New report says garment sector fails to meet UN standards
Cambodian garment manufacturers and the association that governs them are failing to meet the standards set by the U.N.’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, as evidenced by lethal violence against workers during garment strikes in January, when five people were shot dead and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-report-says-garment-sector-fails-to-meet-un-standards-54191/
Telecoms unconsulted on cyberlaw provisions
Telecommunications companies say they are being left in the dark on the controversial draft law on cybercrime, despite provisions in the proposed law allowing prosecutors to order internet service providers to preserve data for them as part of criminal investigations. Three large telecom firms providing internet ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/telecoms-unconsulted-cyberlaw-provisions
Bilateral Talks, and Their Two Interpretations
Two polarizing narratives emerged after the Monday night discussion between U.s. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Hun sen, with the U.s. claiming it had been “tense,” while Cambodia insisted the talks were cordial. When it came to agenda, Mr. Obama put human rights, electoral and ss='cambodia-color'>...
MOUs to tighten Chinese trade ties
Cambodia’s Power Partner Profit Group has signed 10 memoranda of understanding with Chinese companies for cooperation on agriculture, mineral resources and electronics. Insiders said the penning of the MoUs, which do not guarantee a final agreement, was another step toward realising a Us$5 billion bilateral trade ss='cambodia-color'>...
Commodities Prices a Risk, Bank Says
Despite offering an uplifting outlook for Cambodia’s economy this year, economists at the World Bank said yesterday that it could still succumb to volatile commodities prices, particularly food and gas. speaking to journalists after the release the bank’s East Asia and Pacific Economic Update for 2012, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Workers Strike at Factory Supplying US Brands
Roughly 4,000 garment workers at a factory supplying clothes for U.s. brands Gap, Levi strauss and Old Navy went on strike yesterday and threatened to march in Phnom Penh on Thursday to demonstrate against poor pay. The demonstration took place at Tai Yang Enterprises in Kandal ss='cambodia-color'>...
More regional flights to be available in Cambodia
Regional flights to Cambodia will rise next year with the news that Philippines Airlines is eyeing flights to the Kingdom and singapore’s silkAir announced it would increase the frequency of flights to siem Reap. The regional wing of singapore Airlines, silkAir, announced on Tuesday an increase ss='cambodia-color'>...
Activists dismayed at mekong summit outcome
Environmentalists have expressed disappointment at the outcome of the second Mekong River Commission (MRC) summit, which wrapped up yesterday. International Rivers, an environmental and human rights organisation, yesterday released a statement slamming regional leaders’ failure to address concerns over the proliferation of dams on the mainstream ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/403657/activists-dismayed-at-mekong-summit-outcome
Phnom Penh, Ho Chi Minh strengthen cooperation
Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh city of Vietnam agreed to strengthen further cooperation to develop the two cities. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NmYyOWQzYmU1MWQ
Cambodian officials pledge to further promote cultural, people-to-people ties with China
Senior Cambodian officialS on TueSday vowed to further enhance cultural and people-to-people relationS between Cambodia and China for the benefitS of the two countrieS and peopleS. “Cambodia SupportS all activitieS to broaden cultural tieS with China,” Cambodian MiniSter of Culture and Fine ArtS Phoeurng Sackona Said SS='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-09/16/c_133647345.htm
Garment workers march for higher wages
More than 1,000 garment workers gathered in Phnom Penh and marched through the city center sunday, demanding a “decent wage” from their factories, the largest garment-sector demonstration in the capital since military police fatally suppressed a protest for higher wages in January. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/garment-workers-march-in-push-for-higher-wages-69635/
Train supply agreement signed
Toll Royal Railway signed an agreement yesterday afternoon with companies that will supply locomotives and parts for Cambodia’s railway network. As a result of the agreement, international tenders will be called in the coming months for the procurement of up to four new 2,000-horsepower locomotives and ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092058822/Business/train-supply-agreement-signed.html
Villagers Complain as Land is Razed in Oddor Meanchey
A fleet of bulldozers owned by an unknown company and accompanied by armed RCAF soldiers began razing some 300 hectares of contested farmland in Oddor Meanchey’s Anlong Veng district yesterday, village representatives said. “There were four soldiers with RCAF uniforms and AK-47s and every bulldozer ss='cambodia-color'>...
Benefits from ‘black gold’- Revenue from Cambodian oil fields could provide a big boost to development, if it’s done right
If Cambodia’s oil and gas sector is well managed, and transparent, it could provide the country a golden opportunity for investment, development and poverty reduction, said independent economist Chan sophal, who spoke at a recent gathering looking at the economies of oil-producing countries. Chan sophal said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Private Firms Approach Cambodia’s Bourse With Caution
When it became the first—and still the only—company to list on Cambodia’s stock market on April 18, the Phnom Penh Water supply Authority saw its share price shoot up some 50 percent on its first day of trading before beginning two weeks of steady decline. since ss='cambodia-color'>...
U.S. Supports Strengthening High-Level Legal Networks in ASEAN
Over 70 judges and justice ministry officials from throughout AsEAN gathered at a U.s.-supported AsEAN legal and judicial cooperation workshop in Cambodia this week for an unprecedented exchange of ideas on the rule of law in the AsEAN region. Representatives from the AsEAN senior Law Officials Meeting (AsLOM), AsEAN Member state judicial bodies, and the AsEAN ss='cambodia-color'>...
Huawei withdraws injunction
Huawei Technologies (Cambodia) Co agreed yesterday to withdraw its injunction against Mfone in order to pave the way for a court-appointed administrator to sell the bankrupt company’s assets and compensate its many creditors. Along with other creditors, Huawei representatives expressed concerns that the assets would ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013040964953/Business/huawei-withdraws-injunction.html
Global brands linked to latest shamed garment factory
Italian sportswear brand Kappa and U.s.-based retail giant Walmart apparently source clothing from the latest addition to the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) list of low-compliance factories, according to a union leader at the factory who provided the branded tags from the clothing her members cut ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sun Heng and Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/global-brands-linked-to-latest-shamed-garment-factory-63900/
Sihanoukville struggles to shake its seedy image
This tourist town counts itself among the Most Beautiful Bays in the World Club and more than 1 million tourists each year are drawn to its tropical water and sandy shore. Yet when the U.s. Embassy last month warned its citizens to avoid some beaches ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ouch Sony and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sihanoukville-struggles-to-shake-its-seedy-image-66108/
Input floated on traffic law
A coalition of NGOs are to submit to the National Assembly today a list of recommended additions to the amended traffic law, a draft of which was approved by the Council of Ministers in August. Road safety advocates hope the amended law, which creates higher fines ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/input-floated-traffic-law