Industries

Strike reaches City Hall

More than 100 workers from the Alim garment factory in Phnom Penh marched on City Hall yesterday, demanding the dismissal of four managers. Yam Thaisan, a legal officer from a union representing the workers at the Por Sen Chey district factory, said strikers had called on ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strike-reaches-city-hall

Snake Island plans back to the drawing board

A development company with a government concession for a high-end property project on the island of Koh Pos, also known as Snake Island, has announced that it will significantly alter its original plans for the project. The new plan, which must first be submitted for ...

Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/snake-island-plans-back-drawing-board

Tonle Bassac: Primed for the future

Tonle Bassac is located on the western shore of the Bassac River, from which it takes its name (Tonle is Khmer for ‘river’). Contained by the river to the east, Sihanouk Boulevard to the north and Norodom Boulevard to the west, Tonle Bassac hooks westward ...

David Murphy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/tonle-bassac-primed-future

Tourists flock to beaches, temples

While the streets of Phnom Penh were quiet this holiday period after the Water Festival was cancelled, numbers swelled in the provinces as tourists flocked to Cambodia’s temples and beaches, provincial officials said yesterday. Chhoeuy Chhorn, director of the Siem Reap Provincial Tourism Department, said Angkor ...

Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tourists-flock-beaches-temples

Despite Denials, Levi’s Still Producing at SL Garment Factory

U.S. denim giant Levi Strauss continued to deny this week that its products are linked to the strife-torn SL Garment Factory in Phnom Penh, despite new photographs showing Levi’s trademark jeans stacked on benches at the plant in Meanchey district. The Singaporean-owned factory, which also produces ...

Dene-Hern Chen and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/despite-denials-levis-still-producing-at-sl-garment-factory-47389/

Tourism drives Cambodia’s growth

Growth in tourism is the key driver that is pushing up the value of Cambodia’s service sector, according to the Asian Development Bank report released last week. But to reach its full potential the country still needs to harness resources and tackle the problems that are ...

Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2013/11/tourism-drives-cambodias-growth/

Factory Ordered To Hire Back Union Leaders After Violent Protest

The government has ordered the SL Garment factory to rehire 19 worker representatives, following a brutal crackdown on demonstrators outside the home of Prime Minister Hun Sen last week. In a letter to the company, Khun Chinken, undersecretary of state for the Ministry of Labor, said ...

Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/factory-ordered-to-hire-back-union-leaders-after-violent-protest/1792644.html

Thirteen Arrested for Illegal Online Gambling

Nine South Koreans and four Cambodian nationals allegedly participating in an illegal gambling operation in Siem Reap City were sent to the provincial court for questioning Monday, police officials said. The suspects were arrested Saturday night along with 21 Cambodian women when police raided an illegal ...

Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thirteen-arrested-for-illegal-online-gambling-47277/

Phnom Penh’s 5 New Districts Create Fears of Gerrymandering

Phnom Penh City Hall’s plans to undertake the largest redrawing of the city’s administrative boundaries in decades, by creating five new districts before May’s district and city-level council elections, is likely an effort to gerrymander voting constituencies, a senior opposition party member said Monday. Municipal government ...

Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penhs-5-new-districts-create-fears-of-gerrymandering-47269/

IMF Predicts Country’s Economy to Grow 7%

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday said it expects Cambodia’s economy to grow by 7 percent this year, fueled mostly by the garment, tourism and construction sectors, though risks such as extreme weather and labor market instabilities could cause growth to fluctuate. The IMF also ...

Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/imf-predicts-countrys-economy-to-grow-7-47117/

Complaint Lodged Against Security Chiefs Over Woman’s Shooting

A protester involved in Tuesday’s clash between SL Garment Factory workers and security forces filed a complaint yesterday against Phnom Penh’s municipal and military police chiefs, accusing them of responsibility for the death of a 49-year-old street-food vendor who was killed by police gunfire, according ...

Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/complaint-lodged-against-security-chiefs-over-womans-shooting-47026/

Anniversary marked by inaction

Six months after two of her co-workers were crushed to death when a storage level collapsed at the Wing Star Shoes factory in Kampong Speu, employee Yu Manith is noticing the cracks in a factory wall beginning to expand. Shortly after police rummaged through the ...

