Union out of loop in MoU negotiations
The garment industry could be close to renewing an industrial relations memorandum of understanding, but an independent union believes it is being edged out of negotiations because it opposes the use of short-term and fixed-duration contracts. Ath Thorn, president of the Cambodian Labour Confederation, said yesterday ...
Economic zone reaches milestone
The Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) jointly operated by a China-based conglomerate and the Cambodia International Investment Development Group Co. Ltd reached a milestone yesterday with the 100th factory set up to operate in the economic and trade cooperation zone. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25859/economic-zone-reaches-milestone/
Discussions Over South China Sea Document Continue
In its role as Asean chair, Cambodia hopes that a draft of a long-awaited legal document to govern how disputes are settled in the contentious South China Sea will be completed and adopted this year, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs official said yesterday. ...
Press release on the outcome of the 22th ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting (AEMM)
On 24 January 2019, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation published a press release on the outcome of the 22th ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting (AEMM) which was held on 21 January 2019, in Brussels, Belgium. His Excellency Prak Sokhonn, Minister of Foreign Affairs and ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
New ID cards are being issued faster, officials say
The effort to speed up the process of issuing new electronic national identity cards is well underway, according to Mao Chandara, a director of the Ministry of Interior’s passport department. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15720/new-id-cards-are-being-issued-faster--officials-say/
Eviction pain lingers in Phnom Penh
Three years after authorities demolished the last houses in Phnom Penh’s Group 78 community, evictees relocated to the outskirts of the capital are still struggling, the Housing Rights Task Force said yesterday. More than 200 members of the Group 78 community gathered close to the site ...
Hun Sen: No post-election crisis
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday that the political problems in his country following July’s general election that the opposition says was rigged are not serious. “A solution to our problem here is only a matter of time. It’s an old problem, not a new ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/383095/hun-sen-no-post-election-crisis
Drug confiscations, arrests up on last year, official says
The Interior Ministry’s anti-drug trafficking department announced on Friday that it has confiscated more than 87 kg of hard drugs and 1.5 tons of marijuana in the first nine months of the year, a sharp increase compared to the same period last year. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/drug-confiscations-arrests-up-on-last-year-official-says-93524/
Kratie Residents seek PMโs help over land dispute in Kratie
About 40 residents from Kratie province rallied on Monday in front of Wat Botum pagoda in order to present a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen over land disputes in their community. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=YmRiZjhhMDY5YzQ
Officials dismiss HRW report
The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the National Police have dismissed complaints by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that high-ranking members of the armed forces campaigned for it before and during the election period – a violation of the Cambodian constitution. ...
Meas Sokchea and Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-dismiss-hrw-report
Telecom Cambodia director fired amid embezzlement probe
The director-general of state-run phone and Internet operator Telecom Cambodia has been fired amid an investigation into alleged embezzlement within the firm, a spokesman for the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications confirmed on Sunday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/telecom-cambodia-director-fired-amid-embezzlement-probe-108795/
Hitachi forms joint venture with CMED
Japan’s Hitachi Ltd has officially entered into a joint venture partnership with the local construction company CMED Group Co Ltd, aimed at expanding its sales, installation and maintenance services for elevators and escalators throughout the Kingdom, the company announced on Friday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hitachi-forms-joint-venture-cmed
Official summoned over gross misspending
The National Assembly’s banking and finance commission has called parliament’s chief administrator for questioning on Tuesday over alleged spending irregularities in a 2015 budget that included buying 30 new cars at $200,000 each and spending $25,000 on a flagpole. ...
Holly Robertson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/official-summoned-over-gross-misspending-79259/
Hun Sen new CPP president; two new vice presidents
Almost 25 years after the CPP was established, the ruling party on Saturday changed its leadership group for the first time, electing Prime Minister Hun Sen as its president and Interior Minister Sar Kheng and Senate President Say Chhum as vice presidents. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-new-cpp-president-two-new-vice-presidents-86058/
Canada's Angkor Gold completes initial exploration in Ratankiri
Canada’s Angkor Gold Corp announced Wednesday the completion of preliminary exploration on its Blue Lizard prospect in the South Oyadao exploration lease in Ratanakiri province. A statement said termite-sampling crews encountered the prospect as artisanal workings and that the company had collected and analyzed more than ...
The Cambodia Herald Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NThkYjUwZjNmNjg
โStubbornโ furniture firm vexes villagers
Twenty families from Ratanakkiri’s Kon Mom district are seeking intervention after a private company allegedly encroached on 10 hectares of their land. The unnamed company produces furniture from wood acquired from embattled Vietnamese concessionaire Hoang Anh andong Meas, and over the course of the last two ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98stubborn%E2%80%99-furniture-firm-vexes-villagers
Cambodia's only listed firm reports 12.5 pct surge in profit last year
Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA), Cambodia’s only listed company, made a net profit of 9.68 million US dollars in 2013, up 12.5 percent compared with 8.6 million US dollars in a year earlier, the firm ‘s audited financial statement showed Saturday. The statement said the ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/855552.shtml#.U1SHrPmSxqV
Union leaders evade arrest, co-workers say
Two union leaders narrowly escaped arrest yesterday morning when employees on strike at a Phnom Penh garment factory forced their release from police and security guards, fellow union officials said. Seang Sambath, president of the Worker Friendship Union Federation, said WFUF vice president Mao Vannak and ...
Mom Kunthear and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/union-leaders-evade-arrest-co-workers-say-0
Cambodian villagers say medical treatment is a pain following government directive
Villagers in a remote district of northeast Cambodia’s Kratie province say obtaining medical treatment has become extremely difficult since the government reinforced a ban on unlicensed health workers and clinics earlier this month in the wake of a mass HIV infection last year. ...
Preach Chev
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/treatment-03242015170703.html
Sausage case producer raided
Authorities shut down a large sausage casing manufacturer in Kampong Speu province after discovering its owners had been operating illegally for two years and were using forbidden chemical substances. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sausage-case-producer-raided