Trade with US normal, says ministry
Despite a diplomatic row with the United States, the trade relationship between Cambodia and the US remains normal, said the Ministry of Commerce’s spokesperson yesterday. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5082797/trade-us-normal-says-ministry/
VN President to visit Cambodia
President Truong Tan Sang will pay a State visit to Cambodia on December 23-24 at the invitation of Cambodian King Preah Bat Samdech Preah Boromneath Norodom Sihamoni. ...
Vietnam Net News Staff
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/government/119157/vn-president-to-visit-cambodia.html
Vocational skills to join high school curriculum
Vocational skills are due to be added to the state curriculum next year in an attempt to improve graduates’ job prospects, Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron has said. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/vocational-skills-join-high-school-curriculum
Cambodia supports Australia refugee deal on 'humanitarian grounds'
A spokesman for the Cambodian Secretary of State says Cambodia supported the Abbott government’s $40 million refugee resettlement agreement on “humanitarian” grounds and to strengthen ties with Australia. ...
Sylvia Varnham O'Regan
http://bit.ly/1CbXf1o
Cambodia supports Australia refugee deal on 'humanitarian grounds'
A spokesman for the Cambodian Secretary of State says Cambodia supported the Abbott government’s $40 million refugee resettlement agreement on “humanitarian” grounds and to strengthen ties with Australia. ...
Sylvia Varnham O'Regan
http://bit.ly/1CbXf1o
PPWSA to almost double dividend
Phnom Penh’s state-owned water utilities firm – one of the only two companies listed on Cambodia’s fledgling stock exchange – will boost its annual dividend almost twofold. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/ppwsa-almost-double-dividend
Chinese tourists overtake S Koreans at Angkor
China has overtaken South Korea to become the largest tourist source to at the Angkor world heritage site, state-run Agency Kampuchea Press (AKP) reported yesterday. ...
Agence Kampuchea Press team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14009/chinese-tourists-overtake-s-koreans-at-angkor/
Prek Toal Bird Sanctuary in upwind
Battambang’s Environment Department stated that the Prek Toal Bird Sanctuary, on Tonle Sap Lake, has seen a 30 per cent increase in bird population this year. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50564095/prek-toal-bird-sanctuary-in-upwind/
Internet to be introduced at 5,000 schools
The Ministry of Education on Tuesday announced an ambitious five-year plan with Metfone to provide internet access to 5,000 state education institutions across the country. ...
Samoeurth Seavmeng and Taylor O'connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/internet-to-be-introduced-at-5000-schools-115056/
Court sentences land activist brothers to five years in prison
The Svay Rieng Provincial Court has sentenced three community activists to five years in jail for clearing trees on state land claimed by several dozen local farmers. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-sentences-land-activist-brothers-to-five-years-in-prison-95951/
SDIP set to mobilise infrastructure funding
Cambodia hopes to leverage its membership in the Sustainable Development Investment Partnership (SDIP) to access much-needed funding for large-scale infrastructure development, state officials have said. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sdip-set-mobilise-infrastructure-funding
Swedish aid agency offers funds for SMEs
Sweden’s development agency will provide $7 million to foster the development of small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in Cambodia, according to state-run news agency AKP. ...
The Phnom Penh Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/swedish-aid-agency-offers-funds-smes
Rural development director implicated in clearing
The director of Mondulkiri’s rural development department stands accused of clearing about 50 hectares of state-owned forest for his own farming purposes, authorities said yesterday. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rural-development-director-implicated-clearing
Full text of China-Cambodia joint press communique
The following is the full text of the joint press communique between China and Cambodia issued on Tuesday during the official visit by Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Pedei Techo Hun Sen of the Kingdom of Cambodia to China: Joint Press Communique Between the People’s ...
The Japan-China rivalry is playing out in Cambodia's election
Cambodia’s general election on July 29 has become a proxy theater for competition between China and Japan as the two vie for influence in the Southeast Asian state. ...
Nyshka Chandran
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/18/japan-and-china-compete-for-influence-incambodia.html
Report confirms residential oversupply
The latest report on the state of Phnom Penh’s property market makes bleak reading for investors and those betting on a lucrative future in the short-term. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/report-confirms-residential-oversupply
Revenue surges 40 percent at water supplier
Revenue for the state-owed Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) surged more than 40 percent last year from 2014, according to a preliminary report released last week. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20582/revenue-surges-40-percent-at-water-supplier/
Church underpins Cambodia-Vietnam ties
For decades, political and economic upheaval in Southeast Asia separated ethnic Vietnamese communities in the United States from those in Asia, as their lives followed radically divergent trajectories. ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/church-underpins-cambodia-vietnam-ties
Criticisms mount at UN session
States, United Nations officials and civil society representatives continued to heap criticism on Cambodia’s approach to civil and political rights at the UN Human Rights Council yesterday. ...
Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/criticisms-mount-un-session
Tea Banh defends recent crackdown
Defence Minister General Tea Banh yesterday told Asean member states and eight other countries how the recent government crackdown on media outlets and NGOs was legal and justified. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5087602/tea-banh-defends-recent-crackdown/