Ocean loses case: Bosses told to pay out lost wages
The Arbitration Council Foundation yesterday ruled that a Phnom Penh garment factory that announced it was closing for a month must pay employees 100 per cent of the wages they would have earned during that period. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ocean-loses-case-bosses-told-pay-out-lost-wages
Cassava farmers plead for gov’t help
Cassava farmers are calling on the government to standardise prices and help stabilise demand as the market for the root crop continues to prove risky for growers. Cassava exports totalled 226,000 tonnes in the first six months of the year, down 21 per cent from a ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cassava-farmers-plead-gov%E2%80%99t-help
Cambodia, US trade up in first half of year
Trade data from the US shows Cambodian exports to the world’s largest economy increased 6 per cent during the first six months of the year. As of June 30, Cambodian exports to the US totalled $1.4 billion, up from $1.32 billion recorded during the same six-month ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-us-trade-first-half-year
Anti-trafficking fight expands
Cambodia, a common source, transit and destination country for human trafficking, yesterday launched a far-reaching plan to combat the exploitative practice. The 2014 to 2018 National Plan of Action (NPA), which was launched yesterday afternoon at the Interior Ministry, was devised by the National Committee for ...
Alice Cuddy and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anti-trafficking-fight-expands
CPP youth group, road safety NGO launch helmet campaign
A CPP-aligned youth group and a regional road-safety NGO on Tuesday launched a $1.2 million, two-year pilot program to educate Cambodians about the importance of wearing helmets while driving or riding as passengers on motorbikes. ...
Khuon Narim and Max Weinstein
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-youth-group-road-safety-ngo-launch-helmet-campaign-77747/
Extradition pact sees next steps
The Ministry of Justice has established a working group to examine a draft extradition treaty with Russia, the latest step in a process that could ultimately see prominent fugitives deported, a ministry spokesman said yesterday. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/extradition-pact-sees-next-steps
Census deportations hit 142 in single day
Vietnamese nationals were deported en masse this week from Svay Rieng province, with 142 illegal migrants sent back across the border in a single day, as Cambodia’s nationwide census of foreigners continues, officials said yesterday. General Sok Phal, director of the Interior Ministry’s Immigration Department, said ...
Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/census-deportations-hit-142-single-day
Farmers hope for rubber fix
Cambodia’s small rubber farmers are hoping a commitment to stabilise prices among rubber producing countries will help curb sliding profits in the sector. Industry representatives from Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia and other rubber producing countries met in Malaysia last week to discuss what can be ...
Hor Kimsay and Daniel de Carteret
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/farmers-hope-rubber-fix
Three more women faint as factory reopens
The Labor Ministry official in charge of garment factory faintings declared Wednesday’s reopening of a Svay Rieng province factory—where 100 workers fainted in the past week due to chemical fumes—a relative success, with only three more women collapsing while working. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-more-women-faint-as-factory-reopens-78276/
Money a worry for deminers ahead of 2019 clean-up deadline
During the Management of Residual Explosive Remnants of War (MORE) Symposium in Siem Reap this week, attendees were invited to a demonstration at a live minefield only an hour north of the town. Despite indications that the 2019 treaty deadline would not be met and ...
Kimberley Mccosker
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/money-worry-deminers-ahead-2019-clean-deadline
Ministry moves to create bus-monitoring prakas
A new inter-ministry prakas is planned that controls and ensures the safety of bus passengers using the Kingdom’s growing bus network, and may include monitoring the behaviour of drivers and companies prior to granting licences, Cambodian officials said. Bus companies are now controlled by Ministry of ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062556985/Business/bus-monitoring-prakas.html
Cabinet approves draft legal documents, nat’l strategy
The Council of Ministers or the Cabinet for the seventh legislature of the National Assembly yesterday approved three legal documents, one national strategy and two reports during its second plenary session, presided over by Prime Minister Hun Manet at the Peace Palace, said a senior ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501363709/cabinet-approves-draft-legal-documents-natl-strategy/
Unions plan Workers’ Day march for May 1
Representatives from the Cambodian Confederation of Unions (CCU) and the Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions (CATU) – along with trade unions and associations working in the labour sector – announced their intention to celebrate the 137th anniversary of International Workers’ Day on May 1, with ...
Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-plan-workers-day-march-may-1
Rubber exports go up 42.1% H1
Cambodia earned $324 million from the exports of natural rubber and rubber articles in the January to June half-year (H1) period of 2023, an increase of 42.1 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the latest trade data of the General Department ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501329610/rubber-exports-go-up-42-1-h1/
Furniture exports decrease by almost 29% on-year to $164M in January-April
Cambodia earned $164.111 million from the export of “furniture, lighting signs, prefabricated buildings” in the first four months of 2023, down 28.82 per cent year-on-year from $230.544 million and down 52.01 per cent half-on-half (compared to July-October 2022) from $341.97 million, according to provisional Customs ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/furniture-exports-decrease-almost-29-year-164m-january-april
More confess to Kratie ‘secession’
Ministry of Interior officials announced yesterday that three more villagers accused of involvement in a “secessionist plot” in Kratie province turned themselves in and confessed their guilt on Saturday, taking advantage of the prime minister’s offer of immunity for those who agree to act as ...
Ratanakkiri Temple Now in Land Concession
Like most millennium-old structures discovered in the forests of Cambodia, the locals had known all along about this one. Jarai minority villagers in this remote spot in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district not only knew about it, but they revered the red-brick temple, using it as a ...
Kuch Naren and Michelle Vachon
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ratanakkiri-temple-now-in-land-concession-47779/
United Kingdom's Prudential Company invests life insurance in Cambodia
Cambodia has offered the license for the United Kingdom’s Prudential Company to invest the life insurance in the kingdom. The announcement was made during the meeting between UK ambassador to Cambodia Mark Gooding and deputy prime minister and minister of economy and finance, his excellency Keat Chhon in Phnom Penh. “Ministry granted the approval for ...
Project offers children education in remote areas
Plan International Cambodia has launched a three-year project to help young children living in remote and disadvantaged areas in Ratanakkiri and Stung Treng provinces receive education and health care services. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077520/project-offers-children-education-remote-areas/
Sesan villagers reject offer, call for studies
Villagers in Stung Treng province have rejected a new compensation offer from the firm building the divisive Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sesan-villagers-reject-offer-call-studies