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Logging crackdowns up 81 pct, gov’t says

A nine-month report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) shows that the number of illegal logging crackdowns increased 81 per cent – to 1,891 – compared with the same period last year, a spike one official attributed to a change in smugglers’ ...

Sen David and Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-crackdowns-81-pct-gov%E2%80%99t-says

Another wage body to form

Following a meeting with parliamentarians at the National Assembly yesterday, Minister of Labour Ith Sam Heng announced the ministry would form a 27-member committee to study technical aspects of raising the minimum wage in Cambodia’s garment sector. The new committee will comprise nine representatives each from ...

Pech Sotheary and Sean Teehan
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/another-wage-body-form

CNRP councillors call for ex-governor probe

Two Pailin provincial councillors are calling for a corruption probe of former governor and current council president Y Chhien, accusing him of using $400,000 “not transparently”, and possibly pocketing revenue from sales of natural resources. Cambodia National Rescue Party council members Ven Ra and Sou Dina ...

Meas Sokchea
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-councillors-call-ex-governor-probe

More negotiations planned ahead of minimum wage decision

Labor officials say they plan to put together an ad hoc group to discuss the contentious minimum wage for factory workers as they move toward a final decision next month. The announcement Tuesday came after meetings between Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng and Ker Sovannaroath, ...

Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/more-negotiations-planned-ahead-of-cambodia-minimum-wage-decision/2483320.html

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/

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/

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/

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 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

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