Workers at JC Penny supplier rally for unpaid benefits
Following more than two weeks of protests in front of their shuttered factory in Por Senchey district, more than 500 workers from win Shingtex (Cambodia) Co. ltd tried to march yesterday to the Ministry of labor, the Council of Ministers and Prime Minister Hun Sen’s lass='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23032/workers-at-jc-penny-supplier-rally-for-unpaid-benefits/
Cambodian, Japanese FMs discuss bilateral ties, regional issues
Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong met with his visiting Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida on Monday morning, discussing ways to deepen bilateral ties and exchanging views on regional issues. “We agreed on many issues to further enhance bilateral ties and cooperation,” Hor Namhong said at a joint lass='cambodia-color'>...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=227148
Questions over spending plan
The Council of Ministers on Friday approved a new five-year National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP) – the guiding policy document used by the government – requiring an estimated $26.58 billion in spending and investment, or more than $5.3 billion a year, until 2018. The plan lass='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/questions-over-spending-plan
Jica seeks to turn PP, towns into smart cities
Japanese International Cooperation Agency (Jica) representatives have sought support from Siem Reap’s Apsara National Authority (ANA) to transform the ancient capital into a smart city. The call was made in February last year after the government approved three cities to join the Asean Smart Cities lass='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/jica-seeks-turn-pp-towns-smart-cities
Japan's businessmen visit Myanmar, Cambodia for investment opportunities
A delegation comprised of Japan’s top business leaders, known as Keidanren, began a six-day trip to Myanmar and Cambodia Monday, seeking new business and investment opportunities there. Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, is leading the delegation and said he hopes that meetings with lass='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-02/04/c_132150013.htm
Chinese tourists to Cambodia's Angkor heritage site up 17 pct in first half
The number of Chinese visitors to Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple, one of the World Heritage Sites, has reached 161,700 in the first six months of this year, a 17 percent rise over the same period last year, an official data showed Friday. The data from the lass='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/travel/2014-08/01/c_133524492.htm
Japan Provides US$1.22 Million to ECCC
The Government of Japan has recently disbursed an amount of US$1,221,818 as its 2017 Fiscal Year contribution to the United Nations component of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). lass='cambodia-color'>...
Khan Sophirom
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=106960
NagaWorld Workers Reinstated After Protests
Following six straight days of protests by hundreds of staff at NagaWorld Casino, Casino management yesterday agreed to reinstate four senior workers and said they would consider increasing the entire staff’s minimum wage. Between 500 and 1,000 workers had been demonstrating over what they said were lass='cambodia-color'>...
Casino-Funded Election Committee Office Breaks Ground
The National Election Committee (NEC) broke ground yesterday on a $12-million tower being funded by the casino company NagaCorp that is set to take more than two years to complete and has drawn concern from election groups. At a ceremony that took place on National Assembly lass='cambodia-color'>...
Japan to provide $106 million in aid to Mekong countries to boost co-operation in COVID-19 fight
Foreign ministers of Mekong countries and Japan discussed measures to boost co-operation in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and post-pandemic economic recovery. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50743556/japan-to-provide-106-million-in-aid-to-mekong-countries-to-boost-co-operation-in-covid-19-fight/
Japan offers $239 million in emergency assistance
Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Motegi Toshimitsu announced yesterday Japan will provide $239 million in emergency financial assistance to support Cambodia, saying it “has suffered from adverse economic impacts as a result of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).” lass='cambodia-color'>...
Ry Sochan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50775690/japan-offers-239-million-in-emergency-assistance/
Casinos rake in $2 billion
Cambodia’s casino industry generates close to $2 billion in revenue a year and accounts for nearly 40 per cent of the Kingdom’s tourism revenue, a central bank official said yesterday.Chea Serey, director-general of the National Bank of Cambodia, told a workshop on statistics in international lass='cambodia-color'>...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/casinos-rake-2-billion
Drugs: our man in Cambodia
The inquiry that targeted Hun To, dubbed Operation Illipango, investigated the shipment of heroin into Australia from Cambodia in loads of timber. Hun To, a nephew of Prime Minister Hun Sen, is a powerful and feared figure in Cambodia. He was once considered a close business lass='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.theage.com.au/national/investigations/drugs-our-man-in-cambodia-20120325-1vsiz.html
Casino building part of 'secret strategy' to protect Cambodia borders
Hun Sen, the prime minister of Cambodia, has said allowing the construction of a spate of casinos on the border was part of a “secret strategy” to protect the country’s territory from its neighbours. In a five hour speech addressing border demarcation issues with Vietnam, he lass='cambodia-color'>...
Two Years In, Kampot Casino Downsizes
The Ha Tien Vegas Entertainment Resort and casino in Kampot Province along the Vietnamese border announced yesterday that it has sacked 500 employees and shut down its 130-room resort less than two years after it became the first casino to open in the province. The company said lass='cambodia-color'>...
Thais hit Cambodia casinos to sidestep junta betting blitz
Desperate for a flutter during a junta crackdown on gambling at home, Thais are making a beeline for casinos in a seedy Cambodian border town — which has already been deluged by migrants also fleeing the kingdom. For over a decade Poipet, a scruffy, vice-ridden frontier lass='cambodia-color'>...
Business World Online News Staff
http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=World&title=Thais-hit-Cambodia-casinos-to-sidestep-junta-betting-blitz&id=89616
Nauru refugee decries kingdom's medical facilities
After fleeing religious persecution in Myanmar, Mohammed Rashid found himself on a circuitous route to Phnom Penh. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Erin Handley and Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nauru-refugee-decries-kingdoms-medical-facilities
Gov’t forms body to monitor Kazantip organizers
Provincial authorities here are closely monitoring the movements of the Kazantip festival’s organizers to ensure that no replica parties are in the pipeline after the cancellation of the famously debauched rave earlier this week. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-forms-body-to-monitor-kazantip-organizers-78458/
Cambodia to form diplomatic ties with Cook Islands
Cambodia and Cook Islands will establish their diplomatic relations as their foreign ministers will conduct a joint study to determine a framework to build the diplomatic ties. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501357785/cambodia-to-form-diplomatic-ties-with-cook-islands/
Cambodia to construct two more airports
Cambodia will add two more airports to the construction agenda in a bid to improve connectivity between the country and other tourism hubs in the world, said Mao Havannall, Minister in charge of the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501394752/cambodia-to-construct-two-more-airports/