The controversial draft union law clause requiring a 50 per cent plus one vote by members to authorise a strike will stand, lawmakers from both parties said on 14 January, though clarity is still required to define how that quorum should be shaped. The strike clause ...

Senior Cambodian People’s Party figures who have been at the forefront of negotiations with the opposition party yesterday offered lukewarm responses to the prospect of restarting talks that would bring an end to the opposition’s seven-month-long parliamentary boycott. their position – that the opposition party was ...

Following the opening of Cambodia’s first modern abattoir last month, a new draft law to regulate animal produce and slaughterhouses was announced on 6 November, along with the establishment of a “National Butchers’ Day” to be recognised annually on 8 January. the 22-chapter law, revealed by ...

The silo is expected to be finished by The end of The year and The warehouse will be fully operational for The 2018 harvest season, according to The CEO of The Cambodia Rice Bank.   ...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is being pressed to ensure that democratic reforms and human rights are at the top of the agenda when he meets here Tuesday with Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen, leader of the ruling Cambodia People’s Party (CPP). ...

More than a month has elapsed since the government vowed to strengthen its borders to halt illegal imports of rice, yet little has been done to stem the flow of illicit rice shipments flooding into Cambodia from its foreign neighbours and undermining the export efforts ...

Long-term growth prospects for developing economies, including Cambodia, will continue to be undermined by a lack of investment as well as the risk of increased protectionist policies by the United States, which could hamper the growth of commodity-driven economies, according to a new report released ...

The Yangon Stock Exchange (YSX) is expected to begin shares trading by The second week of March, with dry-run testing already underway, an official from The Securities Exchange Commission of Myanmar (SECM) told The Irrawaddy on 29 February. Though The YSX officially “launched” late last year ...

Cambodia’s new mining law is on track for adoption by the end of this year and will introduce a raft of reforms to the sector, a senior official said, although the country’s mining tax will likely remain the same. Meng Saktheara, secretary of state at the ...

Employees of Cintri, the city’s sole garbage collection agency, are feeling the effects of their job as they go about keeping the capital clean.  ...

The Minister of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries has announced a ban on all imported low-grade meat from neighboring countries as part of a national reform of The Kingdom’s meat industry. ...

The value of Cambodia’s international trade surged to $22 billion last year on double-digit growth of both imports and exports, according to newly released data from The Ministry of Commerce. ...

Xayaboury province is becoming a major transit hub for international tourists after the government upgraded a border crossing with Thailand to inter-national level, according to a senior provincial official.  “We are becoming a new transit hub for international tourists coming to Laos,” the province’s Deputy Governor, ...

A focus on high-value users, the environmental, social and governance (ESG) theme, digital inclusion and data infrastructure regulations will bring a sustainable digital economy to Thailand, according to Google.the fields of digital financial services (DFS), health, education, food and generative artificial intelligence (Al) are among ...

One year has passed but the new Vientiane-Champassak highway survey and design has not progressed following a Chinese company signing an agreement with the Ministry of Public Works and Transport. “We are now writing a letter to the company informing them that if they cannot perform ...

The United Nations will provide a $8 million subvention to support The 2018 operations of The Khmer Rouge tribunal, which is tasked with The prosecution of The country’s former Khmer Rouge commanders.   ...

The president of The Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) on Wednesday slammed The leadership of The court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) for handing The 125-seat National Assembly to The ruling Cambodian People’s Party with its boycott calls. ...

Pung Chhiv Kek, the president of rights group Licadho, has declined her nomination as the “neutral” member of the bipartisan National Election Committee (NEC), forcing the CPP and CNRP to select a new candidate for the key final position on the body. ...

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport has marked The completion of renovations and expansion of a stretch of National Road 5, a part of Asian Highway 1, linking Battambang town to The Banteay Meanchey provincial capital of Sisophon. ...

Telekomunikasi Indonesia’s majority stake purchase of Cambodian mobile operator CamGSM is nearIng the end of negotiations that have lasted almost a year Telkom’s planned purchase of CamGSM was part of a 1 trillion rupiah (US$116 million) acquisition strategy for 2012, the Indonesian newspaper Kontan reported yesterday ...