Press release on Cambodia and Lao PDR to further enhance comprehensive and long-lasting strategic partnership
<p>On 9 October 2024, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on Cambodia and Lao pDR to further enhance Comprehensive and Long-Lasting Strategic partnership on their official website. According to the press, during the bilateral talk between Cambodia and Lao ...p>
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
HRW: rights of Indigenous Chong residents violated in Southern Cardamom carbon offset project
<p>A new report alleges that conservation NGO Wildlife Alliance forcibly evicted, arrested and mistreated members of the Indigenous Chong community who live in the Cardamom Mountain National park in the name of a carbon offset scheme. ...p>
Leila Goldstein and Soeung Nimol
https://cambojanews.com/hrw-rights-of-indigenous-chong-residents-violated-in-southern-cardamom-carbon-offset-project/
No closure yet for slain anti-logging fighter Chut Wutty after 12 years, activists call for reinvestigation
<p>Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and activists called on the government to reinvestigate the case of anti-logging activist Chut Wutty who was shot dead on April 26, 2012. ...p>
Press release: Prime Ministers of Cambodia and China reaffirmed commitment to deepen diamond cooperation
<p>On 11 October 2024, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release regarding prime Ministers of Cambodia and China reaffirmed commitment to deepen diamond cooperation on their official website. According to the press, Samdech Moha Borvor Thipadei Hun Manet and H.E. ...p>
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Press release on the official launching ceremony of Cross-border QR Code Payments between the National Bank of Cambodia and Ant International via Bakong and Alipay+
<p>On 14 October 2024, the National Bank of Cambodia issued a press release regarding the official launching ceremony of Cross-border QR Code payments between the National Bank of Cambodia and Ant International via Bakong and Alipay+ on their official website. According to the press, the ...p>
National Bank of Cambodia
Government
<p>Cambodia is set up as a multi-party democracy under a constitutional monarchy. The King serves as the head of state and the prime Minister is the head of the Royal Government of Cambodia. Norodom Sihamoni,1 the King, was crowned in 2004 after the abdication of ...p>
Data Literacy Training 2020
<p>On the morning of September 8th 2020, at poulowai hotel based in phnom penh, Open Development Cambodia(ODC) hosted “2020 Basic Data Literacy Training on social accountability”. This three-day training is under the project Innovation for Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC) having ODC and FHI 360 ...p>
Sustainable Development Goals
<p>In September 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This contained 17 items that have become known as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), intended to drive action in critically important areas to the year 2030. These goals have ...p>
Cambodia to Cooperate with Korean Prosecutors
<p>Following a meeting in Seoul yesterday, Cambodian officials have reportedly decided to cooperate with South Korean prosecutors in the investigation of Busan Savings Bank Group, where shareholders are suspected of illegally financing $365 million worth of investments in Cambodia, according to Yonhap News. Busan’s ...p>
Huge timber haul seized in Kratie raid, suspects sought
<p>Kratie provincial authorities were searching on Wednesday for the owners of hundreds of cubic metres of first-grade timber found loaded onto seven heavy trucks during a raid on a warehouse in Snuol district. After getting a tip-off, Military police, police, Forestry Administration and court officials ...p>
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/huge-timber-haul-seized-kratie-raid-suspects-sought
As Cambodia marks press freedom day, journalists fear increasing restrictions following crackdown
<p>As the world celebrated press Freedom Day on Thursday, the mood among Cambodian journalists was subdued following a months-long crackdown on dissent in the media. The theme of this year’s event was “Keeping power in Check: Media, Justice and The Rule of Law”, and special attention ...p>
Huge timber busts in north
<p>The Mondulkiri provincial authority on Wednesday refuted claims that it had turned a blind eye to illegal timber trafficking to neighbouring Vietnam. The denial followed the discovery of over 500 pieces of first-grade timber by the National Military police in protected areas and local media ...p>
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/huge-timber-busts-north
JICA continues to aid the Kingdom
<p>The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will provide Cambodia a $30 million grant for the fourth phase of a flood protection project and canal and sewer system improvements in phnom penh. The JICA programme officer Say Bora told The post on Wednesday: “The Royal Government ...p>
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/jica-continues-aid-kingdom
Cambodian PM says won't allow any foreign military base in his country
<p>Cambodian prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday there would never be a foreign military base in his country, following a news report that China was lobbying for a naval base in southwest Koh Kong province. The Asia Times, citing unidentified diplomatic sources and analysts, reported ...p>
Prak Chan Thul
https://reut.rs/2FxQgeq
Capital’s apartments set to triple by 2030
<p>phnom penh’s Chamkarmon and Tuol Kork districts will continue to see investment in apartments, while Sen Sok will become a new target market, as the number of apartments in phnom penh is set to almost triple by 2030. According to a report issued on Tuesday by ...p>
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/capitals-apartments-set-triple-2030
Forest activists issue damning report of logging at Prey Lang
<p>Activist groups from four provinces jointly published a report showing that 41 per cent of new tree stumps at the prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary that was recorded over the last two years were the result of illegal logging. The 7th prey Lang Monitoring Report by ...p>
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-activists-issue-damning-report-logging-prey-lang
Kamsab removed from ports as Kingdom braces for loss of preferential trade access
<p>The Cambodian government has begun a series of reforms intended to strengthen economic independence and promote business in the Kingdom, as they prepare for the possible loss of preferential trade access to the EU and US in the coming months. prime Minister Hun Sen on ...p>
Ministry of Health issues series of precautions for the holidays
<p>The Ministry of Health has issued a statement advising the public to take precautions against rice wine and food poisoning, as well as H5N1 “bird flu” virus, during the upcoming Chinese and Khmer New Years. Released on Thursday and obtained by The post on Sunday, ...p>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-health-issues-series-precautions-holidays
Singapore investor pours US$500,000 into clean water in Cambodia
<p>A Singapore-based impact investment network is to pump half a million dollars into clean piped water for Cambodia’s rural population. Nexus for Development, through its debt-financing arm The pioneer Facility, signed a deal to provide a collateral-free loan for Khmer Water Supply Holding (KWSH), a social ...p>
Hannah Fernandez
https://www.eco-business.com/news/singapore-investor-pours-us500000-into-clean-water-in-cambodia/
Drought a ‘grave concern’
<p>Local communities in rural areas across the Kingdom have expressed grave concerns over the severe lack of water for their daily consumption amid a prolonged drought that has caused streams, creeks, lakes and ponds to gradually dry up. Due to high demand for water to ...p>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drought-grave-concern
