Cambodian labor minister holds urgent talk with pro-opposition trade unions over strikes
Cambodian Minister of Labor Ith Samheng on Friday afternoon held an urgent talk with the representatives of six pro-opposition trade unions after they have led tens of thousands of workers off work in protest against low wage increase for 2014. As the meeting was going on, ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-12/27/c_133002053.htm
Sugar Firm Offers Defense After Call for Probe of EU Trade Links
The director of a CPP senator’s sugar plantation accused of stealing land from hundreds of families said Wednesday that most locals were happy with the new jobs the plantation has generated, a week after a visiting European Union parliamentarian renewed calls for an investigation of ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sugar-firm-offers-defense-after-call-for-probe-of-eu-trade-links-51545/
Policing the Police: New Unit Assigned to Traffic Cops
Phnom Penh’s traffic police officers, whose reputation for bribe taking is renowned, will soon be monitored by a new mobile police unit to ensure they uphold the law, the Ministry of interior said. The Special Team Monitoring Traffic Law Enforcement will ensure that traffic police are ...
Khuon Narim and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/policing-the-police-new-unit-assigned-to-traffic-cops-51859/
UN Envoy Cautious Over Cambodian Political Settlement Prospects
A U.N. rights envoy to Cambodia on Wednesday expressed “cautious optimism” that the parties of Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy would move toward ending their seven-month political deadlock following an agreement achieved this week between the two sides on a set ...
Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/surya-subedi-03062014183612.html
Long-awaited draft law limits King’s powers over judiciary
The long-awaited draft law on the Supreme Council of Magistracy continues the practice of secret votes and gives Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana key powers, according to excerpts from the document, but it would reduce the position of King Norodom Sihamoni if passed in its ...
Hul Reaksmey and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/long-awaited-draft-law-limits-kings-powers-over-judiciary-54419/
NEC releases official council election results
The National Election Committee last night released the official results of the May 18 district, provincial and municipal council elections, with the ruling CPP winning 2,540—or 76.4 percent—of the 3,324 positions that were available across the country. The figures are almost identical to the figures released ...
Eang Mengleng and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nec-releases-official-council-election-results-59805/
EU Calls for International Probe Into Election
In the strongest International reaction to the contested result of July’s national election yet, the European Parliament passed a resolution on Thursday callIng on Prime MInister Hun Sen’s government to conduct an Independent, Internationally led Investigation of the election and the killIng of five garment ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eu-calls-for-international-probe-into-election-50850/
Media-Savvy Monks to Launch Weekly Radio Show
As Buddhist monks across the country don saffron robes and leave pagodas in search of donations to fill alms bowls each morning, seven monks based in Dangkao district on the dusty outskirts of Phnom Penh are thinking only of feeding the country’s growing appetite for ...
Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/media-savvy-monks-to-launch-weekly-radio-show-51192/
World Bank meets Phnom Penh Governor, Boeng Kak evictees
The World Bank on Thursday asked Phnom Penh municipal officials to do more to help the thousands of families the city evicted from the Boeng Kak neighborhood to make way for a CPP senator’s private real estate project, and is now waiting for a reply, ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/world-bank-meets-phnom-penh-governor-boeng-kak-evictees-54189/
As prices fall, rat hunting’s few charms fade
Just after sunrise in the slums surrounding the Stung Meanchey dump, Lak Han, 45, sits in the dirt outside his home methodically chopping up a large pile of rodents. For many years, like hundreds of others at the dumpsite, Mr. Han made a paltry living collecting ...
Mech Dara and Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-prices-fall-rat-huntings-few-charms-fade-64042/
Vathana Sabung to refile land dispute report to PM on behalf of villagers
Supreme Consultation Forum member Sok Sovann Vathana Sabung will file a second report to Prime Minister Hun Sen in a bid to resolve a land dispute concerning 225 families in Roka Khpos commune, Sa’ang district, Kandal province. Vathana Sabung, who is also Khmer Rise Party ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vathana-sabung-refile-land-dispute-report-pm-behalf-villagers
National Assembly approves UN Convention on Sea Law
A total of 110 National Assembly members on Monday convened to review and unanimously approve seven draft laws in a historic session that saw the Kingdom ratify the UN’s Convention on Sea Law (Unclos). The Unclos, dated December 10, 1982, “lays down a comprehensive regime ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-assembly-approves-un-convention-sea-law
Announcement on temporarily closing of public city bus and water-taxi service of the Phnom Penh City Bus Authority
On 26 March 2020, the Phnom Penh Municipal Administration issued an announcement to temporarily closed public city bus and water-taxi service amid the COVID-19 outbreak. in order to join the government and the Ministry of Health to stem the infection and outbreak of the COVID-19 ...
Phnom Penh Municipal Administration
Burma, Bangladesh and Cambodia have world's lowest labour costs
Businesses with supply chains and operations in Burma, Bangladesh and Cambodia are benefiting from the world’s lowest labour costs, according to a new global ranking. Risk analytics company Verisk Maplecroft’s Labour Costs index measures a combination of wages, employment regulations, social security contributions and labor productivity ...
Marino Donati
http://www.supplymanageme
Press release: Exchange of notes for Japan ODA Grant Aid
On 05 June 2020, the Embassy of Japan in the Kingdom of Cambodia issued a press release stated that the Government of Japan had decided to extend its ODA Grant Aid up to the amount of ¥ 4,501,000,000 approximately around USD 41 million for the ...
Embassy of Japan in Cambodia
Provincial top cops on notice following crime wave
Interior MInister Sar Kheng yesterday took aim at the police chiefs of Battambang, Kandal and Pursat provInces, warnIng that they should be prepared to lose their titles if they fail to crack down on a recent crime wave.Kheng said the three police chiefs needed to ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/provincial-top-cops-notice-following-crime-wave
PM’s pledge: ‘no pardon’ for Rainsy
Prime Minister Hun Sen has vowed to create a new law barring political party leaders from holding dual nationalities, an apparent move to further incapacitate beleaguered CNRP president Sam Rainsy.in his latest tirade against his long-time political rival, the premier also vowed to never again ...
Vong Sokheng, Meas Sokchea and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pms-pledge-no-pardon-rainsy
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new map layer on Post office
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just published a new online resource detailing Cambodia post offices coverage in two languages, Khmer and English. With this new resource, the map illustrates the locations of post office as well as the spreadsheet with detailed information of the 30 locations ...
Launch of consultation process of the Draft Law on the organization and functioning of the national human rights commission of Cambodia
On 08 July 2021, Cambodian Human Rights Committee issued a press release on launching of consultation process of the draft law on the organization and functioning of the national human rights commission of Cambodia.The Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC), in collaboration with the office of ...
Cambodian Human Rights Committee
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new topic page on “Legal aid”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on “Legal aid.” This bilingual new topic page gives a quick overview of access to legal aid enshrined in the Constitution of Cambodia and the Code of Criminal Procedure, legal aid providers, and strategy for legal ...