About $200 million needed to solve wastewater woes
The government plans to spend approximately $200 million on increasing the capacity of water treatment plants and organising sewage systems in Preah Sihanouk province to prevent wastewater from flowing into the sea and protect the environment. Finance Minister Aun Pornmoniroth and Transport Minister Sun Chanthol ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50599769/about-200-million-needed-to-solve-wastewater-woes/
Cambodia: over 145 opposition members summoned
Cambodian authorities should immediately end the harassment of former opposition party members and their supporters, Human Rights Watch said today. European Union officials arriving in Cambodia on June 3, 2019 to review the Cambodian government’s rights record in connection with the Everything but Arms (EBA) trade privileges should ...
Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/06/02/cambodia-over-145-opposition-members-summoned
CPP sees voter turnout higher than 80 percent
A Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) official said the process for the upcoming elections is going “smoothly” and predicted that those who had registered to cast their ballots will do so. He said as it stands, over 80 percent of those who are registered to vote ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-sees-voter-turnout-higher-80-percent
Journos: Drop RFA charges
Some 40 local and international journalists from several media outlets in Cambodia released an open letter on Thursday, calling for the court to drop charges against two former Radio Free Asia (RFA) reporters. The call comes following the release of journalists Uon Chhin and Yeang ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/journos-drop-rfa-charges
Kampot water plant online soon
After three years, a Japanese-funded water treatment facility in Kampot province is set to begin operations after being expanded through a grant worth $26 million. The grant for the expansion was given by the Japanese government through the Japan International Cooperation Agency to expand the ...
Khmer Times
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50592097/kampot-water-plant-online-soon/
Phnom Penh to roll out free bus services during Khmer New Year
The Phnom Penh government recently announced the provision of free bus services on a first-come, first served basis to the provinces during the Khmer New Year week. The plan will see 120 buses deployed to “transport civil servants, armed forces personnel, garment workers, students et ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnom-penh-roll-out-free-bus-services-during-khmer-new-year
Joint forces shut down 16 illegal sawmills in Stung Treng
Joint forces in Stung Treng province temporarily shut down 16 timber processing facilities on Tuesday after an inspection revealed they did not have proper permits. The joint forces comprised of forestry officials, environmental officials, police officers and Military Police officials. It was led by provincial Military ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/joint-forces-shut-down-16-illegal-sawmills-stung-treng
Hun Sen formally appointed as PM
King Norodom Sihamoni on Friday appointed Hun Sen as prime minister with the duty of organising a government for approval by the National Assembly. On his re-appointment, Mr Hun Sen pledged to do his best to serve the whole nation for another five-year term after ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524420/hun-sen-formally-appointed-as-pm/
Project aids uptick in family chicken farming
Family-based chicken farming is on the rise in Cambodia, thanks in part to a $1.35 million project funded by the EU, said an NGO, People in Need Cambodia (Pin). Pin said over the past two years, Cambodian families have raised nearly 90 per cent more ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/project-aids-uptick-family-chicken-farming
Tonle Sap Vietnamese to stay on river for now
Kampong Chhnang provincial authorities announced they have allowed 750 ethnic Vietnamese families living on the Tonle Sap river to stay until July, after more than 3,000 other Vietnamese families voluntarily relocated to designated areas on higher ground. Provincial governor Chhour Chandoeun said authorities made the decision ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tonle-sap-vietnamese-stay-river-now
Swiss commit $6 million to demining
The Swiss government will provide $6 million for demining work in Cambodia from next year to 2025, which is the year the Kingdom targets to become mine-free. Ly Thuch, Cambodian Mine Action Authority vice president, met with Lars Buechler, a representative of Swiss Development and ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/576002/swiss-commit-6-million-to-demining/
New terminal to allow Sihanoukville port to process bigger loads
The Kingdom’s only deep-sea port, operated by state-owned Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS), will launch a new multipurpose terminal on June 25, to accommodate larger vessels with heavy loads, it said on Wednesday. PAS Chairman and CEO Lou Kim Chhun said the inauguration of the multipurpose ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-terminal-allow-sihanoukville-port-process-bigger-loads
What lies ahead for Cambodia after its next election?
Cambodia’s upcoming general election on 29 July looks set to be its most controversial since its first national election in 1993. In late 2017, the main opposition party, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), was dissolved and 118 of its senior members were banned from ...
Chheang Vannarith
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2018/07/20/what-lies-ahead-for-cambodia-after-its-next-election/
China eyes poverty reduction
China, which lifted a large number of its almost 1.5 billion citizens from economic hardship over the decades, has pledged to assist Cambodia to alleviate poverty among its people. The assurance was conveyed by Huang Xilian, the Chinese Ambassador to Asean during the two Asean-China-UNDP ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/china-eyes-poverty-reduction
Biggest solar project yet gets half billion in funding
The Gideon Group, a US-based global finance firm, yesterday announced its intention to invest $488 million in a 135-megawatt solar plant in Kandal province. In a statement issued yesterday, Gideon Group president and CEO Salman Khan said the Kandal solar project is being developed by ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50573860/biggest-solar-project-yet-gets-half-billion-in-funding/
KrisEnergy starts 3D seismic survey
Singapore-based firm KrisEnergy Ltd, which operates Cambodia’s Block A offshore oil development project, has started a 3D seismic survey in the area, a company press release said on Tuesday. It announced the commencement of a 1,200sqkm survey in the offshore Cambodia Block A concession, where ...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/krisenergy-starts-3d-seismic-survey
Kampot councillors sent to court for forging land title
Kampot provincial police sent two councillors to court on Thursday for forging public documents to claim a villager’s land in Chhouk district. Provincial police chief Mao Chanmathurith said the unidentified officials, one of whom was a Chhouk district councillor and the other a Taken commune ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampot-councillors-sent-court-forging-land-title
Kingdom to spend nearly $60 billion on development until 2023
Cambodia will spend nearly $60 billion under the National Strategic Development Plan 2019-2023 and 75 percent of the funding will come from development partners. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50658074/kingdom-to-spend-nearly-60-billion-on-development-until-2023/
Experts from Asean gather to discuss upcoming Competition Law
The Competition Law, a piece of legislation deemed crucial in the digital economy, will be completed early next year, Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak said yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50659995/experts-from-asean-gather-to-discuss-upcoming-competition-law/
Drug resistance triggers war to wipe out malaria in the Mekong region
No one knows exactly why resistance to malaria drugs always emerges first in this remote western province of Cambodia, nestled in the Cardamom Mountains. “The reasons are as much social as biological,” says malariologist Tom Peto, who is here in this dusty, unremarkable-looking town battling ...
Leslie Roberts
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/drug-resistance-triggers-war-wipe-out-malaria-mekong-region