Gov’t pledges to cut red tape
In a bid to make Cambodia more busIness-friendly, the government will cut back on red tape and reduce Industry membership costs, Sun Chanthol, the new mInister of commerce, said yesterday. SpeakIng to representatives from the private sector at a conference at the InterContInental Hotel In Phnom ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gov%E2%80%99t-pledges-cut-red-tape
Cintri in contract negotiations with all Phnom Penh districts
Phnom Penh’s beleaguered trash-collection company, Cintri, is in the process of creating new contracts with each of the city’s 12 districts, an official from the firm said on Thursday. ...
Sek Odom and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cintri-in-contract-negotiations-with-all-phnom-penh-districts-100982/
City to co-operate in all fields with Cambodia
HCM City plans further cooperation with Cambodia in all areas, including trade, healthcare, agriculture, and education and training, according to Le Hoang Quan, chairman of the city’s People’s Committee. The project to build the Cho Ray – Phnom Penh Hospital, with a capacity of 500 ...
Firm Given Rights to All ELC Timber in Ratanakkiri
The Ministry of Agriculture has signed a deal with Try Pheap Import Export to give the firm the right to purchase all timber felled in economic land concessions (ELCs) in Ratanakkiri province, according to a letter sent from the Agriculture Ministry to the Forestry Administration ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/firm-given-rights-to-all-elc-timber-in-ratanakkiri-22788/
All quiet in Siem Reap for houses and land
Although Siem Reap is known as the land of smiles, the growth of the culture, civilization and power, the real estate sector in the province for the first six months of 2013 has not increased a great deal. The buying or selling of properties in Siem ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/all-quiet-siem-reap-houses-and-land
Dry season rice crop jeopardized
The Center for Study and Development of Agriculture (Cedac) is calling on the government and microfinance firms to issue low-interest loans for flood-stricken farmers in order to save this year’s dry season rice harvest. Floods have destroyed 10 percent of the rainy season rice crop and ...
UN, Gov’t move to end violence against women
The United Nations and the Cambodian Ministry of Women’s Affairs will organize four major events across the country to raise awareness of the need to end violence against women and girls, according to a UN Women’s statement on Wednesday. ...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18114/un--gov---t-move-to-end-violence-against-women/
Land activists targeted, rights groups say
Prominent female land activists Tim Sakmony and Yorm Bopha, who have been locked in Prey Sar prison since their arrest in early September, will face court today on charges rights groups say have been fabricated to stop them and others from protesting. Hundreds of the women’s ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2012122660488/National/land-activists-targeted-rights-groups-say.html
Boeung Kak women on hunger strike
Four Boeung Kak women convicted to two-and-a-half years in Prey Sar prison went on a hunger strike yesterday as their husbands and children led a 200-strong rally outside, the husband of imprisoned village representative Tep Vanny told the Post. ...
ILO: women still lag behind in education
Despite making some gains, Cambodian women continue to fall well short of their male counterparts when it comes to education and position in the labour market, a study released yesterday by the international Labor Organization reports. Men account for just five per cent more of Cambodia’s ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ilo-women-still-lag-behind-education
Micro-life insurance on rise
When 46-year-old Than Thol got a $900 loan from Samic Microfinance last year, he took advantage of a little-known and lengthily worded insurance program called Measure for Economic and Accelerated Development for all, or MEADA. MEADA provides coverage for families of mostly lower-income borrowers in the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060466033/Business/micro-life-insurance-on-rise.html
‘Relief reaches all communes’
Relief efforts continued this week in the wake of tropical storm Vamco, which rolled into Cambodia from Vietnam, bringing torrential rain, strong winds and flooding last week. ...
Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16091/---relief-reaches-all-communes---/
Union Reps Questioned Over Violent Protests
The Interior MInistry’s penal department on Monday questioned two representatives of the Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions (CATU) over claims that they Incited violence durIng protests at a Kandal provInce garment factory In late December. Jack Liu, director-general of TaInan Enterprises (Cambodia) Co. Ltd., filed a ...
Aun Pheap and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/union-reps-questioned-over-violent-protests-51076/
GMAC calls for halt to ongoing protest in Bavet’s Special Economic Zone
Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) appealed to Labor Minister Ith Samheng, and relevant institutions to immediately stop ongoing protests at Tai Seng and Manhattan Special Economic Zone in Svay Rieng’s Bavet town. Workers led by Mr. Pav Sina, President of Collective Unions of Movement of ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NzcxYmUyMDJlMTl
Association a shoe-in
Cambodia has approved the creation of a footwear association under the umbrella of the Garment Manufacturers’ Association in Cambodia. 37 of the country’s 38 footwear factories agreed to the creation of a representative body for their industry. The footwear industry is said to have exported ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011070750242/Business/association-a-shoe-in.html
GMAC is confident the EU won’t suspend EBA scheme
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has expressed confidence that the probability of the European Union (EU) suspending the Kingdom’s access to its Everything But Arms (EBA) scheme is “very low”. GMAC deputy secretary-general Kiang Monika said his belief is based on the fact ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gmac-confident-eu-wont-suspend-eba-scheme
Local officials urged to work with everyone regardless of politics, religion
Minister of interior Sar Kheng on Wednesday instructed police officials and local authorities to serve the people without considering political affiliations or religion. in the handover ceremony of 1,646 motorbikes to police stations nationwide, Kheng told police officials that they must serve the people regardless ...
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/
Panel advises Cambodia on sustainable resource development
Officials from 14 governments gathered in Siem Reap on Wednesday to discuss sustainable development of extractive industries in the regions, urging Cambodia to take stock of its oil, gas and mineral reserves and device mechanism to develop these resources sustainably. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22619/panel-advises-cambodia-on-sustainable-resource-development/
Minister wants access to Thai port
The commerce minister has once again called on Thailand to consider giving access to Cambodian agricultural products to transit to the Thai port of Laem Chabang before being exported to a third country. The minister also called for a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to be signed ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27000/minister-wants-access-to-thai-port/