COVID-19 remote learning hurdles for students with disabilities
With the coronavirus pandemic sweeping through nations worldwide, the Kingdom has not been spared, reporting over 100 cases as of yesterday. As Cambodia scrambles to prevent another wave of infections, the government decided to shutter schools nationwide – a drastic measure that matches the scale ...
Villager representatives questioned in land dispute case
The Banteay Meanchey Provincial Court on September 8 questioned two plaintiffs representing a group of families who filed a lawsuit against four officials and 13 local businessmen alleging that they engaged in bribery and forged documents to claim ownership of 100 hectares of land in ...
Khuon Narim
https://cambojanews.com/villager-representatives-questioned-in-land-dispute-case/
Cambodia’s export to US still on the rise despite pandemic
Cambodia’s exports to the US was valued $6,059 million worth of goods in the first eleven months of 2020, inching up 17 percent compared to that in a year before, reflecting strong export amid the world face hard time of COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50801932/cambodias-export-to-us-still-on-the-rise-despite-pandemic/
New permanent landfill site, waste transfer station built
Construction of another new waste transfer station is underway to the north of Phnom Penh while a 50ha area to the west in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district is being planned as a new permanent landfill site as part of a strategy to address waste ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-permanent-landfill-site-waste-transter-station-built
Fines to be imposed on those who do not wear masks
In a message to the people broadcasted live on TV and Facebook on the morning of April 10, Prime Minister Hun Sen has sternly announced that in the future, those who do not wear masks will be fined. Wearing of mask is mandatory to prevent ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50836946/fines-to-be-imposed-on-those-who-do-not-wear-masks/
Phnom Penh officials rehabilitates drainage canals to combat flooding
On June 22, a team from the Phnom Penh Capital Administration began the rehabilitation of 5 drainage canals with s combined length of 1 km in Sangkat Stung Meanchey 3, Khan Meanchey. The rehabilitation was done with the purpose of preventing the canals from overflowing ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50879174/phnom-penh-officials-rehabilitates-drainage-canals-to-combat-flooding/
Electric vehicle manufactures poised to win-over Kingdom’s highly petrol dominated fleet
The streets of Cambodia’s major cities may be full of huge, gas-guzzling, environment-destroying sports utility vehicles and trucks that only go off road when their owners park them on the pavement, but a growing number of electric vehicle manufacturers are eyeing the Kingdom as an ...
Michael Firn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50909807/electric-vehicle-manufactures-poised-to-win-over-kingdoms-highly-petrol-dominated-fleet/
Ministry denies abuse claims by ‘stolen’ tanker’s owners
The government has denied allegations of human rights violations against the crew of a tanker which left Cambodian waters with a cargo of oil. It said the vessel’s master had already been jailed by Indonesian authorities and it wanted the crew extradited to face charges ...
Michael Firn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50945151/ministry-denies-abuse-claims-by-stolen-tankers-owners-2/
Cambodia to host ASEM13 to strengthen multilateralism for shared growth
Cambodia as the host of the 13th Summit of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM13) has sent out an official invitation to all ASEM leaders with the majority, including the President of the European Council confirming their attendance for the two-day virtual meeting scheduled to be held ...
Sar Socheath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50937983/cambodia-to-host-asem13-to-strengthen-multilateralism-for-shared-growth/
Official touts ASEM13 agenda
A senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation official views Cambodia’s upcoming chairmanship of the 13th Asia-Europe summit (ASEM13) as an opportunity to showcase the peaceful social order and prevailing political stability of the nation to demonstrate that the Kingdom is on the right ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/official-touts-asem13-agenda
Border pool dolphins down to just one
Dolphin conservation groups and government officials are expressing grave concerns over the decline in the number of dolphins present at the Chheu Teal trans-boundary pool of the Mekong River at the Laos-Cambodia border, saying that if this alarming trend is not halted, it will lead ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/border-pool-dolphins-down-just-one
Solar slated to add 495MW by 2023
Cambodia will add 495MW of solar power capacity from seven projects by 2023, which will represent “20 per cent” of the total energy supply by then, as the world looks to harness the sun as a key source of renewable electric power in the fight ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/solar-slated-add-495mw-2023
Environment ministry’s Neth Pheaktra on purposeful PR
For many years now, Ministry of Environment secretary of state and spokesman Neth Pheaktra has been leading tour groups composed of journalists on visits to Cambodia’s natural protected areas, which are often otherwise legally off-limits to anyone but forest rangers and the communities living there. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environment-ministrys-neth-pheaktra-purposeful-pr
Rice exports top 3M tonnes in Jan-Oct
Even as a shipping-container shortage and rising transportation costs stymie the growth of milled rice exports to European and other Western markets, Cambodia managed to ship out 3,119,829 tonnes of the crop abroad, worth $957.30 million, in the first 10 months of 2021, according to ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-exports-top-3m-tonnes-jan-oct
Entry the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP)
On 22 December 2021, the Ministry of Commerce issued a press release on the entry the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP).The RCEP Agreement is an ASEAN initiative and has been announced to begin negotiations in 2022 in Phnom Penh, the capital of the Kingdom ...
Ministry of Commerce
Bunong block bulldozers, allege illegal land clearing
Fifty indigenous people in Mondulkiri province on March 15 stopped the clearing of forest land in Sokdom commune’s Laoka village, claiming that the site was reserved for collective land registration of the Bunong indigenous community. They said that clearing the land will result in the ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bunong-block-bulldozers-allege-illegal-land-clearing
Sino-Cambodia trade soars 30% in Jan-Mar
Cambodia and China shared a bilateral trade volume of $2.87343 billion in the first quarter of this year, up by 30.14 per cent from the $2.20788 billion recorded in the same period last year, reflecting overall progress in the resumption of economic activity as Covid-19 ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sino-cambodia-trade-soars-30-jan-mar
Transport ministry holding second logistics workshop
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport has been organising a second workshop to share knowledge on capacity building and institutional strengthening to develop a framework for monitoring and evaluation of the logistics sector and logistics data in Cambodia and in the context of Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/transport-ministry-holding-second-logistics-workshop
ASEAN agrees to vaccines travel deal
The 15th ASEAN Health Ministers’ Meeting was held in Bali, Indonesia, for five days with the theme of “Advancing the Achievements of ASEAN Health Development”. There were five primary outcomes from the meeting, which included an agreement on the mechanism for mutual recognition of digital ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/asean-agrees-vaccines-travel-deal
Cambodia Earns $11.6m From Carbon Credit Sales
The Ministry of Environment has announced that Cambodia has earned $11.6 million from the sale of carbon credits from REDD+, a financing mechanism to support forests in developing countries with access to funds to protect forest resources and improve the livelihoods of local communities and ...
Seng Mengheng
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-earns-116m-from-carbon-credit-sales