Government investigates rice sector
<p>Following a Monday announcement from the Agriculture Ministry that provincial officials must ensure that the country’s rice millers pay adequate prices for rice paddy, the ministry followed up yesterday, saying that working groups had started discussing the situation with rice millers and rice farmers. In a ...p>
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29775/government-investigates--rice-sector/
Youth to protest Vietnam land grabs
<p>The Cambodian Youth party (CYp) is urging the public to join a mass demonstration on October 10 against Vietnam, due to what they say is a continued encroachment by the neighboring country on Cambodian territory through two settlements currently under construction. In an announcement sent out ...p>
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30212/youth-to-protest-vietnam-land-grabs/
Sub-decree approval rules amended
<p>From now on, only certain sub-decrees will need to be pored over by the cabinet before they are signed by prime Minister Hun Sen, the premier told a session of the cabinet on Friday morning, although failing to specify what the selection criteria would be. Mr. ...p>
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30162/sub-decree-approval-rules-amended/
Results on the evaluation of 9 ELC companies
<p>According to a notification letter No. 1022 dated on 10 September 2015, the Council of Ministers decided on a reduction of the investment lifespans to 50 years for 9 economic land concessions (ELCs) companies that hold investment rights over total areas of 21,839 hectares in ...p>
Ministry of Environment
Cambodian political repression meets American human rights law in Long Beach
<p>Hun Sen, prime Minister of Cambodia, is the president of the Cambodian people’s party (Cpp), the country’s ruling party since 1979. In recent years, when an opposition party, the Cambodia National Rescue party (CNRp), started gaining momentum and making their voices heard, Sen’s government found ...p>
Mary Wald
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-wald/cambodian-political-repre_b_9657752.html
MARDeC technical cooperation project agreement signing ceremony
<p>On 6th June in Fisheries Administration, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), an agreement was signed by H.E Nao Thuok, Secretary of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Cambodia and Mr. Adachi Itsu, Chief Representative of JICA Cambodia Office for implementation of ...p>
Japan International Cooperation Agency
Environmental groups given chance to address PM Hun Sen at forum
<p>With a mixture of hope and hard-earned scepticism, environmentalists from around the country will today get an opportunity most had never dreamed possible: an audience with the prime minister. About 500 civil society activists have been invited to phnom penh for the first National Forum ...p>
Cristina Maza and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environmental-groups-given-chance-address-pm-hun-sen-forum
Cambodian workers released from detention in Thailand
<p>Nearly 30 Cambodians detained in Thailand since early July were released last week, though four remain in detention, an official at the Cambodian Embassy in Bangkok said. The migrant workers – 20 women and 14 men – were arrested on July 7 and taken to a ...p>
Sen David and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodian-workers-released-detention-thailand
Angkor Wat families get solar power
<p>In an effort to make the area look better and promote environmental practices amongst the communities living within the Angkor Archaeological park in Siem Reap province, the Apsara Authority, which is tasked with maintaining the temple area, is pushing the use of solar panels. Unsightly electric ...p>
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29042/angkor-wat-families-get--solar-power/
Rice loans to be disbursed soon
<p>Cambodia’s beleaguered rice millers can now breathe a sigh of relief after a tumultuous three months in what seemed to be government ineptitude in disbursing an emergency loan of $30 million to prevent them from becoming insolvent. In June, the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) announced that ...p>
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29421/rice-loans-to-be-disbursed-soon/
Heavy rains to continue
<p>Five days of heavy rain flooded rice fields in prey Veng and Svay Rieng provinces and some residential areas around phnom penh, causing capital residents to question when the city’s long-in-the-works sewage upgrade will finally be completed. More rainfall is expected to flood the country’s northern ...p>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/heavy-rains-continue
Guidelines on the prevention of forest fire
<p>The ministry of agriculture, forestry and fisheries has identified guidelines on the prevention of forest fire amid arrival of dry season. All seven point guidelines have identified the main causes and actions leading to forest fire, relevant regulations and legal actions against offenders. The ministry ...p>
The ministry of agriculture, forestry and fisheries
Top of the class – the minister who rebuilds systems
<p>After almost 15 years working at various economic-related agencies, primarily the ministry of economy and finance, H.E. Hang Chuon Naron has been at the forefront of transforming Cambodia’s broken economy into one that is more open and competitive. Since 2013 he has been minister of ...p>
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20804/top-of-the-class-----the-minister-who-rebuilds-systems/
New push from the Ministry of Women’s Affairs to activate government response to end violence against women
<p>On 04 July 2016, The Ministry of Women’s Affairs led a special meeting with representatives from 15 line ministries and civil society organizations to boost the implementation and monitoring of the Second National Action plan to prevent Violence against Women, the key national policy to address intimate ...p>
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
JICA moots city transit system
<p>The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is helping Cambodia conduct a feasibility study on an automated gateway transit system (AGT) to overcome phnom penh’s daily gridlock, caused by traffic congestion, during peak hours. Hideaki Wase, an urban transportation advisor in JICA, told Khmer Times yesterday that ...p>
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28026/jica-moots-city-transit-system/
High waters close Ta Mok bridge
<p>Authorities in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district have suspended traffic on the Ta Mok bridge since Monday night after the water level rose beyond the warning level because of heavy rain. The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology said yesterday that traffic was suspended from ...p>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29707/high-waters-close-ta-mok-bridge/
Plan to certify organic quality
<p>GIZ Cambodia, a branch of Germany’s international development agency, signed an agreement yesterday with local organic food retailer Khmer Organic Cooperative to provide technical support to develop organic vegetable production and to assist the firm in obtaining certification for its products. The agreement calls for the ...p>
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/plan-certify-organic-quality
Unions budge from $180 wage
<p>Unions decided to lower their demand for $179.60 per month as the new minimum wage for the garment, footwear and textile industries in 2017, telling employers yesterday that they were dropping the figure by $2 – matching the $2 employers added to their figure earlier ...p>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29840/unions-budge-from--180-wage/
The deforestation continues
<p>The high-pitched whine of chainsaws drowned out the sound of birds and bugs you usually hear during any trek through prey Lang forest. What was once an area full of animals scurrying under the shade of gargantuan trees is now largely populated by stumps and ash. The ...p>
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28863/the-deforestation-continues/
Police admit logging failure
<p>The National Committee for Forest Crime prevention has admitted that despite claims from a variety of high-level government officials that deforestation and illegal logging had been stopped entirely, the illegal timber trade was still ravaging the country’s forests. In June, Environment Minister Say Samal claimed the ...p>
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29769/police-admit-logging-failure/
