Siem Reap copper mine shut down
A copper mine in Siem Reap province’s Chi Kreng district was closed down last Thursday over allegations that its parent company has been running the site with an expired license. The investigation into Meng Xin Hong Fa (Cambodia) Resources Investment Co. Ltd. is being led ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20048/siem-reap-copper-mine-shut-down/
Open Development Cambodia publishes new topic page on Drought
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just published a new topic page on Drought in both Khmer and English languages. The page aims to provide general overview and national response, effect and future prospect of the topic with interactive map and graphic demonstrate the impacts. Drought page could be ...
Indian investors see Cambodia as gateway to Asean
Indian businesses are looking at Cambodia as a convenient hub in the lower Mekong area, as access to trade with neighboring Vietnam and Thailand improves, a government advisor said yesterday. Speaking at a seminar titled “Asean Integration and the Role of India,” Sok Siphana, a lawyer ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28968/indian-investors-see-cambodia-as-gateway-to-asean/
Outrage over boarding charges
A government minister has threatened legal action, and disability groups are up in arms, after a small Cambodian airline forced a disabled passenger to pay $240 on top of her ticket price for help getting on and off an aircraft.Bassaka Air has admitted demanding the ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/outrage-over-boarding-charges
Hope for ‘bomb threat’ student
Interior Minister Sar Kheng is seeking the legal means to engineer the acquittal of a student who threatened in a Facebook post to bomb a graduation ceremony he was scheduled to attend.The student, Tao Savoeun, wrote a letter to the minister on Monday, apologising and ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hope-bomb-threat-student
Terror used as pretext: report
Cambodia has been named among states accused of using counter-terrorism measures to clamp down on human rights and civil society in a report released this week by the United Nations’ special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism.Speaking in New York on Monday, the British rapporteur ...
Zoe Holman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/terror-used-pretext-report
Charity assists thousands in Cambodia
An education program in Cambodia founded by a Taiwanese charity has benefited nearly 10,000 Cambodians over the past five years, which is comparable to a modern equivalent of the famed agricultural missions dispatched by the Taiwanese government to aid diplomatic allies in the 1960s. The ...
Chen Ping-hung
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/12/01/2003633762
Bavet land prices stable
Falling demand for land in Svay Rieng province’s Bavet City has ensured that land prices have remained stable in the first eight months of the year, according to industry insiders. Relatively stable property sales and a few industrial development projects have helped to ensure that land ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29824/bavet-land-prices-stable/
Soldier, 9 others jailed in Cambodia logging-patrol killings
Ten people, including a soldier, have been arrested over the murders of a forest ranger and a policeman who were investigating illegal logging in Cambodia, officials said on Friday. In the last few decades a surge in illegal logging has contributed to a sharp drop ...
AFP News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/764356/soldier-9-others-jailed-in-cambodia-logging-patrol-killings
US urged to save trees
A group of environmental NGOs working to protect the Prey Lang forest called on the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to intervene and protect the region’s resin trees, or they will all be logged within six months, they claimed in a joint-statement issued yesterday. The ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29843/us-urged-to-save-trees/
Burger King to expand realm
Having established a foothold in the capital, Burger King is pushing into Cambodia’s provinces and will launch its first branch in Siem Reap next month, a company official said yesterday.In all, the US fast-food giant plans to open four branches outside the capital by the ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/burger-king-expand-realm
Treasury sets sights on CLMV countries for coin minting
As Thailand is surrounded by neighbouring countries that only circulate banknotes, the Royal Thai Mint is eyeing Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) for its regional expansion plan. Deputy director-general of the Treasury Department Werawut Sripaoraya said that officials would tour Laos and Cambodia this year ...
Kang Soon Chen
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Treasury-sets-sights-on-CLMV-countries-for-coin-mi-30283175.html
Ven Vorn loses appeal
Environmental campaigner and Areng Valley community leader Ven Vorn lost his appeal against his one-year suspended sentence for “collecting forest products without permission” yesterday at the Appeals Court. Judge Kim Danny did not give reasons why the court decided to uphold the March ruling of the ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30048/ven-vorn-loses-appeal/
Vietnamese here since French era, says PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday stressed that ethnic Vietnamese have been living in Cambodia since the French colonial period and did not arrive only during his premiership. Speaking at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new road in Tbong Khmum province, the prime minister said it was ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31627/vietnamese-here-since-french-era--says-pm/
NGO forgoes US funding to continue contraceptive services
Marie Stopes International Cambodia said yesterday it will look to strengthening partnerships instead of accepting US federal funds after it forfeited its rights to USAID funding in order to continue providing legal abortion services.This was in response to US President Donald Trump’s executive order issued ...
Mayuri Mei Lin
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34754/ngo-forgoes-us-funding-to-continue-contraceptive-services/
Ministry okays wood plant
The government issued a statement yesterday allowing Lim Royal Joint Stock Company to create a temporary wood and furniture manufacturing plant in Trapeang Srae village in Kratie province.According to an announcement signed by Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Veng Sakhon last Thursday, Lim Royal will ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35376/ministry-okays-wood-plant/
Move-out begins at White Building; no official deadline set
As residents began to move out of Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building on Tuesday, government officials were also present, handing out documentation to those leaving while microfinance staff offered their services.While some residents piled their possessions into trucks or blocked narrow hallways with unwanted goods, ...
Brendan O’byrne
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second2/move-begins-white-building-no-official-deadline-set-131081/
CPP, Opposition lodge Commune Elections day complaints
The ruling CPP and opposition CNRP have filed a combined 39 official complaints over the running of Sunday’s commune elections while independent observers continue to criticize pre-election conditions that they say likely compromised the poll.Hang Puthea, spokesman for the National Election Committee (NEC), said the ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-opposition-lodge-commune-elections-day-complaints-131071/
NGO to target PM, ACU head
The NGO preparing to file a complaint to the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) against two opposition officials will also file complaints against Prime Minister Hun Sen and the ACU president after voter registration is finished, he announced yesterday. Ros Sarom, the director of the Victory Intelligent Standard ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30980/ngo-to-target-pm--acu-head/
Coke’s new $100 million plant
Coca-Cola officially opened a new $100 million plant in Phnom Penh yesterday to expand its production capacity to meet increased demand for the Coke beverage in the Kingdom and Asean. The plant, situated on a 12.5-hectare land, in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone is able ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32783/coke---s-new--100-million-plant/