Post-Covid school reopenings see drop in returning students
Poverty is stopping several students from returning to schools post-Covid times, say school authorities. The pandemic had affected millions of families across the country, but children suffered the most. ...
Yim Sreylin
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501078735/post-covid-school-reopenings-see-drop-in-returning-students/
Positive sign in EU rice tariff saga
The European Union yesterday failed to come to a consensus on taxing Cambodia fragrant and white rice, giving leaders of the local rice sector more time to plan the next step in their fight to stop the EU from imposing tariffs. ...
Sok Chan and Sangeetha Amarthalingam
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50556403/positive-sign-in-eu-rice-tariff-saga/
Bridge broken by illegal load
Kampot’s Ta Reach bridge was severely damaged by a truck overloaded with illegal luxury timber over the weekend, prompting a manhunt for the truck’s driver, who was apparently on his way to Vietnam at the time of the accident. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26038/bridge-broken-by-illegal-load/
Exercise fad sends sales of bicycles freewheeling
With a greater number of Cambodians devoting time and money to exercise, bicycles are shedding their lowly image as a cheap means of transportation and fast becoming a symbol of the wealthier, more health-conscious elite. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exercise-fad-sends-sales-bicycles-freewheeling
Ministry removes officials from office for skipping work
The Ministry of Interior has removed four Oddar Meanchey provincial officials from office, including former deputy governor of Anlong Veng district Nhem En, for failing to show up for work, according to a ministry letter received by Khmer Times yesterday. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21423/ministry-removes-officials-from-office-for-skipping-work/
PAL looks to operate direct flight to Cambodia
Philippine Airlines (PAL) plans to enter Cambodian skies for the first time with the launch of a direct flight from Manila, aviation officials said yesterday, though whether the airline will serve Phnom Penh or Siem Reap has yet to be decided. ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pal-looks-operate-direct-flight-cambodia
Government wage hikes depend on cost cutting
Slashing unnecessary spending by ministries will allow the government to guarantee a monthly minimum wage of $250 for civil servants in time for the 2018 national election, a secretary of state at the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday. ...
Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-wage-hikes-depend-on-cost-cutting-114142/
Commission makes changes in first union draft law meeting
A joint commission of 10 lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties yesterday met for the first time to review the draft law on trade unions, and two of 21 articles that were flagged as controversial by unions have changed slightly. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19441/commission-makes-changes-in-first-union-draft-law-meeting/
Travel goods exports could soar as US drops tariffs
New trade privileges that allow Cambodian-manufactured travel goods duty-free access to the United States for the first time could see exports of these items increase by over 400 per cent in the coming years, industry experts said yesterday. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/travel-goods-exports-could-soar-us-drops-tariffs
Suspect logs found on plantation
Authorities in Ratanakkiri province have found more piles of possibly illegally logged wood as part of the government’s ongoing sweep of eastern Cambodia for illicit timber stocks, this time on a rubber plantation owned by wealthy businessman Soung Vang. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/suspect_logs_found_on_plantation-110061/
Court upholds Sokha detention for ‘treason’
The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the legality of CNRP President Kem Sokha’s detention on widely condemned charges of “treason”, despite a team of defence lawyers laying out their arguments against his imprisonment for the first time before a court. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/court-upholds-sokha-detention-treason
Surrogacy exit rules released, with parents required to provide yearly updates
Parents of children born to surrogate mothers in Cambodia will be required to provide the government with yearly updates of their child’s mental and physical development, according to new guidelines officially disseminated to embassies for the first time yesterday. ...
Kong Meta and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/surrogacy-exit-rules-released-parents-required-provide-yearly-updates
Government rejects pilot project for offenders to do community service
A senoir Justice Ministry official said a pilot project to increase bail approvals and community service sentencing for small-time offenders would be impossible, weeks after the project was announced during the visit of a United Nations human rights official. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-rejects-pilot-project-offenders-do-community-service
Foreigners working in Cambodia face permit fines
About 100,000 foreigners working without permits will be fined after Khmer New Year and potentially face jail time and deportation if they fail to get paperwork or pay their fines, the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Labour announced yesterday. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/foreigners-working-cambodia-face-permit-fines
ACLEDA capitalises for growth
ACLEDA Bank, the largest locally owned commercial bank in Cambodia, said it has raised its current registered capital by $72.5 million, to $185.6 million, for business expansion domestically and internationally. It is the tenth time the bank has done so. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052365788/Business/acleda-capitalises-for-growth.html
Kazantip ‘totally canceled’; police deployed
Authorities in Preah Sihanouk province have had yet another change of heart about the notoriously wild Kazantip music festival, pulling the event from Sihanoukville’s Koh Puos island for a second time, with one official citing a desire to dissuade “indecent tourism.” ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kazantip-totally-canceled-police-deployed-78161/
Workers march to ministry to demand backpay
About 50 workers from the Xin Chang Xin garment factory on Thursday marched for the second time to the Ministry of Labor to demand intervention after the factory allegedly failed to pay two months of wages, workers and a union representative said. ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/workers-march-to-ministry-to-demand-backpay-66606/
Interior Ministry reminds civil servants of ban on two jobs
Department heads within the Interior Ministry must immediately begin enforcing a Royal Decree issued in October that prohibits civil servants from holding two government jobs at the same time, according to a letter issued by ministry Secretary of State Sak Setha last week. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/interior-ministry-reminds-civil-servants-of-ban-on-two-jobs-77588/
After fatal border shooting, even more Cambodians return
After Thai soldiers last week shot and killed three Cambodians who entered Thailand to log luxury-grade rosewood, a district governor in Preah Vihear province thought it would be an appropriate time to warn locals of the dangers of crossing the border. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-fatal-border-shooting-even-more-cambodians-return-77901/
One in five students ‘saw gender violence’
More than 60 per cent of Cambodian students have experienced gender-based violence in schools, with staff committing the violence a fifth of the time, according to a new research report from Plan International and the International Center for Research on Women. ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/one-five-students-saw-gender-violence