Minister agrees to final talk on draft minimum wage law
<p>The government has accepted a request from a senior officer of the US State Department to hold another discussion on the draft minimum wage law before it is approved. After meeting with Sarah Morgan, an official with the US Office of International Labour Affairs, Labour Minister ...p>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50114873/minister-agrees-to-final-talk-on-draft-minimum-wage-law/
Railway families deliver petition to PM seeking reduction in land takeover
<p>The protesters represent a community of over 1,000 families living along a railway in the capital’s Russey Keo district. plans to replace the track with a new, broader road will displace people in three communes. The new road and accompanying sidewalks would be 60 metres ...p>
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/railway-families-deliver-petition-pm-seeking-reduction-land-takeover
World Bank: Cambodia business climate improves
<p>Cambodia continued to improve its business environment over the past year, according to the World Bank’s “Doing Business 2017” report that measures the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it in 190 countries. The World Bank made this assessment despite the Kingdom’s ...p>
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31306/world-bank--cambodia-business-climate-improves/
Block A oil on track
<p>Last month’s purchase by Singapore-listed KrisEnergy of a 42.75 percent working interest in the Block A offshore energy concession made them a majority owner in the project, with an overwhelming control of 95 percent of the stakes. This acquisition is expected to accelerate the development ...p>
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31655/block-a-oil-on-track/
Hun Sen plays his Trump card
<p>US presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are now on barnstorming tours across the country, making their final appeals to swing voters ahead of next Tuesday’s election. Democratic candidate Ms. Clinton has received an overwhelming number of endorsements from a variety of places, including French ...p>
Taing Vida and Jonathan Greig
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31678/hun-sen-plays-his-trump-card/
Thailand to kick out children of all illegal migrants by 2020
<p>In a move activists fear could endanger thousands of Cambodian children, Thailand plans to reduce the number of children of illegal migrants living in the country to zero by 2020, according to a newspaper report. Thailand is the top destination for Cambodians seeking work abroad, with ...p>
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thailand-kick-children-illegal-migrants-2020-120704/
Result of voter registrations for commune elections 2017 from 01 September to 30 November 2016
<p>On 01 December 2016, National Elections Committee (NEC) has released an announcement of voter enrollment across country after three-month registration started from 01 September to 30 November 2016. The figure shows that 7,873,194 people have already registered for the next Commune Elections, this number is equal ...p>
National Elections Committee (NEC)
Don’t increase garment workers’ rent, says pm
<p>prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday urged landlords not to indiscriminately increase the price of rent in light of the upcoming hike in the wages of garment workers next year. Speaking at the inauguration of the Coca-Cola factory in the phnom penh Special Economic Zone, the ...p>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32799/don---t-increase--garment-workers-----rent--says-pm/
Gov’t officials expect high fish yield
<p>Government officials are predicting a better haul of fish, typically used to make prahok, this season due to higher water levels in the Tonle Sap Lake and River. The fishing season, which began on Thursday and is expected to last until February, will see higher yields ...p>
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33046/gov---t-officials-expect-high-fish-yield/
Garment workers continue protest
<p>Nearly 1,700 garment factory workers in Svay Rieng province’s Bavet town entered day five of their protest yesterday against a factory over wage cuts as well as allegations that the factory was responsible for the assault of a union representative. protestors accused Lu Thai (Cambodia) of ...p>
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33115/garment-workers-continue-protest/
Cambodia, China to hold exercises
<p>A major eight-day military exercise between Cambodian and Chinese troops will commence today at the Thlok Tasek Military Institute in Kampong Speu’s phnom Sruoch district. Code named “Golden Dragon”, the manoeuvres will see soldiers from the two countries participating in myriad exercises including emergency road repairs ...p>
Joey Chua Xue Ting and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-china-hold-exercises
Sugar and pepper get protection
<p>Geographical indication (GI) status for Kampot pepper and Kampong Speu palm sugar has been accepted in Vietnam. The agreement gives legal protection to both products and stops unscrupulous traders in Vietnam passing off local produce as Cambodian. The deal was reached last Wednesday after negotiations involving the ...p>
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33906/sugar-and-pepper-get-protection/
Government warns of bird flu
<p>The Ministry of Health has called on all travelers to beware of a new strain of bird flu that is now spreading in South Korea and Japan. In a notice released yesterday, the Health Ministry said the discovery of H5N6, a new strain of the bird ...p>
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33918/government-warns-of-bird-flu/
Pensions to be paid through ATMs
<p>The Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation will start dispensing pensions for former civil servants and veterans at select ATMs starting in April. Minister Vong Soth issued a notice yesterday stating that pensioners will be able to withdraw their monthly allocations from Canadia Bank ...p>
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36843/pensions-to-be-paid-through-atms/
Startups turn heads in Silicon Valley
<p>Cambodia’s startups have clamoured to attract foreign venture capital, and now even Silicon Valley is paying attention. Last month, local media and entertainment site Khmerload – described by some as Cambodia’s version of Buzzfeed – secured $200,000 in investment from the regional arm of California-based ...p>
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/startups-turn-heads-silicon-valley
Cambodia has sole objective for US
<p>Cambodia intends to submit a petition to the United States government to extend the duty-free privileges of its Generalised System of preferences (GSp) scheme to include footwear, giving local manufacturers a competitive advantage in the world’s biggest consumer market. But hopes are dimming as the ...p>
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-has-sole-objective-us
Announcement on political party and candidates registration for the election of senators, 4th Mandate of 2018
<p>On 10 October 2017, the National Election Committee (NEC) publicly announced to all political parties, which have been properly registered at the Ministry of Interior, wishing to register their parties and candidates to the registration list for the election of senators of the 4th Mandate on ...p>
National Election Committee
Hundreds of garment workers faint in Takeo
<p>More than 100 workers at the JD Toyoma garment factory in Takeo province’s Bati district fainted yesterday morning while working. police suspected the cause of the fainting was chemical fumes in the factory, but the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia said the fumes did not ...p>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5094481/hundreds-garment-workers-faint-takeo/
Announcement on the "ACCESS project: Advancing CSOs’ Capacities, Enhancing Solutions for Sustainability"
<p>On 25 December 2017, The European Union will be funding $3.3 million on the conservation efforts in Mondulkiri’s Srepok and phnom prich wildlife sanctuaries. The ACCESS project: Advancing CSOs’ Capacities, Enhancing Solutions for Sustainability will be implemented from 2018 to 2022 by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), Aide ...p>
Aide au Développement Gembloux (ADG)
China pledges more investment in Cambodia, but is Phnom Penh selling itself short?
<p>Li’s visit comes at a time when Cambodia’s government, under prime Minister Hun Sen, is facing rising pressure from the United States and the European Union over its human rights record. Both have threatened sanctions in response to a ruling by the nation’s top court ...p>
Laura Zhou and Sarah Zheng
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2128118/china-pledges-more-investment-cambodia-phnom-penh#comments
