Eviction pain lingers in Phnom Penh
Three years after authorities demolished the last houses in Phnom Penh’s Group 78 community, evictees relocated to the outskirts of the capital are still struggling, the Housing Rights Task Force said yesterday. More than 200 members of the Group 78 community gathered close to the site ...
Seven people arrested in land dispute in Oddar Meanchey
Human rights officers in Oddar Meanchey province says seven people have been arrested in connection with a land dispute with a rubber plantation company in Trapeang Prasat commune, Trapeang Prasat district. ...
Khut Sokun
https://www.vodkhmer.news/2022/09/15/7-people-arrested-in-land-dispute-in-oddar-meanchey/
Rice exporters face greater scrutiny from China
China has set a yearend deadline for Cambodia to submit a list of all Cambodian rice exporters so that Chinese inspectors can evaluate whether they can fully meet food safety laws in a market Cambodian exporters are hoping to increase exports to, according to an ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18623/rice-exporters-face-greater-scrutiny-from-china/
CPP plans to reallocate legislative, local council seats get assembly nod
With the fate of the CNRP still in the Supreme Court’s hands, the National Assembly yesterday paved the way for all of the main opposition party’s seats to be handed over to a smattering of smaller parties and, at the local level, to the ruling ...
Mech Dara and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-plans-reallocate-legislative-local-council-seats-get-assembly-nod
TRC wants SIM guarantee
Cambodia’s telecommunications regulator has called on seven mobile network operators to give an assurance by September 1 that they have registered all their subscribers in accordance with a directive from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication and the Ministry of interior. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5078934/trc-wants-sim-guarantee/
Thailand moves on double tax treaty with Cambodia
Thailand is moving forward to strike a double tax treaty with Cambodia, to cope with increasing cross-border trade. Sathit Rungkasiri, director general of the Revenue Department, said it is a priority to expand the double tax treaty with all countries in Asean to prepare for the ...
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Double-tax-treaty-with-Cambodia-eyed-30182041.html
Union warns of general strike if wage hike too small
The Cambodian Confederation of Unions warned Thursday of a general strike if proposed increases in monthly salaries are too small. “Cambodia will have a big strike exploding across all clothing and footwear factories if minimum wages are raised by only 10 percent from the basic $61,” ...
Standards out for tourism officials
Housekeeping and front offices at hotels around Cambodia are set to change as the country prepares to adopt regional standards that all ASEAN nations are trying to put in place. The draft document on housekeeping and front-office standards, and related training courses, had been finalised by Tourism ...
Workers race to finish grand stupa for Chea Sim
The Labor Ministry on Friday announced that formal negotiations to set a new minimum wage for the country’s all-important garment sector—now at $128 a month—will begin in July, reviving the same schedule for talks it used with unions and employers for the first time last ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12289/workers-race-to-finish-grand-stupa-for-chea-sim/
City mulling midnight curfew for clubs, bars
At midnight in some parts of Phnom Penh, the party is just getting started.But on Monday, City Hall said it was considering ordering all businesses that serve alcohol to close their doors by 12 a.m. to reduce fatal traffic accidents caused by drunk drivers. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-mulling-midnight-curfew-for-clubs-bars-89119/
Cambodia eyes free trade agreement with Japan
Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak urged all relevant parties to work together on the possibility of establishing a free trade agreement between Cambodia and Japan following a remarkable surge in exports of Cambodian products to Japan this year. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501306688/cambodia-eyes-free-trade-agreement-with-japan/
Cambodian PM welcomes election observers
Prime Minister Hun Sen has extended warm welcome to all the observers for the upcoming National Election in Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501328046/cambodian-pm-welcomes-election-observers/
Cambodian, U.S. leaders hold talks on old debt, human rights
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and visiting U.S. President Barack Obama met here on Monday to discuss a number of issues including old debt, human rights, democracy and forced evictions in Cambodia, a senior Cambodian official said. Hun Sen also raised the issue of old ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-11/20/c_123972558.htm
Detained British Biofuels Chairman Proclaims His Innocence
The British former Chairman of a troubled biofuel firm, who is in Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prision on forgery charges, has claimed he is the victim in the case for which he is awaiting trial. Gregg Fryett was arrested in Phnom Penh on March 23rd and ...
Myanmar rice is back
While exports of Cambodian rice have been booming, analysts are predicting that new competition from Myanmar could eventually rain on the parade. Cambodia exported nearly 176,000 tonnes of rice in the first six months of the year, a 125 per cent increase from the same period ...
Poverty falling at rapid pace, says UNDP
Poverty in Cambodia has fallen dramatically over the last two decades, and continues to fall at a rapid pace, said a high official of the UNDP to Khmer Times yesterday. all the poverty rateslines, either based on income and other dimensions, have seen big reductions at a ...
Kazi Mahmood
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50539134/poverty-falling-at-rapid-pace-says-undp/
Government warns of bird flu
The Ministry of Health has called on all travelers to beware of a new strain of bird flu that is now spreading in South Korea and Japan. in a notice released yesterday, the Health Ministry said the discovery of H5N6, a new strain of the bird ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33918/government-warns-of-bird-flu/
Sokha: CNRP will win elections
Kem Sokha has claimed official and unofficial opinion polls show the opposition CNRP is on track to win a majority at the commune elections in June.Addressing supporters at a fundraising drive in Auckland, New Zealand last week, the opposition leader said his party was making ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37388/sokha--cnrp-will-win-elections/
Cases of malaria nearly doubled over past year
Health Ministry officials said the number of malaria cases in 2017 increased nearly 100 percent if compared to the previous year during a meeting to set a strategy to reduce the rate in 2018. The National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control issued an official ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50110503/cases-malaria-nearly-doubled-past-year/
Greed for land consumes lakes, forests: Environment 2022
Timber, monkeys, orchids, sand: Cambodia’s protected areas and natural resources continue to be a lucrative source of income, in spite of all the promises (and international funding) to protect them. Above all else, the hunger for land has consumed Cambodians and foreigners alike, triggering a constant ...
Danielle Keeton-Olsen
https://vodenglish.news/greed-for-land-consumes-lakes-forests-environment-2022/