Cambodia ready for aviation audit
Cambodia’s State Secretary of Civil Aviation (SSCA) says it is ready to comply with an audit from the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) after having fared poorly during the last two inspections in 2007 and 2009. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18956/---cambodia-ready-for-aviation-audit---/
City hall to add 600 security cameras throughout the capital
Despite a slew of global investment banks slashing their oil price forecasts this week, KrisEnergy —the Singaporean oil and gas firm with a controlling stake in Cambodia’s most promising offshore oil reserve, Block A—remains committed to helping Cambodia produce its first drop of oil, a ...
Tej Parikh
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/krisenergy-committed-to-cambodias-block-a-105341/
PM pledges 1m hectares of ELC land to poor
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday declared an end to the government’s review of Cambodia’s economic land concessions (ELCs), pledging that nearly 1 million hectares of reappropriated property would be handed over to poor families. He also announced a major reorganization of the two ministries ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-pledges-1m-hectares-of-elc-land-to-poor-109007/
ANZ Ceo leaves on note of caution
The outgoing CEO of ANZ Royal Bank is leaving with a note of caution about the swift growth of lending in Cambodia, while noting that the banking sector had become much more competitive and technologically advanced during his four-year tenure at the helm of one ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21902/anz-ceo-leaves-on-note-of-caution/
UN envoy meets with Sesan villagers to discuss dam site
The U.N.’s human rights envoy to Cambodia on Sunday promised villagers in Stung Treng province who are set to be displaced by the construction of the Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam that she would raise their plight with the government, a village representative said. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-envoy-meets-with-sesan-villagers-to-discuss-dam-site-110475/
City hall to add 5,000 signs to cut accident rate
Phnom Penh City Hall started installing 5,000 new road safety signs around the capital on Monday in an attempt to reduce accidents, according to officials. Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatevong took to Facebook yesterday, writing that a total of 615 signs had been installed along Norodom, ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26897/city-hall-to-add-5-000-signs-to-cut-accident-rate/
Child allegedly beaten at Prey Speu
Officials at the Prey Speu Social Affairs Center in Phnom Penh’s Por Senchey district are scrambling to deflect criticism after reports surfaced that a young boy and a man were beaten and injured there, with the director of the center saying the boy injured himself ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27112/child-allegedly-beaten-at-prey-speu/
Ministry announces ELC tax revenue
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said by the end of the first half of this year, it had collected about $600,000 in taxes from economic land concessions (ELCs) from 21 of the 223 private companies that received ELCs from the government, according to ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27701/ministry-announces-elc-tax-revenue/
Rubber prices could rise
Rubber prices on the global commodities market are expected to rise to $2,500 per ton due to the improved state of the world economy and efforts by four major rubber producing countries – Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia – to cut back supply, according to ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32511/rubber-prices-could-rise/
White Building dwellers told to vote CPP for speedy eviction deal
A day before Land Management Minister Chea Sophara was scheduled to meet residents of Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building, the locale’s village chiefs promised to find a quick solution to the residents’ impending eviction – if the ruling Cambodian People’s Party fared well in the ...
Sen David and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/white-building-dwellers-told-vote-cpp-speedy-eviction-deal
Age is no barrier for candidates
Parties competing in the commune elections are pinning their hopes on young candidates winning the popular vote. Nhek Bun Chhay, president of the Khmer National United Party, said his party is focusing on youth candidates, with people aged between 25 and 32 making up 40 percent ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38910/age-is-no-barrier-for-candidates/
Minister scolds Thai outlets
Cambodia’s Ministry of Defence has demanded an apology from Thai media outlets for reports linking Defence Minister Tea Banh to a recent case of alleged cross-border arms smuggling by a Thai air force officer, one which has also ensnared an official from Cambodia’s Interior Ministry ...
Niem Chheng and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-scolds-thai-outlets
Relocation land not cleared
Over 1,000 hectares of agricultural land granted as compensation to more than 300 ethnic Lao families displaced from Sre Kor village in Stung Treng province by the Lower Sesan II dam project have not been cleared for cultivation, threatening the families with a food shortage, ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/relocation-land-not-cleared
Proposed rice storage facility to boost capacity
A proposal for a massive warehouse and silo that has attracted two Chinese investors aims to fill the Kingdom’s conspicuous gap in paddy rice storage capacity, which still falls 60 percent short of the level needed for the country to achieve its goal of 1 ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/proposed-rice-storage-facility-boost-capacity
News anchor draws ire for saying women should ‘not resist’ rape
A local television presenter is facing heavy criticism for an inflammatory on-air suggestion that rape victims should not resist their attackers, and should instead accept sexual assault to avoid being killed – a reference to a brutal rape and murder of an 18-year-old woman in ...
Kong Meta and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/news-anchor-draws-ire-saying-women-should-not-resist-rape
Sihanoukville facing a trash crisis
Sihanoukville officials are scrambling to figure out how they will collect rubbish throughout the city – one of the top tourism destinations in the country – if waste management firm Cintri makes good on a recent threat to halt services on September 14, raising concerns ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-laos-set-border-committee
No rallies for Sokha trial, says ministry
The Ministry of Interior has said it will not allow any demonstrations in front of the Supreme Court during a hearing on Thursday to decide if the opposition CNRP will be dissolved, while the Koh Kong provincial governor’s office warned it will prevent residents from ...
Kong Meta and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-rallies-sokha-trial-says-ministry
Business Insider: Boosting inclusion for online payment at Pi Pay
While Cambodia remains a largely cash-based society, the market for financial technology has begun to expand through online payment services and mobile e-wallets like Pi Pay. The Post’s Robin Spiess sat down with Pi Pay CEO Tomas Pokorny to discuss the future of economic digitisation in the Kingdom. ...
Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/business-insider-boosting-inclusion-online-payment-pi-pay
Guideline on establishing Community Natural Resource Conservation Alliance
On December 8, 2017, the Minister of Environment signed a guideline for establishing the Community Natural Resource Conservation Alliance as a mechanism contributes to improving the protection and conservation of natural resources and biodiversity in the Kingdom of Cambodia and enhancing co-operation and effectiveness between ...
Ministry of Environment
EU firm sets plan for local rubber factory
Socfin Cambodia, the local branch of a Europe-based international rubber producing company that currently operates a 7,500-hectare rubber plantation in Mondulkiri, has announced plans to open the doors to its first rubber factory next April, with an initial investment of $5.7 million, a company executive ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/eu-firm-sets-plan-local-rubber-factory