Transport master plan nearing completion
The government has nearly finished the draft of the Intermodal Transport Master Plan 2021-2030 (the Plan), a Ministry of Economy and Finance press release said on Wednesday. The draft seeks to promote Cambodia’s connectivity, reduce transportation and logistics costs, integrate the Kingdom into the region
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/transport-master-plan-nearing-completion
Japan-Cambodia ink clean water supply agreement
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn and Japanese Ambassador Masahiro Mikami on Wednesday signed a grant agreement for ¥2.4 million ($22 million) on the “Project for Expansion of Clean Water Supply System in Pursat Province”. The agreement, finalised at the Ministry of
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japan-cambodia-ink-clean-water-supply-agreement
Chinese firms seek investments in coconut farming in Cambodia
A group of investors from the Chinese province of Hainan is now in the Kingdom exploring opportunities in coconut farming. The delegation met yesterday with Minister of Agriculture Veng Sakhon in Phnom Penh to discuss the coconut sector in the Kingdom and announce their intention
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50667072/chinese-firms-seek-investments-in-coconut-farming-in-cambodia/
Life in the Koh Kong jungle through the eyes of forest rangers
A photography exhibit chronicling the lives of forest rangers working toward the environmental protection of the jungles in Koh Kong province will be displayed on Saturday at the capital’s 5 Drunk Men sky bar. The photos are to be sold to, with the profits going to
Raksmey Hong
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/lifestyle-arts-culture/life-koh-kong-jungle-through-eyes-forest-rangers
PM reminds Cambodians of freedoms on Human Rights Day
Prime Minister Hun Sen took to Facebook on the 71st International Human Rights Day on Tuesday to remind Cambodians that the rights and freedoms they currently enjoyed came from liberation from the genocidal Pol Pot regime on January 7, 1979. He said under the Khmer
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/pm-reminds-cambodians-freedoms-human-rights-day
Gov't Continues to Privatize State Properties
The privatization of state-owned land continued last month with several large government- owned plots in Phnom Penh transferred to state-private property, according to a sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen.
According to the document signed May 24, the state-owned properties, measuring 40,998 square meters in
Gov't to Award Three Communal Land Titles to Ethnic Bunong
Three ethnic Bunong communities in Mondolkiri province may soon receive long-awaited collective property titles, which would bring to six the total number of communal land titles granted to the country’s indigenous people since the Land Law was created in 2011.
And while the possible issuing of the three
Investors Look For Hotel Opportunities In Southeast Asia
Hotel transaction volumes in Asia hit US$620 million (Bt18.18 billion) in the first quarter, up 190 per cent from the same period last year, and properties in Southeast Asia are attracting investor attention, according to real-estate services company Jones Lang LaSalle.
“Rising visitor arrivals, robust trading
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NGM4ODkxZTEzMjg
Trafficked numbers rising
Their stories have become all too familiar – Cambodian fishermen enslaved on fishing boats after being promised lucrative jobs overseas. They’re also becoming increasingly common.
Anti-trafficking NGOs told the Post this week that they have noticed an exponential increase in the number of trafficking complaints from
Danson Cheong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052265773/National/trafficked-numbers-rising.html
Paths to Parliament Cleared for CPP’s Powerful Sons
Despite failing to win enough votes in the July 28 election to become lawmakers, at least three sons of some of the ruling CPP’s most high-ranking members will still take up seats in Parliament when the next government is formed, senior CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap
Neou Vannarin
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/paths-to-parliament-cleared-for-cpps-powerful-sons-38716/
Cambodia's rice exports up 125 pct in first half of 2013
Cambodia has seen a sharp rise in the exports of milled rice in the first six months of this year thanks to increasing demand on international markets, an official said Wednesday.
The figures, from the single window secretariat for facilitating milled rice exports, showed that the
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-07/10/c_132529640.htm
Information Minister Orders TVK to Scrap Tedious Coverage
If Information Minister Khieu Kanharith is any indication, even the government is tiring of state television.
Mr. Kanharith announced on Facebook on Wednesday that he had personally ordered the state-run TVK channel to stop broadcasting the comings and goings of state officials on foreign excursions.
Mr.
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/information-minister-orders-tvk-to-scrap-tedious-coverage-47680/
China provides 4 container scanners to Cambodia
The government of China on Monday delivered four units of container scanning machines to Cambodia for using at international border checkpoints.
Speaking after the signing ceremony, Keat Chhon said the four container scanning machines, totally costing 13.8 million U.S. dollars, are China’s grant aid to
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-08/19/c_132643940.htm
CPP fills seats with … CPP
Ruling party lawmakers yesterday unanimously voted to fill each of the National Assembly’s nine commissions with their own members.
The vote was made without the presence of the opposition, which has been boycotting parliament since its opening late last month.
Among the five Cambodian People’s Party members
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-fills-seats-%E2%80%A6-cpp
SISHA internal audit identifies no wrongdoing
Anti-human trafficking NGO SISHA announced the results of its internal audit yesterday, attempting to clear financial misconduct allegations made earlier this year.
Retired police detective and founder of the NGO Steve Morrish came under fire in August after two of the charity’s former employees leaked information
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sisha-internal-audit-identifies-no-wrongdoing
Disenfranchised Votes Point to Potentially Different Election Result
The Washington-based National Democratic Institute (NDI) on Tuesday shared initial findings from a survey carried out across the country in the wake of July’s national election, which found that one-third of the country’s eligible voters could not vote on election day.
Laura Thornton, the NDI’s country
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/latest/disenfranchised-votes-point-to-potentially-different-election-result-46254/
EU to ban fish imports from Belize, Guinea and Cambodia
Fish imports from Belize, Guinea and Cambodia are to be banned from the European Union, and three more countries have been warned their imports are in danger, in the first major sanction against countries that allow illegal fishing operations to carry on under their countries’
Fiona Harvey
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/26/eu-ban-fish-import-belize-guinea-cambodia-illegal-fishing
Facebook safe: government
Although some of its users have made a habit of posting content critical of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, Facebook will be not be banned or restricted in any way, Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith said on Saturday.
Just days after Metfone customers were not able
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/facebook-safe-government
Rainsy Lays Out Demands for Next Round of Negotiations
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Sunday said that the CNRP would formally appeal to the CPP this week to resume negotiations to end the ongoing political deadlock, but said that the CPP would have to meet the CNRP’s conditions for a new round of talks.
“Now
Colin Meyn and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/rainsy-lays-out-demands-for-next-round-of-negotiations-45990/
Local Groups Say They Must Protect Forest, as Government Fails
Local watchdog groups say they have been forced to take forest protection into their hands, due to a failure of government to do so.
“As we have seen: the National Assembly, the Senate and the government do not work,” Ouch Leng, head of the Cambodian Human
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/local-grouos-say-they-must-protect-forest-as-government-fails/1800429.html
