Government regulates gas prices
Gas stations around the country will be required to sell their products at a standardized price and any that overcharge will be fined, the government said yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22638/government-regulates-gas-prices/
Wage-setting meet up in air
Exactly who will participate in a workshop to set the minimum wage in the garment sector with the Ministry of Labour this week remained unclear yesterday, with some key figures saying they had not yet been invited. During the workshop, to be held on Thursday and ...
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wage-setting-meet-air
Wrangling over wage may spur new unrest
Unions representing garment workers have pledged to reignite protests if the minimum wage for the industry is raised to only $115 next year, a sum they say was offered by the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia during a meeting on Friday. The Labour Advisory Committee (LAC) ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wrangling-over-wage-may-spur-new-unrest
Press release on the memorandum of understanding (MoU) on "Cross border payment and remittance cooperation" between the National Bank of Cambodia and NPCI International Payments Limited
On 17 April 2023, the National Bank of Cambodia issued a press release on the memorandum of understanding (MoU) on “Cross border payment and remittance cooperation” between the National Bank of Cambodia and NPCI International Payments Limited.H.E. Dr. Chea Serey, Deputy Governor of the National ...
National Bank of Cambodia
72.33% of students pass national exams
A total of 72.33 percent of students have passed their high school diploma, with students in Phnom Penh and Kandal receiving their results today while pupils in remaining provinces have to wait until tomorrow. ...
Meas Molika
https://kiripost.com/stories/7233-of-students-pass-national-exams
Crackdown brings a halt to 78 trucks
At least 78 trucks carrying mining mAterials including gravel, sand and soil were stopped on NAtional Road 3 by traffic police on Tuesday in cooperAtion with Mining Ministry officials. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24614/crackdown-brings-a-halt-to-78-trucks/
Five canals to be expanded in Preah Sihanouk province to mitigate against flooding
The Preah Sihanouk provincial authority plans to clear and expand five canals spanning some 26km starting on Monday, to mitigate city flooding which had previously affected areas in their vicinity. Provincial governor Kuoch Chamroeun asked the relevant authorities to inform and advise people to demolish ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/five-canals-be-expanded-preah-sihanouk-province-mitigate-against-flooding
Banh: ‘Talks ongoing over US cooperation’
Minister of National Defence Tea Banh and new US ambassador to Cambodia Patrick Murphy have agreed to strengthen cooperation between the two countries, particularly militarily. Banh, who is also deputy prime minister, told The Post that during a meeting with Murphy on Wednesday at the ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/banh-talks-ongoing-over-us-cooperation
RDB set to distribute $50M to rice millers to sustain paddy market
The state-owned Rural Development Bank (RDB) has announced that it will distribute $50 million in loans to private rice millers to sustain the paddy market for farmers. The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) said the funds will be used to purchase nearly 300,000 tonnes of paddy ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rdb-set-distribute-50m-rice-millers-sustain-paddy-market
Government vows to tighten control over Kingdom’s pawnbrokers
The government is preparing legislation aimed at ensuring tighter control over the nation’s pawnshops to ensure professionalism in a sector that has grown rapidly and lacks a supervisory framework. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-vows-tighten-control-over-kingdoms-pawnbrokers
Camko city denies land sale
After a real estate agent was convicted of illegally selling plots of land within Camko City development project, a senior figure at developer World City stressed yesterday that at present no land was for sale and warned that any offers were fraudulent. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31193/camko-city-denies-land-sale/
Press conference on the current management of economic land concession investment projects
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries will hold a press conference on Wednesday 21 January 2015 at 10:00 a.m at the office of the Ministry to inform the public of the current management of economic land concession investment projects. ...
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Assembly passes first of three contentious laws on judicial reform
Ruling party lawmakers at the National Assembly pass the first of three draft laws in judicial reform, defying an opposition boycott and ignoring calls for further review by outside legal experts. The Law on the Organization of the Courts will put more power within the Ministry ...
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/assembly-passes-first-of-three-contentious-laws-on-judicial-reform/1920338.html
Press Release on the outcomes of the meeting between Cambodian and Thai labour ministers seeking solutions for Cambodian workers
On 07 July 2017, the Royal Government of Cambodia issued a press release following a meeting between H.E. Ith Sam Heng, Minister of Labor and Vocational Training and Head of Commission for Provision of Lawful Status to Cambodian Migrant Workers and H.E. Sirichai Distakul, Thai ...
Royal Government of Cambodia
Activist ‘threatened’ for tip over land clearing
An ethnic Kuoy activist in Stung Treng province says his life was threatened after he tipped authorities off to an alleged land grab on Saturday involving two suspects who remain at large. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activist-threatened-tip-over-land-clearing
After meet, UN rep mum on politics
Keep out of Cambodia’s internal affairs.This was the message delivered yesterday by Cambodia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Prak Sokhonn to country director for the United Nations office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Wan-Hea Lee at a meeting to discuss cooperation. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/after-meet-un-rep-mum-politics
Chhouk Bandith's victims see hope in Sok Bun arrest
Three factory workers shot more than three years ago by a town governor who remains at large have come to Phnom Penh to ask Prime Minister Hun Sen to take action in their case, given the recent success of the premier’s call to arrest a ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chhouk-bandiths-victims-see-hope-sok-bun-arrest
Villagers Get Land Title After Torching Excavator
A land dispute between a development company and residents in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district boiled over late Friday night, with villagers setting fire to an excavator that they say company staff were using to raze a crematorium on the disputed plot of land. Villagers say ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-get-land-title-after-torching-excavator-47790/
June textile workers get paid
Thousands of workers who were sacked after part of the June Textile garment factory burned down in March are finally receiving severance payments and other awards following a ruling from the Arbitration Council. Taing Kisay, an administration assistant at the factory, said yesterday that more ...
Vendors with a licence to forge
On the side of a well-trafficked street in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district, a man with a razor blade bends over a small rectangle of sheet metal overlaid with a vinyl stencil. As letters and numbers are lifted away, the plate begins to take on a ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vendors-licence-forge