Factories ‘don’t need to move’
The owners of existing factories, warehouses and other businesses in the capital that rely on large lorries to move their products will not have to relocate to the outskirts of the city. The decision came after the Phnom Penh Municipal Hall and the Garment Manufacturers ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factories-dont-need-move
Cambodia’s economy lost $4b in illegal outflows in 2013
Cambodia’s economy lost more than $4 billion to illicit financial outflows in 2013, more than a quarter of its gross domestic product that year, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Washington-based think tank Global Financial Integrity.Based on trade data reported to the ...
Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodias-economy-lost-4b-in-illegal-outflows-in-2013-102614/
Chinese bring sight to Kampong Cham
A team of more than 30 doctors and nurses from Hainan province in China have spent the last four days at Kampong Cham provincial hospital removing cataracts from low-income patients. Kang Baiying, a team member and a Hainan provincial official, said her team had been on ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29329/chinese-bring-sight-to-k-cham/
New law to address the high death toll on Cambodia’s roads
A new traffic law will come into force on January 1 that is hoped to reduce the number of people killed on Cambodia’s roads each year.Road accidents cost the economy an estimated $300 million annually, and the death toll from road accidents keeps rising. According ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/new-law-to-address-the-high-death-toll-on-cambodia-roads/3121604.html
Cambodian political repression meets American human rights law in Long Beach
Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia, is the President of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), the country’s ruling party since 1979. In recent years, when an opposition party, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), started gaining momentum and making their voices heard, Sen’s government found ...
Mary Wald
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-wald/cambodian-political-repre_b_9657752.html
Angkor Wat families get solar power
In an effort to make the area look better and promote environmental practices amongst the communities living within the Angkor Archaeological Park in Siem Reap province, the Apsara Authority, which is tasked with maintaining the temple area, is pushing the use of solar panels. Unsightly electric ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29042/angkor-wat-families-get--solar-power/
Elephant NGO barred by zoo
Elephant conservation NGO Ears Asia has been ejected from Teuk Chhou Zoo in Kampot province and forbidden from caring for its two elephants, amid mounting pressure for a proposed animal swap involving the pair to be called off.In a statement posted on their Facebook page ...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/elephant-ngo-barred-zoo
Plan to certify organic quality
GIZ Cambodia, a branch of Germany’s international development agency, signed an agreement yesterday with local organic food retailer Khmer Organic Cooperative to provide technical support to develop organic vegetable production and to assist the firm in obtaining certification for its products. The agreement calls for the ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/plan-certify-organic-quality
Groups aim to end violence against women
A worldwide, 16-day campaign to end violence against women kicked off in Cambodia yesterday, with NGOs, the United Nations and government agencies intensifying their efforts toward preventative measures.Spanning from yesterday’s International Day for Eliminating Violence against Women and Girls until Human Rights Day on December ...
Mom Kunthear and Zoe Holman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/groups-aim-end-violence-against-women
Approved construction investments up 30 per cent in 2015
Investment in the construction industry in 2015 amounted to $3.3 billion – a 33.14 per cent increase from the same period in 2014, which was only $2.5 billion.Seng Lot, spokesperson for the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) said on Tuesday that ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/approved-construction-investments-30-cent-2015
Police admit logging failure
The National Committee for Forest Crime Prevention has admitted that despite claims from a variety of high-level government officials that deforestation and illegal logging had been stopped entirely, the illegal timber trade was still ravaging the country’s forests. In June, Environment Minister Say Samal claimed the ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29769/police-admit-logging-failure/
Logging complaint filed
Nine Phnong ethnic community representatives and a senior Adhoc officer jointly filed a lawsuit yesterday at the Mondulkiri Provincial Court against eight local officials they allege have turned a blind eye to illegal logging in the Phnom Nam Lyr wildlife sanctuary.The suit follows their inspection ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-complaint-filed
Ballot recounts narrowly swing two communes to CNRP
Ballot recounts on Wednesday secured the opposition CNRP two more commune wins—one each in Battambang and Kompong Thom provinces—a day after the first of 40 contested communes in the June 4 local elections swung to the CPP. Nguon Kolboth, a CPP representative who was at ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ballot-recounts-narrowly-swing-two-communes-to-cnrp-131359/
Hand, foot, mouth disease alert
The Health Ministry’s Communicable Disease Control (CDC) department has urged people to be cautious of the spread of hand, food and mouth disease (HFMD) and asked that infants or children displaying symptoms be brought to seek medical treatment immediately. “Especially for children with dangerous symptoms, ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35382/hand--foot--mouth-disease-alert/
District Governor Questioned Over Clearing Protected Forest
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court questioned a district governor from Kampong Thom province yesterday over his involvement in clearing protected flooed forest in the province in July. Prim Rottha, Stong district governor, is one of about 20 officials who received court summonses in July over their suspected ...
Vietnam Airlines builds Mekong hub
Vietnam Airlines outlined expansion at the 4-Code presentation seminar, Wednesday, just prior to the opening of 8th International Travel Expo 2012 in Ho Chi Minh City. The national airline reiterated its commitment at the trade fair to build Vietnam as a major gateway to the other ...
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2012/09/vietnam-airlines-builds-mekong-hub/
Officials seek to boost trade ties with Cambodia
A group of Chinese trade officials from South China’s Shenzhen city has been visiting Cambodia to promote the bilateral trade and investment ties. The group was led by Zhang Jinsheng, director of Shenzhen WTO Affairs office. Addressing a Shenzhen Economic and Trade Forum on Friday afternoon, Zhang ...
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2012-09/15/content_15760426.htm
Companies aim to be socially minded
Four companies in Cambodia — EZECOM, Manulife Cambodia, Angkor Gold and Unilever — have demonstrated their commitment to corporate social responsibility this month by giving support to schools, a hospital and sustainable living. CSR Asia, the leading provider of information, training, research and consultancy services on ...
Phnom Penh Water Festival off
The Cambodian government has decided to cancel this year’s Water Festival in Phnom Penh out of respect for the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Tuesday. The Prime Minister said in a circular notice that the celebration on the Tonle Sap ...
Sen Sok Condo’s second project starts
After the success of its first project, the Shangri-La Garden City, Sen Sok Condo Company is beginning its second project along Road 595, located two kilometres north of the 7 Makara Sky Bridge. Construction on the second project, called Maldives City, has begun, and the company ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013013061083/Real-Estate/sen-sok-condo-s-second-project-starts.html