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Over 7,000 students abandon second exams: Spokesman
As Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport is taking tough measure to curb cheating and bribery during examinations as part of its education reform, over 7,000 students have abandoned the second high school exams. The number can be the highest ever in the last 10 ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/over-7000-students-abandon-second-exams:-spokesman-7484
Cambodia seeks to promote trade relations with Britain
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday urged the United Kingdom to increase purchase orders for Cambodian products so as to further promote trade relations between the two countries. ...
ShanghaiDaily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=246415
Journalist investigating illegal logging shot dead
A 49-year-old journalist reportedly investigating illegal logging in Kratie province was shot dead early Sunday morning. Within hours, police arrested three men—a commune police chief, a military police officer and a Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldier—for the murder, officials said. Taing Try, who contributed to ...
Saing Soenthrith and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/journalist-investigating-illegal-logging-shot-dead-69629/
Failed high school students take second exams
Grade 12th students who failed in August exams are taking the second exams Monday. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/failed-high-school-students-take-second-exams-7480
Hun Sen tells King Buddhist Institute’s land not for sale
Government denials over the rumored development of the Buddhist Institute have reached the highest levels, with the prime minister penning a letter to the king to assure him the land is not for sale. In a letter addressed to King Norodom Sihamoni dated October 6 and ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-tells-king-buddhist-institutes-land-not-for-sale-69609/
Road accidents kill 1,630 people in Cambodia in 9 months
Cambodia recorded 3,638 cases of road accidents in the first nine months of 2014, killing at least 1,630 people, according to a report of the National Committee for Road Traffic Safety on Friday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-10/10/c_133704795.htm
Latest garment export figures show growth
Garment and footwear exports earned $3.92 billion over the first eight months of 2014, up more than 7 percent year-on-year, according to new figures from the Ministry of Commerce. The latest numbers show a slowdown after year-on-year earnings for the first six months of the year ...
Hul Reaksmey and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/latest-garment-export-figures-show-growth-69546/
Factories up but new jobs on the decline
Despite a noticeable increase in the number of factory registrations during the first nine months of the year, new job creation has declined, according to the latest government data. Figures from the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft released yesterday showed that 149 factories registered during the ...
Hor Kimsay
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/factories-new-jobs-decline
Round two: Thousands sign up for final re-test
More than 68,000 grade 12 students have signed up for a second and final shot at the high stakes national exam next Monday, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport reported. That’s all of the students who failed – and most who failed to show ...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/round-two-thousands-sign-final-re-test
Chinese squeeze out tour groups in Siem Reap
Japanese and Korean tourists are being turned away from hotels in Siem Reap City due to an increase in bookings by Chinese visitors, Tourism Minister Thong Khon said on Wednesday. Speaking at the tourism industry’s three-day expo on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich island on Wednesday, Mr. ...
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/chinese-squeeze-out-tour-groups-in%E2%80%88siem-reap-69544/
Hun Sen says civil servants to get tax break
Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday that civil servants making less than 800,000 riel, or about $200, a month will be exempt from paying income taxes, just days after the Finance Ministry sent a very different message to the country’s garment workers. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-says-civil-servants-to-get-tax-break-69534/
Buddhist Institute is safe, minister tells National Assembly
Despite being hemmed in by construction on all sides as NagaWorld expands its casino empire in Phnom Penh, the Buddhist Institute will not be sold off or rented out, Cults and Religion Minister Min Khin told a National Assembly commission on Thursday. In May, the institute’s ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/buddhist-institute-is-safe-minister-tells-national-assembly-69526/
Six labor unions to hold public forum on minimum wage this weekend
At least six labor unions to be led by Pav Sina, president of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers, will hold public forum at the Freedom Park on October 12 to discuss minimum wage demand for footwear and garment workers. A plan to hold the ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/six-labor-unions-to-hold-public-forum-on-minimum-wage-this-weekend-7464
Cambodian minister hails fruitful cooperation with China on media, broadcasting
Cambodian Information Minister Khieu Kanharith on Thursday admired excellent cooperation between Cambodia and China on media and broadcasting, saying that the cooperation would promote closer relations between the peoples of the two countries. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141009/cambodian-minister-hails-fruitful-cooperation-china-media-br
Poll shows wide support for heavily monitored exams
Most Cambodians support the Ministry of Education’s crusade to end corruption on the grade 12 national exam, results from a “snap poll” by the Asia Foundation showed yesterday. The survey polled 500 respondents, including 100 current high school students, and 96 per cent were overwhelmingly in ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poll-shows-wide-support-heavily-monitored-exams
Cambodia's banks continue enjoying strong growth this year: vice-governor
Cambodia’s banking sector has continued enjoying robust growth in both loans and deposits this year, Ouk Maly, vice-governor of the National Bank of Cambodia, said Wednesday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141008/cambodias-banks-continue-enjoying-strong-growth-year-vice-go
Cambodia unveils regulation to protect entertainment workers
Cambodia’s Ministries of Labour and Tourism on Wednesday jointly launched a new regulation for protecting the occupational safety, health and labour rights of entertainment workers. “The regulation aims to improve working conditions, occupational safety and health rules of entertainment service enterprises, establishments and companies,”said a ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-10/08/c_133699392.htm
Wage decision delayed
Minister of Labour Ith Sam Heng yesterday postponed his ministry’s Labour Advisory Committee’s decision on Cambodia’s garment sector minimum wage from Friday until next month, leaving some optimistic and others dubious. In the original schedule, the minimum wage for 2015 was slated to be set in ...
Sean Teehan and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wage-decision-delayed
Cambodia slams 2 border killings
Cambodia’s foreign ministry Monday condemned Thailand’s military for two shooting that it claimed left two Khmer nationals dead and one injured since Sept 28. ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/436220/cambodia-slams-2-border-killings
Villagers in the dark over dam relocation
Communities living close to the Lower Sesan II dam site in Stung Treng province have called on the government to publicly disclose what compensation they will receive. Logging continues as the area is cleared ahead of construction, but those who will be forced to leave their ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/villagers-dark-over-dam-relocation
Outstanding credit could reach $30B by 2020
The total amount of loans in Cambodia’s banking sector could rise to $30 billion by 2020, according to a report released today by Mekong Strategic Partners, a new investment and advisory fund. Amid such growth, banks will be challenged to drastically expand their operations and will ...
George Styllis and Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/outstanding-credit-could-reach-30b-by-2020-69127/
Cambodia holds fair to promote local fruits, vegetables
The fifth edition of the Cambodian fruits and vegetables show kicked off here on Friday, aiming to promoting local products and reducing imports of foreign fruits and vegetables, officials said. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-10/03/c_133690684.htm
Poverty line $120, gov’t says
Workers in Cambodia’s capital earning less than $120 per month are living below the poverty line, according to the Ministry of Planning’s own calculation. At a September 17 workshop on the garment industry minimum wage, International Labor Organization Cambodia national director Tun Sophorn cited Ministry of ...
Sean Teehan
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/poverty-line-120-gov%E2%80%99t-says
Census deportations hit 142 in single day
Vietnamese nationals were deported en masse this week from Svay Rieng province, with 142 illegal migrants sent back across the border in a single day, as Cambodia’s nationwide census of foreigners continues, officials said yesterday. General Sok Phal, director of the Interior Ministry’s Immigration Department, said ...
Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/census-deportations-hit-142-single-day