Indonesian Embassy holds batik, jewellery workshops in Siem Reap
The Indonesian Embassy in Cambodia introduced the art of batik making and Indonesian jewellery styles by hosting two major workshops in Siem Reap. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501080405/indonesian-embassy-holds-batik-jewellery-workshops-in-siem-reap/
Crackdown on illegal fishing crime in Kratie
The officials of Kratie strengthened crackdown on illegal fishing practices and seized illegal fishing equipment. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501231598/crackdown-on-illegal-fishing-crime-in-kratie/
JETRO offers support to boost Cambodia’s exports
Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) will strengthen cooperation with Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce to help the Kingdom fully tap its export potential. ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501562662/jetro-offers-support-to-boost-cambodias-exports/
Multilateral development assistance
Mr Il Oeur, director of Analysing Development Issues Centre (ADIC), a domestic NGO and WorldFish partner in Cambodia, leads a local dialogue session. Photo by WorldFish, taken on 27 June 2013. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Multilateral aid is funding that is funneled between more than ...
Data literacy training for public health
On 15-16 February 2021, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) successfully conducted a training workshop on “Data Literacy for Public Health”. The training was hosted at ODC’s office in Phnom Penh and gathered 11 participants from various backgrounds including citizen journalists, development project officers, research officers and ...
NEC gets cyber training amid hack rumours
Government anti-cybercrime officials recently trained National Election Committee (NEC) officials on email security, amid attempts by Chinese hackers to target institutions in the Kingdom ahead of the July 29 national elections. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-gets-cyber-training-amid-hack-rumours
Airport annex may displace villagers
Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Yun Min has informed 62 families living in the vicinity of the province’s Kang Keng airport about a potential relocation as the government plans to expand it. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/airport-annex-may-displace-villagers
Koh Kong dispute villagers in court over razed crops
The Koh Kong Provincial Court on Tuesday heard the testimony of 13 families locked in a land dispute with Chinese company Union Development Group (UDG) after their crops and property were razed. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-dispute-villagers-court-over-razed-crops
Kratie to have two more wildlife sanctuaries
The government is creating two more wildlife sanctuaries, totalling more than 60,000 hectares, in Kratie province to further preserve natural resources, mitigate climate change and reduce the risk of natural disasters. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50542728/kratie-to-have-two-more-wildlife-sanctuaries/
VSO project aids fishing communities
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) completed a two-year project in Kampong Chhnang and Kampong Thom provinces that created 20 fishing communities and directly influenced the lives of more than 75,000 Cambodians. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vso-project-aids-fishing-communities
Loggers detained in wildlife sanctuary
Rangers and officials from the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) detained 12 loggers and confiscated seven chainsaws and three cubic meters of timber in Kampong Thom province’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/loggers-detained-wildlife-sanctuary
BirdLife, Ratanakkiri provincial authorities meet VN firm over wildlife conservation
Ratanakkiri provincial authorities and BirdLife International Cambodia Programme have urged Hoang Anh Lumphat Co Ltd to preserve the habitat of endangered fauna species in a protected area and discontinue forest clearing. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/birdlife-ratanakkiri-provincial-authorities-meet-vn-firm-over-wildlife-conservation
Six arrested in Phnom Penh over bride-trafficking ring
Three Chinese men and three Cambodians were arrested in Phnom Penh on Wednesday on suspicion of running a trafficking ring in which Cambodian women are married off to Chinese men, police said. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/six-arrested-in-phnom-penh-over-bride-trafficking-ring-93807/
NEC seeks to help monks vote
The National Election Committee (NEC) submitted a letter to the Ministry of Interior on Monday recommending that bureaucratic obstacles preventing the Kingdom’s 60,000 monks from registering to vote be resolved. ...
Alessandro Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-seeks-help-monks-vote
Parties near agreement on draft commune council law
Leaders from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) will continue discussing a draft law on commune council elections next week, members of the party said yesterday. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16100/parties-near-agreement-on-draft-commune-council-law/
Ratanakkiri minorities say land stolen
Ethnic minorities in Ratanakkiri province have accused local authorities of selling community forest land to a provincial court official and threatening to put them in jail, according to a complaint filed yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-minorities-say-land-stolen
Officials aided Vietnamese loggers, villagers say
Evidence of illegal logging perpetrated by Vietnamese lumberjacks in collusion with local authorities in Ratanakkiri’s Andong Meas district was submitted to a local rights group by an ethnic Jarai community yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-aided-vietnamese-loggers-villagers-say
VNese firms concern exporting prospects into Cambodian market
In the past years, Vietnamese products had been exported most to Cambodia among countries in the ASEAN but recently they have faced cutthroat competition from the same kinds of products in Cambodia. ...
Thuy Doan
http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Business/2016/4/118445/
PM asks Malaysia to take more Cambodian workers
Malaysia is primed to accept an influx of Cambodian workers after Prime Minister Hun Sen entreated his Malay counterpart to receive more Cambodians during an official visit to Malaysia late last week. ...
Sen David and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-asks-malaysia-take-more-cambodian-workers
More than 900 street people rounds up for nine-month
Phnom Penh Municipal Social Affairs vowed to clear streets people and child beggar by the end of this year by rounding up and sending them for vocational training. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/more-than-900-street-people-rounds-up-for-nine-month-8946