Tourism Min joins hands with Cambodia to facilitate cross-border travels
The Thai Ministry of Tourism and Sports is set to form a joint working team with Cambodia in a bid to devise measures for promoting cross-border tourism. Tourism and Sports Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul disclosed that the ministry and related officials from Cambodia are preparing to ...
National News Bureau of Thailand News Staff
http://thainews.prd.go.th/centerweb/newsen/NewsDetail?NT01_NewsID=WNECO5711060010010
Court releases five workers arrested after factory clash
The Kompong Cham Provincial Court on Wednesday released five factory workers on bail three weeks after they were charged with instigating violence and destroying property during a protest that turned violent at the Juhui Footwear factory late last month, according to their lawyer. Clashes at the ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-releases-five-workers-arrested-after-factory-clash-72234/
Cambodia: Online sales spur China calls for more fruit
Chinese officials have called on Cambodia to increase fruit exports amid an expected rise in domestic demand for fresh produce fuelled by online sales. Feng Bo, deputy major of Ping Xiang city of Guangxi province, last week said fruit imports from ASEAN nations must increase from ...
FreshPlaza News Staff
http://www.freshplaza.com/article/131529/Cambodia-Online-sales-spur-China-calls-for-more-fruit
Cambodia parliament elevates opposition boss to shore up truce
Cambodia’s parliament endorsed opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Friday as minority leader with legislative rank equal to Prime Minister Hun Sen, a rare concession by the long-serving premier to preserve a fragile political truce. The arrangement is part of a deal struck in July to end ...
Prak Chan Thul
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-2880192/Cambodia-parliament-elevates-opposition-boss-shore-truce.html
Oil deal before petroleum law
Singaporean energy firm KrisEnergy and the Cambodian government will conclude their long-drawn negotiations for extraction of oil from offshore oil field Block A before the passage of an upcoming law for the petroleum sector. The petroleum law, which will be the country’s first legislation governing ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/oil-deal-petroleum-law
From power importer to self-reliance
Much of Cambodia’s electrical infrastructure was destroyed or heavily damaged during its civil war. Starting almost from scratch, the country has relied heavily on imported electricity while it rebuilds infrastructure and develops new energy sources. Keo Rottanak, director-general of Electricite du Cambodge (EdC), which controls ...
Tim Vutha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/11844/from-power-importer-to-self-reliance/
K Krom mark 66 years since Cochinchine pact
Some 10 months after leading protests during which Vietnamese flags were burned outside the country’s embassy in Phnom Penh, members of the Khmer Krom community took a more conciliatory approach Thursday as they marked the 66th anniversary of France’s formal splitting of Cochinchine. Thousands of monks ...
Sek Odom and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/k-krom-mark-66-years-since-cochinchine-pact-85037/
Farm produce sales discourage potential investors
The agriculture industry has lost its luster among industrial manufacturers and service providers. Tycoons are quietly withdrawing money from agriculture projects, just several years after pouring big money into the sector. Just a few years ago, Do Van Minh, Gemadept’s CEO, said that growing rubber ...
Vietnamnet News Staff
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/133619/farm-produce-sales-discourage-potential-investors.html
Thousands drop out from national exams
After last year’s crackdown on high school exit-exam cheats, the number of students who have registered to take the exam this August has dipped, but with new monitoring initiatives in place, education officials said they are optimistic the pass rate will increase. The 88,488 candidates planning ...
Sen David and Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thousands-drop-out-national-exams
Family convicted of ‘violence’ over land scuffle
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday convicted a couple and their daughter of using violence against a property owner, although the plaintiff dropped his complaint against them last month. Ly Srea Kheng, 58, has battled tycoon Khun Sear and his eponymous import-export company over a ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/family-convicted-of-violence-over-land-scuffle-86758/
Capital battles blazes
A rash of fires ripped through the capital on Monday evening and yesterday, with the most devastating one destroying 36 houses across a packed slum next to the Monivong bridge in the southern district of Chbar Ampov.The Chbar Ampov fire began to burn at about ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-battles-blazes
Sihanoukville rents plummet as land prices stay stagnant
Sihanoukville, a once-sleepy seaside city in the Kingdom’s coastal province that has now become a ballooning enclave for Chinese-run construction and real estate, is now seeing house rental prices plummeting and land values stagnating. ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50687804/sihanoukville-rents-plummet-as-land-prices-stay-stagnant
Australian government provides $10 million for Cambodia’s landmine clearing
Australian government provided $10 million for landmine clearing in the Kingdom. The aid was announced when new Australian Ambassador to Cambodia Pablo Chiho Kang today met with Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn at the ministry. ...
Rangers rescue elephant cow from mud pit
Park rangers in Mondulkiri province’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary yesterday rescued a wild elephant cow which had been stuck for hours after falling into a mud pit. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50689590/rangers-rescue-elephant-cow-from-mud-pit
Immigration Dept says 400,000 Chinese have left because of online gambling ban
The General Department of Immigration yesterday reported hundreds of thousands of Chinese nationals left the country after Prime Minister Hun Sen in August issued a directive banning all online and arcade gambling operations. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50675447/gdi-attributes-mass-departure-to-online-gambling-ban
Garment, footwear, and travel goods exports valued at $9.3 billion
Cambodia exported garments, footwear and travel goods worth $9.35 billion in 2019, a year-on-year increase of 11 percent, according to a report from the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50692028/garment-footwear-and-travel-goods-exports-valued-at-9-3-billion
Rubber exports increase 17%
Cambodia exported 27,445 tonnes of rubber worth $40 million in the first month of the year, up 17 per cent compared to the same period last year, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries official Khuon Phalla told The Post on Thursday. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rubber-exports-increase-17
Japan aid to improve Kingdom’s agriculture, health and youth sectors
The Japanese government today donated a total of $890,471 for the development of irrigation systems, maternal and child healthcare, and youth capacity building in the Kingdom. ...
Cambodia inaugurates China-funded national road 58
Cambodia on Wednesday inaugurated the China-funded National Road 58, which is a crucial road for economic and tourism development in Western provinces. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50695912/cambodia-inaugurates-china-funded-national-road-in-western-provinces
Rice exports up despite global fears surrounding Covid-19
Cambodian rice exports to international markets grew sharply by more than 21 per cent in the first two months of this year despite fears of the Covid-19 pandemic causing global concern. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-exports-despite-global-fears-surrounding-covid-19