USAID provides additional grant to stimulate conservation action
The United States Agency for International Development yesterday announced the provision of an additional grant worth $100,000 to Sansom Mlup Prey Organisation, through the Greening Prey Lang Project. The grant seeks to stimulate conservation efforts which include the promotion of wildlife-friendly farming in communities living ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50732091/usaid-provides-additional-grant-to-stimulate-conservation-action/
Cambodia’s hotels and international flights to reopen shortly
Hotels and international flights forced to close due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia are expected to reopen this month Clais Chenda, President of Cambodia Hotel Association, said that some hotel owners confirm they will resume operations shortly and international flights are expected to commence ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50731349/cambodias-hotels-to-reopen-shortly/
Public announcement on the denial of HRW's report for labour abuse
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training denied the report that was published on 12 March 2015 by Human Rights Watch (HRW), and considered it as professionally baseless. The ministry asserted that international communities, retailers and International Labour Organization (ILO) agreed Cambodia’s better labor standards were ...
Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training
UN officials blocked from visiting villages near dam
Since Sunday, Military Police and provincial police officials have been stopping outsiders from entering Sesan district’s Srekor and Kbal Romea villages as 200 people – mostly ethnic minorities from all over Cambodia – continued to gather in defiance of the blockade for a series of events, including ...
Phak Seangly and Martin de Bourmont
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-officials-blocked-visiting-villages-near-dam
Future bourse potential touted
The lacklustre performance of Cambodia’s stock exchange, which has attracted only four companies since it launched in 2011 and whose stocks see days without a single trade, is expected to turn a corner soon, capital markets experts said during a panel discussion yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/future-bourse-potential-touted
Multiple suspects arrested over grenade attack, but police offer few details
Police have arrested at least five suspects over the past two days in connection to agrenade attack that rattled a Phnom Penh neighbourhood two weeks ago, injuring four people, but officials yesterday remained tight-lipped as to the suspects’ identities and motives. ...
Mech Dara and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/multiple-suspects-arrested-over-grenade-attack-police-offer-few-details
Ministry and NGOs set to discuss proposed amendments to Lango
The Ministry of Interior will hold a sixth meeting with civil society organisation representatives on July 6 to review and discuss amendments to the Law on Association and Non-Governmental Organisations (Lango). The organisations are hopeful the points they have raised will be included in the ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-and-ngos-set-di
Exports climb 20% on $14B worth of Cambodian goods
Cambodia exported $14.1 billion worth of goods in the first nine months of this year, up 20.07 per cent from the same period last year, despite Covid-19’s production-chain disruptions and its impact on global demand, the Ministry of Economy and Finance reported. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-climb-20-14b-worth-cambodian-goods
Over 3,000km of roads funded by China loans, says minister
Chinese companies have built more than 3,000km of roads and eight major bridges with total length of more than 8km for the Kingdom, funded by concessional loans from the Chinese government in excess of $3 billion, Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chantol said ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/over-3000km-roads-funded-china-loans-says-minister
Navy rejects US concern over upgrade of Ream base
The Royal Cambodian Navy yesterday brushed aside a concern raised by the United States Department of Defense which alleged that the Kingdom may be hosting China military assets and personnel at Ream Naval Base after Cambodia demolished a US-built facility at the naval base in ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50769633/navy-rejects-us-concern-over-upgrade-of-ream-base/
CDC approves $31.7M animal farm
As part of the government’s effort to secure private investments for food production, the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) earlier this week approved a $31.7 million investment project by Kang Hwa E&C (Cambodia) Co Ltd to build a commercial animal farm in Kampong ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cdc-approves-317m-animal-farm
JETRO survey shows Cambodia may miss out on Japanese firms shifting focus to Southeast Asian nations
A rising number of Japanese companies are expanding business in Southeast Asia, according to the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). However, to date, there has been hardly any concrete information on how many of the Japanese entities have targeted Cambodia for relocation although both Japan ...
Chimphu.VN/Capital Cambodia
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50755553/jetro-survey-shows-cambodia-may-miss-out-on-japanese-firms-shifting-focus-to-southeast-asian-nations/
Over 200,000 visit provinces on first day of holidays
The Tourism Ministry said today that more than 200,000 tourists visited provinces on Monday, the first day of the replacement Khmer New Year holiday. In a statement, the ministry said it recorded a total of 230,000 visitors, most of whom had flocked to Kampot and ...
Srey Lux
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50755623/over-200000-visit-provinces-on-first-day-of-holidays/
Sweden supports Cambodia environmental awareness, gender equality
Supported by Embassy of Sweden in Phnom Penh and UNDP, the Ministry of Environment and National Council for Sustainable Development have produced educational materials on the environment for Cambodian students. Educating students on single-use plastic reduction and other environmental practices will contribute to a more ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50769430/sweden-supports-cambodia-environmental-awareness-gender-equality/
Court to rule on sanctuary landgrab cases
The Preah Vihear Provincial Court has set tentative dates in December this year to announce the verdicts for three separate wildlife sanctuary land grab cases, which happened last year. Provincial court spokeswoman Chum Kaniya said on December 10 that the court’s investigating judge had heard ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/court-rule-sanctuary-landgrab-cases
Deadline set for telecom operators to hand over data
The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC) has asked the nations’ telecom operators to connect to its Data Management Centre (DMC) by January 1, 2021. Based on the telecom laws, all operators and stakeholders involved in telecom must provide data service information to the MPTC. ...
Jason Boken
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50794919/deadline-set-for-telecom-operators-to-hand-over-data/
Kampot to issue park land titles
The Kampot provincial authorities will grant land titles for 2,500 plots covering 6,649ha in Preah Monivong Bokor National Park to local residents who applied for official occupation and usage permits, according to the provincial Department of Environment director Suy Thea. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampot-issue-park-land-titles
CDC okays new $13M projects
The government approved three projects worth a total of $13.5 million last week, bringing the total number of projects in the first three weeks of this month to nine with total investment value of $1.1354 billion, the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) said ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cdc-okays-new-13m-projects
Over 230 repatriated from Thailand
Thai authorities repatriated 234 people to Cambodia on December 5-6 via the O’Bei Choan border checkpoint in Banteay Meanchey province’s O’Chrov district, according to an official report released on December 8. The number included 120 women and girls. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/over-230-repatriated-thailand
An outlook into 2021 economy
Cambodia’s economy will contract two per cent in 2020 before swiftly recovering to four per cent growth this year, the World Bank projects, citing effective government measures that respond to the specific needs of the most affected sectors – including tourism, garments and textiles, and ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/outlook-2021-economy