations between labor leaders and the government failed to find a resolution to demands of higher wages in the face of a rising cost of living. Labor Minister Ith ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/negotiations-fail-as-worker-opposition-protests-continue/1820038.html
Unions expect violence, but forum to go on
Despite anticipating violence between unionists and authorities, labour union heads yesterday said they will go ahead with a public forum at Freedom Park on Saturday morning. Phnom Penh City Hall on Tuesday denied a request by 18 union federations to hold a public forum at ...
Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-expect-violence-forum-go
Notification of the World Cleanup Day
On 12 September 2018, the Ministry of Environment informs the World Cleanup Day which will be held on September 15, 2018 from 6:30 am to 11:30 pm. The Ministry of Environment collaborates with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, the Ministry of Tourism, Let’s Do ...
Ministry of Environment
Budget for a rising economy
Government spending on social welfare and economic development could both see double-digit growth next year, according to a document summarizing expenditures in next year’s budget that will be discussed at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Hun Sen today. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16970/budget-for-a-rising-economy/
Sacred artefacts go missing
Kandal provincial authorities and officials from multiple ministries are investigating the apparent theft of historical artefacts from a stupa at Oudong Mountain said to contain some remains of Buddha himself. Relevant authorities were tight-lipped yesterday about which objects were missing, but a local news outlet reported ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sacred-artefacts-go-missing
Activist monks found guilty of drug possession, death threat
Two defrocked monks were handed prison sentences at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday, with one of them found guilty of drug possession and making a death threat and the other of using fake documents and improperly wearing monks’ robes. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/activist-monks-found-guilty-of-drug-possession-death-threat-110771/
Bank of China to raise business operations in Cambodia: deputy-governor
The Bank of China is going to expand its business operations in Cambodia after it was launched here two years ago and seen rapid business growth, Zhu Shuming, visiting deputy governor of Bank of China, said Friday. Speaking at a meeting with Chea Chanto, governor of ...
No End in Sight for Svay Rieng SEZ Strikes
A union official at the center of a strike that started last Monday and involves an estimated 30,000 workers from two special economic zones (SEZs) in Svay Rieng province said Sunday that he has no control over the strikers, and does not know when or ...
Aun Pheap and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/no-end-in-sight-for-svay-rieng-sez-strikes-49560/
Union leader says charges baseless
One of six union leaders charged and summonsed for questioning over a strike that ended in government forces shooting dead at least five people in January has sent a message to authorities to hurry up and get his hearing over with. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/union-leader-says-charges-baseless
Success story of data literacy training program: ROEUN Narith
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Many of the data transparency training participants have been using data in one way or another in their day-to-day work. They sign-up for the program to improve their ability to use data as a means of storytelling to a new level. Roeun Narith is the ...