CAMBA Business Expo Looks to Invigorate Cambodian Businesses Both Home and Abroad
The fourth annual Business and Culture Expo hosted by The Cambodian American Business Association, an event designed to bring togeTher business owners, entrepreneurs and Cambodian community members, will be held Sunday August 25 in The parking lot of The Mark Twain Library. However, The event that ...
Meta house founder responds to chut wutty ban
The founding director of Meta House, Nicolaus Mesterharm, responded yesterday after The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts called off tonight’s screening of I am Chut Wutty, which was set to be publicly screened for The first time in The Kingdom. ...
Michael Light and Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23975/meta-house-founder-responds-to-chut-wutty-ban/
UN releases memos on concerns
The United Nations Office Of The High Commissioner for Human Rights on Monday published a batch Of communications held with The Cambodian government since June last year, showing that The international body has voiced its concern about a range Of issues from The arrest Of ...
Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-releases-memos-concerns
Saudis sign MOU on maids
Cambodia and Saudi Arabia on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding to begin work on opening a pipeline for Cambodians to work in the gulf nation, which has been routinely criticised for failing to protect migrant domestic workers from abysmal treatment and slave-like conditions. ...
Chhay Channyda and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/saudis-sign-mou-maids
Economic development requires rule of law: ESCAP
Cambodia has enjoyed strong economic growth but needs to improve its governance and rule of law in order to promote greater development, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Escap) said in a report released yesterday. ...
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/economic-development-requires-rule-law-escap
Budget for a rising economy
Government spending on social welfare and economic development could both see double-digit growth next year, according to a document summarizing expenditures in next year’s budget that will be discussed at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Hun Sen today. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16970/budget-for-a-rising-economy/
GFT minimum wage hike focuses on sustainability
The government has confirmed continuing minimum wage hikes for workers in The garment, footwear, and travel goods (GFT) sector, adhering to The sustainability of The sector and competitiveness in The market. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501352116/gft-minimum-wage-hike-focuses-on-sustainability/
Development plan in works
Villagers in three provinces are currently being surveyed by the Ministry of Rural Development and South Korea’s International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) for an upcoming development pilot project. the surveys in Takeo, Kampong Speu and Tbong Khmum provinces seek to find 30 villages to be a part ...
Taing Vida and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/development-plan-works
KR Banking Chief Says Institution Was Sham
On his first day of questioning at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday, Sar Kim Lomouth, the deputy director of the State Bank of Democratic Kampuchea, described how the national financial institution was nothing but a charade during the Pol Pot regime. Currency had been abolished and financial transactions eliminated under ...
Annual cold spell on the way: weather official
Ministry spokesman Mao Hak said yesterday that seasonal rains are expected to taper off in mid-November, with cooler winds sweeping into the Kingdom from Siberia and Tibet, promising a “winter” even cooler than last year’s, in which some areas saw temperatures as low as 18 ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/annual-cold-spell-way-weather-official
Number of capital slums down
The number of slums in Phnom Penh has dropped to 277 from 340 in 2013, a survey conducted by Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT) and released on Tuesday said. While its data showed positive progress, it noted remaining challenges in places where residents don’t have land ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/number-capital-slums-down
Holiday clemency requested for 900 prisoners
The names of more than 900 prisoners have been put forward to receive pardons and sentence reductions during next month’s Khmer New Year festivities, officials said yesterday. The inmates were selected by The Ministry of Interior and Their cases are now being assessed by The Ministry ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/holiday-clemency-requested-900-prisoners
Notification of the offers on employment and training services, technical expertises and professions to Khmer laborers, who just returned from the Kingdom of Thailand
Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training is honored to inform Khmer laborers, newly returned from the Kingdom of Thailand, as well as the public to know that the Ministry has prepared mobile information booths of the National Employment Agency and the General Directorate of Education, ...
Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training
Education key to art conservation
Art can represent a nation’s identity, and younger generations have a responsibility to conserve it. But that means education, to help youth appreciate Art and culture, says Donna Strahan, head of conservation and research at the Freer-Sackler Gallery. ...
Hong Chenda
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/education-key-to-art-conservation/3097455.html
SMEs call for better loan rates
The Kingdom’s small and medium enterprises have called on commercial banks and micro-finance institutions to lower interest rates on loans, as insiders have said They hamper SMEs’ potential for growth. Many Cambodian SMEs are concerned that The high interest rates offered by banks reduce productivity, according ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011092151765/Business/smes-call-for-better-loan-rates.html
Cambodia, Singapore urge peaceful solution to South China Sea dispute
Phnom Penh — Cambodia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong and his Singapore’s counterpart K Shanmugam agreed on Wednesday that the territorial dispute in the South China Sea between China and some ASEAN countries should be solved peacefully. “We have exchanged ideas on the issue of ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-10/05/c_131175455.htm
Alliance to disburse $2 million to buy paddy rice, help exports
The Alliance of Rice Producers Exporters of Cambodia (ARPEC) will release US$2 million after December 15th to its members in nine provinces so They can buy paddy rice before The harvest season ends and stocks been depleted. He said The pay out is being drawn from ...
Prison Department Told to Tackle Overcrowding
The Ministry of Interior’s general department of prisons has been advised to address prison overcrowding and transportation issues between prisons and courts as it begins to tackle its 2013 to 2018 strategic plan for The country’s jails. The advice was given at The start of a ...
Lauren Crothers and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prison-department-told-to-tackle-overcrowding-48734/
Assembly Approves 2010 Gov’t Spending
Following a three-hour debate at the National Assembly, lawmakers passed a draft law approving the $2.5 billion the government spent in 2010. During the debate, CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap presented a 10-page document that he said justified the $2.5 billion in spending, which was 25 percent ...
Canada wants trade pact
Canada is keen to sign an investment protection agreement with Cambodia to boost trade between both countries following the visit of Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion to the Kingdom last Friday. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29361/canada-wants-trade-pact/