Cambodia-South Korea trade jumps 45%
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and South Korea jumped more than 40 per cent year-on-year through September, according to the Korea Trade InveStment Promotion Agency. Total trade between January and September reached $387 million, according to KOTRA, up 45 per cent from $267 million during the year-ago SS='cambodia-color'>...
Royal Group linked to new $2.2bn firm
A fertiliser company that has been approved to do billions of dollars’ worth of business in Cambodia, and is presumed to be based in the United Kingdom, is in fact affiliated with domestic conglomerate Royal Group, an insider has confirmed. Nitrogen Chemicals and Fertiliser (Cambodia) Ltd ss='cambodia-color'>...
Fears grow for buildings
The colonial-era buildings damaged by a construction site along Phnom Penh’s bustling riverfront are under threat of imminent collapse, a structural engineer who examined the area said yesterday. Local company Vattanac yesterday complied with local authority demands to halt construction at the sisowath Quay site – ss='cambodia-color'>...
Derek Stout and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fears-grow-buildings
Strikers used as ‘slave labour’
About 500 of the 600 garment makers at Meroson Cambodia Co Ltd went on strike yesterday, accusing the Taiwanese-owned firm which exports T-shirts to North America of using them as “slave labour” Chey sovan, vice-president of the Cambodian National Confederation for Labourers’ Protection, said that the main reason ss='cambodia-color'>...
Garment staff get pay, push for labour rights
Garment workers who went on strike over delayed payment of wages and other alleged violations of labour law on Tuesday morning were paid on Wednesday by management at the Chea Ieng garment factory in the capital’s sen sok district. Factory employee sun sopheak said yesterday that ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hu's visit in Cambodia boosts ties
The upcoming visit of Chinese president Hu Jintao to Cambodia next week will build closer ties between the two countries, China and AsEAN as the visit is coincided with the 20th AsEAN summit, said a senior official sunday. The visit will also create more confidence among ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://en.ce.cn/National/Politics/201203/26/t20120326_23188224.shtml
Donors Face Mounting Pressure Over Rail Project
A group of NGOs on Friday called on Australia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to suspend work and funding for a government-led project to rehabilitate the country’s railway system should authorities in Poipet City follow through on an eviction notice delivered to 22 families ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry to monitor seniority payments
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training says it will monitor the implementation of seniority indemnity payments to all factory employees in line with the new policy which comes into force this month. The ministry is also ready to impose a fine on any factory ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-monitor-seniority-payments
Test results please many
More than half of the students who sat the grade 12 national exam last month passed the high-stakes test, marking a significant improvement on last year’s results, when nearly two-thirds failed amid sweeping anti-cheating reforms.The results, which were released on saturday, show that 55.8 per ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/test-results-please-many
Gov’t taskforce to address Prey Speu and homelessness
The Ministry of social Affairs yesterday announced that it would form a committee to address the lack of services available to the homeless and mentally ill. Yesterday’s meeting was precipitated by the revelation this week by rights organization Licadho that two more residents at Prey ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17542/gov---t-taskforce-to-address-prey-speu-and-homelessness/
Ministry riled over refugee deal money
Australia has so far disbursed more than $3.5 million in aid to Cambodia as part of the agreement for its unwanted refugees to be resettled here, but the Interior Ministry’s spokesman is livid that the money has come into the country via development agencies rather ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-riled-over-refugee-deal-money-102756/
Gov’t creates new forestry crimes task force
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Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-creates-new-forestry-crimes-task-force-105629/
Central bank takes breather as it reins in rural lenders
Cambodia’s central bank will temporarily suspend its eight-month campaign to bring informal moneylenders into its fold as it lacks the resources to review the mountain of registration applications it has received and needs time to tweak the licensing requirements, a National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sor Chandara and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/central-bank-takes-breather-it-reins-rural-lenders
Villagers worry despite mining company promises
An Indian company planning to extract 500 tons of rock per day from beneath Pheak village in O Yadauv, Ratanakiri this year has promised locals, again, that their digging will have little effect on the mine’s surrounding forest and homes, and that they will replace ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aisha Down
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20549/villagers-worry-despite-mining-company-promises/
Officials set for murder probe
The prime minister has selected 14 senior officials – all members of the ruling party – to probe the cold-case murders of three union leaders, including Free Trade Union (FTU) president Chea Vichea, though scepticism remains about the timing and motivation behind the new investigation.According ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-set-murder-probe
Farmers and fishermen warily eye changes to climate
In the Kampong Phluk fishing village on the Tonle sap lake, home to thousands of families in siem Reap province, fishermen say their catch this year has been too poor to live on. Ning Ny, chief of Kampong Phluk commune, in siem Reap, said almost ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/farmers-and-fishermen-warily-eye-changes-to-climate/3109070.html
Spinning straw into food security
An American horticulturalist is in Cambodia providing training in a unique farming method that proponents believe can improve food security in some of the country’s remotest regions. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Brent Crane
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/spinning-straw-food-security
PPSEZ sweetens its IPO plan
The book-build and upcoming listing of the capital’s port operator has taken some of the wind out of the sails of the IPO plans Phnom Penh special Economic Zone (PPsEZ), but the industrial park operator has charted a new course and sweetened its dividend policy ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppsez-sweetens-its-ipo-plan
Rice bound for Indonesia?
The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) hopes to export around 200,000 tons of milled rice a year to Indonesia, which is one of the biggest rice markets in Asean. This comes after the CRF announced late last month that it will not join the bid to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29485/rice-bound-for-indonesia-/
Two months to claim land certificates
City Hall said villagers affected by the development project of the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar district would have two months to claim the certificate of land policy before it would stop assuming responsibility for losses, according to a statement ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29893/two-months-to-claim-land-certificates/