Thai Sugar Company Accused of Rights Abuse in Cambodia
A Thai sugar company with major shares in Cambodian sugar cane is being investigated for human rights violations in operations along the border between the two countries. The National Human Rights Commission of Thailand recently investigated allegations that villagers were forced from their homes to make ...
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/thai-sugar-company-accused-of-rights-abuse-in-cambodia/2411955.html
Clarification on RFI's reportage
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction would like to make clarification on a reportage with a title “In Mondulkiri, the registration of the community lands was slow since indigenous ethnic minorities did not have money to pay the authorities”, which was broadcasted ...
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
ICRC races to prevent virus transmission in prisons
The International Committee of the Red Cross in Phnom Penh on Friday donated 20 tonnes of health care, hygiene and sanitation supplies to the Directorate General Prison at the Correctional Centre 1. The humanitarian aid aims to assist the General Department of Prisons in preventing ...
Som Kanika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50712382/icrc-races-to-prevent-virus-transmission-in-prisons/
New tax rates announced for businesses and employees
The Ministry of Economy and Finance has revised the tax rates for all business owners and employees in Cambodia. Employers were instructed to deduct employee taxes according to the new rates from February onwards. Taxpayers have to submit the tax declaration by the 20th of ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-tax-rates-announced-businesses-and-employees
Announcement to the Cambodia Rice Federation about the permission to re-export white rice
On May 13 2020, the Ministry of Economy and Finance has issued a notification to the Cambodian Rice Federation, in which the Royal Government is authorized to grant the re-export of white rice upon overseas buying contract and the notification comes into effect from 20 ...
Ministry of Economy and Finance
NGOs give support to summonsed worker
Charges against outspoken Adhoc head of monitoring Chan Soveth are baseless, politically motivated and threaten to undermine human rights work in Cambodia, a coalition of NGOs said yesterday. Soveth, who has been summonsed to court on August 24 over the vague charge of assisting “specific perpetrators”, ...
Cambodian garment workers, bloodied in crackdown, continue wage struggle
Just over a month after a brutal police crackdown on striking Cambodian garment workers left at least five people dead, the country’s unions are calling for another strike in March, increasing the likelihood of further violence. At issue is the still-unresolved question of the workers’ minimum monthly wage. Roughly 700,000 ...
Christina Larson
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-20/cambodian-garment-workers-bloodied-in-crackdown-continue-wage-struggle
Planning ministry hands out cash to 420,000 poor families in Kingdom
The Ministry of Planning has identified 20,000 more poor families in the country, bringing the total to over 580,000, while over 420,000 of them have received the government’s cash assistance. In the meantime, many social security cards from families not deemed to be poor have ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/planning-ministry-hands-out-cash-420000-poor-families-kingdom
Clean energy development presents challenges
With its aim to expand solar energy investment by 12 percent by the end of this year and increase it up to 20 percent over the next three years, Cambodia has been facing challenges of transiting to clean energy development, according to a case study ...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50737288/clean-energy-development-presents-challenges/
Announcement on the suspension of education, technical and vocational, and training institutions in Prey Veng, Kampong Cham and Koh Kong province
On 09 March 2021, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training released an announcement on the suspension of education, technical and vocational, and training institutions in Prey Veng, Kampong Cham and Koh Kong province as an effort to prevent the spreading of COVID-19 in the ...
Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training
Announcement on the instruction of the requirement to work from home for 1-week period
09 March 2021, the Ministry of Economy and Finance released an instruction on the requirement to work from home for a 1-week period in order to prevent COVID-19 transmission which has been continually spreading in Cambodia since the community transmission event on 20 February 2021. ...
Ministry of Economy and Finance
Local rice producers sell at discount
A number of Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) member companies have reduced retail prices of milled rice by 10,000-20,000 riel ($2.50-5) per 50kg sack to participate in government efforts to improve people’s livelihoods during the ongoing two-week coronavirus lockdown in Phnom Penh and adjacent Takhmao town ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-rice-producers-sell-discount
Announcement on the geographical implementation of wearing masks and safety social distancing obligations
On 24 March 2021, the Ministry of Health released an announcement on the geographical implementation of wearing masks and safety social distancing obligations, concerning the further infection of COVID-19 since the community transmission event on 20 February. Those geographical areas are Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville, Kandal, ...
Ministry of Health
Solar slated to add 495MW by 2023
Cambodia will add 495MW of solar power capacity from seven projects by 2023, which will represent “20 per cent” of the total energy supply by then, as the world looks to harness the sun as a key source of renewable electric power in the fight ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/solar-slated-add-495mw-2023
Delay in accepting applications for membership in the Cambodian Competition Committee, the first independent entity
On 26 April 2022, the Ministry of Commerce issued a notification on the delay in accepting applications for membership in the Cambodian Competition Committee, the first independent entity.The Ministry of Commerce would like to extend the deadline for applications until 20 May 2022 at 17:00. ...
Ministry of Commerce
Villagers in Sna Sangkram village again urge authorities to expedite resolving land disputes
Representatives of more than 70 families in Sna Sangkram village, Balong commune, Prasat Bakong district, Siem Reap province, who have claimed that there was a land dispute with the Apsara National Authority again urged the authorities to expedite resolve the land disputes that have dragged ...
Hodo Group’s SSEZ strives to become world class enterprise
Hodo Group, a private textile and garment maker based in Wuxi, Jiangsu province in East China, said it would strive to become a world-class enterprise, said Zhou Haijiang, board chairman of the group and a delegate to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501172934/hodo-groups-ssez-strives-to-become-world-class-enterprise/
PPAP revenue rise to $8m, all round growth in Q1’24
Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) posted a 7.1 percent year-on-year revenue hike at $8.1 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2024 from $7.5 million, with container throughput climbing 20.4 percent to 93,153 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units). ...
Sangeetha Amarthalingam
https://kiripost.com/stories/ppap-revenue-rise-to-8m-all-round-growth-in-q124
Extractive industries
Extractive industries include mining and mineral sectors, natural gas and oil exploration, petroleum refineries, and quarrying for construction resources such as sand, stone, and gravel. Cambodia’s extractive resources have gone largely untapped, while these resources are geographically identifiable. French and Chinese geologists have been indicated ...