Workers Vow To Continue Wage Strike
Union leaders say workers will continue to strike over low wages, despite a violent crackdown by authorities last week and threats this week from factories who say they will be forced to move to other countries if strikes continue. Five different union say their workers will ...
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/workers-vow-to-continue-wage-strike/1825142.html
New report says garment sector fails to meet UN standards
Cambodian garment manufacturers and the association that governs them are failing to meet the standards set by the U.N.’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, as evidenced by lethal violence against workers during garment strikes in January, when five people were shot dead and ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-report-says-garment-sector-fails-to-meet-un-standards-54191/
Phillip Bank launches collateral-free credit
Singapore-based Phillip Bank announced yesterday that Cambodian borrowers that can prove a consistent monthly income will be able to access lines of credit without putting down collateral. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/phillip-bank-launches-collateral-free-credit
Union Seeks Tax Reduction for Garment Workers
Factory workers should get a reduction or exemption from paying income tax as the deductions are forcing them into poverty, the Free Trade Union (FTU) wrote in a letter to Finance Minister Keat Chon. ...
Coca-Cola, Smart Mobile again team up for top-ups
Coca-cola and Smart Mobile have teamed up in a joint promotion to give away $1 million worth of prizes, including top-up minutes and 25 Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphones using numbers printed under bottle caps of Coca-Cola, Fanta and Sprite. The promotion started on November 1 ...
Laos sets new deadline for fuel firms to shape up
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Ministry of Industry and Commerce has urged companies wanting to maintain the right to import fuel to improve themselves in accordance with the Prime Minister’s decree on fuel businesses otherwise they will not be allowed to operate their businesses.The ministry’s ...
Ekaphone Phouthonesy
Vientiane on track to reach targeted number of tourists for 2019
Vientiane officials are confident that the targeted number of 2 million visitors set for Visit Laos-China Year 2019 will be reached.Director of the Vientiane Information, Culture and Tourism Department, Ms Vilayvone Chanthalaty, told Vientiane Times that city authorities in cooperation with individual companies had made a great ...
Siladda Souliyong
ACU battles judicial association on corruption
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has refused to supervise the upcoming exam for new judges organized by the Royal Academy for Judicial Professions (RAJP), claiming that the RAJP “lacks the will” to work with them on fighting against widespread judicial corruption. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18224/acu-battles-judicial-association-on-corruption/
ADB provides new loans for development
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided three new loans worth US$140 million to develop the agriculture and education sectors and for public finance management.The agreements were signed on Wednesday by the Deputy Minister of Finance, Mr Bounchom Oubonpaseuth, and ADB’s ...
News Desk
Myanmar, Malaysia agree over aid flotilla
The flotilla spat appears to have come to an agreeable end. Myanmar has permitted a group of Malaysian organisations to send aid earmarked for Rakhine State after an official permission request was forwarded to the president, and a delegation smoothed over the arrangements on January ...
CNRP official ejected from Freedom Park
Opposition lawmaker-elect Mu Sochua and five CNRP youth supporters were ejected Tuesday from Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park after they gathered to film a video for a foundation named after Free Trade Union founder Chea Vichea, who was assassinated in 2004. “We did not come to ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-official-ejected-from-freedom-park-55551/
ASEAN FMs reiterate continued commitment to realizing ASEAN Community
Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Sunday reiterated their continued commitment to the realization of ASEAN Community by 2015 and beyond. They pledged their commitment in the joint communique issued on the final day of their 47th annual meeting in Nay ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-08/10/c_133546154.htm
SL strike ‘bad’ for industry’s rep, says union
A labour union representing a minority of workers who have been striking at SL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd for nearly three months released a statement yesterday, calling the strike bad for the industry’s reputation. Without specifically mentioning the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CAWDU) ...
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sl-strike-%E2%80%98bad%E2%80%99-industry%E2%80%99s-rep-says-union
Local tour guides get training boost
The Ministry of Tourism has been training and strengthening the capacity of tour guides in Preah Sihanouk province, with help from leaders of provincial coastal tourism departments and 80 participants from universities and institutions in the province. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080377/local-tour-guides-get-training-boost/
As Wing Star Shoes strike enters third day, workers block road
Thousands of workers at the Wing Star Shoes Co. Ltd. on Wednesday blocked the road to the factory in Kompong Speu province for two hours. They demanded the company raise their bonuses by $5 and properly enforce labor laws after arbitration talks failed Tuesday. It was ...
Union representatives summoned
Union leaders representing workers on strike at the Tropicana Casino and Resort were served with a summons by the Banteay Meanchey provincial court yesterday after a complaint by the casino’s management. The court summons came around the time Sum Sam Ith, the Tropicana representative, sent ...
SECC targets investor scams
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC) is investigating a rise in fraudulent get-rich-quick schemes that prey on Cambodian investors, the market watchdog said yesterday. Unlicensed investment schemes operating inside Cambodia will go under the SECC’s microscope, while multilevel marketing firms that appeal to vulnerable ...
Kimsay Hor and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/secc-targets-investor-scams
Cambodian picked to guide Mekong Commission strategy
The Mekong River Commission (MRC) announced on Friday it had named Cambodian development expert An Pich Hatda as chief executive officer. It said the MRC Ministerial Council had recently chosen Hatda, a development professional by training, to be the top official at the secretariat for ...
CNRP to screen banned film on slain union leader Chea Vichea
The opposition CNRP plans to screen the banned documentary film “Who Killed Chea Vichea?” this week to mark the 11th anniversary of the Free Trade Union (FTU) leader’s assassination in front of a newspaper stall in Phnom Penh on January 22, 2004. CNRP public affairs director ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-to-screen-banned-film-on-slain-union-leader-chea-vichea-76452/
FTU trio held at factory by rivals in union clash
Workers aligned with the Collective Union of Movement of Workers locked three officials from the Free Trade Union inside the Ocean Garment factory in Phnom Penh for eight hours Tuesday after the two unions argued over who would represent workers in a wage dispute. Ocean’s approximately ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ftu-trio-held-at-factory-by-rivals-in-union-clash-63579/