Analysis: The government has announced plans to cover workers’ severance, but is it the best solution to factory disputes?
The government will begin to pay out of pocket for severance wages for labourers at abruptly shuttered factories whose owners have fled, effectively enacting a pro-worker policy without furTher burdening private businesses – albeit at The risk of discouraging good corporate citizenship, experts say. ...
Yon Sineat and Brendan O’Byrne
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-depth-business/analysis-government-has-announced-plans-cover-workers-severance-it-best-solution
Factory worker wages to be re-examined
Amid threats of another mass strike in the thriving garment sector, the Ministry of Social Affairs has called a meeting with the industry’s leading players to discuss union demands for a $150-per-month minimum wage, a letter obtained yesterday reveals. At the behest of Prime Minister Hun ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013010260589/National/factory-worker-wages-to-be-re-examined.html
India seeks to enhance trade links
An Indian business delegation visiting Cambodia hopes to boost bilateral cooperation in trade, tourism and transport, officials said yesterday. Meeting with key Cambodian officials, Director General of the Indian Chamber of Commerce said the Kingdom presented many opportunities for India. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061466268/Business/india-seeks-to-enhance-trade-links.html
March proceeds peacefully
Taking a markedly different approach from Monday’s violent breakup of a peaceful demonstration at Freedom Park, authorities yesterday stood back as about 100 activists marched around central Phnom Penh, delivering a petition to embassies and the United Nations. District security guards and riot police initially seemed ...
Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/march-proceeds-peacefully
Notification on the inscription of "Sambor Prei Kuk archaeological site" on the World Heritage List
On 09 July 2017, the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts issued a statement to inform Cambodian people that on 08 July 2017, during the 41st session of the World Heritage Committee in Krakow, Poland, “Sambor Prei Kuk archaeological site” was inscribed on UNESCO’s World ...
Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts
Foreign investors complain about the Kingdom’s business strictures
Foreign investors have asked the Cambodia government to reduce the cost of a certificate of origin (CO), which is currently far more expensive than other countries in ASEAN. ...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50762873/foreign-investors-complain-about-the-kingdoms-business-strictures/
Thailand promoted as Asean insurance hub
The World Bank and Japan will promote Thailand as The insurance centre of The Association of SouTheast Asian Nations (Asean) to help develop The industry in neighbouring countries and provide professional services to The more advanced economies. The move is also expected to upgrade The insurance ...
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Kingdom-promoted-as-ASEAN-insurance-hub-30194268.html
Illegal logging ravaging the last forests, activists say
Forestry activists say at least 55,000 tons of luxury wood were sent from Cambodia to China this year alone. Activists from communities that live near or among some of Cambodia’s last forests told reporters Wednesday that illegal logging is ravaging their homelands, part of a “systematic” ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/illeal-logging-ravaging-the-last-forests-activist-say/2492309.html
Businesses know little of the letter of the law
Cambodia entrepreneurs faced considerable problems when it came to obeying tax laws and other regulations, officials at a seminar about that very subject said yesterday. the VDB Loi company organised the seminar on “New Practices and Preferential Trade Rules” with the co-operation of the General Department of Customs and ...
Anti-money laundering plan
With the deadline for a second review by a global task force of the government’s efforts to combat money laundering and terrorism financing fast approaching, the Kingdom’s central bank yesterday conducted a workshop with banks, financial institutions and state agencies to flesh out a strategy ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28845/anti-money-laundering-plan/
MoE on the lookout for biodiverse ecotourism spots
The Ministry of Environment and Tour Guides Association are working togeTher to identify potential ecotourism spots in protected areas. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50804348/moe-on-the-lookout-for-biodiverse-ecotourism-spots/
Union law could cost CPP the next election, labor leader warns
Draft legislation on trade unions will undermine the hard-won progress of labor unions here as well as violate fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution, labor law and UN conventions, labor leaders said yesterday. ...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14396/union-law-could-cost-cpp-the-next-election--labor-leader-warns/
Cambodia not a claimant state in South China Sea dispute
Cambodia is not a claimant state to the territorial dispute in the South China Sea and, as such, it can afford to have its own stance toward the issue. Stating this exclusively to Khmer Times during a recent interview, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said: “Cambodia has to ...
Khmer Times staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50641384/cambodia-not-a-claimant-state-in-south-china-sea-dispute/
Ministry Lists Fees to Help Firms Avoid Graft Claims
The government has publicly issued lists showing The costs of fees that businesses must pay to authorities for various services, in an effort to help companies avoid making informal payments made illegal by The anticorruption law. The lists were drafted during The past year after Cambodia ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-lists-fees-to-help-firms-avoid-graft-claims-8434/
Hun Sen Reaches for Ambitious Income Target
Going by the World Bank’s method of grouping nation states by their wealth, Cambodia this year could become a lower-middle income country. Not satisfied, however, with this graduation—a feat in itself from Cambodia’s position of extreme poverty just two decades ago when gross domestic product (GDP) ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/hun-sen-reaches-for-ambitious-income-target-18766/
Requirement to use the national domain name .com.kh and to provide the national domain name e-mail address after the annual declaration
On 1 April 2022, the Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Post and Telecommunications issued a notification on the requirement to use the national domain name .com.kh and to provide the national domain name e-mail address after the annual declaration. ...
Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Post and Telecommunications
Demand for flour on the rise
Wheat products have never had a big market in Cambodia, where meals revolve around rice, but Western influences are increasingly shaping local tastes and creating an appetite for flour products. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/demand-flour-rise
Yingluck adds fuel to gas talks
Deputy Prime Minister and head of the Cambodian National Petroleum Association Sok An has called for the resumption of talks with Thailand over the disputed overlapping claims area in the Gulf of Thailand, believed to be rich in oil and natural-gas reserves. the oil industry had ...
LED lights’ lure of lower electricity bills
The locally based Global Media Group is bringing The latest LED lighting technology to The Cambodian market in an effort to reduce people’s electricity bills. GMG assistant chief executive Bun Sim said The company would use all its know-how, as well as experts from South Korea, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013012460969/Business/led-lights-lure-of-lower-electricity-bills.html
Textbooks arriving COD, NGOs claim
School textbooks paid for by the Asian Development Bank have been routed to district education offices, some of which are charging schools for books that are supposed to be free, an NGO investigation has found. the textbooks on Khmer literature, maths, geography, morality and science were ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/textbooks-arriving-cod-ngos-claim