Kampot Cement Company workers on strike
About 200 workers employed by a sub-contractor of Kampot Cement Company went on strike for several hours Tuesday, demanding better wages as well as annual leave, a union representative said. “The reason they went on strike is that they want Banjamag company to implement five points” ...
Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kampot-cement-company-workers-on-strike-56168/
AFD loan ‘will bring power to rural areas’
The French Agency for Development (AFD) announced yesterday that it will provide $24 million to finance privately owned water and power providers to supply rural areas that state-run utilities cannot reach. During a ceremony held at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the AFD and the ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/afd-loan-%E2%80%98will-bring-power-rural-areas%E2%80%99
Rising union leader behind Caltex station closures
In his fight for workers’ rights, Sar Mora has learned to be stubborn. The union leader behind the closure of Caltex gas stations across Phnom Penh, Mr. Mora’s members remained on strike Sunday despite an apparent agreement on Friday for workers to return to their stations. “We ...
Alex Consiglio and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rising-union-leader-behind-caltex-station-closures-58995/
Cambodia has no ambition to develop nuclear power plant: PM
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday that the Southeast Asian nation has no ambition to develop a nuclear power plant, but wants to use nuclear technologies in agriculture, health, and animal breeds. The prime minister made the remarks during a meeting with Yukiya Amano, director ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/837562.shtml#.UtYhn9IW2ls
Lightning strike kills two people
Lightning killed two people sheltering from rain on Wednesday in Preah Sihanouk’s Stung Hav district. Ros Ky, the district police chief, said Khem Nget, a 40-year-old motodop from Kampot, and a second victim identified only as Vanny, 50, were taking shelter near Vanny’s home in Tomnup ...
Khoun Leakhana
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lightning-strike-kills-two-people
Transport minister defends self-granted bonuses
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Wednesday posted to its website a four-page document giving Public Works and Transport Minister Tram Iv Tek’s response to complaints of corruption within his ministry, including that the minister had awarded himself exorbitant bonuses. The ACU said in the document that ...
Hul Reaksmey and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/transport-minister-defends-self-granted-bonuses-63726/
Walkway, bag plans in works
Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday announced plans to build a promenade down the city’s waterfront, picking up where the current riverfront walkway ends around the Chaktomuk theatre and extending some four kilometres south to the Monivong bridge. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/walkway-bag-plans-works
‘Fake’ Buddha must be monitored, Hun Sen says
Prime Minister Hun Sen has waded into the case of a man claiming to be a reincarnation of Buddha, ordering Cults and Religion Minister Min Khin to keep a close eye on the situation. Authorities say that Thean Vuthy, who dresses in white robes and sits ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fake-buddha-must-be-monitored-hun-sen-says-65693/
Riverbanks falling in K Cham
Amid a recent spate of riverbank collapses in Kampong Cham province that have so far damaged three properties, authorities are advising the owners of nearly 40 houses to move their structures. Yesterday’s collapse in the province’s Kampong Cham commune destroyed the Khyol Tonle restaurant in front ...
Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/riverbanks-falling-k-cham
Fears abound in HIV village
Three months after their community was shaken by a mass outbreak of HIV, support continues to pour in for residents of Battambang province’s Roka commune. But amid fears generated by the death of several elderly residents and the belief the funding could soon dry up, they ...
May Titthara and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/fears-abound-hiv-village
Gov’t airs film accusing Kem Sokha of coup conspiracy
Ahead of deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha’s scheduled court questioning on Wednesday, a television station controlled by the daughter of Prime Minister Hun Sen aired on Sunday night a film produced by the government that builds a case that Mr. Sokha plotted a coup d’etat. ...
Kuch Naren and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-airs-film-accusing-kem-sokha-of-coup-conspiracy-81522/
Anti-graft programs launch
Two anti-corruption initiatives were announced yesterday to encourage transparency and ethically engaged citizenship, particularly among Cambodia’s youth. ...
Pech Sotheary and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anti-graft-programs-launch
Dammed if they don’t
People who have accepted relocation from the future reservoir zone of the Lower Sesan II hydropower project have called for the suspension of the resettlement program for one year and help to repair homes built by the Cambodian-Chinese energy firm constructing the dam.Villagers who held ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dammed-if-they-dont
SECC sets minimum capital requirement
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC) has set a minimum capital requirement for securities firms A statement from the SECC, released yesterday, said that securities underwriters are required to hold a minimum of 40 billion riel of their shareholder’s equities It also requires securities firms to maintain ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052456352/Business/secc-sets-min-capital-requirement.html
Abused Workers Back Home
A maid who fled her employer after an attempted rape and was then thrown in a detention centre just two days after she gave birth was one of 26 distressed men and women who make up the latest repatriated abuse victims from Malaysia. Detained for ...
Sen David and David Boyle, P. 1
190 Municipal-District Administration implements Sub-National Administrative Investment Fund
From 2017 to the present, 190 municipal and district administrations across the country have implemented sub-national administrative investment funds (SNIF). This is according to Dr. Keo Bengvath, the Royal Government delegate in charge of the Director General of the General Department of Finance and Sub-National ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501347987/190-municipal-district-administration-implements-sub-national-administrative-investment-fund/
CDC urges Xiamen investors to tap vast opportunities in Kingdom
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has sought investments from potential investors from China’s Xiamen city of the Fujian province amid the Kingdom setting records in terms of Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) during the current year. ...
Nheng Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501359497/cdc-urges-xiamen-investors-to-tap-vast-opportunities-in-kingdom/
Press release on the outcome of the resumption of the National Assembly's ninth session of the 6th legislature on Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
On 30 May 2023, the National Assembly issued a press release on the outcome of the resumption of the National Assembly’s ninth session of the 6th legislature on Tuesday, May 31, 2023.The agenda of the ninth session of the 6th legislature consists of 2 agendas:Discussion ...
National Assembly
Cluster model to entice SEZ investors
Kerry WorldBridge Logistics SEZ, which is developing a 63-hectare industrial park and free trade zone 17 kilometres south of the capital in Kandal province, has taken on a new partner to design and create an “industry and technology cluster” aimed at attracting non-garment manufacturing investment ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cluster-model-entice-sez-investors
Sar Kheng: Return of Sokha up to courts
Interior Minister Sar Kheng said on Thursday that the reinstatement of opposition leader Kem Sokha’s political rights, which would open the door for his possible return to the political stage, was purely dependent on legal proceedings as his court case is ongoing. ...
Mech Dara and Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-return-sokha-courts