Civil servant wages under new ministry
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday outlined the role of the newly christened Ministry of Public Function, explaining that the body would oversee the reform of the Kingdom’s civil service, including the salaries of its employees – a major plank in the opposition’s campaign platform. As a ...
Chhay Channyda and Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/civil-servant-wages-under-new-ministry
Officials demanded bribes, teacher say
A teacher at Tea Chamrath High School in Pursat town has accused school director Bou Sovannarith and deputy director Chhub Buntha of forcing students to pay bribes in the form of, among other things, enrolment fees for matriculation into the 2013-2014 academic year. Phat Malin, the ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-demanded-bribes-teacher-says
Cambodian Ex-Governor's Shooting Conviction Upheld
A Cambodian court on Monday upheld the conviction of a former politician who shot and wounded three garment workers in 2012 but has yet to serve any time behind bars in a case that has prompted outrage from rights groups. Judge Taing Sun Lay also ...
ABC News Staff
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cambodian-governors-shooting-conviction-upheld-20773135
Police Have Not Enforced Traffic Laws for Four Months
Traffic police across the country have still not resumed enforcing traffic laws after a pre-election enforcement moratorium that was meant to last just a few weeks ahead of the July 28 poll, according to government and U.N. officials. “The superiors ordered [police] to stop, for a ...
Khuon Narim and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-have-not-enforced-traffic-laws-for-four-months-47521/
Floods damage cassava crop
The coming cassava harvest is increasingly threatened by flooding as about 25 per cent of the crop in prime growing provinces is or has been submerged, according to authorities. Taking up more cultivated area than any other crop in Cambodia except for rice, cassava is especially ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/floods-damage-cassava-crop
Update: Mam Sonando’s protest dispersed, several protesters injured
Hundreds of Police and Military Police cracked down on protesters, led by Mam Sonando, the director of Beehive Radio Station, at the Ministry of Information. A reporter of the Cambodia Herald, who is at the scene, reported that several protesters were injured in the crackdown. And ...
The Cambodia Herald
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=MWVhOGQ1MTIwMGY
GMAC welcomes government commitment to labor law
The Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia says it appreciates and supports government action to enforce the union registration provision of the Cambodian Labor Law. In a statement released Friday, GMAC noted that Article 269 of the law stipulated that administrators and managers of professional organizations had ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=Zjk0NjIzYTNiNmE
Belarus minister to inaugurate tractor plant next week
Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei is to attend the inauguration of a tractor assembly in Cambodia next week, according to the Belarusian Telegraphic Agency. “There are plans to discuss a wide range of issues of the bilateral agenda with the emphasis on the prospects of ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NmI2MjQyOWVkMTI
Chemicals used for soap, not drugs, police say
Thirty tons of chemicals seized by police on Wednesday were used to make counterfeit soap, officials confirmed Thursday, refusing to release the name of the Chinese national arrested in connection with the raid. The liquid and solid chemicals were stored in blue vats, bottles and sacks ...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chemicals-used-for-soap-not-drugs-police-say-56444/
Injured to file complaints over crackdown
A monk, an opposition lawmaker-elect and a journalist, all assaulted by Daun Penh district security guards near Freedom Park on Friday, said they are in the process of filing legal complaints against the district forces as they recover from their injuries. “I am planning on filing ...
George Wright
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/injured-to-file-complaints-over-crackdown-58025/
Interior Ministry seeks new recruits
The Interior Ministry is seeking 478 students to work in prisons and offices across the country, according to an announcement posted online Monday. The ministry’s message, posted to the website of the National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development, calls for 80 candidates to work as prison ...
Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/interior-ministry-seeks-new-recruits-58745/
‘Tornado-like storm’ kills two
A mother and child were killed on Tuesday in what Russey Keo district residents described as a tornado-like storm that stripped off roofs, split trees and swept chairs and baby chicks into the skies. According to villagers, the unprecedented weather started with clouds thickening and turning ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98tornado-storm%E2%80%99-kills-two
Sanctuary ‘protected’
More than 2,000 hectares of the decimated Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary in Ratanakkiri province have been classified by the Ministry of Environment (MOE) as the sanctuary’s first community protected area. Surrounded by three economic land concessions in Kon Mom district, the protected area is populated by a ...
Phak Seangly and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sanctuary-%E2%80%98protected%E2%80%99
China's police chief meets Cambodian deputy PM
China’s minister of Public Security Guo Shengkun Tuesday held talks with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sar Kheng on boosting security cooperation. Guo, also a state councilor, said China and Cambodia have conducted fruitful cooperation on combating telecom fraud, hunting for those who have ...
English People Daily News Staff
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/n/2014/0604/c90883-8736346.html
Garment meeting: Official vows to stamp out corruption
A Ministry of Labour official yesterday vowed to go after any of his “corrupt” colleagues that deal with the garment and footwear sector, and urged workers to file complaints about substandard working conditions. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/garment-meeting-official-vows-stamp-out-corruption
India’s rice dump may impact local exports
With the Indian government set to inject five million tonnes of rice in to its domestic market, Cambodia’s rice producers fear that any spillover into the global rice trade may impact local exports. David Van, acting secretary-general of a newly established Cambodia Rice Federation, said ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/india%E2%80%99s-rice-dump-may-impact-local-exports
Factory wage rallies heat up
More than 1,000 workers held a demonstration in front of Ocean Garment factory in the capital yesterday, burning tyres and blocking the road in protest against the management’s refusal to abide by a ruling that workers be paid in full for a one-month closure. On May ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factory-wage-rallies-heat
Cambodia earns 532 mln USD tax revenue in H1
Cambodia collected 532 million U.S. dollars in tax revenue during the first half of 2014, up 13 percent over the same period last year, said a news statement released by the General Department of Taxation on Wednesday. The revenue came from an increase in income taxes, ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-07/23/c_133505529.htm
New rules for proctors
In its continuing campaign to clean up the grade 12 national exam, the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has warned that anyone caught leaking copies of the test or selling answers could find themselves imprisoned. Punishments for misbehaving exam observers are spelled out in an ACU statement released ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-rules-proctors
Gov’t gives telecom firms time to digest new draft law
The ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC) has postponed a two-day meeting with telecom firms to discuss a controversial draft law leaked to the Post last week, which details the government’s plan to assert control over the industry. A representative from one telecommunications provider who wished ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gov%E2%80%99t-gives-telecom-firms-time-digest-new-draft-law