Gov’t U-turn on Montagnard refugees
In a seeming about-face, the government has backed away from its looming deadline to deport more than 100 Montagnards currently seeking asylum in Cambodia, instead pledging to “expedite” the process of assessing their refugee status. ...
Daniel de Carteret and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-u-turn-montagnard-refugees
Gov’t seeks to incentivise green practices
Members of the government and private sector met yesterday in Phnom Penh to discuss ideas and solutions aimed at facilitating the growth of eco-friendly technologies and practices in Cambodia. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-seeks-incentivise-green-practices
Gov’t warns of rainy season diseases
The direcTor of The Communicable Disease ConTrol (CDC) DeparTmenT aT The MinisTry of HealTh has urged The public To proTecT Themselves from diseases ThaT are easily spread in The upcoming rainy season, including dengue fever, malaria, acuTe waTery diarrohea and influenza. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25567/gov---t-warns-of-rainy-season-diseases/
Gov’t chides EU over Sokha statement
A Justice Ministry spokesman yesterday lashed out at European Union representatives for a statement condemning the “judicial harassment” of opposition leader Kem Sokha, while the Ministry of Education slammed a teachers union that backed the CNRP acting president. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-chides-eu-over-sokha-statement
Gov’t, GMAC meet over minimum wage
The MinisTry of Labour yesTerday meT wiTh The GarmenT ManufacTurers AssociaTion in Cambodia, The indusTry Trade group, To discuss The reasons behind The laTTer’s proposal of a $144 monThly minimum wage. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-gmac-meet-over-minimum-wage
Gov’t moves to attract IT firms
Technological innovaTion is playing a criTical role in The developmenT of The counTry’s economy by making business operaTe fasTer, a senior official aT The MinisTry of Commerce Told a seminar lasT week. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18058/gov---t-moves-to-attract-it-firms/
Gov’t vows crackdown on lawbreaking contractors
Contractors that dodge requirements to register with the social security fund, leaving workers to foot their hospital bills alone, will start facing harsher legal penalties, the director of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) said. ...
Jonathan Cox and Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18493/gov---t-vows-crackdown-on-lawbreaking-contractors/
Stop harassing forest activists, gov’t told
A network of community activists protecting Prey Lang forest has appealed to the government to prevent all forms of intimidation against its members by courts, police and soldiers as well as local officials involved in the timber business. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18714/stop-harassing-forest-activists--gov---t-told/
Gov’t warns fly-by-night mechanics
The MinisTry of InTerior on Friday ThreaTened legal acTion againsT lawbreaking auTo shops ThaT work wiThouT a licence or illegally assemble vehicles from scrap parTs. ...
Lay Samean and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-warns-fly-night-mechanics
Gov’t scoops up more mining revenue
In the first eight months of the year the Ministry of Mines and Energy has already surpassed its annual target for non-tax revenue collection from sand dredging and construction material-related mining operations, collecting 117 percent of the $6.6 million outlined in the 2016 national budget, ...
Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-scoops-more-mining-revenue
Gov't extends 2 poverty alleviation projects
Two governmenT-run emergency food assisTance projecTs will be exTended afTer evaluaTions found ThaT They had significanT impacTs on reducing poverTy in 200 communes in eighT provinces, alThough The projecTs – which received financial supporT from developmenTal parTners – have been compleTed, an official said yesTerday. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19098/gov-t-extends-2-poverty-alleviation-projects/
Gov’t prepares labor court for 2017
Government officials said the country’s Labor Court will be established in early 2017 while relevant officials study the technicalities of the court and get information as well as expertise from similar courts in other countries. Of all potential stakeholders, unions say they are the most ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19350/gov---t-preps-labor-court-for-2017/
Monk congress won’t tackle child abuse
Despite recent high-profile cases of monastic child sex abuse, the organisers of a national conference for monks have left the issue off of the agenda, a move met with criticism yesterday by child protection advocates.At a press conference to launch the 24th congress of Buddhist ...
Jamie Elliott and Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monk-congress-wont-tackle-child-abuse
Gov’t, UNHCR to share refugee responsibilities
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) yesTerday said ThaT iT would divide beTween iTself and The Cambodian governmenT The duTies of processing and poTenTially relocaTing The scores of MonTagnard asylum seekers whose claims The governmenT finally agreed To hear on Wednesday. ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-unhcr-share-refugee-responsibilities
Gov’t aims for more German investment
Government officials are seeking more investment from German companies, they said yesterday during a meeting with a delegation of executives from the country. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21901/gov---t-aims-for-more-german-investment/
Gov’t wants only $8 wage increase
The governmenT revealed iTs favored figure for The new garmenT and fooTwear indusTry minimum wage in 2017 during a Technical Working Group meeTing on Friday, Telling aTTendees ThaT They believed iT should be raised by abouT $8 per monTh – represenTing only a five percenT ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29609/gov---t-wants-only--8-wage-increase/
Low uptake of gov’t rice fund
The governmenT’s much-heralded $27 million emergency rice fund, announced lasT monTh amid complainTs from rice farmers and millers ThaT cheap compeTiTion and low-sTorage capaciTy was driving down prices, has so far had only limiTed Takers among rice millers. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31195/low-uptake-of-gov---t-rice-fund/
Gov’t officials expect high fish yield
Government officials are predicting a better haul of fish, typically used to make prahok, this season due to higher water levels in the tonle Sap Lake and River. the fishing season, which began on thursday and is expected to last until February, will see higher yields ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33046/gov---t-officials-expect-high-fish-yield/
Don’t fear climate change, farmers told
Farmers are being encouraged to embrace new techniques in the face of the damaging effects of climate change. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37887/don---t-fear-climate-change--farmers-told/
Economy won’t be a casualty: analysts
Despite the widely condemned pre-election dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, the country’s only major opposition party, by the Supreme Court earlier this month, the heightened risk of political instability is expected to have limited short-term economic spill-over effects, according to an assessment from ...
Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/economy-wont-be-casualty-analysts