Thousands of Workers Protest For Increase of Minimum Wage
More than 5,000 workers from across seven factories in svay Rieng province protested yesterday, demanding a doubling of the current minimum wage, a provincial labor official said yesterday. The country’s minimum wage sits at $61, and is supplemented by a $5 health benefit and a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Government silent on ELCs
Ministry officials were silent yesterday on how exactly they planned to implement Prime Minister Hun sen’s suspension of any new economic land concession grants and review of existing ELCs. Provincial authorities involved in granting the now-suspended land concessions yesterday said they were ready to implement ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050956051/National-news/government-silent-on-elcs.html
Tenants Look for Apartments Beyond Daun Penh
Foreign renters are vacating apartments in Phnom Penh’s central Daun Penh district and opting for cheaper, more spacious and better-equipped living spaces elsewhere in the city, realtors and landlords say. As a result, landlords in Daun Penh are being forced to decrease rental prices to try ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/tenants-look-for-apartments-beyond-daun-penh-6481/
International interest in Cambodian sugar
Sweet newS for Cambodian palm-Sugar farmerS: 10 international companieS are keen to import their produce, one of the Kingdom&rSquo;S Signature productS. Sam Saroeun, preSident of the Kampong Speu Palm Sugar Promotion ASSociation, Said that after an exhibition in South Korea earlier thiS month, Several international importerS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Officials in Detention for Questioning of Students
The Stung Treng Provincial Court charged a Council of MiniSterS official and her huSband on Saturday with threatening public officialS after they queStioned the authority of StudentS working on Prime MiniSter Hun Sen&rSquo;S land-meaSuring program. They are currently being held in pre-trial detention, their defenSe lawyer SS='cambodia-color'>...
Coffee production in Mondulkiri province increases
Coffee production in Mondulkiri province in 2012 will be higher than in 2011, according to farmers and producers. Coffee farmer Bou sopheap told the Post that he just finished the harvest in December. In 2012, his two-hectare plantation provided about four tonnes of coffee beans, compared to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Workers' protest in Phnom Penh pays off
Garment workers who claim their employer was docking their pay for wearing shoes on the job will return to work today after their two-day strike ended with some demands being met. More than 300 workers from Horus Industrial Corp sports­wear factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012060856672/National-news/strike-action-pays-off.html
Charter flights fuel growth
Charter flights through Cambodia’s two international airports contributed to a 20 per cent year on year jump in passenger flow during the first half of 2012, according to the minister of tourism. About 1.03 million passengers arrived at Phnom Penh International Airport and and siem Reap ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071657429/Business/charter-flights-fuel-growth.html
China's aid vital to Cambodia: finance minister
China’s assistance to Cambodia is very important for the country’s economic and social development, Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Keat Chhon said Tuesday. He said from 1992 to present, China has provided 2.7 billion U. s. dollars in soft loans and grants to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Dam may be behind mass fish deaths
More than 10 tonnes of fish have been collected from a canal in Banteay Meanchey where the dead catch has been washing up since sunday. Heng seng Krey, fishery administration chief of Banteay Meanchey’s Mongkol Borei district, said more than 200 people have come to collect ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-may-be-behind-mass-fish-deaths
For 2013, trade value to reach $16 billion
The value of Cambodia’s overall trade volume for 2013 is expected to reach $16 billion, according to the former Minister of Economy and Finance, Keat Chhon. The figure comes to a 14.4 per cent rise from last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/2013-trade-value-reach-16-billion
Put trips to Bangkok on hold: gov’t
The government asked Cambodians to avoid all nonessential travel to Bangkok following Thailand’s imposition of martial law. “The situation is calm and we will continue monitoring it, but travellers planning to go to Thailand should hold off for now,” Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said after an ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/put-trips-bangkok-hold-gov%E2%80%99t
Groups condemn violence in Beehive crackdown
Reporters Without Borders and Freedom House have condemned a violent crackdown on supporters of Beehive Radio, who were beaten during demonstrations Monday. Beehive owner Mam sonando called for demonstrations in opposition of the government’s refusal to grant a license for an expansion of his operations. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/groups-condemn-violence-in-beehive-crackdown/1839356.html
Cambodia rethinks passport life
A decision to extend the validity of Cambodian passports from three to 10 years should encourage more Cambodians to travel, claims the Ministry of Interior. The ministry’s General Directorate of Identification head, General Mao Chandara, was quoted by local media as saying, the department would begin ss='cambodia-color'>...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/05/cambodia-rethinks-passport-life/
Yield of GI pepper up, but lower than hoped
This season’s Kampot pepper production is expected to reach 27 tonnes, up from 21 tonnes last year thanks to a larger area of harvested land. But Nguon Lay, president of the Kampot Pepper Association, said on sunday that despite the increase, adverse weather conditions meant the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/yield-gi-pepper-lower-hoped
Activists put blame on local police
Activists working in Prey Lang forest have accused military and police officers of being behind two illegal timber hauls they have intercepted. In the first case, an estimated 50 cubic metres of timber being transported through Kampong Thom’s sandan district on homemade tractors was found last ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-put-blame-local-police
Alleged dissident in hiding seeks passage abroad
A man who claims to be hiding from authorities in the jungle after being linked to the Khmer National Liberation Front (KNLF), a dissident political group that saw 10 of its members charged with plotting to incite violence on saturday, said Tuesday he was seeking ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/alleged-dissident-in-hiding-seeks-passage-abroad-71200/
Gov’t spokesman says Licadho doctored land dispute report
fter rights group Licadho released a statement Thursday saying that more than 10,000 Cambodian families were newly affected last year by land disputes in the 13 provinces where it has monitors—a three-fold increase from 2013—a government spokesman on Friday slammed the NGO’s report as “baseless ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and Emily Townsend
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-spokesman-says-licadho-doctored-land-dispute-report-78470/
Debt still plagues ADB effort to fix railway woes
In its first annual review of efforts by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to make amends for the thousands of Cambodian families hurt by a railway project the lender is funding, the bank’s Compliance Review Panel said it was making progress on five of six ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/debt-still-plagues-adb-effort-to-fix-railway-woes-81713/
ADB to support $118m rural road project in Cambodia
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide nine poor rural provinces in Cambodia with year-round access to markets and social services through a 118 million U.s. dollars project to provide a safer, cost-effective rural road network, the bank said in a press statement on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daily Times News Staff
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/business/12-Aug-2014/adb-to-support-118m-rural-road-project-in-cambodia