Union complains of spate of illegal garment factory firings
Union leader Pav Sina on Tuesday said garment factories around the country illegally fired dozens of his local representatives last year, far more than in 2013, and urged the government to help get their jobs back. Mr. Sina’s Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW) is ...
Cambodian parties expect draft election law by month’s end
Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties expect to finalize a draft of the nation’s new election law by the end of the month as the centerpiece of key reforms promised in a July agreement that ended a nearly one-year political crisis, an official said Monday. “The two ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/draft-09082014171348.html
Carbon credits a tough sell
Despite one success story emerging in the trade of Cambodia-generated carbon credits, immediate prospects for the environmental trading scheme in Kingdom remain few. Securing buyers of carbon credits for Cambodian projects is a well-known difficulty. Pact, however, left the project in July 2013 when the ...
Eddie Morton
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/carbon-credits-tough-sell
Koreans eyeing bank IPO
Korean investors are looking forward to investing in the local stock market as it prepares to welcome Acleda Bank Plc into its main board. With Acleda Bank, one of the largest banks in the Kingdom, scheduled to go public in upcoming weeks, hundreds of Korean businesspeople ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/koreans-eyeing-bank-ipo
OSK Indochina Bank acquired by RHB Capital
One of Malaysia’s biggest investment banks, RHB Capital, announced it will acquire OSK Indochina Bank, via the transfer of 100 per cent of OSK Investment Bank shares from parent OSK Holdings, giving OSK Holdings a 10 per cent stake in the larger Malaysian RHB Capital ...
Development report cites China as growth model
It’s been done numerous times, comparing the “China miracle” to its emerging and frontier neighbours as a benchmark for development. Cambodia might seem an ill-fitted student of the world’s second-biggest economy. But a recent report from the Cambodia Development Resource Institute pointed to some lessons the Kingdom ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050856023/Business/china-seen-as-growth-model.html
Cambodia prepares for G20
If it were a Group of 180 nations meeting, Cambodia would be invited. But the Kingdom’s chances of attending the so-called G20 summit, which brings together the world’s largest economies, are unlikely, says Mey Kalyan, a government adviser who last week became the first Cambodian to ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012051456136/Business/cambodia-prepares-for-g20.html
Bringing Cambodia-Australia ties to a higher level, 70 years on
This year, Cambodia and Australia celebrated the 70th anniversary of their diplomatic relations. Ties were first established in 1952, a year before Cambodia attained its independence from the French. Over the decades, the two countries in the Indo-Pacific have proven to be great cooperative partners ...
Taing Rinith
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501035548/bringing-cambodia-australia-ties-to-a-higher-level-70-years-on/
Manet set for China-ASEAN expo 2023 as head of gov’t
Prime Minister-in-waiting Hun Manet is scheduled to travel to China in mid-September for the 20th China-ASEAN Expo 2023 in Nanning, the capital city of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region – in one of his first official trips seen by analysts as a significant step in ...
Samban Chandara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/manet-set-china-asean-expo-2023-head-govt
2023 is a pivotal year for Cambodia to attract more foreign tourists
Cambodia views 2023 as a pivotal year for attracting more foreign tourists. After the devastating impacts of the Covid-19 outbreak, the year should considerably assist Cambodia in overcoming the crisis that has enveloped the tourism sector, which is regarded one of the four pillars on ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501254657/2023-is-a-pivotal-year-for-cambodia-to-attract-more-foreign-tourists/
Cambodia’s GFT exports jump 22% amid rising hopes
The exports of garments, footwear and travel goods (GFT) rose by 21.64 percent in January this year, earning $967 million for the sector after declining for most of the time last year. The turnaround brought cheers to the vital sector of the Cambodian economy that ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501439379/cambodias-gft-exports-jump-22-amid-rising-hopes/
CDC reports 161 percent investment surge
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) Saturday announced that under the leadership of Prime Minister Hun Manet, the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) of the Seventh Legislature has attracted $7.5 billion of investment capital over one year period, marking a 161 percent rise ...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501560387/cdc-reports-161-percent-investment-surge/
Zoo fighting back from brink
A leopard appears healthy and strong as it paces the walls of its cage with a confident swagger and muffled growl that hints at its ferocity. It’s a welcome sight at Kampot province’s much-maligned Teuk Chhou zoo, which less than one year ago was struggling to ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012031355003/National-news/zoo-fighting-back-from-brink.html
Social Media Challenges ‘Official’ Version of Events
Seeing is believing—particularly in a country where the government controls the broadcast media and current affairs news, aired on pro-ruling party TV and radio, is often at odds with the country’s few independent media outlets. But in the aftermath of a violent clash between striking garment ...
Kuch Naren and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/social-media-challenges-official-version-of-events-47012/
Opposition Lays Out Reform Demands at ‘People’s Congress’
Amidst an opposition boycott of the National Assembly, CNRP leaders on Sunday announced to about 10,000 supporters gathered in Phnom Penh their tentative plans to push the one-party CPP government to investigate irregularities in the July election and enact a broad slate of reforms. As patchy ...
Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/opposition-lays-out-reform-demands-at-peoples-congress-44450/
Firms question SECC prakas
The Kingdom’s securities firms have raised concerns about an impending regulation that they said may stunt growth in the country’s fledgling financial markets. The Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia is considering a regulation, or prakas, that will require all market participants to maintain a certain ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011101352105/Business/firms-question-secc-prakas.html
Eight killed on Thai border in October
Eight Cambodian suspected of illegally logging along the Thai-Cambodian border have been shot dead by Thai soldiers, and three others have been wounded in the month of October alone, human rights workers and officials said Friday. The latest figure brings the death toll so far this ...
Fishermen to be freed
Two days after extending indefinitely a ban on commercial fishing in Tonle Sap Lake, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday called for the release of all prisoners detained during the government crackdown, officials close to the premier said yesterday. Deputy Prime Minister Yim Chhayli told the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012030654880/National-news/fishermen-to-be-freed.html
Net widens on fishing trap ban
Less than a week after banning commercial fishing in Tonle Sap Lake, Prime Minister Hun Sen issued a sub-decree on Monday extending the ban to four provinces along the Mekong River. According to the sub-decree, signed March 5 and released publicly yesterday, commercial fishing will be ...
Rising Consumer Prices Draw Hunderds to Protest for Action
Some 200 factory workers and taxi drivers protested in Phnom Penh yesterday morning to demand that the government take action to curb the rising costs of food and fuel, and threatened larger demonstrations if it failed to actAccording to figures released by the National Institute ...