Australia supporting women’s economic empowerment in Cambodia
Australia is supporting women’s economic empowerment in Cambodia as they are central to the Kingdom’s economic development, said the Australian Embassy in Phnom Penh in a news release on Thursday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501345097/australia-supporting-womens-economic-empowerment-in-cambodia/
Cambodia and Japan appreciate good cooperation in landmine clearance
Cambodia and Japan have appreciated their good bilateral cooperation, mainly in the field of mine clearance. The appreciation was made during a visit by a group of students from Chuo University, Japan led by Professor Hanatani Atsushi to the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) ‘s ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501147262/cambodia-and-japan-appreciate-good-cooperation-in-landmine-clearance/
Handbook on investing in Cambodia launched
FacebookTwitterEmailShare“Handbook on InvestIng In Cambodia” has been launched as a practical guide for foreign Investors lookIng for opportunities In the Cambodian market, with a particular focus on the 2021 Law on Investment. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501322858/handbook-on-investing-in-cambodia-launched/
Protesters Employ New Tactic At Eviction Demonstrations
Protester’s from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak and Borei Keila communities demonstrated outside the Ministry of Justice yesterday by employing a new tactic: locking themselves up inside a cage. With about 100 people in attendance, two protesters crouched inside a small cage to protest against the detention ...
Ministry, NGOs Meet Over Trafficking Report
Ministry of interior officials held a closed-door meeting Monday with NGO representatives to contest Cambodia’s recent downgrade on the U.S. State Department’s Global Trafficking in Persons Report, which the ministry will discuss in a meeting with the U.S. Embassy this week. The annual report, released last ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-ngos-meet-over-trafficking-report-32932/
Malaysia Says No Draft Agreement on Maids Yet
Malaysia has not yet received a draft agreement aimed at protecting Cambodian migrant domestic workers from abuse, but the government is pressing Cambodia to lift its two-year moratorium on sending maids, a Malaysian official said Wednesday. in October 2011, Prime Minister Hun Sen imposed a ban ...
Dene-Hern Chen and Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/malaysia-says-no-draft-agreement-on-maids-yet-46399/
Cambodian parliament ratifies protocol on Cambodia-Vietnam investment agreement
The National Assembly of Cambodia on Thursday ratified a protocol on the investment promotion and protection agreement between the governments of Cambodia and Vietnam. All 64 lawmakers of the ruling party, who were present at the parliamentary session, unanimously approved the protocol as the opposition party’s ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/852568.shtml#.Uz4WwfmSxqU
Workers claim intimidation
About 4,000 employees at one of Asia’s largest garment-processing factories have stopped work, as union workers demand the company sever ties with a shareholder who ordered a military police presence there. Workers at SL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd began demonstrating on Monday, about two weeks after ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-claim-intimidation
Free Trade Union Reports Overall Jump in Labor Strikes in 2013
The Free Trade Union (FTU) on Monday reported an overall increase in industrial action by its local branches last year with 136 total strikes in the first 11 months of 2013, up 35 percent from all of 2012, when there were 101 strikes by its ...
Cambodia's leading bank inks deal with UnionPay International for payment services
Acleda Bank, a leading commercial bank in Cambodia, on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with UnionPay international on payment services for mutual benefits, according to the bank’s statement. Xu Luode, president of China UnionPay and vice-chairman of UnionPay international, said currently, UnionPay cards reached ...
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-04/23/c_132333810.htm
Phnom Penh’s development not fair for all?
Despite the massive spike in development underway in Phnom Penh, a new report says that the public interest is becoming marginalised in favour of the political and business elite. The report, from NGO Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT), says that currently “commercial interests are driving the urban ...
Not all paths to growth the same
Denis Hew, director of the policy support unit at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat said that Cambodia and Laos, in particular, should seek to chart a different course in Asean rather than following growth models of more developed economies, such as Malaysia or Thailand. ...
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/not-all-paths-growth-same
Kingdom’s arable land all but gone
If the government continues to grant economic land and mining concessions at the current rate, there will be no more arable land left in the country to give away within one year, a researcher from the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights said yesterday. Pointing to the ...
CEDAC pools capital to produce organic rice
Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC), a Cambodian agricultural organisation, will collect US$20 million from the Kingdom’s farmers through 2022 in an attempt to accumulate capital for organic rice production. Oun Sophal, president of CEDAC’s Farmer Network from Kampot province’s Dang Tong ...
Monitoring for Nothing: Is the ILO’s ‘Better Factories’ programme failing the Kingdom’s garment workers?
The United Nations in Cambodia has taken a beating in recent months. The UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal has been plagued by high-profile resignations and accusations of political interference. Elsewhere human rights activists have criticised the UN’s failure to take a firm stance against an increasingly ...
Frédéric Janssens
http://sea-globe.com/monitoring-for-nothing/
As All Eyes Turn To Cambodia…
Along the Phnom Penh waterfront the city’s landmark flags have been raised and the street children and beggars are being removed – an unwanted sight for a government out to impress the biggest gathering of world leaders this country has ever seen. At the center of this will ...
http://thediplomat.com/asean-beat/2012/11/15/as-the-world-descends-on-cambodia/
At government rally, all proceeds smoothly
While workers and opposition supporters marched to mark Labour Day yesterday, and baton-wielding district security guards enforced a ban on gatherings, a very different, uninterrupted rally took place at the capital’s Koh Pich Exhibition Center. About 2,000 workers from pro-government unions and government officials heard Labour ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-rally-all-proceeds-smoothly
Bail Requests Denied for All Eight Unionists
The Kampong Speu Provincial Court has denied bail for eight unionists accused of instigating violence at the Sabrina Garment factory last Monday. Kampong Speu Provincial Court judge, Cheum Rithy said yesterday that he had not approved the bail request because significant work remained in questioning ...
All White Building residents cleared, says government
Demolition crews are set to begin tearing down the Phnom Penh landmark known as the White Building today, after the Ministry of Land Management announced on Saturday that all families residing in the dilapidated structure had left the premises. ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/all-white-building-residents-cleared-says-government
Push for canteens at all garment factories
The Land Management Ministry has complied with an order made by Prime Minister Hun Sen for factories to provide adequate places for garment workers to eat. Land Management Minister Chea Sophara yesterday told provincial subordinates that canteens must be built in factories. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50535265/push-for-canteens-at-all-garment-factories/