Veteran families push for land titles
Representatives of 120 families consisting of veterans and disabled soldiers living in Banteay Meanchey province’s Malai district asked the government and provincial authorities to expedite the delivery of land titles as they have been living on land the government gave them for three years without ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29436/veteran-families-push-for-land-titles/
NEC denies request for time off for workers
The National Election Committee (NEC) has thrown cold water on a request by the Cambodian Labour Confederation (CLC) that it permit garment workers extra time off to register in their home provinces without receiving a pay cut, according to a letter posted on the NEC’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-denies-request-time-workers
After scramble, campaign on Nauru ramps up
Less than two weeks after Australia’s immigration minister met with Prime Minister Hun sen in Phnom Penh following media reports that a controversial refugee deal had collapsed, a spokesman for an organization that monitors refugees on Nauru said that asylum seekers there are again being ss='cambodia-color'>...
George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-scramble-campaign-on-nauru-ramps-up-94837/
Kem Sokha spells out path to victory in 2018
Acting opposition leader Kem sokha told supporters over the weekend that they must identify the strengths and weaknesses of the Cambodian People’s Party if they hope to claim victory in the 2018 election, and called on voters to keep a watchful eye when they go ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kem-sokha-spells-out-path-victory-2018
City hall plans to build two new dump sites
Phnom Penh City Hall will build two new waste management sites in order to to alleviate traffic congestion exacerbated by the need to transport all of the city’s garbage to a single dump in Dangkao district, municipal governor Pa socheatvong announced on his Facebook page ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-plans-to-build-two-new-dump%E2%80%88sites-103581/
Gov’t urged to bridge gaps and support private sector
The government should throw its weight behind Cambodia’s young and dynamic private sector, which has the talent and skills to capitalise on the opportunities presented by AsEAN regional economic integration, a government adviser said during a forum on Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-urged-bridge-gaps-and-support-private-sector
Environmental code aims to safeguard natural resources
A new plan to protect the environment started taking shape yesterday when the Environment Ministry held a workshop to discuss ideas on how to convert numerous laws into a single code to govern the county’s natural resources. It is expected the process will take two years ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23704/environmental-code-aims-to-safeguard-natural-resources/
Rice Federation to vote for president on July 2
FWith voting set to take place on July 2 to elect the next president of the Cambodian Rice Federation (CRF), the organisation has pledged to further strengthen its mandate, while rice millers and exporters claim they have lost confidence in the organisation’s ability to achieve ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-federation-vote-president-july-2
Draft of whistleblower law due in July: ACU
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) will unveil the first draft of its long-awaited whistleblower protection law next month, according to minutes of a May 30 meeting between the ACU and the National Council Against Corruption published on the unit’s website, but observers are not holding their ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/draft-whistleblower-law-due-july-acu
Nearly 90% of garment factory jobs at risk of automation: ILO
Local industry experts responded yesterday to a new report that warns the majority of Cambodia’s garment sector workers could lose their jobs in the coming two decades as automation and innovative technologies replace low-skilled labour and allow multinational producers to move their operations closer to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nearly-90-garment-factory-jobs-risk-automation-ilo
Kingdom reiterates stance on South China Sea
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on saturday issued a statement reiterating government policy laid out expressly by Prime Minister Hun sen in recent speeches, saying Cambodia will not support Tuesday’s expected arbitration decision at the Hague in the south China sea territorial dispute between China ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-reiterates-stance-south-china-sea
Domestic tourists push up Siem Reap visitor count
Tourist visits to siem Reap province increased slightly during the first half of the year as foreign tourists lined up to see the country’s pre-eminent tourism attraction, Angkor Wat, and Cambodians from across the country flocked to the province for a major national festival in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/domestic-tourists-push-siem-reap-visitor-count
Rice taskforce created, again
The Ministry of Commerce set up a new taskforce on Friday to address challenges faced by the Kingdom’s struggling rice industry and assess demands made by members of the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF), who have decried the ineffectiveness of an earlier taskforce set up by ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-taskforce-created-again
PPSP reports decline in revenue, net profit
Industrial park operator Phnom Penh sEZ, which became the fourth company on Cambodia’s stock exchange when it listed in May, released its audited 2015 annual report and 2016 half-year financials yesterday, reporting declines in revenue and net profit over the past 18 months on slower ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppsp-reports-decline-revenue-net-profit
Cambodian villagers demand compensation for expected impact of China-backed dam
Villagers in northern Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province on Tuesday urged the government to suspend construction of a Chinese-backed dam until they are promised compensation for flooding they say will inundate area communities, forests and farmland if the project is allowed to proceed. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hang Savyouth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/compensation-10202015164331.html
Siem Reap feels pinch of tourism downturn
Foreign tourist arrivals in siem Reap fell 11.2 per cent during the first nine months of the year compared to the same period one year earlier, as the Kingdom’s top tourist gateway sees its most significant slowdown in visitor arrivals in decades, new government data ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/siem-reap-feels-pinch-tourism-downturn
Delegates ‘concerned’ about climate treaty
Cambodia’s government and civil society yesterday expressed worry over the lack of progress on finalising the draft text for an international climate change treaty set to be adopted at UN climate talks in Paris (COP 21) after the final round of negotiations concluded in Bonn, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/delegates-concerned-about-climate-treaty
Siem Reap hotel protest moves to courthouse
About 200 unionists and past and present employees of siem Reap City’s Victoria Angkor Resort & spa on Monday demonstrated outside the siem Reap Provincial Court against an injunction ordering them to stop protesting outside the high-end hotel, but agreed to disperse when military police ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean and Aria Danaparamita
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/siem-reap-hotel-protest-moves-to-courthouse-105062/
Draft law to join china-led development bank passes national assembly
The draft law to join the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank passed the National Assembly yesterday with lawmakers from both the ruling and opposition party supporting it, saying it will open the door to a new source of funding for the development of the Kingdom’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
‘Second-home Policy’ aims to entice more tourists
With a surge in visitors from the world’s most populous nation, the government is preparing a “second-home policy” to encourage more Chinese tourists to visit and stay longer, and for those who have already visited to do so more often, Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21219/---second-home-policy----aims-to-entice-more-tourists/