Union calls for higher pensions for teachers
A teachers union has demanded the government raise pensions for retired civil servants, police and soldiers at the same time as increasing public sector salaries. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/union-calls-higher-pensions-teachers
Three new refugees file claims
Three Montagnards, including a 10-year-old girl, arrived yesterday morning at the government’s Refugee Department in Phnom Penh to process their asylum claims. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/three-new-refugees-file-claims
Russian tried over cocaine allegations
A Russian woman accused of smuggling five kilograms of liquid cocaine from Brazil to Cambodia was tried on Friday morning at Phnom Penh Municipal Court. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/russian-tried-over-cocaine-allegations
Three new refugees file claims
Three Montagnards, including a 10-year-old girl, arrived yesterday morning at the government’s Refugee Department in Phnom Penh to process their asylum claims. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/three-new-refugees-file-claims
Montagnards may get asylum-seeker status
The government may recognize the more than 100 Montagnard asylum seekers in the capital as refugees, a senior official at the Interior Ministry has said. ...
Donald Lee and Nov Sivutha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12288/montagnards-may-get-asylum-seeker-status/
IMF expects economic growth of 7 percent this year
The International Monetary Fund expects Cambodia’s economic growth rate to remain stable at around 7 percent this year, while inflation is expected to rise. ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/imf-expects-economic-growth-of-7-percent-this-year/2847775.html
Police arrest 20 young people for smoking Shisha
Anti-drug police on Saturday arrested 20 young people for smoking shisha at a karaoke parlor in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, officials said Sunday. ...
Huot Chanpav
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-arrest-20-young-people-for-smoking-shisha-87361/
Sovannara questioning signals end to court case
Opposition spokesman Meach Sovannara returned to Cambodia from Thailand yesterday to appear in court regarding an insurrection charge he received at Naga Bridge last July. ...
Va Sonyka and Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13293/sovannara-questioning-signals-end-to-court-case/
Museum puts spotlight on women
The National Museum in Phnom Penh has launched a new exhibition called “Photovoice of Cambodian Women in the Past, at Present, and in the Future.” ...
Nou Sotheavy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14316/museum-puts-spotlight-on-women/
After Park Cleared, CNRP Leaders Called to Court
At 11:30 a.m. SAturday, municipal security guards and men in plainclothes, wielding steel bars, metal pipes, bAtons, sticks and axes, forcibly cleared hundreds of demonstrAtors from Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park, where the opposition CNRP has been protesting against the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen ...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/security-guards-police-clear-freedom-park-50086/
Buffalo carts, logs seized in Kampong Thom
Authorities from Kampong Thom province’s environmental department seized 11 buffalo carts and 10 logs found at Prey Ang Ten wildlife sanctuary on Wednesday. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/buffalo-carts-logs-seized-kampong-thom
Luxury timber driver flees scene of crash
The driver of a van loaded with luxury timber fled the scene after crashing into traffic signs at Phnom Penh Autonomous Port on Tuesday. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/luxury-timber-driver-flees-scene-crash
Mobile HIV testing targets riverside revelers
Following two strenuous days of races at the Water Festival this week, boatman Sgnoun Chai celebrated its conclusion on Wednesday with a night on the town. ...
Buth Kimsay and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mobile-hiv-testing-targets-riverside-revelers-101354/
Off-the-job training in hospitality
The courses are free of charge for at-risk youth between the ages of 17 and 23, who also receive a $25 monthly stipend. ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/job-training-hospitality
Reforming public financial management an ongoing task
Reforming public financial management will not be effective unless there are enough qualified human resources at ministries and institutions, the prime minister said yesterday. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23019/reforming-public-financial-management-an-ongoing-task/
Myanmar and Cambodia to trade labor arbitration experiences
Cambodia’s Arbitration Council will share its experiences in settling labor disputes at a series of workshops in Myanmar, a nation with a growing garment industry. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15816/myanmar-and-cambodia-to-trade-labor-arbitration-experiences/
Cambodian women selected for prestigious entrepreneur summit
Female Cambodian entrepreneur Kimsrun Elida has been selected to take part in the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2016 at Stanford University in California next week. ...
Hoeun Sopheak
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/cambodian-women-selected-for-prestigious-entrepreneur-summit/3377477.html
Endangered species on display
Nine photographs of rare Cambodian animals are being displayed at the Ministry of Environment, urging the public to participate in preserving critically endangered species. ...
Zahron Sokry
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077518/endangered-species-display/
Project to boost veggie farming
Cambodia and New Zealand have reached a memorandum of understanding aimed at improving agricultural productivity to increase food safety and reduce reliance on imports. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080733/project-boost-veggie-farming/
Kandal timber raid yields 20 tonnes
Authorities yesterday discovered at least 20 tonnes of rosewood and other luxury timber after raiding a warehouse in Kandal province’s Kien Svay district. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kandal-timber-raid-yields-20-tonnes
