Postal service delivers new partner
Kerry Express, a subsidiary of WorldBridge International (Cambodia), yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with state-owned Cambodia Post to expand delivery services in the Kingdom, executives and officials said after signing the MoU yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21220/postal-service-delivers-new-partner/
Labour ministry eyes minimum wage law
The Ministry of Labour is eyeing the creation of a draft law that would codify the sometimes-nebulous process that determines the garment industry’s minimum wage, attendees at the ministry’s annual meeting were told last week. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/labour-ministry-eyes-minimum-wage-law
Project to stop violence against women launched
A new project aimed at reducing violence against women in the Kingdom was launched yesterday at the Hotel Cambodiana. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26174/project-to-stop-violence-against-women-launched/
Health Ministry acknowledges ‘complications’ in nod to CNM graft
The Ministry of Health this week called for closer oversight of contract employees and acknowledged “inappropriate phenomena” in paperwork filed by mid-level officials, an admission that comes just over a month after evidence came to light of widespread graft at the Kingdom’s National Malaria Centre ...
Bun Sengkong and Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-ministry-acknowledges-complications-nod-cnm-graft
Rosewood exports undercut UN protections
Cambodia exported hundreds of millions of dollars worth of threatened Siamese rosewood in the 18 months after ratifying a 2013 international protocol designed to protect the species from destructive trade, according to a report released on Friday. ...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rosewood-exports-undercut-un-protections-114612/
Gov’t, GMAC meet over minimum wage
The Ministry of Labour yesterday met with the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia, the industry trade group, to discuss the reasons behind the latter’s proposal of a $144 monthly minimum wage. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-gmac-meet-over-minimum-wage
Minimum wage for teachers to be $230 by April
Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday that the minimum wage for teachers is set to exceed $230 (about 950,000 riel), not including additional bonuses, come April next year. During a graduation ceremony for Cambodia University for Specialties students at Koh Pich, Mr. Hun Sen said the ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30315/minimum-wage-for-teachers-to-be--230-by-april/
With connectivity boom, Cambodia's political battles shift online
In September 2015, a Facebook page bearing the name of Prime Minister Hun Sen notched up its millionth “like.” Until then, the long-serving Cambodian leader had denied ever using social media, making fun of political rivals, like opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who were active online. ...
Sebastian Strangio
http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/With-connectivity-boom-Cambodia-s-political-battles-shift-online
Six provincial governors selected for retirement
Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng has announced that six new provincial governors have been selected to replace those who have reached retirement age, denying the move has anything to do with the old governors’ performances. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22492/six-provincial-governors-selected-for-retirement/
Shift to tech curbs corruption: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said the government is now paying almost all civil servants’ salaries and collecting taxes using technology, rather than relying on officials to handle cash, which reduces corruption. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22539/shift-to-tech-curbs-corruption--pm/
Detained migrant workers get Thai work permits
More than 20 Cambodian migrants who had been working at two pig farms in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province have been given work permits and allowed to remain in the country after they were found to have been working without proper documents. The move followed intervention from ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23701/detained-migrant-workers-get-thai-work-permits/
Two more nauru refugees volunteer to resettle in Cambodia
Two more refugees being held by Australia in an offshore detention facility have volunteered to relocate to Cambodia, an immigration official said on Wednesday, a sign that the teetering resettlement deal between the two countries has yet to run its course. ...
Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-more-nauru-refugees-volunteer-to-resettle-in-cambodia-112184/
Panama papers link Justice minister to fraudsters
Two convicted Cambodian-American fraudsters were named among five shareholders, including Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana, in a shadowy offshore company based in the British Virgin Islands in the latest trove of “Panama Papers,” which were released on Tuesday. ...
Taylor O'Connell and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/panama-papers-link-justice-minister-to-fraudsters-112429/
Minimum wage talks scheduled
The Ministry of Labor has instructed employers and unions in the country’s crucial garment sector to begin preparations for the next round of minimum wage negotiations. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minimum-wage-talks-scheduled-113638/
Government sets dates for auction of final lots of seized timber
The government has set the dates to auction off the last of the 71,000 cubic meters of illegally logged timber seized by authorities this year, carrying on a practice riddled with signs of corruption in the past. ...
Affordable houses for all
A public housing project, which aims to provide affordable housing for the lower middle class, low-income earners and state workers, is due to start at the end of the year after the completion of a study to determine its feasibility. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26739/affordable-houses-for-all/
New centre for mentally ill planned in wake of Prey Speu mass escape
After a mass escape of 70 inmates from the notorious Prey Speu centre on Sunday, the government said they would take mentally ill people rounded up off the streets and house them on the same site as a Kandal orphanage. ...
Kong Meta and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-centre-mentally-ill-planned-wake-prey-speu-mass-escape
Auctions called off for most of seized timber
The government has given up on trying to auction off the majority of 71,000 cubic meters of illegally logged timber seized by authorities earlier this year amid a persistent lack of interest from potential buyers. រដ្ឋាភិបាលបានបញ្ឈប់ការព្យាយាមលក់ដេញថ្លៃចំពោះឈើភាគច្រើននៃចំនួនសរុប ៧១ ០០០ ម៉ែត្រគូប ដែលបានមកពីការរឹបអូសដោយអាជ្ញាធរកាលពីដើមឆ្នាំនេះ ខណៈពេលដែលមានកង្វះខាតនៃចំណាប់អារម្មណ៍ពីអ្នកទិញ។ ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/auctions-called-off-for-most-of-seized-timber-116042/
32 Vietnamese arrested in Phnom Penh immigration raids
Thirty-two Vietnamese nationals were arrested during raids by immigration police in Phnom Penh’s Toul Kork district yesterday morning, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Keo Vanthorn. ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/32-vietnamese-arrested-phnom-penh-immigration-raids
Protect coastal areas: government
Following an unusually high number of drownings in coastal areas in the past month, the Ministry of Tourism has instructed the tourism departments in coastal provinces to continue to collaborate with relevant authorities to ensure safety, public order and cleanliness. A statement released by Minister of ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28926/protect-coastal-areas--government/