Man held by Thais linked to senior Cambodian officials
Cambodian immigration officer Leang Piseth, who is detained in Thailand on suspicion of smuggling weapons, is a relative by marriage of Defence Minister Tea Banh, as well as of recently reassigned Koh Kong Provincial Governor Bun Leut and retired high-ranking Police General Tham Sann, The ...
Shaun Turton and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-held-thais-linked-senior-cambodian-officials
China’s appetite driving rice export growth as demand continues to outstrip supply
Cambodian rice exports increased marginally during the first half of the year as export companies push to fulfill higher quotas destined for China. Rice exports totalled 288,562 tonnes in the first six months of the year, an increase of 7.6 percent compared to the same time ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinas-appetite-driving-rice-export-growth-demand-continues-outstrip-supply
Government opens $27M emergency fund to corn farmers
The government has officially made $27 million in emergency funds, initially intended for the rice sector, available for struggling corn farmers at a 5 percent annual interest rate to help prop up low market prices and free up liquidity after farmers protested earlier this month, ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-opens-27m-emergency-fund-corn-farmers
Defunct parties set to be deleted
The Interior MInister yesterday decided to delete 22 political parties from its official register ahead of the national election next year. AccordIng to a letter signed by Interior MInister Sar Kheng, the parties are beIng dissolved In lIne with recent amendments to the Law on Political ...
Khmer Times Staff
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5084287/defunct-parties-set-to-be-deleted/
Villagers displaced by Lower Sesan II Dam will get facilities: government
In an apparent reversal, Stung Treng provInce authorities on Friday said they would build public Infrastructure for the 83 households from Srekor and Kbal Romeas villages who were displaced by floodIng from the reservoir of the controversial Lower Sesan II Dam but declIned to move ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-displaced-lower-sesan-ii-dam-will-get-facilities-government
Family fears arrest over ongoing land dispute
A family living in Kratie province’s Snoul district have said they are concerned for their safety following the destruction of their home. Local authorities last week dismantled the home using an excavator because it had been built on state land that is now earmarked for the ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109284/family-fears-arrest-ongoing-land-dispute/
Miners ask Hun Sen to let them dig deeper
More than 500 villagers in Mondulkiri’s Chung Phlas’ mining community thumbprinted a letter sent to Prime Minister Hun Sen, and to the Ministry of Mines and Energy and its provincial counterpart, requesting that those holding a community mining licence be allowed to dig below the ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/miners-ask-hun-sen-let-them-dig-deeper
Erratic weather portends future farming woes
Record low temperatures and unseasonable rainfall over the past week were a glimpse into the potential, intensifying effects of climate change in Cambodia, experts said, a phenomenon that studies suggest could seriously hinder future agricultural productivity through flooding, unpredictable rains and warming of up to ...
Laurence Stevens
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/erratic-weather-portends-future-farming-woes-128065/
Tax collection soars
Tax collections rose to $768 million in the first quarter of this year, a 92 percent rise on the same period last year. General department of taxation director-general Kong Vibol told a meeting chaired by Finance Minister Aun Pornmoniroth yesterday that the collection figure was a ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37671/tax-collection-soars/
Document suggests US aid cuts
A document purported to have come from the US State Department appears to show plans to slash US development assistance to the Kingdom down to zero, a move observers said yesterday would further weaken the US’s standing in the country, allowing for China to cement its ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/document-suggests-us-aid-cuts
MFI slowdown: real or illusory?
After several years of rapid growth, the expansion of credit provided by the Kingdom’s myriad microfinance institutions (MFIs) stalled abruptly last year, raising concerns poorer Cambodians could be pushed toward loan sharks to obtain credit or cover their debts, the World Bank said in its ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mfi-slowdown-real-or-illusory
Fisheries income rises despite falling exports
Exports of fish fell in the first four months of 2017, but income from the fisheries sector increased by nearly half compared with the same period last year. According to an Agriculture Ministry report, income from the fisheries sector between January and April was $230,653, up ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38597/fisheries-income-rises-despite-falling-exports/
Vietnam rubber firm reaches accord with Ratanakkiri ethnic villages
In an agreement mediated by the International FInance Corporation’s watchdog mechanism, a controversial Vietnamese rubber firm has reached a deal with 11 ethnic mInority villages affected by its Ratanakkiri operations to return nearly 20 community “spirit mountaIns”, restore streams filled or polluted by its activities ...
Phak Seangly and Martin de Bourmont
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vietnam-rubber-firm-reaches-accord-ratanakkiri-ethnic-villages
RDB making plans for rice processing facilities
The Rural Development Bank (RDB) is seeking proposals from registered Cambodian agricultural firms to develop rice storage warehouses and rice-drying facilities in Kampong Thom, Prey Veng and Takeo provinces, each with the capacity to store 50,000 tonnes of paddy rice and dry approximately 1,500 tonnes ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rdb-making-plans-rice-processing-facilities
US to sanction 4 countries for refusing deportations
The Trump administration will impose visa sanctions on four countries that refuse to take back foreign nationals deemed to be in the US illegally, Department of Homeland Security spokesman Dave Lapan said Wednesday. The four countries — Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone, according to ...
Daivd Shortell
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/23/politics/trump-visa-sanctions-immigration/index.html
Traffic deaths up from last year, says ministry
Nearly 1,500 people died from traffic accidents in the Kingdom during the first 10 months of this year, a minor increase over last year, though the number of injured fell significantly, according to a report by the Ministry of interior’s National Committee for Road Safety ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/traffic-deaths-last-year-says-ministry
Chinese premier to pay Cambodia official visit
Chinese Premier Le Keqiang – the No. 2 politician in the Chinese government – will visit Phnom Penh for an official visit next week. Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Chum Sounry confirmed the leader will attend the second Mekong Lancang Cooperation Leaders’ Meeting next Wednesday and ...
Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chinese-premier-pay-cambodia-official-visit
Buddhists flock to Oudong ceremony
More than 1,000 people flocked to Oudong Mountain in Kandal province yesterday to observe Meak Bochea Day, which marks the day the Buddha prophesied his own death.Nguon Nhel, second vice president of the National Assembly, presided over the ceremony accompanied by many lawmakers and government ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50105768/buddhists-flock-to-oudong-ceremony/
Single visa with Cambodia to be discussed
Foreign Minister Surapong Towichukchaikul and his Cambodian counterpart Hor Namhong will co-chair the meeting in Bangkok on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss several issues, including the single-visa initiative. The idea of a joint visa for visitors to both Thailand and Cambodia has been mooted as a ...
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Single-visa-with-Cambodia-to-be-discussed-30196550.html
Union sues Mfone director for violating labor law
Free Trade Union of Workers of Cambodia said Tuesday it had sued the director of Thailand’s Mfone Co Ltd for not respecting local labor laws. in a letter issued Tuesday to the Department of Labor Disputes, the union’s deputy secretary general Sam Srey Mom accused Mfone ...