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
NGOs warned to comply with law or face action
Interior Minister Sar Kheng took aim at civil society on Tuesday night, warning NGOs to comply with the law or face legal action, at the same time the ministry ordered the ad hoc election monitoring group the Situation Room to cease any future monitoring activities. ...
Ben Sokhean and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngos-warned-to-comply-with-law-or-face-action-132171/
Students faint in high school
More than 10 students at Bak Chenhchean senior high school in Pursat province’s Phnom Kravanh district fainted yesterday. Major Tann Kearith, district police chief, said the students fainted at about 9am and were sent to the provincial referral hospital following the incident. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50104636/students-faint-in-high-school/
‘Khmer for Khmer’ group says no party plans
Attendees At a conference of a new political reform associAtion called “Khmer for Khmer,” which met for the first time Sunday, hit back Monday At claims made by a CNRP public affairs officer thAt the group plans to form a new party to divide the ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/khmer-for-khmer-group-says-no-party-plans-70407/
Opposition walks out of NGO law workshop
CPP lawmakers and officials continued to defend their controversial draft of a proposed law aiming to regulate the country’s non-government groups at a workshop at the National Assembly on Wednesday, despite a boycott from some NGOs and the opposition, which dismissed the event as “rubbish.” ...
Kuch Naren and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/opposition-walks-out-of-ngo-law-workshop-87637/
CNRP Rejects Marching Ban During 3-Day Protest
CNRP vice president Kem Sokha said Sunday that the opposition will not heed an order by Phnom Penh City Hall banning marches in the city, and will push forward with plans to march with thousands of supporters to the offices of the U.N. and at ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-rejects-marching-ban-during-3-day-protest-45507/
One Garment Strike Ends, Two Begin, Over Missing Pay
Garment workers at a Kandal province factory ended their most recent strike Thursday after management agreed to pay out part of their wages for the days they were absent during a previous strike, while workers at a Phnom Penh factory went back on strike because ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/one-garment-strike-ends-two-begin-over-missing-pay-50787/
His Excellency PRAK Sokhonn, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia, will attend and deliver a statement at the mid-term Ministerial Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
On 12 July 2021, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia issued a press release on His Excellency PRAK Sokhonn, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia, will attend and deliver a statement ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Remarks by Dr. Aun Porn Moniroth, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy and Finance and chairman of the public financial management reform steering committee, speaking at the closing ceremony of the 4th Phase (2023-2027) implementation: "Performance Accountability" of the public financial management reform program
On 20 March 2023, the Ministry of Economy and Finance has posted a remark by Dr. Aun Porn Moniroth, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy and Finance and chairman of the public financial management reform steering committee, speaking at the closing ceremony of the 4th ...
Ministry of Economy and Finance
Customers call Metfone on promise
Winning text messages in hand, about 25 angry Metfone customers yesterday gathered at the telecom’s head office on Mao Tse Tung Boulevard to demand the new iPhones they were promised. Each of the customers had paid US$0.30 to enter a Metfone-sponsored contest and received a text ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011120753193/Business/customers-call-metfone-on-promise.html
NagaWorld Profits Double to $98 Million
NagaCorp, which owns Phnom Penh’s only licensed casino, announced on Wednesday that net profits at the company had more than doubled in 2011 and that plans are in store to expand its operations in the country. Financial Results filed with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange ...
Informal Pharmacies Continue To Operate Despite Crackdown
There are no reliable figures on the number of illegal pharmacies operating nationwide, but the government insists that the problem is a thing of the past. at the launch of an anti-drug campaign at the US Embassy in Phnom Penh on Monday, Chou Yin Sim, secretary ...
Orphanages in Cambodia: The good, the bad and the exploitative
The children rehearse twice a day, for about two hours each time – once at 4am, and again at 7pm – so they can perform for tourists on board cruise ships that dock at Phnom Penh year-round.But these children are not professional buskers nor part ...
Mabel Chan
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/orphanages-in-cambodia/2250280.html
Factory pay protest continues
Workers at the shuttered Yung Wah I and II factories in Kandal province will continue protesting today, despite the government already agreeing to pay them using company funds. Worker Soy Sokchea said yesterday that he and his colleagues would keep demanding benefits and seniority bonuses. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013021861414/National/factory-pay-protest-continues.html
China's ICBC offers RMB transfers
A new banking settlements system called CHANCES, dealing exclusively in the Chinese currency renminbi (RMB), aims to make trade between China and the ASEAN countries easier and less expensive. Owned and operated by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the CHANCES system stands for ...
Landmines kill 41 Cambodians, injuring 121 others in 10 months
Cambodia on Monday recorded 162 landmine casualties in the first ten months of this year, down 4 percent from 155 casualties at the same period last year, showed a report from the Cambodian Mine and Explosive Remnants of War Victim Information System. The report said that ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-12/03/c_132016467.htm
Trade Expo Links Vietnam, Cambodia Military Firms
The 2013 Vietnam-Cambodia trade fair will commence on Nov 14 in Cambodia’s capital city Phnom Penh, said a representative from the Defence Ministry at a press briefing on Friday According to the organising board, some 200 Vietnamese enterprises have registered with more than 300 booths ...
Saigon-GP Daily News Staff
http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Business/2013/10/106621/
Cambodian parties agree on 14-point agenda for election reform talks
Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties have agreed to consider a 14-point election reform agenda aimed at ending months of political deadlock, including a contentious proposal to revamp the country’s main electoral body, representatives said Tuesday. The initial agreement was forged at the third round of talks ...
Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/talks-03182014191159.html
Bail request for Pov as union seeks property
A union leader among 21 workers and activists arrested in January demonstrations will appear in the Court of Appeal to argue for bail next week, despite the same court denying his request last month. Vorn Pov, president of Independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association (IDEA), and ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bail-request-pov-union-seeks-property
Flyovers, subway on the drawing board for Phnom Penh
The Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) and Phnom Penh municipality are cooperating to undertake a study on major new projects for the city – two flyovers and a subway, each of which it is hoped would ease the city’s ever worsening traffic congestion. Touch Samnang, project ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/flyovers-subway-drawing-board-phnom-penh