Land fight in Kampong Speu
Some 250 families in Kampong Speu province’s Phnom Sruoch district have sought intervention from rights group Adhoc to help resolve a land dispute involving a business they allege is headed by the son of former provincial governor Kang Heang. Families from three villages say Heang, who ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-fight-kampong-speu
Holiday clemency requested for 900 prisoners
The names of more than 900 prisoners have been put forward to receive pardons and sentence reductions during next month’s Khmer New Year festivities, officials said yesterday. The inmates were selected by the Ministry of Interior and their cases are now being assessed by the Ministry ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/holiday-clemency-requested-900-prisoners
Vietnam tops auction to supply rice to NFA
Vietnam offered Friday the lower price for the additional rice supply that the Philippines will import to increase its buffer stock for the lean season, the National Food Authority said. NFA earlier invited Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam to supply an additional 250,000 metric tons of rice ...
Anna Leah E. Gonzales
http://bit.ly/1QgImol
Leading Malaysian insurer to bring “Fast & Easy” insurance to the local market
Malaysia’s leading Insurance and Takaful Company Etiqa has started operations in Cambodia, allowing the local people to experience a fast and easy way to get insured. Etiqa has entered the Kingdom upon seeing the vast potential the local market has to offer, with 97% of ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50700680/leading-malaysian-insurer-to-bring-fast-easy-insurance-to-the-local-market
Rocket Internet launches e-commerce site in Cambodia
A local representative of controversial online start-up incubator Rocket Internet said the company would invest “millions” in Cambodia as it launched a new online retail store yesterday, in what market insiders call a trend toward increasing e-commerce in the Kingdom. The site, shop.com.kh is offered in ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071157333/Business/rocket-launches-e-commerce-site.html
South Korea to approve $1.5b loan to develop Cambodia’s economy
Cambodia is preparing to ink a deal that will see South Korea offer $1.5 billion in loans to further develop the kingdom’s energy sector and infrastructure. ...
Meas Molika
https://kiripost.com/stories/south-korea-to-approve-15b-loan-to-develop-cambodias-economy
Microfinance to tap into WASH sector
A partnership between Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA) and Water.org aims to increase access to safe water and sanitation nationwide by offering incentives to finance the sector. ...
Marissa Carruthers
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-microfinance-to-tap-into-wash-sector
NGO calls for extension of maternity leave in Kingdom
The Scaling Up Nutrition Network (SUN), which represents more than fifty national and international civil society organisations and the SUN UN network, which represents four agencies, offered their congratulations to the government for recent workshops held to promote breastfeeding and the introduction of increased maternity ...
Post staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-calls-extension-maternity-leave-kingdom
SERC combat illegal investment schemes
The Securities Exchange Regulator of Cambodia (SERC) is actively seeking collaboration with relevant ministries and institutions to combat the illicit collection of public funds by unauthorised investors offering high returns. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/serc-combat-illegal-investment-schemes
Third minimum wage negotiation – Employers agree to $2 now as employees reduce to $10
The third textile, garment, footwear and travel goods minimum wage negotiation for 2025 has yet to reach a consensus, even though employers representatives raised their offer from $1 to $2, while union representatives dropped their rate from $14 to $10. ...
Sovann Sreypech and Pou Soreachny
https://cambojanews.com/third-minimum-wage-negotiation-employers-agree-to-2-now-as-employees-reduce-to-10/
Hun Sen leaves Kingdom for Belt and Road Forum in Beijing
Prime Minister Hun Sen and his delegation left the Kingdom yesterday to attend the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing where a number of assistance agreements are expected to be signed. Sry Thamrong, minister attached to the Prime Minister, said at Phnom Penh International Airport that ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50598349/hun-sen-leaves-kingdom-for-belt-and-road-forum-in-beijing/
‘Trapped in debt bondage’
Cambodia’s construction boom has pushed thousands of families into modern slavery in the brick industry through debt bondage, a report by researchers from London’s Royal Holloway University say. The blood bricks report was released on Tuesday following the sharp rise in Cambodian brick prices in ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trapped-debt-bondage
Cambodia urges tourism training on par with Asean
Cambodia is calling for the establishment of tourism institutes and universities to provide relevant skills in compliance with an Asean curriculum, Minister of Tourism Thong Khon said. He was speaking during the Sub-Forum on Yunnan-South Asia & Southeast Asia Tourism Vocational Education and Personnel Training ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-urges-tourism-training-par-asean
Hun Sen announces raises for teachers, nurses
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday announced a three-stage plan to raise the salaries of civil servants working under the Education and Health ministries, with the first increase to come in September. Speaking to graduating students at Beltei University in Phnom Penh, Mr. Hun Sen said that ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-announces-raises-for-teachers-nurses-67017/
Fishing cat found in Cambodia after decade-long absence
Fishing cats are a rare species of predatory feline found in South and Southeast Asia. For decades, fishing cat populations have been in decline. The latest sightings were made possible by a remote cameras set up by researchers with Cambodia’s Center for Biodiversity Conservation ...
Brooks Hays
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2015/09/03/Fishing-cat-found-in-Cambodia-after-decade-long-absence/8601441303016/
CSOs seek input on climate policies
Civil society and government representatives met at the Royal University of Phnom Penh yesterday to discuss how both sides can cooperate to formulate climate change policies that fulfill the Kingdom’s treaty obligations in the wake of the historic climate accord reached in Paris earlier this ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/csos-seek-input-climate-policies
CNRP to Forge Ahead With ‘Camp-In’ Despite Prohibition
The opposition CNRP said Thursday it is forging ahead with plans to hold a three-day demonstration, which the party has dubbed a “camp-in,” despite a letter from the Ministry of Interior that says the protests can only go on for one day. The Interior Ministry letter, ...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-to-forge-ahead-with-camp-in-despite-prohibition-42242/
Press Release: Open Development Cambodia Launches Election Page
Students Check Out ODC’s New Elections Page at a Local Coffee ShopAn Election Info SmorgasbordOpen Development Cambodia (ODC) Posts a Wealth of Data on the Kingdom’s Upcoming Vote For an increasingly tech-savvy generation of Cambodians, Open Development Cambodia’s newly launched Khmer-language Elections Page, cambodia.opendevelopmentmekong.net/election offers ...
US firms suggest ASEAN improve financial services
Although US businesses across ASEAN have expressed a positive investment outlook towards Cambodia and the other members of the regional group, they are unsure of how to take advantage of the free-trade agreement with China, insiders said at the first-ever ASEAN-US Business Summit, which kicked ...
Microsoft decries pirated software
Microsoft Cambodia has found that an overwhelming majority of computer retailers surveyed earlier this year failed to offer customers the option to purchase licensed, as opposed to pirated, software. Out of the 54 Cambodian computer retailers included in the May survey, the results of which were ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/microsoft-decries-pirated-software