Major Gap Emerging Between Labor Market and Job Seekers
PHNOM PENH – As more and more Cambodians enter the job market, with a growing population of young people, there still remain plenty of job opportunities with foreign investors at home, according to a new study by the Ministry of Labor. But people either don’t ...
More Investment Needed To Process Crops
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said more investment in agriculture was needed to ensure that Cambodia can process its crops and add value to agricultural produce being exported abroad. Speaking at the inauguration of a new cargo port in Kandal province, Mr. Hun Sen said there was an ...
Construction Begins to Repair Phnom Penh’s Destroyed Street 63
Workers with heavy machinery began repairing Phnom Penh’s busy Street 63 on Thursday in order to get rid of the potholes and cracked concrete that has turned the street into a divot-ridden, water-logged throughway since new pipes were laid six months ago. The Japanese International Cooperation ...
Bulldozers will not move us, families insist
More than 100 families living in Koh Kong’s Kiri Sakor and Botum Sakor districts are on the clock, with an official government decree demanding they vacate their land in less than two months or face the bulldozers of the Chinese firm slated to build a ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bulldozers-will-not-move-us-families-insist
Hun Sen leaves for ASEAN Summits in Brunei
Prime Minister Hun Sen left Monday to attend the 23rd ASEAN summit as well as other related meetings in Brunei, said Srey Thamrong, a minister attached to Hun Sen. The summits held from October 9-10 will include the 23rd ASEAN Summit, 16th ASEAN-Japan Summit, 16th ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NWZjNjg3OWRkNDA
Unions Want Government, Factories to Resume Wage Talks
The unions behind several days of strikes that turned deadly this month said they will officially ask the Labor Ministry today to resume negotiations on a new minimum wage for the country’s critical garment sector, and said they would hold more street protests if their ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unions-want-government-factories-to-resume-wage-talks-50451/
Hundreds in Long Beach protest election results in Cambodia
Chanting in Khmer and gripping homemade signs, a group gathered Monday to protest recent Cambodian election results. The rally aimed to bring awareness to what many Cambodian immigrants believe is a corrupt voting system. More than nine million people were eligible to vote in the July 28 ...
Thai fishing industry under spotlight
Far stricter monitoring of the recruitment and employment of Cambodians and other migrant labourers is needed to ensure the future of the Thai fishing industry, a new study by the International Labour Organization warns. Two and a half per cent of the 241 Cambodians interviewed ...
Abby Seiff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thai-fishing-industry-under-spotlight
Cambodian opposition leader appeals for talks with Hun Sen
Cambodia opposition leader Sam Rainsy appealed Saturday to Prime Minister Hun Sen, who heads the ruling party, to agree to talks in order to find a way out of the country’s current political crisis. He [Sam Rainsy] said that, starting from Wednesday, the first day ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/131228/cambodian-opposition-leader-appeals-talks-hun-sen
Opposition Will Go Forward With Mass Demonstration, Leader Says
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Tuesday reaffirmed his party’s commitment to three days of mass demonstrations starting on Wednesday, in response to the government’s failure to address widespread irregularities in July’s national elections. Returning from a trip abroad, where he had urged Western states not to ...
VOA Khmer Staff
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/opposition-will-go-forward-with-mass-demonstration-leader-says/1774467.html
Death Toll Rises Even as Floodwaters Recede
As floodwaters begin to recede, the extent of the humanitarian crisis and infrastructural damage is slowly being revealed, and in many places the situation is potentially worse than it was following the devastating floods in 2011, according to the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM). Keo Vy, ...
Simon Henderson and Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/death-toll-rises-even-as-floodwaters-recede-45349/
Cambodia’s aviation sector rapidly growing: report
Capitalising on booming travel from Vietnam and China, the domestic aviation sector has enjoyed 18 per cent passenger growth for the second year running, according to a new report, which describes Cambodia as having one of the fastest-growing markets in Southeast Asia. The report, by the ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia%E2%80%99s-aviation-sector-rapidly-growing-report
Hundreds threatened by erosion of Mekong banks
Erosion along the banks of the Mekong River in Kompong Cham province’s Srei Santhor district has caused 16 families to move their homes and is threatening hundreds more, officials warned Sunday. Koh Andet commune chief Yan Yet said at least 16 homes have been dismantled since ...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hundreds-threatened-by-erosion-of-mekong-banks-65069/
Cambodian parties pick rights activist as key NEC member
Member of a national election body in a significant move following an agreement on electoral reforms that broke a one-year political deadlock, officials said. Prime Minister Hun Sen agreed to a proposal by the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) that prominent rights group Licadho chief ...
Parameswaran Ponnudurai
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/activist-07282014195111.html
Gambling on change
The Cambodian government is drafting a series of changes to the Kingdom’s gaming laws in a bid to draw major players from Macau and the US to the market and potentially create a new tax base from the growing, if currently illegal, online betting industry, ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gambling-change
Direct flights to Japan coming
Asia Atlantic Airlines, a Thai airline owned in part by Japanese tourism firm HIS Co, will launch scheduled flights between Cambodia and Japan this September, according a statement published by the airline on June 26. As of September 2, Asia Atlantic will run three weekly flights ...
Annie Lee
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/direct-flights-japan-coming
Maids forced into debt bondage in Singapore
In August last year, the government launched a pilot project that sent 220 women to work as maids in Singapore, the first major effort to open up a new market for Cambodia’s domestic workers after the government halted sending maids to Malaysia due to persistent ...
Matt Blomberg and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/maids-forced-into-debt-bondage-in-singapore-63194/
Opposition to form ‘shadow cabinet’ in parliament
A “shadow cabinet” will be created inside the National Assembly once the CNRP’s lawmakers-elect swear into office, senior opposition party officials said Thursday, in a move that nine years ago saw an opposition lawmaker imprisoned on charges of inciting a rebellion. Prime Minister Hun Sen and ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/opposition-to-form-shadow-cabinet-in-parliament-64917/
Okvau gold project funding to add $51M
Australian-listed mining firm Emerald Resources NL on Monday announced plans to raise A$75 million (US$51 million) in funds for its Mondulkiri-based Okvau gold project with two placements of 1.875 billion new shares. The first is an unconditional placement for approximately A$30.5 million and the second ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/okvau-gold-project-funding-add-51m
UK: Cambodia worker health part of M&S Plan A progress
UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) is trialling a new campaign aimed at helping 14,000 garment workers in Cambodia deal with common health issues, as part of its Plan A ethical programme. The company, which aims to become the world’s most sustainable major retailer by 2015, ...
Katie Smith
http://www.just-style.com/news/cambodia-worker-health-part-of-ms-plan-a-progress_id119714.aspx