ASEAN still a tough market for rice exports despite AEC
Cambodian rice exports are finding new markets and rising demand in ASEAN this year, but officials and exporters are not linking this to the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), saying it was too early to tell what impact the regional trade bloc – which took effect ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21156/asean-still-a-tough-market-for-rice-exports-despite-aec/
ElCs earn just $5M for gov’t
The bulk of Cambodia’s economic land concessions (ELCs) – at the centre of numerous land disputes and human rights concerns over the past two decades – generated just $5 million for state coffers last year, with critics attributing the meagre returns to a lack of ...
Ananth Baliga and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/elcs-earn-just-5m-govt
CAIF hopes to put a dent in used auto market
The independent industry body representing Cambodia’s authorised automobile distributors launched a consumer awareness campaign yesterday aimed at informing the public of the risks of purchasing second-hand cars on the local grey market, which it said reduces government tax revenue while flooding the streets with predominately ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/caif-hopes-put-dent-used-auto-market
Health Ministry acknowledges ‘complications’ in nod to CNM graft
The Ministry of Health this week called for closer oversight of contract employees and acknowledged “inappropriate phenomena” in paperwork filed by mid-level officials, an admission that comes just over a month after evidence came to light of widespread graft at the Kingdom’s National Malaria Centre ...
Bun Sengkong and Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-ministry-acknowledges-complications-nod-cnm-graft
Ministry pushes support of ecotourism
The Tourism Ministry on Monday released a joint statement with relevant stakeholders in the tourism sector to support and promote ecotourism and community-based tourism in Cambodia. Tourism Minister Thong Khon said at a tourism conference that ecotourism and community-based tourism were growing regionally and globally with ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29420/ministry-pushes-support-of-ecotourism/
Gov’t eyes data gaps to ensure stable foundation for construction industry
A survey of foreign direct investment by the National Bank of Cambodia due to be completed at the end of this month will help fill data gaps in the construction industry and could lead to new regulations in the property market that will pave the ...
Cambodian police arrest student for Facebook threat to blow up deputy PM
A Cambodian University student, who was arrested by provincial police in Siem Reap after he threatened to kill Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng on social media, has confessed to the plot to throw a grenade at the government official during the school’s graduation ceremony, the ...
Khe Sonorng and Samean Yun
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/cambodia-threat-09292015132421.html
E-commerce law to debut by end of year
The draft law on e-commerce is set to be completed and enacted by the end of this year, ahead of the launch of the Asean Economic Community (AEC), which begins at the end of the year, commerce officials said yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16571/e-commerce-law-to-debut-by-end-of-year/
Ministry toughens teen labour ID requirements
The Ministry of Labour has announced new regulations for hiring workers between the ages of 15 and 18, toughening identification requirements in a sector plagued by the use of fraudulent documents.The prakas, active since November 20, requires young workers to show at least three different ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-toughens-teen-labour-id-requirements
Koh Rong Samloeun’s Asia-driven tourism boom
Just four years ago, the white sand beach at Koh Rong Samloeun’s Saracen Bay was empty. Now workers can be seen scrambling over the frames of new bungalows along the shoreline, and speed boats arrive hourly from the mainland to drop off crowds of tourists ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21542/koh-rong-samloeun---s-asia-driven-tourism-boom/
As rail plan delayed, homeless take shelter in Battambang station warehouse
Many Battambang residents see the squatter camp at the train depot’s abandoned warehouse as a den of criminals and drug addicts. Fourty-four-year-old Srey Oun sees it as her home. “Many of the people who live here are unemployed,” she said, “but I am always scavenging ...
Ven Rathavong and Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22935/as-rail-plan-delayed--homeless-take-shelter-in-battambang-station-warehouse/
Cabinet accepts Win Shingtex worker’s petition
More than 300 former workers at the Win Shingtex (Cambodia) factory, a supplier for US retail giant JC Penny, filed a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet yesterday morning asking the government to intervene after the workers had their wages and benefits cut as ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23413/cabinet-accepts-win-shingtex-worker---s-petition/
Detained migrant workers get Thai work permits
More than 20 Cambodian migrants who had been working at two pig farms in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province have been given work permits and allowed to remain in the country after they were found to have been working without proper documents. The move followed intervention from ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23701/detained-migrant-workers-get-thai-work-permits/
Government passes law to regulate organ donation
Ruling party lawmakers unanimously passed a law regulating how human cells, tissue and organs can be donated or used in the country during a session on Thursday at the National Assembly, with the CNRP continuing its boycott of parliament in protest of a legal assault ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-passes-law-to-regulate-organ-donation-114886/
Asean needs bigger role: researcher
The July 12 arbitration decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague in favor of the Philippines’ maritime rights against China’s overarching claims in the South China Sea means Asean will need to play an active, diplomatic role in diffusing tension and maintaining ...
Safiya Charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27486/asean-needs-bigger-role--researcher/
Water levels ‘alarming’ across three provinces
Oddar Meanchey provincial authorities yesterday warned those living along the Ta Mok reservoir in Anlong Veng district to take precautions. Khin Nhean, director of the Oddar Meanchey provincial Department of Water Resources and Meteorology, said the water level at the reservoir rose to 3.2 metres – ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/water-levels-alarming-across-three-provinces
Police urged to stop covering up crimes
Cambodia’s National Police spokesman, speaking in a recent video, has urged police to stop hiding crimes from the public, lest they encounter unspecified “problems”.In the undated video, which surfaced on Facebook on Saturday, national police spokesman Kirth Chantharith can be seen speaking at a podium ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-urged-stop-covering-crimes
Surging TV advertising set to continue
With the economy expanding at an annualized rate of about 7 percent over the past two decades, Cambodia has managed to attract more than $42 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) between 2005 and the end of the first half of last year, even though ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19668/surging-tv-advertising-set-to-continue/
Dozens rally to support monk threatened with defrocking
Dozens of activist monks rallied on Sunday at Wat Stung Meanchey to protest the pagoda’s decision to defrock a fellow monk for allegedly throwing Buddha statues into a dirty pond, claiming that he was framed because he is Khmer Krom and is known for supporting ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/dozens-rally-to-support-monk-threatened-with-defrocking-102209/
Ministry of social affairs launches investigation into church
A U.S.-based Pentecostal ministry with an extensive network of “orphan homes” in Cambodia will be investigated by the Ministry of Social Affairs after allegations of sexual abuse surfaced at one of its centers in Kratie province, though the organization will be allowed three months to ...
Taylor O'Connell and Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-of-social-affairs-launches-investigation-into-church-102461/