Sihanoukville Autonomous Port CEO vows port will become regional hub
Lou Kim Chhun, government delegate in charge as chairman and CEO of Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, said he was determined to push the development of a new container terminal and deep-water port in Sihanoukville. ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sihanoukville-autonomous-port-ceo-vows-port-will-become-regional-hub
Kingdom's sugar exports to EU plummet
New figures show that Cambodia’s sugar exports to the European Union fell by 94.8 per cent between 2013 and 2015, amid accusations of rights abuses and land grabbing in the Kingdom’s industry. ...
Will Jackson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdoms-sugar-exports-eu-plummet
Heat, water shortages affecting rare bird life
Conservationists are expressing concern that some of the Kingdom’s endangered birds are not reproducing this year due to extreme heat stress, inability to find enough food and habitat loss from wildfires and human encroachment. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/heat-water-shortages-affecting-rare-bird-life
Amru, Thai firm sign cassava agreement
Amru, Cambodia’s leading rice miller and exporter, on Friday signed a deal with Thai Starch Company to supply 8,000 tonnes of fresh organic tapioca and the first exports will be in early 2019. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5091169/amru-thai-firm-sign-cassava-agreement/
Laos president to visit Cambodia next week
Laos President Choummaly Sayasone will pay a state visit to Cambodia on Feb. 26 and 27 to further promote bilateral ties and cooperation, a news statement from the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on said on Friday. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=269307
Laos president to visit Cambodia next week
Laos President Choummaly Sayasone will pay a state visit to Cambodia on Feb. 26 and 27 to further promote bilateral ties and cooperation, a news statement from the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on said on Friday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-02/20/c_134008314.htm
National plan to address trafficking launched
The National Committee for Counter Trafficking (NCCT) has launched its National Plan of Action 2019-2023 to address new forms of human trafficking, including surrogacy and sex trafficking at nightclubs that have emerged through the permeation of the internet. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-plan-address-trafficking-launched
Vietnam affirms sovereignty over central area that borders Cambodia
Vietnam has full and absolute sovereignty over the border area of Dak Dam in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong, which is adjacent to the Cambodian province of Mondulkiri, the foreign ministry has said. ...
Tuoitrenew5.vn Staff
http://tuoitrenews.vn/politics/31366/vietnam-affirms-sovereignty-over-central-area-that-borders-cambodia
Seeds for contract rice farming planted
The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) yesterday called on local rice millers, exporters, farmers, development partners and the Ministry of Agriculture to work together to promote contract farming to ensure the sustainable development of the rice industry of the country. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24605/seeds-for-contract-rice-farming-planted/
Stung Treng prepares for bridge dismantling
Stung Treng provincial authorities have vowed to demolish the Sre Pok Bridge ahead of the testing of the Lower Sesan II dam – which will submerge a number of villages – and warned that police will be deployed should villagers protest. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/stung-treng-prepares-bridge-dismantling
Cambodian villagers threaten renewed protests against dam developer
Hundreds of indigenous villagers on Monday threatened to continue protests against the developer of a controversial hydropower dam in Cambodia if it does not halt construction of the project, which they say will negatively affect their cultural traditions and livelihoods. ...
Prach Chev
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/dam-03022015173133.html
Hun Sen to commit good cooperation with new elected senate president
Prime Minister Hun Sen expressed his strong belief for the continuity of the good cooperation between the country’s executive and legislative body under the leadership of the new elected president of senate Say Chhum. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1Gqy8uV
Talks over e-registration
Members of the National Election Committee (NEC) met with government figures and representatives of NGOs in Phnom Penh yesterday to discuss the electoral registration process, ahead of a new electronic system set to be rolled out next year. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/talks-over-e-registration
Cambodia rubber exports revenue rises to $77m
Cambodia earned more than $77 million from the export of rubber and rubberwood in the first two months of this year, according to the General Directorate of Rubber. ...
Sok Sithika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501047328/cambodia-rubber-exports-revenue-rises-to-77m/
For Health Care, Cambodians Choose Vietnam
“I trust the Cambodian doctors with a simple problem. But if it’s a serious illness, and I need an operation or something, I don’t really trust them,” said Ly Molina, 31, a businesswoman from Phnom Penh. Ms. Molina spoke as she waited for a bus to ...
Two maids allegedly suffered abuse in Malaysia
Two new claims of abuse of Cambodian maids employed in Malaysia have emerged since Friday, including one case of a woman who returned home with severe mental trauma following alleged mistreatment by her Malaysian employer, the victims’ families said. Iy Thar, a villager from Kompong Thom ...
Garment Workers Faint at H&M Clothing Plant
Thirty-four garment factory workers fainted yesterday morning in Kompong Chhnang province, making it the third time in a year that a mass fainting has occurred at the factory, workers said yesterday. M&V International Manufacturing LTD. factory, which is a supplier to Swedish clothing brand H&M, experienced two incidents of ...
Phok Dorn, P. 19
https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/16-August-2012-page-001.jpg
Cambodia prepares for G20
If it were a Group of 180 nations meeting, Cambodia would be invited. But the Kingdom’s chances of attending the so-called G20 summit, which brings together the world’s largest economies, are unlikely, says Mey Kalyan, a government adviser who last week became the first Cambodian to ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012051456136/Business/cambodia-prepares-for-g20.html
Kingdom reaffirms neutrality
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn made statements regarding responses to global challenges and Cambodia’s stance on multilateralism at the mid-term Ministerial Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) held virtually on July 13-14 under the sponsorship of the Republic of Azerbaijan’s Baku ...
Voun Dara
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-reaffirms-neutrality
Deputy PM to sign $3.3 mn grant aid deal with Japan
Japan is granting more than $3.3 million to Cambodia for this year’s Human Resource Development Scholarship. The Exchange of Notes and related documents on the extension of the grant aid will take place today with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn and ...
Michael Firn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50901340/deputy-pm-to-sign-3-3-mn-grant-aid-deal-with-japan/