Minister urges officials to speed up ID scheme
Officials responsible for issuing new identity cards, which every adult will eventually need, must get a grip on the task and speed up, the Ministry of Interior said yesterday.In an “instruction” to staff, Interior Minister Sar Kheng said the number of new ID cards issued ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-urges-officials-speed-id-scheme
Sihanoukville ranks amongst the top global holiday destinations for 2018
The New York Times has released their starter kit for escaping into the world – their renowned list of the “52 best places to go in the world”. The beaches of Sihanoukville ranked at number 13 on the list amongst other top destinations such as ...
Realestate.com.kh
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50102547/sihanoukville-ranks-amongst-the-top-global-holiday-destinations-for-2018/
PM: More roads, bridges
Prime Minister Hun Sen has highlighted his government’s achievements in building new infrastructure as part of a message to commemorate Khmer new Year.He said 15,376 kilometers of national roads and bridges have been built over the past year, including 12,100km of asphalt roads. ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37520/pm--more-roads--bridges/
China congratulates Cambodian PM Hun Sen on re-election
China on Tuesday congratulated Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on his re-election. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei also extended congratulations on the opening of the new Cambodian National Assembly at a regular press conference. He [Hong Lei] added that China is willing to strengthen friendly cooperation ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/813598.shtml#.UkOT4NKBmN8
Arrests after vendors rally in Sisophon
Three people were arrested in Banteay Meanchey province on Friday during a protest in which more than 400 vendors rallied against orders to move to new market sites. In what authorities said was an effort to “restore public order”, police and military forces were deployed to ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/arrests-after-vendors-rally-sisophon
Unique pension plan pushed
A new union has been founded pledging to offer members a post-retirement pension with a novel twist – it will be funded by sponsorship from private companies. The head of the new Workers Retirement Fund of Cambodia Union president, Sidney Sok Ke, claims to have spent ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/unique-pension-plan-pushed
Made in Cambodia: Foreign Industry Calls on Cambodia as the Next “Low-Cost” Alternative in All Things Manufacturing
About a decade ago, global manufacturing firms staged a mass exodus to Asia in search of low-cost alternatives to increasing domestic wage demands and operational costs. The consensus was the continued development of a regional supply chain that had formed in countries like Vietnam and Indonesia, ...
Gov’t launches three-year roadmap on migrant labor policy
The Labor Ministry on Thursday launched a new three-year policy for improving the lot of Cambodia’s more than 700,000 migrant workers that includes plans to step up monitoring of the country’s often-abusive recruitment agencies and add labor attachés to more embassies. Nilim Baruah, a senior ...
Zsombor Peter and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-launches-three-year-roadmap-on-migrant-labor-policy-74515/
NA seat count leads to concern
The allocation of two new seats to Preah Sihanouk province and absence of seats for Phnom Penh in the recently distributed draft law on electoral reform has prompted concerns that attempts are being made to manipulate the playing field ahead of the 2018 election. Ou Virak, ...
Daniel Pye and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/na-seat-count-leads-concern
Hun Sen lauds gains
In a series of meetings before the annual session of the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Hun Sen highlighted Cambodia’s achievements as the world body set new targets to eradicate poverty and save the planet.Those achievements included “complete” peace, political stability, security and better public ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16227/hun-sen-lauds-gains/
The Kingdom’s biggest dirty little trade secret
More than $15 billion exited Cambodia in illicit capital flows over the past decade, stripping the economy of money that could have been used for development, a new report showsA staggering amount of money was funnelled out of Cambodia in shady transactions over the past ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-biggest-dirty-little-trade-secret
Railway families deliver petition to PM seeking reduction in land takeover
The protesters represent a community of over 1,000 families living along a railway in the capital’s Russey Keo district. Plans to replace the track with a new, broader road will displace people in three communes. The new road and accompanying sidewalks would be 60 metres ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/railway-families-deliver-petition-pm-seeking-reduction-land-takeover
Government warns of bird flu
The Ministry of Health has called on all travelers to beware of a new strain of bird flu that is now spreading in South Korea and Japan. In a notice released yesterday, the Health Ministry said the discovery of H5N6, a new strain of the bird ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33918/government-warns-of-bird-flu/
Five more bus lines for Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh City Hall will add five new bus lines to the city’s public transportation system in an effort to increase ridership even though no profit has been made on the service. City Hall spokesman Met Meas Pheakdey told Khmer Times yesterday that the number of ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34077/five-more-bus-lines-for-phnom-penh/
Sesan locals set up ‘illegal’ village
Families living in a commune flooded by the Lower Sesan II dam have set up a new village on their community forest without the permission of local authorities. Residents of Sre Ko commune were offered new homes in a different area and compensation to leave ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5090324/sesan-locals-set-illegal-village/
Draft Accord on Domestic Workers Completed
Government and U.N. officials yesterday completed the draft of a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) that is designed to guarantee the fair treatment and safety of Cambodian domestic workers in Malaysia. The new draft MoU is an amendment to an earlier, much-criticized version create by Malaysia, ...
CAMBODIA: Better Factories programme renewed
The Better Factories Cambodia programme has been renewed after a new, three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was agreed. The new agreement, aimed at furthering the initiative’s mission to improve working conditions in Cambodian garment factories, was signed by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Cambodian Ministry ...
Richard Woodard
http://www.just-style.com/news/better-factories-programme-renewed_id120127.aspx
Peter Dutton denies claims refugees are snubbing resettlement in Cambodia
Logistical issues could take a few days to sort out but some on Nauru want to start new lives in a new country, immigration minister says. Peter Dutton has insisted plans to send the first batch of refugees from Nauru to Cambodia are on track and ...
The Guardian News Staff
http://bit.ly/1cOCaCb
NGO director appointed new ‘neutral’ NEC member
Hang Puthea, executive director of the Neutral and Impartial Committee for Free and Fair Elections, was selected Tuesday as the “neutral” candidate for the National Election Committee (NEC) following Licadho president Pung Chhiv Kek’s announcement that she would not accept her nomination. ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-director-appointed-new-neutral-nec-member-81134/
Under a controversial new plan by the Ministry of Interior, ethnic Vietnamese – some living in Cambodia for generations – begin to see documents revoked
Behind the traffic police station in Kampong Chhnang town, set against the picturesque backdrop of the Tonle Sap, immigration officials gathered thousands of ethnic Vietnamese to begin a nationwide process of revoking “improperly” issued documents this week. The plan to review birth certificates, identity cards, passports ...
Kong Meta and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-post-depth/ethnic-vietnamese-some-living-cambodia-generations-see-documents-revoked