Proposal for training to enhance factory skills
Cambodia has appealed to Germany – a country renowned for its skilled technicians and engineers – to provide vocational training to support the Kingdom’s growing industrial sector, a Commerce Ministry official said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/proposal-training-enhance-factory-skills
Cambodia-Laos MoU on GI
Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce and Laos’ Ministry of science and Technology last week signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to cooperate in the protection of trademarks and geographical indications (GI). ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29639/cambodia-laos-mou-on-gi/
Gov’t, GMAC meet over minimum wage
The Ministry of Labour yesterday met with the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia, the industry trade group, to discuss the reasons behind the latter’s proposal of a $144 monthly minimum wage. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-gmac-meet-over-minimum-wage
Rights NGO worker held over UDG protest
An NGO worker was detained on Friday after participating in a roadblock by Koh Kong province’s Poy Chorpun community to protest the activities of the Chinese firm Union Development Group (UDG). ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rights-ngo-worker-held-over-udg-protest
Automation key to customs efficiency
Private-sector enterprises urged Cambodia’s Customs Department yesterday to introduce an online application and payment system for shipments, rather than the manual method used currently that eats into time and resources. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/automation-key-customs-efficiency
Construction feud embroils local gov in Ratanakkiri
The governor of Ratanakkiri’s Banlung town was sued on Wednesday by a local resident and army veteran for allegedly seizing construction materials and violating private property rights without a court warrant. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/construction-feud-embroils-local-gov-ratanakkiri
Cambodia keen to attract Iranian investors
Cambodia would welcome presence of Iranian investors in different fields of economic and industrial activities, the country’s new accredited ambassador to Iran, Pichkhun Panha said on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tasnim News Staff
http://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2015/12/21/949790/cambodia-keen-to-attract-iranian-investors
ACU poised to investigate Sokha sex scandal
Cambodia’s anti-corruption body on Tuesday decided it had jurisdiction over corruption allegations against deputy opposition leader Kem sokha for making lavish promises to a purported mistress in leaked audio recordings. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/acu-poised-to-investigate-sokha-sex-scandal-110276/
Sihanoukville port operator still on course for IPO
The state operator of Cambodia’s only deep-water port remains on course to float shares on the stock exchange and is seeking ways to speed up the listing. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sihanoukville-port-operator-still-course-ipo
Canadian bank soars after ABA investment
National Bank of Canada attributed its 5.5 per cent jump in fiscal third-quarter profit to its acquisition of Cambodia’s Advanced Bank of Asia Ltd. (ABA Bank) earlier this year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/canadian-bank-soars-after-aba-investment
Cambodian Premier reconfirms the next election dates
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun sen reconfirmed here yesterday afternoon the dates for the next commune/sangkat council election and national election, the state News Agency-AKP report. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodian-premier-reconfirms-the-next-election-dates-9071
Villagers to contest authorities’ assessment in Battambang
More than 200 families in Battambang’s Rokhakiri district are preparing to file a petition against local officials who they allege destroyed their homes on Monday in the Prey Tralach community forest. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-contest-authorities-assessment-battambang
Border cards close to vest, says Hun Manet
Hun Manet, eldest son of Prime Minister Hun sen and a senior military official, took to Facebook yesterday to defend his father’s handling of the demarcation of the Cambodia-Vietnam border. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/border-cards-close-vest-says-hun-manet
Police unit says almost 300 crimes against children in 2015
The Child Protection Unit (CPU), a police unit supported by the Cambodian Children’s Fund, investigated 292 cases involving serious crimes against children in 2015, its director of operations said on Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Peter Ford and Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-unit-says-almost-300-crimes-against-children-in-2015-105190/
Rights groups warn of tough Telecoms law
Local rights groups have raised major concerns about Cambodia’s sweeping new Telecommunications Law, which gives the government virtually unchecked spying powers and criminalizes any electronic communication deemed to cause “national insecurity.” ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rights-groups-warn-of-tough-telecoms-law-109837/
Health care reform urgently needed, study finds
Cambodia’s health regulation system is in need of deep reform, not just minor adjustments, as it is failing to meet its national needs and AsEAN obligations, according to a new report. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-care-reform-urgently-needed-study-finds
Rubber firms report deep losses
Cambodia’s rubber industry’s woes have begun to crystallise after two major rubber plantations announced deep losses yesterday, attributing their downturn to high production costs and a drop in global rubber prices. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rubber-firms-report-deep-losses
Thai company to build $30 million factory
One of Thailand’s leading agricultural groups and a major producer of animal feed will build a $30 million factory in the Phnom Penh special Economic Zone, company officials announced last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22973/thai-company-to-build--30-million-factory/
Thai membership card seeks Cambodian elites
A Thai privilege card program that costs nearly $15,000 to join is banking on Cambodia’s robust yet deeply polarised economy to provide up to 60 new card members a year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thai-membership-card-seeks-cambodian-elites
Rice sector predicts a worrying trend
Although data for first four months of this year have shown a slight rise in rice exports, millers and exporters continue to raise concerns on the back of April’s rapid decline. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-sector-predicts-worrying-trend