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Hor Namhong Asks for More Cash for Rail Project
- 11 June 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Economy and commerce / Exports / Imports / Infrastructure / Investment / Land / Multilateral development assistance / Rail / Sihanoukville / Trade / Transport infrastructure and facilities
- ADB / Alison burrows / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Australian aid / Australian Ambassador Alison Burrows / Australian government / bilateral trade / Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Hor Namhong / construction / consumer prices / evictions / Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong / Hor Namhong / Infrastructure / Investment / Land rights / Phnom Phnom / Poipet city / rail line / railway / railway network / railway project / railway system / Railway system northern section / Railway system southern line / seaport / Sihanoukville / Sihanoukville Autonomous Port / Sihanoukville province / Thai Border / Thailand / Trade / transport / U.S. State Department
Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong made another appeal to Australia for additional funds to complete a behind-schedule project to rehabilitate the country’s railway network, this time to newly appointed Australian Ambassador Alison Burrows, according to a ministry spokesman. While work on the Southern Line of the ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hor-namhong-asks-for-more-cash-for-rail-project-30272/
British Minister kicks off SE Asia tour in Cambodia
- 10 June 2013
- The Cambodia Herald
- Economy and commerce / Exports / Imports / Investment / Trade
- ASEAN / ASEAN countries / Bangkok / bilateral trade / British Alumni Association of Cambodia / British Ambassador to Cambodia Mark Gooding / British Chamber of Commerce / British Embassy / British minister for trade and investment Lord Green / cereal / construction / Exports / Footwear / footwear imports / foreign markets / garment / garment imports / goods and services / Hanoi / Ho Chi Minh City / Imports / international markets / Investment / Jakarta / Kuala Lumpur / Lord Green / machinery / machinery imports / Mark Gooding / Naypyidaw / Pharmaceutical Products / Phnom Penh / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Prudential / Quantum Clothing / Rangoon / Singapore / sugar / sugar imports / textile imports / textile raw materials / Textiles / Trade / UK / UK companies / UK exports / UK goods and services / UK Imports / UK trade / UK Trade and Investment / UK Trade and Investment office / UK Trade and Investment office within the British Embassy / UKTI office / Vattanac Capital
Britain’s Minister of Trade and Investment Lord Green is starting his two week visit to Southeast Asia, to promote opportunities for British businesses, in Cambodia Monday, June 10, 2013. The promotion of British businesses is part of a larger effort to enhance the support available to ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NjM3MDY2YzIyODJ
Robust Recovery Continues
- 10 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Exports / Investment / Trade
- ADB / ADB report / ASEAN / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Business Research Institute for Cambodia / Business Research Institute for Cambodia Chief Economist / Cambodian Institute for Development Study / Cambodian Institute for Development Study President / Economic growth / Economics / Electricity / electricity supply / electronics manufacturing / European Union aid / Everything But Arms / Everything But Arms initiative / Exports / FDI / Footwear / foreign direct investment / garment and footwear products / garment sector / garments / GDP / GDP growth / Global economy / Gross Domestic Product / Hiroshi Suzuki / IMF / Infrastructure / Infrastructure development / International Monetary Fund / Investment / Japanese aid / Japanese investment / Kang Chandararot / labour / labour shortages / Milled Rice / Ministry of Land Management Urban Planning and Construction / private sector / rice / Royal Government / Tourism / tourism sector / United States aid
Cambodia’s economy is on track to maintain its robust recovery thanks to a cocktail of private sector and government efforts. In 2012, the Asian Development Bank estimated that gross domestic product grew at a rate of 7.2 per cent, an increase from a 2011 International ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061066160/Business/robust-recovery-continues.html
