Revenues for S'Ville Port Hit $14M in Five Months
Revenues generated at the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port increased 13.6 percent to $14 million in the first five months of 2012, compared to the same period last year, a port official said yesterday. Lou Kimchhun, director-general of the port, said that revenues came from a 9 percent ...
Angkor Air to start flights to Sihanoukville in December
The national carrier Angkor Air will launch a regular flight service on December 14 between Siem Reap and Sihanoukville, said Quang Dinh, assistant to the CEO of Cambodia Angkor Air, yesterday This will be the first time that Sihanoukville, the nation’s main coastal destination, will receive ...
Montagnards seek Cambodia asylum
Thirteen hill tribespeople known as “Montagnards” have left their jungle hideout in Cambodia and will apply for asylum after crossing from Vietnam to flee persecution, it was announced Sunday. The minority group had for more than seven weeks sought refuge in the jungle in Cambodia’s northeastern ...
Manila Standard Today News Staff
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2014/12/21/montagnards-seek-cambodia-asylum/
LMC-funded water resource protection, green development project inaugurated in SW Cambodia
A demonstration project for integrated management of typical small river basins, funded by the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Special Fund, has been inaugurated here. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501311094/lmc-funded-water-resource-protection-green-development-project-inaugurated-in-sw-cambodia/
Eviction Notices Served to 69 Russei Keo Families
Sixty-nine families in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district have been ordered by the government to move from a 4,000-meter-square plot of land claimed by a local businessman, according to district authorities. The disputed area is part of a 9-hectare plot of land in Svay Pak commune owned by ...
Ethnic Bunong Groups Granted New Land Titles
The government has completed the communal land-titling process for three ethnic Bunong communities in Mondolkiri province living on 1,000 hectares of land in Keo Seima district, villagers and a rights group said yesterday. The three new titles-which will bring to six the total number of communal titles granted ...
Banong Families Close to Communal Land Titles
An indigenous ethnic Banong community in Mondolkiri province yesterday began the final stage in acquiring a communal land title, setting it up to become only the sixth community in the country to secure one of the coveted documents. Established by the 2001 Land Law, communal land ...
Largest-ever Cambodian solar project launched
Cambodia’s biggest solar power initiative to date – expected to provide electricity to 12,000 households in off-grid areas – will be completed on January 31, according to officials involved with the project. Yiang Tal, chief of administration at the Rural Electrification Fund, said more than 10,000 ...
Experts say gov’t all talk, no action on support for disabled
Marking the Cambodian Day of Persons with Disabilities on Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam An encouraged all government ministries to make an effort to employ more people with disabilities, though experts say the government should be more proactive. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/xperts-say-govt-all-talk-no-action-on-support-for-disabled-102332/
Kratie Village Sealed After Girl’s Killing
Kratie city – Soldiers and military police yesterday blocked all access to a village where a 14-year-old girl was shot dead by security forces on Wednesday while the authorities launched a massive operation to evict hundreds of families from the area under a cloak of ...
Private residential property in Cambodia attracting foreign investors
Private residential property in Cambodia is being seen by some investors as relatively cheap, with potential for attractive returns. Industry players believe these factors are the main draw for foreign buyers, looking to grow their money in Cambodia. Keuk Narin, vice president of Asia Real Estate Cambodia ...
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/marketnews/view/1253968/1/.html
CNRP youths ‘to enter park’
More than 100 opposition supporters gathered in Phnom Penh yesterday morning for training in “defending freedom” ahead of a planned attempt to enter Freedom Park on Wednesday. Opposition lawmaker-elect Mu Sochua, who has been forcibly removed from the park a number of times this month, led ...
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-youths-%E2%80%98-enter-park%E2%80%99
‘Plenty of food’ for Cambodians during uncertain COVID times
A government ministry has reassured the public that there is no need to panic over potential food shortages amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50707165/plenty-of-food-for-cambodians-during-uncertain-covid-times/
Record number of Asian openbill stork nests discovered
BirdLife International Cambodia recently discovered a record number of over 2,000 Asian openbill stork nests in Takeo province’s Boeng Prek Lapou Protected Landscape. .. ...
Som Kanika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50776744/record-number-of-asian-openbill-stork-nests-discovered/
Storks die of H5N1 in Prey Veng province
The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday said that the more than 500 storks which died in Boeng Sne Tuol Porntaley, Prey Veng province, in Ba Phnom district’s Batheay commune since March 17 were due to avian influenza virus (HPAIV) of subtype H5N1. ...
Mao Chanvireak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50830258/storks-die-of-h5n1-in-prey-veng-province/
Eight million more vaccines to arrive by middle of August
The Health Ministry yesterday confirmed Cambodia will receive eight million more doses of Covid-19 vaccines by middle of this month. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50906280/eight-million-more-vaccines-to-arrive-by-middle-of-august/
China tops list of investors in H1
China was ranked first in terms of foreign direct investment (FDI) equity inflows to Cambodia in the first half of this year, at about $2 billion, according to the Chinese ambassador. ...
Thou Vireak
https://phnompenhpost.com/business/china-tops-list-investors-h1
3 million doses of vaccine to arrive in Cambodia today
3 million doses of Sinovac vaccine will be touching down in Cambodia today. The vaccines were ordered by the Cambodian government from the Chinese company. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50914506/3-million-doses-of-vaccine-to-arrive-in-cambodia-today/
Cambodia added to list of ‘High Risk’ countries by Hong Kong
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) has announced that Cambodia is to be added to it’s ‘High Risk’ or ‘Group A’ list, effective from 0.00am on 20 August 2021. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50917939/cambodia-added-to-list-of-high-risk-countries-by-hong-kong/
King, PM congratulate Hungary over anniversary of diplomatic ties
King Norodom Sihamoni in a congratulatory letter to President of Hungary János Áder on September 10 to mark the 65th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the two countries had also expressed his intention to visit the country. ...
Sar Socheath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50938533/king-pm-congratulate-hungary-over-anniversary-of-diplomatic-ties/