Ministry to open one-window service for migrants
The government has created a one-window information service to help would-be workers avoid illegal migration to Thailand as part of a bilateral agreement with Thailand, Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng said Thursday. The quick-service windows will help make sure Cambodian workers enter Thailand legally by facilitating ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-to-open-one-window-service-for-migrants-57960/
Government says 3.4 million land titles issued
The government has issued a total of 3.4 million land titles across the country, 500,000 of them since a renewed push personally orchestrated by Prime Minister Hun Sen, according to new figures released by the Land Management Ministry. In a notice posted to its website Friday, ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-says-3-4-million-land-titles-issued-58477/
Chevron offer ends Caltex station strike
Employees of Caltex petrol stations in Phnom Penh are returning to work today after management offered to raise salaries by $20 a month and not withhold pay for time missed during the strike, which started earlier this month. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chevron-offer-ends-caltex-station-strike
Cambodia's new business registrations drop 12 pct in 2013
Cambodia had issued operating licenses to 2,988 new companies last year, down 12 percent from 3, 386 in a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday. of the 2013 new business registrations, foreign businesses registered 1,448, down 9 percent, while local registrations fell ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-01/22/c_133065203.htm
UNESCO says quality of education remains major concern for Cambodia
The quality of education is still a big concern for Cambodia and the country needs to set a more effective strategy to enhance teaching conditions and quality of education for all learners, Anne Lemaistre, UNESCO representative in Cambodia, said Thursday. “I would like to commend ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/2014-03/06/c_133165742.htm
Exports of bicycles to dip in 2014
Cambodia’s bicycle exports to the European Union are expected to decline this year after changes to EU trade preferences in early January excluded Malaysian and Singaporean parts from the scheme. Under EU preferences, a bicycle is considered a Cambodian product when at least 30 per cent ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-bicycles-dip-2014
Second haul of illegal ivory in a month found in Svay Rieng
Military police in Svay Rieng province on Friday seized more than 250 kg of elephant tusks stashed inside 10 suitcases in a van heading for the Vietnamese border, officials said. This is the second such haul in the space of a month, leading to fears Cambodia ...
Saing Soenthrith and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/second-haul-of-illegal-ivory-in-a-month-found-in-svay-rieng-54762/
Appropriate technology is a mechanism to promote nationally appropriate actions for greenhouse gas emission reduction
Phnom Penh – 21 March 2014, a workshop on Energy and Environment Technology: Capacity-Building Cooperation for the Development of NAMA in a MRV manner was organized by the Climate Change Department of the Ministry of Environment (CCD) in cooperation with the Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center, ...
Ministry of Environment
Rubber prices tumble as industry panics
Cambodia’s steadily declining rubber prices have hit critically low levels that are destined to only get worse as Thailand prepares to offload huge rubber stocks, the secretary-general of the Association for Rubber Development of Cambodia said Thursday. As the price of natural rubber has paralleled a ...
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/rubber-prices-tumble-as-industry-panics-58889/
Thailand sends 7,507 illegal migrant workers back to Cambodia: spokesman
Thai authorities have sent 7, 507 illegal Cambodian migrant workers back to Cambodia since the start of this month, a Cambodian spokesman said Wednesday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-06/11/c_133399545.htm
Ministry of Interior orders authorities to take legal measures against violent acts
Interior Minister Sar Kheng ordered cities and provincial authorities to take action to prevent rallies, following a violent clash at the Freedom Park, injuring dozens of security guards and protesters. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=OTkxOTI4NGMyYzc
Ministry says it is making efforts to stop abuse
The Foreign Affairs Ministry on Friday defended the Cambodian Embassy and consulates in China, which have been accused of ignoring female citizens in peril there, and said it has made efforts to cut off the flow off women being sold into brothels or forced marriages. In ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-says-it-is-making-efforts-to-stop-abuse-65563/
Press release on the result of the Council of Ministers’ plenary session held on August 15, 2014
On August 15, 2014 at 8:30 AM a plenary session of the Council of Ministers was held at the Peace Palace under the patronage of Samdech Akeak Moha Senapedei Deikcho Hun Sen, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia in the fifth mandate to ...
Office of the Council of Ministers
Cambodia announces new Visa fee for foreigners
Cambodia has announced the new Visa fee for foreigners who wish to visit Cambodia, according to a statement by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=Yjc5MTVkYjcwNzU
Press release on e-Visa fee
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia wishes to inform all foreign nationals, who wish to enter Cambodia, of the new e-Visa fee. ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Cambodia sees 44% rise in new company registrations in 7 months
Cambodia has granted operating licenses to 2,424 new companies in the first seven months of 2014, up 44 percent compared with 1,688 firms over the same period last year, according to the latest report of the Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=238871
Koh Kong villagers seek PM’s help in capital
Villagers from Koh Kong province have descended on the capital, ready to petition Prime Minister Hun Sen and the government today to intervene in their long-running land dispute with prominent businessman Heng Huy. Phav Nhoeung, a representative of 15 families in Sre Ambel district’s Chi Khor ...
Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-villagers-seek-pm%E2%80%99s-help-capital
Justice deferred: ‘The 23’ look forward to appeal date
The Appeal Court has set a date to hear the case of 23 garment workers and unionists who were convicted in May in connection with violent protests calling for a doubling of the sector’s minimum wage. ...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/justice-deferred-%E2%80%98-23%E2%80%99-look-forward-appeal-date
Cambodian police burn 5.1 tons of fake medicines
About 5.1 tons of counterfeit medicines were burned down on Friday at a dumpsite on the outskirts of capital Phnom Penh by Cambodian economic police. ...
China.org.cn News Staff
http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2014-11/28/content_34177271.htm
Cambodian police scour jungle for Vietnamese 'Montagnards' refugees
Cambodian police said Wednesday they were scouring remote northeastern jungles for a group of Vietnamese Montagnards who crossed the border in an apparent attempt to seek asylum. Rights groups say 13 of the hill tribe people, including one woman, fled persecution in Vietnam late last month ...
The Sun Daily News Staff
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1258248