Charity assists thousands in Cambodia
An education program in Cambodia founded by a Taiwanese charity has benefited nearly 10,000 Cambodians over the past five years, which is comparable to a modern equivalent of the famed agricultural missions dispatched by the Taiwanese government to aid diplomatic allies in the 1960s. The ...
Chen Ping-hung
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/12/01/2003633762
Families told: Leave historic site
The roar of engines from tourist buses and cars drowns out the nearby sounds of crickets and flowing water as 39-year-old souvenir seller Touy Samoeurn spoke about the situation plaguing her. Ms. Samoeurn has spent more than 10 years calling Kulen Mountain home, residing in ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27654/families-told--leave-historic-site/
Court denies bail release of detained opposition senator
Phnom Penh Municipal Court has rejected an appeal from an opposition senator to be released from trial detention on bail. At least 10 other activists and supporters of the Rescue Party have been similarly arrested, charged and detained in recent months, as the two sides ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/court-denies-bail-release-of-detained-opposition-senator/2988815.html
Prison population swells
Cambodia’s badly overcrowded prison population leapt by nearly 20 per cent in the first 10 months of this year, government data show, raising serious health concerns.The figures, released by the Interior Ministry’s general department of prisons yesterday, show that there were 17,522 prisoners in jails ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prison-population-swells
Unions: change minimum wage law
More than 40 unions have joined together to ask the Labor Ministry to make changes to 10 articles in the draft Minimum Wage Law, saying the law did not cover all sectors and restricted the rights of union representatives in wage negotiations among a host ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33063/unions--change-minimum-wage-law/
Fish yield up but exports fall
Export of Cambodia’s fish decreased in the first 11 months of 2016 compared with the same period last year, despite the yield of inland and marine fish seeing an increase, a ministry report said. According to a report released by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33319/fish-yield-up-but-exports-fall/
UN envoy offers help with surrogacy laws
Visiting U.N. envoy Rhona Smith on Tuesday offered to help Cambodia draft its first laws on surrogacy, a ministry spokesman said. The special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, who arrived on Monday for a 10-day visit, met with Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana to discuss ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-envoy-offers-help-surrogacy-laws-119167/
Labor unionists decry lack of consultation on union law amendments
Worker unions criticized the National Assembly’s passing of 10 amendments to the contentious Trade Union Law on Tuesday, saying they were not aware of the exact nature of the amendments passed by parliament. ...
Kann Vicheika
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/labor-unionists-decry-lack-of-consultation-on-union-law-amendments/5183177.html
Backgrounder: Operating, negotiating FTA agreements with APEC economies
Member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) are striving to forge a regional free trade facility to be known as FTAAP (Free Trade Area of Asia-Pacific) AFTA (ASEAN Free Trade Area) – signed in January of 1992, it covers all 10 ASEAN members of ...
Japan to build $200 m shopping mall in Cambodia
AEON Mall, a Japan’s single-largest shopping mall developer and the largest retailing operator, will invest $200 million to build a four-storey shopping mall here in December, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday. The construction will be begun on December 10, 2012 on the land area ...
Union Delivers Leaflets Urging Garment Worker Strike
The Cambodian Confederation of Unions (CCU) is distributing 10,000 leaflets to garment workers across Phnom Penh, urging them to join a strike on Sunday, CCU officials said yesterday. “We would like to invite them to join us to demand for an increase if the base ...
Asean Agrees to Promote Free Flow of Labor
Economic ministers from Asean’s 10 member states signed an agreement yesterday to loosen restrictions around the movement of skilled labor in the region, part of preparation for the integration of the Asean Economic Community in 2015. The Asean Movement of Natural Persons Agreement is supposed to ...
New Siem Reap airport’s progress slow but on track
A senior government official said a new Siem Reap International Airport (NSRIA) being developed with $1 billion of investment by two Korean companies is still on track. NSRIA is wholly owned by two Korean companies, Camco Airport Co and Lees A&A, which held 50 per cent each ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013010360604/Business/airport-s-progress-slow-but-on-track.html
UN Envoy Continues Meetings With CNRP, NGOs
U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi, who is on his 10th fact-finding mission to Cambodia, met with opposition CNRP leader Sam Rainsy on Tuesday ahead of a planned meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen and other senior government officials Wednesday. Reached by telephone after the meeting ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-envoy-continues-meetings-with-cnrp-ngos-50589/
Compensation demanded for 5 killed in blast
Cambodia asked Thailand Friday to compensate the families of five Cambodians killed when a World War II bomb exploded in a scrap metal shop in Bangkok. The explosion on Wednesday killed a total of seven people, injured 20 others and destroyed or damaged 10 buildings. “Our ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/compensation-demanded-for-5-killed-in-blast-55814/
Residents left in dark again
Residents in the vicinity of Kab Ko market in Phnom Penh’s Chamkarmon district found themselves fumbling in the dark yet again yesterday on the second consecutive day of hours-long power outages. According to locals, electricity to the street failed around noon on Wednesday and was restored ...
Sen David and Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/residents-left-dark-again
Ten commandments: Gov’t lays out food standards
Makers of food- and beverage-related products are for the first time facing mandatory health regulations, with the unveiling of 10 national standards by the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft. The announcement comes after the National Standard Council, a government-run committee, finally approved the standards in May ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ten-commandments-gov%E2%80%99t-lays-out-food-standards
Workers protest at Siem Reap’s Ta Prohm temple
Sixty restoration workers at Ta Prohm temple in Siem Reap province put down their tools Thursday and protested in front of the temple alongside 31 former workers who lost their jobs last year and are demanding to be rehired by the Archaeological Survey of India ...
Sek Odom and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/workers-protest-at-siem-reaps-ta-prohm-temple-63212/
Total, NGO team up for road safety libraries
The literacy NGO Sipar is set to expand its fleet of mobile libraries and place a new focus on teaching the country’s youth about road safety as part of its partnership with global gas giant Total. A “Safety” library—the 10th in Sipar’s fleet—will join nine other ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/total-ngo-team-up-for-road-safety-libraries-60444/
Violence ‘cost economy $1.5B’
The consequences and containment of violence cost the Cambodian economy over $1.5 billion in 2013, just under 10 per cent of its estimated GDP for the period, according to the Institute for Economics & Peace’s Global Peace Index released yesterday. According to IEP executive chairman ...
Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/violence-%E2%80%98cost-economy-15b%E2%80%99