CMAA wins Model Leadership award from Spirit of Soccer
Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) First Vice-President Ly Thuch became the proud recipient of an award from the Spirit of Soccer (SOS), a humanitarian educational organisation. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501406077/cmaa-wins-model-leadership-award-from-spirit-of-soccer/
Election monitors say voter registry is an urgent priority
Election observers are urging the National Election Committee to move quickly on updates to the voter registry, as commune elections in 2017 approach. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/election-monitors-say-voter-registry-is-an-urgent-priority/3168222.html
Cambodia’s policy toward China remains unchanged, says PM
In the new mandated government, Cambodia’s policy toward China remains unchanged, based on the spirit of traditional friendship, mutual trust and win-win cooperation. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501332389/cambodias-policy-toward-china-remains-unchanged-says-pm/
Coca-cola guides ‘rebranding’ cambodia event
Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol evoked the late U.S. President John Kennedy on Friday at a seminar about “rebranding” Cambodia that quickly turned into a promotional event for Coca-Cola. ...
Matt Blomberg and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/coca-cola-guides-rebranding-cambodia-event-80912/
With flashy campaign, military seeks officers
Against the sound of heavy drumming and chanting, the commercial quickly flips from scenes of elephant-mounted Angkorian warriors to the present day—young military cadets jogging in formation, performing calisthenics and playing football. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/with-flashy-campaign-military-seeks-officers-93942/
Outsider party urges CNRP to ‘take a seat’
The head of the tiny Khmer Economic Development Party (KEDP), which failed to win a single seat in the July 28 elections, yesterday called on the opposition to take its 55 seats at the National Assembly and form a coalition with the ruling Cambodian People’s ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/outsider-party-urges-cnrp-%E2%80%98take-seat%E2%80%99
Electricity access is growing, but divide persists
Cambodia has been quickly turning on the lights for more households, but access to electricity remains significantly lower in rural areas than in cities, according to a new report from the World Bank. ...
Matt Surrusco
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/electricity-access-is-growing-but-divide-persists-127606/
Ousted lawmakers vacate seats
Forty-four lawmakers from three political parties lost their status yesterday in the newly-formed National Assembly after winning no seats in the July 29 national election. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50530799/ousted-lawmakers-vacate-seats/
Mystery illness grips 13 as doctors baffled
A contagious mystery ailment has led to 13 hospitalisations in Pursat province since Tuesday, when a family of five began suffering vomiting, diarrhoea and fainting, quickly spreading it to others who came into contact with them. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/mystery-illness-grips-13-doctors-baffled
Demand grows for organic rice
As the demand for organic rice in European and United States markets keeps growing, many local rice millers and exporters are moving quickly and signing contract farming deals to supply them with the premium product. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27204/demand-grows-for-organic-rice/
Cops offer reward – to themselves
Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng has offered $10,000 to government officials investigating the brutal bashing of two opposition lawmakers as an incentive to solve the crime quickly, a ministry spokesman said yesterday. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cops-offer-reward-themselves
Cassava prices hit a new low
Cassava prices in Cambodia experienced a sharp drop this month leading to heavy losses for smallholder farmers unable to quickly switch to more profitable crops and recoup their mounting losses, a provincial agriculture official said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cassava-prices-hit-new-low
Cambodian PM says RCEP will help regional economic integration
Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Moha Borvor Thipadei Hun Manet attended the third RCEP Economic and Trade Cooperation Business Summit under theme of “Integrating into RCEP’s More Open Market and Promoting Win-Win Asia-Pacific Cooperation” in Nanning, China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region yesterday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501362044/cambodian-pm-says-rcep-will-help-regional-economic-integration/
Cambodia rice exporters hope to clinch philippines rice import deal
Cambodian rice exporters are keen on winning the Philippines government’s latest rice import tender for 500,000 tons of 25% broken white rice slated for August 27, 2014, according to local sources. ...
Oryza News Staff
http://www.oryza.com/news/rice-news/cambodia-rice-exporters-hope-clinch-philippines-rice-import-deal
Three years on, challenges remain for education minister
In his first year as education minister, Hang Chuon Naron quickly overhauled the national high school completion exam, enforcing strict regulations to eliminate rampant bribery and cheating, and cutting the pass rate in half to 41 percent. ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-years-challenges-remain-education-minister-116971/
Customs urged to move online
Customs authorities should work quickly to adopt an envisioned online registration system for cross-border cargo shipments that would expedite delivery and cut out pesky middlemen who tack on unofficial fees, Transport Minister Sun Chanthol said yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/customs-urged-move-online
Cambodian Public Bank symbolizes close ties between Malaysia and Cambodia
Malaysia’s award-winning Public Bank, which is celebrating its 50th Golden Jubilee this year, is one of the first foreign banks to open its door in Cambodia in 1992. ...
Khmer Time Team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25641/cambodian-public-bank-symbolizes-close-ties--between-malaysia-and-cambodia/
PM orders arrest of lying politicians
Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered authorities to arrest any politicians pledging to clear the debts of voters with micro-finance institutions (MFIs) and banks if their party wins the elections. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35279/pm-orders-arrest-of-lying-politicians/
After 40 years, broadcaster brings cambodian story to a close
Greg Barron, an award-winning radio producer, was 32 when he reported the despair of Cambodian refugees fleeing across the Thai border to escape the Khmer Rouge genocide in late 1979. ...
Ten Soksreinith
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/after-forty-years-broadcaster-brings-cambodian-story-close/3808414.html
NA commission member visits K Chhnang KDC site
After promising in September to quickly resolve a years-long land dispute involving villagers and the politically connected development company KDC International, a member of the National Assembly’s human rights commission visited affected families in Kampong Chhnang province yesterday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/na-commission-member-visits-k-chhnang-kdc-site