World Bank Report Says Few Cambodians Using Bank Accounts
Only 3.7 percent of Cambodia’s 14 million people have bank accounts with a financial institution, while less than 1 percent of those with an account are actually using them to save money, according to a World Bank report released Tuesday. Though the World Bank’s Global Financial ...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/world-bank-report-says-few-cambodians-using-bank-accounts-46844/
Unions to Proceed With Mass Rally in Freedom Park Despite Ban
Unions planning a mass rally at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on Sunday to call for the release of 23 detainees and a higher minimum wage in the garment industry say they will proceed with the event despite City Hall’s decision Thursday to deny permission. The nine ...
Moc Bai Border Gate Economic Zone
Moc Bai Border Gate Economic Zone is located on the Trans-Asia Road that starts from Myanmar, goes to Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam and ends at Quangxi, China. It was built with three border gates on an area of 21,283ha, covering the communes of Long Thuan, ...
Vietnamnet News Staff
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/92035/moc-bai-border-gate-economic-zone.html
CNRP Cancels Meeting as CPP Supporters Turn Out in Force
Several hundred civilian supporters of Prime Minister Hun Sen, backed up by an equal number of military police and provincial police armed with automatic rifles, batons and tear gas launchers, forced opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha to cancel a meeting with party followers ...
Phann Ana and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-cancels-meeting-as-cpp-supporters-turn-out-in-force-50938/
Japan, U.S. to help empower women in Cambodia, Myanmar
The Japanese and U.S. governments are set to launch a joint project to help empower women in developing countries in Asia, including Cambodia and Myanmar, as well as Africa, officials of both governments said Saturday. The two governments came up with the project as both Prime ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/140209/japan-us-help-empower-women-cambodia-myanmar
Union says three workers arrested over wing star protest
At least three workers were arrested Tuesday morning outside the Wing Star Shoes factory in Kompong Speu province, where the Free Trade Union (FTU) has been leading a strike calling for benefits and back pay, according to police and a union representAtive. An FTU representAtive said ...
Mech Dara and Sany Sinary
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/union-says-three-workers-arrested-over-wing-star-protest-58169/
10th-century statue found under tree
An ancient statue of a Hindu god believed to be more than 1,000 years old was discovered on Thursday at Koh Ker National Park’s Prasat Chen temple, a conservationist told the Post yesterday. ...
PM wants more Japanese investment in Cambodia
Prime Minister Hun Sen, speaking at the Mekong- Japan Business Forum in Tokyo on October 9, invited Japanese firms to visit Cambodia and convince themselves that it a worthy country for their investments. ...
Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50540098/pm-wants-more-japanese-investment-in-cambodia/
‘DNA soon to reveal identities of poachers’
Mondulkiri provincial environment department director Keo Sopheak has said that DNA testing will soon reveal the identities of poachers who exchanged gunfire with environmental rangers, injuring one, at Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary last Wednesday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dna-soon-reveal-identities-poachers
Supreme Consultative Council officially created
King Norodom Sihamoni has legitimised the Supreme Consultative Council and appointed 30 representatives of 15 political parties as advisors to the government at the request of Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50531950/supreme-consultative-council-officially-created/
Cruise tourists on rise, but benefits are scant
While international tourist arrivals by cruise ship have increased every year at Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (SAP), Cambodia does not appear to be benefitting much from such visitors, the Ministry of Tourism has said. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cruise-tourists-rise-benefits-are-scant
Minimum wage talks officially begin
Negotiations to determine 2019’s minimum wage for garment workers began at the Labour Ministry yesterday with the issue of worker welfare as the first order of business, the Labour Advisory Committee said. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50529986/minimum-wage-talks-officially-begin/
Cardamom mountains: body jars and cliff coffins
The remote and mysterious Cardamom Mountains are giving up some of their secrets – burial jars and wooden coffins – to the public as part of an exhibition that begins today at the National Museum. ...
Nou Sotheavy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16351/cardamom-mountains--body-jars-and-cliff-coffins/
The National Assembly to host consultative workshop on Trade Union Law
The National Assembly’s Legislative Commission will hold a consultative workshop next week at the National Assembly to collect inputs over a much-criticized draft law on Trade Union. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/the-national-assembly-to-host-consultative-workshop-on-trade-union-law-9105
Protesters put sugar firm’s wall on hold
Roughly 30 villagers locked in a land dispute with Koh Kong Sugar protested at a construction site yesterday where they say the company was attempting to erect a concrete barrier on disputed land. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protesters-put-sugar-firms-wall-hold
Credit Bureau targets students with workshops
Hoping to increase university students’ knowledge of Cambodia’s credit reporting system, the Credit Bureau of Cambodia (CBC) on Tuesday launched a series of workshops in Phnom Penh aimed at boosting financial literacy. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/credit-bureau-targets-students-with-workshops-95981/
Cambodia preparing for the impacts of climate change, says official
Cambodia is beginning to coordinate efforts to respond to climate change, a government official said ahead of high-level talks in California at which the environment is set to be on the agenda. ...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-preparing-for-the-impacts-of-climate-change-says-official/3193231.html
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-preparing-for-the-impacts-of-climate-change-says-official/3193231.html
Fire guts market in Stung Treng city, causing $1M in damage
More than 1,000 stalls and shops were destroyed in an overnight fire at a market in Stung Treng City, causing about $1 million in property damage, local police said on Friday. ...
Calls for increased budget for school development
Members of civil society have called on the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport to increase the budget for development in schools by at least five percent to fix country-wide educational issues. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24320/calls-for-increased-budget-for-school-development/