Cambodia's Hun Sen pushes on with forming government, rejects opposition role
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen pushed ahead with forming a new government on Tuesday and said he had rejected a demand from the main opposition party, which says it won July’s general election, to be given senior positions in parliament. Hun Sen told reporters that, ...
Tougher laws for recruiters
A new set of prakases tacked onto a law that regulates overseas employment recruitment agencies is a “step in the right direction” towards protecting some of Cambodia’s most vulnerable citizens from scams and abuse, local and international NGOs said yesterday. But some remain unconvinced that the ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tougher-laws-recruiters
Open Development Cambodia has published a new map layer and dataset of "Targeted districts of the implementation plan for the social accountability framework (I-SAF)"
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new map layer of targeted districts of the implementation plan for the social accountability framework (I-SAF) on the interactive map, under the map category of “Government”. This the spatial representation of the districts which have been selected to implement ...
PM’s legal reasoning questioned
Two days after Prime Minister Hun Sen warned that an opposition boycott of Parliament would result in his Cambodian People’s Party gobbling up all 123 seats in the National Assembly, analysts said yesterday that the CPP lacked the legal grounds and the political legitimacy to ...
The Phnom Penh Post
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm%E2%80%99s-legal-reasoning-questioned
Police Detain Three Mobile Phone Promoters
Enforcing a new ban against hanging posters and distributing promotional leaflets in Phnom Penh, police detained three Smart Mobile promoters while they were distributing flyers ahead of a music concert Tuesday, a company representative said. Boeng Trabek commune police chief Nheng Samoeun said that he ...
OCIC Provides Infrastructure Funding
The company that’s behind the Koh Pich bridge development is providing US $70 million to Phnom Penh city hall to improve the city’s infrastructure “All of the money that comes from the Koh Pich development is being used by city hall to develop Phnom Penh city’s ...
Flooding destroys 3% of national crop
Three percent of the country’s rice crops have been destroyed by flooding in provinces along the Mekong River and around the Tonle Sap lake, and another seven percent is at risk of being lost, the minister of agriculture said yesterday. New government estimates also show that ...
Study says country unlikely to meet rice goal
Cambodia is unlikely to meet even half of its 2015 goal to export 1 million tons of milled rice unless export and production costs are greatly reduced and more private investment goes toward the agriculture sector, according to a new World Bank study obtained Monday. The ...
Labor Ministry official's link to agency sparks controversy
Amid mounting concerns over labor recruitment agencies’ treatment of migrant workers, new links were discovered yesterday between agencies and the officials that regulate them, as a daughter of a senior Labor Ministry official was found to be running a major recruitment firm. Nhem Chakrya, deputy director ...
Cambodian products get quality certified
About 60 Cambodian-made products have received the official Cambodian Standards (CS) stamp, officials said yesterday. Ping Sivlay, director general of the Institute of Standards of Cambodia, which designates the stamps, said most of the products were foodstuffs and that 40 additional products were still awaiting approval. ...
Draft Law Aims to Combat Price Dumping
The government is finalizing a draft law that will aim to prevent importers from price dumping and protect local producers by allowing authorities to raise tariffs on goods, according to a copy of the draft law. In the past, local producers have been negatively affected by ...
Families Evicted by Railway Project File Complaint With Bank
More than 150 residents evicted from Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district to make way for a railway rehabilitation project filed a complaint yesterday with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) office in Phnom Penh, one of two principal financiers for the project, saying their relocation site ...
Tourism wins in China trade deal
Unless Cambodian exporters find new routes to China, a proposed doubling of bilateral trade to US$5 billion by 2017 would mean little more than increased Chinese goods and investment flooding into the Kingdom. Chinese investments and imports dominated bilateral trade with Cambodia, which was worth about ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012040655456/Business/tourism-wins-in-china-trade-deal.html
Ministry to monitor seniority payments
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training says it will monitor the implementation of seniority indemnity payments to all factory employees in line with the new policy which comes into force this month. The ministry is also ready to impose a fine on any factory ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-monitor-seniority-payments
Officials set for murder probe
The prime minister has selected 14 senior officials – all members of the ruling party – to probe the cold-case murders of three union leaders, including Free Trade Union (FTU) president Chea Vichea, though scepticism remains about the timing and motivation behind the new investigation.According ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-set-murder-probe
With soaring prices, local developers shift away from BKK1
The real estate market in the BKK1 area appears to be beginning to slow after years of accelerated growth as local investors look for more affordable alternatives within Phnom Penh.Seng Bunna, CEO of Bunna Realty Group, said that while the history of BKK1’s foreign-oriented growth ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/soaring-prices-local-developers-shift-away-bkk1
Rice harvest estimates taken with a grain of salt
New government estimates on this year’s rice production and forecasts for next year’s crop may be overly optimistic, industry experts say, factoring in the impact of a drought that damaged crops and is expected to carry over into the next dry season harvest.The Ministry of ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-harvest-estimates-taken-grain-salt
SMEs urged to comply with tax changes
The majority of small and medium enterprises are still unaware of how to comply with new tax regulations that came into force at the end of last year, according to an Economy Ministry official. Srun Angkaren, a deputy director in the general department of taxation, said ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38595/smes-urged-to-comply-with-tax-changes/
UNAIDS: Infections of HIV down 95% from 1997 peak
The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said new HIV infections have been reduced by 95 per cent in Cambodia since their peak in 1997. A report by UNAIDS pointed out that 880 people were newly infected with AIDS last year, compared to 16,500 in 1997. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unaids-infections-hiv-down-95-1997-peak
Indian Chamber of Commerce Launches in Capital
About 100 Indian businessmen and government officials gathered in Phnom Penh yesterday for the official launch of the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Cambodia. Speaking at the launch the ICC president, Debasish Pattnaik, said that since the new organization registered with the government in February, it has gained 54 ...