Farmer arrested for fighting police officers
Police in Kratie province on Sunday arrested a farmer—accused of trying to squat on a new social land concession for poor families—after he allegedly struck the officers when they arrived to tell him and his wife to leave. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/farmer-arrested-for-fighting-police-officers-89122/
Vendors meet with city over construction fears
About 500 vendors from Phnom Penh’s Phsar Doeum Kor market on Wednesday gathered at City Hall to protest plans to demolish and rebuild the wholesale hub, worried that they will lose their stalls and be forced to purchase new ones. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vendors-meet-with-city-over-construction-fears-89276/
At awards ceremony, chief of ACU discusses role of media
A new award honoring the media’s role in combating corruption was on Wednesday presented to five local journalists, whose stories uncovering various corrupt activities show how investigative reporting can help break the shackles holding back Cambodia’s development. ...
Simon Henderson and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/at-awards-ceremony-chief-of-acu-discusses-role-of-media-89262/
Crop inundation feared
As talk of El Niño-inspired droughts shaped much of the conversation ahead of this year’s late-blooming rainy season, recent torrential rains in some areas of the Kingdom have given way to new fears of crop inundation and damage. ...
Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/crop-inundation-feared
Disabled ‘excluded from vote’
Disabled people in Cambodia may frequently be excluded from the election process, according to a new study that is to be released next week that indicates local authorities consistently refuse to issue identity cards to the physically and developmentally disabled. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/disabled-excluded-vote
World Bank urged to help Boeng Kak families
A group of local and international NGOs are urging the World Bank to include a program for helping the thousands of families evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood as part of the plan to start funding new projects in Cambodia. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/world-bank-urged-to-help-boeng-kak-families-91236/
FTU boss says no cash for election
Chea Mony, the Free Trade Union president who announced in July that he was stepping down from his post, has said the union does not yet have the money available to hold a congress to vote in a new president. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ftu-boss-says-no-cash-election
Drought batters 13 provinces
Amid what some meteorologists have dubbed a “Godzilla-like El Niño”, drought conditions during Cambodia’s scheduled monsoon season have significantly worsened from what last year were termed historically bad levels, a new report from the Ministry of Agriculture shows. ...
Sen David and Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drought-batters-13-provinces
UN rights envoy to make first official visit
More than five months after being appointed as the U.N.’s new special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, Rhona Smith will make her first official visit to the country later this month, according to the government’s Human Rights Committee. ...
Kuch Naren and Colin Meyn
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-rights-envoy-to-make-first-official-visit-93512/
Clean energy microgrid in pipeline for Koh Rong Sanloem
A new private-sector energy development is in the pipeline for Koh Rong Sanloem Island with the goal of bringing clean and reliable electricity 24 hours a day to the remote location. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/clean-energy-microgrid-pipeline-koh-rong-sanloem
Cambodia’s tourism sees fast recovery despite Omicron
Although more Omicron variant infections are reported, Cambodia’s tourism sector recovery shows no sign of slowing down, with a sharp rise in the number of tourists during the New Year 2022 celebrations. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501000287/cambodias-tourism-sees-fast-recovery-despite-omicron/
Tourism sector moves toward recovery with more 300,000 tourists recorded last weekend
Following the celebration and influx of tourists during the Khmer New Year, Cambodia has recorded an increase in weekly tourists last weekend, as the country moves toward the recovery of its tourism sector. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501064160/tourism-sector-moves-toward-recovery-with-more-300000-tourists-recorded-last-weekend/
Impact of Covid-19 on Cambodia’s informal sector
A new book by the Asian Development Bank reveals one in five informal workers in Cambodia lost employment due to the pandemic, with women workers hit harder than men. ...
Bun Tharum
https://kiripost.com/stories/adb-impact-of-covid-19-on-cambodia-informal-sector
Gov’t strengthens capital, provincial offices
In an effort to strengthen and boost the efficiency of administration in the capital and provinces, the government has added new members through a sub-decree issued on June 30. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501116563/govt-strengthens-capital-provincial-offices/
Phnom Penh-Bavet Expressway begins construction today
A new expressway, that will link the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh with Vietnam, begins construction today. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501303987/phnom-penh-bavet-expressway-begins-construction-today/
CPF subsidiaries investing Bt250m in Laos, Cambodia
CP Laos and CP Cambodia are investing a combined Bt250 million to set up a new silo for maize in Cambodia and a new feed-meal plant in Laos to strengthen CPF’s integrated agricultural-industrial business as the Asean Economic Community (AEC) approaches. Most recently, the company ...
$20 million rice mill for Oddong
When London-based real estate investor Sanjay Dhir heard about Cambodia from his Indian partner Manoj Varma, he took a trip here in October 2010 and stopped by the roadside to meet the operators of a portable rice mill. He knew then that Cambodia was ready for ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071757449/Business/20-million-rice-mill-for-oddong.html
Government salaries to no longer be paid in cash
The wages of 400,000 civil servants from 39 government ministries are to be paid via a new electronic banking system due to be rolled out next month. Secretary of State for the Ministry of Economy and Finance Chu Kim Leng announced the new payroll system on ...
Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-salaries-no-longer-be-paid-cash
Committee Approves $25 Million Budget for National Assembly
The CPP-controlled Permanent Committee of the new National Assembly has approved a $25-million budget to cover the Assembly’s costs for the coming year, despite the continued absence of nearly half the 123-member body’s elected lawmakers. The opposition CNRP’s 55 lawmakers-elect have been boycotting the Assembly since ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/committee-approves-25-million-budget-for-national-assembly-45434/
Sub-Decree aims to better regulate pharmacies
Prime Minister Hun Sen has signed a sub-decree to better regulate pharmacies, a business fraught with fake drugs and fake diplomas. The new sub-decree of the Pharmacists’ Code of Ethics contains 71 articles. They ban distribution of fake drugs and the use of titles not ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sub-decree-aims-to-better-regulate-pharmacies-55138/