Shift in focus for donors may spell trouble: study
Dwindling donor funding for combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis could have a critical impact on low-income countries like Cambodia, a new study has found, with some health workers in the Kingdom saying that the squeeze is already being felt. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/shift-focus-donors-may-spell-trouble-study
Thailand, Cambodia eye MICE links
Tourism industry executives and government officials from Thailand and Cambodia gathered in Phnom Penh yesterday for a roadshow on the meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) segment of the tourism industry to find ways to work together to drive new business. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24305/thailand--cambodia-eye-mice-links/
Cambodia's water woes get US Army tech assist
The US Army Corp of Engineers is providing Cambodia with new tools to understand its growing groundwater shortage. Last week, the Ministry of Environment, US Army Corp of Engineers and National Council for Sustainable Development hosted a three-day technical exchange on groundwater modelling. ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodias-water-woes-get-us-army-tech-assist
FASMEC MFI enters the lending market
Cambodia’s newest microfinance institution FASMEC Microfinance officially launched yesterday.With a start-up capital of $1 million raised from a handful of investors on the new company’s board, the MFI hopes to expand its loan portfolio by the end of 2016. ...
Kun Kourchettana
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/fasmec-mfi-enters-lending-market
PM calls for enforcement of baby formula ban
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called for stronger enforcement of regulations on the promotion and sale of baby formula, linking a decrease in the number of women who breast-feed to an increase in unlawful and misleading advertising that misrepresents milk substitutes and deceives new mothers. ...
Matt Blomberg and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-calls-for-enforcement-of-baby-formula-ban-99239/
Hun Manet pulls out of US parade amid protest
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s eldest son, Hun Manet, announced on Sunday that he would not be attending a Khmer New Year parade he was invited to in Long Beach, California, in the face of vocal opposition from some of the community’s Cambodian-Americans. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-manet-pulls-out-of-us-parade-amid-protest-110459/
Riel fund transfers to expand under FAST system
Two weeks since the central bank launched its FAST system, which provides instant riel-denominated fund transfers between banking institutions, operations are running smoothly, with usage of the new electronic payment system expected to pick up as it integrates more customers. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/riel-fund-transfers-expand-under-fast-system
HIV infections nearly doubled over past decade
The number of new HIV infections in Cambodia nearly doubled over the past decade—the greatest increase in Asia—while less than a third of Cambodians living with the virus are receiving medication to slow its development, according to a report released this week. ...
George wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hiv-infections-nearly-doubled-over-past-decade-115705/
Tobacco giant quits industry group over packaging dispute
The local arm of tobacco giant Japan Tobacco International (JTI), which makes Camel, Winston and Mevius cigarettes, has blasted the Association of the Tobacco Industry of Cambodia (ATIC) for failing to ensure its members adhere to new regulations mandating graphic health warnings on cigarette packages. ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tobacco-giant-quits-industry-group-over-packaging-dispute-116040/
Survey says garment workers earn $191 monthly
A new survey of what the country’s 700,000 garment workers earn and spend in a typical month has concluded that the median take-home pay of a garment factory employee is $191, higher than the minimum wage, but lower than what employers have claimed. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/survey-says-garment-workers-earn-191-monthly-94853/
UN envoy makes first address to rights council in Geneva
Rhona Smith, the U.N.’s new special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, on Tuesday addressed the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva for the first time, telling the body that she planned to focus on marginalized people in the country. ...
Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-envoy-makes-first-address-to-rights-council-in-geneva-95957/
Youth health care in focus
A set of new global standards for adolescent health care released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS this week indicate that a worldwide gap in health care provision for youths is magnified by Cambodia’s comparatively young population, officials and experts said yesterday. ...
Zoe Holman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/youth-health-care-focus
Controversial elephant swap with Japan called off
A controversial proposed animal swap that would have seen elephants Kiri and Seila sent from the notorious Teuk Chhou Zoo in Kampot to a zoo in Japan in exchange for other exotic species has been officially called off, new documents show. ...
Charles Parkinson and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/controversial-elephant-swap-japan-called
Kampong Chhnang disputants’ water woes ‘ignored’
Some 34 families in Kampong Chhnang’s Lorpeang village yesterday filed a new petition at the provincial hall urging authorities to intervene in a nine-year land dispute with KDC International, which villagers say has reached a bottleneck and is affecting their daily lives. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-chhnang-disputants-water-woes-ignored
Rosewood export permits were faked, government says
The government claims not to have issued a single permit to export Siamese rosewood since it agreed to strict new trade rules for the exceedingly rare trees, and says it will look into a U.N.-managed database that states otherwise. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rosewood-export-permits-were-faked-govt-says-114772/
Gov’t tells Unions to pick a minimum wage or lose their say
The Labor Ministry on Tuesday warned unions that if they failed to reach a consensus on a new minimum wage for the garment sector ahead of Friday’s Labor Advisory Committee meeting on the issue, the committee would not consider any proposal from the unions at ...
Mech Dara and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-tells-unions-to-pick-a-minimum-wage-or-lose-their-say-95155/
National carrier adds route to Laos, Hanoi
National flag carrier Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA) yesterday launched a new route to Laos and Vietnam, aiming to tap the rising numbers of nationals from the two countries visiting the Kingdom as well as the foreign tourists visiting neighboring countries. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17143/national-carrier-adds-route-to-laos--hanoi/
Under fire, rice federation vows action
A week after an alliance of millers and exporters criticized the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) for its inaction in the face of the sector’s possible collapse, the federation Wednesday announced the formation of a new task force to manage challenges facing its members. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/under-fire-rice-federation-vows-action-109691/
Past deadline, most cigarettes still lack graphic pictures
Days after a law went into effect requiring all cigarette packages sold in Cambodia to be plastered with graphic images of the health effects of smoking—blackened lungs and an infant on a respirator—there was little evidence of the new packaging in the capital. ...
Samoeurth Seavmeng and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/past-deadline-most-cigarettes-still-lack-graphic-pictures-115942/
Gov’t wants only $8 wage increase
The government revealed its favored figure for the new garment and footwear industry minimum wage in 2017 during a Technical Working Group meeting on Friday, telling attendees that they believed it should be raised by about $8 per month – representing only a five percent ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29609/gov---t-wants-only--8-wage-increase/