Gem event promises to sparkle
- 10 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Exports / Extractive Industries / Gemstones / Imports / Investment / Minerals and mineral products / Trade
- Cambodia Gems and Jewelry Fair / Diamond Island / Diamond Island Convention and Exhibition Centre / extractive industries / gem and jewelry fair / gems / Intertek / jewelry / Kep Vutha / London / luxury jewelry / mining / Ministry of Commerce / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone / precious stones / precious stones industry / rare gems / SEZ / Tiffany & Co
Officials are predicting an increase in visitors and a glitzy showcase when the 5th Cambodia Gems and Jewelry Fair opens this Thursday in Phnom Penh. Set in the Diamond Island Convention and Exhibition Centre, the four-day event is drawing buyers and traders to Phnom Penh amid ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061066161/Business/gem-event-promises-to-sparkle.html
Cambodia's rice exports up 126 pct in 5 months
- 6 June 2013
- Xinhuanet News
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Exports / Rice / Trade
- Agriculture & Agri-business / Chinese aid / domestic rice consumption / Exports / France / international markets / Investment / Malaysian aid / Milled Rice / milled rice exports / Ministry of Agriculture / paddy rice / Poland / private sector investment / rice / rice exports / Rice Market / rice processing plants / rice production / rice promotion strategy / Thailand
Cambodia’s exports of milled rice have sharply increased in the first five months of this year thanks to rising international market demand and country’s rice promotion strategy, an official said Thursday. The country had exported 146,800 tons of milled rice during January-May period this year, up ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-06/06/c_132435784.htm
Cambodia urges to boost country's exports
- 6 June 2013
- Xinhuanet News
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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday urged local producers to increase production in order to boost the country’s exports when the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) turns into a community at the end of 2015. He [Hun Sen] said when ASEAN became [sic] ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-06/06/c_132436133.htm
Cambodia feels drop in Asian rubber prices
- 6 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Exports / Investment / Rubber / Securities exchange (stock market) / Stock market / Trade
- Asia / Chinese aid / Chop Rubber Plantation / Economic growth / European countries / export restriction / Exports / German aid / Imports / Japanese aid / Ly Phalla / Malaysian aid / Men Sopheak / Ministry of Agriculture / Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries / natural rubber / rubber / rubber company / Rubber Department / Rubber Department at the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries / rubber export / rubber exports / rubber imports / Rubber plantation / rubber prices / Shanghai / Tokyo / Tokyo Commodity Exchange / US
The end of export restrictions in Thailand and a lowering of economic growth forecasts out of top rubber importers China, the United States and Germany have caused natural rubber prices around Asia − and in Cambodia’s local industry − to fall from a two-month high. Future ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060666093/Business/cambodia-feels-drop-in-asian-rubber-prices.html
Cambodia’s garment exports grow 17.5% in Jan-March’13
- 5 June 2013
- Fibre2fashion
- Economy and commerce / Exports / Imports / Trade
- apparels / Chinese aid / EU / Exports / foreign exchange earner / Garment exports / garment imports / Garment Industry / garments / Imports / Investment / Japanese aid / labor costs / minimum wage / Ministry of Commerce / South Korean aid / textile imports / textile raw material / Textiles / US / wages / workers
The exports of garments and textiles from Cambodia have grown by 17.5 percent year-on-year to reach US$ 1.34 billion during the first three months of the current year, data released by the Ministry of Commerce shows. Last year, Cambodia exported apparels worth US$ 4.61 billion, ...
