Extra scrutiny of teachers urged
The arrest on Saturday of a registered British sex offender, employed at a Phnom Penh school for the past year, has cast doubt on the screening of foreign nationals working with children in Cambodia.With wanted sex offender Paul Prestige’s extradition pending, the British Embassy yesterday ...
Zoe Holman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/extra-scrutiny-teachers-urged
Health minister says time needed on Formula
The health minister on Friday defended the government’s failure to fine or shut down any of the private clinics that are currently illegally promoting baby formula to new mothers, saying that more time was needed for committees to “investigate” the breaches. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/health-minister-says-time-needed-on-formula-99679/
Smartphone ownership exploded since ’13: study
The number of Cambodians who own at least one smartphone has almost doubled since 2013, helping put the Kingdom on track to having more than half of its population accessing the web in about a year, according to a new study.Almost 95 per cent of ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/smartphone-ownership-exploded-13-study
Cambodia to gain as Adidas pivots from China
Adidas, one of the country’s biggest garment buyers, says it will expand production in Cambodia over the next five years as part of its pivot away from China to lower-cost producers in Southeast Asia. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-to-gain-as-adidas-pivots-from-china-103163/
Controversial union law set for final review
The head of the National Assembly’s legislation commission said he hoped to have a controversial draft union law passed “very soon” after the latest round of feedback from unions and employers during a public workshop at Parliament on Wednesday. ...
Zsombor Peter and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/controversial-union-law-set-for-final-review-109689/
Government taking inventory of fuel stocks
The Ministry of Commerce is visiting the Kingdom’s petroleum importers to check their inventories following the release of new regulations this week that require the companies to maintain and report their stock levels, a ministry official said yesterday. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-taking-inventory-fuel-stocks
Italy to set up chamber of commerce
Italy will set up a chamber of commerce in Cambodia this year with the aim of promoting and strengthening trade and investment opportunities in the kingdom. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34290/italy-to-set-up-chamber-of-commerce/
Factories to foot the bill for new worker benefits
Garment and footwear manufacturers have called on the government to provide facilities to help offset the higher costs on production that they will face as the result of a benefits package that Prime Minister Hun Sen pledged to garment factory workers this week. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/factories-foot-bill-new-worker-benefits
GMAC calls on government to help offset rising labour costs
The industry body representing Cambodia’s garment sector issued a statement yesterday urging the government to help manufacturers reduce the cost of doing business in order to offset a higher minimum wage and workers benefit package due to come into effect on January 1. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gmac-calls-government-help-offset-rising-labour-costs
US demining funding reaches $124m: report
Cambodia received some $124 million between 1993 and 2016, second only to Laos in the region. Mines and unexploded ordnance kill and injure some 100 people annually in Cambodia, keeping poor communities impoverished by limiting access to farmland, the report states. ...
Men Kimseng
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/us-demining-funding-reaches-124million-according-to-report/4165389.html
Government stonewalling on relocating refugees?
Refugee advocates have welcomed plans from the United Nations to relocate 36 Montagnard asylum seekers to a third country, but the Cambodian government yesterday remained silent as to why it has so far failed to cooperate. ...
Erin Handley and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-stonewalling-relocating-refugees
Interest in going organic grows with local farmers
The Cambodian Centre for Study and Development in Agriculture (Cedac), an organisation that supports local farming families and agricultural development projects, has seen strong interest in organic farming and expects to double the number of certified organic farmers and area under cultivation within a year. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/interest-going-organic-grows-local-farmers
Hun Sen says he, not Untac, brought peace to Cambodia in 90s
Three days ahead of the highly politicised January 7 holiday marking the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday slammed the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia (Untac) for its alleged failure to bring peace to Cambodia in the 1990s, instead claiming his ...
Ben Sokhean and Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/hun-sen-says-he-not-untac-brought-peace-cambodia-90s
UN unemployment project expanded
The Ministry of Labour and United Nations yesterday pledged to continue working on a project that is aiding young women and men in their search for decent and productive employment opportunities. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109497/un-unemployment-project-expanded/
Rubber exports keep rising
Rubber exports have continued to rise in the first nine months of the year, despite the fall and current stagnation of prices as global demand continues to stall, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF). ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31095/rubber-exports-keep-rising/
UN vows Khmer Rouge trial aid
Cambodia and the United Nations have vowed to find more funds to support the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, according to the Council of Ministers. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36896/un-vows-khmer-rouge-trial-aid/
Cambodia lags Asean peers in eliminating tariffs
More than 96 percent of tariffs in Asean have been eliminated, but certain parts of the 10-nation economic bloc including Cambodia lag behind others in full implementation of the Asean Trade in Goods Agreement (Atiga), the Ministry of Commerce said in a Facebook post yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-lags-asean-peers-eliminating-tariffs
Trade Expo Links Vietnam, Cambodia Military Firms
The 2013 Vietnam-Cambodia trade fair will commence on Nov 14 in Cambodia’s capital city Phnom Penh, said a representative from the Defence Ministry at a press briefing on Friday According to the organising board, some 200 Vietnamese enterprises have registered with more than 300 booths ...
Saigon-GP Daily News Staff
http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Business/2013/10/106621/
Ongoing woes for Cambodian workers in Thailand
Thailand’s political crisis could create ongoing problems for Cambodian migrant workers, especially night time curfew, a development expert says. Ya Navuth, executive director of Caram Cambodia, said undocumented Cambodian workers in Thailand may not know about the curfew and could be arrested when they travel. ...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/ongoing-woes-for-cambodian-workers-in-thailand/1928562.html
2 charged for trafficking Cambodians
A Cambodian court charged two men for trying to smuggle 23 people into Thailand to work, a report said Monday. ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/431147/2-charged-for-trafficking-cambodians