Cassava more fruitful than rice in Kingdom, says UNDP study
The government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have called on farmers to grow cassava as a national policy on cassava production nears finalisation. A UNDP study on Friday found that investing in cassava can result in higher yields than investing in rice, rice ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cassava-more-fruitful-rice-kingdom-says-undp-study
Cambodian Permanent Mission to UN hits out at Smith statement
The Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Cambodia to the UN Office at Geneva (UNOG) said it had learned “with great dismay” the statement by Rhona Smith, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/cambodian-permanent-mission-un-hits-out-smith-statement
ASEAN senior immigration officials discuss cooperation in Cambodia
Senior immigration officials from the ten ASEAN member countries gathered here on Monday to discuss ways to further enhance regional cooperation, according to Chinese News Agency- Xinhua. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/asean-senior-immigration-officials-discuss-cooperation-in-cambodia-8930
Dengue cases spike in 2015; health officials not worried
Dengue fever cases have shot up 350 percent in the first 34 weeks of this year compared to the same period last year, according to the government’s latest figures, but are still lower than the number of cases recorded in the three years prior to ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/dengue-cases-spike-in-2015-health-officials-not-worried-94103/
SIM card crackdown
Anyone who purchased a mobile phone SIM card without providing appropriate ID can expect to see those phone numbers terminated, while any retailer selling SIM cards without collecting identification documents faces arrest, the government announced yesterday. The crackdown, which begins today, will see any retailer ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sim-card-crackdown
ASEAN trade ties could help keep the peace in South China Sea
Experts say maritime territorial disputes over parts of the South China Sea are unlikely to lead to military conflict, after a meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart in Washington in September. ...
Essarayoss Mean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/asean-trade-ties-could-help-keep-the-peace-in-south-china-sea/3026579.html
Charting the next seven years of environmental policy
Work began yesterday on Cambodia’s first national environmental plan in more than a decade. Once completed, the national Environmental Strategy and Action Plan (NESAP) will form the backbone of Cambodia’s environmental policy until 2023. The far-reaching plan – which is expected to be put into ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17414/charting-the-next-seven-years-of-environmental-policy/
Cambodia sends 2nd batch of peacekeepers to war-torn Central African Republic
Cambodia sent the second batch of 216 troops to join a United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Monday, officials said. ...
Xinhua News Agency Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6679674/2015/11/01/cambodia-sends-2nd-batch-peacekeepers-war-torn-central-african-republic
National Police add weight to logging crackdown
Cambodia’s National Police have joined the fray in an ongoing crackdown against illegal logging, starting their own “mission group” following the creation of a military police task force last week. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-police-add-weight-logging-crackdown
Animals die as Cambodia is gripped by worst drought in decades
Behind a clutch of huts that hug the major route between Cambodia’s capital and its famed Angkor temples, rice farmers Phem Phean and Sok Khoert peer into a cement hollow. ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/may/05/animals-die-cambodia-worst-drought-decades
Fleet of more than 100 fire trucks arrive from China
The first tranche of fire trucks headed to Cambodia in a deal the government struck with China last year to furnish the country with fire-fighting vehicles for the provinces arrived on Wednesday, the head of the national police force’s fire department said. ...
Phan Soumy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/112499-112499/
Opposition members defect to CPP
Fifty-one opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party members defected to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party on Saturday, according to the CPP. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/opposition-members-defect-cpp
Cambodia earns $2 bn from its casino annually
Cambodia’s casino industry has generated a revenue of approximately $2 billion per annum, the country’s central bank chief said here on Wednesday. ...
Business Standard News Staff
http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/cambodia-earns-2-bn-from-its-casinos-annually-115093000332_1.html
Cambodia extends deportation deadline for asylum-seeking montagnards
The Cambodian government has extended the deadline for the deportation of 13 ethnic Montagnard Christians who have obtained refugee status in the Southeast Asian nation if they do not find a third country in which to permanently settle by next January, prompting criticism from a ...
Charting the next seven years of environmental policy
Work began yesterday on Cambodia’s first national environmental plan in more than a decade. Once completed, the national Environmental Strategy and Action Plan (NESAP) will form the backbone of Cambodia’s environmental policy until 2023. The far-reaching plan – which is expected to be put into ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17414/charting-the-next-seven-years-of-environmental-policy/
Gov’t pushing for softer touch on drug rehab programs
The Kingdom’s much-maligned drug rehabilitation programs may be getting a facelift, thanks to a new government-led push towards ‘community-based treatment’, according to officials and NGOs working in the sector. ...
James Reddick and Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18445/gov---t-pushing-for-softer-touch-on-drug-rehab-programs/
CNRP prohibited from erecting TV Antenna
Authorities in Kandal province’s Takhmao City have banned the opposition CNRP from erecting a television antenna on land they purchased there for what is meant to be Cambodia’s first opposition-aligned station—a key element of the July 2014 political deal. ...
Kuch Naren and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-prohibited-from-erecting-tv-antenna-111850/
Seized timber to be auctioned
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday confirmed official announcements made on Monday that about 70,000 cubic meters of timber confiscated by the National Anti-Deforestation Committee (NADC) would be put up for auction, reneging on his previous statement that the timber would go to the Education Ministry ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24814/seized-timber-to-be-auctioned/
Garment workers to get health insurance
Garment workers across the Kingdom will receive health insurance from the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) by 2018, according to officials. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24928/garment-workers-to-get-health-insurance/
Peacekeeper dies from malaria in Mali
A Cambodian soldier serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in the West African nation of Mali died on Monday after contracting malaria, an official said Tuesday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/peacekeeper-dies-from-malaria-in-mali-94335/