Major Gap Emerging Between Labor Market and Job Seekers
PHNOM PENH – As more and more Cambodians enter the job market, with a growing population of young people, there still remain plenty of job opportunities with foreign investors at home, according to a new study by the Ministry of Labor. But people either don’t ...
Japanese Companies Host Employment Fair in Phnom Penh
Cambodian students, graduates and jobseekers filled the main hall of the Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center on Tuesday looking for employment opportunities with some of Japan’s largest corporations. Organizers said the event aimed to bridge the gap between skilled Cambodian job seekers and companies from the world’s third ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/japanese-companies-host-employment-fair-in-phnom-penh-35242/
UK: Cambodia worker health part of M&S Plan A progress
UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) is trialling a new campaign aimed at helping 14,000 garment workers in Cambodia deal with common health issues, as part of its Plan A ethical programme. The company, which aims to become the world’s most sustainable major retailer by 2015, ...
Katie Smith
http://www.just-style.com/news/cambodia-worker-health-part-of-ms-plan-a-progress_id119714.aspx
Minister of Labour promotes implementation of National Policy on Work and Employment
The Minister of Labour and Vocational Training urged the implementation of a national policy on better work and employment to reduce labour disputes. The statement was made by Minister of Labour Ith Samheng on the afternoon of January 25, while leading a delegation to visit ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501014387/minister-of-labour-promotes-implementation-of-national-policy-on-work-and-employment/
Informal tourism sector workers granted NSSF
Three ministries issued have a joint prakas on Health Equity Funds for employees in the informal tourism sector. The parkas, which was jointly signed on June 19 by Minister of Economy and Finance Aun Pornmoniroth, Minister of Health Mam Bun Heng and Minister of Labour ...
Neang Sokunthea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/informal-tourism-sector-workers-granted-nssf
Investment in construction reaches all-time high
Investment in the construction sector reached an all-time high last year at almost $3.5 billion, up about 40 percent from the $2.5 billion invested in the sector in 2014, according to data from the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning, and Construction. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19955/investment-in-construction-reaches-all-time-high/
Banned rosewood trade up
Despite the presence of a blanket ban by the Cambodian government on all trade in Siamese rosewood since 2013, exports of the precious timber to Vietnam increased in the third quarter of this year, according to Vietnamese customs data compiled by US-based NGO Forest Trends. ...
Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/banned-rosewood-trade
Cambodia exports 120,291 tons rice January-April, 2014; up 1.5% from last year
Cambodia exported about 120,291 tons of rice in first four months of calendar year 2014, up about 1.5% from about 118,504 tons rice exported in the same period last year, according to data from the Secretariat of One Window Service of Rice Export Formality (SOWS-REF). ...
Oryza News Staff
http://oryza.com/news/rice-news/cambodia-exports-120291-tons-rice-january-april-2014-15-last-year
Cambodian rice crowned world’s best
Cambodia’s Phka Romduol rice has been crowned the best rice in the world at the prestigious World Rice Forum. ...
Mao Sreypich
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodian-rice-crowned-worlds-best
Buses need to be more accessible for people with disabilities
Public buses should be accessible, safe, and comfortable for people with disabilities, a recent assessment showed. ...
Yatt Malai
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-buses-need-to-be-more-accessible-for-people-with-disabilities
Shipments at PP port more than expected
Shipment through the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port increased by more than 28 per cent in the first 11 months of this year, surpassing a government target for 2011. About 73,760 shipping containers passed through the port between January and November, data shows, up from 62,256 containers ...
Cambodia’s inflation up over 5% in February
Prices in Cambodia rose 5.4 per cent year-on-year in February, as fuel costs continued to push inflation higher, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics released yesterday. Foodstuffs, however, saw declines following demand that was driven by Chinese New Year, though paddy prices were ...
Credit growth starts to cool off
New data released by Cambodia’s independent credit reporting agency indicate a significant slowdown in the rate of lending during the second quarter of the year, a sign that banking industry experts claim is due to a tightening of lending criteria and less demand from the ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/credit-growth-starts-cool
Medic in HIV outbreak case to be tried next week
The trial of an unlicensed medic who was charged with murder after allegedly infecting more than 270 people with HIV will begin on Tuesday, a court official said on Friday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/medic-in-hiv-outbreak-case-to-be-tried-next-week-97461/
Profit-tax revenue leads first half surge
Cambodia’s tax department collected $829 million in tax revenue during the first half of the year, 18 per cent more than during the same period a year earlier, led by surge in profit-tax revenue, according to government data released late on Tuesday. ...
Siem Reap feels pinch of tourism downturn
Foreign tourist arrivals in Siem Reap fell 11.2 per cent during the first nine months of the year compared to the same period one year earlier, as the Kingdom’s top tourist gateway sees its most significant slowdown in visitor arrivals in decades, new government data ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/siem-reap-feels-pinch-tourism-downturn
Hun Sen seeks to bolster trade at India-Asean meet
Indian government data show that annual trade between the Cambodia and India has lagged of late, decreasing by nearly 30 percent to $141 million during the last Indian fiscal year, which ran from April 2016 to May 2017. That’s the lowest level since the 2012-2013 ...
Hor Kimsay and Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hun-sen-seeks-bolster-trade-india-asean-meet
Investment in extractive industry worth 1.3 billion
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the extractive industry, including some projects expected to be approved before the end of the year, now equals $1.3 billion, making it one of the most valuable economic sectors in the kingdom, according to data from the Ministry of Mines ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50112148/investment-in-extractive-industry-worth-1-3-billion/
Traffic deaths up from 2014
Traffic deaths in Cambodia during the first six months of 2015 increased from the same period last year, though the total number of road accidents in the Kingdom plummeted, according to traffic police data. A total of 1,229 traffic deaths were recorded this year out ...
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/traffic-deaths-2014
Survey of garment workers’ expenses to come
Hoping to help fill the void in reliable data that has stymied past negotiations on the minimum wage for the country’s garment workers, an international team of labor rights groups Monday hired a local research firm to find out exactly how much the workers are ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/survey-of-garment-workers-expenses-to-come-89657/