Maid's cause of death sparks investigation
Government authorities are investigating the death of a migrant domestic worker in Malaysia after her family and rights groups raised questions about the stated cause of death from a lung infection, a relative of the deceased woman said yesterday. Na Rith, 42, said his cousin Ouk ...
Maid’s Death Believed Linked to Abuse
A Cambodian maid who recently returned home from work in Malaysia fell ill and died over the weekend, highlighting ongoing concerns over the treatment of impoverished Southeast Asian women who seek work abroad but are often abused by their employers. Kuy Lyda, 17, died at a ...
Sok Serey
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/maid-06252012155226.html
Halal food exports could boost trade
Cambodia could attract an increasing number of Malaysian investors interested in food production and global export if moves to create a halal food recognition body were implemented, Malaysian ambassador Mond Tahir Nasruddin said yesterday. Officials were working together to establish the halal food product recognition ...
Embassy defends handling of maids
Cambodia’s embassy in Malaysia yesterday denied pressuring domestic workers from the Kingdom into renewing their visas, after rights groups told the Post last week that the embassy exploited a legal loophole to keep maids in the country. The statement came as a Malaysian employers association, which has observed the drafting ...
Sen David and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/embassy-defends-handling-maids
Cambodia has shortage of capable human resource
The number of people seeking for jobs has been on the rise each day. However, companies, organizations and institutions are relentlessly complaining that human resource is both scarce and of low quality. Many students who have just graduated for about a year or two say they ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=14&token=OTNiZWMzYWFjMzU
Med school stands firm on fee
Despite outcry from medical students, the government is refusing to reduce the latest in a string of proposed fee hikes, this one nearly doubling the charge for the University of Health Science’s exit exam. In a letter sent to the university’s rector on Friday, the ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/med-school-stands-firm-fee
Weighing risk and reward on construction sites
As the booming construction sector attracts more rural Cambodians to seek employment in the capital, the different working conditions between high-rises in urban areas and borey developments have factored into varying degrees of earning potential and living standards.According to estimates by the Ministry of Land ...
Kali Kotoski and Sum Manet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/weighing-risk-and-reward-construction-sites
New maid training DIY
Cambodian recruitment agencies are drawing up more extensive training programs for maids being sent to Malaysia following a lifting of a ban on the practice in December. ...
Sen David and Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-maid-training-diy
Islamic Microfinance could save farmers from high interest rates
As businesses and banks prepare for the 11th World Islamic Economic Forum in Malaysia on November 3, some Islamic microfinance businesses are considering bringing interest-free loans to Cambodia. ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15591/islamic-microfinance-could-save-farmers-from-high-interest-rates/
Six women abused as maids, brides return
Six Cambodian women rescued from allegedly abusive conditions in China and Malaysia were returned home yesterday after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs intervened in their cases, officials said. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/six-women-abused-maids-brides-return
Cambodian Public Bank offers loan repayment deals during COVID-19
Cambodian Public Bank is responding to the Coronavirus crisis by taking pro-active action to provide help to its customers in distress by restructuring and rescheduling their loans to eligible individual and business customers. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50710323/cambodian-public-bank-offers-loan-repayment-deals-during-covid-19/
National Career and Productivity Fair 2023 to offer over 20,000 vacancies
The National Career and Productivity Fair 2023, scheduled for Nov. 10 and 11, will offer more than 20,000 vacancies for potential young people and interested workers. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501379769/national-career-and-productivity-fair-2023-to-offer-over-20000-vacancies/
Raped maids sent back to labor agencies
The Cambodian Embassy in Malaysia returned abused Cambodian maids, including women who were raped by their employers, to work at maid recruitment agencies in that country, a new report by Human Rights Watch claims. The New York-based rights group also said Cambodian police colluded with labor ...
Malaysian firms urged to venture into Cambodia's agri sector
Malaysian companies have been urged to venture into Cambodia’s agriculture sector especially in paddy planting and opening up rubber estates. In making the call, Raja Saiful Ridzuan, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Malaysian Embassy here, said Malaysian firms, with its vast expertise in agriculture sector, ...
http://www.nst.com.my/latest/malaysian-firms-urged-to-venture-into-cambodia-s-agri-sector-1.334244
The Kingdom’s first IPO
The long awaited first security listing on the Cambodian Securities Exchange became a reality on February 23 with the Security Exchange Commission of Cambodia’s “in principle” approval of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority’s (PPWSA) “disclosure document for public issuance of equity securities”. This is effectively a ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012030854926/Business/the-kingdoms-first-ipo.html
Social Work to shape Kingdom
Social work, long-established in developed countries but unheard-of in Cambodia, could be set to change the face of child protection in the country as interest in the field grows. Last week, a hundred potential social workers from around the country came to Phnom Penh for an ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092558885/Lifestyle/social-work-to-change-cambodia.html
Returning maids, fishermen share familiar tales of abuse
Eight Cambodian fishermen and four Cambodian maids were repatriated from Malaysia on Friday after finding themselves forced to work in slavery-like conditions, despite being promised high-paying jobs there by brokers and recruitment firms. ...
Baby saved from ‘traffickers’
A 7-month-old baby, a woman and two men en route to Malaysia were rescued from two alleged traffickers near the Cambodia-Thai border in Banteay Meanchey’s Poipet town, police said yesterday. Heng Chhun, 48, and Som Na, 38, will face charges related to human trafficking, Prum Sonthor, ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/baby-saved-%E2%80%98traffickers%E2%80%99
Tobacco tax increase likely
Increasing the tobacco retail tax — one of the world’s lowest at 10 per cent of unit price for domestically produced cigarettes — would deter smokers and increase government revenue while having minimal effect on tobacco producers, Ayda Yurekli, co-ordinator for the World Health Organization’s ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012091858767/National-news/tobacco-tax-increase-likely.html
Telekom M'sia forms alliance with Cambodian Internet service provider
Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) is strengthening its regional footprint in South-East Asia by teaming up with MekongNet, a leading Internet service provider and Internet exchange provider in Cambodia. ...
The Star Online News Staff
http://www.thestar.com.my/Business/Business-News/2015/10/28/Telekom-Malaysia-forms-alliance-with-Cambodian-Internet-service-provider/?style=biz