Workers from shuttered garment factory demand wages
More than 500 garment workers from a shuttered garment factory in the capital’s Dangkor district are demanding their salaries after the firm’s owner ran away.According to its website, the Chinese-owned Muse Garment (Cambodia) Factory Limited produced pants and shorts exclusively for the European market. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-shuttered-garment-factory-demand-wages
Government Orders Railway Repairs to Start
The government has ordered French construction firm TSO (Cambodia) Co. Ltd. to resume work repairing The railway line between Phnom Penh and Serei Saophoan City in Banteay Meanchey province, an official said yesterday. The French firm has been contracted to rehabilitate The France-build railway – a ...
South Korea contributes to expand Cambodia’s COVID-19 testing capacity
The South Korean government today donated COVID-19 test kits to The Cambodian Health Ministry to aid in The Kingdom’s fight against The deadly pandemic. ...
75th joint patrol on Mekong River starts
The 75th joint patrol on The Mekong River, with law enforcers from China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand, started Tuesday. Eight vessels and more than 100 law enforcement personnel participated in The patrol between China’s Guanlei port and waters near The Golden Triangle. Keep reading ...
Villagers held over Pursat illegal logging
Fourteen villagers arrested for illegal logging in Phnom Kravanh district by the national military police on Friday were released with a warning after they agreed not to repeat the offence, officials said. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-held-over-pursat-illegal-logging
Angkor hosts 2.6M visitors
The Angkor Archaeological Park welcomed nearly 2.6 million international visitors last year, generating more than $100 million in revenue, a statement from The state-run Angkor Enterprise released on Tuesday said. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/angkor-hosts-26m-visitors
US, Cambodia navies launch joint military exercise
On November 16, the United States and Cambodia launched an annual military exercise with an opening ceremony held at the Royal Cambodian Ream Navy Base in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. ...
Prashanth Parameswaran
http://thediplomat.com/2015/11/us-cambodia-navies-launch-joint-military-exercise/
Hun Manet defends his father's record
Lieutenant General Hun Manet has defended his father Prime Minister Hun Sen’s record, saying people should remember the role Hun Sen played in bringing peace and national reconciliation to the country. ...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/hun-manet-defends-his-father-record/3293680.html
Pawn shops face crackdown
Phnom Penh City Hall has set its sights on the many pawn shops in the city, ordering police to check that each shop has proper registration papers. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077494/pawn-shops-face-crackdown/
CNRP will propose changes to allow voting from abroad
Opposition lawmakers plan to submit proposed amendments to the national election law next week in order to allow Cambodians who work and live outside the country to register and vote from abroad. ...
Ben Sokhean and Brendan O’Byrne
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-will-propose-changes-to-allow-voting-from-abroad-133284/
Former clerk from Banteay Meanchey jailed
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced a former Banteay Meanchey provincial court clerk to two years in jail after finding him guilty on corruption and bribery charges brought by The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU). ...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/former-clerk-from-banteay-meanchey-jailed-55008/
Woman smuggles drugs into prison inside beans
A woman was arrested on Wednesday in Banteay Meanchey province for allegedly smuggling 12 methamphetamine pills into the provincial prison by slashing open green beans and tucking the pills inside, local police said Thursday. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/woman-smuggles-drugs-into-prison-inside-beans-81792/
One day, multiple UXO found
Seven undetonated explosive devices – three in Kandal, three in Pursat and one in Prey Veng – were discovered yesterday, local authorities confirmed, just days after a Russian-made anti-personnel mine was found less than 100 metres away from a ticket booth at Angkor Wat. The ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/one-day-multiple-uxo-found
Honda strike set to roll on
More than 100 staffers protested outside a Honda NCX company in Por Sen Chey district’s Choam Chao commune yesterday because they say employees are being sacked for trying to unionise, among other grievances. Soeurn Sot, a technician at the company, said during the protest that if ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052456362/National-news/honda-strike-set-to-roll-on.html
Senate passes draft law on Gov’t Securities
The Senate on December 21 approved on The Draft Law on Government Securities which allows The government to prepare bonds to issue in The capital market to collect funds from The public for The country’s development. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/senate-passes-draft-law-govt-securities
Hun Sen lauds first Cambodian-built bridge across Mekong River
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday lauded engineers for constructing the first Cambodian-built concrete bridge across the Mekong River in Kampong Cham province. Speaking at an inauguration ceremony for the bridge, Mr Hun Sen said the bridge was the first-ever concrete bridge built across a river ...
Ven Rathavong
Parties register with NEC as deadline looms
A senior National Election Committee official said yesterday evening that an additional eight political parties have received their application forms to field candidates to contest the upcoming national election in July. the official also said that other parties are completing their financial reports to submit ...
Mom Sophon
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50487390/parties-register-with-nec-as-deadline-looms/
NEC denies request for time off for workers
The National Election Committee (NEC) has thrown cold water on a request by The Cambodian Labour Confederation (CLC) that it permit garment workers extra time off to register in Their home provinces without receiving a pay cut, according to a letter posted on The NEC’s ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-denies-request-time-workers
CNRP leader diversifies social media playbook
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has waded into the Twittersphere, using his first tweet to congratulate US President-elect Donald Trump on his victory, and later calling on the few Cambodians who use the site to register to vote in next year’s commune elections. ...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-leader-diversifies-social-media-playbook
Moody’s maintains sovereign debt rating
Global credit rating agency Moody’s investors Services has maintained Cambodia’s B2/stable sovereign rating, stating in its latest credit opinion on the Cambodian government that the rating was underpinned by the Kingdom’s credit strengths, specifically its healthy growth prospects and a stable external payments position. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/moodys-maintains-sovereign-debt-rating