ASF outbreak unconfirmed
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said the recent series of dead pigs could not definitively be attributed to African swine fever (ASF), noting that expert officials had taken samples for testing in Phnom Penh. ...
Kim Yutharo
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/asf-outbreak-unconfirmed
Open Data Day 2018: Open contracting for sustainable development
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From Cape Town to Helsinki, between Wellington and Sao Paulo: Some 400 events took place during this year’s Open Data Day. Of course, Open Development Cambodia was part Of the global event. For the Cambodian edition Of the annual celebration Of the international open data, ...
Data Literacy Training 2020
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On the morning of September 8th 2020, at Poulowai hotel based in Phnom Penh, Open Development Cambodia(ODC) hosted “2020 Basic Data Literacy Training on social accountability”. This three-day training is under the project Innovation for Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC) having ODC and FHI 360 ...
Hun Sen promises to maintain peace along Kingdom’s borders
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday promised to maintain peace along the Kingdom’s borders and ensure prosperous development as he delivered a speech marking the tenth anniversary of Preah Vihear temple’s heritage listing. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50512067/hun-sen-promises-to-maintain-peace-along-kingdoms-borders/
Activists claim Chinese investment fueling land disputes in Cambodia
Cambodian land rights activists have accused Chinese investors of fueling land disputes through unscrupulous land acquisition and development. The advocates made the comments during a two-day meeting in Phnom Penh earlier this month. ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/activists-claim-chinese-investment-fueling-land-disputes-in-cambodia/4637185.html
EBA removal won’t affect development projects: EU
The potential cancellation of the Everything-but-arms (EBA) scheme will not have an impact on development projects in Cambodia funded by the European Union, according to George Edgar, the EU Ambassador to Cambodia. ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50549413/eba-removal-wont-affect-development-projects-eu/
Visa transactions up 30 percent
Visa Inc, the world’s leader in digital payments, experienced strong growth in Cambodia in 2017 with the number of Visa cards in the country increasing by 65 percent compared to the previous year. ...
Sum Manet
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50504799/visa-transactions-up-30-percent/
EU a key economic partner in Cambodia: Ambassador
The European Union is a key economic partner in Cambodia, with preferential access to European markets a key element of the Kingdom’s robust growth in recent years, said European Union Ambassador George Edgar. ...
Sum Manet
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50539696/eu-a-key-economic-partner-in-cambodia-ambassador/
‘Positive impact’: Prey Lang forest app wins award
Danish researcher Ida Theilade has been bestowed the University of Copenhagen’s Innovation Award 2018 for inventing a smartphone app that can prevent illegal logging and preserve forest resources in the Prey Lang forest. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/positive-impact-prey-lang-forest-app-wins-award
No complaints filed during election registration
A spokesman for the National Election Committee yesterday said that none of the 20 parties set to contest the national election in July filed any complaints to the Constitutional Council during the registration process. ...
Mom Sophon
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50496530/no-complaints-filed-during-election-registration/
PM to deploy helicopters to monitor illegal logging
Speaking before members of the Cambodian diaspora in the US on Sunday, Prime Minister Hun Sen said he has ordered helicopters to be deployed above forests in the Kingdom to monitor illegal logging activities. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-deploy-helicopters-monitor-illegal-logging
Riverbank fails a concern
In response to the latest riverbank collapse in Kandal province’s Mok Kampoul district on December 13, the most recent of a spate across the Kingdom, authorities have moved to prevent more from occurring. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/riverbank-fails-concern
Pneumonia tests tested
A new campaign has been launched in Cambodia to identify the most effective tools available for diagnosing pneumonia, a condition that represents the country’s single-biggest killer of children under 5 years old. ...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pneumonia-tests-tested
Prey Lang patrol yields illegal loggers' chainsaws
During its latest round of patrols this week, the Prey Lang Community Network confiscated 12 chainsaws from alleged illegal loggers in Preah Vihear, which it plans to hand over to the local Forestry Administration. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prey-lang-patrol-yields-illegal-loggers-chainsaws
Bus company promises changes after boycott
The bus company under-fire for a string of reported crimes allegedly committed by their staff, including a recent sexual assault – have pledged to introduce new measures and training to limit such incidents in the future. ...
Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17242/bus-company-promises-changes-after-boycott/
Ex-inmate alleges drug dealing at two prisons
A former inmate at Kampong Speu and Trapaing Phlong prisons claimed yesterday he witnessed rampant drug dealing at both facilities and plans to file a complaint with the support of NWRPO, a local NGO. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ex-inmate-alleges-drug-dealing-two-prisons
Landmine causalities drop 37 percent
Cambodia recorded 85 landmine and unexploded ordnance (UXO) casualties in the first nine months of this year, a 37-percent decrease compared with 135 casualties over the same period last year, according to a report yesterday. ...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17909/landmine-causalities-drop-37-percent/
Cambodia’s 2015 goods export value up about US $4.5 billion
Cambodia’s goods exports including the garment export in 2015 increased 25 percents in value in 2015, worth more than $4.5 billion, according to Ministry of Commerce’s figure. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodia%E2%80%99s-2015-goods-export-value-up-about-us-45-billion-9106
Mother nature founder barred from entering Cambodia
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has ordered immigration officials to ban Mother Nature activist Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson from entering the country, saying that the E-visa granted to him was merely a technical error. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23816/mother-nature-founder-barred-from-entering-cambodia/
In blow for immunity, lawmaker arrested
Demolishing the constitutional protection forbidding the arrest of lawmakers without National Assembly consent, police apprehended opposition lawmaker Um Sam An early Monday morning in Siem Reap City over his advocacy against Vietnamese border intrusions. ...
Aun Pheap and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-blow-for-immunity-lawmaker-arrested-111206/