Export figures up 42% in 2011
Strong growth in garment, textile, and agricultural exports drove a 42.7 per cent increase in Cambodia’s total exports for 2011, official Ministry of Commerce data shows. The Kingdom exported $4.98 billion in goods last year, compared with $3.49 billion the year before. Market diversification and a relaxing ...
Eco start-up: say no to plastics
A start-up initiative aimed at reducing plastic waste in the Kingdom is asking locals and expats to live plastic-free in July. The goal of the campaign is relatively simple: eliminate plastics’ harshest offenders from daily consumption. That means plastic straws, bags, bottles, cups and Styrofoam, or ...
Safiya Charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27110/eco-start-up--say-no-to-plastics/
Union boss’s murder gets day in court
One of the men suspected in the seven-year-old murder of a Phnom Penh garment factory uniOn representative was tried at Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday, nearly two years after his cOnvictiOn in absentia. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/union-boss%E2%80%99s-murder-gets-day-court
FTU boss to sit out meet
The president of the Free Trade Union is slated to boycott this morning’s final meeting to discuss the trade union law, held at the Ministry of Labour. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ftu-boss-sit-out-meet
NEC explains rule change reasoning
The National Election Committee (NEC) held a meeting to explain the changes in election rules and procedures to three political parties that were demanding that the electoral body keep them unchanged from the previous elections. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-explains-rule-change-reasoning
Unionists to await trial from jail cell
Eight unionists charged with incitement after a strike at Kampong Speu province’s Sabrina Garment factory will remain in custody after the Supreme Court yesterday denied their request for bail. Presiding Judge Cheum Rithy yesterday said the court is nearly finished questioning witnesses, and that the ...
Mom Kunthear, P.3
http://www.phnompenhpost.com
New regulations ‘to ensure’ free emergency treatment
The Public Health Ministry has again pledged to ensure that people will receive free emergency medical services whenever they need them. But nobody is sure this promise will really apply to all cases across the country. The public, after all, has heard too often over the ...
UN Envoy Continues Meetings With CNRP, NGOs
U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi, who is on his 10th fact-finding mission to Cambodia, met with opposition CNRP leader Sam Rainsy on Tuesday ahead of a planned meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen and other senior government officials Wednesday. Reached by telephone after the meeting ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-envoy-continues-meetings-with-cnrp-ngos-50589/
Convicted killer back on stand
More than six years after the slaying of Free Trade Union president Hy Vuthy, one of the men convicted of his murder, Chan Sophorn, 35, appeared in court yesterday for a retrial. Sous Sam Ath, the judge presiding over the case at the Phnom Penh Municipal ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/convicted-killer-back-stand
Man charged over land grab of hundreds of hectares of protected forest
Battambang provincial court has charged a man who illegally cleared hundreds of hectares of protected forest land for sale as housing lots in Battambang province’s Samlot district since 2015. Long Vuthy, 48, was arrested on September 15 by joint forces from the provincial authority and National ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50644710/man-charged-over-land-grab-since-2015/
Hun Sen pushes for malaria-free Kingdom
The government has called on all relevant institutes and local authorities, as well as international development partners, to help make Cambodia a malaria-free country. Prime Minister Hun Sen released a letter this week to celebrate World Malaria Day today under the theme Ready to Beat ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50483342/hun-sen-pushes-for-malaria-free-kingdom-2/
More national roads included in free New Year bus service
Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday that Cambodian people could ride public buses for free to their hometowns over the Khmer New Year along five national roads instead of only two as initially announced on Sunday. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50299277/more-national-roads-included-in-free-new-year-bus-service/
Work on new Xieng Khuang hospital half complete
Construction of a six-storey hospital in Paek district, Xieng Khuang province, costing more than 82 billion kip is nearly half complete.The building is now 42 percent complete after work began in 2017, with completion expected in 2020.The hospital will have an outpatient department, wards containing ...
Keoviengkhone Bounviseth
Protests call for workers to be rehired
Nearly 100 workers held a strike inside Phnom Penh’s Conpress Holdings jeans factory yesterday to demand the company allow four fired workers to return to work. The Seak Meanchey district factory, which employs more than 1,000 workers, fired the four in August because they attempted to ...
Ministry outlines plans for new school year in Sanamxay
Teachers in Sanamxay district, Attapeu province, will receive an allowance of one million kip each and schoolchildren will be given new uniforms and educational supplies at the start of the new school year which officially begins on September 3. More ...
Times Reporters
Cambodia vows to contribute to China's "One Belt, One Road" initiatives
Cambodia, along with other ASEAN members, will make joint efforts to create an upgraded China-ASEAN Free Trade Area and contribute to the building of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, said a senior Cambodian official at the First ASEAN ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-12/13/c_133852295.htm
University officials stress need for more information on reproductive health
Health officials and local authorities need to provide more information about sexual and reproductive health services for young people in the hope of reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies.Unwanted pregnancies are one reason that women cannot get work outside the home and have limited prospects ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Free buses to province planned
The Phnom Penh municipal government has announced a plan to provide limited free bus services along national roads during the Pchum Benh week. The plan will see 120 buses deployed to “ease people’s travels during the holiday”, the capital’s City Hall said in a statement. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/free-buses-province-planned
High-school graduates turn away from higher education
Statistics from the ministry showed that over 886,000 students have registered for the national high school exam this year whose results will be used for high school graduation and university entrance consideration. Of the number, 279,001, or 27.8 per cent, did not register to apply ...
Unionists' jailing compared with Bandith
Since her husband was arrested in June and thrown in provincial prison to await trial, Soam Chantha, 32, has given birth to a baby boy. At the same time the men have been locked up, police have failed to arrest former Bavet governor Chhouk Bandith, ...
Shane Worrell and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unionists-jailing-compared-bandith