Villagers in Svay Rieng angry over planned canal
More than 200 villagers from three communes in Svay Rieng province on Saturday protested against a proposal to build a huge irrigation canal through their land, a local official said Sunday. The planned canal would stretch across Kraol Kor, Svay Yea and Chhoeuteal communes in Svay ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-in-svay-rieng-angry-over-planned-canal-58480/
VN to negotiate with Laos, Cambodia on transit fees for new air route
Airlines are taking a wait and see attitude about the proposed air route between Hanoi and HCM City that will fly over Cambodia and Laos airspace, cutting flight time compared to the current route. Experts have said that this will be the most economical air route ...
VietNamNet Bridge News Staff
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/110731/vn-to-negotiate-with-laos--cambodia-on-transit-fees-for-new-air-route.html
Cambodia set to have trade, labour courts by end of 2021
Minister of Justice Koeut Rith has directed the formation of two committees to begin the process of establishing separate courts for commercial and labour disputes. According to two decision letters issued on January 21, the committees are comprised of 20 members from the justice ministry, the ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-set-have-trade-labour-courts-end-2021
FDI flow drops 50 percent Jan-May
Foreign direct investment (FDI) fell 50 percent Jan-May from the same period in 2020, according to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Investment projects for the first five months of 2021 were valued at $825 million, a 59 percent drop from results for the same ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/889495/fdi-flow-drops-50-percent-jan-may/
Out-of-court resolution of disputes BAKC focus
Ly Chantola, president of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC), has outlined the body’s direction for 2024, with a primary focus on out-of-court dispute resolution in line with the priorities laid out by Prime Minister Hun Manet and the Ministry of Justice. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/out-court-resolution-disputes-bakc-focus
Cambodia seeks Malaysia’s support in electricity export project
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday urged Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for provision of support in the implementation of a privately-invested project for exporting renewable energy from Cambodia to Singapore as the former would need to install electrical cables under Malaysia’s seabed before ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501263141/cambodia-seeks-malaysias-support-in-electricity-export-project/
Japanese Ambassador Airs Concerns Over SEZ Shooting
Japanese Ambassador Masafumi Kuroki yesterday said he hoped the government arrests the gunman behind the Feb. 20 triple shooting of protesting workers in Svay Rieng province, and that safety must be ensured for investors in the special economic zone (SEZ) where the incident took place. ...
Union leader hits back at allegations
Free Trade Union president Chea Mony yesterday rejected a charge in court that he and two other FTU members incited workers to damage property during a mass strike last year at the M&V garment factory. During nearly two hours of questioning at the Kampong Chhnang provincial ...
Hun Sen’s Nephew Hits Back at Allegations
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s nephew Hun To hit back strongly yesterday at allegations published in a leading Australian newspaper, The Age, which linked him to an international drug smuggling and money laundering ring, demanding that the publisher print a retraction. Mr. To sent a letter to ...
Cassava more fruitful than rice in Kingdom, says UNDP study
The government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have called on farmers to grow cassava as a national policy on cassava production nears finalisation. A UNDP study on Friday found that investing in cassava can result in higher yields than investing in rice, rice ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cassava-more-fruitful-rice-kingdom-says-undp-study
Investment to aid low earners
US-BASED Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) yesterday signed a deal to provide a $5 million long-term loan to Thaneakea Phum (Cambodia) Ltd (TPC), a local microfinance institution (MFI), to support TPC’s expansion of its home improvement loans for low-income Cambodians. Fernanda Lima, director of US-based socially ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013022861653/Business/investment-to-aid-low-earners.html
Concessions Not for Logging, Hun Sen Says
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday told senior officials to stop investors from using land concessions as a pretext for logging and to discuss the possibility of reducing the amount of time such concessions can last. The government placed a moratorium on logging concessions in 2002 to ...
Garment Workers Go to Court Against Manager
Worker from the Ocean Garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district said they will file a complaint with the Phnom Penh Municipal Court today accusing a manager at the factory of sexual harassment, violence and verbally abusing female workers, union officials and garment workers ...
Tourism Industry's Growth Offers Job Creation For Local Labor Force
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia is trying to boost the tourism industry after its contribution to economic growth and offering job creation as ASEAN economic integration 2015 is moving and the free flow of workforce mobilization has been needed to help ensure steady growth. Cambodia’s tourism sector, in 2011, offered 350,000 direct jobs and millions of ...
Inspections over tainted milk start in markets
Government officials began inspecting markets across the country yesterday in search of baby formula containing an ingredient from New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra that could cause botulism, quality control representatives at the Ministry of Commerce said. “We informed all our officials directly to collect nationwide some ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/inspections-over-tainted-milk-start-markets
Three Cambodians Killed Illegally Logging Across Thai Border
Thai forestry officials killed three Cambodians who were illegally logging on Tuesday, in what they said was a shootout in Thailand’s Sisaket province, a border official said Wednesday. The latest deaths bring the number of Cambodians who have been shot while logging across the border this ...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-cambodians-killed-illegally-logging-across-thai-border-47532/
‘Big Man rule’ taken to task by UN envoy
UN special rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly Maina Kiai, who visited Cambodia two weeks ago, has called on the Kingdom to embrace regular changes in leadership and to take lessons from Africa’s strongman-riddled history, in a column published in Kenya’s Daily Union newspaper on ...
Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98big-man-rule%E2%80%99-taken-task-un-envoy
Scores of factories ‘set to sue’ over wage strike
The owners of 170 factories have handed power of attorney to the nation’s factories association ahead of a potential lawsuit directed at the leaders of six union groups. Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) secretary-general Ken Loo said yesterday that the factories would seek damages related ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/scores-factories-%E2%80%98set-sue%E2%80%99-over-wage-strike
Thai capital market should cater to Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar
Thailand’s capital market should aim to be a funding base for Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar to gain the full benefit from high growth in the Greater Mekong Subregion and a more integrated region through the Asean Economic Community (AEC), panellists at a Euromoney Conferences forum ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=MTc2MDk3YzQ2ZTI
PM: Media is gov’t development partner
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday commended three ministers for being open to journalists. Addressing some 6,000 attendees during the 4th media correspondents’ gala at the capital’s Koh Pich Convention and Exhibition Centre, he said Minister of National Defence Tea Banh, Minister of Interior Sar ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-media-govt-development-partner