Garment Workers Go Back on Strike Over Unpaid Wages
Thousands of garment workers from four factories have gone back on strike this week to protest a decision by their employers to withhold pay for the days they did not work during recent nationwide strikes. Between 8,500 and 12,500 workers at four factories—two in Phnom Penh, ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/garment-workers-go-back-on-strike-over-unpaid-wages-50580/
Nationwide garment factory strike sputters into second day
A few garment factories resumed operations in Phnom Penh on Friday, albeit at reduced capacity, as thousands of workers returned to the city after Khmer New Year celebrations in the provinces. While the majority of factories in Meanchey and Pur Senchey districts stayed closed, it remained ...
Sek Odom and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nationwide-garment-factory-strike-sputters-into-second-day-56740/
Registration of garment factories up in first half
The number of garment factories registered in Cambodia reached 1,200 at the end of June, an 8 per cent increase over six months ago, according to data released by the Ministry of industry and Handicraft. The report also showed that the garment sector employed 733,300 workers ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/registration-garment-factories-first-half
Cambodia, Iran look to enhance bilateral ties, cooperation
Cambodia and Iran are looking for possibilities to strengthen and expand bilateral ties and cooperation for the mutual benefits of the two countries and peoples. Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong held a talk on Monday with the Hanoi-based Iranian Ambassador to Cambodia ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=221964
Garment factory’s concessions end strike
About 1,000 workers at a Takeo province garment factory who have been on strike since Monday are due to return to work today after negotiations between union representatives and the factory wrapped up successfully Tuesday. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/garment-factorys-concessions-end-strike-76061/
Kem Sokha says CNRP supports term limits for Prime Ministers
CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha, who was on Tuesday elected National Assembly vice president, told reporters that the opposition party supports recent calls to impose limits on the number of terms a person can serve as prime minister. The issue has been in the local news ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kem-sokha-says-cnrp-supports-term-limits-for-prime-ministers-67208/
Garment factory floor collapse injures 4 in Cambodia
Four Cambodian garment workers were slightly injured on Tuesday after part of the floor in a garment factory collapsed into a pond built underneath, a local police chief confirmed. The incident occurred at 10:00 a.m. (local time) at Nishiku Enterprise in Bati district of southern Takeo ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-10/21/c_133731886.htm
Police release logger who implicated official
Villagers in Mondolkiri province on Tuesday detained and handed over to authorities a Vietnamese man who told police that Sos Malen, a local environmental official, had let him into Cambodia to log illegally. Immigration police let the man go, however, claiming to have insufficient evidence ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-release-logger-who-implicated-official-81314/
Government announces start of garment sector wage talks
The Labor Ministry on Friday announced that formal negotiations to set a new minimum wage for the country’s all-important garment sector—now at $128 a month—will begin in July, reviving the same schedule for talks it used with unions and employers for the first time last ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-announces-start-of-garment-sector-wage-talks-85550/
Gov’t again challenges Vietnam on border
The Cambodian government yesterday renewed its public call on Vietnam to halt activities it says are encroaching on Cambodian territory, this time citing a military post currently under construction along the border in Kandal province’s Koh Thom district. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-again-challenges-vietnam-border
Acleda adds $40M to expand operations
Cambodia’s largest bank, Acleda Bank, announced yesterday that it was infusing $40 million to add to its current capital of $226 million, as it looks to expand domestic and foreign operations and keep up with the rising demand for credit in the Kingdom. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/acleda-adds-40m-expand-operations
First agricultural insurance tested in Cambodia
Cambodia’s first pilot program to insure farmers against rice crop loss launched last week in five provinces. ...
Un Raksmey and Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13276/first-agricultural-insurance-tested-in-cambodia/
NEC explains rule change reasoning
The National Election Committee (NEC) held a meeting to explain the changes in election rules and procedures to three political parties that were demanding that the electoral body keep them unchanged from the previous elections. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-explains-rule-change-reasoning
MFIs agree to loan repayment relief for borrowers hit by flooding
Financial institutions said on Wednesday that they will provide favorable easing to customers who have been affected by severe floods, following an appeal by Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Chhorn Raksmey
https://kiripost.com/stories/mfis-agree-to-loan-repayment-relief-for-borrowers-hit-by-flooding
CMAA, India ink demining MoU
The Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) and the Embassy of india in Cambodia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) yesterday on a demining project covering four districts in Koh Kong province. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501352548/cmaa-india-ink-demining-mou/
Key lenders agree to ease loan terms for flood victims
Members of Cambodia’s apex bodies of the banking and microfinance industries have agreed to ease restrictions on loan repayments, reduce interest rates, as well as restructure loans for customers deemed to be significantly affected by the heavy rains and floods that have swept the Kingdom ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/key-lenders-agree-ease-loan-terms-flood-victims
GMAC mobilising support for mine clearance
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has pledged to mobilise support from around 700 of its member companies for demining work in Cambodia, with a fund-raising event scheduled for November 17. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gmac-mobilising-support-mine-clearance
41 Sihanoukville projects get special investment incentives
In all, 41 projects have so far qualified for Incentives under the ‘Special Investment Promotion Programme for Sihanoukville,’ Initiated by Prime MInister Hun Manet In January this year, maInly to solve the issue of unfInished and abandoned constructions In the coastal city sInce 2019. ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501499477/41-sihanoukville-projects-get-special-investment-incentives/
Boeng Kak Women Attempt to Meet US Official
Siem Reap City – Four women evicted from the Boeng Kak lake community and released from jail last month arrived here Friday in an attempt to meet Melanne Verveer, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for women’s affairs, who is part of a delegation visiting the country with ...
Unicef Says Girls’ Access to Education Limited
Despite progress having been made in recent years to improve girls’ access to education, there is still a gender-based inequality, particularly in rural areas, children’s rights experts said on the international Day of the Girl Child on Friday. “At the moment there is still a slight ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unicef-says-girls-access-to-education-limited-44937/