Recruiting firm told to close
The Ministry of Labour has been ordered to permanently close the labour recruitment firm T&P following the discovery of more under-age trainees in its Kampong Chhnang centre. The move marks the first time the ministry has shut a labour reruitment firm, and follows intense criticism of ...
Factory bows but strike continues
Workers striking for a second day at a garment factory in suburban Phnom Penh succeeded yesterday in having one of their eight demands met, as Taiwanese-owned Meroson Cambodia Co Ltd agreed to reinstate three employees allegedly fired for joining a union, a union official said ...
Maids ban flouted, rights group claims
Despite Prime Minister Hun Sen’s indefinite ban on sending Cambodian maids to Malaysia, two recruitment agencies continued to send maids there yesterday, according to rights group Licadho Recruitment agency Top Manpower put seven recruits on Air Asia flight AK 273 to Kuala Lumpur yesterday morning, while ...
Unions seek changes to labour law
Union leaders are calling for 10 changes to be made to the draft law that will regulate them, including allowing civil servants to form unions, they said yesterday, following a letter calling for two ministers to intervene late last week. The Cambodian Trade Union Coordination Council ...
Villagers plan to walk to capital
Tractors carried members of 50 families from Lor Peang village in Kampong Chhnang province’s Kampong Tralach district to the provincial courthouse early yesterday morning, where their hopes faded as they waited for court officials to accept their latest complaint against a company they accuse of ...
Oil-claims talks 'highly likely'
Thailand is reportedly preparing to re-enter negotiations with Cambodia on the Overlapping Claims Area after officials from the two countries talked this week at the ASEAN Energy Business Forum in Brunei. Thai Energy Minister Pichai Naripthaphan said yesterday that he met informally with Ministry of Industry ...
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Cambodia to send labour to Qatar
The government has approved Qatar as a destination for the growing number of Cambodian labourers seeking employment overseas. Workers will not be recruited for housekeeping services, however, private sector officials said. The abuse of maids in Malaysia – many of whom were reportedly under-aged – has ...
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ក្រុមបណ្ដាញសហគមន៍ជនជាតិដើមភាគតិចចំនួន ១០៥ មកពី ៨ ខេត្ត/ក្រុងនៅកម្ពុជាកាលពីម្សិលមិញបានស្នើឲ្យរដ្ឋាភិបាលកម្ពុជាបញ្ឈប់ការធ្វើទុក្ខបុកម្នេញតាមរយៈការអភិវឌ្ឍគ្មានការទទួលខុសត្រូវ និងការផ្ដល់ដីសម្បទានដែលជំរុញឲ្យពួកគេធ្វើចំណាកស្រុក ការផ្លាស់ទីដោយបង្ខំ និង រឹតត្បិតសិទ្ធិសេរីភាព។ ...
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Future Telecommunications Regulator Will Face Challenges
A lack of proper regulations, unrealistic market data and a constant stream of disputes between Cambodia’s mobile operators will likely hinder the country’s future telecommunications regulator from effectively governing the sector, according to a leading research firm. Without the enactment of telecommunications law, which is currently ...
Farmers Concerned That Draft Law Will Legalize Land Grabs
About 60 farmers met yesterday in Phnom Penh to rise their concerns about the law on the management of farmland that is currently being drafted by the Ministry of Agriculture, which critics say will legalize land grabbing. The latest public version of the draft law grants power ...
Thais eye 2001 Gulf blueprint
Cambodia and Thailand yesterday reiterated their commitment to restart negotiations over an expansive and resource-rich section of the Gulf of Thailand known as the Overlapping Claims Area – but the two countries have yet to set a date for the talks. In 2001, officials from ...
Garment Factory Protesters Clash With Police
Hundreds of garment factory workers clashed with police at a factory in Phnom Penh yesterday during the latest strike in what is now a month-long campaign to have two union leaders rehired. The workers from Nex-T Apparel (Cambodia) Co. Ltd. in Dangkao district were striking in ...
Xiamen expected to set up sister city relationship with Cambodia's Kampot
Cambodia may set up a consulate in Xiamen in the near future, and the Cambodian port city of Kampot is expected to establish sister city relationship with Xiamen, reported Haixi Morning News on Wednesday. Cham Prasidh, Cambodian Minister of State and Minister of Trade and Commerce, ...
Cambodia's inflation rate fell to 3 per cent in 2012
Cambodia’s inflation rate fell to an annual three per cent last year, down from 4.9 per cent a year earlier, according to data from the National Bank of Cambodia released in late January. Chea Chanto, the bank’s governor, told an annual meeting in late January that ...
Workers Pledge to Continue Strike Action in Phnom Penh
Garment factory workers on Saturday blocked Street 371 in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district for the second day and said they will continue their strike today unless factory managers give in to their demands. During Saturday’s strike action, more than 3,000 workers from the S.L. Garment Factory ...
Land Ministry Officials Charged With Corruption
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has charged four senior officials at the Ministry of of Land Management with corruption and placed them in pretrial detention at Prey Sar prison on Thursday evening, officials said. On Monday, Sa Reth Boramy, deputy director of the ministry’s department of land ...
Unionists cry foul over rejection
K-Cement workers who were told they could not form a company-wide union because their workplaces were “separate” entities have now had their application to register individual unions rejected by the Ministry of Labour, union leaders said yesterday. Sok Kin, vice president of the Building and Woodworkers ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020161139/National/unionists-cry-foul-over-rejection.html
Serbian FM to visit Cambodia to boost bilateral ties
Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivan Mrkic will pay a two-day visit to Cambodia next Monday to promote bilateral relations, according to a press release from Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry on Friday. ...
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Bobruisk Plant of Tractor Parts and Units starts shipping machines to Cambodia
The Bobruisk-based mechanical engineering company Bobruisk Plant of Tractor Parts and Units has shipped a batch of proprietary compact tractors Belarus 321 to Cambodia for the first time, representatives of the company’s sales department told BelTA. In line with the contract, which was signed in early ...