Official urges women’s economic empowerment to combat human trafficking
A senior official at the Ministry of Women’s Affairs has urged for human trafficking prevention by promoting women’s economic empowerment and identifying the needs and opportunities for women working in the informal economy. ...
Hun Sen asks Japan to keep supporting demining training
The Cambodian Senate has requested the Government of Japan, through the Ministry of Defence of Japan, to continue support for training Ukrainian deminers in Cambodia and to assist countries affected by landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO). ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501535791/hun-sen-asks-japan-to-keep-supporting-demining-training/
Cambodia launches tourist app enabling payments with KHQR
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on Monday launched the ‘Bakong Tourists App’ helping foreign tourists in Cambodia to make payments using the country’s universal KHQR code at over 3.3 million retail merchant outlets. ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501544895/cambodia-launches-tourist-app-enabling-payments-with-khqr/
Growing success: Govt’s efforts to improve farmers’ livelihoods yielding results
The government’s efforts to improve the livelihoods of farmers under the Pentagonal Strategy are proving successful, with 250 agricultural specialists having already assisted over 110,000 farmers in increasing their yield during the first stage of the programme. The second stage, which aims to recruit and ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501545565/growing-success-govts-efforts-to-improve-farmers-livelihoods-yielding-results/
Cambodia, China sharpen efforts to suppress transnational crime
Cambodia and China have agreed to enhance their current and future cooperation on security issues, with a focus on tracking down and repatriating those guilty of committing transnational crimes, while also strengthening the capacity of law enforcement officials in Cambodia. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-china-sharpen-efforts-to-suppress-transnational-crime
Forum planned to address prison overcrowding
The Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Prisons (GDP) is planning to hold a forum with relevant ministries, embassies, and human rights NGOs to find a comprehensive solution to ongoing overcrowding issues in prisons, as the number of inmates continues to rise. ...
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forum-planned-to-address-prison-overcrowding
Conservationists celebrate Vulture Awareness Day, report increasing population
The Cambodia Vulture Working Group (CVWG) has released its annual report for 2023, which reveals strong progress in the conservation of three critically endangered species: the White-rumped Vulture (Gyps bengalensis), Slender-billed Vulture (Gyps tenuirostris), and Red-headed Vulture (Sarcogyps calvus). ...
Electricity infrastructure
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Rural energy cooperative in Cambodia. Photo by Nomade Moderne, taken on 23 March 2006. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0The electricity distributed in Cambodia is partly generated within the country and partly imported. For many years, local generation was on a relatively small scale, and was ...
Biodiversity
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Biodiversity or Biological Resources: Various organisms in the same or different species and living organisms of all levels and sources, including land, marine and freshwater ecosystems, and the ecological relationships in which these ecosystems exist.32 Biodiversity is essential for most of the resources used by ...
Land sales and trades
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The legal framework surrounding land sales and transfers was obliterated by the 2007 Civil Code, leaving little legal guidance. Forced land sales and distress sales are a substantial cause of land tenure insecurity in Cambodia. They are a significant cause of landlessness, and it is ...
Bilateral development assistance
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Phum Doung Bridge over the Tatai River. Photo by Robert Tyabji, taken on 9 December 2010. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Bilateral aid is assistance given by a government directly to the government of another country or to a local NGO. The Royal Government of Cambodia ...
Fund playing hardball
The Global Fund has threatened to suspend or reduce health grants to Cambodia totalling more than $100 million if the Ministry of Health, the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STD (NCHADS) and NGO umbrella group MEDiCAM fail to meet a 30-day deadline to return ...
Kevin Ponniah and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fund-playing-hardball
Government Drops Challenge to Official Forest Cover Figure
The Forestry Administration on Thursday said it could not comment on the accuracy of new, satellite-generated maps that suggest the government has been vastly overstating the country’s forest cover. Open Development Cambodia, an open data website, on Wednesday published a series of maps using U.S. satellite ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-drops-challenge-to-official-forest-cover-figure-49264/
New Concerns as NEC Releases More Unsealed Polling Records
The National Election Committee (NEC) on Friday publicly opened 12 official polling records from Siem Reap province, but seven of them had been either torn or improperly sealed, sparking fresh concerns from the opposition CNRP that they had been tampered with. The unsealed packages—known as “safety ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/new-concerns-as-nec-releases-more-unsealed-polling-records-41524/
Laos seeks to soothe neighbors over Mekong dam
Laos is taking steps to convince neighboring countries of the merits of the planned Don Sahong hydropower project over Mekong River. Lao government officials organized a site visit on Sunday and Monday so that interested parties could see the site first-hand and get a sense of ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-11/10/c_132876218.htm
Industry Ministry to Be Split, New ‘Handicraft’ Focus
The National Assembly is set to dismantle the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy, rebuilding it as the Ministry of Mines and Energy and creating a new Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts, a senior CPP lawmaker confirmed on Friday. The move comes just a few weeks ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/industry-ministry-to-be-split-new-handicraft-focus-46782/
Rights Group Reaffirms Stance on Use of ‘Yuon’
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) on Wednesday released a statement seeking to clarify an open letter it issued on December 12, which accused CNRP President Sam Rainsy of making comments that are “both derogatory and discriminatory, againstpeople of Vietnamese origin.” The original letter, signed ...
Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rights-group-reaffirms-stance-on-use-of-yuon-49477/
New Association to Take on Illegal DVD Sales
The Motion Picture Association of Cambodia (MPAC), an independent body that aims to protect intellectual property, officially opened its doors Wednesday, vowing to put an end to the sale of pirated DVDs in Phnom Penh as its first order of business. “We are goingto serve everybody ...
Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-association-to-take-on-illegal-dvd-sales-48122/
Farmers weigh up US technology
US and Cambodian governments have presented a united front calling for the country’s agriculture industry to diversify, modernise and commercialise. US ambassador William E Todd and the Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Council for Agricultural and Rural Development Yim Chhay Ly led an ...
Chan Muy Hong and Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/farmers-weigh-us-technology
CPP Takes Steps to ‘Reform’ Human Rights Commission
Prime Minister Hun Sen passed a sub-decree late last year to expand the scope of his government’s Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) by creating new departments and placing rights monitors in villages, according to a copy of the Royal Gazette dated December 31 and distributed ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-takes-steps-to-reform-human-rights-commission-50942/