France fronts $359 million
The French Agency for Development (AFD) has pledged $359 million in grants and loans to Cambodia over the next three years, state news agency AKP reported Friday. ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/france-fronts-359-million
Cambodia agrees to support Malaysia’s proposed Asean Peacekeeping Force
Cambodia has agreed to support Malaysia’s proposed establishment of an Asean Peacekeeping Force, comprising of personnel from all 10 Asean member states to serve the United Nations. ...
M. Kumar
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/02/23/Asean-Hisham-Peackeeping/
Success story of data literacy training program: LY Vichheka
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In Cambodia, data-driven storytelling is almost non-existent and still a very new concept to most journalists, media branches, newsrooms and CSOs. In the newsrooms, data journalism is rarely produced due to limited data literacy.The project aimed to train people in data-driven storytelling. While there is ...
Big logging cartel alleged
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s brother Hun Neng and a Vietnamese state-owned rubber firm are involved in an illegal logging cartel involving several well-connected companies operating on a “massive scale” in the embattled Prey Lang forest, forest monitors working in the area allege. Video footage and photographs ...
May Titthara and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/big-logging-cartel-alleged
ASEAN needs more funding
ASEAN needs to seek more funds from development partners to develop infrastructure and connectivity in order to narrow the gap among member states, said Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday at the opening ceremony of the 44th ASEAN Economic Ministers meeting. The Premier said strengthening the connectivity ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012082858311/Business/asean-needs-more-funding.html
Statement by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on Myanmar's current situation
On 09 March 2021, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia released a statement joining effort with other ASEAN member states to assist the situation in Myanmar to normalcy in any roles and formats that are ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Ministry of environment opens new building
The Ministry of Environment on Monday inaugurated its palatial new headquarters in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district, the result of a state-private land swap. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-of-environment-opens-new-building-104401/
Cambodia-US militaries to strengthen maritime security
The United States promised to work with Cambodia on maritime security at a high-level meeting in Phnom Penh yesterday between senior officials from both countries. ...
Ban Sokrith
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24095/cambodia-us-militaries-to-strengthen-maritime-security/
Firms lose land rights
The government had reclassified four economic land concessions as state property, reclaiming almost 20,000 hectares earlier handed to private firms to use for rubber plantations. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5087586/firms-lose-land-rights/
Trade with US normal, says ministry
Despite a diplomatic row with the United States, the trade relationship between Cambodia and the US remains normal, said the Ministry of Commerce’s spokesperson yesterday. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5082797/trade-us-normal-says-ministry/
VN President to visit Cambodia
President Truong Tan Sang will pay a State visit to Cambodia on December 23-24 at the invitation of Cambodian King Preah Bat Samdech Preah Boromneath Norodom Sihamoni. ...
Vietnam Net News Staff
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/government/119157/vn-president-to-visit-cambodia.html
Vocational skills to join high school curriculum
Vocational skills are due to be added to the state curriculum next year in an attempt to improve graduates’ job prospects, Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron has said. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/vocational-skills-join-high-school-curriculum
Cambodia supports Australia refugee deal on 'humanitarian grounds'
A spokesman for the Cambodian Secretary of State says Cambodia supported the Abbott government’s $40 million refugee resettlement agreement on “humanitarian” grounds and to strengthen ties with Australia. ...
Sylvia Varnham O'Regan
http://bit.ly/1CbXf1o
Cambodia supports Australia refugee deal on 'humanitarian grounds'
A spokesman for the Cambodian Secretary of State says Cambodia supported the Abbott government’s $40 million refugee resettlement agreement on “humanitarian” grounds and to strengthen ties with Australia. ...
Sylvia Varnham O'Regan
http://bit.ly/1CbXf1o
PPWSA to almost double dividend
Phnom Penh’s state-owned water utilities firm – one of the only two companies listed on Cambodia’s fledgling stock exchange – will boost its annual dividend almost twofold. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/ppwsa-almost-double-dividend
Chinese tourists overtake S Koreans at Angkor
China has overtaken South Korea to become the largest tourist source to at the Angkor world heritage site, state-run Agency Kampuchea Press (AKP) reported yesterday. ...
Agence Kampuchea Press team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14009/chinese-tourists-overtake-s-koreans-at-angkor/
Prek Toal Bird Sanctuary in upwind
Battambang’s Environment Department stated that the Prek Toal Bird Sanctuary, on Tonle Sap Lake, has seen a 30 per cent increase in bird population this year. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50564095/prek-toal-bird-sanctuary-in-upwind/
Internet to be introduced at 5,000 schools
The Ministry of Education on Tuesday announced an ambitious five-year plan with Metfone to provide internet access to 5,000 state education institutions across the country. ...
Samoeurth Seavmeng and Taylor O'connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/internet-to-be-introduced-at-5000-schools-115056/
Court sentences land activist brothers to five years in prison
The Svay Rieng Provincial Court has sentenced three community activists to five years in jail for clearing trees on state land claimed by several dozen local farmers. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-sentences-land-activist-brothers-to-five-years-in-prison-95951/
SDIP set to mobilise infrastructure funding
Cambodia hopes to leverage its membership in the Sustainable Development Investment Partnership (SDIP) to access much-needed funding for large-scale infrastructure development, state officials have said. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sdip-set-mobilise-infrastructure-funding