Kingdom’s rubber exports bounce high in first half
Cambodian rubber exports surged 21 percent during the first half of the year, compared to the same period last year, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Sunday. Local producers exported 84,419 tonnes of rubber during the first six months of this year, an increase of ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-rubber-exports-bounce-high-first-half
Project aids uptick in family chicken farming
Family-based chicken farming is on the rise in Cambodia, thanks in part to a $1.35 million project funded by the EU, said an NGO, People in Need Cambodia (Pin). Pin said over the past two years, Cambodian families have raised nearly 90 per cent more ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/project-aids-uptick-family-chicken-farming
Ministry releases crops report
A ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries report said the Kingdom cultivated over 2.3 million hectares of rice during this year’s rainy season, but Minister Veng Sakhon expressed concern over the abnormal weather. The ministry’s report on crop cultivation and agricultural exports was posted on ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-releases-crops-report
Manufacturers say a high number of factories suspending workers
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia says at least 15 factories have suspended workers, due to a lack of job orders, even as union leaders say they will demand a higher minimum wage. ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/manufacturers-say-a-high-number-of-factories-suspending-workers/2963358.html
EuroCham to work with government on tourism
The European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia (EuroCham) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tourism Ministry yesterday aimed at promoting and developing the Kingdom’s tourism sector.Emmanuel Menanteau, chairman of EuroCham, said the partnership would enable the chamber to promote Cambodia as a tourist destination, ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/eurocham-work-government-tourism
Cambodia’s Royal Turtle nearly extinct as fewer than 10 remain in wild
Cambodia’s Royal Turtle is nearly extinct, with fewer than 10 left in the wild, because increased sand dredging and illegal clearance of flooded forest have shrunk its habitat, a conservationist group warned Monday. ...
The Star Team
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/04/25/cambodias-royal-turtle-nearly-extinct-as-fewer-than-10-remain.html
Global transactions easier with Acleda Mastercard
Cambodia’s leading commercial bank Acleda in partnership with MasterCard Asia and the Pacific, last week launched the Acleda MasterCard electronic plastic card to allow customers to make withdrawals through any ATM as well as make payments around the world where the MasterCard logo is displayed. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26520/global-transactions-easier-with-acleda-mastercard/
Thai soldiers arrest youths for logging across border
Thai soldiers arrested four Cambodian youths on Saturday for allegedly logging rosewood in Thailand’s Trat province, near the border with Battambang province, officials said on Sunday. “Thai soldiers in black uniforms arrested the four Khmer youths because they crossed the border illegally in an attempt to ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/brief/thai-soldiers-arrest-youths-logging-across-border-117277/
H&M eyes ‘fair wage’ push
Amidst ongoing negotiations to boost the minimum wage for garment workers in Cambodia, H&M, the world’s second-largest fashion retailer, has rolled out a program aimed at improving pay in the Kingdom’s factories, arguing that higher wages improve industrial relations and productivity. ...
Mom Kunthear and Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hm-eyes-fair-wage-push
Business group airs union law concerns
Some of the country’s top business leaders laid out their main concerns with a controversial draft union law during a meeting with CPP lawmakers on Monday, including a stipulation that would let only 10 people form a union at a workplace. ...
Sek Odom and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/business-group-airs-union-law-concerns-105839/
Women’s issues underfunded: report
Efforts to empower women at a sub-national level are drastically under-funded, according to research released yesterday. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/womens-issues-underfunded-report
‘Less aid available’ for disasters: WFP
The head of the World Food Programme in Cambodia has labelled the government’s drought preparation and response “insufficient” and warned that the Kingdom must be prepared to receive less help in the future. ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/less-aid-available-disasters-wfp
UK backs STEM push
Young Cambodians will be urged to consider a career in the fields of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), through a joint initiative launched yesterday by the Ministry of Education, the British Embassy and the international employment and training organisation IDP Education. ...
Zoe Holman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/uk-backs-stem-push
Poor ‘lack voice’ amid urban growth
Phnom Penh’s lack of a clear master plan for development has hurt its communities and allowed private developers to collude with authorities to push out poorer residents, speakers at a land rights conference said yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poor-lack-voice-amid-urban-growth
Rubber prices fall again
Rubber producers say the price of local rubber has declined again, blaming a slowdown in the global economy and less demand for rubber. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25271/rubber-prices-fall-again/
No one in union law firing line, says Vannak
The government yesterday assured those in the garment industry that the Trade Union Law, which came into effect in May, is not meant to put pressure on any particular group, but rather to help employers and employees work together in harmony. Labor Ministry secretary of state ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33337/no-one-in-union-law-firing-line--says-vannak/
Talks settle on wages figures
Employers, unions and government officials have settled on three figures to propose as the new minimum wage for garment, textile and footwear workers in a final day of negotiations on the issue. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5084546/talks-settle-wages-figures/
A year after letter to Hun Sen, U.S. Senator says little sign of progress in Cambodia
The senators say they wrote as friends of Cambodia, who wish to see a strong relationship between the two countries but who are troubled by the increased social and political turmoil in Cambodia. ...
Ministry prioritising efforts to digitalise job market services
The Labour Ministry is prioritising efforts to digitalise the public employment services system to respond better to changes in the labour market. He was speaking at the launch of the two-day Asia-Pacific Conference of the World Association of Public Employment Services under the theme “Digitalisation ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50666462/ministry-prioritising-efforts-to-digitalise-job-market-services/
ACLEDA Bank launches ACLEDA Internet Bank
ACLEDA Bank PLC, the Cambodia’s leading commercial bank, has launched a new service called “ACLEDA internet Bank”, according to a statement on its website. The statement said the new service would offer additional alternative for its value customers in doing financial transactions via the internet at ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NTg0YTVkMDcwMjg