Electric bill hike gets thumbs down
More than 200 villagers in Preah Vihear town thumb-printed a joint complaint to rights group Adhoc over the weekend asking them to appeal to provincial authorities to intervene after their private electricity company raised its prices by more than 1,000 riel per kilowatt hour, NGO ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070957295/National-news/electric-bill-hike.html
Strikers block road, burn tyres
More than 1,000 workers from the Maru Chuen garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district blocked the Veng Sreng road on the outskirts of Phnom Penh for half an hour yesterday, burning about 20 tyres and demanding a monthly minimum wage increase from $61 to ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013031962011/National/strikers-block-road-burn-tyres.html
Spending in NagaCorp casino drops
Spending in NagaCorp’s casino has dropped by about 4.4 per cent in the first quarter of the year compared with the same period last year. Some $1.17 billion was gambled in the casino from January to March this year, said a company quarterly report released last ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052865866/Business/spending-in-nagacorp-casino-drops.html
Garment workers march for higher wages
More than 1,000 garment workers gathered in Phnom Penh and marched through the city center Sunday, demanding a “decent wage” from their factories, the largest garment-sector demonstration in the capital since military police fatally suppressed a protest for higher wages in January. ...
Mech Dara and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/garment-workers-march-in-push-for-higher-wages-69635/
Cambodia, Thailand eyeing over US$5 Billion in trade this year
Cambodia and Thailand are targeting to boost bilateral trade to more than US$5 billion in 2015, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported. In the first quarter of 2015, bilateral trade between both countries reached over US$1.6 billion. ...
Bernama News Staff
http://bit.ly/1MDvAKX
Newlyweds targeted with ‘wedding loans’
Phnom Penh Commercial Bank will offer “wedding loans” to newlyweds, a product based on a similar borrowing practice is South Korea. The majority-owned South Korean bank will set aside more than US$1 million for start-up families that don’t want their parents shelling out savings for new ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071157335/Business/newlyweds-wedding-loans.html
New industrial investment proposals now registered
The Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation approved a total of 124 new industrial investment projects between January and September this year, bringing a total active investment factory to 1,843. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/954349/new-industrial-investment-proposals-now-registered/
Japan resumes recruitment of Cambodian workers, interns
Japan has resumed recruitment of skilled workers and interns from Cambodia from March 1, according to the Ministry of Labor. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501036859/japan-resumes-recruitment-of-cambodian-workers-interns/
Japan supports Cambodia’s capacity building of Youth, and Community Health promotion
The Government of Japan has agreed to provide $1,093 million to build youth capacity and promote community health, sanitation and hygiene in two Cambodian provinces, under the framework, the Grant Assistance for Japanese NGO Projects. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501039702/japan-supports-cambodias-capacity-building-of-youth-and-community-health-promotion/
Ratanakiri community says revoked concession still operates
Indigenous Jarai and Tompoun communities in Ratanakiri are urging authorities to return nearly 1,000 hectares of land from a rubber plantation that they say continues to operate on a revoked part of a concession. ...
Phon Sotthyroth and Phin Rathana
https://vodenglish.news/ratanakiri-community-says-revoked-concession-still-operates/
Fisheries urged to hook international market access
Businesses and producers seeking to export their fisheries products internationally are encouraged to submit an application with the FiA for registration and approval to sell their goods globally. ...
Yatt Malai
https://kiripost.com/stories/fisheries-urged-to-hook-international-market-access
44 projects worth $396 million given green light
The Council for the Development of Cambodia approved 44 projects in July that have the potential to generate 25,000 jobs, with China standing as the leading investor. ...
Meas Molika
https://kiripost.com/stories/44-projects-worth-396-million-given-green-light
Cambodia launches 5-year action plan for disaster risk reduction
Cambodia launched a national action plan for disaster risk reduction (2024-2028) on Monday, aiming to minimise the impacts of disasters on people, the economy, and society, a senior minister said. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501552045/cambodia-launches-5-year-action-plan-for-disaster-risk-reduction/
China provides over $42 mil to boost Cambodia’s infrastructure development
The Chinese government granted approximately 300 million yuan (about $42 million), to support infrastructure development in Cambodia. ...
Nang Veasna
"https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501572613/china-provides-42-million-to-support-cambodias-infrastructure/ "
Apsara Authority Moves to Offices Far From Siem Reap City
Apsara Authority officials on Tuesday began moving to their new offices far outside of Siem Reap onto land within the Angkor Archaeological Park as part of a swap with the city’s provincial government, officials said. The move comes after Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered Siem Reap’s ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/apsara-authority-moves-to-offices-far-from-siem-reap-city-42132/
Cambodian ambassador speaks highly of mutual exchanges with Vietnam
This year, the Cambodian people celebrate their 60th National Day as well as the birthday of the Cambodia Kingdom’s royal army under the bright leadership of King Norodom Sihanouk, who relentlessly struggled against the French colonialists to gain independence (09-11-1953 – 09-11-2013). In 2010, Father ...
Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NTQ0YTNhY2QzOTQ
Yearender: Cambodia's economy remains strong in 2013 despite political row, flood havoc: officials
Cambodia’s economy is expected to maintain the robust growth of over 7 percent this year even though the country is still trapped in political dispute and recovering from the aftermath of recent floods, senior officials and bankers said. But some analysts predicted that political trouble, coupled ...
Nguon Sovan and Wang Qibing
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-12/19/c_132979125.htm
Cambodia to feel an energy crunch, but growth to remain stable: report
Energy demand in Southeast Asia is expected to increase by more than 80 per cent by 2035, fuelling some $240 billion in oil spending, a new report from the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) shows. In its “Southeast Asia Energy Outlook” published yesterday, the Paris-based IAEA ...
Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-feel-energy-crunch-growth-remain-stable-report
Ministry of Environment decides to move office again
The Ministry of Environment will relocate its offices to a plot of land near NagaWorld Hotel and Casino in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district after its planned new headquarters in Meanchey district were declared too far from the city’s center by the new environment minister, ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-of-environment-decides-to-move-office-again-53144/
Garment sector minimum wage to Rise to $200 a month in 2023
The minimum wage for workers in Cambodia’s billion-dollar garment sector will rise to $200 a month next year, a $6 raise that unions said was insufficient while employers raised concerns about profits and regional competitiveness. ...
Khuon Narim and Matt Surrusco
https://cambojanews.com/garment-sector-minimum-wage-to-rise-to-200-a-month-in-2023/