Dozens of maids still missing in Malaysia, rights group says
Rights group Adhoc on Tuesday urged the government to work harder to help Cambodian domestic workers still suffering abuse from their employers in Malaysia or from the Cambodian recruitment agencies that sent them there, including 63 women the organization says have effectively disappeared. At a press ...
State-secrets law to be sent to council of ministers soon
A draft law to protect state secrets has been in the works for more than two years and could be submitted to the Council of Minister for review in two months’ time, a senior police official said yesterday. ...
Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/state-secrets-law-to-be-sent-to-council-of-ministers-soon-77897/
Choppers, salesman pitch over capital
In an effort to sell more helicopters in the Kingdom, Airbus Helicopter Southeast Asia showed off its H130 chopper yesterday, during a short demonstration flight in Phnom Penh. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/choppers-salesman-pitch-over-capital
New teachers for KR classes
The US Institute of Peace on Wednesday announced the completion of a program – conducted by the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) – to train an additional 600 educators to teach Khmer Rouge history in the Kingdom’s secondary schools. ...
Rebecca Moss
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-teachers-kr-classes
Child centre’s chief arrested
Four children were removed yesterday from Bethel Children’s Home of Cambodia and the centre’s director was arrested in Chhbar Ampov following a complaint alleging child abuse and neglect, including forced labour and sexually inappropriate conduct. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/child-centres-chief-arrested
US report details human rights abuses in 2014
The U.S. State Department released its 39th annual human rights report on Friday, reviewing abuses against the citizens of 199 countries and painting a forensic picture of the shortcomings of the Cambodian government’s efforts to protect the rights of its population. Under the heading “Arbitrary or ...
Simon Henderson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-report-details-human-rights-abuses-in-2014-86716/
Court says roadblock more severe than shooting
Responding to criticism of the eighteen-month jail terms handed down to four unionists who blocked a road at a strike in Svay Rieng province last year, a deputy prosecutor said Wednesday that their actions were as severe as those of former Bavet City governor Chhouk ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-says-roadblock-more-severe-than-shooting-91545/
Bubble trouble downplayed
Government officials and industry insiders downplayed concerns about the sustainability of the construction and real estate sector yesterday, although they agreed that closer monitoring of the industry was needed to understand risks to the economy.At a meeting in Phnom Penh yesterday, officials from several ministries, ...
Siv Meng, Ananth Baliga and Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bubble-trouble-downplayed
MEF strengthens property data to analyse the development sector
“I confess that the ministry hasn’t been able to control and achieve transparency in the real estate sector, but I can say that this sector has yet to show any signs of trouble,” Ngoun Sokha, secretary of state for the Ministry of Economy and Finance, ...
Phnom Penh Post News Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/mef-strengthens-property-data-analyse-development-sector
Sweden pledges $3 million aid for human rights education
The Embassy of Sweden yesterday inked an agreement with Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI) of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law to strengthen human rights education in the Kingdom’s academic institutions. ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50701266/sweden-pledges-3-million-aid-for-human-rights-education
Gov’t plans to install surveillance equipment
The government is planning to install surveillance equipment on the networks of Cambodia’s mobile phone operators and Internet service providers (ISPs), a senior Interior Ministry official said Tuesday, vindicating concerns about inspections the ministry quietly conducted on telecommunications firms in October. In October, officials from Lieutenant ...
Aun Pheap and Joshua Wilwohl
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-plans-to-install-surveillance-equipment-73911/
National Bank of Cambodia looks at local yuan role
Bank of China is in negotiations with Cambodia’s central bank on the promotion of business transactions in Chinese yuan. The official talks reflect rapid trade growth between the two countries at a time when several commercial banks in Cambodia have launched yuan remittance and trade-settlement products. The ...
SMEs urged to register with the new specialised bank
The president of the Federation of Association of Small and Medium Enterprises of Cambodia (Fasmec) is urging small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to register with the association to get benefits from the newly formed SMEs Bank of Cambodia. ...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50717402/smes-urged-to-register-with-the-new-specialised-bank/
SME Bank ‘must relax its criteria for loans’
THE President of the Federation of Associations of Small and Medium Enterprises of Cambodia (FASMEC) Te Taingpor has requested the SME Bank of Cambodia and participating financial institutions to extend the payment period of the SME Co-Financing Scheme from four to six years and take ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50720985/sme-bank-must-relax-its-criteria-for-loans/
Civil service reforms forge on
The Ministry of Interior and Transparency International Cambodia (TI Cambodia) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to extend the provisions of the framework for the School of Governance (SoG) phase II (2021-2025). ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/civil-service-reforms-forge
Vietnam, Cambodia bolster anti-crime cooperation
Vietnamese Minister of Public Security To Lam and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sar Kheng co-chaired a virtual talk on issues related to trans boundary crime. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50908965/vietnam-cambodia-bolster-anti-crime-cooperation/
Becoming volunteer lawyers for the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia
On 5 February 2021, the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia issued an appeal on becoming volunteer lawyers of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia. In order to contribute to a better social justice, the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia ...
Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia
BAKC inks MoU for victimised women
The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) will work with Cambodia National Council for Women to provide legal defence services and train enforcement officials in relevant laws. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bakc-inks-mou-victimised-women
Customs trends, guidance at key meet
The private sector has drawn attention to a host of issues for customs and excise to optimise operations, control the entry of illegal or restricted goods into Cambodia, bring in more revenue to state coffers, and protect local producers. ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/customs-trends-guidance-key-meet
New non-SEZ projects fall 24.11%
Despite a modest improvement in the Covid-19 situation in Cambodia, the number of new projects outside of special economic zones (SEZ) approved by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) saw a sharp decline in January-November 2021 compared to the same period a year ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-non-sez-projects-fall-2411