CDC approves three new investment projects worth over $23 million
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has given green light to three new investment projects with a total capital of $23.2 million. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501301040/cdc-approves-three-new-investment-projects-worth-over-23-million/
Areng community office forced to relocate
The Chumnoab commune authority in Koh Kong province’s Thmar Baing district yesterday ordered Areng Valley residents to move their community office to a new location to make way for its new office. According to a letter released yesterday by Chumnoab commune, commune officials asked Areng residents ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50115265/areng-community-office-forced-to-relocate/
Simple CPP’s supporters doubt on Hun Sen’s successor
Prime minister Hun Sen will be automatically nominated as the new president of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party but not clear for whom will succeed him as the new vice president. The CPP will hold its congress on June 20, 2015 to elect new president ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1HIiAUu
More investors plug in to Kingdom’s online growth
Cambodia’s fixed-line internet services market continues to attract new players despite limited infrastructure and a crowded playing field, new data show. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/more-investors-plug-kingdoms-online-growth
Prince Real Estate plans $300 mil project
China’s Prince Real Estate plans to invest $250-$300 million in a new project on Norodom Blvd. The new project will begin after the completion of the current condominium project which began last year and is due to be finished in 2018. Li Min, president of Prince Real ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23754/prince-real-estate-plans--300-mil-project/
Unions say gov’t blocking branch registrations
In March, the Ministry of Labor for the first time began requiring union leaders to submit proof they had no previous criminal convictions before they would be allowed to register a new union or local branch. Now, the country’s leading unions say worker representatives are struggling ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unions-say-govt-blocking-branch-registrations-66958/
Three more projects worth $18 million approved
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has approved three new investment projects with a total capital of $18 million. The new projects belong to new Target Footwear (Cambodia) Co., Ltd., Golden Island Garments (Cambodia) Co., Ltd., and Jin Long Quan (Cambodia) Co., Ltd., ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501227974/three-more-projects-worth-18-million-approved/
Ministry to streamline ID process
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng has sent a new set of procedures to local authorities aimed at speeding up the sluggish process of issuing new IDs. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-streamline-id-process
Provincial Capital To Be Built on Teak Forest
The government has granted 322 hectares of state-owned teak forest in the newly formed Tbong Khmum province to the Interior Ministry so that the land can be used to build a new provincial capital, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday. “The government has decided to use more ...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/provincial-capital-to-be-built-on-teak-forest-51553/
Wheelchair accessible tuk-tuk debuts
The maker of a new tuk-tuk prototype retrofitted with a wheelchair ramp hopes to usher in a new era of wheelchair-friendly travel in Phnom Penh. ...
Brent Crane
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wheelchair-accessible-tuk-tuk-debuts
Corporate social responsibility in Cambodia
Frontier and emerging economies such as Cambodia present companies with a specific set of challenges and risk, both real and perceived, beyond those found in more developed markets. A risk category getting ever- increasing attention is that of “social risk”, roughly defined as the risk of ...
Cambodia records 973 critically endangered white-shoulder ibis: survey
Cambodia has recorded some 973 white-shoulder ibis in its wild, making the country the stronghold for this critically endangered species, the conservationists group said Thursday. BirdLife International and its partners including Cambodian Forestry Administration, People Resources and Conservation Foundation, Wildlife Conservation Society and Worldwide Fund for ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2013-11/07/c_132868146.htm
Investigation Into Man Shot Dead During Protest Yields Nothing
A week after one man was shot dead and several others injured during a standoff between the armed forces and protesters, an investigation into who was responsible is no closer to conclusion, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Sunday. Security experts last week said the armed ...
Kuch Naren and Dene-Hern Chen
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/investigation-into-man-shot-dead-during-protest-yields-nothing-42911/
Twenty-Two Years On, Paris Peace Agreement Far From Realized
More than two decades after the Paris Peace Agreement, which was meant to open the way for peace and multiparty democracy in Cambodia, legal experts and human rights advocates said Tuesday the government has largely abandoned the vision of the accord. Speaking at a conference on ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/twenty-two-years-on-paris-peace-agreement-far-from-realized-45702/
World Toilet Day Highlights Sanitation Solutions
Tuesday marked World Toilet Day, the annual attempt to push the issue of open defecation back into the spotlight and highlight the preventable illnesses that are caused by what is still a very common practice in Cambodia, which has the lowest toilet coverage in Southeast ...
Simon Henderson and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/world-toilet-day-highlights-sanitation-solutions-47393/
"Crime is a crime, and it cannot be justified for other aspirations" States the Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson
On 3 March 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has posted a press statement stating by the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson, “Crime is a crime, and it cannot be justified for other aspirations” on their official website. In the press statement, the Foreign Ministry’s ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Thai bus firm to expand into Cambodia
Bus operator Nakhonchai Air plans to open three new services linking Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Kruewan Wongrakmit, managing director of Nakhonchai Air Co, said she hoped to launch new services. ...
Amornrat Mahitthirook
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/news/423422/nakhonchai-air-plans-expansion-into-cambodia
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new topic page on “SDG 9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on “SDG 9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure”, which is one of the 17 goals of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in both Khmer and English languages. Through ODC’s new topic pages on SDG 9, you ...
Uncle Elephant short film makes way to festival in New York City
Uncle Elephant, a short film that depicts Cambodia’s efforts to conserve Asian elephants and the rich resources in the Prey Lang area, will be showcased at the World Wildlife Film Festival on March 3 in New York, US. Wild Earth Allies (Cambodia) country director Tuy Serey ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/uncle-elephant-short-film-makes-way-festival-new-york-city
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new profile page on "Municipal/district/khan administration contact"
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new page on “Municipal/district/khan administration contact” under Access to public services. The spreadsheet contains information both in Khmer and English including service type, eligible customers, service standard, required document and references.=> Please click here to get in to “Municipal/district/khan administration ...