http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/apparel-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=146951
Cambodian Trade Union warns protest to demand release of arrested members
- 4 June 2013
- Xinhuanet News
- Economy and commerce / Exports / Trade
- Demonstrations / Employment / Europe / export revenue / Exports / Factories / footwear factories / Free Trade Union of Workers / FTU / Garment exports / Garment Industry / garment workers / garments / Kampong Speu / Kampong Speu Province / labor / law on incitement / minimum wage / Ministry of Commerce / National Military Police / National Military Police Kheng Tito / National Police / Nike / non violent protests / peaceful protests / protests / Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment factory / sports brands / trade unions / trade unions members / US / violent protests / wages / worker rights / បាតុកម្មកម្មករកាត់ដេរ
Cambodian Free Trade Union of Workers (FTU) warned Tuesday to stage a protest if the authority does not release its eight members who were arrested by police on Monday during a demonstration at a Taiwanese-owned garment factory, a union leader said. FTU’s president Chea Mony ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-06/04/c_132430572.htm
Cambodia’s garment industry expanding
- 4 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Exports / Trade
- Asia / Cambodian-made apparel / Cheat Khemara / Chinese aid / Europe / Exports / garment / garment export / Garment Industry / Garment Manufacturers’s Association of Cambodia / garment materials / GMAC / Imports / Japanese aid / minimum wage / Ministry of Commerce / South Korean aid / Textiles / US
Both exports and imports of garment materials rose more than 17 per cent in the first quarter of the year compared with the same period last year, reflecting a growth in Cambodia’s biggest industry. Exports of garment and textile materials went up by 17.5 per cent ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060466032/Business/cambodia-s-garment-industry-expanding.html
Cambodian rice exports to Thailand rising; Democrat revives allegations
- 3 June 2013
- The Nation
- Agriculture and fishing / Anti-corruption / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Exports / Government / Rice / Trade
- Chavanond Intarakomalyasut / Corruption / Democrat Party spokesman Chavanond Intarakomalyasut / former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra / Kamphaeng Phet / Klanarong Chanthik / milled rice exports / MP Warong Dechgitvigrom / NACC / NACC commissioner Klanarong Chanthik / NACC commissioner Sataphon Laothong / National Anti-Corruption Commission / Phnom Penh Post / rice / rice exports / rice milling / rice pledging scheme / rice trading scheme / Sataphon Laothong / Sia Piak / Sia Piang / Thai Democrat MP Warong Dechgitvigrom / Thailand / Thaksin Shinawatra / unpolished rice / Warong Dechgitvigrom / Yingluck Government
The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) will consider claims of corruption in the government’s rice-pledging scheme made during a recent parliamentary session, a senior official from the agency said. However, it remains unclear when the NACC will conclude its ongoing probe. During screening of the 2014 ...
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/NACC-to-probe-rice-scheme-testimony-30207459.html
7 Cambodian Workers Arrested at Nike Contractor
- 3 June 2013
- ABC News
- Economy and commerce / Exports / Trade
- American companies / Better Factories Cambodia program / ceiling collapse / Economics / Europe / Exports / Factories / Factory collapse / Footwear / footwear factory / Free Trade Union of Workers Organizer / garment and shoe factories / Garment exports / Garment factories / garment factory strikes / Garment Industry / garment workers / garments / Healthcare / Heng Sophors / ILO / Interior Ministry / International Labor Organization / Kompong Speu / Kompong Speu Province / labor / labor conditions / LICADHO / Licadho Activist / manufacturers / minimum wage / Nike / Nike clothing / Phnom Penh / Police / poor working conditions / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Protest / riot / Royal Government / Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing / Shoe factories / shoes / Son Vanny / Southeast Asia / Sportswear / Sportswear Company / Strikes / stun batons / Taiwan / Taiwanese companies / Thorn Thon / Trade / trade unions / United States aid / violent strike / worker rights / workers
Cambodian police clashed Monday with workers at a factory that makes clothing for the U.S. sportswear company Nike, arresting seven, in the latest violence linked to a strike over salaries, union organizers and rights activists said. The protest at the Taiwanese-owned Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing plant ...
