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Cambodia Gives Two Elephants to South Korea for Friendship Ties
Thursday, 08 July 2010 09:21 DAP-NEWS / Tep Piseth
CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH, JULY 8, 2010-Cambodian government has given two elephants to South Korea to strengthen cooperation for the two countries, a senior official said on Thursday.
“The two elephants will keep at the children zoo in Seoul,” Chan Sarun, minister of agriculture and forestry, fishery said. The two will help to promote the bilateral ties for two countries after the two leaders exchanged visits for mutual benefits,” he added.
South Korean ambassador said at the ceremony yesterday that two elephants will play a historic role for bilateral ties and it showed deep relations.
A South Korean air force cargo plane has left for Cambodia to collect a 20-year-old bull and a 27-year-old cow elephant and they all are in 2.4m in height and weigh over 2.3 tons and South Korea currently has only 11 elephants including five females past breeding age. Currently, Cambodia has about 500 elephants in country.
Philippines Will Organize First Trade and Investment Fair in Cambodia
Thursday, 08 July 2010 07:53 DAP-NEWS / Tep Piseth
CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH, JULY 8,2010-The Philippines will organize trade and investment fair in Cambodia on 9-10 July in Phnom Penh, embassy’ statement obtained on Thursday said.
The event will feature various products and services from the Philippines and it will also include an investment mission with the objective of identifying investment opportunities in Cambodia for Filipino investors as well as promoting investments in the Philippines, Ms Nativida Q. Nethercott, charge attaché said.
The embassy hopes that the event will provide an opportunity for our friends in the ASEAN women’s circle to be more acquired with some of the leading products manufactured in Philippines, the statement from embassy said.
Cambodian Government Decides Salary Increase for Garment Workers
Thursday, 08 July 2010 07:45 DAP-NEWS / Tep Piseth
CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH, JULY 8, 2010-Cambodian government said on Thursday that it had decided to increase salary for garment and workers with 6 US dollars per month across the country.
Vong Suth, labor minister said that from first October this year, basic salary for workers is worth about 56 US dollars for fresh workers who work from one month to three months in probation term in garment and shoe factories.
For full workers, they will get 61 US dollars per month from now on as basic salary and the wage did not count for overtime,” he added.
The agreement was signed on July 8 at the labor ministry with joining with 20 of 28 representatives of workers’ union leaders. The agreement will be effective to January 2014 and the salary increase will imply from October 2010.
Cambodia has 267 factories and over 300,000 workers, most of them are women from rural areas.
At Thon,a leader of democratic union said that we could not accept this salary hike. We need about 93 us dollars to support workers’ living condition because the inflation is higher.
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