Tonle Sap Lake’s fisheries crimes campaign ongoing
Fisheries offences in the flooded forests around the Tonle sap Lake, including those involving illegal nets and electric shock devices, persist despite an uptick in law enforcement pursuits. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tonle-sap-lakes-fisheries-crimes-campaign-ongoing
Seven million vehicles on Cambodia’s roads
The number of motorcycles on Cambodia’s roads has increased to six million, with one million cars also in the country, Transport Minister sun Chanthol said, adding that many accidents have been caused by motorcyclists. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhorn Raksmey
https://kiripost.com/stories/seven-million-vehicles-on-cambodias-roads
Cambodia’s international trade declines 14.1%
Cambodia’s international trade stood at $15.16 billion for January to April this year, a decline of 14.1 percent, compared to the same period last year, according to the trade data released by the General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501288366/cambodias-international-trade-declines-14-1/
Concern over Cambodia’s climbing debt
The program manager of an NGO has raised concerns about the government’s revenue spending management, claiming national debt remains huge and has not been repaid as new debt continues to climb. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Seng Mengheng
https://kiripost.com/stories/concern-over-cambodias-climbing-debt
Nearly one quarter of ruling CPP’s 125 candidates are related
Out of the ruling CPP’s 125 candidates for the national elections, at least 28 people — 22.4% — are related to someone else on the ballot, a review of the candidate list reveals. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phon Sothyroth
https://cambojanews.com/nearly-one-quarter-of-ruling-cpps-125-candidates-are-related/
Phnom Penh memorial marks third anniversary of Thai activist’s abduction
Cambodian activists called for government accountability at events held on sunday to mark the disappearance of Wanchalearm satsaksit, a Thai activist who was allegedly abducted in Phnom Penh in 2020. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sovann Sreypich and Leila Goldstein
https://cambojanews.com/phnom-penh-memorial-marks-third-anniversary-of-thai-activists-abduction/
Cambodia’s bicycle exports decline 38%
Cambodia’s bicycle exports plummeted 38 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2024 with the export value going down to $205 million, according to a report released by the Ministry of Commerce. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501525297/cambodias-bicycle-exports-decline-38/
ARDB, GXAAS ink MoU to boost Kingdom’s agri sector
Agriculture and Rural Development Bank (ARDB), Cambodia’s leading agricultural bank, and the Guangxi Academy of sciences (GXAAs) Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on agricultural science and technology innovation. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501565911/ardb-gxaas-ink-mou-to-boost-kingdoms-agri-sector/
No likelihood of EBA’s full reinstatement for now, says EU Ambassador to Cambodia
There is no confirmation that the EU would fully reinstate its preferential scheme, Everything But Arms (EBA), for Cambodia, said newly-appointed EU ambassador to Cambodia Igor Driesmans, while identifying four priorities in his mandate. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sovann Sreypich and Runn Sreydeth
https://cambojanews.com/no-likelihood-of-ebas-full-reinstatement-for-now-says-eu-ambassador-to-cambodia/
Green bonds, red flags: Cambodia’s microfinance crisis deepens amid sustainability push
When Davuth fell behind on his microfinance loan earlier this year, a credit officer visited his home in Ratanakiri province almost daily. The officer pressured him to borrow from neighbourhood lenders or sell his farmland – his main source of income and livelihood, he said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Leila Goldstein and Eung Sea
https://dialogue.earth/en/climate/green-bonds-red-flags-cambodias-microfinance-crisis-deepens-amid-sustainability-push/
Cambodian PM Hun Sen says China’s aid greatly boosts Cambodia’s socio-economic development
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen said here on Monday that China’s aid has greatly contributed to the socioeconomic development and poverty reduction in the southeast Asian country. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501209381/cambodian-pm-hun-sen-says-chinas-aid-greatly-boosts-cambodias-socio-economic-development/
Gov’t continues China tilt as ties with the US slide on ‘interference’ in Kingdom’s internal affairs
China has granted some $131 million in aid to the Cambodian military. It comes as yet another sign that the Kingdom is strengthening strategic ties with its Asian neighbour to counter increasingly cold relations with the United states. The aid was announced as part of ss='cambodia-color'>...
New push from the Ministry of Women’s Affairs to activate government response to end violence against women
On 04 July 2016, The Ministry of Women’s Affairs led a special meeting with representatives from 15 line ministries and civil society organizations to boost the implementation and monitoring of the second National Action Plan to Prevent Violence against Women, the key national policy to address intimate ss='cambodia-color'>...
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Analysis: If the CNRP is dissolved, CPP’s efforts to rid itself of a challenger will be realised
In 2012, a little over a month after the Human Rights Party and sam Rainsy Party won a combined 40 commune chief positions in local elections, the two groups met in Manila, finally agreeing on what had been bandied about for years: a united opposition ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ananth Baliga and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/analysis-if-cnrp-dissolved-cpps-efforts-rid-itself-challenger-will-be-realised
Australia’s ‘dance with dictators’: Country expected to stay mum on rights abuses with Asean leaders in town
While calls from all corners have demanded Australia take Cambodia to task – not only for its political crackdown but also for Prime Minister Hun sen’s threats to beat up protesters on Australian soil – observers say any such confrontation is unlikely to materialise during ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia’s largest port reports US$14-M revenues, + 14% in 1st 5 months of Y 2012
Cambodia’s largest sihanoukville Autonomous Port (sAP) saturday reported that it earned the total revenues of about Us$14-M in the 1st 5 months of this year, + 14 rise from Us$12.3-M at the same period last year. Goods exported through the port are mostly garment products and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Weaving woes -Cambodia’s silk sector faces possible extinction as economic realities force artisans to abandon the craft
In the not-so-distant past, visitors to Koh Dach, an island in the Mekong River about 15 kilometers outside of Phnom Penh, were often struck by the sound as well as the sights that met them there. Among the many crafts on display by local artisans, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long-overdue Consolidation of the Kingdom’s Mobile Telecoms Market May Have Operators Feeling Hopeful, but Challenges Remain
After years of immersion in a vicious price war, battle weary and capital-haemorrhaging [sic] mobile operators in Cambodia’s oversaturated telecommunications sector may finally have reason to breathe a sigh of relief; 2013 might be cited as the year the tide turned. Tarred by legal threats, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sam Rainsy fears that the CPP-led government’ accusation can lead to court’s harsh punishment against him
The Opposition leader sam Rainsy expressed his concern that the accusation by the government led by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party may aim to silence the opposition and to punish him by using the Cambodian courts. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NDg0YzI4NzM4ZDV
Sokha’s treason trial begins
The treason trial of supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) president Kem sokha began at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday with the presentation of a two-minute video clip. The footage, which was the basis of the charge against him, was dismissed by ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/sokhas-treason-trial-begins