Cambodian PM highlights close ties as he prepares to head to China
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday highlighted Cambodia-China close ties, saying that such relations had provided great tangible benefits to the kingdom’s development. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501220251/cambodian-pm-highlights-close-ties-as-he-prepares-to-head-to-china/
China-imports 90% of bilateral trade
The Cambodian-Chinese merchandise trade totalled $10.579 billion in the first 11 months of 2022, up 6.31 per cent year-on-year, with imports from China accounting for an 89.51 per cent share, up 3.29 percentage points from the same time in 2021, according to the General Department ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-imports-90-bilateral-trade
CCC workshop tackles export issues for domestic SMEs
The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) on July 8 advised owners of local small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) to understand and follow the legal procedures for export to streamline the process and reduce compliance issues. ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ccc-workshop-tackles-export-issues-domestic-smes
Chinese-owned Kratie tyre plant gets CDC’s nod
Newbustar (Cambodia) Tire Co Ltd, a member of the Chinese state-owned Doublestar Group, is investing some $138 million in a tyre factory in Kratie province’s southeast to tap into the domestic market. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-owned-kratie-tyre-plant-gets-cdcs-nod
South Korea investment sought as five MoUs signed
Two high-ranking Cambodian officials have issued fresh rallying calls for South Korean entities to invest in the Kingdom and take advantage of its bilateral and multilateral trade pacts, especially the Cambodia-Korea Free Trade Agreement (CKFTA) that took effect on December 1. ...
May Kunmakara and Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/south-korea-investment-sought-five-mous-signed
Nine new investments worth $77M to deliver 17K jobs
The Council for the Development of Cambodia’s (CDC) two regular notices issued month-to-date reveal that the government body has approved registration certificates for nine new private investment projects – all in manufacturing – valued at a total of $77.4 million and set to deliver an ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nine-new-investments-worth-77m-deliver-17k-jobs
Chanthol points up 4 key factors for FDI attraction
Peace, political stability, macroeconomic stability and multilateral and bilateral free trade agreements have played a critical role in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) and fostering economic growth in the Kingdom, said Sun Chanthol, Deputy Prime Minister and First Vice- President of Council for the Development ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501577098/chanthol-points-up-4-key-factors-for-fdi-attraction/
After Threats to Cut Pay, Garment Workers Strike
Nearly 2,000 workers at the Gawon Apparel Co. garment factory in Kandal province’s Takhmao City protested in front of the factory yesterday after they were informed that they would lose pay for any days missed during the commune election, which takes place Sunday, union representatives ...
Cambodians rally to demand PM's resignation
Tens of thousands of Cambodian opposition supporters, backed by striking garment-factory workers, rallied on Sunday to demand long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen step down and call an election. The garment workers have in recent days joined the opposition protests to press their demand that the government ...
Prak Chan Thul
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/29/us-cambodia-protest-idUSBRE9BS03P20131229
Civil society leaders blast plan to ban election commentary
Civil society leaders on Sunday called on the country’s two major political parties to scrap plans to ban them from giving media interviews during election campaigns and from issuing statements that “insult” any party. CPP Deputy Prime Minister Bin Chhin and senior CNRP official Kuoy Bunroeun, ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/civil-society-leaders-blast-plan-to-ban-election-commentary-76359/
Laborers Forced to Work Women’s Day, Union Says
The Free Trade Union (FTU) yesterday filed a complaint with Labor Minister Vong Sauth on behalf of nearly 4,000 garment workers in Kompong Chhnang province against Chinese-owned M&V International Manufacturing Ltd, alleging that they had been forced to work on International Women’s Day, which is ...
Khy Sovuthy, P.19
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Eco start-up: say no to plastics
A start-up initiative aimed at reducing plastic waste in the Kingdom is asking locals and expats to live plastic-free in July. The goal of the campaign is relatively simple: eliminate plastics’ harshest offenders from daily consumption. That means plastic straws, bags, bottles, cups and Styrofoam, or ...
Safiya Charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27110/eco-start-up--say-no-to-plastics/
Cash-strapped NEC seeks money
Despite a massive 300 percent increase in its budget next year to prepare for looming elections, the National Election Committee (NEC) says it has barely half the money it needs to do its job and is looking for overseas aid for resources to help. ...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17295/cash-strapped-nec-seeks-money/
NEC: migrants can’t vote
The National Election Committee (NEC) dismissed a request to help migrant workers vote in the upcoming elections, despite creating a system similar to what was requested for soldiers only seven days ago. NEC spokesman Hang Puthea said they would be unable to help the roughly ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31044/nec--migrants-can---t-vote/
Election day coming, many voters unsure when
With just two months to go until Cambodia’s commune elections, more than half of respondents to a new survey could not identify Election Day. The finding was detailed in a report released on Wednesday by the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) ...
Ben Sokhean and Hannah Hawkins
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/election-day-coming-many-voters-unsure-when-127619/
Hacker warns ‘serious vulnerability’ plaguing online voter lists
A hacker behind a series of leaks smearing senior government officials and their relatives on Thursday warned that the government’s online list of registered voters for the June 4 commune elections was vulnerable to hacking and urged experts to make the site more secure. ...
Van Roeun and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hacker-warns-serious-vulnerability-plaguing-online-voter-lists-128028/
No talks at shoe factory worker strike
A union representative in the Kandal province of Cambodia, said there had been no negotiations with management since workers struck Nov. 15 for better pay. The Phnom Penh Post reported Tuesday that the union estimates 1,000 workers are on strike, but management at the Global ...
Strikers know when to fold 'em
More than 300 workers from the Tropicana Casino and resort in Banteay Meanchey provinces’s Poipet town obeyed a court order to end striking and return to work yesterday and official said. Hong Prakorb, a provincial official for the Labour Ministry said more than 200 workers ...
Cambodia’s high court drops case against men wrongly jailed for 2004 murder of labor activist
Cambodia’s Supreme Court ordered the release of two men Wednesday who were wrongly convicted and jailed for the 2004 murder of a prominent opposition activist. The court’s decision to drop all charges came amid renewed calls to free the men, whom leading international rights groups have ...
The Washington Post News Staff
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/cambodias-high-court-drops-case-against-men-wrongly-jailed-for-2004-murder-of-labor-activist/2013/09/25/2170fc90-25c2-11e3-9372-92606241ae9c_story.html
USA garment factory workers block national road
Nearly 400 workers at the USA Fully Field (Cambodia) Garment factory blocked National Road 2 in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district yesterday after fears spread that the factory was winding down operations and that management wouldn’t pay necessary wages once it closed. Soy Nakri, a worker representative ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/usa-garment-factory-workers-block-national-road