Duty-Free Agreements Worry Minister
- 3 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Exports / Imports / Investment / Trade
- Anything But Arms / Anything But Arms Agreement / Anything But Arms scheme / Anything But Arms Treaty / Australian aid / bilateral trade / Cambodia / Cambodia Institute of Development Study / Cham Prasidh / CIDS / CIDS Executive Director of Economics Unit / Commerce Minister / Duty-Free / Duty-free Agreements / Economics / EU / European Union aid / Exports / Free Trade Agreements / Free Trade Agreements (FTA) / FTA / Garment exports / Garment Industry / Garment Manufactures Association in Cambodia / Garment Manufactures Association in Cambodia President / garment products / garment sector / garments / Imports / Investment / Kang Chandararot / Malaysian aid / Myanmar / Myanmar Government / Peru / quota-free access / Trade / Tran Tu / Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement / United States aid / USA / Van Sou Ieng / Vietnam Trade Office in Cambodia / Vietnam Trade Office Trade Attaché
Duty-free agreements between regional competitors and foreign importers would put the Cambodian garment industry at risk, Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh said last week. Speaking to reporters after a meeting, Prasidh warned that the Kingdom’s garment sector would not be able to maintain its competitive edge over ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060366010/Business/duty-free-agreements-worry-minister.html
Sugar firm under fire
- 3 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Biofuel crops / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Human rights / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar / The poor / Trade
- Angkor Sugar / Asia / blood sugar / child labour / Chongkal district / duty-free trade preferences / Eang Vuthy / ELC / Equitable Cambodia / EU / European Parliament / European Union aid / Everything But Arms / Food insecurity / force eviction / Human Rights / human rights abuses / Kampong Speu Province / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Province / KSL / Land concession / land conflict / Land dispute / land eviction / Land Law / LICADHO / Ly Yong Phat / Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation / O’Bat Moun / Oddar Meanchey Province / Phnom Penh Sugar Company / Senator Ly Yong Phat / social impact assessments / Somrang district / sugar / sugar cane-planting concessionaires / Sugar company / sugar concession / sugar plantations / Tate and Lyle / Thai conglomerate / Thai human rights body / Thai national human rights commission / Thai sugar manufacturer KSL / Thailand / Tonle Sugar Cane / trade preferences
Asia’s largest sugar company has been accused of torching hundreds of homes, orchestrating the imprisonment of a pregnant activist and using security forces to beat villagers – among a raft of other grave human rights abuses – by communities in Oddar Meanchey province. The allegations levelled ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060366024/National/sugar-firm-under-fire.html
National silk board planned
- 3 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Cotton and silk / Economy and commerce / Exports / Garments and textiles / Industries / Investment / Manufacturing / Trade
- Cham Prasidh / EIF / Enhanced Integrated Framework / GDP / International Trade Center / ITC / Khmer silk / Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh / Ministry of Commerce / National Silk Board / NSB / Pan Sorasak / Pheanuroth Sisowath / Silk / silk industry / silk sector / Suon Prasith / Trade Sector Wide Approach / Trade SWAp / UN / World Trade Organisation
A national silk board (NSB) under the Ministry of Commerce is being planned to weave tighter regulations into the Kingdom’s silk industry, the lack of which has deterred investors and hurt its export potential, according to industry representatives. Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh said last week ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060366008/Business/national-silk-board-planned.html
Pirated Software May Threaten Garment Firms
- 3 June 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce / Exports / Trade
- Cargo / Chinese aid / counterfeit goods / footwear factories / Garment exports / Garment factories / Garment Industry / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia / garments / GMAC / GMAC Secretary General Ken Loo / ICT Business Association / ICT Business Association president Pily Wong / Indian aid / Information and Communication Technology / Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Business Association / Information and Communication Technology Business Association / Information and Communication Technology sector / intellectual property / intellectual property department / Intellectual Property Rights / Ken Loo / labor costs / LDCs / least developed countries / licensed digital software / Microsoft / Microsoft in Cambodia / Microsoft in Cambodia country manager Pily Wong / Ministry of Commerce / Ministry of Commerce intellectual property department director Var Roth San / Pily Wong / piracy / pirated goods / pirated software / production costs / software / software licences / Thailand / UCA / Unfair Competitions Act / US / Var Roth San / World Trade Organisation / WTO MembersUN
