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Unions threaten protest over minimum wage

Unions in the clothing and footwear sector yesterday wrote to the committee overseeing minimum wage negotiations threating protests if their demands were not met. ...

Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16142/unions-threaten-protest-over-minimum-wage/

Outrage over boarding charges

A government minister has threatened legal action, and disability groups are up in arms, after a small Cambodian airline forced a disabled passenger to pay $240 on top of her ticket price for help getting on and off an aircraft.Bassaka Air has admitted demanding the ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/outrage-over-boarding-charges

Rainsy, Sokha court Cham in K Chhnang

Getting a head start on campaigning for the 2018 elections, opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha yesterday promised Cham voters in Kampong Chhnang’s Kampong Tralach district that a change in the country’s leadership would mean a change in its approach to land disputes as ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-sokha-court-cham-k-chhnang

Steering away from the grey market

While the Kingdom’s automotive sector has seen the entry of authorised dealerships, grey market dealers still make up the bulk of car sales.Dealerships are trying to lure prospective customers to purchase new vehicles, but grey market used cars still enjoy a substantial cost advantage given ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/steering-away-grey-market

Pay raises could reduce corruption

A 12 per cent pay rise for civil servants that will take effect this coming January will be a step towards helping reduce corruption and “unofficial fees,” analysts said. ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16135/pay-raises-could-reduce-corruption/

Sim card crackdown to focus on telecom firms, not vendors

From a simple stall on a street corner in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district, Khuon Andy sells SIM cards, between 40 and 60 per month. Half of his customers provide identification to make their purchase, and half of them do not. ...

Khy Sovuthy and Meghan Tribe
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sim-card-crackdown-to-focus-on-telecom-firms-not-vendors-95437/

No options for families in Poipet facing eviction

Forty-three families from Poipet town and the nearby village of Kbal Spean 1 say they will ignore the September 28 deadline of an eviction notice from the Banteay Meanchey Provincial Court. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-options-families-poipet-facing-eviction

Smoother path for agro exports

The ministry of Agriculture plans to establish five regional food safety inspection offices near the country’s borders to facilitate the flow of cross-border agricultural trade, reducing the time it takes Cambodian exporters to deliver shipments of agricultural products to foreign markets, a ministry official has ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/smoother-path-agro-exports

Kem Sokha says there’s no racism in Cambodia

Two days after Prime Minister Hun Sen told the U.N.’s new special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia to focus her efforts on tackling racial discrimination, deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha on Thursday used a Cham Muslim religious ceremony to argue that there is no ...

Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kem-sokha-says-theres-no-racism-in-cambodia-95426/

Police raid 3 Ratanakkiri gold mines

Police on Thursday raided three illegal gold mines in Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat district believed to have been operated by undocumented Vietnamese migrants, but made no arrests as all the camps had been abandoned, possibly just hours earlier. ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-raid-3-ratanakkiri-gold-mines-95428/

Film interview high on PM’s UN visit

Prime Minister Hun Sen arrived in New York yesterday for a series of meetings, with making demining a key UN development goal at the top of his agenda. ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16145/film-interview-high-on-pm---s-un-visit/

Kampot villagers say politician not involved in land dispute

Two villagers released on bail by the Kampot Provincial Court on Wednesday on charges of illegally clearing part of a social land concession for retired soldiers said Thursday they would not stop clearing the plot. ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kampot-villagers-say-politician-not-involved-in-land-dispute-95435/

New salary bump for civil sector employees

Civil servants will see their salaries raised again from January as part of incremental annual pay increases scheduled through 2018, the government announced yesterday.Next year’s raise will mean about 200,000 civil servants will have their basic salaries increased by 12 per cent from the current ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-salary-bump-civil-sector-employees

New UN envoy wraps up first mission to Cambodia with call for judicial reform

The new United Nations envoy to Cambodia concluded her first official visit to the country Thursday by calling on Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government to ensure the independence of the judiciary amid a host of land and labor disputes she said are encroaching on the ...

Yeang Socheametta
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/envoy-09242015151717.html

Protesters prepare, as Hun Sen travels to New York for UN summits

Prime Minister Hun Sen left Cambodia Wednesday for UN summits in New York, where hundreds of Cambodian-Americans are preparing to protest, demanding the release of political and environmental activists currently in detention in the country. ...

Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-says-industralized-nations-must-help-mitigate-climate-change/2977125.html

Ruling party, opposition meet over election law

Members of the ruling party and opposition met Wednesday to discuss amendments to the election law for local commune councils. The five points are election campaign procession, campaign period, raising party signs in public places, punishment, and reprimands on civil servants. ...

Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/ruling-party-opposition-meet-over-election-law/2977086.html

Cambodia becomes dialogue partner in SCO

Cambodia has officially become a dialogue partner in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The memorandum was signed on Thursday in the framework of the Eurasian Economic Forum in China’s north-western city of Xian by Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Hor Namhong and SCO Secretary General Dmitry Mezentsev. ...

Russia & India Report News Staff
http://in.rbth.com/news/2015/09/24/cambodia-becomes-dialogue-partner-in-sco_427465

Cambodia says industrialized nations must help mitigate climate change

As world leaders prepare for a major summit on climate change in Paris this December, Cambodian officials say industrialized nations should provide support to lesser developed countries, to offset their contributions to global warming. ...

Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-says-industralized-nations-must-help-mitigate-climate-change/2977125.html

Inequality a defining challenge for the world, and for Cambodia

Leading economists have warned that income inequality is the defining global challenge of the 21st century. In Cambodia, a country where many live in poverty while ever-increasing numbers of luxury cars ply the streets, that challenge is particularly acute. Some 41 percent of the population ...

Essarayoss Mean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/inequality-a-defining-challenge-for-th-world-and-for-cambodia/2976794.html

TEAC officially launched in Cambodian to boost Chinese producers

To boost Chinese investment in Cambodian garment industry, the Textile Enterprise Association of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce also know as TEAC has been officially launched in Phnom Penh.​Enjoy Ho, chairman of TEAC said that they will represent the interests of Chinese textile enterprises in ...

YNFX News Staff
http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/about-us

Parties near agreement on draft commune council law

Leaders from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) will continue discussing a draft law on commune council elections next week, members of the party said yesterday. ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16100/parties-near-agreement-on-draft-commune-council-law/

PM to talk on mines at UN

Prime Minister Hun Sen flew to New York yesterday for talks where he will raise the scourge of landmines which still affect Cambodia. ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16104/pm-to-talk-on-mines-at-un/

‘Few disagreements’ emerge at Rainsy, Sar Kheng meeting

Leaders of the ruling and opposition parties yesterday met to hash out disagreements over commune election laws, but seemingly steered clear of sensitive matters such as the imprisonment of an opposition party senator and 14 political activists.Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sar Kheng and ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/few-disagreements-emerge-rainsy-sar-kheng-meeting

Minister insists community groups are exempt from NGO law

The Interior Ministry has reiterated its claims that a new law requiring NGOs and associations to register with the government does not apply to small community-based groups, despite recent efforts by police to apply the legislation to a group of families in Kratie province. ...

Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-insists-community-groups-are-exempt-from-ngo-law-95296/

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