Nearly all illegal Cambodian migrants working in Thailand return home: labor minister
Cambodian Minister of Labor Ith Samheng said Friday that nearly all illegal Cambodian migrant laborers working in Thailand have returned home in fears of a junta’s crackdown on illegal foreign workers. Major Gen. Pich Vanna, chief of Cambodian-Thai Border Relation Affairs Office, said the Thai ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-06/20/c_133424234.htm
CCHR releases a report assessing adherence to fair trial rights at the Court of Appeal
Today, 23 June 2014, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights’ (CCHR) Trial Monitoring Project releases its first report assessing the adherence to fair trial rights at the Court of Appeal (the Report). This is the seventh report published by the Trial Monitoring Project, and the ...
Cambodian center for Human Rights (CCHR)
Rubber firm to stop marking disputed land
A Vietnamese rubber plantation in Ratanakkiri province repeatedly accused of encroaching on the land of local residents agreed to stop demarcating more land Monday after being confronted by a group of villagers who accused the firm of breaching a deal the two sides reached earlier ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rubber-firm-to-stop-marking-disputed-land-66276/
Cambodia arrests three after logging journalist killed
Police in Cambodia say they have arrested three people after a journalist investigating illegal logging was shot dead. Taing Try was killed on Sunday at a logging site in Kratie province, where he had gone with several reporters. Two years ago a prominent environmentalist was also shot ...
BBC News Staff
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-29597501
[Herald Interview] KFS seeks to boost youth employment
Korea Forest Service (KFS) has been working to promote overseas partnership with Southeast Asia countries by aiming to expand afforestation by 1 million hectares by 2050 from 314,000 hectares in 2013. It established relations with Indonesia to collaborate in planting trees on 700,000 hectares, and ...
Park Hyong-ki and Lee Kwon-hyung
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150205000903
Activists sentenced
Nine Prey Lang forest activists received suspended one-year prison sentences at Kampong Thom Provincial Court yesterday and were ordered to pay $1,250 to a businesswoman whose hectare of cassava they were accused of uprooting, the defendants’ lawyer said. Yong Panith – who represents Mao Thea, 37; ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-sentenced
Gov’t requests Chinese funding for rice warehouses
In a bid to stock 1.2 million tonnes of rice paddy, Cambodia has sent a draft memorandum of understanding to China asking the country for a $300 million loan to build more than 10 warehouses nationwide. The draft MoU was prepared by the Ministry of Economy ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-requests-chinese-funding-rice-warehouses
WASDE: all-rice imports raised to 23.0 million cwt
Global 2014/15 rice supply and use projections are lowered from last month. Thailand’s 2014/15 rice crop is lowered 1.0 million tons to 19.5 million due to a reduction in dry-season plantings resulting from an on-going drought and a reduction in irrigation water availability concentrated in ...
AgWeb.com News Staff
http://www.agweb.com/article/wasde-all-rice-imports-raised-to-230-million-cwt-NAA-agwebcom-editors/
Cambodia on verge of transitioning from low-income to middle-income country: ADB chief
Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao said here Tuesday that Cambodia is on the verge of transforming from a low-income to a middle-income country. The middle-income nation is defined by the GDP (gross domestic product) per capita between 1,045 U.S. dollars and 12,746 U.S. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1Eal4qY
VN sees success in seizing HK rice market from Thailand
Vietnam has gained a substantial share of Hong Kong’s rice market at the expense of Thailand, resulting from fierce competition over the past 10 years. Thailand’s market share in the first month of this year was up to 65.1 per cent versus Vietnam’s 26.3 per ...
Wichit Chaitrong
http://bit.ly/1xdk5Hd
Pass the union law: Hun Sen
A controversial statement released by Prime Minister Hun Sen on Sunday calls for the quick passage of a trade union law, which union advocates say violates international labour conventions. The statement, which was signed on April 10 but distributed this week, was released ahead of International ...
Pech Sotheary and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pass-union-law-hun-sen
Cambodia inaugurates fifth China-funded bridge in S. province
Cambodia inaugurated Takhmau Bridge across Tonle Bassac River, along with a 12-km road here on Monday in an effort to facilitate travel and boost local economic development.The concrete bridge, along with its connecting road, is located about 13 km south of Phnom Penh capital. It ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-08/03/c_134476255.htm
Cambodia is affected by GONI storm
Cambodia will be under influence of GONI storm, leading to more wide spread of raining in the kingdom. While some coastal areas such as Koh Kong, Kep and Kampot provinces will have heavy raining along with strong wind, sea surface will have strong wind and ...
Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology
Minister declares Vietnam map issue resolved
Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong has demanded an end to opposition politicking on the Vietnam border issue, following the second and “final” verification of maps used by the government to demarcate the eastern boundary against French charts.Namhong, also a deputy prime minister, yesterday presided over ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-declares-vietnam-map-issue-resolved
Court charges union leader with making threat, extortion
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday charged an independent union leader with making a threat accompanied by extortion after he was arrested with 51 bamboo poles while leading a strike of about 100 garment workers on Tuesday. According to Article 232 of the Criminal ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-charges-union-leader-with-making-threat-extortion-77471/
Fertiliser imports on the rise
Cambodia imported more than 1.2 million tonnes of fertiliser and pesticide in 2019, a year-on-year increase of 9 percent, according to a report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50721495/fertiliser-imports-on-the-rise/
Bicycle boom sees Cambodia overtake rivals in exports to EU
According to the Ministry of Commerce, more than 1.5 million bicycles were exported as of the end of the third quarter this year, bringing in some $400 million in revenue. ...
Tom Starkey
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50793025/bicycle-boom-sees-cambodia-overtake-rivals-in-exports-to-eu/
Kingdom’s bicycle exports top $500M
Cambodia exported bicycles worth approximately $527 million to international markets last year, up 27 percent from 2019. This establishes Cambodia as the No1 country in ASEAN and No5 globally for bicycle exports, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-bicycle-exports-top-500m
Cambodia imports nearly 600 tonnes of Vietnam’s steel
The Kingdom imported 584 tonnes of steel from Vietnam in the first five months of 2021, down 1.5 per cent year-on-year, Vietnamese media outlet VN Express reported. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-imports-nearly-600-tonnes-vietnams-steel
Ministry: No shortages of oxygen for Covid-19 care
As COVID-19 rages on with nearly 1,000 cases reported on July 6 alone, a senior health official said the government had secured sufficient oxygen supplies to treat patients with the disease. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-no-shortages-oxygen-covid-19-care