Buyers worried about union demands, garment manufacturers say
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia says unions and their demands for higher wages are rattling the country’s industry and could lead to a decline in buyers, factories and jobs. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/buyers-worried-about-union-demands-garment-manufacturers-say/2952398.html
Thai fishing trawlers unloading catch in Cambodia
More than 200 fishing trawlers from Trat province are now docking and unloading their catches in Cambodia’s adjoining Koh Kong province to evade the strict regulations being enforced against unregistered. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/720088/thai-fishing-trawlers-unloading-catch-in-cambodia
Cambodia declines invitation to join regional rubber cartel
Cambodia has declined to join the world’s largest rubber production group, the International Tripartite Rubber Council (ITRC), because there is no benefit in doing so now, a senior official and an industry executive say. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16627/cambodia-declines-invitation-to-join-regional-rubber-cartel/
RCAF officers jailed over university scam
Two officers with the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces were sentenced to one year each in prison for accepting bribes to secure positions for three men in the government’s National Defence University (NDU) in 2013. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rcaf-officers-jailed-over-university-scam
Think tank proposals focus on foreign policy
Cambodia’s Future Forum think tank yesterday marked Independence Day by releasing its first set of proposals, calling on the ruling and opposition parties to form a unified foreign policy ahead of the 2018 election. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/think-tank-proposals-focus-foreign-policy
Cambodia open to talks on ‘every issue’ with US, ambassador says
As Cambodia prepares for an official visit from Us secretary of state John Kerry next week, the country’s Us ambassador says it would consider joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-open-to-talks-on-every-issue-with-us-ambassador-says/3154335.html
Cambodian deminers meet Thai counterparts
Senior officialS from Thailand&rSquo;S Mine Action Centre are viSiting their counterpartS in Cambodia thiS week in an effort to develop Stronger bilateral cooperation to clear landmineS along the Cambodian-Thai border. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodian-deminers-meet-thai-counterparts
Hundreds sick in Prey Veng: ministry official
More than 400 people in Prey Veng’s Peamro district came down with cold and flu-like symptoms on saturday, prompting the Ministry of Health to launch an investigation into the cause of the sickness. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25784/hundreds-sick-in-prey-veng--ministry-official/
Gold mine license suspended again
A Vietnamese-owned gold mine in Battambang province’s Phnom Prek district failed to acquire an operating license from the Ministry of Mines and Energy yesterday after failing to meet their guidelines, according to officials. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26377/gold-mine-license-suspended-again/
Metered tuk-tuks making inroads in Phnom Penh
Cambodia’s first fleet of metered tuk-tuks is taking on the capital’s traditional business model for cheap motorised conveyance, where fare prices are usually settled by negotiations and customers often feel they were overcharged. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matthieu de Gaudemar and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/metered-tuk-tuks-making-inroads-phnom-penh
Ministry of Information to establish E-archive next year
Cambodia’s Ministry of Information is planning to create an e-archive in early 2016 with an estimated cost of some Us$5 million, according to the state News Agency-AKP. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/ministry-of-information-to-establish-e-archive-next-year-9046
Law on animal health at the finish line
A draft law seven years in the making to regulate and standardize the Kingdom’s animal health regulations is on the verge of reaching parliament after getting approval from the Council of Ministers on Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
James Reddick
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17607/law-on-animal-health-at-the-finish-line/
Amnesty international latest rights group to criticize government
Cambodians continue to suffer from a raft of human rights abuses in­cluding “arbitrary restrictions” on freedoms of assembly and ex­pression, according to Amnesty In­ternational’s latest global report re­leased this morning. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Anthony Jensen and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/amnesty-international-latest-rights-group-to-criticize-government-108895/
Heat, water shortages affecting rare bird life
Conservationists are expressing concern that some of the Kingdom’s endangered birds are not reproducing this year due to extreme heat stress, inability to find enough food and habitat loss from wildfires and human encroachment. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/heat-water-shortages-affecting-rare-bird-life
Palm oil yields up as crop matures
Export of crude palm oil from Mong Reththy Group, the Kingdom’s only active producer, doubled during the first half of the year despite prices showing no indication of improving, a company executive said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/palm-oil-yields-crop-matures
Cambodia asks China to double rice quota
Commerce Minister Pan sorasak lobbied his visiting Chinese counterpart, Gao Hucheng, yesterday to consider doubling Cambodia’s annual rice export quota to China while also proposing a host of agricultural trade agreements. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-asks-china-double-rice-quota
Gov’t announces plans to cut down on deputies
The government will prune superfluous “deputy” manager roles from the state bureaucracy’s many branches by restricting the number of people able to hold the title from the ministerial level down to kindergartens and hospitals. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-announces-plans-cut-down-deputies
Prisoner says release contingent on bribe
A Trapaing Thlong prison officer in Kampong Cham was last week accused of demanding $150 to release a prisoner who had fully served his 10-year term, a charge the prison’s director rejected yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prisoner-says-release-contingent-bribe
Ministry seeks to arrest photoshopper abroad
The Interior Ministry has asked Interpol to help arrest a “Cambodian living abroad” it believes is responsible for doctoring and circulating an image of Prime Minister Hun sen’s wife, according to a ministry spokesman. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Anthony Jensen and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-seeks-to-arrest-photoshopper-abroad-105899/
Garment factory owners warn of falling productivity
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) claims falling productivity levels and rising infrastructure costs in the Kingdom’s garment sector could put the country at a disadvantage with its neighbouring competitors. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bun Sengkong and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/garment-factory-owners-warn-falling-productivity