‘Shortage of workforce afflicting hospitality industry’
The challenge of insufficient manpower was among the primary problems afflicting the hospitality industry in the Kingdom, a Tourism Ministry workshop under the Secretary of State of the ministry at a Phnom Penh hotel last week concluded. ...
Jigmee Palden Pazo
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501504410/shortage-of-workforce-afflicting-hospitality-industry/
Juvenile justice law step closer to being reality
Officials from the ministries Of interior, social affairs, and justice met with NGOs on Friday to discuss the latest draft Of a juvenile justice law that has been in the works for more than a decade and which would mean young Offenders’ rights would be ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/juvenile-justice-law-step-closer-to-being-reality-52720/
Workers strike again to demand strike pay
About 2,000 workers at Takeo province’s I-Cheng (Cambodia) Cooperation remain on strike today, after management held steady in its refusal to pay employees for days they joined in a national garment worker strike in December and this month. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-strike-again-demand-strike-pay
Molnupiravir treatments available at Cambodia Post
The working group overseeing the management, distribution and supply of strategic drugs in the fight against Covid-19 at the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has begun distributing 200mg molnupiravir capsules with the brand name Molnatris at all branches of its Cambodia Post from January 19 ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/molnupiravir-treatments-available-cambodia-post
6th dose vaccine campaign to protect against COVID-19 chugs along to reach 509,917 people
Cambodia’s campaign to combat and keep at COVID-19 and continue with economic revival has hid a speed bump with the administration of the sixth dose. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501341812/6th-dose-vaccine-campaign-to-protect-against-covid-19-chugs-along-to-reach-509917-people/
Workers in the dark on controversial draft union law
With the National Assembly set to vote on whether to adopt the controversial trade union law on Monday, the majority of Cambodia’s industrial workers remain unaware of the crossroads at which Cambodia’s employers and workers stand. ...
Ananth Baliga, Sen David and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-dark-controversial-draft-union-law
Banking liquidity tool moves to weekly issuance
Cambodia’s central bank yesterday launched a weekly issuance of Negotiable Certificate of Deposits (NCD) with selling scheduled for every Wednesday – a move aimed at developing the interbank lending market by promoting a secondary market for the short-term interest-bearing certificates. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banking-liquidity-tool-moves-weekly-issuance
Cambodia's rubber export surges 46 pct in 10 months
Cambodia has seen a 46 percent rise in dry rubber export in the first ten months of 2013 thanks to rising global demand, said the report of the Commerce Ministry on Friday. The country exported 62,915 tons of dry rubber during the January-October period this year, ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-11/08/c_132870615.htm
NBC sets new capital, risk rules for banks, financial institutions
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) yesterday released two proclamations that set new requirements for depositing-taking banks and financial institutions to strengthen the quality of their capital to increase the effectiveness of preventing main banking risks and assess credit risks at lower rates to boost ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501318139/nbc-sets-new-capital-risk-rules-for-banks-financial-institutions/
Nearly 3K illegal burn sites identified across Kingdom
Illegal burning of rice stubble and land at the periphery of forests continues to occur throughout the Kingdom’s rural areas, especially in the north and northeast regions, according to officials who documented the activities on site. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nearly-3k-illegal-burn-sites-identified-across-kingdom
Three universities agree to found new research centre
The Royal University of Phnom Penh, the Royal University of Fine Arts, and the National Institute of Education inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Monday, agreeing to establish a joint higher education social sciences and humanities research institute. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-universities-agree-found-new-research-centre
Media agencies warned about gambling ads
The Ministry of Information last week warned media organizations not to publish or broadcast advertisements from gambling outlets unless they have permission from the government to do so, according to a ministry notice obtained Tuesday. “The ministry previously advised [media outlets] to stop all types ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/media-agencies-warned-about-gambling-ads-65808/
Gov’t to crack down on overdue road tax
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) will continue collecting the annual road tax on vehicles due at the end of last month until the end of the year, but will start cracking down on late payments on January 1, it announced. The taxes can be ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18434/gov---t-to-crack-down-on-overdue-road-tax/
Courts ‘must solve’ corruption conundrum
Cambodia’s judicial system is troubled by a cycle of corruption, with both sides of the bench accusing the other of perpetuating the practice of bribery, Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) Chairman Om Yentieng said on Thursday at the inauguration of the new bar association president. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/courts-must-solve-corruption-conundrum-123755/
Tonle bassac dredging necessary, say officials
In order to aid waterway transport, sand-dredging – largely banned since a 2011 decree – will soon begin reappearing at dozens of locations along the Tonle Bassac river, a spokesman from the Ministry of Mines and Energy confirmed yesterday. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tonle-bassac-dredging-necessary-say-officials
Sar Kheng challenges minister on priorities
Interior Minister Sar Kheng lashed out at Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon yesterday for failing to attend a meeting on the latest government directive to reduce the exploitation of natural resources, saying the minister should get his priorities straight. ...
Kong Meta and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-challenges-minister-priorities
Gov’t misses deadline for new price list
Nearly three weeks after releasing an official price list for basic public services such as the production of passports and ID cards aimed at combating corruption, Interior Ministry officials Monday admitted that the new prices were not yet being applied. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-misses-deadline-for-new-price-list-82223/
Shared ministry database to speed up online business registration
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has recommended the creation of a sub-decree to formally connect the interior ministry’s General Department of Identification (GDI) and the Ministry of Economy’s Cambodia Data Exchange Platform (CamDX) databases after a successful pilot of the scheme. The announcement came at a ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50745177/shared-ministry-database-to-speed-up-online-business-registration/
Ocean reps take case to arbitration
Twenty representatives of workers locked in a monthlong dispute with management at the Ocean Garment factory appeared before the Arbitration Council yesterday, a union official said. A spokesman from the Arbitration Council yesterday told the Post that such cases are typically sorted out within 15 working days. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ocean-reps-take-case-arbitration
Kompong Cham court releases five arrested at strike protest
The Kompong Cham Provincial Court on Monday released five of the 10 people who were arrested Saturday after clashes between police and about 1,000 sacked workers from the Taiwanese-owned Juhui Footwear factory. The protest on Saturday turned violent when Juhui Footwear administrative director Teng Sambath ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kompong-cham-court-releases-five-arrested-at-strike-protest-71108/