Siem Reap orders halt to state land grabs
<p>The Siem Reap provincial administration has ordered its relevant authorities to take legal measures against anyone illegally clearing and grabbing wetland, community land or natural protected areas. It also urged them to immediately stop issuing ownership letters and documents for such land. The announcement, obtained ...p>
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/siem-reap-orders-halt-state-land-grabs
Governor seeks World Bank’s help to tackle waste woes
<p>Due to the rapid growth of the Kingdom’s coastal city of Sihanoukville, the amount of rubbish being produced daily has skyrocketed from just 100 to 200 tonnes per day in 2015 to a staggering 1,000 tonnes today, prompting preah Sihanouk’s governor to request World Bank ...p>
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50649191/governor-seeks-world-banks-help-to-tackle-waste-woes/
Investment in construction hits $6.5 billion: Ministry
<p>Investment in construction in the Kingdom reached a new high during the first nine months of the year, amounting to $6.5 million, according to the latest government report. From January to September, investment in the sector grew by 34.7 percent compared with the same period last ...p>
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50652396/investment-in-construction-hits-6-5-billion-ministry/
Working group to assess media freedom through local lenses
<p>The Union of Journalist Federations of Cambodia has established a working group tasked with promoting media freedom and evaluating content to foster quality journalism in the Kingdom. The UJFC in a statement on Tuesday said the working group is dubbed the Cambodian Committee for Media Assessment ...p>
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50655949/working-group-to-assess-media-freedom-through-local-lenses/
Ministry of Labour informed the employers to allow the workers and employees to have 3 days off joining the election of members of the national assembly in the 6th legislature
<p>On 13 June 2018, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training released an announcement referencing to letter No.961 N.E.C singed on 12 June 2018 by the National Election Committee (NEC) to inform all owners, and employers of factory, manufacturing and all institutions to facilitate the ...p>
Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training
Kingdom’s rice exports down 1.5%
<p>The Kingdom’s rice exports saw a 1.5 per cent drop last year compared to 2017 due to the industry’s lingering challenges – the cost of production and competition with the international market. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries figures show that the country exported 626,225 ...p>
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-rice-exports-down-15
Trade deficit grows once more
<p>Cambodia’s trade deficit with the rest of the world continued to widen last year to $5.2 billion, as the Kingdom’s imports outstripped its exports once again, a National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) report released on Saturday said. The NBC figures revealed that the Kingdom imported $18.8 ...p>
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/trade-deficit-grows-once-more
Rice exports down 5%
<p>Rice exports last month were five per cent lower than in January last year, after a full year of decline in 2018. However, a sector insider said it is not a major concern because it is only the beginning of 2019. A report from the ...p>
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-exports-down-5
Sihanoukville’s new sewage systems ‘almost complete’
<p>Following public outcry after waste from construction projects in Sihanoukville was found being dumped directly into the sea, provincial authorities have said four sewage systems are now almost complete. The construction of sewage systems at four beaches was 80 per cent finished, while two pumping ...p>
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sihanoukvilles-new-sewage-systems-almost-complete
Press release on NTFP-based enterprise by the local community create incentives for social and environmental protection
<p>On 10 June 2019, the Ministry of Environment issued a press release expressing the significant contribution of non-timber forest producer groups and associations as social protection as well as their commitment to forest conservation and poverty eradication goals. About 68% of total rural households across ...p>
Ministry of Environment
Farmer finds 140 UXOs in Siem Reap
<p>A farmer found more than 100 UXOs while driving a tractor to plough his rice field in Siem Reap province on Monday. Colonel Sun Eng, Svay Loeu district police chief, said 45-year-old farmer Ken Kay was driving a tractor to plough his rice field located ...p>
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50615776/farmer-finds-140-uxos-in-siem-reap/
EdC draws angry complaints
<p>Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) director-general Keo Rattanak said on Thursday that during the first seven months of this year, the company had received 237 complaints on Facebook regarding electricity meters. Rattanak was speaking on Thursday morning at a press conference to address concerns about the ...p>
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/edc-draws-angry-complaints
S’ville port reports revenue up 16% in Q2, profits drop
<p>Cambodia Stock Exchange- (CSX-) listed Sihanoukville Autonomous port (pAS) saw a 16.55 per cent year-on-year increase in revenue during the second quarter of this year, according to an unaudited report filed on the exchange. In the second quarter of this year, the port earned $20.42 ...p>
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sville-port-reports-revenue-16-q2-profits-drop
Information access law to be finalised next month
<p>The Ministry of Information on Tuesday concluded the final revision by key ministries of the draft Law on Access to Information, without making any major amendments. It will be submitted to the Council of Ministers to be rubber-stamped by the end of September or beginning ...p>
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/information-access-law-be-finalised-next-month
Push for mangrove restoration in Kampot
<p>Civil society organisations along with local authorities in Kampot province have kick-started a campaign to plant 100,000 mangrove trees in eight communities in the province throughout September to December. The campaign was jointly organised between ActionAid, Children and Women Development Centre in Cambodia, Samaky Organisation, Kampot ...p>
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50639637/push-for-mangrove-restoration-in-kampot/
RCAF officials forced to pick oknha title or their position
<p>More than two-thirds of senior officials at the General Command Headquarters of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) have decided to relinquish their oknha titles to maintain their roles in the armed forces, an RCAF official said. Of 61 senior officials, 45 relinquished their title ...p>
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rcaf-officials-forced-pick-oknha-title-or-their-position
Opinion divided on current political situation in Kingdom
<p>With an opposition figure having announced his return to the Kingdom next month to “arrest” the prime minister and major tariff-free export agreements under consideration, opinions are divided on the current political situation in Cambodia. Government spokesperson phay Siphan said on Thursday that Cambodia was ...p>
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/opinion-divided-current-political-situation-kingdom
Cambodia’s ranking in World Bank index drops once again
<p>The latest release of the World Bank’s ease of doing business index puts Cambodia in the 144th spot out of 190 countries, a drop of six places from a year ago. The 2019 ease of doing business index ranked the Kingdom 138th out of 190 ...p>
Boeung Trabek residents to get land titles
<p>Nearly 300 families in phnom penh’s Boeung Trabek area will be granted land titles, a surprise move punctuated with a reminder to residents to cast a vote for the ruling party in July’s elections. The area in Chamkarmon district has been the site of land ...p>
Leonie Kijewski and Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/boeung-trabek-residents-get-land-titles
Digital economy needs 10 years
<p>Cambodia’s digital economy remains at a nascent stage and will need at least 10 years to grow and aim for a technology-driven economy, said Minister of Economy and Finance Aun pornmoniroth. Speaking at the national consultation workshop on policy and Direction of Cambodia’s Digital Economy ...p>
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/digital-economy-needs-10-years
