Survey to guide minimum wage talks
The Ministry of Labour has announced plans of a month-long research campaign into the living standards of garment and footwear factory workers prior to setting a minimum wage in 2018. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/40136/survey-to-guide-minimum-wage-talks/
Kheng scolds senior officials for seeking to keep power centralised
In a frank rebuke of members of his own party, Minister of Interior Sar Kheng yesterday accused national leaders and ministers of impeding the process of decentralising Cambodia’s government out of a desire to maintain power for themselves. ...
Mech Dara and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/kheng-scolds-senior-officials-seeking-keep-power-centralised
NEC balance further tips in favour of CPP
The three appointees are Nuth Sokhom, who will be the deputy chief of the NEC, Dim Sovannarom, and Hel Sarat from the Khmer Nationality Party. They were selected among five candidates, according to CPP National Assembly spokesperson Chheang Vun. ...
Ben Sokhean and Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-balance-further-tips-favour-cpp
Surge in traffic accident deaths
According to a report by the National Police’s public order department, there was an increase in deaths and a decrease in injuries compared with the previous year. There were 1,717 deaths and 6,607 injuries reported in 2016. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099253/surge-traffic-accident-deaths/
Villagers evicted from national park
Authorities are to force about 40 families in Koh Kong province to relocate from their homes in Botum Sakor National Park. The villagers asked authorities to provide them with social land concessions, because they have no other place to live. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50102035/villagers-evicted-from-national-park/
Ministry calls for ease in vote preparation
The Ministry of Interior yesterday instructed provincial authorities to “make it easy” for parties preparing for the upcoming national elections, including facilitating the building of party banners and the holding of meetings – after a year in which the government systematically removed CNRP banners and ...
Niem Chheng and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-calls-ease-vote-preparation
UN experts say constitutional changes in Cambodia impinge on democracy
On 20 February 2018, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva has posted a news release to express the grave concern of their experts regarding the proposed changes to Cambodia’s Constitution which impose far-reaching limits on democracy a head ...
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
More than 1,400 die, but road deaths fall
More than 3,000 traffic accidents across the country during the first 10 months of the year caused more than 1,400 deaths and about 5,300 injuries, a decline from the same period last year. According to a National Police report released yesterday, there were 3,001 traffic accidents ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31546/more-than-1-400-die--but-road-deaths-fall/
More firms under government umbrella, says NSSF
Statistics released by the National Social Security Fund yesterday showed that it increased its reach in 2016, adding more than 900 new private firms encompassing some 59,000 workers, and increasing its workplace accident payouts. ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-firms-under-government-umbrella-says-nssf
Cambodia eases deeper into China’s defensive embrace
Cambodia currently faces significant foreign policy challenges amid great power rivalry in the Asia-Pacific. Against the backdrop of US President Donald Trump’s uncertain and unpredictable foreign policy in the region, China’s economic, military, and strategic influence over Cambodia continues to grow. China is now Cambodia’s ...
East Asia Forum
https://aecnewstoday.com/2017/cambodia-eases-deeper-into-chinas-defensive-embrace/
More education funds urged
A group of NGOs from the education sector yesterday urged the government to boost education spending to at least 20 percent of the country’s budget – a benchmark the Ministry of Education had hoped, and failed, to hit last year under its strategic plan. ...
Yesenia Amaro and Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-education-funds-urged
NEC defends printing of extra ballots for vote
The National Election Committee yesterday defended its decision to print 1.5 million extra ballots for the upcoming commune elections, saying the chances of misuse were minimal given better identification systems – though the opposition and civil society remained unconvinced. ...
Touch Sokha and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-defends-printing-extra-ballots-vote
CNRP to push $500k per commune plan in national assembly
In what one observer said was simply an act of politicking, the opposition CNRP on Thursday said it would push its campaign pledge of giving $500,000 to every commune in the National Assembly. ...
Ben Sokhean and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/131182-131182/
Election body urges legal action against its social media critics
The National Election Committee (NEC) has asked the government to take legal action against two social media users for posting “inciting news” about the June 4 commune elections it claims dishonored the body.According to the statement dated Tuesday, the NEC called on “relevant institutions” to ...
Ben Sokhean And Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/election-body-urges-legal-action-against-its-social-media-critics-131408/
1,000 Phnom Kulen families to be relocated
A group of about 1,000 families living in Siem Reap province’s Phnom Kulen National Park will be relocated to prevent them from continuing an environmentally detrimental trend of clearing land, building homes, selling and repeating, the environment minister said on Thursday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/1000-phnom-kulen-families-to-be-relocated-131679/
$23 million boost in education budget
The Finance Ministry is planning to raise the national education budget to more than $700 million next year in a bid to improve standards in schools. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/40325/-23-million-boost-in-education-budget/
NEC head deflects blame on migrant voters
National Election Committee (NEC) Chairman Sik Bun Hok yesterday attempted to quell criticism of the electoral body for failing to register migrant voters, insisting that the law did not empower the body to allow overseas voting or registration, and instead passing the buck to political ...
Ananth Baliga and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-head-deflects-blame-migrant-voters
60,000 register to vote in one week
Nearly 60,000 people have registered to vote in next year’s national election during the first week of registration. Hang Puthea, spokesman for the national Election Committee, said yesterday that 59,185 people across the country went to register from September 1 to September 10. Voter registration runs ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5082540/60000-register-vote-one-week/
Workers told of wages boost
Prime Minister Hun Sen has allocated about $40 million per year from next year after the garment and footwear industry workers’ minimum wage increased to $170 per month. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5087388/workers-told-wages-boost/
Government creates logistics council to help sector stay competitive in the region
The Cambodian government recently laid out the framework for the creation of a National Council of Logistics, a specialised interministerial team designed to tackle the high costs of the Kingdom’s logistics sector to promote the efficient flow of exports, according to a royal decree issued ...