All Nippon Airways mulls direct flight to Kingdom
Cambodian officials and Japanese airline All Nippon Airways discussed on Friday the possibility of starting a direct flight between the Kingdom and Japan next year, in a bid to facilitate the increase in bilateral business and investment transactions, according to a State Secretariat of Civil ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/all-nippon-airways-mulls-direct-flight-kingdom
Dearth of job security for young workers: org
Employers in the Kingdom need to draw up more contracts with their young workers to keep them from being exploited and left in the dark in case of a dispute, a youth NGO urged yesterday. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dearth-job-security-young-workers-org
Malaysian firm wagers on Sihanoukville's potential
An obscure Malaysian company has obtained approval from Cambodia’s Council of Ministers to develop hotels and casinos in Sihanoukville, with an online promotional video claiming the firm will transform the coastal city into the “Macau of Southeast Asia.” ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/malaysian-firm-wagers-sihanoukvilles-potential
Cambodia’s insurance premium up 38 pct in Q1
The insurance industry in Cambodia reported a 38-percent increase in gross premium in the first quarter of 2016 over the same period last year, the Insurance Association of Cambodia (IAC) said on Sunday. ...
Khmer Times Team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24711/cambodia---s-insurance-premium-up-38-pct-in-q1/
Fuel prices steadily increase
Nearly four months after the Ministry of Commerce implemented a fuel-pricing mechanism that lowered prices at the pump to reflect the fall in the global commodity last March, petrol prices have inched back up to pre-intervention levels. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/fuel-prices-steadily-increase
Malaysian businessmen urged to invest in Cambodia
The President of the Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC), a leading organization representing the private sector in the Kingdom, has urged Malaysian investors and businessmen to invest in and do business with Cambodia to forge a stronger relationship between the two Asean states. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25770/malaysian-businessmen-urged-to-invest-in-cambodia/
Illegal migrants to be deported
Sixty illegal Vietnamese and Chinese laborers were arrested in Kampot province yesterday. ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25867/illegal-migrants-to-be-deported/
Fee proposed on plastic bags
The government has proposed slugging shoppers 500 riel for plastic bags in a bid to reduce environmental pollution. A draft prakas on plastic bags that would include the fee was reviewed yesterday in a Department of Environment workshop attended by government representatives along with mall and ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fee-proposed-plastic-bags
Review finds economy resilient to challenges
The National Bank of Cambodia released its annual report yesterday, citing strong growth in 2015 despite challenging economic circumstances caused by a Chinese economic slowdown, increased regional competitiveness and the appreciation of the US dollar. ...
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/review-finds-economy-resilient-challenges
Tourism duo took bribes: ministry
Two officials from the Ministry of Tourism were found by the ministry to have taken bribes of up to $3,000 from candidates for tour-guide examinations in Siem Reap, though neither of the officials have been fired. ...
Chhay Channyda and Zoe Holman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tourism-duo-took-bribes-ministry
Draft Telecoms law approved by council of ministers
The Council of Ministers on Friday signed off on a potentially sweeping draft law that would regulate the country’s telecommunications sector, which a rights group warned in May could effectively nationalize private service providers. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/draft-telecoms-law-approved-by-council-of-ministers-97072/
Authorities threaten protesting unionists with crackdown
A police official in Kompong Speu province said Thursday that the military might confront garment workers protesting the arrests of two colleagues if they did not stop demonstrating outside provincial government buildings.Around 600 workers from the Hong Kong-owned Agile Sweater factory protested outside the provincial ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/authorities-threaten-protesting-unionists-with-crackdown-98060/
Ministry to postpone TV broadcast regulations
The Information Ministry announced Monday that it would push back by two months a deadline for all 17 local television stations to broadcast only Cambodian-produced content during prime time. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-to-postpone-tv-broadcast-regulations-98398/
Difficult rainy season ends
As a fickle rainy season that has seen areas of the country plagued by drought draws to a close, Cambodia’s rice production remains nearly on target, though food insecurity is still a problem for individual communities, according to the World Food Programme.The season’s slow start ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/difficult-rainy-season-ends
Vietnam agrees to hasten border demarcation
Cambodia and Vietnam agreed to hasten the demarcation of their shared border and not allow “hostile forces” and “extremists” to threaten security during a two-day meeting in Ho Chi Minh City that wrapped up Wednesday, according to Vietnamese and Cambodian newspapers. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vietnam-agrees-to-hasten-border-demarcation-98802/
Kingdom at high risk of natural disasters
A report released on Monday by the United Nations and the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) shows that Cambodia’s population is among the world’s 10 most affected by natural disasters. ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-high-risk-natural-disasters
Cause of Salmonella infection spikes still a mystery
In the summer of 2013, the French government sent out an alert to health agencies throughout Europe of a spike in travelers recently returned from Cambodia needing treatment in hospitals after exposure to a rare strain of salmonella. By the fall, 34 patients in France, ...
James Reddick
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18249/cause-of-salmonella-infection-spikes-still-a-mystery/
Ratanakkiri prison director accused of abuses
Dozens of officials at Ratanakkiri Provincial Prison have called for the director of the facility to be removed, citing a wide range of violations, including having sex with a female inmate, permitting unsanctioned prison labour and pocketing money paid in exchange for benefits. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-prison-director-accused-abuses
Workers demand outstanding wages
Up to 90 former workers from defunct Korean-owned Keohwea International Garment Factory gathered in front of the vacant factory building in Kampong Speu’s Kaheng commune yesterday morning to demand that the owner of the building sell the machinery left there by the Korean business owner, ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18952/workers-demand-outstanding-wages/
Rubber association to appeal for suspension of export tax
The Association for Rubber Development in Cambodia will submit a letter to the government asking it to suspend export taxes on rubber due to the sharp decline in its price and to prevent more farmers from going out of business, its secretary general, Men Sopheak, ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21034/rubber-association-to-appeal-for-suspension-of-export-tax/