Coal-fired plant tests new power generator
Structural testing of the third unit of a 700-megawatt coal-fired power plant under development in Preah Sihanouk province has begun, with the new unit expected to go online by the end of the quarter, a government official said yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/coal-fired-plant-tests-new-power-generator
About 100 Protest Electricity Prices in Mondolkiri
About 100 residents of Mondolkiri province’s Sen Monorom City protested outside the provincial hall on Monday, demanding that local authorities reduce the price of electricity in the city, officials said yesterday. Choeng Sochantha, director of the provincial administration office, said the protestors demanded that the price ...
Official Says Electricity Prices Set to Increases
State power company Electricite du Cambodge (EDC) plans to increase the price of electricity to make up for a drop in revenue this year, according to a Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy official. “This year, oil prices went up, which meant the EDC did not ...
Unions wary of energy plan
Some labour unions are suggesting reforms to state energy provider Electricite du Cambodge’s (EdC) plan to grant energy discounts to garment workers in Phnom Penh, saying yesterday that the current arrangement is “too complex to implement”. According to the new plan, workers are entitled to ...
Sarah Taguiam and Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-wary-energy-plan
China firm now eyes power lines
The Beijing-based PowerChina Resources Limited (PCR), a shareholder of Sinohydro Kamchay Hydroelectric Project Co. Ltd, which developed the Kamchay hydroelectric dam in Kampot, expressed its interest in building electricity transmission lines in Cambodia. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27263/china-firm-now-eyes-power-lines/
CPP commune chief arrested by ACU authorities
A CPP commune chief in Koh Kong province’s Sre Ambel district was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Saturday, with an official saying Tuesday that he had demanded exorbitant fees to sign land-sale documents. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-commune-chief-arrested-by-anti-corruption-authorities-86982/
Announcement on the Cambodia's travel products export exceed US $1.2 billion
On 16 March 2020, the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has issued an announcement on the Cambodian travel products export to the world on which has exceed $1.2 billion in 2019. ...
Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC)
Covid-19 brings chaos to textile industry
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) on Tuesday urged factories not to suspend shipments of goods that have already been produced as well as those in production. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/covid-19-brings-chaos-textile-industry
Pay&Go Aims to Streamline Bill Payments With New Services
A local company has begun working in cooperation with ABA bank to streamline payments for services such as electricity bills and mobile phone top-ups by allowing people to pay through its website, mobile applications and electronic kiosks. PayGo SEA (Cambodia) Co. Ltd., which operates under the ...
Joshua Wilwohl and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/paygo-aims-to-streamline-bill-payments-with-new-services-44794/
New Lao dam does not breach Mekong agreement: official
Developing the Don Sahong dam on the Hou Sahong channel of the Mekong River in Champassak province does not breach the 1995 Mekong Agreement, a senior government official has told local media. Deputy Minister of Energy and Mines, Mr Viraphonh Viravong, made the comment on Thursday, ...
Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ZWRmZDI3MWU5ODE
Mega First signs agreement for development of Don Sahong hydropower project in Laos
Mega First Corp. Bhd. has signed an agreement with Laotian utility Electricite du Laos to regulate its participation in developing the 240- to 360-MW Don Sahong hydropower project. ...
Michael Harris
http://www.hydroworld.com/articles/2015/03/mega-first-signs-agreement-for-development-of-don-sahong-hydropower-project-in-laos.html
Workers' 'resignations' disputed
Workers at shuttered plush-toy company First & Main claimed yesterday their bosses had forced them to thumbprint resignation letters they had not written, a plan they feared could deny them severance pay. Mech Mom, a representative of the 357 workers at the US-owned factory, in the ...
Blackouts to end soon: EdC
Blackouts in Phnom Penh will no longer be a problem after an energy source near Sihanoukville starts providing an extra 50 megawatts of coal-fired power to the city next month, the director-general of Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) said. Keo Rottanak said by mid-June at the latest ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052765845/Business/blackouts-to-end-soon-edc.html
Powerless Phnom Penh Struggles With Hot Season
As air-conditioning units slow to a halt, computers die and the lights go out, the frustration of local business owners and organizations in Phnom Penh is boiling over once again as the annual hot season blackouts have arrived. The 190-megawatt, Chinese-built Kamchay hydropower dam in ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/powerless-phnom-penh-struggles-with-hot-season-15655/
Half a million workers already affected by cancelled orders
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has stated approximately 60 percent of its factories have been severely affected by cancelled orders of ready-made garment exports, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50710646/half-a-million-workers-already-affected-by-cancelled-orders/
Covid-19: A global approach to protecting garment workers in supply chains as Cambodia faces up to 500,000 job losses
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has stated approximately 60 percent of its factories have been severely affected by cancelled orders of ready-made garment exports, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50716165/covid-19-a-global-approach-to-protecting-garment-workers-in-supply-chains-as-cambodia-faces-up-to-500000-job-losses/
Mekong villagers wary of Xayaburi dam
Fishermen bring their boats to shore, pack away their traps and hand over the day’s catch to their awaiting families on the banks of the Mekong River in Kratie province’s Chitra Borei district. “When my husband arrives home each day, we eat some of what he ...
Price of Water Spikes as Sihanoukville Shortages Drag On
As Sihanoukville’s water shortage drags on, the price of water being delivered by private suppliers has skyrocketed with residents and business owners growing ever more desperate to get clean water into their homes, hotels and restaurants. Over the past week, since a reservoir supplying the city ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/price-of-water-spikes-as-sihanoukville-shortage-drags-on-17341/
Two Killed in Brawl at Thai Seafood Factory
A Cambodian man and a Burmese man were killed on Monday in a mass brawl that broke out between hundreds of migrant workers at a seafood factory in Thailand, a worker and a government official said yesterday. Fighting allegedly broke out between workers at Siam International ...
Locked-out toy makers left in lurch over wages
Employees at the First & Main cuddly-toy company arrived at work yesterday expecting to be paid outstanding wages – instead, a notice on the gates told them all equipment inside the Phnom Penh factory would be auctioned off, because the company was closing for good. The ...