Garment union will not protest wage
One of Cambodia’s most prominent garment worker unions, which had battled for a $140 minimum monthly wage in the sector, has decided not to hold street protests against the $128 figure decided by the government on Wednesday. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/garment-union-will-not-protest-wage
Cambodia Angkor Air plans network and fleet expansion ahead of PAL-backed Cambodia Airlines launch
Cambodia Angkor Air is planning rapid fleet and network expansion as competition intensifies in the Cambodian market. The Cambodian flag carrier is expected to more than double its fleet by the end of 2015 and launch services to several new markets, including mainland China, Hong ...
Mikasa's Koh Rong factory Sees it join Japanese influx
Mikasa Corporation, a famous Japanese sports goods manufacturing company, is to invest more than $5 million in building a ball production factory in Cambodia’s Koh Kong Special Economic Zone (KKSEZ) and plans to start construction early next year according to officials. Hiroshi Suzuki, chief executive ...
VENG Seang Hai
Managing EditorVENG Seang Hai has joined Open Development Cambodia (ODC) since 2023 in the role of Managing Editor, providing both operational and technical assistance to the Executive Editor/Editor-in-Chief and to the ODC team as a whole. He works closely together with ODC’s Editors team to ...
Stock exchange ready for SMEs
The Federation of Associations for Small and Medium Enterprises of Cambodia (FASMEC) sees small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) as the engine to drive growth on the local stock market, while the companies already listed have been growing steadily. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25855/stock-exchange-ready-for-smes/
Laos, Cambodia set for more listings
Private companies and state enterprises are expected to raise large amounts of funds via the stock exchanges in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia over the next several years. More private firms will list on the Cambodian and Laotian bourses next year, their executives told media yesterday at ...
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Laos-Cambodia-set-for-more-listings-30189439.html
Chinese company unveils development plan for eco-tourism farm in northeastern Cambodia
Macao’s Guo Hong (International) Investment and Development Co. Ltd was officially launched in Cambodia on Monday with an investment plan in developing a large- scale eco-tourism farm in northeastern Cambodia, the company’s Managing Director Wu Jinlong said. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140623/chinese-company-unveils-development-plan-eco-tourism-farm-no
Hun Sen says Hydropower Is the Key to Stable Electricity Prices
Cambodia’s focus on hydropower will reduce its independence on oil and ensure nationwide access to electricity at a stable price, Prime Minister Hun Sen said in a speech Saturday during the inauguration of a $47.1 million hydropower dam in Koh Kong province. However environmental groups ...
Temple visits slow after clash
Tourists are still wary about travelling to Preah Vihear temple following border clashes in the area earlier this year, according to provincial officials. Visitor numbers had declined 15.5 per cent during the first seven months compared year on year, but had slowly begun rising in ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011082651273/Business/temple-visits-slow-after-clash.html
Mekong tourism fest opens
The Mekong Tourism Festival, with the Mekong Food Tourism Summit as one of the highlights, starts today in the Kingdom’s tourist haven of Sihanoukville. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26835/mekong-tourism-fest-opens/
Trat businesses prepare for boon as Cambodian industrial estate opens
Businesses in Trat province have been told by officials to shape up and prepare for massive new opportunities when Cambodia opens the Koh Kong Industrial Estate later this month. The industrial estate, close to the Trat border, will be inaugurated by Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen ...
Thai Sugar Firm Meets With Koh Kong Evictees
Koh Kong Sugar has offered to settle its yearslong dispute with Cambodian families who accuse its plantations of stealing their land, but the farmers remain wary of being able to secure a fair deal. The firm, a subsidiary of Thailand’s Khon Kaen Sugar Industry Limited (KSL), ...
Zsombor Peter and Chhorn Chansy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thai-sugar-firm-meets-with-koh-kong-evictees-46811/
New fees, political crisis mean fewer businesses
The number of new businesses registering in Cambodia continued to plummet through the third quarter of this year amid tightened rules for start-ups and waning investor confidence following the still-unresolved national elections. Data from the Ministry of Commerce yesterday showed that 853 new businesses registered with ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-fees-political-crisis-mean-fewer-businesses
Cambodia’s tourism short of staff
Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism says the country’s tourism sector is growing at an unsustainable rate that will cause a massive shortfall in skilled tourism-related labour. The ministry’s statistics department director, Kong Sopheareak, told local media that as tourist arrivals increase substantially every year, the challenge is ...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/05/cambodias-tourism-short-of-staff/
Coca-Cola Company confirms audit of Cambodian suppliers
The Coca-Cola Company on Thursday confirmed that it has sent a team to Cambodia to assess long-running allegations of land grabbing and forced evictions at the sugar cane plantations that help sweeten the global drinks giant’s sodas. The team’s visit follows the company’s pledge in November ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/coca-cola-company-confirms-audit-of-cambodian-suppliers-53328/
Bandith, his victims appeal
The Supreme Court yesterday refused to hear an appeal filed by three garment workers shot by disgraced Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith during a 2012 demonstration, since Bandith’s lawyer did not turn up to court. Bandith was sentenced to 18 months in prison in June last ...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/bandith-his-victims-appeal
Montagnards flee R’kiri police said
A group of nine Montagnard asylum seekers hiding out in Ratanakkiri province had a close brush with law enforcement officials yesterday, even as a new group of the Vietnamese ethnic minority crossed the border into Cambodia, a rights group and a villager helping the hiding ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/montagnards-flee-rkiri-police-raid
Garment factories, unions edge closer to wage deal
Some of the unions that have been demanding a hefty $77 raise to the current monthly minimum wage of $100 for the country’s garment workers said Thursday they were willing to go as low as a $35 increase, though others refused to budge. ...
Mech Dara and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/garment-factories-unions-edge-closer-to-wage-deal-70154/
Land concession cancelled by PM
The Cambodian government has cancelled a 14,981-hectare concession in the Cardamom mountains granted to an Australian firm for a banana plantation, the conservation group Wildlife Alliance has reported. Wildlife Alliance has long lobbied against the concession in Koh Kong province’s southern cardamom forest on which Indochina ...
Gov’t Unveils Legal Plan to Break Garment Industry Strike
As mass demonstrations by garment factory workers continued Monday, the government laid out plans to bring an end to the labor unrest within the next three days, including suing union leaders in the courts and mobilizing security forces to take unspecified action. Signed by Council ...
Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-unveils-legal-plan-to-break-garment-industry-strike-49763/