Factory worker wages to be re-examined
Amid threats of another mass strike in the thriving garment sector, the Ministry of Social Affairs has called a meeting with the industry’s leading players to discuss union demands for a $150-per-month minimum wage, a letter obtained yesterday reveals. At the behest of Prime Minister Hun ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013010260589/National/factory-worker-wages-to-be-re-examined.html
Hong Kong bans eggs from Cambodia
Hong Kong has banned egg imports from Cambodia due to the country’s recent avian influenza outbreak, which claimed four lives last month. “Hong Kong does not import live poultry or poultry meat from Cambodia, but 170,000 poultry eggs were imported from there last year,” the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020561181/National/hong-kong-bans-eggs-from-cambodia.html
Vietnamese Firm’s Land Concession Could be Canceled
The Ministry of Agriculture will ask Prime Minister Hun Sen to cancel a 4,900-hectare economic land concession belonging to a Vietnamese rubber company in Ratanakkiri province on the grounds that the firm has been illegally logging on a large scale, officials said yesterday. According to ...
Manila at odds with Hun Sen over sea rows
Asean leaders yesterday failed again to form a common front towards geo-political disputes with China over the South China Sea as the Philippines vowed to continue shouting while Cambodia tried to contain discussions to the two immediate sides. The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations hoped ...
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Manila-at-odds-with-Hun-Sen-over-sea-rows-30194671.html
Ha Tien Vegas Casino closes due to bankruptcy
Ha Tieng casino in Kampot province, Bordering with Vietnam was closed due to bankruptcy after there were no gamblers. According to the source, there were about 2 000 staffs laid off. Gamblers are Vietnamese but when Vietnamese government banned its people from going to gamble ...
Cambodia attracts $2.28 bln investment projects last year: gov't report
Cambodia had granted licenses to 157 domestic and foreign investment projects with a total investment of 2.28 billion U.S. dollars in 2012, according to a report of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) on Tuesday. Domestic investors topped the chart among all investors last ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-01/29/c_132136638.htm
Incitement, Disinformation Suit Filed Against Rights Worker
A commune official in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district has filed a lawsuit accusing a human rights worker of incitement and disinformation after villagers the NGO staffer spoke to traveled to Phnom Penh to protest over a land dispute involving a well-known businessman Try Pheap. Pursat ...
Huawei withdraws injunction
Huawei Technologies (Cambodia) Co agreed yesterday to withdraw its injunction against Mfone in order to pave the way for a court-appointed administrator to sell the bankrupt company’s assets and compensate its many creditors. Along with other creditors, Huawei representatives expressed concerns that the assets would ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013040964953/Business/huawei-withdraws-injunction.html
Water investors criticise return
Holders of shares in the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) have criticised the level of dividend payment that they will receive from the company. PPWSA, which is the only company listed on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX), was to pay its first dividend to 1,500 ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013041165029/Business/water-investors-criticise-return.html
Boeung Kak Resolution Speeds on
Responding to a new plan put forward by members of the Boeung Kak community and NGOs last month, Phnom Penh Municipal Hall announced on Friday that it had drawn up a list of all families who remain excluded from the 12.44 hectares Prime Minister Hun ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061066166/National/boeung-kak-resolution-speeds-on.html
Flash floods hit parts of Cambodia, killing seven people
Flash floods have been hitting some parts of three provinces in Cambodia and have claimed seven lives so far, officials said Monday. Keo Vy, chief of the Cabinet of National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), said northwestern Banteay Meanchey and Preah Vihear provinces as well as ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-08/12/c_132624526.htm
First hedging deal transacted
ANZ Royal Bank has transacted a landmark commodities hedging deal with a local oil importer, officials at the bank said yesterday. The deal allows the company, whose name ANZ Royal would not disclose, citing confidentiality agreements, to lock in an agreed price for the future sale ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/first-hedging-deal-transacted
Cambodia's national airline launches daily flights to China's Guangzhou City
SIEM REAP, Cambodia, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) — National flag carrier, Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA) began regular flights to Guangzhou City in China’s Guangdong province on Thursday, aiming at attracting more Chinese travelers to Cambodia, a company’s senior official said. China is the third largest source ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-09/26/c_132752788.htm
Air China launches Beijing-Cambodia's Siem Reap direct flight
Air China has started to operate direct flights between China’s Beijing and Cambodia’s Siem Reap province, aiming at further promoting tourism and economic ties. Its first flight landed at the Siem Reap international Airport at Sunday night with 115 passengers onboard. Cambodia greeted 339,890 Chinese ...
Asean-China-Center News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-12/02/c_132934784.htm
Capital governor declares moratorium on dredging
Phnom Penh municipal governor Pa Socheatvong has ordered a complete suspension of all sand-dredging activities while the municipality investigates whether the companies are operating illegally, a spokesman said. The order came during a meeting yesterday between the governor and his subordinates, City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-governor-declares-moratorium-dredging
Fund report lacking, BBC show claims
An investigation by BBC news program Panorama into the misuse of Global Fund aid to Cambodia has claimed that the Fund “watered down” a report released last month, which exposed a network of corruption in Cambodia’s health sector. But Panorama, which obtained a leaked copy of the original ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fund-report-lacking-bbc-show-claims
Official blames villagers for deforestation
Government officials yesterday laid the blame for Cambodia’s deforestation on villagers gathering firewood. “Every day, they need fuel for cooking – that’s a lot of logging,” Chheng Kimsun, director general of the Forestry Administration, said at a workshop aimed at addressing sustainable forest management. Gathered at the ...
Phak Seangly and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/official-blames-villagers-deforestation
NGOs push for more international pressure
Civil society groups yesterday urged the international community to put more pressure on the government to ensure the safety of prisoners arrested in recent crackdowns and to prevent further police and military violence against civilians. At a press conference yesterday morning, images of soldiers beating and ...
Sean Teehan and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-push-more-international-pressure
Cambodian opposition said to be seeking compromise with PM
Cambodia’s opposition has been in talks with Prime Minister Hun Sen to find a deal to end the political crisis caused by last year’s disputed general election and a compromise may be near, two analysts briefed on the matter said. Opposition leader Sam Rainsy and his ...
Prak Chan Thul
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/01/15/uk-cambodia-election-idUKBREA0E0H420140115
A New Royalist Party Would Have Little Hope, Analysts Say
Cambodian political analysts say a new royalist party would have little hope of success. Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who once led Cambodia’s dominant post-war political party, Funcinpec, told VOA Khmer on Monday he plans to launch a new royalist party for commune elections later this year and ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/a-new-royalist-party-would-have-little-hope-analysts-say/1859956.html