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Released CNRP Youth Called Back to Court Over Violent Protest
Three CNRP Youth activists facing charges of taking part in an insurrection for their alleged roles in a violent opposition protest near Phnom Penh Park in July have been summoned back to court early next month.
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Draft law to address underage drinking
A draft law regulating the purchase and consumption of alcohol in Cambodia will, if passed, set the country’s legal drinking age at 21 years old, according to officials involved with the legislation,
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Workers Strike Again After Ultimatum
Thousands of striking workers yesterday returned to their jobs at a Kompong Cham shoe factory-only to resume striking after their bosses allegedly told them to choose between their union and the company.
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TI Cambodia: promoting integrity
The Anti-Corruption Unit last week began a process of engaging local businesses to produce a set of guidelines to help them to deal with corruption,
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Labor Union Soften Minimum Wage Demand
Labor unions have agreed to lower their demand for next year’s minimum wage hike in the all-important garment sector as a vote on the new wage approaches.
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Labour’s 10 per cent rule
The Ministry of Labour has issued a prakas urging employers to follow existing regulations in the Labour Law that limit foreign workers to 10 per cent of the total workforce at any one company. It has warned that failure to stay within this limit – or to obtain special permission to exceed it where skilled foreign workers are necessary because of a lack of Cambodians with matching skills – will see businesses punished.
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Group Calls for Charges Against Unionists to Be Dropped
Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday accused the Cambodian government of pressing charges against some of the country’s most prominent union leaders in order to get its way in ongoing wage negotiations and urged foreign donors to push leaders to drop the “politically motivated” case.
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Disputes aired in committee
Civil society representatives yesterday met with the National Assembly’s human rights commission, which reiterated promise of a speedy resolution of the nearly decade-old dispute between villagers in Kampong Chhnang’s Lorpeang village and the politically connected KDC International, those involved in the meeting a said.
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The shadow of authoritarianism
The recent Phnom Penh Post article reporting that the Ministry of Information is working on a pilot program to regulate online content and “correct immoral wording on the internet” (Making a play on words, September 3) is extremely worrying,
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Ministry enforce law limiting foreign workers as integration looms
The Ministry of Labour has issued a parkas urging employers to follow existing regulations in the Labour Law that limit foreign workers to per cent the total workforce at any one company.
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Competitiveness ranking slips
A lack of innovation has contributed to Cambodia dropping seven spots on the World Economic Forum’s 2014-15 Global Competitiveness Report (GCR), which was released on Wednesday. The Kingdom ranked 95th out of 144 countries, down from 88th in the previous report, according to the GCR. Apart from Myanmar, Cambodia was the lowest ranked country in the region, with Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia all in the top 50.
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National Audit Authority Moves After Land Swap
The National Audit Authority (NAA), located on prime real estate on Phnom Penh’s Street 240, is in the midst of moving to a new location in Sen Sok district after a property sway with a company owned by a military general,
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Villagers Pushed to Accept Land Deal From KDC
Kompong Chhnang provincial authorities yesterday urged villagers locked in a land dispute with KDC International to accept compensation from the development firm,
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Donors Called on to pressure gov’t after unionists charged
An influential rights group is urging donors to Cambodia to apply pressure on the government concerning the case of six labour union leaders accused of playing an active role in violent demonstrations earlier this year.
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Audit necessary before demolition, NGOs say
A group of nine NGOs has called for a “full independent building audit safety assessment “ of the capital’s iconic White Building,
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Ex-Prime Minister Makes Case for Term Limits
In the first of an apparent series of meetings with former prime ministers, the Electoral Reform Alliance (ERA) yesterday met with Pen Sovann at the National Assembly to discuss their proposal to impose term limits on prime minister.
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Business breeding bribes: Hun Sen
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday defended his government, saying its reputation for corruption is undeserved, laying blame on the private sector for initiating the bribe process and calling out international development partners for applying double standards.
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Union leader says charges baseless
One of six union leaders charged and summonsed for questioning over a strike that ended in government forces shooting dead at least five people in January has sent a message to authorities to hurry up and get his hearing over with.
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Appeal Court Retains Lawmaker’s Phoned
The Appeal Court late on Tuesday upheld a series of decision CNRP lawmakers most of the belongings that were seized from them after a violent opposition protest at freedom Park on July 15.
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Charity beings elsewhere
As the Khmer Rouge tribunal was mired in budget woes last August five months after unpaid national staff walked out on the job and weeks before they world do so again-David Scheffer, the UN’s chief court fundraiser,
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