Industry 4.0: Executives on how ‘smart factories’ will impact Cambodia
The next industrial revolution will introduce “smart factories” in which computers and robotics communicating wirelessly will handle physical processes with very little input from human operators, leaving few job opportunities for unskilled workers, executives of German industrial giants said during a briefing in Phnom Penh ...
Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/industry-40-executives-how-smart-factories-will-impact-cambodia
RCAF ‘observing’ in Thailand, with photos showing army-plated vehicles in Bangkok
Days after Cambodian and Thai officials reportedly agreed on closer coordination over “foreign fugitives”, opposition party members who have fled the country for Thailand have provided evidence of Cambodian military vehicles stationed near their homes in Bangkok, increasing fear among asylum seekers that they could ...
Ben Sokhean and Ananth Baliga
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/rcaf-observing-thailand-photos-showing-army-plated-vehicles-bangkok
Vietnam, Cambodia strengthen anti-drug cooperation
Vietnamese and Cambodian anti-drug forces gathered for their third meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on January 5. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501215181/vietnam-cambodia-strengthen-anti-drug-cooperation/
Statement by Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union's perspectives on the report on freedom of association in the Garment, Footwear and Travel Products Sector in Cambodia by Central (in collaboration with C.CAWDU and CATU)
On 06 June 2024, Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union (CCAWU) issued a statement of their perspective on the report on freedom of association in the Garment, Footwear and Travel Products Sector in Cambodia by Central (in collaboration with C.CAWDU and CATU) on their ...
Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union
Cambodia keeps cool after coup in Thailand
As news broke yesterday evening that the Thai political situation had evolved from martial law to a full-blown coup d’etat, Cambodian government officials said they hoped the army’s takeover would be transitional and dismissed any concerns that tensions could rise on the Cambodia-Thailand border. ”We wish ...
Kevin Ponniah and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-keeps-cool-after-coup-thailand
Pursat official allegedly stole more than $400K during tenure
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) uncovered that Pursat provincial Department of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction director Liem Bunroeun illegally acquired more than $400,000 through corruption during his three-year tenure. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pursat-official-allegedly-stole-more-400k-during-tenure
Families protest as Kampot land measuring begins
About 200 people representing 816 families who have been promised a 1,337-hectare land concession in Kampot province protested in Phnom Penh on Monday, just days after authorities began measuring off their land. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-protest-as-kampot-land-measuring-begins-93608/
Police arrest, release activist in Koh Kong
Police in Koh Kong province arrested and released an activist on Saturday who helped families organize a roadblock against a Chinese company they accuse of stealing their farms. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-arrest-release-activist-in-koh-kong-94857/
Cambodia, Mongolia establish bilateral consultations
Cambodia and Mongolia on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the establishment of bilateral consultations, aimed at bolstering bilateral ties and cooperation, a Cambodian official said. The deal was inked between Long Visalo, Secretary of State of the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-05/02/c_133305024.htm
Vietnam strongly protests Khmer Kampuchea Krom activists setting Vietnamese flag on fire
“Vietnam strongly protests the fact that Khmer Kampuchea Krom activists held an illegal protest and set a Vietnamese flag on fire in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh on Tuesday,” said Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) spokesperson Le Hai Binh on Wednesday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-08/14/c_133554277.htm
Fake IDs make mockery of factory age rules
On a dusty highway on the edge of this port city, thousands of young women and a few hundred young men block evening traffic as they stream out of the New Star Shoes factory. ...
Jamie Elliott and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fake-ids-make-mockery-of-factory-age-rules-80492/
S'pore investors trickling into Cambodia real estate
Singapore property investors are dipping their toes into homes in the largely untested market of Cambodia, though in relatively small numbers. ...
Asia One News Staff
http://bit.ly/1KLNEV8
Release of convicted child abuser an ‘outrage’: NGOs
Seventeen NGOs involved in child protection yesterday released a joint statement expressing their “outrage” over the impending release of former Enfants du Cambodge director Philippe Broaly, who was convicted last month of sexually abusing five boys over a period of several years. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/release-of-convicted-child-abuser-an-outrage-ngos-85691/
Chinese-invested telco firm launches 4G services in Cambodia
Chinese-owned Southeast Asia Telecommunications, Seatel, has officially launched its 4G network in Cambodia after entering the country’s oversubscribed telco sector last year, a local newspaper reported Monday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-07/27/c_134450609.htm
Cambodia organises online child protection workshop
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports in collaboration with the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, is organising a workshop on online child protection. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50922324/cambodia-organises-online-child-protection-workshop/
Gold export booms in first semester
Cambodia saw a jump increase in gold exports in the first semester of this year, as more domestic gold refinery plants started commercial products. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501368438/gold-export-booms-in-first-semester/
Angkor temples ranked top of the world
The Angkor Wat temple complex in Siem Reap province is the world’s undisputed top tourist destination, according to Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travelist 2015, an exhaustive list ranking sights and travel hotspots that was released on Monday. ...
Simon Henderson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/angkor-temples-ranked-top-of-the-world-92000/
Reporter, ‘witnesses’ tell different stories
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said that radio journalist Lay Samean, who was badly beaten by district security guards on May 2 while covering a planned opposition rally, may have provoked the violence by calling the guards “yuon’s dogs”, among other insults. The minister added, however, that ...
Kevin Ponniah and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/reporter-%E2%80%98witnesses%E2%80%99-tell-different-stories
PM tells Obama he’s not asking about bombs
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday reassured U.S. President Barack Obama that a request he made for maps of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam last month was not a request for maps of where the U.S. bombed Cambodia during the Second Indochina War. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-tells-obama-hes-not-asking-about-bombs-90602/
CNRP calls a timeout
After garment workers swelled turnout at the opposition’s ongoing demonstrations yesterday to what some estimated to be double the number seen at any previous rally, party leadership announced a weeklong moratorium on the marches. demonstrators will continue to assemble at Freedom Park each day, said Cambodia ...
Mom Kunthear, Sean Teehan and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-calls-timeout