Thai generator looking at Kingdom
Thailand-based Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding Pcl (RATCH) has “seriously assessed” investment possibility in neighbouring countries including Cambodia, a company statement said last Thursday. It said it had geared up for business expansion in domestic and international markets in the potential existing investment bases Laos and Australia, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065705/Business/thai-generator-looking-at-kingdom.html
Climate change targets aim high
The Ministry of Environment submitted an ambitious national climate change plan to the United Nations yesterday ahead of scheduled climate talks in Paris (COP 21), though observers yesterday questioned the plan’s feasibility given a lack of both funding and political will.According to Sao Sopheap, spokesperson ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/climate-change-targets-aim-high
Unions press ahead with strike plans despite arrest threats
Union leaders planning a stay-at-home strike to demand a higher minimum wage for the country’s garment workers say they will press on with the strike after the Khmer New Year, despite the threat of arrest for anyone handing out leaflets promoting their plans. On Sunday, a ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unions-press-ahead-with-strike-plans-despite-arrest-threats-56012/
Ratanakkiri jail director reposted
Ratanakkiri’s prison director has been moved to a new post after 20 years on the job. In a ceremony held on Thursday, the Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Prisons officially replaced Ngin Nel, transferring him to the Ministry of Interior, where he will serve as ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-jail-director-reposted
Cambodia Accountancy Toward Global Standard
The National Accounting Council, the Kampuchea Institution of Certified Public Accountants and Auditors and Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), co-organized to launch a National Conference on “Accountancy in Cambodia-Towards Global Standards” on August 12th in Phnom Penh to reflect what is being implemented in ...
Cambodia must recognise urgency of developing skilled workforce
The structural economic issues facing the Kingdom will need greater institutional collaboration, according to Vongsey Vissoth, Permanent Secretary of State at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, who sees a lack of economic diversification and competitiveness as key issues to overcome. ...
Gerald Flynn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50658956/cambodia-must-recognise-urgency-of-developing-skilled-workforce/
$110 million contributed toward demining
The government has contributed more than $110 million toward mine clearance operations, management of mine action institutions and through tax exemptions on demining equipment over the last 10 years. Ly Thuch, first vice president of Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority, yesterday disclosed this ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50593878/110-million-contributed-toward-demining/
Two Vietnamese deported as census continues
Police in Ratanakkiri deported two more Vietnamese nationals living illegally in the northern province last week, bringing the number of expulsions to 14 as the Ministry of Interior’s census of foreigners continues, police said. This year’s census—which is now complete in Ratanakkiri, according to officials ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-vietnamese-deported-as-census-continues-67812/
Are Cambodia and Laos really any closer to resolving their border dispute?
Cambodia and Los have again agreed to work together to resolve the issue of their disputed border area. This time, two countries decided to set up a coordination mechanism at the departmental level to facilitate the work, while seeking more frequent meetings between the board committees of ...
Tae-jun Kang
https://thediplomat.com/2018/05/are-cambodia-and-laos-really-any-closer-to-resolving-their-border-dispute/
Thousands expected at municipal court in support of 23
Union leaders say they expect upwards of 1,000 people to jam the streets around Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday in a show of support for 23 unionists, workers and bystanders who are on trial for their alleged part in violent protests in Pur Senchey ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thousands-expected-at-municipal-court-in-support-of-23-57342/
Shift in CNRP's political strategy to win elections
The Cambodian National Rescue Party is making a strategic shift in its bid to win the next election: focusing less on traditional hot-button issues like government corruption and territorial disputes, and instead offering voters a series of concrete new policy initiatives. This required clear and ...
Unions happy over labor protections
Union officials have applauded the Ministry of Labor which is preparing to ratify some International Labor Organization’s (ILO) conventions, including two that unions, factory workers and domestic workers have long demanded. The Labor Ministry said on Wednesday that to promote and protect the rights, benefits and ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32695/unions-happy-over-labor-protections/
IBBM Launches Chartered Banker Qualifications In Cambodia
The Institute of Bankers Malaysia (IBBM) has launched the Chartered Banker qualification for the Cambodian banking industry to develop talents in the banking industry in that country. The launch of the Chartered Banker qualifications was officiated today by the National Bank of Cambodia Deputy General ...
Bernama News Staff
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/bu/newsbusiness.php?id=978465
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications builds $30 million National Data Centre
Chea Vandeth, Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, on July 19, attended the ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the National Dalta Centre worth nearly $30 million, scheduled for completion in 2025 designed to store national data. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501326950/ministry-of-posts-and-telecommunications-builds-30-million-national-data-centre/
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
SL Workers Demand Representatives Reinstated
About 200 workers protested outside SL Garment Factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district Wednesday demanding that managers reinstate 19 union representatives before a 15-day deadline set by the government elapses. The Council of Ministers has ordered the factory to rehire the fired unionists or face punitive ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sl-workers-demand-representatives-reinstated-47539/
Reforming public financial management an ongoing task
Reforming public financial management will not be effective unless there are enough qualified human resources at ministries and institutions, the prime minister said yesterday. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23019/reforming-public-financial-management-an-ongoing-task/
Health ministry signs cataract MoU with China’s GX Foundation
The Cambodian Ministry of Health and the GX Foundation of China signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on September 19 on a project to help eliminate cataract blindness in Cambodia by providing treatment to people in Prey Veng province. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-ministry-signs-cataract-mou-chinas-gx-foundation
PM institutes land concessions moratorium
Prime Minister Hun Sen has issued an immediate and indefinite moratorium on the granting of new economic land concessions and called for a review of all existing concessions, a regulation signed by the premier yesterday states. Dated to an April 27 Council of Ministers’ meeting, the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050856036/National-news/conceding-a-problem.html
NBC to take legal action against illegal lenders
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) along with other competent authorities are considering taking legal action against firms or individuals operating businesses that go against the banking laws and financial institutions of the Kingdom, NBC announced yesterday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501140412/nbc-to-take-legal-action-against-illegal-lenders/