Labourers protest unpaid wages
Seventy construction workers in Svay Rieng province’s Bavet staged a protest yesterday after the labour agency that found them jobs failed to pay their salaries, totaling more than $30,000 over four months, as agreed. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50507847/labourers-protest-unpaid-wages/
Customs unit to get choppers to fight smuggling: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said that the Cambodian customs unit will have helicopters equipped with weapons to stamp out smuggling. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50504920/customs-unit-to-get-choppers-to-fight-smuggling-pm/
Government to expand clean water supply to rural areas
The Industry Minister on Monday said that he is committed to expanding the coverage of clean water supply across the country. During a visit to a water processing plant in Pursat province, Industry Minister Cham Prasidh said that providing clean water to rural areas is ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50522748/government-to-expand-clean-water-supply-to-rural-areas/
Firms back loan relief measures for victims
Representatives from the Kingdom’s microfinance sector on Sunday said the industry was keeping a close watch on those impacted by the Mekong River flooding, and that they were willing to take measures to reduce the financial burden on the victims. ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/firms-back-loan-relief-measures-victims
UN Human Rights Rapporteur to land in capital
The UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia, Rhona Smith, is to land in the Kingdom on Monday, in her first official visit since questioning the “genuineness” of the July 29 national elections, polls she claimed were “one-sided”. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-human-rights-rapporteur-land-capital
Ministry to conduct CSO census
The Ministry of Interior and the Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC) are to conduct a census aimed at ascertaining the exact number of registered civil society organisations (CSOs) in the Kingdom, the ministry’s General Department of Administration director-general Prak Sam Oeun told The Post on ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-conduct-cso-census
Report shows China demand will fuel growth of rice exports
Cambodia’s rice production and exports will likely continue to grow this year and next year despite low milling rates, buoyed by strong demand from China, according to a report from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). In the report released last week, the USDA ...
Robin Spiess
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/report-shows-china-demand-will-fuel-growth-rice-exports
Landmine experts hold talks
Around 100 national and international landmine experts gathered in Siem Reap this week for the Asean Regional Mine Action Center’s (Armac) inaugural regional workshop. Diverse topics were discussed, including new and innovative clearance techniques and strategies to enhance the assistance provided to survivors of explosive ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/landmine-experts-hold-talks
Footwear protests continue into fourth day
More than 2,000 workers at King Maker Footwear Co continued protesting for a fourth day on Wednesday, as they demanded that 50 per cent of their salary be paid, after their jobs were suspended by the factory for a month due to a lack of ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/footwear-protests-continue-fourth-day
Kingdom to get 25% local oil
Companies processing petroleum from Cambodia’s oilfields are required to provide a maximum of 25 per cent to meet local needs, according to a law that has been signed off by King Norodom Sihamoni on July 12. It was passed by the Senate in late June. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-get-25-local-oil
Vendors call for better treatment
About 150 street vendors gathered in Phnom Penh yesterday to mark International Street Vendors Day and called on the authorities to treat them better. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50660992/vendors-call-for-better-treatment/
Garment, textile, footwear exports nearly $8B in Q1-Q3
Cambodia exported more than $7.97 billion worth of garment, textile and footwear (GTF) products in the first nine months of this year, up 13.18 per cent year-on-year from $7.044 billion, a report from the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s General Department of Customs and Excise ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/garment-textile-footwear-exports-nearly-8b-q1-q3
Aviation body breathes easier as audit delayed
The UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has agreed to postpone an audit of Cambodia’s aviation authority until June 2016 to give the agency more time to prepare.Sinn Chanserey Vutha, spokesman of the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) said yesterday that his organisation was ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/aviation-body-breathes-easier-audit-delayed
Bodyguard Unit ties for leader of rally group
The honorary president of the CPP-aligned youth group involved in last week’s protest outside parliament, which ended with two opposition lawmakers being savagely beaten, is a deputy commander in the Prime Minister’s Bodyguard Unit, the Post has learned.Three soldiers were charged on Wednesday over the ...
Chhay Channyda and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bodyguard-unit-ties-leader-rally-group
Toll expressway route unveiled
The Kingdom has settled on a route for a planned $2.5 billion high-speed toll road from Phnom Penh to the Vietnamese border in Bavet, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency revealed in a seminar yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/toll-expressway-route-unveiled
South korean bank eyes Cambodia
The South Korea-based Nong Hyup Bank plans to open a branch in the Kingdom and will focus on investments and loans in the agriculture sector, according to a senior official in the Ministry of Agriculture. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25465/south-korean-bank-eyes-cambodia/
Organ transplant, donation draft law approved
The Council of Ministers approved a draft law last week regulating and controlling organ donations and transplants in response to a World Health Organization (WHO) report which revealed that the lives of patients with non-communicable diseases like hypertension and diabetes could be further endangered following ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25517/organ-transplant--donation-draft-law-approved/
Consensus on wage eludes Unions on first try
Union leaders representing some of the country’s 700,000 garment workers failed Wednesday in their first attempt to agree on how much of a raise they would ask for to the current minimum wage of $128 in coming negotiations. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/consensus-on-wage-eludes-unions-on-first-try-94487/
Maids, bride return after abuse abroad
Two Cambodian maids have been repatriated from Malaysia, and a bride has returned from China following allegations of mistreatment, according to a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/maids-bride-return-after-abuse-abroad
Watchdog eyes telecom, ISP licenses
The Telecom Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) has called on 34 telecom operators and Internet service providers (ISPs) to submit their business performance reports by the end of this month to ensure they are in compliance with their licensing agreements, officials said yesterday. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17944/watchdog-eyes-telecom--isp-licenses/