Press release of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia on the decision to impose disciplinary sanctions
On 28 March 2023, the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) issued a press release on the decision to impose disciplinary action on lawyer Sam Sokong after he gave an interview with Radio Free Asia’s (RFA) Facebook page on 17 January 2023. ...
Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC)
CBC’s CEO talks digitalization, alternative data and financial health checks
Cambodia cemented itself as a regional leader in the finance sector when the nation signed a deal with Singapore in March to exchange consumer credit information. This marked the region’s first cross-border initiative between two countries’ credit bureaus. ...
Marissa Carruthers
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-cbcs-ceo-talks-digitalization-alternative-data-and-financial-health-checks
Liechtenstein's Hasler arrives in Cambodia to strengthen diplomatic ties
Liechtensteinian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Education and Sport Dominique Hasler, arrived in Cambodia today for a three-day official visit to the Kingdom until March 2, as the Kingdom diversifies its diplomatic ties. ...
Thai businessmen likely to invest $1B in Cambodia
A week after Prime Minister Hun Manet concluded his first official trip to Thailand, hundreds of Thai businessmen have shown keen interest in exploring investment opportunities in three potential projects across Cambodia in early March to the tune of $1 billion. ...
Nheng Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501442027/thai-businessmen-likely-to-invest-1b-in-cambodia/
Cham Nimul urges all crucial partners and stakeholders to deeply engage in the initial stages of the EU GATE Project
On 15 March 2024, Cham Nimul, Minister of Commerce, presided over the conclusion of ARISE Plus Cambodia and the launch of “EU Global Access and Trade Expertise (GATE)” with many participants from the Ministry of Commerce, representatives from the relevant partner and stakeholders. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501456894/cham-nimul-urges-all-crucial-partners-and-stakeholders-to-deeply-engage-in-the-initial-stages-of-the-eu-gate-project/
Announcement no. 1020 on adding price tags to all products and services
In line with the guidance of Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, during the morning of March 16, 2023, he suggested “Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Tourism should work together to ensure price tags are ...
Ministry of Commerce
Diplomats, Donors Lobbied to Help Free Jailed Protesters
Challenging the ban on demonstrations in Phnom Penh, activists rallied Friday at the U.S. Embassy, the Japanese Embassy, the Australian Embassy and the German Embassy before stopping for lunch and rallying again, in the afternoon, at the British Embassy, the European Union and World Bank ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/diplomats-donors-lobbied-to-help-free-jailed-protesters-50852/
Grappling with avian flu, Cambodians wait for compensation
In little more than a year, 16 Cambodians are known to have died from the human form of avian influenza H5N1, the highest number of fatalities in the world. Experts have met in Phnom Penh to try to work out why. The latest victim of ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/851455.shtml#.Uzd_zKiSyls
Protest ban firmly in place on Women’s Day
Freedom Park was placed under lockdown and a march by land rights activists was blocked Saturday morning as Phnom Penh’s security officials were out in force to ensure that peaceful rallies on International Women’s Day could not go as planned. Prime Minister Hun Sen on February ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/protest-ban-firmly-in-place-on-womens-day-53745/
Hun Sen rebukes World Bank
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday rebuked the World Bank for revising downward its outlook for gross domestic product growth in the Kingdom, claiming the bank’s projections could cause market panic. The premier also announced a new government projection of 6.4 per cent GDP growth this year, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011112452947/Business/hun-sen-rebukes-world-bank.html
Hundreds Protest Dam Plans
More than 500 ethnic minority residents of riparian communities in northeastern Cambodia held a peaceful protest Tuesday against the construction of a Vietnamese-led hydroelectric dam that will relocate them from their ancestral land. The villagers, who live along the Se San River in Stung Treng and ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/dam-02282012135535.html
Garment factories: Minimum wage raise scrutinised
The presidents of three unions have appealed to the Garment Manufacturing Association of Cambodia to improve the “miserable” living conditions of its workers by providing higher wages and better benefits, a letter received by the Post yesterday shows. The letter is dated March 2 and signed ...
Banners versus batons
Police are accused of breaking a 21-year-old woman’s nose and injuring two other women as about 900 workers marched from the Win Shing-tex Cambodia garment factory in the capital’s Por Sen Chey district yesterday. San Sopha said, adding he would file a complaint against the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012032855291/National-news/banners-versus-batons.html
Residents From Borei Keila Push Back Police
About 40 former Borei Keila residents yesterday pushed back roughly 100 police and military police who threatened to demolish temporary shelters belonging to 16 families still clinging to their land, residents and rights groups said. Prampi Makara district police armed with riot shields, military police and ...
Press release on the prohibition of taking identity card, family record, and residence record as guarantee for provision of credit
On 17 July 2018, the National Bank of Cambodia issued a press release on the prohibition of taking identity card, family record, and residence record as guarantee for provision of credit, following the directive No. B7-016-210 Sor. Chor. Nor, dated 11th March 2016. However, the ...
National Bank of Cambodia
Press release on ASEAN-Occupational Safety and Health Network (ASEAN-OSHNET)
On 26 March 2018, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training of the Kingdom of Cambodia issued a press release on being a host of 3 events on ASEAN-Occupational Safety and Health Network (ASEAN-OSHNET) from 02-04 April 2018 at Empress Angkor Resort and Spa Hotel in ...
Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training
Gov't Reports $25M From Rents in Six Months
The government earned just over $25 million in rental fees from state land leased to private companies in the first six months of the year, according to new figures from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. While the data shows that earning have risen, critics say ...
Court Hears Borei Keila Evictees' Complaint
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday questioned three Borei Keila residents about a complaint they filed six month ago against the property development firm Phanimex from evicting them from their land. In March, a group of Borei Keila residents filed their complaint against Phanimex’s owner ...
Bokor resort slated to bolster Kampot tourism
Kampot officials are looking to the Bokor Mountain Resort, a US$1 billion project that opens today, to drive tourism growth in the burgeoning seaside destination. The provincial Tourism Department said the number of domestic visitors to Kampot had risen 120 per cent to 338,000 in the ...
Garment workers demonstrate to oust their foreign manager
About 2,500 workers from the Ocean Garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district attempted to march yesterday to the Ministry of Labor with demands to remove a foreign factory manager, who they allege has used violence and made derogatory comments to female workers. As they ...