Domestic and Chinese investors lead $619 million investment boom in Cambodia
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has given the green light to 21 new investment projects in November 2023. With a total investment capital of nearly $619 million, these projects can potentially create approximately 22,000 jobs. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501404257/domestic-and-chinese-investors-lead-619-million-investment-boom-in-cambodia/
Kingdom bags $830 million from cashew nut exports
Cambodia exported over 610,000 tonnes of cashew nut to foreign markets in the first 10 months of this year, earning $831 million, according to a Cashew Nut Association of Cambodia’s report released yesterday. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501399346/kingdom-bags-830-million-from-cashew-nut-exports/
Ministry releases details of successful crackdown on telecom and online fraud
Public security organs across China solved 391,000 cases of telecom or online fraud in the first 11 months of last year and captured numerous suspects, the Ministry of Public Security said. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501418610/ministry-releases-details-of-successful-crackdown-on-telecom-and-online-fraud/
25 investment projects worth over $246 million approved by CDC in May
In May 2024, the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) approved 24 new projects and one production expansion project with a total investment of more than $246 million, creating about 15,000 jobs. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501503519/25-investment-projects-worth-over-246-million-approved-by-cdc-in-may/
Royal Government aims to boost EV inventory to 30k units by 2030
The Cambodian government aims to increase the number of electric vehicles (EVs) in its inventory to 30,000 by 2030 according to the National Policy on the Development of EVs 2024-2030, which was released on Thursday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501521705/royal-government-aims-to-boost-ev-inventory-to-30k-units-by-2030/
Cambodia, 2nd largest global exporter of cashews
During the first seven months of 2024, Cambodia has produced more than 830,000 tonnes of raw cashew nuts, up 36.7%, making it the world’s second largest cashew exporting country. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501558654/cambodia-2nd-largest-global-exporter-of-cashews/
Gov’t allocates $165 million for NSAP enhancement: Ministry
The government plans to spend $165 million in 2024 to benefit 2.8 million equity cardholders from around 700,000 households, with disbursements set to commence next April. ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov-t-allocates-165-million-for-nsap-enhancement-ministry
Cambodians face mounting pain from microfinance debt
KEAN SVAY, KANDAL PROVINCE, CAMBODIA — Five years ago, Lun Sam Ath took out a $12,000 loan to build a new wooden house and repay a previous loan that she had used to buy a motorbike. ...
Sun Narin
https://www.voanews.com/a/cambodians-face-mounting-pain-from-microfinance-debt-/7559968.html
Hunters and Hunted
Unable to effectively police the Cardamoms alone, the Cambodian government partners itself with several international NGOs. The forests directly north of Highway 48 arc patrolled with the help of Wildlife Alliance. Beginning in 2002 with two ranger stations, Wildlife Alliance now operates six outposts in the ...
Last days of a valley damned
Yong Yim’s voice rises to a high-pitched quiver when she talks about a planned dam in the Areng Valley that would inundate land her family has inhabited for hundreds of years to form what amounts to a giant battery. Now they are staring at ...
May Titthara, David Boyle and Danson Cheong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020861238/National/last-days-of-a-valley-damned.html
Harsh restrictions imposed on union leader
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday ordered embattled union leader Ath Thorn to stay away from the SL garment factory and its workers and to avoid any public gatherings that could “damage public order,” drawing a tight circle around one of the country’s most ...
Mech Dara and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/harsh-restrictions-imposed-on-union-leader-57067/
Bavet City garment strikes gain momentum
Trade unions may have failed to get a stay-at-home strike for higher wages off the ground after the Khmer New Year earlier this month. But a strike for bonus pay is picking up steam in Svay Rieng Province, where some 20,000 garment workers protested at ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bavet-city-garment-strikes-gain-momentum-57447/
Report Shows Rise in Garment Labor Disputes
Increasing discrimination by factories against unions and continued poor wages in Cambodia’s garment sector have resulted in a rise in the number of worker protests, according to a report released yesterday by the International Labor Organization (ILO). According to its periodic synthesis report on working ...
Judge forces sparse settlement on family of beaten children
The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday forced a family whose three children were allegedly beaten by DM Group firm employees last month to accept only $1,000 in compensation in place of the $40,000 the family initially had demanded, the children’s father claimed. Ry Sarun, 52, said that ...
Cambodian, Chinese top diplomats pledge to advance ties
Cambodian and Chinese top diplomats on Wednesday pledged to maintain and further heighten bilateral ties and cooperation for the mutual benefits of the two countries and peoples. The pledge came after a bilateral talk between Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong and visiting ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-08/21/c_132650650.htm
A big thumbs-down
A Phnom Penh municipal official said yesterday that they would investigate mounting complaints that authorities have been forcing the capital’s residents to thumbprint letters supporting the preliminary election results and promising not to join demonstrations. Residents in Daun Penh and Tuol Kork districts told the Post ...
Peace a Priority as Officials Prepare for CNRP Rally Security
With the opposition CNRP expecting at least 10,000 people to turn out for a rally in Phnom Penh on Monday, a military police official said Thursday that any attempt to disturb the peace would not be tolerated. Brigadier General Kheng Tito, spokesman for the military police, ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/peace-a-priority-as-officials-prepare-for-cnrp-rally-security-40678/
Flooding’s toll still growing
Nearly 2,000 families have been evacuated from their homes and thousands of hectares of crops flooded in the wake of continuing rains and the opening of dams in Vietnam and Thailand. At least two people have died since Friday in the flooding, which has affected at ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flooding%E2%80%99s-toll-still-growing
A rare delicacy hard to sell
Ou Seathong sells one of the most expensive foods in the world: edible bird spit. At her shop on Street 182 in Phnom Penh, she sorts edible bird nests on the shelves. Hundreds of years old, the Chinese delicacy is made of the congealed saliva ...
Rann Reuy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rare-delicacy-hard-sell
Unions to Proceed With Mass Rally in Freedom Park Despite Ban
Unions planning a mass rally at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on Sunday to call for the release of 23 detainees and a higher minimum wage in the garment industry say they will proceed with the event despite City Hall’s decision Thursday to deny permission. The nine ...