Long An supports the poor in Cambodia
A delegation from the Mekong Delta province of Long An gave out 300 gifts for needy people, both overseas Vietnamese and Cambodians, in Cambodia’s capital city of Phnom Penh yesterday. ...
Viet Nam News Staff
http://vietnamnews.vn/society/279417/long-an-supports-the-poor-in-cambodia.html
Cambodia to gain as Adidas pivots from China
Adidas, one of the country’s biggest garment buyers, says it will expand production in Cambodia over the next five years as part of its pivot away from China to lower-cost producers in Southeast Asia. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-to-gain-as-adidas-pivots-from-china-103163/
Cambodian women face major economic challenges
Each morning, Phan Kha drags her cart full of mussels through the streets of Phnom Penh. She pulls the cart up to 20 kilometers a day, and on a good day, she makes $10. ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodian-women-face-major-economic-challenges/3156183.html
Prey Lang network calls for protections in logging crackdown
The Prey Lang Community Network has called on the government to include the protection of the sprawling Prey Lang forest in the remit of the recently established committee to crack down on illegal logging. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prey-lang-network-calls-protections-logging-crackdown
Anemia in Kingdom not always about iron: study
Nearly half of Cambodian women of reproductive age suffer from at least mild anemia, however iron and other nutrient deficiencies may not be to blame, a study published on Friday suggests. ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anemia-kingdom-not-always-about-iron-study
Airports checked before aviation audit
A lack of inspectors, human resources as well as holes in wire fences have been found at Cambodia’s three airports during checks ahead of a UN aviation audit in October, according to officials. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24663/airports-checked-before-aviation-audit/
US delegation urges gov’t to speed up reform
Cambodia must accelerate economic reform and develop a sense of “urgency” if it wishes to continue to attract American investment amid growing regional competition, the head of the US-ASEAN Business Council said yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/us-delegation-urges-govt-speed-reform
KBank unveils capital branch
Kasikornbank (KBank), one of the largest banks in Thailand, officially unveiled its first branch in Phnom Penh with the aim of offering financial services to local businesses as well as corporate and retail customers. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35257/kbank-unveils-capital-branch/
PM explains differences in the minimum wage
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday urged members of the armed forces and civil servants not to envy teachers and doctors who get higher wages, saying teachers were in the field of growing human resources. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36795/pm-explains-differences-in-the-minimum-wage/
Officials say Sesan dam will cause floods in September
Stung Treng provincial authorities say they have warned villagers living upstream of the Lower Sesan II dam to expect floods in September as one of the dam’s 50-megawatt turbines goes into operation. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-say-sesan-dam-will-cause-floods-september
Makro breaks ground on capital’s first wholesale retail warehouse
Makro Cambodia, the local arm of international cash-and-carry wholesaler Makro, held a groundbreaking ceremony yesterday for construction of its first outlet in the Kingdom, which is expected to launch operations in December. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/makro-breaks-ground-capitals-first-wholesale-retail-warehouse
Partnership to lift rice standards in Kingdom
The International Finance Corporation and Amru Rice, one of Cambodia’s biggest rice exporters, launched a new partnership yesterday to improve the competitiveness of the Kingdom’s rice sector, according to a press release. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/partnership-lift-rice-standards-kingdom
Governor bans heavy trucks
Phnom Penh Governor Khoung Sreng has asked owners of container trucks, cement trucks and other heavily loaded vehicles to cease use of three main roads in the capital in a bid to ease congestion. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5081209/governor-bans-heavy-trucks/
Families seek officials’ help in bridge dispute
Some 130 families in Preah Sihanouk province yesterday requested the intervention of provincial authorities to solve a dispute with their deputy village chief over the construction of a small bridge in their town yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-seek-officials-help-bridge-dispute
Officials deny hiring indigenous villagers to clear state forests
Ratanakkiri provincial authorities yesterday denied accusations by a group of villagers that the authority of O’Yadav and Andong Meas districts hired ethnic minority villagers to cut the forest along the Cambodia-Vietnam border. ...
Residents protest at road plans
A group of 70 people from six communities in Phnom Penh have petitioned City Hall to clarify how the construction of rail side roads will affect them, amid fears they could lose their homes. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36528/residents-protest-at-road-plans/
CNRP to push $500k per commune plan in national assembly
In what one observer said was simply an act of politicking, the opposition CNRP on Thursday said it would push its campaign pledge of giving $500,000 to every commune in the National Assembly. ...
Ben Sokhean and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/131182-131182/
Chief’s wife charged over timber
The wife of the Srekor commune police chief in Stung Treng province has been charged and placed in pre-trial detention for possessing some 400 logs of luxury wood near the couple’s home. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chiefs-wife-charged-over-timber
New Ranariddh party approved
Prince Norodom Ranariddh is officially back in the political game. The Ministry of Interior has approved the former prime minister’s Community of Royalist People’s Party (CRPP), Ranariddh’s cabinet chief, Noranarith Anandayath, said yesterday. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-ranariddh-party-approved
Poipet city taxi drivers protest new checkpoint
Dozens of taxi drivers in Poipet City protested Monday against the creation of a new checkpoint where they are forced to pay costly bribes to transport goods that have been smuggled across the border from Thailand. ...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/poipet-city-taxi-drivers-protest-new-checkpoint-71112/