Malaysia, Cambodia sign new agreement to protect maids
Cambodian maids who work in Malaysia will be given smartphones, bank accounts and counselling under a new agreement signed by the two countries yesterday, an employment agency representative said – measures intended to prevent the kind of widespread abuses that resulted in a ban on ...
Yon Sineat and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/malaysia-cambodia-sign-new-agreement-protect-maids
Hun Sen’s lawyer receives promotion
After leading the legal team that won the widely condemned dissolution of the CNRP at the Supreme Court in November, Ky Tech, lawyer for the Council of Ministers and Prime Minister Hun Sen, has been given a rank equivalent to minister just weeks after he ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sens-lawyer-receives-promotion
Families in land row want to harvest their crop
Representatives of nearly 200 families gathered in front of the Banteay Meanchey provincial hall yesterday demanding that authorities intervene in a land dispute after security forces blocked harvesting. The dispute, which sets the families against members of 14 other families, involves land in Thma Puok district’s ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34184/families-in-land-row-want-to-harvest-their-crop/
Finland to help develop energy plants
Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn yesterday met with the newly appointed Finnish ambassador Satu Suikkari-Kleven, who is based in Bangkok. “Ms Suikkari-Kleven told the Foreign Minister that some Finnish companies are interested in cooperating with Cambodia to invest in energy and electricity from waste,” Foreign Affairs ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39177/finland-to-help-develop-energy-plants/
ADB plan aims for synergy in agro sector
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is close to finalising its five-year action plan for 2018 to 2022 that promotes agricultural-based value chains across the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), an area that includes Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar and the southern Chinese province of Yunnan, the ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/adb-plan-aims-synergy-agro-sector
Government refutes claims over price of Bangladesh rice deal
Cambodian officials and members from the private sector have refuted international media reports that claim the price for rice exports to Bangladesh will be set at $453 a tonne as part of a government-to-government deal that hopes to see 250,000 tonnes of white rice exported ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-refutes-claims-over-price-bangladesh-rice-deal
Hun Sen shoots down free-visa plan
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday shot down calls for a free visa system for all ASEAN + 3 nations. The proposal would have included the ASEAN nations as well as China, Japan and South Korea. Minister of Tourism Thong Khon made the proposal during a Tourism Ministry ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070557223/Business/pm-shoots-down-free-visa-plan.html
Siem Reap sees strong gains
Commercial property prices and rents in Siem Reap have increased by 10 to 20 per cent in the last year, according to the town’s newest real estate agency. Cambodia Properties Limited (CPL) opened its first Siem Reap branch three months ago, recognising a need for sound ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/Real-Estate/siem-reap-sees-strong-gains.html
New iPad to Be Released In Cambodia on Friday
Two months after it was unveiled and released in the U.S., Apple Inc.’s newest version of the iPad will be released Friday in Cambodia, according to the website of the California-based technology giant. Though suppliers of the iPad in Cambodia were tightlipped yesterday on the number ...
Vietnamese still Cambodia’s strongest market
Cambodia’s tourism arrivals jumped more than 24 percent during the first ten months 2012, with more than 2.86 million international visitors. A tourism ministry update reported Vietnam as the country’s number one largest source of foreign visitors, with 638,560 tourists followed by South Korea and China, ...
http://www.etravelblackboardasia.com/article/88009/vietnamese-still-cambodias-strongest-market
Opposition Senators To Boycott Budget Debate
Eleven senators supporting the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party say they will not take part in a Senate session on Thursday scheduled to debate the 2014 budget. Opposition senators say they will not endorse a budget that did not go through proper parliamentary procedure and ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/opposition-senators-to-boycott-budget-debate/1794206.html
Opposition leaders ask supporters not to abandon the party
The opposition party leaders appealed to their supporters not to abandon the party after reaching political agreements with ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and agreeing to take seats in the National Assembly, local media reported Monday. The CNRP leaders made the appeal as some of their ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NWQzMTQ4NTUzMDc
Hun Sen Calls Rights Worker ‘an Idiot’
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday lashed out at the rights group Adhoc, angered by comments rights workers have made about land grabs in recent years. During a speech in Phnom Penh, Hun Sen called a rights worker from the group “insolent and an idiot.” ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/hun-sen-calls-rights-worker-an-idiot/2423347.html
ACU to tackle ghost workers
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) will devote itself to cleaning ministries of ghost workers and absentee officials in the coming year, an official said yesterday. The announcement comes just two days after the National Anti-Corruption Council (NACC) encouraged it to do just that in an evaluation of ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/acu-tackle-ghost-workers
Cambodian activists win award for work to combat violence against women
In Cambodia, three women have been recognized for work that combines technology with efforts to combat violence against women, a major problem in the Southeast Asian country. Winning the inaugural VXW Award means the women will get assistance to further promote their efforts on smartphones ...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodian-activists-win-award-for-work-to-combat-domestic-violence/2631478.html
For labor leaders, Law on Unions remains a concern
Labor leaders say they are concerned that a number of unions would be shuttered if a new law to govern them is passed. Labor Minister Ith Samheng said the law will not “put pressure” on unions. “We take unions and other vocational organizations as our ...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/for-labor-leaders-law-on-unions-remains-a-concern/2824664.html
Hun Sen denies loss of land to border encroachment
Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday that neither he nor his government has caused any loss of territory to bordering countries. His statement comes amid a diplomatic row with Vietnam, which has been working on ponds, a road and a military outpost in contested ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/hun-sen-denies-loss-of-land-to-border-encroachment/2865171.html
Rival unions’ workers displeased with pact
More than 100 Free Trade Union of Cambodia supporters gathered in front of the union’s office to express their discontent with a deal struck between the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union and their employer, Puma supplier Thai Pore Garment Manufacturing, FTU officials said ...
Singapore’s government breaks months of silence over sand scandal
Breaking months of silence over accusations that it imported tens of millions of tons of smuggled sand, Singapore’s government on Monday distanced itself from any wrongdoing, a response an environmental NGO leader deemed “full of lies” and “devoid of any meaning.” ...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/singapores-govt-breaks-months-of-silence-over-sand-scandal-123541/
Government allots $166 million for Sub-national health services
The Royal Government of Cambodia has decided to transfer $166 million to municipal and provincial administrations to manage their respective health service provision. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50730864/government-allots-166-million-for-sub-national-health-services/