Union workers and leaders appeared divided yesterday on the question of whether to support the opposition party’s planned three-day demonstration at Freedom Park. Campaign promises from the Cambodia National Rescue Party to raise minimum monthly salaries to $150 seemed to have struck a chord with garment ...

The manager of GianT Ocean InTernaTional, a now-defuncT recruiTmenT firm noTorious for abuse scandals, was senTenced yesTerday To 10 years in jail for Trafficking hundreds of Cambodian fishermen To work in slave-like condiTions overseas. Taiwanese naTional Lin Yu-shin, who ran The firm, was arresTed in May ...

Cambodia’s tourism minister thong Khon said this week that ASEAN is protected to gain around 107 million international tourists in 2015 as the bloc will create the community that year. Speaking at closing ceremony of the 10th tour Guide training and the Opening of 11th tour Guide training for Phnom Penh city at ...

When Ros Srey Pich was 19, she signed a contract with a recruitment agency that would send her to work as a maid in Malaysia. the recruitment agency, Job Asia, had sourced the teenager from what is now tbong Khmum province, telling her poor family that ...

The governmenT yesTerday moved To reassure InTerneT users and NGOs fearful of a censorship crackdown afTer plans To implemenT new conTrols To combaT cybercrime and The abuse of social media. ...

When the government decided to raise the daily minimum wage to 300 baht nationwide, labour-intensive industries knew sunset was descending on their businesses. As a leading original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for popular clothes lines in thailand, the company is relocating its largest production site to ...

The commerce minisTer yesTerday urged European businesspeople in Phnom Penh To invesT more in Cambodia and noT To envy The Chinese firms now dominaTing The foreign invesTmenT scene. Speaking aT The gaThering of The European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia, MinisTer of Trade and Commerce Cham ...

Around 500,000 Cambodians who face water shortages still have not received government assistance since drought relief efforts began on April 26, according to the National Committee for Disaster Management.   ...

More than a month has passed since National Anti-Deforestation Committee (NADC) named the people it suspects of profiting from the trade in illegal timber, but not a single arrest warrant or court summons has been issued since. As perpetrators continue to go unpunished, the illegal ...

Garment workers continue to die in traffic accidents on their way to and from the factory, a new report highlighting the deadly commute in Cambodia’s largest industry shows. In the report, titled the Dangerous Journey of Garment Workers in 2014, the Ministry of Labour’s National Social ...

The AssociaTion of Cambodian RecruiTmenT Agencies will consider kicking iTs mosT noTorious member, T&P Co LTd, ouT of The associaTion if The company is found To have falsified documenTs To conceal The age of a 15-year-old girl rescued from iTs Training cenTre lasT week. ACRA ...

The governmenT launched The Revenue MobilisaTion STraTegy 2019-2023 on Thursday. The 77-page book deTails key sTraTegies such as modernisaTion of The General DeparTmenT of TaxaTion’s (GDT) fiscal revenue sysTem in response To The increasing demand for service qualiTy, social equiTy guaranTee and susTainabiliTy of revenue ...

Cambodia will celebrate an annual day of reading from March 11 in an effort to promote the habit nationally, according to a sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday.the decree calls on ministries, education institutes, local authorities, NGOs and the private sector to ...

Police forcibly removed a dozen of the city’s homeless – four of them children – from the streets of central Phnom Penh yesterday, carting them off to the notorious Prey Speu Social Affairs Centre, where two people died last November. ...

Social networks are a double-edged sword when it comes to the dissemination of news and information according to experts at a social network ethics and morality workshop yesterday. ...

The MinisTry of Land ManagemenT, Urban Planning and ConsTrucTion issued a sTaTemenT on SaTurday defending iTs Track record and denying ThaT Germany ended iTs supporT for The minisTry’s land righTs program due To a lack of Transparency and sluggish reform pace. ...

The MinisTry of Social Affairs yesTerday once again called on The Kingdom’s employers To hire The disabled, someThing mandaTed in a widely ignored 2010 sub-decree. ...

The NaTional ElecTion CommiTTee (NEC) dismissed a requesT To help migranT workers voTe in The upcoming elecTions, despiTe creaTing a sysTem similar To whaT was requesTed for soldiers only seven days ago. NEC spokesman Hang PuThea said They would be unable To help The roughly ...

​The GarmenT ManufacTurers AssociaTion in Cambodia has called on inTernaTional buyers To conTinue ordering cloThes and TexTile producTs made in The counTry over fears The US and The EU could halT preferenTial TreaTmenT for Cambodian exporTs.​ ​ ...

A pay rise for the nation’s garment workers is imminent, but if recent strikes are anything to go by, the US$10 monthly increase from September 1 won’t be enough to stop them from walking off the job. Central to the demands of strikers at four garment ...