Courts ‘must solve’ corruption conundrum
Cambodia’s judicial system is troubled by a cycle of corruption, with both sides of the bench accusing the other of perpetuating the practice of bribery, Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) Chairman Om Yentieng said on Thursday at the inauguration of the new bar association president. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/courts-must-solve-corruption-conundrum-123755/
Ministry to push quality control
The Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts (MIH) has started a laboratory and a department to check on the quality and safety of local products to be exported, state news agency AKP reported yesterday. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37270/ministry-to-push-quality-control/
Royal gazette to move online
The government will this year stop printing the royal gazette for sale to the public and begin publishing new editions online, an official said yesterday. ...
Mech Dara and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/royal-gazette-move-online
Ministry pushes fortnightly pay
The Labor Ministry is encouraging employers, with the support of unions, to implement article 116 of the Labor Law, which requires owners of enterprises and factories to pay their workers twice a month. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36951/ministry-pushes-fortnightly-pay/
Trade in breast milk outlawed
The government yesterday announced a total ban on the collection and export of human breast milk, after it emerged poor women had been earning cash through the trade. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37002/trade-in-breast-milk-outlawed/
Airline tax to help clean up Cambodia
The government is looking at ways to tackle Cambodia’s waste problem with a $1 charge on airline tickets touted to raise the cash. The move comes after footage emerged showing the capital’s canals remain clogged with rubbish a year after video of the pollution was shown ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38619/airline-tax-to-help-clean-up-cambodia/
After Cambodia Daily’s $6M bill, tax authority targets RFA, VOA
Popular media outlets Radio Free Asia and Voice of America have become the latest to draw the attention of the government for allegedly not paying taxes, one week after a letter to the Cambodia Daily demanding more than $6 million in back taxes was leaked. ...
Niem Chheng and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/after-cambodia-dailys-6m-bill-tax-authority-targets-rfa-voa
Ministry has big plans for Cambodia’s cashews
Cambodia and Vietnam signed an agreement earlier this month to greatly expand Cambodia’s cashew exports by 2028, but the proposed export level would require several hundred thousand hectares of additional land and there is no concrete plan yet to meet the target. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-has-big-plans-cambodias-cashews
Group aims to construct world’s longest wood boat
Cambodia is preparing to construct the longest wooden boat to break a world record currently held by China by making a boat about 85 metres long that can hold nearly 200 people. Sar Sokha, vice president of the Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia, said ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50114121/group-aims-to-construct-worlds-longest-wood-boat/
Liftoff looms for the new Siem Reap airport
A new international airport for Siem Reap has come a step closer after a high-level technical working group was set up to work out the details. The government established the group after a proposal was submitted to the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35028/liftoff-looms--for-the-new--siem-reap--airport/
Hun Sen spins demise of CNRP into boon for democracy
“They talk about the multi-party problem, but I want to confirm that when the one party is dissolved, there will be five parties that will replace it. That means that it will go from two parties to six parties in the National Assembly,” Hun Sen ...
Andrew Nachemson and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-spins-demise-cnrp-boon-democracy
Garment worker protest builds over severance
More than 1,000 workers protested in front of the soon-to-be-closed Svay Rieng Cambodia Garment factory yesterday to demand better severance benefits, and nearly half of them then marched to the provincial hall to seek help from government officials, workers said yesterday. Worker representative Pang Tra said ...
Massive strike nearing: union
The Free Trade Union has vowed to stage a mass strike in the garment and footwear industries if its demands for an extra US$30 per month of bonuses for workers are not met, union president Chea Mony said yesterday. The union sent a letter to Minister ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062556997/National-news/massive-strike-nearing.html
Justice Ministry to keep track of courts’ case lists
The Ministry of Justice yesterday held the first of what it said would be regular forums soliciting the input of civil society on judicial reforms, and promised a new measure that it maintained would streamline the courts’ workflow. Citing widespread frustration among citizens, Justice Minister Ang ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/justice-ministry-keep-track-courts%E2%80%99-case-lists
Cambodia receives over 2.4 mln foreign visitors in 7 months
Cambodia has welcomed 2.43 million international tourists in the first seven months of the year, up 19 percent compared with the 2.04 million tourists over the same period last year, the figures of the Ministry of Tourism said Thursday. During the January-July period this year, Vietnam ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/810761.shtml#.UjJ2qNKBmN8
Legal actions to be taken against protest leaders: Interior Ministry
Ministry of Interior warned that legal measures would be taken against those who would hold protests, defying a ban imposed by the government. The warning was made yesterday after the leaders of nine labor unions insisted that they would hold protests, which are scheduled for January ...
The Cambodia Herald
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NTdmZGU2OGFmMmR
Lending by Cambodia's banks rises 6 pct as deposits grow 10 pct in Q1: central bank
Lending by Cambodia’s commercial banks rose by 6 percent while deposits grew by 10 percent in the first quarter of this year, a National Bank of Cambodia (NBC)’s report said Tuesday. The report said the country’s 34 commercial banks had lent a total of 7.87 billion ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-06/11/c_133397680.htm
Ocean reps take case to arbitration
Twenty representatives of workers locked in a monthlong dispute with management at the Ocean Garment factory appeared before the Arbitration Council yesterday, a union official said. A spokesman from the Arbitration Council yesterday told the Post that such cases are typically sorted out within 15 working days. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ocean-reps-take-case-arbitration
Notification of the press conference on the violence caused by the elected MPs and the Cambodia National Rescue Party activists at the Freedom Park
His Excellency Keo Ramy, Secretary of the Council of Ministers and Deputy Director of Press and Quick Reaction Unit, will hold a press conference on the violence caused by the elected MPs and the Cambodia National Rescue Party activists at the freedom parks on 15 ...
Office of the Council of Ministers
Workers strike again to demand strike pay
About 2,000 workers at Takeo province’s I-Cheng (Cambodia) Cooperation remain on strike today, after management held steady in its refusal to pay employees for days they joined in a national garment worker strike in December and this month. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-strike-again-demand-strike-pay