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ANZ failed to meet human rights standards: government report
ANZ Bank failed to meet its own human rights standards when it financed a Cambodian sugar plantation that was linked to forced evictions, child labour and workplace deaths, according to an Australian government investigation. ...
Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/anz-failed-to-meet-human-rights-standards-in-cambodia-government-report-20181011-p508z2.html
UN ‘apologizes’ to end row with Cambodia over poverty level measurement
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Cambodia has reportedly “apologized” to the Cambodian government for publishing poverty statistics almost three times as high as the official estimate. ...
Aun Chhengpor
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/un-apologizes-to-end-row-with-cambodia-over-poverty-level-measurement/4607615.html
Tokyo goes it alone in support of Myanmar and Cambodia
Japan is digging in deeper in support of Myanmar and Cambodia even as the U.S. and Europe ramp up criticism of human rights violations, choosing to preserve its influence in the region by playing an alternative to China’s economic might. ...
Saki Hayashi
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-Relations/Tokyo-goes-it-alone-in-support-of-Myanmar-and-Cambodia
Minimum wage for 2019 set to be decided
Garment and textile factory workers are set for an increase in the minimum wage for 2019. The Labour Advisory Committee will decide on Friday how much the figure will rise by after a trilateral meeting on Thursday failed to come to an agreement. With no ...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minimum-wage-2019-set-be-decided
Free buses to province planned
The Phnom Penh municipal government has announced a plan to provide limited free bus services along national roads during the Pchum Benh week. The plan will see 120 buses deployed to “ease people’s travels during the holiday”, the capital’s City Hall said in a statement. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/free-buses-province-planned
Government to pay LIDA workers
The Labour Ministry will pay money to 257 garment workers today from the LIDA factory in Phnom Penh who rallied multiple times over missing wages after their employer fled. A ministry press release yesterday advised the workers to get the cash at the company’s office ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50539595/government-to-pay-lida-workers/
Prey Lang Community Network seeks government intervention
The Prey Lang Community Network today submitted a report to the Environment Ministry accusing local authorities in the province of colluding with businessmen to illegally cut trees in protected forests. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50539403/prey-lang-community-network-seeks-government-intervention/
Advocacy group raises questions about Cambodia's gold imports
Cambodia imported about $15 billion worth of gold during five years from Singapore, according to government statistics compiled by nongovernmental organization Mother Nature Cambodia — a figure so large, corruption monitor groups say it raises alarms about potential financial crimes, particularly smuggling. ...
David Boyle and Malis Tum
https://www.voanews.com/a/advocacy-group-raises-questions-about-cambodia-gold-imports/4599968.html
EU a key economic partner in Cambodia: Ambassador
The European Union is a key economic partner in Cambodia, with preferential access to European markets a key element of the Kingdom’s robust growth in recent years, said European Union Ambassador George Edgar. ...
Sum Manet
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50539696/eu-a-key-economic-partner-in-cambodia-ambassador/
Ratanakiri authorities order halt to filling
Ratanakiri provincial authorities stopped a group of workers on Wednesday from filling in land near the popular O’ Boeung Kanseang lake in Banlung Town after they allegedly encroached on the natural lake. Boeung Kanseang district police chief Bou Phang said police halted the activities pending ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakiri-authorities-order-halt-filling
Waste production continues to rise
The Ministries of Environment and Tourism have reiterated calls for factories, restaurants and markets to properly handle waste disposal as the amount produced in the Kingdom continues to grow. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50539241/waste-production-continues-to-rise/
Four villagers guilty of encroaching on land
Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court yesterday found four villagers guilty of clearing and encroaching on land belonging to businessman Tan Tap in Stung Hav district. Each villager was sentenced to a year in prison, but after five months were suspended and with time served, each have ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50539215/four-villagers-guilty-of-encroaching-on-land/
Rice seeds to be distributed to flood victims this weekend
The Agriculture Ministry will distribute about 3,000 tonnes of rice seeds to the farmers affected by floods across the Kingdom, an official said yesterday. Ngin Chhay, director general of the ministry’s general agriculture department, said the ministry has prepared about 3,000 tonnes of rice seeds ...
Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50539238/rice-seeds-to-be-distributed-to-flood-victims-this-weekend/
Open spaces ‘fail capital’s residents’
Research from Cambodian urban NGO Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT) has found that Phnom Penh is failing a large number of its inhabitants by falling far below minimum UN standards for open public spaces. SST warns that the situation “will have negative consequences” unless planners begin ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/open-spaces-fail-capitals-residents
Defence Ministry to ‘add new blood’ to Kingdom’s military
The Ministry of National Defence is set to add new blood into the Kingdom’s armed forces, with its military academy starting a new round of enrollment and recruitment to fill nearly 700 vacancies. While the ministry said the recruitment is meant to protect the Kingdom’s ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/defence-ministry-add-new-blood-kingdoms-military
Endangered gaur gives birth
The Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre has announced the arrival on Monday of a male gaur calf to a female that was brought from the Kingdom’s northeastern region seven years ago as part of a pioneering breeding programme. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/endangered-gaur-gives-birth
Poverty falling at rapid pace, says UNDP
Poverty in Cambodia has fallen dramatically over the last two decades, and continues to fall at a rapid pace, said a high official of the UNDP to Khmer Times yesterday. All the poverty rateslines, either based on income and other dimensions, have seen big reductions at a ...
Kazi Mahmood
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50539134/poverty-falling-at-rapid-pace-says-undp/
Sihanoukville tourism First half of 2018 sees 1.3M visitors
The Preah Sihanouk provincial Department of Tourism says Preah Sihanouk province received more than 1.3 million tourists during the first semester of this year. Of this, over one million were domestic tourists and 290,782 foreign, with Chinese accounting for 84,664 – up 10.12 per cent ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sihanoukville-tourism-first-half-2018-sees-13m-visitors
Tonle Sap Vietnamese ‘reluctant’ to move
While more than 100 ethnic Vietnamese families out of the 300 living in floating houses on the Tonle Sap River in Kampong Chhnang province are willing to be relocated, a small number are holding out. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tonle-sap-vietnamese-reluctant-move
Cambodians advised to delay Indonesia travel
The Cambodian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, has issued a warning to all citizens planning to travel to the quake- and tsunami-hit region of Indonesia. The embassy urged “all Cambodians with no urgency to visit the disaster-hit area in Central Sulawesi province to suspend their travel ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodians-advised-delay-indonesia-travel
Smart, ministries offer scholarships
Smart Axiata in collaboration with the ministries of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS), and Posts and Telecommunication (MPTC), signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Tuesday to “develop future talents and digital corporate leaders”. As part of this, 20 scholarships will be offered to ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/smart-ministries-offer-scholarships
Cambodia accused Vietnam of systematic logging fraud
Cambodia has asked Interpol to investigate its allegations that Vietnam has repeatedly and knowingly accepted fraudulent permits for endangered luxury timber that is illegally logged across the border. ...
David Boyle
https://www.voanews.com/a/cambodia-logging-vietnam/4595854.html
Sanctuary chief accused of ‘collusion’
The Koh Kong provincial joint committee will continue its probe into the Dang Paeng Multipurpose Protected Sanctuary after social media posts alleged that mangrove forestland had been cleared in the area with the collusion of sanctuary officials. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sanctuary-chief-accused-collusion
A dozen Kratie farms demolished
Authorities in Kratie province yesterday demolished a dozen family farms deemed illegal in Snuol district’s Khsoem commune. A villager who requested anonymity said that the demolition was conducted by provincial and district authorities along with police and military police officers. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50538880/a-dozen-kratie-farms-demolished/