Credit Bureau Cambodia expands database, makes switch to riel
The credit histories of about 400,000 borrowers were added to its database last year, raising the number to slightly more than 4 million in credit bureau database, Credit Bureau Cambodia Interim CEO Mr. Oeur Sothearoath says at the bureau’s newly opened office in Vattanac Capital. ...
Khmer Times
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36598/credit-bureau-cambodia-expands--database--makes-switch-to-riel/
Workers get salaries winged
More than 900,000 garment and footwear workers can now get their salaries through Wing (Cambodia) Limited Specialized Bank after a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed yesterday between the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) and the Kingdom’s leading mobile banking services provider. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33163/workers-get-salaries-winged/
Japanses Police Arrest Ten for Defrauding Investors
Tokyo police arrested 10 Japanese nationals earlier this month for allegedly defrauding more than 1,000 investors out of $20 millions using fictitious investment projects in Cambodia, according to Japanese media reports. “The Metropolitan Police Department found no evidence that the amount of money raised was ...
ACLEDA builds new HQ
ACLEDA Bank, Cambodia’ leading commercial bank, held a ground-breaking ceremony yesterday for its new 20-storey headquarters, which will be located directly behind its present building. The new headquarters will cover 43,000 square metres, with parking for 700 cars. Construction is scheduled for completion in two years. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2012121860336/Business/acleda-builds-new-hq.html
Posthumous award for slain environmentalist
The Prey Lang Community Network of anti-logging activists announced yesterday that late last month it had accepted the Alexander Soros Foundation’s $25,000 Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Environmental and Human Rights Activism on behalf of slain environmental crusader Chut Wutty. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/posthumous-award-slain-environmentalist
Freedom of prisoner offered for cash: police
A 52-year-old woman was charged with fraud by the Tbong Khmum Provincial Court on Saturday for allegedly cheating a man out of more than $15,000 by promising to use the money and her connections to secure the release of his son from prison, police said ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/freedom-prisoner-offered-cash-police
Minor party head denies claims
Following charges by the Appeal Court alleging that he swindled a former supporter out of $70,000 between 2009 and 2011, League for Democracy Party (LDP) president Khem Veasna yesterday criticised the Cambodian judiciary, saying that the courts were under the control of “powerful people” and ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minor-party-head-denies-claims
After talks, workers return to jobs at M&V garment factory
A weekslong strike by more than 2,000 workers from a Phnom Penh factory that supplies global fashion brand H&M ended Wednesday after unions scaled down their original demands and backed down over a condition that workers receive their full salaries for the strike period, representatives ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-talks-workers-return-to-jobs-at-mv-garment-factory-85362/
Drought hitting rice farmers, risking target, Ministry says
More than 150,000 hectares of rice fields have been affected by a drought in some areas of the country, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, warning that the lack of rain, combined with labor shortages, could prevent the government from meeting its rice production goal ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/drought-hitting-rice-farmers-risking-target-ministry-says-91244/
March calls for end to child labour
More than 1,000 people marched in Sihanoukville yesterday to raise awareness of the exploitation of child labour, said rights workers. Kong Socheat, child rights advocacy co-ordinator for Licadho, said the province had been chosen for its high rate of child labour, especially in the fishing sector ...
Cambodia’s rubber export reach $459 million in 2020
Cambodia exported some 340,000 tonnes of rubber in 2020 generating $459 million for the national income. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50800901/cambodias-rubber-export-reach-459-million-in-2020/
Cambodia provides cash assistance to pandemic-hit families for another 3 months
The Cambodian government will continue providing cash assistance to about 700,000 families hit by COVID-19 for another three months from October to December, according to a decision released on Wednesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50955991/cambodia-provides-cash-assistance-to-pandemic-hit-families-for-another-3-months/
Cambodia to receive Poland-donated COVID-19 vaccines
About 300,000 doses of Covid-19 AstraZeneca vaccine from Poland will arrive Cambodia in the evening of January 25. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501012907/cambodia-to-receive-poland-donated-covid-19-vaccines/
Cambodia rakes in more than $1.7 billion from aquaculture and freshwater fisheries sector in 2021
Cambodia saw more than $1.7 billion in profits in the past year from the aquaculture and freshwater fishery industry, with more than 380,000 tons of yield from the freshwater fisheries. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501012780/cambodia-rakes-in-more-than-1-7-billion-from-aquaculture-and-freshwater-fisheries-sector-in-2021/
Agri exports reach 2.82M tonnes by March 16: official
Cambodia’s agricultural exports this year have reached 2.82 million tonnes as of March 16, surging by over 22 per cent or about 511,000 tonnes year-on-year. ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/agri-exports-reach-282m-tonnes-march-16-official
Program launched to improve water, sanitation and hygiene in Cambodia
WaterAid and The VF Foundation announce the launch of a year-long program to reach more than 85,000 people with access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene in Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501072154/program-launched-to-improve-water-sanitation-and-hygiene-in-cambodia/
CMAC builds elephants from weapons
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) has fashioned nearly 10,000 old and damaged weapons into elephants, trucks, maps and clocks to be kept at the Peace Museum of Mine Action in Siem Reap province. It will help future generations learn about the violence of the ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-builds-elephants-weapons
Japan provides grant for demining
CMAC director-general Heng Ratana told The Post on Sunday that Japan has offered $3,536,680 for mine clearance throughout the Kingdom and another $300,000 for CMAC operations in Battambang province, which also involves supporting mine victims for 12 months starting from January 1 to December 31. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japan-provides-grant-demining
Global brands welcome wage rise
Major global brands that source from Cambodia welcome the recent rise in the basic minimum wage for the country’s more than 700,000 garment workers, representatives of three brands told Khmer Times yesterday. They have no plans to shift sourcing to other countries where wages are ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16958/global-brands-welcome-wage-rise/
Deadly year for garment factory commutes: Report
More than 7,000 garment workers were injured and 130 killed during traffic accidents that occurred while they were being transported to and from factories in the first 11 months of the year, according to a report from the National Social Security Fund (NSSF). ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18538/deadly-year-for-garment-factory-commutes--report/