Hundreds of families want land concession to offset evictions
More than 300 village residents from Koh Kong province protested at a district hall on Monday, asking for a social land concession to resolve their longstanding land conflict with a sugarcane plantation. ...
Khut Sokun
https://vodenglish.news/hundreds-of-families-want-land-concession-to-offset-evictions/
Manet: ‘Suit’ for any corrupt use of name
Hun Manet, designated as the future prime ministerial candidate for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), urged the authorities to take legal action against anyone who used his name to commit illegal acts. ...
Samban Chandara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/manet-suit-any-corrupt-use-name
Siem Reap-Angkor Int’l Airport records new high number of daily passengers
The number of air passengers passing through the newly-commenced Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport (SAI) has continued to grow, with a record of 3,200 a day, up from 2,600 on Oct. 24. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501388197/siem-reap-angkor-intl-airport-records-new-high-number-of-daily-passengers/
Korea joins MRC as new development partner
The Republic of Korea (ROK) has joined the Mekong River Commission (MRC) as its newest development partner. In a significant boost to regional cooperation and sustainable development, Korea has committed a grant of $1,000,000 to the MRC for the year 2024, and the possibility of ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501532241/korea-joins-mrc-as-new-development-partner/
Opposition leader declares new demonstration
The opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Thursday announced to hold demonstration again to demand the release of 23 detained protesters who have been arrested in violent clashes earlier this year. Sam Rainsy renewed the opposition protest plan while he as well as Kem Sokha led supporters ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=YTIxNTVkMjg3MDB
Company sells lucky iron fish, claims it reduced iron deficiency in Cambodia
Iron deficiency affects nearly 3.5 billion people worldwide. It is the most common nutritional deficiency in the world. In Cambodia, after 9 months of using the Lucky Iron Fish every day, researchers saw a 50 percent decrease in the incidence of clinical iron deficiency anemia, ...
Click2Houston.com News Staff
http://bit.ly/1Fy5seT
Campaign begins for improved child health
Unicef and the Cambodian government have launched a campaign to promote better health for children and newborns. Cambodia has made some progress improving the health of women and children, but a high rate of death for children remains a major concern. It saw its newborn mortality ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/campaign-begins-for-improved-child-health/2841753.html
$30 million ADB financing to support Cambodia’s COVID-19 response
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $30 million in financing to help strengthen Cambodia’s health system amid a surge in new infections and sustained community transmission of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), said ADB in a press release. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50948240/30-million-adb-financing-to-support-cambodias-covid-19-response/
Child nutrition project runs to ‘27 in target trio
To help address acute malnutrition in Cambodia, Helen Keller International, supported by the Ministry of Health, has launched a project to treat and care for children with moderate to severe malnutrition in three target provinces. ...
Sem Pisey
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/child-nutrition-project-runs-27-target-trio
Vaccination of adolescents aged 12 to 17 in Cambodia reaches 77.20 percent
The campaign to vaccinated up to 1,966,931 adolescents aged between 12 and 17, which was kicked off by the Prime Minister on August 1, has reached 77.20 percent as of August 30. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/926300/vaccination-of-adolescents-aged-12-to-17-in-cambodia-reaches-77-20-percent/
Many split on whether Cambodia should follow US on same-sex marriage
The reach of a US Supreme Court decision in favor of same-sex marriage has been far, even in Cambodia, where the decision was much discussed over social media. That has given some in the country’s LGBT community hope, but it has also exposed divisions in ...
Women’s minister pushing positive parenting toolkits
Minister of Women’s Affairs Ing Kantha Phavi virtually launched three different toolkits on positive parenting to promote positive child education through increased knowledge and skills and access to appropriate and timely parenting support. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/womens-minister-pushing-positive-parenting-toolkits
Families locked in Kandal land row seek compromise
Most of the 329 families from seven villages with crops planted on state land in the Chamkar Barang area of Tuol Prich commune in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district have refused to accept the inter-ministerial settlement policy that seeks to relocate them to make way ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-locked-kandal-land-row-seek-compromise
Resin provides boon to local economy
Nearly 300 families in the Sre Trob community in the Prey Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary in Preah Vihear province continue to make a living from their ancestors’ methods of obtaining wood oil or vital resin to sell, which can earn about $450 a month per ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/resin-provides-boon-local-economy
PM: No human rights without peace
Prime Minister Hun Sen once again spoke on weighty matters of war and peace, reiterating that development and democracy would not be possible without peace. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/pm-no-human-rights-without-peace
Despite Maid Abuses, Cambodia Retains Trafficking Ranking
Cambodia held on to its Tier 2 ranking for the third straight year in the U.S. State Depart- ments latest global Trafficking in Persons Report, which praised the country for a rise in prosecutions, but criticized the country over a new sub-decree on migrant labor. In ...
104 Battambang vets to receive homes via random draw
The government has provided 104ha of a social land concession (SLC) in Dounba commune’s Kouk Roka village of Battambang province’s Kors Kralor district for housing and farming to 104 veterans. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/104-battambang-vets-receive-homes-random-draw
Trade Expo Links Vietnam, Cambodia Military Firms
The 2013 Vietnam-Cambodia trade fair will commence on Nov 14 in Cambodia’s capital city Phnom Penh, said a representative from the Defence Ministry at a press briefing on Friday According to the organising board, some 200 Vietnamese enterprises have registered with more than 300 booths ...
Saigon-GP Daily News Staff
http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Business/2013/10/106621/
The Week at the CSX
The price of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority stock over the Sept. 6-12 period fluctuated between KHR 6,350 (US$1.57) and KHR 6,300 (US$1.55). The price on Sept. 6, KHR 6,350, fell to KHR 6,300 (US$1.58) on Sept. 7 and remained there until climbing to KHR 6,350 ...
Firm accused of grabbing indigenous community’s land in Stung Treng
More than 30 families from the Kreung indigenous community in Talat commune’s Rumpat and Talat villages in Stung Treng province’s Sesan district claimed that a private company had cleared their plantations. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/firm-accused-grabbing-indigenous-communitys-land-stung-treng