Shane Worrell and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anniversary-marked-inaction

Social Media Challenges ‘Official’ Version of Events

Seeing is believing—particularly in a country where the government controls the broadcast media and current affairs news, aired on pro-ruling par­ty TV and radio, is of­ten at odds with the country’s few independent media outlets. But in the aftermath of a violent clash between striking garment ...

Kuch Naren and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/social-media-challenges-official-version-of-events-47012/

Cambodia's trade with Vietnam reaches 2.7 bln USD in 9 months

Bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and its neighboring Vietnam has hit 2.7 billion U.S. dollars in the first nine months of the year, up 10 percent compared with the 2.45 billion U.S. dollars over the same period last year, a Cambodian trade official said Thursday. Kem ...

Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-11/14/c_132887645.htm

Insurance claims through the roof

Partly triggered by recent flood damage and an increase in road accidents, claims filed with the six general insurance companies in Cambodia spiked more than 160 per cent in the nine months through to September compared with the same time last year, the latest data ...

Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/insurance-claims-through-roof

Police Deny Responsibility for Shooting Civilians

Police on Wednesday denied any responsibility for the shooting death of a street food vendor after they fired live rounds during clashes with garment factory workers in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district on Tuesday, with a government spokesman saying the security forces can use “any means” ...

Lauren Crothers and Phann Ana
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-deny-responsibility-for-shooting-civilians-46937/

Cambodia's construction industry looks ahead

Cambodia’s construction industry took a major step forward in its development on Tuesday with the second summit of the Cambodia Constructors Association at DARA Airport Hotel. The summit occurred alongside an exhibition of construction products, materials and services. Association chairman Pung Kheav Se said that was ...

Hin Pisei
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/cambodias-construction-industry-looks-ahead

City faces gigantic 45-storey change

Phnom Penh will be a changed city and more attractive when twin 45-storey condominium towers are completed in the coming three or four years, developers say. Sung Bonna, director of Bonna Realty Group, said Singaporean outfit The Bridge Company, would start constructing the twin skyscraper buildings ...

Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/city-faces-gigantic-45-storey-change

H&M tries exclusivity agreement

Clothing giant H&M is testing the garment production waters by entering into exclusivity agreements with factories in Cambodia and Bangladesh, according to a report from Bloomberg News yesterday. This means that Sweden-based H&M would buy all of the factory’s output. H&M, it seems, would still be ...

Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hm-tries-exclusivity-agreement

Koh Russey Resort to exhibit in Hong Kong

Cambodia’s Koh Russey Resort development project is aiming to attract large foreign investment by exhibiting in Hong Kong. The resort will showcase its properties and facilities at an exhibition from November 29 until December 1, according to the real estate company CBRE. Expert staff of all departments ...

Moeun Nhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/koh-russey-resort-exhibit-hong-kong

Hun Sen Set to Weigh In on SL Garment Factory Dispute

Officials at the Ministry of Labor who mediated talks Wednesday between the management of SL Garment Factory and union leaders who have led a three-month-long strike at the factory said that they would send the results of the meeting to Prime Minister Hun Sen to ...

Khuon Narim and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-set-to-weigh-in-on%E2%80%88sl%E2%80%88garment%E2%80%88factory-dispute-46952/

No Demolition Yet as Buildings’ Deadline Nears

There was little sign Wednesday that two new buildings near the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, which have been ordered to reduce their height, were any closer to demolition Wednesday, despite the approach of a one-month deadline from City Hall. Phnom Penh municipal officials said last ...

Aun Pheap and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/no-demolition-yet-as-buildings-deadline-nears-46960/

Garment Workers Block Road, Protest for Higher Wages

There were major traffic delays along Phnom Penh’s Veng Sreng Boulevard in Pur Senchey district Wednesday after about 200 garment workers from the Alim Cambodia Co. Ltd. garment factory formed a gated roadblock and protested for higher wages. A line of halted container trucks stretched for ...

Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/garment-workers-block-road-protest-for-higher-wages-46954/

CPP Parliament Approves Ministry Split, Ministers Unclear

The CPP-dominated National Assembly on Wednesday approved a law that will see the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy split into two separate ministries, but has yet to decide who will head the new bodies. The CPP’s 68 lawmakers unanimously passed a measure that will see ...

Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-parliament-approves-ministry-split-ministers-unclear-46944/

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