Cambodia’s high court drops case against men wrongly jailed for 2004 murder of labor activist
Cambodia’s supreme Court ordered the release of two men Wednesday who were wrongly convicted and jailed for the 2004 murder of a prominent opposition activist. The court’s decision to drop all charges came amid renewed calls to free the men, whom leading international rights groups have ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Washington Post News Staff
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/cambodias-high-court-drops-case-against-men-wrongly-jailed-for-2004-murder-of-labor-activist/2013/09/25/2170fc90-25c2-11e3-9372-92606241ae9c_story.html
Cambodia’s milled rice exports up 1.2 per cent in first nine months this year
Cambodia’s milled rice export hit 269,370 tonnes in the first nine months of 2014, up 1.2 per cent from 266,123 tonnes over the same period last year, according to latest official data. seventy-seven companies have brokered Cambodian rice for 57 countries and regions around the world, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Far Eastern Agriculture News Staff
http://www.fareasternagriculture.com/crops/agriculture/cambodia-s-milled-rice-exports-up-1-2-per-cent-in-first-nine-months-this-year
Cambodia’s milled rice exports up 1.2 per cent in first nine months this year
Cambodia’s milled rice export hit 269,370 tonnes in the first nine months of 2014, up 1.2 per cent from 266,123 tonnes over the same period last year, according to latest official data. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Far Eastern Agriculture News Staff
http://www.fareasternagriculture.com/crops/agriculture/cambodia-s-milled-rice-exports-up-1-2-per-cent-in-first-nine-months-this-year
MFIs seek regulator’s support
The apex body for the nation’s microfinance industry announced yesterday that the central bank had tentatively agreed to a number of measures it had requested to ease the burden on microfinance lenders following last week’s unilateral decision to cap annual interest rates at 18 percent ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mfis-seek-regulators-support
Deadline to vacate Phnom Penh’s largest lake set
Prek Pnov district authorities have notified local fishermen to remove lattices and ponds completely from the Boeung Tamok Lake by the end of this year. The warning comes after years of delays. Prek Pnov district governor sok sambath told The Post on November 19 time had ss='cambodia-color'>...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deadline-vacate-phnom-penhs-largest-lake-set
Communes added to Kampot’s Bokor town
Prime Minister Hun sen has decided to create Bokor town in Kampot province’s Bokor area by combining three communes from the province’s Teuk Chhou district to ease administration and aid development. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/communes-added-kampots-bokor-town
Cambodian Sarus Crane’s number declining
By the morning of Jan. 18, 2021, a total of 59 sarus crane arrived Anlung Pring Protected Landscape in Kampong Trach, Kampot, according to BirdLife International Cambodia Programme. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50804806/cambodian-sarus-cranes-number-declining/
Cambodia’s rangers risk lives protecting environment
The 20 or so very fit men gathered deep in the forests of northeast Cambodia at the Tropaing Tear Base in the srepok Wildlife sanctuary. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Malis Tum
https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/cambodias-rangers-risk-lives-protecting-environment
Cambodia’s economic growth forecast downgraded as COVID-19 cases rise
The UK-based Fitch Ratings credit rating agency has downgraded Cambodia’s economic outlook below the World Bank’s baseline forecast of 4 percent GDP growth for 2021 as the country continues to struggle with the economic shock of the COVID-19 pandemic. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sorn Sarath
https://cambojanews.com/cambodias-economic-growth-forecast-downgraded-as-covid-19-cases-rise/
Cambodia voted ‘world’s friendliest country’ in Rough Guides reader poll
Cambodia ranked number one among the “World’s Friendliest Countries”, according to a reader poll conducted by London-based international website “Rough Guides”. ss='cambodia-color'>...
ASEAN slated to start talks for bloc’s 2025 e-economy accord
As AsEAN continues to grapple with Covid-19 cases and an uncertain recovery, its economic ministers have committed to conducting a study on a region-wide digital economy pact by 2023. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Asia News Network
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/asean-slated-start-talks-blocs-2025-e-economy-accord
U.S.-ABC interested to invest in various sectors in Cambodia
U.S.-ASEAN BuSineSS Council (U.S.-ABC) iS intereSted to inveSt in Cambodia in the fieldS of energy, induStry, health, technology, finance and import-export. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50955248/u-s-abc-interested-to-invest-in-various-sectors-in-cambodia/
Cambodia’s ‘Stop Covid’ QR Code wins international award
The Kingdom’s “stop Covid” QR Code – a location and contact-tracing app designed to prevent the coronavirus spreading – has won the Global south Covid-19 Digital Innovation Challenge award from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a UN specialised agency for information and communication technologies (ICT). ss='cambodia-color'>...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodias-stop-covid-qr-code-wins-international-award
Cambodia’s largest ports see growth in revenue last year despite pandemic
Cambodia’s two state-owned ports, sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAs) and Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP), had seen double-digit growth in revenue in 2021 despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport said in a report on Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501014808/cambodias-largest-ports-see-growth-in-revenue-last-year-despite-pandemic/
Cambodian PM to Co-host World Summit 2022 in S. Korea
Prime Minister Hun sen will lead a high level delegation to pay a visit to the Republic of Korea from Feb. 10 to 13, according to a press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFAIC). ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501021639/cambodian-pm-to-co-host-world-summit-2022-in-s-korea/
Cambodia’s support for Cuba remains strong
The Parliamentary Group of Friendship with Cuba of the National Assembly of Cambodia has reiterated the rejection of this country to the blockade and the hostile policy of the government of the United states against the island. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501028629/cambodias-support-for-cuna-remains-strong/
High Fuel Prices a Blow to Cambodia’s Covid-hit Tourism Sector
The Cambodian government has lifted all COVID-19 travel restrictions in the hopes of boosting the hard-hit tourism industry, but now businesses say sanctions on Russia and the resulting high energy prices are hampering the sector’s recovery. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sorn Sarath
https://cambojanews.com/high-fuel-prices-a-blow-to-cambodias-covid-hit-tourism-sector/
Japan supports Cambodia’s capacity building of Youth, and Community Health promotion
The Government of Japan has agreed to provide $1,093 million to build youth capacity and promote community health, sanitation and hygiene in two Cambodian provinces, under the framework, the Grant Assistance for Japanese NGO Projects. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501039702/japan-supports-cambodias-capacity-building-of-youth-and-community-health-promotion/
Cambodia’s GFT sector suffered setbacks
TAFTAC says the garment, footwear and travel goods sector needs assistance and an advisory group is urgently needed to help it rebound ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kiripost staff writers
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodias-gft-sector-suffered-setbacks