Australia supporting women’s economic empowerment in Cambodia
Australia is supporting women’s economic empowerment in Cambodia as they are central to the Kingdom’s economic development, said the Australian Embassy in Phnom Penh in a news release on Thursday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501345097/australia-supporting-womens-economic-empowerment-in-cambodia/
Hu's visit in Cambodia boosts ties
The upcoming visit of Chinese president Hu Jintao to Cambodia next week will build closer ties between the two countries, China and ASEAN as the visit is coincided with the 20th ASEAN Summit, said a senior official Sunday. The visit will also create more confidence among ...
http://en.ce.cn/National/Politics/201203/26/t20120326_23188224.shtml
Education system out of its depth
When Sim Sok Toeur, 32, returned from study in Australia last April, he did so with a vision for Phnom Penh’s skyline. For Sok Toeur, a scholarship to study overseas granted him a better quality of education than was possible in Cambodia – even though ...
Maria Wirth
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/education-system-out-its-depth
United Nations Envoy Visits After Protest Deaths
The U.N. special rapporteur on the freedom of peaceful assembly and association, Maina Kiai, began a three-day unofficial visit to Cambodia on Wednesday, just one month after military police shot dead five protesters in Phnom Penh and the government imposed a ban on public gatherings. Mr. ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/united-nations-envoy-visits-after-protest-deaths-51551/
Disability benefits to be broadened by gov’t
A Ministry of Social Affairs official yesterday announced that, starting next year, the government would offer regular payments of 20,000 riel (about $5) to all disabled Cambodians, a benefit that so far has only been available to retired disabled soldiers. In an announcement that coincided with ...
Sen David
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/disability-benefits-be-broadened-gov%E2%80%99t
Government letters rekindle concern over controversial law on NGOs
A series of letters issued by the Ministry of Interior on Tuesday night – one chastising two election monitors, and another offering a blanket warning to NGOs – have again raised the spectre of the Kingdom’s controversial and widely criticised Law on Associations and NGOs ...
Ananth Baliga and Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-letters-rekindle-concern-over-controversial-law-ngos
Cambodia bond a possibility
The launch of an unrated Laotian government bond on Thailand’s bond market could pave the way for Cambodia to issue its own government bond denominated in Thai baht. The Bangkok Post reported yesterday that Thailand’s Finance Ministry and Public Debt Management office had allowed Cambodia, Vietnam ...
Hor Kimsay
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-bond-possibility
PM Hun Sen reaffirms Cambodia’s commitment to development of needed physical infrastructure
Prime Minister Hun Sen has reiterated Cambodia’s strong position to develop and build more necessary physical infrastructure in the country. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501305441/pm-hun-sen-reaffirms-cambodias-commitment-to-development-of-needed-physical-infrastructure/
Factory wage rallies heat up
More than 1,000 workers held a demonstration in front of Ocean Garment factory in the capital yesterday, burning tyres and blocking the road in protest against the management’s refusal to abide by a ruling that workers be paid in full for a one-month closure. On May ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factory-wage-rallies-heat
Factories Closed Until Safety Guaranteed
The Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) on Sunday said all of the country’s 400-plus garment factories will remain closed until the government and striking trade unions can guarantee the safety of the factories and all employees who want to work. The decision, outlined in an ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/factories-closed-until-safety-guaranteed-49749/
Kem Ley foundation registered
The Ministry of Interior has officially registered a newly created “Kem Ley Foundation Association” after months of processing the application. Chhim Kan, director of the Interior Ministry’s Department of Associations and Political Parties, yesterday confirmed the association’s registration had been successful. ...
Yon Sineat and Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kem-ley-foundation-registered
For underpaid teachers, a desire for dignity
Hang Mao was among more than 11,000 Phnom Penh public school teachers who were told two weeks ago that corruption in the classroom would no longer be tolerated. The message came from senior city officials, including Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong and municipal education director Chea ...
Phann Ana
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/for-underpaid-teachers-a-desire-for-dignity-51857/
Factories ask gov’t to punish strike leaders
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) over the weekend released a statement condemning an ongoing strike at a Kompong Chhnang garment factory and urging authorities to “punish the perpetrators.” About 3,000 employees of the Chinese-owned Jiun Ye Garment factory have been on strike since August ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/factories-ask-govt-to-punish-strike-leaders-67103/
Prey Veng workers protest for Pchum Ben advance
About 1,000 workers protested outside the Chinese-owned Komchay Mear Trading factory in Prey Veng province on Saturday morning after managers refused to give them a government-mandated salary advance for the Pchum Ben holiday, officials and unionists said on Sunday. The protest was short-lived, however, ending Saturday ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prey-veng-workers-protest-for-pchum-ben-advance-68283/
Hun Sen, minimum wage discussions not final
The Prime Minister said Tuesday there will be another discussion about the increase of minimum wages for factory workers. Speaking at an inauguration ceremony for the Toul Sophy Secondary School in the district of Ou Rang Ov, he said around 500,000 to 600,000 people are working ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=YjQzMzNlNjE0NmE
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership to create huge market
Cambodia’s ASEAN economic minister said the official launch of the negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) will lead to potentially forming the biggest single market in the region and is much bigger than the traditional markets of the US and the EU. An economist ...
Cambodia-Lao Central Banks committed to strengthening financial and economic cooperation
The Central Banks of Cambodia and Laos have vowed to strengthen bilateral cooperation and relation on the development of the financial and economic sectors and to build friendship and cooperation between the two nations. ...
RCAF seeks Chinese language aid
RCAF deputy commander General Ith Sarath has requested the Chinese military help teach the Chinese language to military officials. Gen Sarath on Monday met with Brigadier General Xu Wenhua, deputy director of the Royal Academy of Artillery and Air Defence of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50622468/rcaf-seeks-chinese-language-aid/
Construction workers call for safety measures from ministry
An estimated 200 members of construction sector unions gathered in front of the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training on the World Day for Safety and Health at Work on Sunday to deliver petitions asking for issues facing construction workers to be addressed. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/construction-workers-call-safety-measures-ministry
Exports to US rise over 9 percent last year
With the American economy expanding, Cambodia’s total export to the country increased slightly more than 9 per cent last year over 2014, the latest US trade data shows. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21104/exports-to-us-rise-over-9-percent-last-year/