Garment factories run the risk of having their cargo confiscated by U.S. customs authorities if they continue using pirated computer software in their administrative operations, and may be prosecuted under a law that requires all manufacturers to use licensed digital software, according to a local ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/pirated-software-may-threaten-garment-firms-28459/
Wing Star Widow in Limbo
- 3 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Exports / Investment / Labor / Labor policy and administration / Social development / Trade
- ACILS / American Center for International Labor Solidarity / ASICS / Bangladesh / ceiling collapse / collapse / compensation / Dave Welsh / Factory collapse / ILO / ILO conventions / International Labor Organization / Kampong Speu / Kampong Speu Province / Kim Dany / labor / labor rights / labour / Labour unions / National Social Security Fund / NGOs / NSSF / NSSF Deputy Director / Royal Government / shoes / shoes factory / Sum Sophorn / Wing Star incident / Wing Star Shoe factory / Wing Star Shoes / Wing Star Shoes Co Ltd / worker rights
Government officials have suggested the widow of the man crushed to death last month at the Wing Star Shoes factory, a supplier to Asics, will still be denied compensation from the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), a labour rights worker said yesterday. American Center for International ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060366021/National/wing-star-widow-in-limbo.html
Rice exports to Thailand rise
- 31 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Exports / Imports / Rice / Trade
- Agriculture & Agri-business / Cambodian commerce minister Cham Prasidh / Cham Prasidh / Exports / farmer / farming / Lim Bunheng / Loran Group / Milled Rice / paddy price / Reuters / rice / rice export / rice exports / rice industry / rice miller / rice miller Loran Group / Thai / Thai rice mortgage program / Thailand / unpolished rice
Exports of Cambodian unpolished rice to Thailand are increasing, and the trend is promising if the Thai government continues its intervention policy to guarantee the minimum paddy price for their farmers, industry insiders said. Government figures show that in the first four months of this ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013053165969/Business/rice-exports-to-thailand-rise.html
Airports operator looks to expand
- 31 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Airports and air travel / Economy and commerce / Exports / Imports / Infrastructure / Investment / Siem Reap / Trade / Transport and shipping / Transport infrastructure and facilities
- Airport / ASEAN / Asia / Cambodia Airports / cargo terminal / compensation / Emmanuel Menanteau / eviction / Export / France / import / Indonesia / International Civil Aviation Organisation / Myanmar / National Road 4 / Philippines / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh International Airport / Resettlement / runway / Sarah Thust / Siem Reap / terminal / tourist number / Vinci / Vinci Group / Vinci portfolio
While Cambodia Airports, of which France-based Vinci Group is major stakeholder, sees tourist numbers taking off, eviction issues are gnawing at the company’s image. Emmanuel Menanteau, chief executive of Cambodia Airports, talked to the Post’s Sarah Thust about the expansion plans. How many tourist arrivals do ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013053165965/CEO-Talk/airports-operator-looks-to-expand.html
Cambodia's trade with foreign countries up 25 pct in four months
- 30 May 2013
- Xinhuanet News
- Economy and commerce / Exports / Imports / Trade
- automobiles / Camcontrol Department / Camcontrol Department statistics division chief Khuon Savuth / Camcontrol Department's statistics division / Chinese aid / construction materials / Corn / corn exports / Cosmetic Products / Europe / Exports / footwear exports / Garment exports / Imports / international trade / Japanese aid / Khuon Savuth / Malaysian aid / Milled Rice / Ministry of Commerce / Ministry of Commerce Camcontrol Department / motorcycle imports / motorcycles / Petroleum / petroleum imports / pharmaceutical product imports / Pharmaceutical Products / rubber / rubber exports / rubber latex / South Korean aid / textile imports / textile raw materials / Thailand / total trade volume / Trade / United States aid
Cambodia’s trade volume with foreign countries had reached 5.12 billion U.S. dollars in the first four months of this year, a 25 percent rise compared with 4.1 billion U.S. dollars over the same period last year, according to a report from the Ministry of Commerce’s ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-05/30/c_132419210.htm
Against the Grain
- 30 May 2013
- China Economic Review
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Exports / Imports / Rice / Trade
- agricultural policy / Agriculture & Agri-business / Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy / Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing / Chinese aid / Chinese imports / Chinese rice imports / crops / Exports / grains / Indian aid / international rice trade / Nigeria / Pakistan / rice / rice consumption / rice export / rice farmers / rice imports / Rice Market / rice prices / rice sector / rice trade / Shipments / US Department of Agriculture / USDA
On the palm-studded plains of Cambodia, rice farmers’ eyes light up with the prospect of sending their crop northward to China. The poor Southeast Asian nation had been trying for several years to export rice to the mainland but only last year did it gain ...
