Huawei opens ICT training centre in Cambodia
China’s Huawei and Cambodia’s National institute of Posts, Telecommunications and information Communication Technology (NIPTICT) have opened a Huawei Authorized information and Network Academy (HAinA) in the country. Huawei has now extended its HAinA program to more than 130 universities worldwide. ...
Cellular News Staff
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/Technology/68360.php
Thitikorn to open two branches in Cambodia
Listed hire-purchase company Thitikorn plans to open two branches in Cambodia next year, after being in the market for one year and finding huge opportunity and high demand for motorcycle lending there, managing director Prathama Phornprapha said yesterday. ...
The Nation News Staff
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Thitikorn-to-open-two-branches-in-Cambodia-30275540.html
Lawyer questioned in CNRP lawmaker attack investigation
A lawyer for two opposition lawmakers brutally beaten in front of the National Assembly two months ago appeared at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday on behalf of his clients, who earlier this month filed an attempted murder complaint against their attackers. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lawyer-questioned-in-cnrp-lawmaker-attack-investigation-104086/
UN envoy slams NGO law in report
The advent of Cambodia’s much-criticized NGO law was among the top “troubling” developments to take place across the globe last year, the U.N. special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association said in a report released Friday. ...
Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-envoy-slams-ngo-law-in-report-105631/
Mining ministry hits pay dirt in ’15
The Ministry of Mines and Energy generated a four-fold increase in non-tax revenues from extractive industries last year, collecting just over $17 million, a ministry official said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mining-ministry-hits-pay-dirt-15
Cambodia perceived as most corrupt in region
Cambodia is now perceived to be the most corrupt country in Southeast Asia, according to Transparency international’s 2015 Corruption Perceptions index (CPI), which was released on Wednesday and promptly dismissed by the country’s anti-graft chief. ...
Anthony Jensen and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-perceived-as-most-corrupt-in-region-106639/
More universities needed in provincial areas: PM
Speaking at the inauguration of the Heng Samrin Tbong Khmum University yesterday, Prime Minister Hun Sen called for a program to establish universities in all provinces, saying that the creation of more institutions of higher learning would improve access to education outside of the capital. ...
Pech Sotheary and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-universities-needed-provincial-areas-pm
Minister of interior addresses ‘gaps’ in democracy
Cambodia’s acting Prime Minister while Mr. Hun Sen is out of the country for the US-ASEAN summit, interior Minister Sar Kheng, acknowledged that there are “gaps” in the implementation of democracy in Cambodia during a speech to the National Police Academy on Tuesday, but warned ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21549/minister-of-interior-addresses----gaps----in-democracy/
Korean electronics giant sees growth in Cambodia
LG Electronics has identified Cambodia as the emerging market in ASEAN with the greatest potential for increasing sales and is expanding its business here, a senior executive of the South Korean company told Khmer Times last week at the LG innoFest 2016 Asia in Seoul. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21715/korean-electronics-giant-sees-growth-in-cambodia/
Impunity, rights abuses unchecked in Cambodia: Amnesty
Cambodia has been taken to task in Amnesty international’s latest global report, which said the Southeast Asian country continued to abuse human rights while allowing impunity to continue unchecked. ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.newsfultoncounty.com/politics/news/2428368-impunity-rights-abuses-unchecked-in-cambodia-amnesty
Smuggled turtles discovered in Kampong Chhnang province
A driver’s assistant has been arrested for smuggling 18 turtles hidden in mattress covers in a truck from Thailand on Saturday in Kampong Chhnang’s Toul Kralanh village, according to officials. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23814/smuggled-turtles-discovered-in-kampong-chhnang-province/
In Phnom Penh, a looming sewage crisis
Renderings of Casa Meridian, a new condominium complex, suggest that its wealthy buyers are investing in a glistening 414-unit skyscraper overlooking a placid, ocean-blue body of water surrounding Koh Pich island, which is sprouting a number of luxury towers developed by the Overseas Cambodian investment ...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/111364-111364/
Prey Lang shorted in new protected areas
The core of one of Cambodia’s most important and abused forests —Prey Lang—was officially declared a protected area this week after years of campaigning by local activists and foreign conservationists. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prey-lang-shorted-in-new-protected-areas-111963/
CPP spokesman in court over defamation suit
The ruling CPP’s defamation case against prominent political analyst Ou Virak moved forward on Friday as the Phnom Penh Municipal Court questioned party spokesman Sok Eysan. ...
Sek Odom and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-spokesman-in-court-over-defamation-suit-112293/
Hundreds sick in Prey Veng: ministry official
More than 400 people in Prey Veng’s Peamro district came down with cold and flu-like symptoms on Saturday, prompting the Ministry of Health to launch an investigation into the cause of the sickness. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25784/hundreds-sick-in-prey-veng--ministry-official/
Warning after spike in dengue fever cases
The number of dengue fever cases reported during the first 21 weeks of 2016 was double the same period last year and is expected to continue to rise in the coming months. ...
Bun Sengkong and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/warning-after-spike-dengue-fever-cases
Giant coal plant taking shape in Sihanoukville
Nearly half of a massive 700-megawatt coal-fired power plant that will fuel the country’s biggest industrial park and feed the national grid is set to be completed by the end of the year, according to officials at the Ministry of Mines and Energy. ...
Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/giant-coal-plant-taking-shape-sihanoukville
Vietnamese move might hinder logging in Kingdom
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Monday called for the closure of 2.25 million hectares of natural forest in the country’s Central Highlands as well as the shuttering of wood processing facilities across the country, regional news outlets reported. ...
Donna M Airoldi
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vietnamese-move-might-hinder-logging-kingdom
Union law kicks in a month late
Unions expressed their continued dissatisfaction with the new Trade Union Law after the Ministry of Labor reminded them on Tuesday that it officially took effect last month. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26694/union-law-kicks-in-a-month-late/
New weather stations being built in provinces
In an attempt to deliver more accurate weather reportIng In the KIngdom, the MInistry of Water Resources and Meteorology has started buildIng 30 additional weather stations throughout the country, accordIng to officials. ...
San Bunsim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27278/new-weather-stations-being-built-in-provinces/