Melco’s unit disposes of Cambodia assets
Nasdaq-listed Entertainment Gaming Asia inc, a company linked to Macau casino operator Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd, is selling its assets in Cambodia. The sale includes all assets of Dreamworld Leisure with the exception of all electronic gaming machines, and prohibits any use of the Dreamworld ...
GGRAsia News Staff
http://www.ggrasia.com/melcos-unit-disposes-of-cambodia-assets/
Olympic Organizing Committee to Investigate Cambodian Factory
The London Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (Locog) plans to investigate allegations that a Cambodian factory producing Olympic merchandise for Adidas is not paying workers a sustainable living wage, a spokesman for Locog said yesterday. The investigation is a response to an article published Saturday ...
Sihanoukville casino gambled with an expired licence
reah Sihanouk provincial authorities have ordered a casino that operated in Sihanoukville shut down after it failed to renew its operating licence, local media reported yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sihanoukville-casino-gambled-expired-licence
Centre aims to bolster women entrepreneurship
A women’s entrepreneurship centre opened its doors in Phnom Penh on Friday, providing a platform for Cambodian women to access the tools and resources needed to start or grow a sustainable business.The WECREATE Cambodia Center supports female entrepreneurs by connecting them to a network of ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/centre-aims-bolster-women-entrepreneurship
Increasing sustainable food production could empower Cambodian women
A team of researchers, led by scientists in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, will launch a project designed to improve nutrition and empower women in Cambodia by promoting their production and marketing of horticultural crops and rice produced via sustainable intensification practices. ...
Penn State team
http://news.psu.edu/story/394753/2016/02/24/research/increasing-sustainable-food-production-could-empower-cambodian
Kingdom ranks low on gender equality
In spite of gaIns, gender Inequality In Cambodia remaIns significant, particularly In education and political empowerment, accordIng to the World Economic Forum’s recently released 2015 Global Gender Gap Report. ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-ranks-low-gender-equality
United Nations: One third of Cambodian women suffer abuse
More than 30 percent of Cambodian women have experienced some form of domestic violence at the hands of their partner at some point in their lives, a report released on Friday by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) revealed. ...
Mayuri Mei Lin
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33281/united-nations--one-third-of-cambodian-women-suffer-abuse/
Government confirms foreigners will need work permits for long-term visas
// // // // An Immigration Department official yesterday confirmed that foreigners requesting a long-term extension of their business visas would need to produce a work permit, with implementation of the rule starting September 4. ...
Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-confirms-foreigners-will-need-work-permits-long-term-visas
Work permits now required for long-term visa renewals
The Immigration Department yesterday confirmed that foreigners requesting long-term business visa extensions in the country are now required to submit a work permit proving their place of employment. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/work-permits-now-required-long-term-visa-renewals
Meet women making it work in a male-dominated world
As Cambodia goes through rapid development and economic growth, changes are being felt in the workplace as women look to make their mark in professions traditionally seen as male preserves. According to the Cambodia inter-Censal Population Survey 2013, women are predominantly employed in agriculture and the ...
Hang Sokunthea
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/meet-women-making-it-work-in-a-male-dominated-world-128116/
Lifting maid ban proving a challenge
A lack of legal protections, insufficient commitment from the Malaysian government and an overworked, understaffed embassy are among the major obstacles to lifting the maid ban, according to an internal government report obtained yesterday. Penned by the Ministry of interior, the 12-page brief details a ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013010960701/National/lifting-maid-ban-proving-a-challenge.html
Workers Supplying Wal-Mart Continue Protests
About 80 workers from a garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district – which supplies women’s underwear to U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart – protested yesterday, demanding that the factory owner settle their severance payments, workers and union representatives said. Workers at the Kingsland Garment Cambodia factory ...
'Gender Cafe' Offers Women a Place to Express Themselves
Busy juggling jobs, children, and housework, Cambodian women do not have the time, or platforms, to discuss bigger women-related issues like abuse, migration and forced eviction. And that is why a new initiative, called “Gender Cafe,” aims to change that by giving local women a ...
Malaysia frees 105 foreign maids 'held against will'
Malaysian authorities have freed 105 mostly Indonesian maids who were forced to work without pay by day and held agaInst their will at night, local media reported on Monday. The women were freed Saturday In a raid on a buildIng near the capital Kuala Lumpur where ...
Pilot scheme plans to send maids to Singapore
Four hundred Cambodian women could be sent to Singapore as soon as the middle of this year to work as maids under a pilot scheme by the governments of Cambodia and Singapore. The Post has obtained an internal circular the Singapore Ministry of Manpower sent to ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020461152/National/maids-heading-to-singapore.html
Missing girl feared trafficked
Meas Bopha, 47, sits in an outdoor pagoda over a lotus-filled pond on her property in Kampong Speu, home to 10 of her 12 children, and wipes back tears as she talks about her missing teenage daughter, Bophea, who vanished one morning last week. Bophea ...
Protest against former Bavet governor set for January 27
Free Trade Union of Workers President Chea Mony has announced plans to protest the dropping of charges against former Bavet governor Chhouk Bandith. The former governor was accused of seriously injuring three women when he opened fire on striking workers in Bavet in February. ...
Re-charge Bandith: unionists
Unionists yesterday said they would urge international organisations and buyers to pressure the government to re-charge and arrest the former Bavet town governor accused of shooting three garment workers and to release two men imprisoned for the murder of unionist Chea Vichea. in December, charges ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013011560784/National/re-charge-bandith-unionists.html
Workers Blame Mass Fainting on 'Angry Spirit'
After pounding on her chest and demanding a pig’s head, fruits and flowers to be offered to the angry spirit that she believed had taken over her body, garment worker Srey Mom collapsed on the floor of the Global Factory in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol ...
Court sets date for new hearing in Bandith case
The Appeal Court has set a hearing date in a case against former Bavet town Governor Chhouk Bandith, who stands accused of shooting three protesting garment workers last year. in December, the Svay Rieng Provincial Court dropped charges against the official, only to see the case ...