Few arrests under new traffic law
Only 600 drivers have been sent to court since the new Traffic Law technically took effect in January and legally in March.According to a National Road Safety Committee report released yesterday, out of almost 10 million vehicles that were checked, 1.5 million were found to ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33660/few-arrests-under-new-traffic-law/
French government injects $74 million loan to support social and economic development projects in Cambodia
French government through French development agency will give $74million loan to Cambodia to support social and economic development in the kingdom, according to a senior official said today. Director General of French Agency for Development (Agence Française de Développement -AFD) Mr Dov Zera will travel to ...
Rising oil prices fueling inflation
Rising oil prices fuelled a month-to-month inflationary increase of 5.4 per cent through February and March, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics. Factors such as sanctions on Iranian oil, as well as floods that depleted Cambodian crops last year accounted for the rise ...
Bloody crackdown on garment strike in Phnom Penh
A union employee representing striking workers from a factory that supplies Levi’s and Gap was left a bloodied mess near Wat Botum yesterday after police allegedly attacked him. According to rights groups, police set upon Long Panha, of the Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions (CATU), who ...
Electronics factory to open
A US$37.9 million base plate factory will launch in June in the northwestern province of Banteay Meanchey, Japanese electronics manufacturer SC WADO Component Co said yesterday in a statement. The entry of SC WADO, a subsidiary of Nidec Electronics, was another step in Cambodia’s march away ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012053156501/Business/electronics-factory-to-open.html
Municipality Blames Trade Union for Violent Protest
The Phnom Penh Municipality issued a statement yesterday accusing the Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions of violating their agreement when a garment workers’ protest on July 11 turned violent. Some 20 garment factory workers from the Tai Yang factory had marched to submit a petition to ...
Minor fraud prompts hard prison sentence
A former civil servant was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison by Kampong Cham Provincial Court for stealing the pensions of 10 retired teachers – a total of $500 – in March 2012. Mang Yusreng, former chief of the Social Affairs Office in Srei ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minor-fraud-prompts-hard-prison-sentence
Ministry reiterates holiday pay
The Ministry of Labour has announced that factory managers must allow employees three days off for Khmer New Year, even as some union leaders encourage workers to extend that time. In a letter to factory owners dated March 25, Labour Minister Ith Sam Heng reminds owners ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-reiterates-holiday-pay
Parties on NEC roster for election
Three parties – the Cambodian People’s Party, the Cambodia National Rescue Party and Funcinpec – were registered for the May 18 municipal, district and provincial council election as of Saturday, according to the National Election Committee. “As the deadline will close on March 3rd, I think ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parties-nec-roster-election
Staff of suspended factory demand wages
About 70 workers from the Xing Chang Sin factory marched to the Ministry of Labor on Friday to demand intervention after the factory allegedly failed to pay wages for the past two months. Vong Sovann, deputy director general at the Labor Ministry’s general department of ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/staff-of-suspended-factory-demand-wages-65571/
Result of EdC's electricity connection in Phnom Penh
Electricity of Cambodia (EdC) has been connecting the 610-Riel electricity to renting houses/rooms (of garment and textile workers) in Phnom Penh since 29 January 2015. Until 26 March 2015 at night, EdC connected the electricity for users of under 50 Kw h/month to the total ...
Electricity of Cambodia (EdC)
Duty-free access to Vietnam for 31 tariff lines
Thirty-one Cambodian tariff lines – mostly agricultural products – now carry the zero rate to neighbouring Vietnam for 2021-2022, the Ministry of Commerce announced on March 25. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/duty-free-access-vietnam-31-tariff-lines
Cambodian migrant children face added risk in Thailand
Of 97,060 migrant workers from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar who were infected with Covid-19 between March last year and August this year, 4,202 of whom are under the age of 18 themselves. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50922414/cambodian-migrant-children-face-added-risk-in-thailand/
Japan set to fund $41M of mine clearance and water supply systems
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn and Japanese ambassador Masahiro Mikami are set to sign an exchange of letters and related documents on Japanese aid for two projects with a total budget of $41 million on March 2. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japan-set-fund-41m-mine-clearance-and-water-supply-systems
Second phase of Ta Ong bridge restoration completed
The restoration team of the APSARA National Authority has successfully completed the second phase of the Ta Ong Bridge restoration project despite some obstacles during the three months (March to June 2022) of work, said the authority in a news release this afternoon. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501098091/second-phase-of-ta-ong-bridge-restoration-completed/
Announcement of the Ministry of Health on the preventive measure of H5N1 bird flu
On 26 February 2020, the Ministry of Health has issued an announcement on the cautions and preventive measures of the H5N1 bird flu disease on which the outbreak took place in Tra province of the socialist Republic of Vietnam on 17 February 2020. The preventive ...
Ministry of Health
During ‘Free the 23’ Protests, Where Was CNRP?
Late last month, protesters calling for the release of 23 imprisoned workers and activists clashed with district security guards on Phnom Penh’s Norodom Boulevard. Batons, rocks and punches were thrown, and a handful of people on both sides were left bruised and bloodied. Later that week, opposition ...
Colin Meyn and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/during-free-the-23-protests-where-was-cnrp-52228/
World Bank highlights wage gains
The wages and working conditions of garment factory workers in Cambodia are at or above the national average, a report from the World Bank has found The minimum wage for garment workers in Cambodia rose to US$61 for regular workers in June 2010 and in March ...
Maid starved to death in Malaysia, police say
Another Cambodian maid died in Malaysia last week, and starvation by her employers is the likely cause, Malaysian police said yesterday. Speaking to the Post by phone, Penang state police chief deputy commissioner Datuk Wira Ayub Yaakob said 24-year-old domestic worker Mey Sichan’s employer had called ...