Beer Promoters 'banished' for striking
Angkor Beer promoters involved in last August’s strike over unpaid overtime have been banished to less popular restaurants and beer gardens in the past year, a report on the profession says. According to Promoting Decency? Report on the situation of Beer Promotion Workers in Cambodia, released this ss='cambodia-color'>...
Japan’s vital role in Cambodia’s strategic reconfiguration
Since early thiS year, commentatorS and the public alike have Spent a great deal of time and effort to analyze Cambodia-US relationS againSt the backdrop of the recent US-ASEAN Summit. LeSS focuS haS been made on one of the moSt important bilateral relationShipS of Cambodia SS='cambodia-color'>...
Cheunboran Chanborey
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22736/japan---s-vital-role-in-cambodia---s-strategic-reconfiguration/
Kem Ley’s brother brands official’s comments ‘insulting’
After an Interior Ministry spokes­man last week suggested that an investigation into the murder of Kem Ley had been slowed by his wife fleeing the country, the slain analyst’s friends and family on sunday blasted the government’s slow and secretive response over the past two ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kem-leys-brother-brands-officials-comments-insulting-117879/
Tensions flare in minister’s wife’s land dispute
About 100 military and provincial police descended upon the rural village of Lor Peang on Monday morning, acting on what they said was a court order to arrest three villagers standing in the way of an agro-development project. More than 70 local residents involved in a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tensions-flare-in-ministers-wifes-land-dispute-63446/
North Koreans talk rice
North Korea aims to import rice from Cambodia, as well as explore for mineral resources, officials said yesterday. High-ranking officials from Pyongyang met with their Cambodian counterparts in Phnom Penh yesterday, signing agreements on economic and trade cooperation.The two countries had signed seven cooperation agreements beginning ss='cambodia-color'>...
(By Vong Sohkeng, pg. 7)
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011072850685/Business/north-koreans-talk-rice.html
Lakeside Deal Skips Village 1
Hundreds of families at Boeung Kak lake would receive land titles next week, Phnom Penh governor Kep Chuktema announced yesterday, but one village has been excluded from the deal that all but ends Phnom Penh’s highest-profile land dispute. At a meeting with about 500 villagers ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chinese animal feed mill opens in Cambodia
A Chinese animal feed mill officially opened at the Phnom Penh special Economic Zone (PPsEZ) on Aug 28. It is the first animal feed mill from China and the fifth animal feed factory to operate in Cambodia Cambodia has strongly depended on the imports for animal ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia’s garment workers to get pay rise for 2013
Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) on Monday agreed to increase salaries for the workers in the kingdom’s garment and footwear industries, according to a press release after a closed door meeting. The meeting was attended by Minister of social Affairs Ith samheng, Minister of Labor ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.nzweek.com/world/cambodias-garment-workers-to-get-pay-rise-for-2013-43866/
US Extractive Firms Obliged to Disclose Overseas Payments
The U.S. SecuritieS and Exchange CommiSSion (SEC) haS adopted ruleS that would make it a legal requirement for liSted companieS operating in the extractive induStrieS and doing buSineSS in Cambodia to diScloSe all major paymentS they make to the government. The ruleS, which were adopted in SS='cambodia-color'>...
The drugs don’t work: Despite the best efforts of the authorities, producers of fake medicines are making a killing in Cambodia
“Counterfeit medicine kills, while real medicine heals.” This was the simple but apt message selected just over a year ago for a poster campaign in Cambodia that aimed to raise awareness of the risks of counterfeit medications, as part of a government crackdown on the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Anti-Eviction Protesters Appeal to Obama
As Barack Obama was declared president of the United states for a second term yesterday, about 50 anti-eviction protesters for the Boeng Kak and Borei Keila communities camped out in front of the U.s. Embassy and appealed for the president’s help in addressing land rights ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anti-eviction-protesters-appeal-to-obama-5315/
Room for compromise in wage debate: official
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia and unions both need to compromise further to secure a “proper wage” for garment workers whose lives are hampered by their current $61 minimum wage, a Ministry of social Affairs official overseeing wage negotiations said yesterday. “The government needs the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030661779/National/room-for-compromise-in-wage-debate-official.html
More trade finance needed
A lack of trade financing – the loans and guarantees needed to support import and export transactions – for international deals within developing Asian countries such as Cambodia is restricting opportunities for growth, a survey by the Asia Development Bank (ADB) has found. Of 106 banks ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013031361906/Business/more-trade-finance-needed.html
Insurance Institute To Boost Skills in Kingdom
An insurance training centre is being planned in Cambodia to develop local expertise lacking in the Kingdom’s nascent insurance industry. The institute hopes to offer diploma courses to industry leaders here so they in turn will be qualified to provide insurance training to others, such as ss='cambodia-color'>...
Government Sold National Ship Registry Rights
Cambodia has no control over Cambodian-flagged ships complicit in illegal activities on the high seas as the government sold the authority to register ocean-going vessels, under Cambodia’s national flag, to a company in south Korea for $6 million, a Council of Ministers official claimed Thursday. On ss='cambodia-color'>...
Denise Hruby and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-sold%E2%80%88national-ship-registry-rights-48186/
In Sweden, Cambodian woman wins world’s children’s prize
Cambodia’s Noun Phymean has won this year’s World’s Children’s Prize, chosen by children from around the globe, and the accompanying $50,000 award for her work offering free schooling and vocational training to some of Phnom Penh’s poorest young people. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-sweden-cambodian-woman-wins-worlds-childrens-prize-97347/
CNRP Says Rally’s Size Could Exceed Government’s Demands
With a major opposition rally planned for this afternoon in Phnom Penh, City Hall and Ministry of Interior officials were at odds with CNRP leaders on sunday over how many people would be allowed to attend the event. Though the Interior Ministry has said only 6,000 ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-says-rallys-size-could-exceed-governments-demands-40783/
Cambodia’s ruling party promotes PM’s sons, top allies
Cambodia’s ruling party named three sons of long-time Prime Minister Hun sen to its upper ranks on sunday as part of a bid to rejuvenate its leadership and claw back support lost at the last general election. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daily Times News Staff
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/foreign/03-Feb-2015/cambodia-s-ruling-party-promotes-pm-s-sons-top-allies
Simple CPP’s supporters doubt on Hun Sen’s successor
Prime minister Hun sen will be automatically nominated as the new president of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party but not clear for whom will succeed him as the new vice president. The CPP will hold its congress on June 20, 2015 to elect new president ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1HIiAUu
Pyongyang trade push
North Korea officials have arrived in Cambodia with the intent of establishing a trade relationship, particularly with regards to agriculture. Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong met with Deputy Trade Minister Ri Myong san from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Opinions have been mixed ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011072750655/Business/pyongyang-trade-push.html