Local CSOs discuss ELCs, environmental damage with China
Over 20 Cambodian NGOs, Chinese government officials, public and private Chinese companies, and Chinese NGOs held a roundtable discussion on Friday in Phnom Penh to talk about Chinese investment in Cambodia. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25748/local-csos-discuss-elcs--environmental-damage-with-china/
Disgraced general loses supreme court verdict
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a guilty verdict and 20-year prison sentence handed down to a former military general and an accomplice in 2013 for large-scale drug trafficking. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/disgraced-general-loses-supreme-court-verdict-114071/
New condo aimed at local investors
Star5 Development and the Skyland Company have formed a joint venture, with approximately $20 million in investment capital, to develop an affordable condominium named Skyland Condo aimed at local investors. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28095/new-condo-aimed-at-local-investors/
Government payroll to grow
The government will recruit more than 12,000 civil servants and teachers and an additional 20,000 service contractors for 2017, according to an announcement by the Ministry of Public Function. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-payroll-grow
Illicit wood seized despite opposition
Nearly 20 cubic metres of timber were seized by local authorities in Stung Treng’s Thala Barivat district yesterday, despite alleged interference by a military police officer from Preah Vihear province, police said. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illicit-wood-seized-despite-opposition
VSO project aids fishing communities
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) completed a two-year project in Kampong Chhnang and Kampong Thom provinces that created 20 fishing communities and directly influenced the lives of more than 75,000 Cambodians. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vso-project-aids-fishing-communities
Minister urges more help for addicts
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has warned the number of drug users in the country has reached 20,000, as he urged authorities to do more to tackle the problem. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36579/minister-urges-more-help-for-addicts/
World Bank aid for poor
The World Bank has approved provision of $20 million to help poor and vulnerable families in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh increase their income, build skills and construct small-scale community infrastructure. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35857/world-bank-aid-for-poor/
Migrant workers not registered for election
Most of the 20 percent of eligible voters who did not register before the deadline yesterday are migrant workers, the National Election Committee (NEC) concluded, echoing the opposition and civil society groups. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32645/migrant-workers-not-registered-for-election/
Cambodia's tax revenue reaches nearly 1 bln USD in 11 months
The Cambodia’s General Department of Taxation reported Friday that it collected 959 million U.S. dollars in taxes during the first eleven months of 2014, up 20 percent over the same period last year. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=258244
PPWSA profits up, pays $2.2M dividend
The Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority – one of two listed companies on the Cambodia Securities Exchange – earned an after-tax net profit of $11.43 million last year, up 20 per cent from 2013. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppwsa-profits-pays-22m-dividend
200 workers protest after factory blocks return
About 200 garment workers protested outside the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday after 20 colleagues were turned away when trying to enter the Smart Shirts factory earlier the same morning, union leaders said. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/200-workers-protest-after-factory-blocks-return-78850/
City Hall receives first batch of buses
City Hall yesterday announced that the first 20 buses donated by the Japanese government through the Japanese International Cooperation Agency have been received, while the remaining 60 will arrive in the upcoming months. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50505755/city-hall-receives-first-batch-of-buses/
Agro sector on a growth path
The tonnage of Cambodia’s agricultural exports increased by over 20 per cent last year, led by a surge in shipments of dried cassava chips, according to the latest Ministry of Agriculture data. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/agro-sector-growth-path
Villagers, coffee firm battle over Mondulkiri land
Tensions flared yesterday between 20 Bunong ethnic minority villagers and a coffee company operating on an economic land concession in Mondulkiri’s Pech Chreada district, prompting local authorities to investigate. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-coffee-firm-battle-over-mondulkiri-land
US gives $5.8m to preserve Khmer Rouge records
The United States has agreed to provide an additional $5.8 million to the Documentation Center for Cambodia to preserve Khmer Rouge-era historical records over the next 20 years. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37192/us-gives--5-8m-to-preserve-khmer-rouge-records/
Vietnamese workers face deportation
The Immigration Department has detained 27 Vietnamese migrants suspected of being in Cambodia illegally. The undocumented workers, 20 men and seven women, were arrested on Friday in Phnom Penh’s Toul Kork district. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37686/vietnamese-workers-face-deportation/
Union Plan Massive Demonstration in Phnom Penh
Four of Cambodia’s independent and opposition-aligned unions have informed the Phnom Penh municipality that they plan to gather 20,000 people on May 1 to march from Olympic Stadium to the National Assembly. ...
Another Prey Veng market fire causes $3 million in damage
A market fire in Prey Veng province’s Kompong Trabek district destroyed more than 200 stalls early Wednesday morning, spreading to more than 20 adjacent houses and causing almost $3 million in damage, officials said. ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/another-prey-veng-market-fire-causes-3-million-in-damage-73206/
Strikers claim shots fired
Police threatened workers and fired shots into the air as a dispute involving about 800 Cambodian workers at Phatthana Seafood Co Ltd in Thailand’s Songkhla province escalated yesterday, a workers’ representative said. Sok Sorng said “many police” had threatened workers with guns as more than 1,000 ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012041055531/National-news/strikers-claim-shots-fired.html