Government
Garment wage vote set for tomorrow
Representatives for garment sector employers and employees will vote on Wednesday for their respective final proposals for the new minimum wage next year. Two weeks ago, members of the tripartite minimum wage negotiations began a series of meetings to discuss their various salary proposals. The Garment Manufacturers ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30213/garment-wage-vote-set-for-tomorrow/
Domestic airports converted for public use
Prime Minister Hun Sen transferred control of some of the Kingdom’s domestic airports to local government authorities for public use during a cabinet meeting last Friday. “We handed over airfields to provincial authorities to manage and use for state or public interest,” Mr. Hun Sen said. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30210/domestic-airports-converted-for-public-use/
Youth to protest Vietnam land grabs
The Cambodian Youth Party (CYP) is urging the public to join a mass demonstration on October 10 against Vietnam, due to what they say is a continued encroachment by the neighboring country on Cambodian territory through two settlements currently under construction. In an announcement sent out ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30212/youth-to-protest-vietnam-land-grabs/
Sambo hydro dam info urged
Youth groups and environmental activists have requested the government release the latest documents concerning the proposed Sambo hydroelectric dam in Kratie province, amid lingering concerns of the possible environmental damage the dam may cause. The dam, if constructed, will be the largest in the country and ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30164/sambo-hydro-dam-info-urged/
Districts to be handed primary schools’ reins
Beginning this year, the Education Ministry will hand over management of 625 primary schools, 4,874 teachers and over 170,000 students to 14 districts in Battambang as part of a new initiative to decentralise and improve primary education. The districts will also absorb the management of ...
Kong Meta and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/districts-be-handed-primary-schools-reins
Sub-decree approval rules amended
From now on, only certain sub-decrees will need to be pored over by the cabinet before they are signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen, the premier told a session of the cabinet on Friday morning, although failing to specify what the selection criteria would be. Mr. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30162/sub-decree-approval-rules-amended/
Minister tells UN ‘perfect democracy’ not realistic
Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn defended the government before the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Saturday, saying that the ruling party was being held to unrealistic expectations of a “perfect democracy” while the opposition was “committing very serious crimes.” Delivering his first major address to ...
Colin Meyn
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-tells-un-perfect-democracy-not-realistic-118422/
Defense ministry looking for recruits
The Ministry of National Defense announced on Friday that it is seeking more than 400 candidates to join the military in 2017. The announcement stated that the ministry was seeking both male and female candidates to work in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). Candidates must have ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30163/defense-ministry-looking-for-recruits/
Gov’t pushes census to 2019
The 2018 national population census will be pushed back a year in order to focus on the 2018 national elections, the government announced on Friday. According to article 6 of the Statistics Law, the census must be conducted at least once every 10 years, with the ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30167/gov---t-pushes-census-to-2019/
PM offers opposition ceasefire
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday responded to calls from acting opposition leader Kem Sokha for Cambodia’s “political family” to unite for the upcoming Pchum Ben festival, saying he would observe a “ceasefire” amid the escalating war of words between himself and the opposition. Speaking at a ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30119/pm-offers-opposition-ceasefire/
Universities in agricultural innovation
As rice farmers struggle to cope with the aftereffects of one of the worst droughts in Cambodia’s recent history and moribund infrastructure makes it difficult to transport and sell their products across the country, universities here and in the United States are joining forces to ...
Safiya Charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30110/universities-in-agricultural-innovation/
PM pushes voter registration amid claims of inaction
The National Election Committee (NEC) and all political parties should urge citizens – including those overseas – to register to vote, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday, even as a prominent opposition lawmaker accused the government of offering “nothing” to enfranchise Cambodia’s thousands of migrant workers. ...
Mech Dara, Bun Sengkong and Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-pushes-voter-registration-amid-claims-inaction
Local factories pump out $5.3B in products
Cambodian factories manufactured industrial products worth $5.3 billion during the first seven months of 2016, according to data released yesterday by the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-factories-pump-out-53b-products
PM: keep old border posts
It has been five months since the government updated the country on how far along they were with the demarcation process along the border with Vietnam. Yet Prime Minister Hun Sen has an entirely different focus: the border posts slowly being replaced. In a directive sent out ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30051/pm--keep-old-border-posts/
ICRC offers prisons help
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is willing to offer assistance in future prison building projects, and in the preparation of prison management policies that are in line with international standards, the National Police website said on Tuesday. According to the website, the ICRC ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30054/icrc-offers-prisons-help/
Familiar wage figure floated by minister
In the midst of annual minimum wage negotiations, Minister of Labour Ith Samheng used a visit from members of the Southeast Asian Youth Programme to reiterate that the minimum wage for garment workers would reach at least $160 a month by 2018, state media reported. ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/familiar-wage-figure-floated-minister
Kratie disputants pay visit to ministry
Twenty Cham villagers from Kratie province’s Snuol district yesterday visited the Ministry of Land Management and Urban Planning to demand authorities resolve their community’s seven-year-old land dispute with two rubber companies. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-disputants-pay-visit-ministry
PM hands out prizes for Cambodia's ‘A’-team
For the third year in row, students scoring an A on Cambodia’s high-stakes Grade 12 exit exam were granted an audience with Prime Minister Hun Sen and lavished with gifts, while the Ministry of Education came in for its own accolades on reforms that are ...
Yesenia Amaro and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-hands-out-prizes-cambodias-team
Non-taxpayers targeted
The government will not increase the rate for income tax and other taxes for the next two years, but will instead concentrate on expanding the base for tax collection, taking into account that there are still many individuals and businesses that do not pay tax ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30034/non-taxpayers-targeted/
Two new power plants planned
Two new power plants are being planned for Cambodia, a $167 million garbage-fueled plant for Phnom Penh, and an $89 million solar plant for Siem Reap province, the tourism ministry announced. In a statement on the ministry’s Facebook page yesterday, the ministry unveiled plans for the ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29970/two-new-power-plants-planned/
PM calls for increased vigilance for Zika virus
Prime Minister Hun Sen, speaking at the inauguration of a hospital in Phnom Penh yesterday, called on the Ministry of Health, the public and those who have recently travelled abroad to take precautionary measures to prevent Zika from reaching the Kingdom. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-calls-increased-vigilance-zika-virus
New facility for young offenders
The Ministry of Social Affairs yesterday confirmed it would construct a new national facility to rehabilitate child offenders. The news follows a meeting last Thursday when spokesman Touch Channy told attendees that the new centre to detain juvenile offenders would be built following the recent adoption ...
Kong Meta and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-facility-young-offenders
Centre eyes potatoes for a changing diet
Cambodia’s first experimental farm and research centre for potato cultivation opened yesterday as experts confirmed that the Kingdom’s soils are suitable for the starchy tuber – raising hopes that local crops could one day satisfy the fast-food cravings that have put potatoes in high demand. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/centre-eyes-potatoes-changing-diet
CNRP to rejoin national assembly
Senior opposition member Son Chhay said yesterday that he and his fellow party members would enter the National Assembly to resolve some ongoing problems and planned to summon four ministers for clarifications as well as to appeal for the health minister’s resignation. After visiting opposition officials ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29990/cnrp-to-rejoin-national-assembly/