Direct international flights from Sihanoukville
The national carrier, Cambodia Angkor Air, officially launched on Friday its scheduled flight services connecting Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to the Kingdom’s coastal resort in sihanoukville, in a move that could further boost tourist arrivals. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26274/direct-international-flights-from-sihanoukville/
Kingdom scores low on human capital index
A report released yesterday by the World Economic Forum (WEF) underscores Cambodia’s poor performance at educating and training its citizens in order to develop a competitive workforce and put their skills to productive use. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-scores-low-human-capital-index
Cambodia denies ASEAN ‘Veto’
The Foreign Ministry has denied claims that the $600 million in aid promised to Cambodia by China this month was in any way tied to the Kingdom’s stance on the south China sea. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27762/cambodia-denies-asean----veto---/
Committees to tackle rice woes
The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) yesterday agreed to create provincial level committees to provide emergency relief to the Kingdom’s beleaguered rice sector, currently in crisis due to falling exports. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28624/committees-to-tackle-rice-woes/
Land management minister to give answer to the National Assembly
Senior MiniSter, MiniSter of Land Management, Urban Planning and ConStruction Im Chhun Lim will go to the National ASSembly tomorrow morning at 8:30 am to give anSwerS to the National ASSembly&rSquo;S memberS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/land-management-minister-to-give-answer-to-the-national-assembly-8939
CNRP to order lawmakers silent on VN border issue
Opposition leader sam Rainsy said sunday that the CNRP’s 55 lawmakers will in the coming days be ordered to fall in line with the party leadership and cease attacking the ruling CPP on issues concerning the border with Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-to-order-lawmakers-silent-on-vn-border-issue-94084/
Consensus on wage eludes Unions on first try
Union leaders representing some of the country’s 700,000 garment workers failed Wednesday in their first attempt to agree on how much of a raise they would ask for to the current minimum wage of $128 in coming negotiations. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/consensus-on-wage-eludes-unions-on-first-try-94487/
Abuse fears holding up workers pact for Qatar
A major factor holding up an agreement to send Cambodian workers to Qatar is the Cambodian government’s refusal to send domestic workers to the country amid a “high risk” of sexual abuse, a Labour Ministry official said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/abuse-fears-holding-workers-pact-qatar
Ministry of Education receives more than 100 complaints
Ministry of Education, Youth and sport has received so far more than 100 complaints from students and students’ parents requesting the ministry to review the exam scores after they failed this year’s exam. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/ministry-of-education-receives-more-than-100-complaints-8976
Loggers threaten Cambodian forest and wildlife preserve
A protected forest and wildlife sanctuary in northern Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province has come under threat of illegal logging, with migrants to the area and soldiers clearing land and cutting down trees, sources say. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hang Savyouth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/threaten-10132015165540.html
A protest stages to oust Kem Sokha from position at the National Assembly
Dozen hundred protesters from across Phnom Penh Municipality staged a protest in front of the National Assembly this morning, demanding the NA’s current first deputy president Kem sokha, to step down from his position. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/a-protest-stages-to-oust-kem-sokha-from-position-at-the-national-assembly-9049
Foreign help has strings: Rainsy
Opposition leader sam Rainsy, currently in self-imposed exile and lobbying for foreign diplomatic support, told supporters in France on sunday that Cambodia should not rely on foreign powers to solve its own problems, given the country’s history. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/foreign-help-has-strings-rainsy
Mekong diversion under way in Thailand
The Thai government’s planned diversion of billions of cubic metres of water from the Mekong River, described last week by a Thai Ministry of Water Resources representative as being as far as two years away, has already begun. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mekong-diversion-under-way-thailand
Apparel companies cite union concerns
A visiting delegation from the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong met with relevant ministries and stakeholders yesterday to discuss the progress of Cambodia’s trade union law and the issues surrounding industrial relations in the Kingdom. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/apparel-companies-cite-union-concerns
Cambodia still controls ‘three rocks’: scholar
An academic tasked with re­searching the country’s border with Vietnam visited the latest flashpoint of political tension—the “Three Rocks” village in Takeo province—on Wednesday and determined that the boulders were still under Cambodian control. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-still-controls-three-rocks-scholar-108123/
Ticket sales for Angkor Wat to go online
A new online ticketing system for the Kingdom’s biggest tourist draw, Angkor Wat, will be introduced to provide faster and convenient service to tourists, while increasing the transparency and clarity of ticket sales revenues. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ticket-sales-angkor-wat-go-online
Prime minister pledges arrests over false debt promises
Prime Minister Hun sen on Monday threatened to have any politician arrested on the spot for promising to erase people’s debt if elected, revisiting criticism that he leveled against the opposition CNRP prior to the 2013 national election. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-pledges-arrests-over-false-debt-promises-109881/
US lawmakers create ‘Cambodia caucus’ in congress
The creation of a bipartisan Congressional Caucus on Cambodia was announced by two United states lawmakers earlier this week, with both men hoping the Us takes more of a role in the country’s growth economically and socially. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ros Chanveasna and Jonathan Greig
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23135/us-lawmakers-create----cambodia-caucus----in-congress/
For commerce minister, feud preceded move
When the National Assembly meets today to approve the prime minister’s second cabinet reshuffle since the last election, it will be a case of back to the future for outgoing Commerce Minister sun Chanthol. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/for-commerce-minister-feud-preceded-move-110777/
Homeless ‘don’t look good’
Police forcibly removed a dozen of the city’s homeless – four of them children – from the streets of central Phnom Penh yesterday, carting them off to the notorious Prey speu social Affairs Centre, where two people died last November. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kong Meta and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/homeless-dont-look-good