The Free Trade Union has vowed to stage a mass strike in The garment and footwear industries if its demands for an extra US$30 per month of bonuses for workers are not met, union president Chea Mony said yesterday. The union sent a letter to Minister ...

Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said royalist party Funcinpec will not be investigated for requesting funds from China, despite an article in the Law on Political Parties banning parties from receiving financial support from foreign governments and institutions. ...

As the new public school year gets under way this week, grade 12 students reeling from en masse failure at the national exam have a choice to make: repeat their grade or forfeit their diploma. In total, just 33,997 test-sitters, or 40.6 per cent of ...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) released its Financial Stability Review for The first time on Wednesday, outlining The work needed to monitor economic security and develop macro-prudential measures to cope with systemic risks. The Financial Stability Review has been produced by NBC since 2001 ...

Ministry of Interior warned that legal measures would be taken against those who would hold protests, defying a ban imposed by the government. the warning was made yesterday after the leaders of nine labor unions insisted that they would hold protests, which are scheduled for January ...

Hospitality groups continue to call on the government to provide an exit strategy from the lockdown of the Kingdom’s bars, clubs and KTV’s – so struggling owners can implement business plans, but some are deciding to quit. ...

Popular media outlets Radio Free Asia and Voice of America have become the latest to draw the attention of the government for allegedly not paying taxes, one week after a letter to the Cambodia Daily demanding more than $6 million in back taxes was leaked. ...

Hundreds of prisoners will be pardoned or see their sentences reduced on Tuesday following a request by the Ministry of Interior to the King. the royal pardons and sentence reductions, which benefit 339 inmates, coincide with Pisak Bochea Day, a celebration of the Buddha’s birth. ...

More than 1,000 workers protested in front of the soon-to-be-closed Svay Rieng Cambodia Garment factory yesterday to demand better severance benefits, and nearly half of them then marched to the provincial hall to seek help from government officials, workers said yesterday. Worker representative Pang Tra said ...

Lending by Cambodia’s commercial banks rose by 6 percent while deposits grew by 10 percent in the first quarter of this year, a National Bank of Cambodia (NBC)’s report said Tuesday. the report said the country’s 34 commercial banks had lent a total of 7.87 billion ...

Twenty representatives of workers locked in a monthlong dispute with management at the Ocean Garment factory appeared before the Arbitration Council yesterday, a union official said. A spokesman from the Arbitration Council yesterday told the Post that such cases are typically sorted out within 15 working days. ...

Sound macro-economic performance coupled with political stability resulted in the Kingdom collecting some $6 billion in tax last year, up more than $1.485 billion on the government’s target of $4.56 billion for the period. of the figure, $2.26 billion was collected by the General Department ...

The lean patch of Cambodia’s biggest export-earning segment of garments, footwear and travel (GFT) goods continued into The fifth month of The year as The January to May exports recorded a decline of 23.06 percent, compared to The same period in 2022. ...

The central bank officially held a soft launch last Friday for its central shared switch mechanism, which connects account records of three of The Kingdom’s leading financial institutions, allowing Them to operate ATM and point-of-sale (POS) terminals in tandem. ...

Transparent reporting of garment factory compliance in Cambodia is continuing to help to improve conditions for workers, according to a new report. In its third online transparency report, the International Labor Organization (ILO’s) Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) programme said two of the 13 factories in the Low Compliance group had ...

The Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia says it will push for revisions made on The draft trade union law last week to be changed.During a meeting on July 28, The Ministry of Labour said it had revised a number of provisions in The law, which ...

The merchandise trade volume between Cambodia and Canada reached $192.720 million in The first quarter of 2023, making The world’s ninth largest economy The Kingdom’s 10th biggest trading partner for The three-month period, according to Customs (GDCE). ...

The government will this year stop printing The royal gazette for sale to The public and begin publishing new editions online, an official said yesterday. ...

The government yesterday announced a total ban on The collection and export of human breast milk, after it emerged poor women had been earning cash through The trade. ...

The government collected 15.4 trillion riel or $3.7 billion in tax revenue in The first seven months of The year, which is equivalent to 58.7 per cent of The 2023 annual budget law, according to The Ministry of Economy and Finance. ...