http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/china-rice-demand-market-import
Thai border SEZs set for discussion next month
- 29 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Exports / Imports / Investment / Special economic zones / Trade
- agri-business / Agriculture & Agri-business / agro-industry / Aranyaprathet District / Banteay Meancheay / Cambodia / Cambodia Institute of Development Study / Cambodian-Thai border / Kang Chandararot / Khlong Yai district / Koh Kong / Long Visalo / Minister of Foreign Affairs / Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Poipet town / Sa Keo / SEZ / Special Economic Zone / Surapong Tovichakchaikul / Thai foreign minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul / Thailand / Trat
In an effort to boost trade activity between Thailand and Cambodia, both countries will discuss plans for two special economic zones along the Thai-Cambodian border next month, according to the secretary of state at the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday. “It will provide us ...
Hor Kimsay and Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052965902/Business/thai-border-sezs-set-for-discussion-next-month.html
Firms’ Timber Trade Decried
- 28 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Exports / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Social development / Trade
- Adhoc / Beoung Per / Beoung Per Wildlife Sanctuary / Cambodian Center for Human Rights / CCHR / Chhim Savuth / CRCK / CRCK Company / deforestation / ELCs / ELCs Law / environmental impact / Exports / Forest / Hoeun Sopheap / illegal logging / Illegal poaching / illegal timber trade / Kampong Thom Province / Kampong Thom Provincial Governor / logging / luxury timber / natural resources / Oknha Try Pheap / Preah Vihear / Prey Lang / Prey Lang Community Representative / Prey Long Forest / protected area / protected forest / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Rovieng District / rubber / Rubber plantation / Sandan district / timber / Try Pheap Import and Export / Try Pheap Import Export Co Ltd / Try Pheap Import Export Company / Uth Sam Orn / Vietnamese border / Vietnamese company / Vietnamese rubber company CRCK / water / WaterSHED / wildlife / Wildlife Sanctuary / Wood
Two firms holding concessions in rapidly disappearing northern forests are amassing stockpiles of tens of thousands of luxury logs cut both within and outside their leases and trucking them on to Vietnam, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights has alleged. CCHR investigators that tracked logging operations ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052865880/National/firms-timber-trade-decried.html
Cambodian police clash with thousands of garment workers, 23 hurt
- 27 May 2013
- Reuters
- Clothes / Economy and commerce / Exports / Garments and textiles / Industries / Manufacturing / Trade
- Bangladesh / clothing brands / Exports / Factories / Factory collapse / factory working conditions / Free Trade Union president Sun Vanny / freedom of association / FTU / Garment exports / Garment factories / garments / Healthcare / IMF / International Monetary Fund / Kampong Speu / Kampong Speu Province / labor / labor rights / labour / labour rights / manufacturers / minimum wage / Nike / Nike clothing / Phnom Penh / Police / protests / riots / Sabrina / Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing / Sabrina factory / shoes / Strikes / stun batons / Sun Vanny / trade unions / transport / United States aid / worker / worker rights / working conditions
At least 23 workers were hurt in Cambodia on Monday when police using stun batons moved in to end a protest over pay at a factory that makes clothing for U.S. sportswear company Nike , a worker and a trade union representative said. Police with riot ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/27/cambodia-garments-workers-idUSL3N0E829T20130527