Environment Ministry prepares to ban single-use plastic products
The Environment Ministry is preparing a sub-decree to ban the import and production of single-use plastic products to reduce plastic pollution in the Kingdom. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50659041/environment-ministry-prepares-to-ban-single-use-plastic-products/
International union urges brands to lead on pay rises
Changes to unfair wages for garment sector workers has to start at the top, with global brands paying higher prices for clothes, said leaders of an international labor organization at a meeting yesterday. IndustriALL is pushing for this through its ACT program. If successful, it ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18537/international-union-urges-brands-to-lead-on-pay-rises/
Local salt revenues drying up
Salt producers in Kep and Kampot say their revenues have plummeted over the last two years as cheaper and better-quality salt from Thailand floods the local market.Bun Baraing, co-director of the Kep-Kampot Salt Producers Community, said local consumers have switched to imported Thai salt, which ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-salt-revenues-drying
Preah Sihanouk province to recruit beach lifeguards
Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities plan to recruit about 30 lifeguards to help prevent drownings across the province’s seven beaches. The move comes in the wake of several tourist drownings; the latest casualties involved a South Korean 40-year-old father, Lee Minseock, and his 4-year-old son, Lee Seungjae, ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-province-recruit-beach-lifeguards
Cambodia PM starts to 'like' Facebook as opponents woo voters online
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen is taking a belated leap into the digital age in a bid to court young, urban voters as he tries to fend off unprecedented competition from the opposition after three decades in power. Hun Sen’s Facebook, which how has 1.2 ...
Prak Chan Thul
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/20/us-cambodia-socialmedia-idUSKCN0SE2RW20151020
Hun Sen, opposition cause stir in France
Prime Minister Hun Sen has slammed the opposition for claiming the government forced a group of Cambodian exchange students studying in France to meet with him.A Cambodian radio station in France said the Cambodian embassy was forcing students to meet the prime minister at Maison ...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17153/hun-sen--opposition-cause-stir-in-france/
Major labor protest underway in industrial zone near Vietnam
Thousands of protesters in Svay Rieng province clashed with police Monday, as they continued a prolonged demonstration over the minimum wage in a special economic zone near the Vietnam border.Riot police dispersed protesters with water canons. Protesters threw stones at police. At least a 50 ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/major-labor-protest-under-way-in-industrial-zone-near-vietnam/3112380.html
ACU chief Yentieng ‘sorry’ for jab at cops
The head of Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU), Om Yentieng, has apologised for suggesting that the Kingdom’s traffic police might be corrupt.Yentieng’s about-face came yesterday at a public meeting about the new Traffic Law – which goes into effect today – attended by Deputy Prime Minister ...
Mech Dara and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/acu-chief-yentieng-sorry-jab-cops
Unilever eyes Cambodian palm sugar
Unilever is looking to source 2,000 tons of organic palm sugar a year from Cambodia, a senior manager said yesterday. Monica Soy, senior external affairs manager at Unilever Cambodia, told Khmer Times yesterday that Unilever requires about 2,000 tons a year, to be exported from Cambodia ...
Sok Chan
http://bit.ly/2c8BbNn
No voting rights for Cambodians abroad
Ry Sovanna is a Cambodian citizen, but in 2013 he was not able to exercise one of his most basic rights – voting. Mr. Sovanna was living in Thailand at the time, and there was no way for him to file his ballot in the ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16892/no-voting-rights-for-cambodians-abroad/
Eight boys ‘rescued’ from Kratie pagoda
Police in Ratanakkiri province on Saturday returned eight kidnapped boys to their families and arrested the man suspected of taking them away.According to police, the children were playing outside when Thai Phum, 63, allegedly asked them to come with him, leading them into a truck ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eight-boys-rescued-kratie-pagoda
Japan gives $30 M for busses, demining
The Japanese government will provide almost $30 million in grant aid to Cambodia to boost Phnom Penh’s public bus system and to strengthen ongoing demining operations. At a signing ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday, minister Long Visalo and outgoing Japanese Ambassador Yuji Kunamaru, ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30249/japan-gives--30-for-busses--demining/
At UN, Hun Sen calls on rich nations to fulfill aid pledges
Prime Minister Hun Sen used a speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday to call on developed nations to fulfill their pledges to commit at least 0.7 percent of their annual income to foreign aid.Speaking at a summit on the U.N.’s development goals, Mr. ...
Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/at-un-hun-sen-calls-on-rich-nations-to-fulfill-aid-pledges-95604/
Locals say gendarmes ‘beat up timber hauler’
Two military police officials and a tractor driver in Preah Vihear have been accused of beating a timber hauler and injuring a female bystander following an argument over an alleged $200 shakedown.On Tuesday afternoon, four men from Tbeng Meanchey district’s Pou commune who were hauling ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/locals-say-gendarmes-beat-timber-hauler
Cambodian competitiveness ranks low in global market
As Asean heads toward greater economic integration, Cambodia remains one of the least competitive countries in the world.A country is competitive when it can attract investment and sell and supply goods and services for export at an accelerating rate. According to the World Economic Forum ...
Ten Soksreinith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodian-competitiveness-ranks-low-in-global-market/3050170.html
‘Edge effects’ harming forests
Even comparatively small patches of human intrusion into contiguous forestland disproportionately saps forests’ ability to trap harmful carbon, a recent study has shown, a finding that suggests Cambodia’s government may be underestimating the environmental damage caused by logging and development.So-called “forest degradation” – unlike typical ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/edge-effects-harming-forests
Bank trims rate to coax millers
The state-owned bank entrusted with extending $27 million in emergency loans to millers to purchase rice paddy has marginally lowered the interest rate on these conditional loans in an effort to shorten some of the strings attached. The Rural Development Bank (RDB) announced late on Sunday ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bank-trims-rate-coax-millers
Small parties can't help you, says PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen has said voters should consider casting their ballot for the ruling CPP rather than for small parties that have done nothing for the country. In remarks posted on Facebook, Mr Hun Sen said: “Other small parties have only campaigned by promising this ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38909/small-parties-can-t-help-you--says-pm/
Under pressure, NGO coalition seeks closer ties with government
An NGO coalition launched a program to collaborate more closely with the government on Wednesday, a week after an Interior Ministry spokesman admitted to threatening several organizations in order to “scare” them ahead of commune elections. CCC executive director Soeung Saran said the problems between ...
Brendan O’byrne
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/under-pressure-ngo-coalition-seeks-closer-ties-with-government-131362/
Sesan villagers seek land titles
Families forced to relocate due to the construction of the Lower Sesan II Dam are asking Stung Treng provincial authorities to register their new village as indigenous collective lands. The 67 families from Sre Ko commune received authorisation to set up the new village on their ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106907/sesan-villagers-seek-land-titles/