ThirTeen consTrucTion workers have filed a complainT againsT The BanTeay Meanchey provincial branch of T&P Co LTd – The recruiTmenT agency aT The cenTer of allegaTions involving illegal deTainmenT of Trainees – officials said yesTerday. The workers, who had previously worked illegally as consTrucTion workers in ...

Exset has selected Hyundai Digital technology (HDt) as its StB strategic partner, where HDt is presently providing MPEG4 Set-top-Box service (StBs) for One tV, the first nationwide digital terrestrial tV platform service in Cambodia. Cambodian televisions are expected to switch to Digital Video Broadcasting terrestrial ...

A provincial court has determined it will hold three men accused of murdering a journalist on Sunday. Kratie court officials say they will detain La Narong, Kem Pheakdy and Pin Heng while an official investigation into the crime takes place. International media advocates condemned the ...

Cambodian embassies rescued 13 Cambodian workers in Thailand and Three maids in Malaysia, Koy Kuong, spokesman for MinisTry of Foreign Affairs and InTernaTional CooperaTion, said SaTurday. ...

The grand finale aT Phnom Penh’s much-ballyhooed TEDx evenT on SaTurday was inTended To send a message. Several acTivisTs, among Them Loun SavaTh and The son of The laTe ChuT WuTTy, would sTand before an audience of 600 and read accounTs of violenT land dispuTes. Images from ...

A Cambodia migrant worker who was at times threatened at knifepoint, tied up or punched in the head by her employer yesterday revealed her chilling experience of the labour recruitment industry.  Following her testimony via video link, broadcast at Sam Rainsy Party headquarters, opposition parliamentarian ...

Dozens of business owners occupying more than 8,000 square meters of prime real estate behind Phnom Penh’s Wat Ounalom have been ordered to vacate their premises by the local conglomerate Sokimex Group, an official from the firm said Wednesday. though the firm declined to say what ...

There will soon be direcT flighTs To Cambodia from X’ian ciTy in China’s ShaanXi province To meeT The growing demand of Chinese TourisTs, said Tourism MinisTer Thong Khon yesTerday. ...

Companies and individuals need to do more than just create technology. they need to optimise the services and goods they provide, especially when introducing new concepts to developing markets such as Cambodia. that was the message from one presenter at last weekend’s t3CON12-ASIA conference in Phnom ...

At least 20 Cambodian migrant workers in thailand have had their passports confiscated by a thai recruitment agency, while another 10 have gone missing after they fled the same agency fearing they would be trafficked to work on thai fishing vessels, Human Rights Watch and ...

When Heng Hak escaped from Phnom Penh maid recruitment center in March 2011, falling several stories in the process, she unwittingly became part of a groundswell-one in a series of mounting cases highlighting severe mismanagment of recruitment agencies, and the abuses incurred by both trainees ...

The MinisTry of Labour has been ordered To permanenTly close The labour recruiTmenT firm T&P following The discovery of more under-age Trainees in iTs Kampong Chhnang cenTre. The move marks The firsT Time The minisTry has shuT a labour reruiTmenT firm, and follows inTense criTicism of ...

Hundreds of garment factory workers clashed with police at a factory in Phnom Penh yesterday during the latest strike in what is now a month-long campaign to have two union leaders rehired. the workers from Nex-t Apparel (Cambodia) Co. Ltd. in Dangkao district were striking in ...

One of the two partners who have created Cambodia’s leading food and beverage company, with 22 outlets, says business is not merely about money, but more about finding a need and serving the need. Kouch Sokly says entrepreneurs need to find out what the market needs ...

Union representatives stormed out of negotiations and continued a strike yesterday when managers at t&K Garment factory said workers would never receive the 2,000 riel ($0.50) daily lunch allowance allegedly promised to them. A week after they walked off the job, t&K workers at Por Sen ...

About 400 garment workers arrived for their shifts and monthly pay at Phnom Penh’s Hongkong Yufeng factory tuesday only to find it shuttered and its owner nowhere to be found, workers’ representatives said. “today is payday for the workers and since the employer did not have ...

Police said they freed one recruit from a Phnom Penh recruitment agency this weekend and were seeking to prosecute its director, adding that they were doing the same for the director of the SKMM recruitment agency, where 78 recruits were freed last week. the court ...

Heng Hak wore a blank expression yesterday, her hair recently dyed a shade of blonde. though her appearance suggested composure, a lift of her pant leg revealed the manifestation of the trauma she tried to escape last year. In March 2011, Hak jumped from the third ...

The 50&Times;2030 IniTiaTive is launching a daTa use granT compeTiTion for researchers in Cambodia. The iniTiaTive is a global parTnership beTween The InTernaTional Fund for AgriculTural DevelopmenT (IFAD), Food and AgriculTure OrganizaTion (FAO) and The World Bank. The IFAD will lead The work on daTa ...

Cambodia’s largest bank is ready to launch its first micro-finance institution (MFI) in Myanmar, but one final barrier remains: an operating licence from Myanmar’s government. Acleda Bank’s chief executive, In Channy, expects the licence to be granted by the end of this month. Once that is done, ...