Cambodian garments, footwear and travel goods strategic plan to entice investors
Cambodia’s strategic plan on garment, footwear and travel goods development 2021-2024 will attract more investment and contribute to sustainable development in the sector, Ith Samheng, minister for labour and vocational training, told Okhna Kong Sang, president of Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) in Phnom ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501039009/cambodian-garments-footwear-and-travel-goods-strategic-plan-to-entice-investors/
NagaWorld’s dispute meetings in stalemate after ninth round talks
The ninth meeting between NagaWorld and worker representatives has ended in a stalemate, with both sides failing to reach a compromise, according to the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nagaworlds-dispute-meetings-stalemate-after-ninth-round-talks
A refined approach?
Hundreds of trucks hauling sugarcane queue up along the dusty roads that cut a path through a plantation in Kampong Speu province. Their destination: Cambodia’s most advanced sugar refinery. Its owners say the landmark project, run by the Phnom Penh Sugar Company and its president, ruling ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/refined-approach
SMEs: don’t look down on local goods
The Ministry of Commerce and representatives of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) came together on Friday to discuss ways to boost the promotion of made-in-Cambodia goods, both in local and international markets, against a background of local supermarkets discriminating against these local products. Minister of Commerce ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29022/smes--don---t-look-down-on-local-goods/
Customs to get easier for certified firms
Cambodia’s General Department of Customs and Excise will begin certifying firms it deems trustworthy so that their products will have easier passage across the country’s borders, officials have said. The government is working on a program to provide “authorized economic operators” or “AEO” status on approved ...
Japan Marks 60 Years of Relations With Cambodia
This year marks the 60th anniversary since the start of diplomatic relations between Cambodia and Japan – the country’s largest bilateral donor – and to celebrate, the Japanese Embassy is planning an array of cultural events. Speaking at a ceremony to mark the anniversary, Japanese Ambassador ...
European Union Grants $54 Million to Cambodia
The European Union yesterday pledged to support Cambodia with three grants totaling $54 million, including one payment to help bolster the country’s ability to organize its public finances, officials announced at a press conference in Phnom Penh. “The E.U. will continue to support Cambodia with ...
Ratanakiri Court Questions Rights Workers
The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday questioned the first of two human rights workers who are suing local officials for allegedly disrupting a July meeting they were hosting for villagers in Lumphat district. Deputy court prosecutor Ros Saram said he questioned Chhim Savuth, program officer for the ...
Low pay fuels anger among Cambodia's garment workers
As night falls thousands of weary workers stream from textile factories that fan out across Phnom Penh’s outskirts. The clothing industry’s desire for cheap labour having created an abundance of jobs but as the number of international clothes companies tapping into Cambodia’s workforce grows, so does ...
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1259888/1/.html
ADB provides 3 mln USD to Cambodia for flood relief
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing emergency humanitarian assistance of 3 million U.S. dollars to help Cambodia recover from devastating floods that have affected 1.7 million people and caused an estimated 1 billion U.S. dollars in damage, the Bank said in a statement on ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-11/20/c_132903465.htm
Signed up for work, forced into marriage
An NGO is working to free two Cambodian women forced into marriage in China, a representative of the organisation said yesterday. Huy Pichsovann, program officer at the Community Legal Education Center (CLEC), said that the two women, aged 22 and 27, were enticed from their Kampong ...
James Hall and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/signed-work-forced-marriage
EU gives $3.9 million to attract investment
The European Union will spend €3 million ($3.9 million) on a program to encourage small and medium enterprises to invest in Cambodia. Speaking at a conference yesterday in Phnom Penh, EU Ambassador to Cambodia Jean-Francois Cautain said the five-year grant – to be managed by EuroCham ...
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/eu-gives-39-million-attract-investment
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Hasty hydropower critiqued
Less than a week after Laos declared its “sovereign right” to develop hydropower regardless of neighbouring countries’ objections, the Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) gathered an “extraordinary meeting” to stress the importance of sustainable waterways. During the two-day discussions in Pakse, Laos which concluded yesterday, the US ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hasty-hydropower-critiqued
COVID-19 leads to $3.6 billion financing flow losses for Cambodia last year
COVID-19 has led to financing flow losses of $3.6 billion for Cambodia, accounting for 19.8 percent of the country’s total financing flows in 2020, said a new report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) released on Friday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50895602/covid-19-leads-to-3-6-billion-financing-flow-losses-for-cambodia-last-year/
Support for landmine/ERW victims
United Nation Development Program (UNDP) Cambodia and Persons with Disabilities Foundation (PWDF) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to improve rehabilitation services for landmine/Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) victims and persons with disabilities at Battambang Physical Rehabilitation Centre (BPRC). ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50893316/support-for-landmine-erw-victims/
NZ-funded climate-smart farming programme ‘pays off for subsistence farmers in Cambodians’
An international development program, funded by the New Zealand government, that powers subsistence farmers in Cambodia to build resilience to climate change and lift themselves out of poverty, has shown remarkable success, according to the American NGO that implements it, International Development Enterprises (iDE). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501023207/nz-funded-climate-smart-farming-programme-pays-off-for-subsistence-farmers-in-cambodians/
Open Development Cambodia updates an existing dataset on “State land reclassification”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” by adding sixteen new map layers on land reclassification in Phnom Penh, Preah Sihanouk, Kampong Speu, and Kep province. This dataset contains information regarding the establishment of land as state public properties and ...
Open Development Cambodia updates an existing dataset on “State land reclassification”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” by adding twelve new map layers on land reclassification in Phnom Penh, Preah Sihanouk, Kampong Speu, and Kep province. This dataset contains information regarding the establishment of land as state public properties and ...
Open Development Cambodia updates an existing dataset on “State land reclassification”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” by adding four new map layers on land reclassification in Preah Sihanouk, Kep, and Siem Reap and renamed the dataset’s title from Urban land reclassification to State land reclassification. This dataset contains information ...