Passport fee latest wrinkle in factory workers’ Thai plight
A rights group has raised concerns that up to 100 Cambodian migrant workers at a Thai seafood processing factory will be stranded abroad in less than a week without any income because they cannot afford to pay a passport fee demanded by their employer. Of the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Honda Factory Workers Strike To Reinstate Union Officials
About 300 workers from a Phnom Penh factory that assembles Honda motorcycles went on strike yesterday to rally for the reinstatement of their union representatives, in accordance with an order by the Arbitration Council, union representatives said yesterday. Yoeurng sopheara, a legal officer at Cambodia Labor ss='cambodia-color'>...
Radio Ban Sparks Debate of Media Freedom in Cambodia
While observers yesterday accused the government of censorship for ordering radio stations not to transmit international broadcasters over the election weekend, a government spokesman defended the move. On sunday, a Ministry of Information official said the ministry had ordered local F.M. stations not to transmit Voice ss='cambodia-color'>...
Insurance, banks join forces
Cambodia Life Insurance Company Plc plans to bundle services with banks to offer guarantees on mortgages, company representatives said. The service is hoped to make mortgages more accessible in a country where housing loans are still considered risky business. Collateral is usually required to take loans ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Preah Vihear to get new border crossing
The Cambodian government is seeking a new international border checkpoint in Preah Vihear province to link with Thailand’s Ubun province, officials say. Preah Vihear provincial governor Um Mara said officials from both countries had met to examine the possibility of opening a new international checkpoint. There ss='cambodia-color'>...
International expo in Cambodia to boost garment sector
The four-day second Cambodia International Machinery Industrial Fair (CIMIF 2012) has begun in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh. Leading global brands of industrial equipment for textiles, garment and accessories are among the more than 200 exhibitors from 20 countries displaying their products. The exhibition provides a ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Cambodia city port sees 16% surge in shipments in 9 months
Container traffic through Phnom Penh Autonomous Port, Cambodia’s second largest port, increased by 16 percent in the first nine months of this year thanks to increasing import and export activities in garments and construction materials, the port authority said on Wednesday In March last year, to ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Silk Air celebrates 20 years in Kingdom
Nagaworld Hotel was the venue for Monday night’s occasion, exactly 20 years after the very first silk Air flight into Phnom Penh on October 1, 1992. The event came on the same evening as the launch of Tiger Airways’ service between Phnom Penh and singapore ss='cambodia-color'>...
Protected forest reclassified as private land
The entirety of three protected forests are now classified as private land, an investigation from rights group Adhoc has found, along with tens of thousands of additional hectares of what has once been state public land In three cases, Adhoc’s findings show that entire protected forests ss='cambodia-color'>...
‘Croc grandma’ gets four years
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday convicted local tycoon Chhin sokountheary of encroaching on public lands and sentenced her in absentia to four years and six months in prison. Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge Ly Lipmeng said yesterday that sokountheary, who is also known as ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Malay Hong Leong Bank plans Cambodian branch
Malaysia-based Hong Leong Bank, a subsidiary of Hong Leong Financial Group Berhad, is planning to open a branch in Cambodia sometime this year, which would make it the fourth Malaysian bank and the 33rd commercial bank in Cambodia’s crowded banking industry. Ngoun sokha, director general of the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Investment law to be revised
The government is planning to revise the Kingdom’s investment laws this year to draw more foreign direct investment as the country adjusts to the fast-changing regional and global landscapes, according to secretary General of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) sok Chenda sophea. speaking ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Agricultural NGO to Become a Cooperative
The Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture (Cedac) Said yeSterday that it waS undertaking meaSureS to change itS StatuS from an NGO to a cooperative, a move that will eaSe the organization of donor money and puSh it to become more profit orientated SS='cambodia-color'>...
Two injured after steel mill accident in capital
An explosion at a steel mill in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district left two employees seriously injured over the weekend, authorities said. Mao saroeun, stung Meanchey commune police chief, said that around 10pm on sunday there was a small, loud explosion at a mill owned by the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Oil factory fire causes significant damage
A worker was slightly injured and more than Us$100,000 in property destroyed yesterday in a fire at an oil factory in Kandal province’s Ang snuol district, police said. Thach Phalla, Ang snuol district deputy police chief, said the fire started at noon when some oil overflowed ss='cambodia-color'>...
National Police Site Hacked, Defaced by Mystery Group
The website of the Cambodian National Police was hacked and defaced yesterday by a mysterious group apparently attempting to challenge the website’s security measures. For part of the morning, visitors to the police.gov.kh site were greeted by singing in Arabic and an image of four Guy ss='cambodia-color'>...
Evicted M’kiri Families Can’t Afford Trip Home
Some of the 200 familieS evicted from a village in Mondolkiri province&rSquo;S Koh Nhek diStrict laSt week Said yeSterday that they were taking up temporary reSidence in nearby villageS and foreStS becauSe they could not afford to go home, or had no land to return SS='cambodia-color'>...
Workers at Honda Plant Given Back Their Jobs
A factory in Phnom Penh that assembles motorcycles for Honda decided on Friday to reinstate four workers who had been fired in December for creating a new trade union. About 300 workers at the Honda NCX Company in Pur senchey district had been on strike since ss='cambodia-color'>...
State Utility Staff May Be Registered To Vote Twice
The SRP yeSterday Said it had found that more than 90 employeeS of State-owned power company Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) were regiStered to vote in two Separate placeS for Sunday&rSquo;S commune electionS and warned that the ruling CPP may uSe Such government employeeS to vote SS='cambodia-color'>...
Appeal Court Sets Date as Boeng Kak Hunger Strike Continues
The Court of Appeal on Friday set a date to hear the case of 13 jailed Boeng Kak residents despite the Ministry of Justice calling for a review of their sentencing, and as the health of six of the jailed women, who are on hunger ss='cambodia-color'>...