PWSA FY’22 net profit sees 16% contraction
Increase in water sales and construction service saw Phnom Penh Water supply Authority’s (PWsA) net profits inch up to 22.1 billion riel ($5.5 million) in its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2022, from approximately 22 billion riel last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sangeetha Amarthalingam
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-pwsa-fy22-net-profit-sees-16-contraction
Press statement: “The report exposes a double standard in the US practice,” stated the Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson
On 23 March 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has posted a press statement of the foreign Ministry’s spokesperson on the report exposes a double standard in the Us practice on their official website. According to the press statement, the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
PM Hun Manet reaffirms Cambodia’s growth for this year is at 5.6 percent
Cambodia maintained its economic growth prediction at 5.6 percent in 2023 and raised it to 6.6 percent in 2024, the country’s Prime Minister Hun Manet said here on Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501397374/pm-hun-manet-reaffirms-cambodias-growth-for-this-year-is-at-5-6-percent/
US ambassador talks Cambodia's media landscape, hopes for improvement
In one of his final interviews before departing Cambodia, Us Ambassador Patrick Murphy sat down with Kiripost’s Prak Chan Thul to reflect on his legacy and the bilateral relations with the southeast Asian nation. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prak Chan Thul
https://kiripost.com/stories/us-ambassador-talks-cambodias-media-landscape-hopes-for-improvement
Court Releases Four Arrested During Clashes
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday released four of the six men who were charged with assault following violent clashes between security forces, protesters and angry commuters in Phnom Penh last month, and intends to release the remaining two men today, a rights worker ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-releases-four-arrested-during-clashes-44890/
Cambodia Not Ready for Inter-Country Adoptions
It has been one year since Cambodia announced that it was lifting its ban on intercountry adoptions beginning January 1, 2013, but despite praising Cambodia’s efforts to implement international regulations, countries that ban adoptions of Cambodians said this week that they were no closer to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-not-ready-for-inter-country-adoptions-46465/
Cambodian School Educates New Generation of Social Workers
Cambodia has some 3,000 registered non-profit groups. some work on highly sensitive issues such as violence against women and human trafficking. But there are few Cambodians formally trained for such work. That is now changing with the country’s first university-level degree program for social workers. When ss='cambodia-color'>...
Rainsy: PM will lose legitimacy after polls
The former president of the now dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), sam Rainsy, believes the political situation in the Kingdom is ripe for change. He said regardless of the results of the election, Prime Minister Hun sen’s position will become untenable after he loses ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-pm-will-lose-legitimacy-after-polls
Sar Kheng concerned over laundering
Minister of Interior sar Kheng has expressed concerns that recent money laundering cases involving huge sums will see Cambodia placed on a global financial blacklist. He called on the authorities to crack down hard on the crime or the Kingdom would be “dead” as it ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-concerned-over-laundering
CPP sees voter turnout higher than 80 percent
A Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) official said the process for the upcoming elections is going “smoothly” and predicted that those who had registered to cast their ballots will do so. He said as it stands, over 80 percent of those who are registered to vote ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-sees-voter-turnout-higher-80-percent
Surrogacy law progresses
Interior Minister sar Kheng is monitoring the progress of a draft law aimed at addressing the problem of surrogacy in the Kingdom, which is now being debated at the inter-ministerial level. Mr Kheng on Tuesday evening briefed Donica Pottie, Canada’s Ambassador to the Kingdom, on the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50553934/surrogacy-law-progresses/
PM vows to step down if CPP loses
Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday reiterated his promise to willingly hand over power to a new leader should he lose the July 29 national elections. However, he was quick to point out that he expects to maintain his position as there isn’t any other ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-vows-step-down-if-cpp-loses
CPP members urged to prepare for election
With a sub-national election approaching, the ruling CPP has called on its members to work hand-in-hand to promote its platforms. In a letter dated Friday and released to the public yesterday, CPP vice president and senate president say Chhum asked the party committee to have ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50583503/cpp-members-urged-to-prepare-for-election/
Landslide for CPP in polls
The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) won 4,034 of 4,114 seats in this year’s third mandate municipal, provincial, town and district council elections, while the other six parties received limited support. The National Election Committee (NEC) on saturday released the formal results of the elections, showing ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/landslide-cpp-polls
NGO, indigenous communities call for stronger conservation efforts
The NGO Forum on Cambodia and indigenous communities have called for stronger efforts on the conservation of indigenous languages and the development of indigenous peoples in the Kingdom. The request was made as more than 300 million indigenous people in over 90 countries around the world ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50642249/ngo-indigenous-communities-call-for-stronger-conservation-efforts/
Sar Kheng warns officials, security forces against complacency
Interior Minister sar Kheng told provincial security forces in Kratie on Thursday to remain vigilant for any opposition activity in the run-up to July’s national elections, while also warning that a popular opposition movement would only come about from the government’s failure to cater to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-warns-officials-security-forces-against-complacency
PM Hun Sen says dangers averted
Delivering a campaign speech from his home via Facebook Live on Thursday, caretaker Prime Minister Hun sen said his Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) had carried the country through danger in its latest mandate. He was specifically referring to the threat of a “colour revolution” from ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-hun-sen-says-dangers-averted
Officials seize 1,100 kg of rosewood after chase
Forestry officials in Preah Vihear province confiscated more than 1,100 kg of valuable rosewood early on Tuesday morning, while the two men suspected of transporting the wood were on the run, officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-seize-1100-kg-of-rosewood-after-chase-115668/
Siem Reap tourist traffic dips 9% in 2015
The number of international tourists visiting siem Reap fell 9 per cent last year compared with 2014, largely on a decline in European visitor arrivals, a tourism official said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sor Chandara and Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/siem-reap-tourist-traffic-dips-9-2015
‘Busy’ CPP pols in no rush to meet with CNRP
Reversing a statement he made on sunday, CPP lawmaker and spokesman sok Eysan said a tentatively scheduled meeting between party leaders, including Interior Minister and senior CPP official sar Kheng and CNRP acting president Kem sokha, set for either yesterday or today had been cancelled ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/busy-cpp-pols-no-rush-meet-cnrp