Civil society continues to remember Kem Ley’s heroism eight years after his murder
On the eighth anniversary of Kem Ley’s murder in 2016, civil society groups and youth activists gathered at the Caltex petrol station near the Bokor traffic lights, where he was shot dead. ...
Phon Sothyroth
https://cambojanews.com/civil-society-continues-to-remember-kem-leys-heroism-eight-years-after-his-murder/
PPAP revenue increases 11.7%, profit dips 7.18%
Public-listed Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) netted a revenue of $18.32 million in the first half of 2024, a rise of 11.7 percent, compared to the same period last year, according to the latest report it filed with the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX). ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501544119/ppap-revenue-increases-11-7-profit-dips-7-18/
Digital platform for informal economy to spur Kingdom’s GDP
The Ministry of industry, Science, Technology and innovation (MISTI) weighed the challenges of launching a digital platform for the informal economy recently. The Coordinating Committee for Developing the informal Economy presented a progress update on the strategy during the meeting held at the MISTI headquarters ...
Jigme Palden Pazo
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501546087/digital-platform-for-informal-economy-to-spur-kingdoms-gdp/
Commander Says Prosecutor Deployed Troops
Armed troops that were deployed last month to quell a land dispute protest outside the Kompong Speu Provincial Court were ordered to do so by a court prosecutor, a commander in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) said yesterday. On Feb. 9, a detachment of ...
Donor Forum Put on Hold by Goverment
The government has postponed a top-level meeting with its foreign donors scheduled for November, a move that comes just over a week after a displeased World Bank revealed its decision to freeze all future loans to Cambodia. in an Aug 17 letter to World Bank ...
Sold
Last year saw a record increase in economic land concessions and the area controlled by agro-industrial companies jumped to more than 2 million hectares nationwide, according to human rights groups who track such projects. Mining companies are also flocking to Cambodia and those already have ...
http://www.camnet.com.kh/cambodia.daily/selected_features/Carving%20Up%20Cambodia.pdf
Auction closes on high note
This past Sunday afternoon, while the rest of Phnom Penh’s residents hid from the sweltering heat, a steady stream of cars and motos made their way down a long accces road, flanked by green lawn and tennis courts. Alighting at the Sofitel Phokeetra on the Tonle ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012031354992/Lifestyle/auction-closes-on-high-note.html
PM: Improve lives of disabled
Prime Minister Hun Sen has urged the relevant institutions to improve the living standards of disabled persons in line with the national economy. in a message to commemorate the 21st Day of Cambodian Persons with Disabilities and the 37th international Day of Persons with Disabilities, which ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-improve-lives-disabled
ASEAN Spells Out its Tourism Priorities Ahead of 2015
The countries of ASEAN are now implementing a clear road map to achieve the tourism objectives of the ASEAN Economic Community, due 2015. There will be a new ‘ASEAN for ASEAN’ campaign and special promotions, along with enhanced strategic cooperation with the growth markets of ...
Ministries’ different interpretations, wood imports get stuck
The Vietnam Agriculture and Forestry Investment and Development Company In Hanoi is one of the two enterprises that signed a contract on importIng 20,000 cubic meters of wood from Cambodia. Cambodian authorities approved the export of the volume of wood to Vietnam In 2011-2012. The ...
Cambodia Nothing To Fear From Openness And Competitions: Trade Minister
Cambodia so far has not feared for creating ASEAN economic community 2015 and deeper ASEAN and East Asia regional integration as the region will have free flow of goods, worker mobilization, finance and investment,” trade minister Cham Prasidh said on June 12. His announcement was made during the workshop of ASEAN economic community 2015. “We ...
Company Building Lower Sesan 2 Dam Gets OK to Clear Land
Representatives of a massive hydropower dam project in Stung Treng province’s Sesan district approached local authorities late last month informing them that the government had granted the company permission to clear 36,000 hectares of land for a reservoir, officials said on Sunday. The 400-megawatt Lower Sesan ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/company-building-lower-sesan-2-dam-gets-ok-to-clear-land-9252/
High interest rates on loans remain a big hurdle for Cambodian farmers
Sitting in front of her small house in the Chey Thorn commune of Kandal province, 35-year-old Sokhun’s face is etched with worry. She would like to plant crops on her four hectares of land, but she only has enough money to cultivate two of them. She could go to a microfinance finance institution ...
Hun Sen Hopes for Increased Rubber Exports
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that he hoped land being registered to rural families as part of the government’s nationwide land-titling program would be used to cultivate rubber trees in order to help the country compete with Vietnam as the world’s third-largest rubber exporter. ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-hopes-for-increased-rubber-exports-24502/
Protest gets injection of energy
What had been a relatively subdued gathering at Freedom Park yesterday became a jubilant celebration as opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha delivered the news of fruitful discussions with the government to party faithful. Despite much-diminished crowds – and the sobering events of Sunday night ...
Stuart White and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protest-gets-injection-energy
Beauty Shop Owner Sues CNRP for Vandalism
The owner of a Phnom Penh beauty products shop has filed a complaint against some of the CNRP’s top brass, claiming they incited demonstrators to vandalize her business and caused $200,000-worth of damage on Sunday evening. Chhim Vattey, owner and director of Clinique De Beaute Luxe ...
Khy Sovuthy and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/beauty-shop-owner-sues-cnrp-for-vandalism-42693/
Flood crisis another setback for real estate sector
While the political crisis in the country is still ongoing, Cambodia is now suffering another crisis due to flooding, which has had a big impact on the country’s real estate business. Kim Heang, the President of Khmer Real Estate, said the buying and selling of real ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/flood-crisis-another-setback-real-estate-sector
Preah Vihear Residents Protest Future Eviction
Fifty-three families in Preah Vihear province’s Kulen district on Sunday protested outside the headquarters of a Malaysian company that is threatening to clear villagers’ farmland to make way for a rubber plantation, rights groups and officials said Monday. The families, who live in Srayong commune’s Srayong ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/preah-vihear-residents-protest-future-eviction-47273/
NEC Stops Investigating Election Irregularities
The National Election Committee (NEC) said Sunday that it is no longer involved in mediating the dispute between the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP over the results of last month’s national election. The announcement came after the NEC over the weekend rejected 17 complaints related to ...
Khuon Narim and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nec-stops-investigating-election-irregularities-39974/
CNRP Launches Online TV to Break CPP’s Media Stranglehold
Amid the ruling CPP’s continuing stranglehold on the country’s nine terrestrial television stations, the opposition CNRP on Monday launched an online television station that it describes as a “test,” CNRP director of public affairs Mu Sochua said Wednesday. The station, called CNRP TV, follows requests from ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-launches-online-tv-to-break-cpps-media-stranglehold-46710/