Prime Minister Hun Sen: We need unity for strengthening the economy
Prime Minister Hun Sen called for the Royal Government officials in charge of hospitality service to pay high attention to fasten procedure and work effectively with private sectors to improve the country’s economy. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/prime-minister-hun-sen:-we-need-unity-for-strengthening-the-economy-8876
People power 'needed to sustain forests'
Asia has a unique opportunity to fight climate change and lift many more people out of poverty if it invests more in the communities living in its forests, experts said. ...
The Nation News Staff
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/People-power-needed-to-sustain-forests-30267420.html
Cabinet ministers endorse two key documents
The Cambodian cabinet plenary session was held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Hun Sen, at the Peace Palace, Phnom Penh, this morning, the State News Agency-AKP’s report. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cabinet-ministers-endorse-two-key-documents-8922
Illegal timber seized from cashew plantation
Forestry administration officers went to seize slabs of illegally logged timber from a cashew plantation in Thala Bori Vat district, Stung Treng on August 10. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50914546/illegal-timber-seized-from-cashew-plantation/
Cambodia, France to strengthen parliamentary cooperation
The Kingdom of Cambodia and the French Republic have pledged to continue strengthening their parliamentary cooperation. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50990629/cambodia-france-to-strengthen-parliamentary-cooperation/
MB selects strategic partner for commercial joint venture bank in Cambodia
MB and Shinsei Bank have signed a master agreement on the establishment of a commercial joint venture bank in Cambodia on Dec. 2. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50981817/mb-selects-strategic-partner-for-commercial-joint-venture-bank-in-cambodia/
Cambodia, EU discuss Eurocodes for construction design standards
Cambodia and EU have discussed the Eurocodes which facilitate the harmonisation of the service market in the construction sector, eliminating technical obstacles to trade. ...
King calls for more trees to be planted
King Norodom Sihamoni has expressed his wish for Cambodians to plant trees of all species in as many places as possible. ...
Sar Socheath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501109984/king-calls-for-more-trees-to-be-planted/
Cambodia’s garment manufacturers group worries over drop in purchase orders from West
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) on Wednesday expressed concern over a decline in purchase orders from Western countries for the second half of 2022. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501130181/cambodias-garment-manufacturers-group-worries-over-drop-in-purchase-orders-from-west/
Investigation into human trafficking to Cambodia continues: Government officials
Government officials reported on the issue of Vietnamese being tricked into working illegally in Cambodia at the Government’s regular press briefing in Hanoi on September 6. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501146555/investigation-into-human-trafficking-to-cambodia-continues-government-officials/
Carbon trading project insured for political risk
The US firm marketing what will likely be the first forest-based carbon trading scheme in Cambodia has bought $900,000 worth of political risk insurance to back the project, according to a media report. ...
Zsombor Peter, p.24
Tonle Sap Vietnamese ‘reluctant’ to move
While more than 100 ethnic Vietnamese families out of the 300 living in floating houses on the Tonle Sap River in Kampong Chhnang province are willing to be relocated, a small number are holding out. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tonle-sap-vietnamese-reluctant-move
Thousands demand compensation
About 1,000 people locked in a land dispute with Heng Development Company in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district yesterday descended upon the Boeng Kyang Commune Hall demanding compensation for their loss of land. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50564944/thousands-demand-compensation/
UN Rights envoy claims general election ‘not genuine’ without banned opposition party
Rhona Smith, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, has said that the country’s forthcoming national election will not be “genuine” without the participation of the banned Cambodia National Rescue Party. ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/un-rights-envoy-claims-general-election-not-genuine-without-banned-opposition-party/4374548.html
GDP pledges to have Kem Sokha released
The Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) held its first major rally of the campaign period in the capital on Tuesday while pushing a platform that included a promise to eliminate treason charges from the Criminal Code. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gdp-pledges-have-kem-sokha-released
First banana shipment to China confirmed
Longmate Agriculture Co has announced that it will conduct a test shipment of bananas to the Chinese market next month, which will be followed by the company’s first official shipment to China in February. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50564243/first-banana-shipment-to-china-confirmed/
Mine group clears unexploded devices
More than 1,500 units of unexploded ordnance (UXO) have been cleared from an old ammunition warehouse adjacent to the Kampong Cham provincial police station, said Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) director-general, Heng Ratana. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mine-group-clears-unexploded-devices
Eating to extinction—urban appetite for bushmeat sparks wildlife crisis in Cambodia
From baby elephants to sun bears and pangolins, escalating demand for bushmeat in towns and cities is taking an increasingly heavy toll on some of Cambodia’s most endangered wildlife. ...
Tim Knight
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-extinctionurban-appetite-bushmeat-wildlife-crisis.html
Sanctuary rangers impound timber
Environmental rangers on Monday seized a pile of timber hidden in the forest behind a house in Pou Chrei commune’s Me Pai village in Mondulkiri province’s Pech Chreada district following reports from villagers. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sanctuary-rangers-impound-timber
Poacher flees police in M’kiri after killing endangered deer
Forestry Administration officers confiscated the hacked-up body of an illegally hunted sambar deer in Mondulkiri province on Sunday, though the poacher avoided arrest by escaping into the protected forest where the bust took place. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poacher-flees-police-mkiri-after-killing-endangered-deer