Garment Workers Continue Tax Deductions Protest
About 600 garment workers of the Top Form factory in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district continued protesting yesterday against new income tax deductions from their pay outside the factory after police blocked them from marching on National Road 5. Workers have been protesting since Friday against lass='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia's highly competitive mobile phone industry poised for change
The nation is awash with SIM cards, and that is indicative of an industry that, as most observers see it, is simply overcrowded. But [mobile phone] operators, despite their special promotions and a young population in love with phones, are finding themselves squeezed as margins lass='cambodia-color'>...
PTT signs agreement to set up retail oil venture in Myanmar
PTT Plc, the national energy conglomerate, is moving forward with plans to establish a retail oil business in Myanmar by working with a local partner Currently, oil consumption per head in the neighbouring country is very low at 38 litres annually, compared to 140 litres in lass='cambodia-color'>...
Govt hits back at critics
The recent deluge of comments critical toward the Cambodian government is an attempt to sow political chaos, a senior official said yesterday. At a press conference held at the Council of Ministers, Keo Remy, deputy chairman of the Press and Quick Reaction Unit, blasted several individuals lass='cambodia-color'>...
44 garment factory Workers Hurt in Road Traffic Accident
Forty-four garment factory workers were injured in a traffic accident yesterday morning in Svay Rieng province as they traveled to work in the back of an open truck, police said. The workers were riding in the truck when it overturned after colliding with a tractor-trailer on lass='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia’s garment exports grow in 2012
The exports of garments and textiles from Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia grew to US$ 4.61 billion, up nine percent over total textiles and garment exports worth US$ 4.24 billion made in 2011, according to The Phnom Penh Post report. However, the rise in garment lass='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/apparel-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=120092
As temperatures rise, floods to increase in Cambodia: report
Rising global temperatures could greatly exacerbate flooding in Southeast Asian countries such as Cambodia, as well as parts of Africa and South America, a new study by the University of Tokyo has found. Employing 11 different climate models, researchers found that with a mere rise lass='cambodia-color'>...
Melissa McMorran and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061166191/National/as-temperatures-rise-floods-to-increase-in-cambodia-report.html
Rainsy Asks Constitutional Council to Clear Election Candidacy
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Wednesday asked the Constitutional Council of Cambodia (CCC) to reinstate him as a voter and candidate for Sunday’s election, privileges he lost due to criminal convictions that King Norodom Sihamoni recently pardoned. “I would like the Constitutional Council of Cambodia to lass='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/rainsy-asks-constitutional-council-to-clear-election-candidacy-36629/
Cambodia attracts over 2 mln foreign tourists in first half
Cambodia received 2.09 million international visitors in the first six months of the year, up 19 percent compared with the 1.75 million tourists over the same period last year, figures from the ministry of tourism showed Saturday. Tourism is one of the sectors supporting the lass='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-08/03/c_132598966.htm
NEC’s verification is questioned by NGO
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) yesterday raised concerns over the ongoing election results verification process, saying the manner in which it was carried out makes it almost meaningless as a tool to check returns. From Saturday to Tuesday, the National Election Committee carried out lass='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec%E2%80%99s-verification-questioned-ngo
Cambodia Carrier on Track with New Flights
Cambodia Angkor Air will launch routes to China and the South Korean city of Seoul by August while it eyes additional destinations to Singapore and Malaysia, according to a senior official with the country’s national carrier. “Singapore is a hub for Asia, so we have lass='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060466030/Business/cambodia-carrier-on-track-with-new-flights.html
CNRP to Present Thousands of Election Complaints to NEC
The opposition CNRP will today present the National Election Committee (NEC) with its findings from a nationwide effort to gather election-day complaints—of which the party has received at least 18,400—but believes this represents only a fraction of polling day irregularities. CNRP officials in Phnom Penh, where lass='cambodia-color'>...
Matt Blomberg and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-to-present-thousands-of-election-complaints-to-nec-38411/
Cambodia, Bangladesh ink visa exemption deal for diplomatic, official passport holders
Cambodia and Bangladesh on Friday signed a visa-free agreement for diplomatic and service passport holders in a bid to strengthen bilateral ties in politics, trade, investment and tourism, officials said. The deal was inked here between long Visalo, secretary of state at Cambodian Ministry of Foreign lass='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-05/03/c_132357925.htm
Villagers fight mining venture
Nearly 70 representatives from 278 families in Preah Vihear’s Rovieng district are seeking intervention after a national mining company began drilling on their farmland last week, locals said yesterday. According to villager Yean Bunchan, 47, representatives from a company based in Kandal province called T P lass='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-fight-mining-venture
Two day training, consultation on 'stronger protection of Cambodian children' to kickoff
UNICEF Cambodia and the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International law (HCCH), including its Asia Pacific Regional Office will be hosting a two day national training and consultation seminar on domestic and inter-country adoption in Cambodia, according to a UNICEF media advisory. The lass='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=OWNkMTI3MjkwM2U#sthash.ssej8kTY.dpuf
PM, Rainsy meet nailed down: gov’t
Two days after opposition calls for renewed negotiations, Information Minister Khieu Kanharith announced yesterday evening that the ruling party will sit down with its opposition counterparts on Thursday to talk election reform, though opposition leaders last night weren’t so sure. Speaking at a gathering of journalists lass='cambodia-color'>...
Stuart White and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-rainsy-meet-nailed-down-gov%E2%80%99t
Sam Rainsy: “ I have no fear to appear at the Court”
Opposition leaders said that they were not afraid to appear at the Court even though the defense lawyer would be busy. The comment came after their defense lawyer, Choung Chou Ngy, had sought delay of questioning the two opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha, who lass='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=YWU0ZGQ0NTY3MjQ
Cambodians income rose four times in two decades
Cambodia’s per capita income increased four times in two decades since the Kingdom held its first United Nations supported democratic election in 1993, according to a report from Cambodia’s Development and Research Institute. In 1993, the country’s per capita income was only $240 USD per year, lass='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ZWIxMzQ0ODVmZmQ
Bribes on rise for test takers
More than half a million dollars in bribes were paid to teachers during last month’s national exams by high school students in Phnom Penh alone, the authors of a new study have found. The study, conducted by the Youth Resource Development Program, found that the average lass='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bribes-rise-test-takers
Final mission for volunteers
In their final deployment as part of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s national land-titling program, 55 student youth volunteers will be sent to measure 50,000 hectares of land following a nearly six-month moratorium on the program. The deployment was officially launched at a ceremony in Kandal province lass='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/final-mission-volunteers