Cambodia sets 2020 tourism target
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen expects the country to welcome 8 million foreign visitors by 2020. Talking to local media, the PM said the country was on track to achieve the ambitious target by 2020. The largest sources of tourists to Cambodia are Vietnam, China, South ...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/02/cambodia-sets-2020-tourism-target/
Borei Keila suit filed
Seven people from the capital’s Borei Keila community allegedly injured by baton-wielding security forces last month, a pregnant woman among them, filed a lawsuit against Prampi Makara district authorities yesterday. The seven were among a group of dozens of families violently removed from a building on ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/borei-keila-suit-filed
‘People’s congress’ to test ban
Opposition leaders yesterday announced plans to hold a thousands-strong “people’s congress” in the capital’s Freedom Park on Sunday, despite a ban on gatherings at the site. Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy and vice-president Kem Sokha, following their return from overseas trips to Australia, New ...
Meas Sokchea and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98people%E2%80%99s-congress%E2%80%99-test-ban
Cambodian deal to resettle asylum seekers imminent
A controversial deal to allow Australia to send refugees to Cambodia is imminent and could be signed as early as this week, sources have told Fairfax Media. The Australian and Cambodian governments have been negotiating for months over a deal to resettle up to 1000 refugees ...
Ben Doherty and Sarah Whyte
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/cambodian-deal-to-resettle-asylum-seekers-imminent-20140810-102ht3.html
Where squalor’s the norm
Abuse, discrimination, exploitation and corruption are endemic in Cambodia’s prisons, spurred on by judicial and penal systems “driven by nepotism”, according to a new report from local rights group Licadho. The report, Rights at a Price: Life Inside Cambodia’s Prisons, which was released yesterday, details a ...
Alice Cuddy and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/where-squalors-norm
Illegal wood found near military police base
Environment Ministry officials on Thursday found a cache of more than 400 pieces of illegally logged first-grade wood in Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary, which the ministry oversees, and suspect officers from a nearby military police base of being involved. Thin Ngoal, the sanctuary’s deputy director, ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-wood-found-near-military-police-base-77008/
FDI survey may lead to new property regulations
Cambodia’s property sector continues to grow, offering both opportunities and challenges for both foreign and local investors. Meanwhile, ahead of the ASEAN Integration, a wider access to transparent information about the FDI fuelling the sector could lead to the adoption of stronger regulatory principles and ...
Kali Kotoski and Sum Manet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/fdi-survey-may-lead-new-property-regulations
Joint statement: Civil society organizations call for all baseless charges against journalists to be dropped
On 22 December 2019, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) alongside CamboJA and 35 other organizations has released a joint statement to urge the Royal Government of Cambodia to take concrete action to ensure that the right to freedom of expression is respected and ...
Cambodian Center for Human Rights
Stop order but fulling of Kampot mangrove swamp continues
Despite a stop order issued to a prominent businessman, the mangrove forests, a vital source of the province Kampot eco system is again under threat as land fill has started again. The mangrove forests and swamps are located near the Prek Tnong fishing community in ...
CNE
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50681426/stop-order-but-fulling-of-kampot-mangrove-swamp-continues
National Strategic Development Plan to combat corruption
The government has introduced the National Strategic Development Plan 2019-23 which will focus on increasing awareness and reinforcing precautionary measures and strategies to crack down and combat corruption. The strategies come in conjunction with the increasing need for ministries and institutions to collaborate with the ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-strategic-development-plan-combat-corruption
Authorities stop mountain brush fire from spreading
Battambang provincial authorities on Tuesday doused a brush fire on Doh Kramom Mountain in Samlot district before it went out of control. District governor Soeu Sameth said yesterday that the blaze had destroyed about 10 percent of the mountain and the authorities, using four fire trucks, ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50685207/authorities-stop-mountain-brush-fire-from-spreading
CDC okays investments worth over $83 million
Ten investment projects worth $83.7 million were approved by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) this week, it said in a press release said on Tuesday. The projects are anticipated to create some 4,744 jobs. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cdc-okays-investments-worth-over-83-million
Third COVID-19 detected on British national
The Health Ministry yesterday announced the Kingdom’s third COVID-19 case detected in Cambodia. Minister Mam Bun Heng during a press conference last night said a 65-year-old British woman is now under quarantine at the Kampong Cham Provincial Referral Hospital. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50700374/third-covid-19-detected-on-british-national
Exports to Japan reach $296M
Cambodia exported $296 million of goods to Japan in the first two months of this year, up 2.4 per cent compared to the same period last year, data from the Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro) shows. Both countries committed to boosting bilateral trade to more ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-japan-reach-296m
Announcement on the re-export of white rice
On 13 May 2020, the Cambodia Rice Federation issued an announcement to its members, according to a notification from the Ministry of Economy and Finance in which the Royal Government is authorized to grant the re-export of white rice upon overseas buying contract and the ...
Cambodia Rice Federation
Development report cites China as growth model
It’s been done numerous times, comparing the “China miracle” to its emerging and frontier neighbours as a benchmark for development. Cambodia might seem an ill-fitted student of the world’s second-biggest economy. But a recent report from the Cambodia Development Resource Institute pointed to some lessons the Kingdom ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050856023/Business/china-seen-as-growth-model.html
Official pushes for an information access act
Many groups, including the ruling party, would benefit from a proposed access to information law – which would provide transparency when it comes to the government’s development plans and spending – a Council of Ministers official said yesterday. Tuot Lux, a legal expert who has been ...
Cambodia May Lure Up to 10 IPOs a Year, Korea Bourse Says
Cambodia’s stock market, which is set to open next week after several delays, may be able to lure five-to-10 initial public offerings a year, according to Korea Exchange Inc., the Cambodian government’s partner in the bourse. State-owned Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) will start trading ...
VOA Khmer radio station allowed to resume broadcasts
The Minister of Information on Friday allowed the return of VOA Khmer to radio broadcasting via Women’s Media Centre FM102 and FM103.50MHz following its suspension in 2017 for failing to complete the requirements for its legal registration at the Ministry of Information. ...
Som Kanika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50723987/voa-khmer-radio-station-allowed-to-resume-broadcasts/
NGO at center of abuse claims reopens with new management
The Our Home center in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district has reopened under interim management after its director, Hang Vibol, was jailed last month and charged with abusing boys at the organization’s orphanage, which housed more than 50 children but was shuttered and will remain closed. ...
Simon Henderson and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-at-center-of-abuse-claims-reopens-with-new-management-81794/