Cambodian migrant workers send US$360 million home a year
Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand, Japan, Malaysia and Korea have sent home an average of US$360 million a year in remittances, according to Seng Sakada, general director of Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training.
Overseas Cambodian migrants mainly work in the fields of housework, construction, factories
Second Fainting in a Week at M&V Garment Factory
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- Economy and commerce / Exports / Gender / Labor / Trade
Twenty-three workers at the M&V garment factory fainted yesterday morning in Kompong Chhang province, the second thime in a week that a mass faining has occured at the factory, a Labor Ministry official said.
Meng Hong, a member of a workplace safety committee that the Ministry
Cambodia, the next setting to a ‘Battle of the Rails’
As Australian operator Toll Royal Railways looks at a possible withdrawal from in Cambodia, a new China-backed company tries to take over and promise to rehabilitate more tracks including Phnom Penh-Saigon
Toll Royal Railway won in 2010 a concession to operate and upgrade the Cambodian rail
http://www.traveldailynews.asia/news/article/50249/cambodia-the-next-setting-to
Cambodia faces risks from a credit boom, the IMF warns
The International Monetary Fund has warned that a credit boom in Cambodia poses a threat to economic growth.
Banks have been cutting interest rates to win customers and private sector credit has increased by almost a third in the past 12 months, the fund said.
This
Cambodia denies it plans to build a nuclear power plant
The Cambodian government says reports that it is planning to build a nuclear power plant are untrue.
Cambodia denies it plans to build a nuclear power plant (Credit: ABC) A report originating in the Bangkok Post newspaper has been replicated internationally.
It says the Prime Minister Hun
Boeng Kak Families Pitch a New Solution to Land Dispute
A group of Phnom Penh residents locked in a long-running land dispute with a real estate project owned by CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin are pitching City Hall a plan they hope will prevent them from being evicted and keep them close to home.
“We
In Cambodia, Shifting Allegiances Shape a Tougher Than Usual Election
ANLONG VENG, Cambodia — A decade and a half after the last remnants of the Khmer Rouge capitulated in this northwestern town, the streets are festooned with images of their erstwhile enemy, Prime Minister Hun Sen, who is seeking to prolong his 28 years in
In Cambodia, Cyber Casinos Fall Into a Legal Gray Area
In 2010, the Ha Tien Vegas Entertainment Resort, a casino investment on Kampot province’s border with Vietnam that included luxury karaoke rooms and suites, launched with high hopes of attracting Vietnamese gamblers. At the end of December, Ha Tien Vegas closed down.
To the north, in
Deputy Prime Minister Says Homeless People A worry For Tourism
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- Industries / Land / Siem Reap / Tourism
Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam An yesterday said the government should clear beggars away from the country’s most popular tourism sites by providing them with decent education and legal ownership of their land.
“We have performed well in working with homeless people, but I noticed
De Castle Royal construction moves ahead at a princely pace
Even as political instability led to a drop in Phnom Penh’s housing market over the last few months, construction and sales of De Castle Royal steamed ahead in the third quarter.
Now fully over the fallout from the 2008 global financial crisis, a recent $28 million
Hin Pisei
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/de-castle-royal-construction-moves-ahead-princely-pace
A New Royalist Party Would Have Little Hope, Analysts Say
Cambodian political analysts say a new royalist party would have little hope of success.
Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who once led Cambodia’s dominant post-war political party, Funcinpec, told VOA Khmer on Monday he plans to launch a new royalist party for commune elections later this year and
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/a-new-royalist-party-would-have-little-hope-analysts-say/1859956.html
Half a million Cambodians affected by land grabs: rights group
More than half a million Cambodians have been affected by land conflicts involving the government since 2000, with more than 2,000 families across the country subjected to largely violent land grabs during the first few months of this year, local rights group Licadho said Tuesday.
The
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/land-04012014170055.html
Khmer Krom Seeking Refuge Remain in a State of Limbo
Khmer Krom people fleeing persecution in Vietnam and denied refuge in Thailand are being sent to Cambodia, where the government does not ensure that their rights are protected, the Minority Rights Organization (MIRO) has said in a new report.
The report—“Abandoned People Khmer Krom Seeking Refuge
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/khmer-krom-seeking-refuge-remain-in-a-state-of-limbo-51557/
Scraping out a living in Pailin’s spent gem mines
Late last month, Nhem Bunna, a retired government soldier, struck it lucky here like few have since Ieng Sary led his Khmer Rouge rebels to defect to Phnom Penh in 1996.
Clutching his index finger below the top joint, his feet still in the silt of
Hul Reaksmey and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/scraping-out-a-living-in-pailins-spent-gem-mines-61043/
Starting a business in Cambodia is getting harder, report says
Almost every aspect of starting or operating a business in Cambodia is becoming more difficult, according to a World Bank report released Wednesday.
“Starting a business in Cambodia requires 11 procedures, takes 101.0 days, costs 139.5 percent of income per capita and requires paid-in minimum
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/starting-a-business-in-cambodia-is-getting-harder-report-says-71343/
Police hunt for more people behind a tycoon’s death
Phnom Penh police are hunting for another four suspects for being behind the assassination of tycoon Ung Meng Cheu who was gunned down on November 22 in Chamkar Morn district.
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/police-hunt-for-more-people-behind-a-tycoon%E2%80%99s-death-7822
Two arrested for attempting to traffic a woman to China
Anti-human trafficking police on Monday arrested two men at the Phnom Penh International Airport as they attempted to traffic a woman to China to marry a man there, police said Tuesday.
Chinese national Xu Xiandai, 30, and Cambodian Heng Seng, 53, were arrested at 7 a.m.
Hay Pisey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-arrested-for-attempting-to-traffic-a-woman-to-china-74340/
Poverty reduction a mixed success, as countryside rates remain high
Cambodia’s efforts to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger have yielded mixed results, despite the government’s claim it has reduced the poverty rate ahead of a UN deadline.
But many people remain near the poverty line, vulnerable to natural disasters, such as flooding, that could put
Men Kimseng,
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/poverty-reduction-a-mixed-success-as-countryside-rates-remain-high/2640700.html
Public announcement on a denial of Phnom Penh Post's claims
Electricity of Cambodia denied the unrealistic claims in the article titled “Derailed dam angers EdC boss”, which was published on 11 March 2015, by The Phnom Penh Post due to the fact that the Areng hydropower project was completely withdrawn from the feasibility study after the
Electricity of Cambodia (EdC)
In coverage of land dispute, a publisher’s interests served
In this sparsely populated area along the eastern fringe of Bokor National Park in Chhuk district, villagers are scrambling to claim sandy, arid land as an international company surges ahead with its palm oil plantation.
As in many of the hundreds of unresolved land disputes playing
Matt Blomberg and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-coverage-of-land-dispute-a-publishers-interests-served-82523/
