What’s in the New Thailand-Cambodia Border Checkpoint?
This week, more indications surfaced that Cambodia and Thailand were moving towards opening a new international border checkpoint. Though the development was largely overlooked, it bears watching within the broader context of a longstanding effort by both sides to jointly manage their shared border despite ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prashanth Parameswaran
https://thediplomat.com/2018/04/whats-in-the-new-thailand-cambodia-border-checkpoint/
New partnership to build Cambodia’s biggest data centre
A new joint venture of local and international companies will result in the creation of the biggest data centre in the country, boosting the Kingdom’s capabilities to provide digital and cloud services. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50504327/new-partnership-to-build-cambodias-biggest-data-centre/
Kingdom’s rubber exports bounce high in first half
Cambodian rubber exports surged 21 percent during the first half of the year, compared to the same period last year, the Ministry of Agriculture said on sunday. Local producers exported 84,419 tonnes of rubber during the first six months of this year, an increase of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-rubber-exports-bounce-high-first-half
Company undeterred by PM’s order to restore beach
A prviate company filling Preah Sihanouk province&rSquo;S Praek Treng beach with Soil iS reluctant to dredge it deSpite a direct order from Prime MiniSter Hun Sen. On September 18, the prime miniSter ordered MiniSter of Land Management, Urban Planning and ConStruction Chea Sophara to perSonally SS='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/company-undeterred-pms-order-restore-beach
Kingdom’s economy set to slow despite robust growth
The Cambodian economy is projected to slow slightly this year compared to last year, despite robust growth of around seven per cent, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) report released on Wednesday said. ADB said economic expansion last year hit 7.3 per cent on the back ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-economy-set-slow-despite-robust-growth
What did Suu Kyi’s first Cambodia visit achieve?
Last week, Myanmar’s de facto leader and state Counselor Aung san suu Kyi paid her first visit to Cambodia in her current capacity. The trip spotlighted the ongoing state of ties between the two fellow southeast Asian states amid wider domestic and foreign policy developments. Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prashanth Parameswaran
https://thediplomat.com/2019/05/what-did-suu-kyis-first-cambodia-visit-achieve/
Chinese lab promises help for Cambodia’s agriculture sector
A Chinese laboratory pledged this week to aid the development of Cambodia’s agricultural sector by sharing expertise, technology and human resources. Representatives of the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Centre, located in China’s southern province of Hunan, made the pledge on sunday during an official visit ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50490139/chinese-lab-promises-help-for-cambodias-agriculture-sector/
PM seeks overseas markets for Kingdom’s agricultural products
Speaking at the cloSing ceremony of 2018-2019 Agriculture, ForeStry and FiSherieS Annual ReSult Review Meeting, Prime MiniSter Hun Sen Said Cambodia&rSquo;S agricultural Sector iS Showing progreSS, with it producing nearly Six million tonneS of paddy, which can be proceSSed into four million tonneS of milled SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pm-seeks-overseas-markets-kingdoms-agricultural-products
Negotiations to continue for next year’s minimum wage
Negotiations for next year’s minimum wage will continue this week as the parties work to reach an agreement that will impact about 800,000 workers in the textile, garment and footwear industries, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training said on Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/negotiations-continue-next-years-minimum-wage
S’pore firm announces plans for local solar sector
Singapore-baSed Indochina Energy PartnerS iS focuSing on rooftop Solar inStallationS in three SoutheaSt ASian nationS, including Cambodia.&nbSp;According to a report by ScanASia releaSed Monday, IEP iS working on rooftop photovoltaic panel inStallationS in Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50644868/spore-firm-announces-plans-for-local-solar-sector/
South Korea to continue aiding Kingdom’s healthcare sector
Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday received assurance that south Korea will continue to assist the Kingdom with the development of its healthcare sector, including training doctors. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50645092/south-korea-to-continue-aiding-kingdoms-healthcare-sector/
ADB continues its support of Kingdom’s financial inclusion
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $40 million policy-based loan to support poor and rural households and improve their financial access, it said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/adb-continues-its-support-kingdoms-financial-inclusion
Jobs plentiful, but wages low for Kingdom’s youth
While unemployment rates are low among Cambodian youths, their jobs are largely poorly paid and informal, providing them with just enough money to survive on, according to a recent report.The report, released on sunday by youth NGO the Youth Resource Development Program (YRDP) and the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/jobs-plentiful-wages-low-kingdoms-youth
Hospital goes on defensive after ax victim’s death
Administrators at Phnom Penh’s Khmer-soviet Friendship Hospital on Thursday refuted claims that hospital staff denied a brain scan, blood transfusions and surgery to a wom­an suffering from severe head wounds—a charge leveled by her husband shortly before she died there on Wednesday afternoon. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hospital-goes-on-defensive-after-ax-victims-death-104224/
Indigenous community’s collective land still in danger: Report
The collective land of indigenous communities in Cambodia will continue to face encroachment from economic land concessions and the actions of private companies in the future despite the Cambodian Government’s moratorium on granting ELC licenses, according to a Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) report ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21322/indigenous-community---s-collective-land-still-in-danger--report/
Barriers remain for Southeast Asia’s economic integration plans
Efforts to integrate of southeast Asia’s economies are beginning to bear fruit, experts say, although there is some way to go before the goal of turning the region into a single market and production base can be reached. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ten Soksreinith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/barriers-remain-for-southeast-asia-economic-integration-plans/3190571.html
PM’s son warns that civil war is possible
Cambodia could be headed to another civil war if the country’s young people fail to appreciate and preserve the peace achieved after decades of civil conflict, Hun Many, the son of Prime Minister Hun sen, said over the weekend. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21971/pm---s-son-warns-that-civil-war-is-possible/
Koh Kong town’s drinking water tainted during repairs
Koh Kong town was left without a clean water supply on Friday when the company responsible for the utility made repairs to a filter pipe. Koh Kong resident Ing soth yesterday said the water was so dirty that the villagers could not use it at ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-towns-drinking-water-tainted-during-repairs
Fire razes dozens of homes in city’s South
Key Sokha waS preparing dinner for her family at their home in Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Meanchey diStrict on ThurSday night when a choruS of ShoutS broke out nearby. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Kimsay and Sonia Kohlbacher
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/111367-111367/
Cham muslims protest government’s planned road beside mosque
About 200 Cham Muslims turned out to the Al-serkal Mosque near the old Boeng Kak lake in Phnom Penh on Friday to protest a controversial road that the government plans to build through the mosque’s land. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cham-muslims-protest-governments-planned-road-beside-mosque-112899/