PM calls for halt to ‘illegal’ protests
Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday called on labour unions to immediately stop organising demonstrations and strikes to “illegally” demand benefits from factory owners. He said such actions could spin out of hand and force around two-thirds of the Kingdom’s factories, approximately 800 of the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-calls-halt-illegal-protests
Tourism industry unruffled by election – experts
Tourism officials and industry insiders say the upcoming election is not affecting the flow on tourists into the Kingdom. Kong sophearak, director of the statistics Department of the Ministry of Tourism, told Khmer Times that despite this month’s election and the ongoing political rallies throughout ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50510282/tourism-industry-unruffled-by-election-experts/
‘Mondulkiri rife with forest crimes’
A truck transporting timber overturned on Thursday evening, killing one person and injured another. The incident at sen Monorom commune, in Mondulkiri province’s O’Raing district, has added spark to the ongoing debate on forest crimes in the province. The province’s traffic police bureau director Yoem ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-rife-forest-crimes
Hun Sen urges public to grow veggies naturally
Prime Minister Hun sen on sunday urged the public to grow fruits and vegetables organically as these are healthier alternatives to crops grown using agrochemicals. Mr Hun sen posted on his Facebook page that the Kingdom’s land was fertile and suitable for growing fruits and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50603816/hun-sen-urges-public-to-grow-veggies-naturally/
Authority protecting forests
The Apsara Authority is stepping up its efforts to manage and maintain forest cover surrounding the Angkor World Heritage site in siem Reap province. At a meeting with about 250 officials and staff members of the authority’s forestry department on Wednesday, Hang Peou, deputy director-general ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50511480/authority-protecting-forests/
Cambodia faces ‘negative impacts’ if EBA suspended
The European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia (EuroCham) expressed its “serious concerns” on Monday over the “long-term negative impacts” of the EU removing the Kingdom’s access to the preferential Everything But Arms (EBA} agreement. It also expressed “hope that a dialogue can be implemented to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-faces-negative-impacts-if-eba-suspended
Cambodian King Supports Belt and Road Initiative: Chinese Media
King Norodom Sihamoni told ChineSe PreSident Xi Jinping that Cambodia would further Support hiS overSeaS inveStment Strategy, which haS been criticized by the U.S.&nbSp;King Norodom Sihamoni Said during a viSit to Beijing that Cambodia iS prepared to further Support China&rSquo;S overSeaS inveStment Strategy, known aS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/cambodian-king-supports-belt-and-road-initiative-chinese-media/4918977.html
Cambodia's SEZ exports expected to hit 1.2 bln USD in 2015
Exports from special Economic Zones (sEZs) in Cambodia are projected to reach about 1.2 billion U.s. dollars this year, up 87 percent year-on-year, a local English newspaper reported Tuesday, citing figures from the Commerce Ministry.Exports from sEZs totalled 672 million U.s. dollars last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6705473/2015/12/15/cambodias-sez-exports-expected-hit-12-bln-usd-2015
Hundreds of workers strike over conditions in capital
About 500 garment workers at the Mastex Incam factory in Phnom Penh’s Por sen Chey district went on strike yesterday demanding better working conditions and benefits.The workers claim their employer has violated their rights under Cambodia’s labour law, and that their requests for intervention made ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-workers-strike-over-conditions-capital
Lack of transparency hinders budget progress
On Monday, Prime Minister Hun sen announced a new phase of the Public Financial Management Reform Program, a donor-assisted initiative established in 2004 to bolster the country’s ability to soundly manage its budget. In a speech at the launch event, he touted the government’s progress ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tej Parikh and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lack-of-transparency-hinders-budget-progress-110437/
A clearer picture for lenders
The double-digit growth of consumer lending in Cambodia has created a need for a comprehensive and centralised database of individual credit histories. The Post’s Cam McGrath sat down with Pascal Ly, CEO of the Credit Bureau Cambodia (CBC), to discuss the role of the Kingdom’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/clearer-picture-lenders
Bangladesh ranks 125th out of 132 countries in GEI 2016
Bangladesh ranked 125th out of 132 countries on the Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI) for 2016, five places up from last year. However, there is a great internal variance within the region: Australia’s Attitude score stands at 75.2, whereas Cambodia’s 10.6, which is the lowest in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kayes Sohel
http://www.dhakatribune.com/business/2015/nov/15/bangladesh-ranks-125th-out-132-countries-gei-2016
Workers from shuttered garment factory demand wages
More than 500 garment workers from a shuttered garment factory in the capital’s Dangkor district are demanding their salaries after the firm’s owner ran away.According to its website, the Chinese-owned Muse Garment (Cambodia) Factory Limited produced pants and shorts exclusively for the European market. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-shuttered-garment-factory-demand-wages
Thailand plans to buy Cambodian water
Thailand’s listed Eastern Water Resources Development and Management Plc’s subsidiary Universal Utilities Plc. a tap water provider, plans to spend some 200 million baht ($6 million) a year to buy water from the still to be built stung Nam hydroelectric dam in Koh Kong province ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37220/thailand-plans-to-buy-cambodian-water/
US dollar used to curb inflation
Cambodia’s central bank purchased a total of $479.4 million worth of cash during the first half of this year to convert to riel, utilising one of the few tools the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) has to stabilise the value of the local currency and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/us-dollar-used-curb-inflation
“The more we produce rice, the poorer and poorer we get”
For millennia, rice has been the backbone of Cambodia’s all-encompassing agricultural sector. But with global rice prices falling and neighbouring countries such as Thailand and Vietnam mobilising their vast resources and workforces to boost domestic production, experts say the crop that has underpinned the nation’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Paul Millar
http://sea-globe.com/cambodia-future-rice/#
Schools to teach financial literacy
Financial literacy as a school subject to increase students’ knowledge about money will be introduced nationwide through the first phase of the Cambodian school Curriculum Project, with the Ministry of Education collaborating with the National Bank of Cambodia, Asian Development Bank, Good Return and the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5083840/schools-teach-financial-literacy/
Thailand repatriates 500 dead Cambodians
More than 500 dead Cambodians were repatriated from Thailand in the first six months of 2017, according to an Interior Ministry official. Chou Bun Eng, secretary of state at the ministry, said yesterday the 500 bodies were repatriated through three checkpoints in Banteay Meanchey province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5084746/thailand-repatriates-500-dead-cambodians/
Ministry of foreign affairs to build first diplomatic institute
The Foreign Affairs Ministry expects to complete construction on its first training institute for local diplomats in the next 18 months, officials said Monday. Foreign Affairs Ministry spokes-man Chum sounry said work on the National Institute for Diplomatic and Relations of International study began in December. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhorn Phearun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second2/ministry-foreign-affairs-build-first-diplomatic-institute-126811/
Phnom Penh air quality levels disputed
The first readings of the capital’s PM2.5 concentration, a major indicator of air quality, show that levels of the harmful particulates are “still low”, said Thiv sophearith, chief of the Ministry of Environment’s Air Quality, Noise and Vibration Office, though an environmental specialist yesterday challenged ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jovina Chua
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnom-penh-air-quality-levels-disputed