Minister alleges effort to sully EdC’s reputation
Mines and Energy Minister suy sem on Monday hit back at detractors following a spike in energy prices, claiming the criticism was an attempt to destroy the credibility of Electricite du Cambodge (EdC). ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-alleges-effort-to-sully-edcs-reputation-88156/
Minister helps open controversial tycoon’s new rubber farm
Environment Minister say sam Al was in Preah Vihear province on sunday to help inaugurate Try Pheap’s newest project, a $52-million rubber plantation and additional facilities that the timber magnate has cleared thousands of hectares of protected forest to build. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-helps-open-controversial-tycoons-new-rubber-farm-88896/
Seafood, tourism, rice top Russia’s trading wish list
Russia is looking to up its investment in agricultural products, mainly rice and seafood, and the tourism sector in the Kingdom, after Russian Minister for Communications and Mass Media Nikolay Nikiforov met with Commerce Minister sun Chanthol last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/seafood-tourism-rice-top-russias-trading-wish-list
On Facebook, a potential venue for women’s rights
When police arrested real estate tycoon sok Bun earlier this month, it seemed to be in response to an outcry on social media, which showed closed-circuit footage of him beating a famous TV actress at a restaurant in the capital. It was a rare arrest, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Oum Sonita
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/on-facebook-a-potential-venue-for-women-rights/2881566.html
Official warns against rainsy’s most recent border claims
The country’s second most senior border affairs official on sunday warned against oversimplifying territorial disputes after opposition leader sam Rainsy claimed that Vietnam has flagrantly annexed land on Cambodia’s side of a demarcated border area in svay Rieng province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns and Chhorn Chansy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/official-warns-against-rainsys-most-recent-border-claims-90422/
Cambodia inaugurates fifth China-funded bridge in S. province
Cambodia inaugurated Takhmau Bridge across Tonle Bassac River, along with a 12-km road here on Monday in an effort to facilitate travel and boost local economic development.The concrete bridge, along with its connecting road, is located about 13 km south of Phnom Penh capital. It ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-08/03/c_134476255.htm
PM tells Obama he’s not asking about bombs
Prime Minister Hun sen on Monday reassured U.s. President Barack Obama that a request he made for maps of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam last month was not a request for maps of where the U.s. bombed Cambodia during the second Indochina War. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-tells-obama-hes-not-asking-about-bombs-90602/
U.S. ambassador to Cambodia: Who is William Heidt?
William A. Heidt, a career member of the Foreign Service, waS nominated on April 7, 2015, to be the next U.S. ambaSSador to Cambodia. If he&rSquo;S confirmed, it will be hiS firSt ambaSSadorial poSting. Since 2012, Heidt haS been executive aSSiStant to the Under Secretary SS='cambodia-color'>...
Steve Straehley
http://www.allgov.com/news/appointments-and-resignations/us-ambassador-to-cambodia-who-is-william-heidt-150808?news=857153
Cambodia’s int’l trade value up 9 percent
The value of Cambodia’s international trade increased by about 9 percent in the first six months of this year compared with the same period last year, according to the latest data from the Commerce Ministry. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/cambodias-intl-trade-value-up-9-percent-91908/
Cambodia dam’s benefits exclude people in its vicinity
The construction of the Kamchay Dam in Cambodia, though beneficial to urban areas, has not been so good for those who live close to the dam site in Kampot province, according to a study. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Madhukara Putty
http://www.scidev.net/asia-pacific/energy/news/cambodia-dam-s-benefits-exclude-people-in-its-vicinity.html
Cambodia’s 'no cheating in exams' policy is working
Cambodia’s education minister says this year’s effort to prevent final-year students from cheating on their exams worked well, and he is confident results will be better than they were for the class of 2014. Many pupils will be hoping the same, given that 60 percent ss='cambodia-color'>...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voanews.com/content/education-minister-says-cambodia-no-cheatig-in-exams-policy-is-working/2932876.html
New report shows huge loss of Cambodia’s forest
Economic land concessions are having a huge impact on Cambodia’s northeastern forests, a new reports shows. still, those who attended Wednesday’s seminar urged the government to do more to stop the practice. Based on calculations of the number of logging trucks counted leaving the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/new-report-shows-huge-loss-of-cambodia-forest/2933337.html
New report shows huge loss of Cambodia’s forest
Economic land concessions are having a huge impact on Cambodia’s northeastern forests, a new reports shows. still, those who attended Wednesday’s seminar urged the government to do more to stop the practice. Based on calculations of the number of logging trucks counted leaving the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/new-report-shows-huge-loss-of-cambodia-forest/2933337.html
100,000 Expected to Welcome King Father’s Body
Authorities in Phnom Penh are expecting at least 100,000 people to line the city’s streets today as the body of King Father Norodom sihanouk arrives back in Cambodia and embarks on a 10-km procession from the airport to the Royal Palace. The return of the retired King—who died ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/sihanouk/100000-expected-to-welcome-king-fathers-body-4095/
New factory home for workers in brawl’s wake
Hundreds of Cambodian workers who refused to work at a Thai seafood factory after the deaths of two men in a violent brawl on Monday have been offered employment at another factory, their spokesman said yesterday. “The manager told us that in three more days, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Training to hone workforce’s skill
For the Cambodian workforce to emerge stronger amidst the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, UNEsCO has called for accelerated investments in the lifelong learning efforts to enable them to “skill, re-skill, and up-skill” to maintain the Kingdom’s impressive economic growth. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sar Socheath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50896638/training-to-hone-workforces-skill/
Cambodia’s attractiveness in investment governance
The significance of investment governance for inclusive, sustainable development is often overlooked, including by stakeholders who work on natural resource governance and social and environmental issues. And yet, investment governance plays a major part in shaping the outcomes of their efforts. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501069662/cambodias-attractiveness-in-investment-governance/
Japan funds S Reap water upgrades
The Japanese government has provided more than $200,000 in grant aid for the installation of a water supply system in siem Reap province as part of its KUsANONE Grassroots Human security Projects. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Neang Sokunthea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japan-funds-s-reap-water-upgrades
Cambodia’s adult literacy increases significantly
Literacy rate for the citizens aged 15 years old and above in Cambodia has seen a significant rise, reflecting the government’s successful efforts in eradicating illiteracy rate, said a senior official of the Ministry of Education, Youth, and sports. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501133550/cambodias-adult-literacy-increases-significantly/