Unions, government consult on new min wage law
The Ministry of Labour met with unions on Friday to gather input on a universal minimum wage law currently being drafted, union representatives and ministry officials confirmed yesterday. “The meeting is a forum for each party to review the draft and provide comments so the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unions-government-consult-on-new-min-wage-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sen David and Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-government-consult-new-min-wage-law
Ministry says factory was operating illegally
Soeun Phal, a 27-year-old security guard, and Kong Phanny, a 61-year-old cleaner, died when a wood-fired steam generator exploded. The guard, who did not know how to operate the machine, had been seen adding more wood to the generator’s fire before the explosion, authorities and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-says-factory-was-operating-illegally/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Buth Kimsay and Hannah Hawkins
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-says-factory-was-operating-illegally-127868/
Olympic-size walkway
Construction crews will break ground this weekend on a new walkway overpass alongside Olympic Stadium as part of the Olympia City development project. The Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC) and a municipal crew will begin work on the walkway, which will be at a five-way <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/olympic-size-walkway/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/olympic-size-walkway
Cambodia Daily brings out online-only platform
The shuttered Cambodia Daily announced late on Tuesday night that it has “relaunched” as a noncommercial publication. On its Facebook page, the Daily announced the re-opening as “a digital only, non-commercial publication based off shore”. Several items – including an aggregated news round-up and a “Timeline <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-daily-brings-out-online-only-platform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Leonie Kijewski and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-daily-brings-out-online-only-platform
Big trouble in little China? Exploring Chinese investment in Sihanoukville
The coastal city of Sihanoukville is undergoing a massive transformation. Once perceived as a seedy haunt for lethargic backpackers and expats, a flood of Chinese tourists and investors has begun to alter the landscape by setting up everything from gaudy casinos to towering luxury resorts <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/big-trouble-in-little-china-exploring-chinese-investment-in-sihanoukville/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-depth-business/big-trouble-little-china-0
Cambodia tops region for fires detected from space
Yet again, the Kingdom this year burns brighter than its neighbours, with fires in Cambodia being detected from space at a much higher rate than any other country in the region, according to a NaSa report published last week. It’s likely a product of both <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-tops-region-for-fires-detected-from-space/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-tops-region-fires-detected-space
Chroy Changvar residents stop OCIC fence layers
About 10 villAgers from Chroy ChAngvAr district’s Prek TAsek commune stopped workers of A development firm from cleAring their lAnd to build A fence demArcAting A plAnned sAtellite city. Commune resident Chheng HeAk sAid six workers from the OverseAs CAmbodiA Investment CorporAtion (OCIC), which is developing <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/chroy-chAngvAr-residents-stop-ocic-fence-lAyers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chroy-changvar-residents-stop-ocic-fence-layers
GTI growth from higher orders and lower costs
Taiwanese-owner garment manufacturer Grand Twins International (GTI), which posted a 44 percent surge in revenue and a massive 390 percent in net profit last year, attributed the surge to an increase in orders and the decrease of raw material costs, administration costs and total commissions, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gti-growth-from-higher-orders-and-lower-costs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
The Phnom Penh Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gti-growth-higher-orders-and-lower-costs
Lightning claims 39th victim of year
A fArmer died After being struck by lightning on SundAy evening while herding his cAttle home in KAndAl province’s KhsAch KAndAl district. According to A report by the NAtionAl Committee for DisAster MAnAgement, the number of deAths cAused by lightning this yeAr hAs risen to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lightning-clAims-39th-victim-of-yeAr/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lightning-claims-39th-victim-year
Scepticism clouds massive coastal development plan
A representAtive of the compAny behind A mAssive $23.2 billion development in KAmpot province &ndAsh; which envisions creAting two islAnds off the coAst &ndAsh; insisted yesterdAy thAt the compAny wAs not engAged in Any Activities thAt would rAise A conflict of interest And thAt it <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/scepticism-clouds-mAssive-coAstAl-development-plAn/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/scepticism-clouds-massive-coastal-development-plan
Villagers occupy land in stand-off
Police yesterday confronted more than 200 villagers in Svay Rieng province as they tried to occupy land at the centre of a long-running dispute with a development company. The villagers are unhappy because the government granted NK Venture special permission to build a sugar plantation on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-occupy-land-in-stand-off/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38700/villagers-occupy-land-in-stand-off/
Police collusion? Complaint filed against Kandal cops
Two police officials – one the deputy police chief of Kandal’s Takhmao town and the son of Provincial Police Chief Eav Chamroeun – are the subject of a complaint filed with the Ministry of Interior by three people who allege they might have colluded to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-collusion-complaint-filed-against-kandal-cops/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-collusion-complaint-filed-against-kandal-cops
Fisheries earnings on the rise
Cambodia’s fisheries sector that plays a vital role in food security and improving nutrition, generated a slightly improved income of more than $275,000 in the first half of the year, according to a report released by the Ministry of agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fisheries-earnings-on-the-rise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5073695/fisheries-earnings-rise/
Hydroponic farming to be tested in Cambodia
Japanese company asian Gateway (Cambodia) will soon conduct a pilot project with a hydroponic farm in Cambodia. It will be tested at the Royal University of agriculture (Chamkar Dong campus) in the first stage and after that will be used as a model for farmers and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hydroponic-farming-to-be-tested-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079873/hydroponic-farming-tested-cambodia/
Cambodia, Vietnam agree to details of cross-border fisheries project
Cambodian and Vietnamese officials agreed Thursday to details of a proposed cross-border project to improve fisheries management between Prey Veng Province and Dong Thap Province in Vietnam. The agreement came during a two-day meeting chaired by So Sophort, deputy secretary general of the Cambodian National Mekong <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-vietnam-agree-to-details-of-cross-border-fisheries-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Pension scheme ramps up
More than 700,000 workers at private companies and factories across 19 provinces have registered to join a nationwide pension scheme that goes into effect in 2015, Labour Ministry officials told the Post yesterday. a branch of the National Social Security Fund (NSFF), the pension scheme was <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pension-scheme-ramps-up/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012121160211/National-news/pension-scheme-ramps-up.html
Sacked hotel workers headed back to court
A dispute over the sAcking of 67 workers from the Angkor VillAge Hotel And Resort in Siem ReAp in August looks set for court AgAin, but A lAbour rights AdvocAte believes justice is no closer for workers. DAve WelshsAid even if A court AgAin ruled in <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sAcked-hotel-workers-heAded-bAck-to-court/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Chinese Company Buy Leech From Cambodia
There are a number of Cambodian families employed to be leech catchers in Sor Yeav commune of Kampong Thorn province The villager Sin Ro Kar of Steung Sen district became a leech catcher and a Chinese company bought leeches from his villagers. “We do not know the reason of buying leeches and we <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-company-buy-leech-from-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Investors speculating on Phnom Penh condos
While the scores of new condominium properties appearing in Phnom Penh are selling well, their buyers are mainly speculators hoping to make quick profits, a leading property firm said. a report by international realty group CB Richard Ellis (CBRE), distributed Wednesday, says that the city’s property market in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/investors-speculating-on-phnom-penh-condos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cedac to Export Rice to Germany Next Month
The Cambodian Center for Study and Development in agriculture (Cedac) said yesterday it would begin exporting organic rice to Europe in June for the first time as part of a one-year agreement with a German-based equitable trade organization. “We’re looking to break more into the international <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cedac-to-export-rice-to-germany-next-month/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>