Vietnam Plans to Add Border Gates Along Border With Cambodia
Vietnam plans to build 13 new border gates along the boundary line with Cambodia to help boost trade that has already been growing between the two Southeast Asian nations. Vietnam and Cambodia will work out plans to add 13 new border gates over the next seven ...
Nguyen Pham Muoi
http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2013/08/29/vietnam-plans-to-add-border-gates-along-border-with-cambodia/
Preah Vihear Residents Protest Future Eviction
Fifty-three families in Preah Vihear province’s Kulen district on Sunday protested outside the headquarters of a Malaysian company that is threatening to clear villagers’ farmland to make way for a rubber plantation, rights groups and officials said Monday. The families, who live in Srayong commune’s Srayong ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/preah-vihear-residents-protest-future-eviction-47273/
Update says rubber company up to old tricks
Vietnamese rubber firm Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) has failed to keep its commitments to address human rights and environmental abuses at its plantations in Cambodia, Global Witness said in a statement yesterday. In May, the London-based NGO published an investigation into two Vietnamese rubber companies ...
Phak Seangly and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/update-says-rubber-company-old-tricks
Vinamilk Sees Revenue Doubling in Overseas Expansion Push
Vietnam Dairy Products Joint-Stock Co., the nation’s largest dairy producer, is building a milk factory in Cambodia as it plans a global expansion to more than double annual revenue to $3 billion by 2017. The company known as Vinamilk is opening a plant in the capital ...
Bloomberg News Staff
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-30/vinamilk-sees-revenue-doubling-in-overseas-expansion-push.html
Ball’s in their court: CPP
Minister of Interior and Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng said yesterday that the ruling party was waiting for the opposition to contact them regarding negotiations to break the ongoing political deadlock. CNRP president Sam Rainsy yesterday said his party would “definitely” be contacting the CPP, ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ball%E2%80%99s-their-court-cpp
Cambodian opposition supporters protest against PM Hun Sen
An estimated 20,000 supporters of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) took to the streets in capital Phnom Penh Sunday afternoon to call on Prime Minister Hun Sen to hold a reelection or to step down following allegations of serious irregularities during the July ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/833497.shtml#.UreXdtIW2ls
Cambodia's ruling, opposition leaders still at odds over poll probe committee
Cambodia’s long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen and long-time opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Monday still disagreed over opposition’s request for an independent committee to look into the contested July 28 election, officials said. “The two leaders remained at odds over this point as the Cambodia National ...
Xinhuanet News
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-09/16/c_132725471.htm
UK Pedophile Came to Cambodia to Teach in Schools
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday charged convicted British pedophile Richard Fruin, 36, with sexually abusing two brothers, aged 8 and 11, at a guesthouse in Phnom Penh, court officials said. While the court has yet to decide Fruin’s fate, his case—and many similar ...
Kuch Naren and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/uk-pedophile-came-to-cambodia-to-teach-in-schools-46353/
Cambodia bans opposition from rallying in capital on Sunday
Cambodia on Friday issued an official letter to ban the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) from conducting a rally on Sunday afternoon at the capital’s Freedom Park. In a letter to the CNRP, Phnom Penh Municipal Governor Pa Socheatvong said”The Ministry of Interior does not ...
Xinhuanet News
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-03/28/c_133222041.htm
Police embezzlement claims ‘baseless,’ police official says
Svay Rieng provincial police Thursday publicly defended a district police official accused of corruption after conducting their own investigation into the claims. According to a report published by the local news website CEN on April 7, Svay Chrum district deputy police chief Meas Soeun embezzled money ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-embezzlement-claims-baseless-police-official-says-56704/
CNRP again campaigns on secret CPP defections
Opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha again divided campaigning responsibilities for the May 18 council elections Monday, with Mr. Rainsy touring parts of Kratie province in the morning and Mr. Sokha leading supporters in a march through Phnom Penh in the evening. In a meeting ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-again-campaigns-on-secret-cpp-defections-58125/
Future is bright for nation’s rice farmers
In the wake of concerns about the detrimental impact of the European Commission’s partial EBA withdrawal on Cambodia’s rice export industry, there is positive news. As the country’s most important crop, around 600,000 tonnes of jasmine and fragrant rice are exported every year, according to the ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50694317/future-is-bright-for-nations-rice-farmers
Cambodia faces supply chain crunch, no thanks to COVID-19
Southeast Asian suppliers from Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam have become increasingly important to global fashion brands. Nearly 20% of Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing’s disclosed core sewing factories are in Vietnam, though China is still home to about half. However, these suppliers now face a supply ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50694492/cambodia-faces-supply-chain-crunch-no-thanks-to-covid-19
Rosewood exports down
In the first nine months of 2015, exports of Cambodian rosewood to China – the Kingdom’s largest market for the protected species – have declined by as much as 95 per cent compared with the same period last year, data released by NGO Forest Trends ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rosewood-exports-down
Trading volume drops on new Cambodia Securities Exchange
The Cambodia Securities Exchange has seen a sharp decrease in action this week, with trading volume yesterday falling to 3,453 shares, down nearly 100 per cent from Monday. Despite the drop, which was accompanied by a strong shift from institutional to retail investors, experts have stressed the time ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012042755811/Business/trading-volume-drops-on-new-csx.html
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new map layer on Post office
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just published a new online resource detailing Cambodia post offices coverage in two languages, Khmer and English. With this new resource, the map illustrates the locations of post office as well as the spreadsheet with detailed information of the 30 locations ...
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new topic page on “Legal aid”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on “Legal aid.” This bilingual new topic page gives a quick overview of access to legal aid enshrined in the Constitution of Cambodia and the Code of Criminal Procedure, legal aid providers, and strategy for legal ...
Press release on solid waste management market assessment in rural Cambodia reveals urgent need for waste collection services
On 7 September 2023, IDE release the press release on Solid Waste Management Market Assessment in Rural Cambodia Reveals Urgent Need for Waste Collection Services.The finding showed there is evidence of an existing demand for improved SWM services among rural communities. The study has shown ...
iDE
Press release: Samdech Thipadei HUN Manet to address the UNGA with a focus on Cambodia’s socio-economic progress and the SDGs.
On 15 September 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release namely: Samdech Thipadei HUN Manet to address the UNGA with a focus on Cambodia’s socio-economic progress and the SDGs on their official website. According to the press, Samdech Thipadei HUN ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 07 new map features in Phnom Penh and Kandal province. This dataset contains information regarding the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties of some ...