Labor leaders have said workers need a minimum $177 per month to keep up with the rising cost of living in Cambodia.
The institute is being build with financial assistance from the French Development Agency, and aims to train 1,600 workers in the first three years.
The total number of dengue infections has risen to nearly 7,000, up from around 2,000 last year.
Thai media reported the second suspect was arrested in Cambodia and turned over to Thailand, but Cambodian police and other officials say he was arrested in Thailand.
The refugees—three Iranians and a Rohingyan—arrived in June following a deal in September of last year.
Dengue fever has killed at least 16 people so far this year, an uptick from the same period last year, health officials say.
This year, 1.6 million tons of goods were imported in the first seven months; 607,000 tons were exported.
Representatives of local and international nongovernmental organizations met in Phnom Penh to put forward their views on the touted Access to Information Law.
The refugees have all been settled in a large guarded compound with high walls in what appears to be new, high-quality housing.
An estimated 600,000 people are employed by garment manufacturing, a major economic driver for the country.
Ryun Patterson, a Chicago-based writer who worked as a journalist in Cambodia, has traveled around the country to document as many magic practitioners as possible.
Thailand’s fishing industry has received a “yellow card” warning from the European Union for failing to address illegal fishing operations.
Cambodian culture is not only Buddhist, but it contains trappings of animism and magic held over from its ancient history.
The ads, for radio and television, aim at improving the country’s high child mortality rate.
The campaign will focus on Phnom Penh, as well as the provinces of Kampong Speu, Kampong Thom, Kratie, Stung Treng, Mondolkiri, Ratanakkiri and Preah Vihear—which have the highest rates of child mortality.
The website establishes a “wiki”-like crowd-sourcing platform for comments on the law, even though the public has not been able to see the draft.
In 2009, a man approached Thin Seangly with promises of good work and good pay on a Thai fishing boat - and that was when his troubles began.
The ceremony will be attended by government officials, foreign dignitaries and King Norodom Sihamoni at Wat Botum pagoda, in Phnom Penh.
Thin Seangly is one of tens of thousands of Cambodians who leave the country every year forced by poverty to seek wages in the richer nations of Thailand and Malaysia.
The refugees, including one Rohingya from Myanmar and three Iranians, are the first of about 1,000 expected eventually to arrive.
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