PM blames Cambodia’s logging problem on opposition
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday blamed Cambodia’s rampant deforestation on local villagers who he claimed had been “incited” by the opposition to clear the forestland, though conservationists were quick to point out that those behind illegal logging are actually often powerful tycoons connected to the ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-blames-cambodias-logging-problem-opposition
PM gives recommendations at Asean veterans assembly
Prime Minister Hun Sen left recommendations for the Veterans Confederation of Asean Countries (Veconac) to help it attain new achievements in the interest of the general welfare of veterans in each member-nation. The recommendations were made on Tuesday at the 19th General Assembly of the ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-gives-recommendations-asean-veterans-assembly
Cambodia's Free Trade Union offers minimum wage plan
In the latest bid for an Increase In garment-Industry wages, Free Trade Union (FTU) president Chea Mony yesterday called on the Garment Manufacturers Association In Cambodia (GMAC) to come to the table and discuss a $120-per-month mInimum wage. A few days after Cambodian Confederation of Unions ...
Illicit Crocodile Farms Causing Price Collapse
An abundance of illegal crocodile smugglers operating without a license and exporting animals to Vietnam has led to the price of crocodiles dropping by more than half compared to the same period last year, breeders said yesterday. Loun Nam, president of the Crocodile Feeder Association, ...
R’kiri minorities say land’s sale improper
Fifty Tampuon ethnic minority families protested yesterday in front of the Soeung Commune Hall in Bakeo district against their commune chief, who they allege sold land that belonged to the Ratanakkiri community. in a complaint filed to rights group Adhoc yesterday, the families claim that commune ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013031962012/National/r-kiri-minorities-say-land-s-sale-improper.html
US Government Clothes Producer Denies Abuses
A representative of the Zongtex Garment Manufacturing company in Phnom Penh on Tuesday denied employing workers as young as 15 to make U.S. government clothing, following an exposé by The New York Times on poor standards in factories producing U.S. government attire. On Sunday, The Times ...
Khy Sovuthy and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/us-government-clothes-producer-denies-abuses-49654/
Cambodia’s garments to ship piece by piece
Cambodia’s garment manufacturers might sell fabrics from unfinished clothing orders worth millions of dollars to factories offshore in a last-ditch attempt to meet looming buyer deadlines. The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) issued a letter to the Cambodian government yesterday requesting it to “facilitate” exports ...
Eddie Morton and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia%E2%80%99s-garments-ship-piece-piece
Made here, owned there
At the end of a well-paved road just past the city’s airport sits a cluster of factories. Each one is barely discernible from the next – grey concrete walls and blue aluminium roofs. But one factory in the lot, MAG (Cambodia), is different. in a country ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/made-here-owned-there
Minor fraud prompts hard prison sentence
A former civil servant was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison by Kampong Cham Provincial Court for stealing the pensions of 10 retired teachers – a total of $500 – in March 2012. Mang Yusreng, former chief of the Social Affairs Office in Srei ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minor-fraud-prompts-hard-prison-sentence
Brands ‘violating contract rights’
Exclusive use of short-term contracts continues to impede progress in Cambodia’s garment sector, with major brands still sourcing from factories violating the statutory two-year limit on temporary employment, labour rights groups have warned. According to a report released last week by the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), ...
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/brands-%E2%80%98violating-contract-rights%E2%80%99
ID card grace period nearing end
The Ministry of interior yesterday reminded Cambodians of their obligation to obtain new or replacement national ID cards, a common piece of documentation required for people over 15 years of age and the validity of which had previously been extended to accommodate last year’s national ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/id-card-grace-period-nearing-end
Cambodia to discuss garment sector wages next week
A Cambodia government-appointed Labour Advisory Committee (LAC) may decide on a new minimum monthly wage for garment sector workers when it meets next week, just-style has been told. The committee is due to meet on Wednesday (12 November), when it will discuss whether to increase the ...
Poorna Rodrigo
http://www.just-style.com/news/cambodia-to-discuss-garment-sector-wages-next-week_id123496.aspx
Three-week campaign period announced for forthcoming national election season
The campaign period for next month’s general election will last 21 days, from July 1-21, said Prach Chan, head of the National Election Committee (NEC), who also called for calm in the run-up to the election. ...
Kim Yutharo
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-week-campaign-period-announced-forthcoming-national-election-season
Cambodia stresses importance of ASEAN Centrality to engagement with external partners
In engagIng with external partners, ASEAN needs to maIntaIn its Centrality, both In words and, In deeds, amid risIng geopolitical competition among major powers while stressIng the prInciples of openness, transparency, and Inclusiveness. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501323454/cambodia-stresses-importance-of-asean-centrality-to-engagement-with-external-partners/
Cambodia's GMAC tells all factories to stop production amid strike
The Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) on Thursday asked all its members to temporarily stop production operations this week due to concerns over security and safety after thousands of workers walked out of work in protest against the 19 percent wage hike in the ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-12/26/c_132997783.htm
Leave Minimum Wage Be, Manufacturers Say
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has said that there should be no discussions on raising the minimum wage until 2014, in response to a request from three garment industry unions for talks on a living wage for workers. The response, sent on Wednesday ...
WASDE: all-rice imports raised to 23.0 million cwt
Global 2014/15 rice supply and use projections are lowered from last month. Thailand’s 2014/15 rice crop is lowered 1.0 million tons to 19.5 million due to a reduction in dry-season plantings resulting from an on-going drought and a reduction in irrigation water availability concentrated in ...
AgWeb.com News Staff
http://www.agweb.com/article/wasde-all-rice-imports-raised-to-230-million-cwt-NAA-agwebcom-editors/
Cambodia's trade with its neighbors slows in Q1
Cambodia saw a slow rise in trade volume with Vietnam and a slight decrease with Thailand in the first quarter of this year, according to the figures provided on Wednesday. The figures said Cambodia’s total exports to Vietnam was worth 221 million U.S. dollars during ...
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-05/09/c_132370565.htm
SRP Seeks Suspension of All US Military Aid to Cambodia
Opposition lawmaker Mu Sochua departed for the U.S. yesterday in hopes of pressuring Washington into suspending all military aid to Cambodia over the government’s use of soldiers to defend the land holdings of powerful business families. “We have enough evidence that soldiers are providing protection to ...
Smart expands LTE network to all 25 provinces of Cambodia
Cambodian mobile operator Smart Axiata has expanded its 4G LTE network to all 25 provinces of the country. Smart launched 4G LTE services in Cambodia in January 2014. Smart Axiata also reports that its 2G network covers more than 98 percent of the country’s population. ...
Telecompaper News Staff
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/smart-expands-lte-network-to-all-25-provinces-of-cambodia--1087306