Australia’s ‘dance with dictators’: Country expected to stay mum on rights abuses with Asean leaders in town
While calls from all corners have demanded Australia take Cambodia to task – not only for its political crackdown but also for Prime Minister Hun Sen’s threats to beat up protesters on Australian soil – observers say any such confrontation is unlikely to materialise during ...
Labor Ministry lauds success
The Labor Ministry found jobs for more than 210,000 people last year, 55 percent of which were for women and 40 percent were overseas. According to a Labor Ministry report on its annual congress obtained by Khmer Times yesterday, the ministry provided occupation services and found ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35620/labor-ministry-lauds-success/
Logger leaves timber business
Try Pheap, director general of the Try Pheap Group and widely known for his extensive involvement in the kingdom’s timber trade, told a government news outlet yesterday that he has ended his involvement in the logging business and did not burn down a lumber warehouse ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35716/logger-leaves-timber-business/
Rise in meth use, trafficking spur cross-border drug plan
Faced with an ongoing rise in drug trafficking and use, especially of methamphetamines, Cambodia and the other five Greater Mekong Subregion countries have joined forces to try and stem the narcotics tide. Cambodia was also among four countries where drug-making laboratories were found, Mr. Douglas ...
Phan Soumy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rise-in-meth-use-trafficking-spur-cross-border-drug-plan-129466/
Angkor Wat voted world’s top tourist site
Cambodia’s Angkor Wat was yesterday named the world’s number one landmark in TripAdvisor’s 2017 Traveller’s Choice awards. The World Heritage site beat competition from the likes of India’s Taj Mahal, Peru’s Machu Picchu, and St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City to take the top spot. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38710/angkor-wat-voted-world---s-top-tourist-site/
60,000 register to vote in one week
Nearly 60,000 people have registered to vote in next year’s national election during the first week of registration. Hang Puthea, spokesman for the National Election Committee, said yesterday that 59,185 people across the country went to register from September 1 to September 10. Voter registration runs ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5082540/60000-register-vote-one-week/
Former local CNRP officials who defected to CPP met with distrust
Kry Lay lined up in early June to vote for the party he wanted to run Kampong Cham province’s Srak commune in the eastern part of the country. A former Sam Rainsy Party commune, the locale’s electorate delivered what Lay, a local farmer, wanted – ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/former-local-cnrp-officials-who-defected-cpp-met-distrust
NEC bans Senate campaign marching on main roads
The National Election Committee yesterday revealed locations in Phnom Penh that political parties will be banned from using for campaigning prior to the upcoming Senate election on February 25.The NEC has banned all political parties from campaigning on nine major boulevards in Phnom Penh, along ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50107268/nec-bans-senate-campaign-marching-main-roads/
Superhighway network opens in Cambodia
Viet Nam and Cambodia have jointly launched a Superhighway Telecom Network which is expected to improve internet and telecommunication services in Cambodia and meet customer demands. State-owned Viet Nam Telecom International (VTI) and Telecom Cambodia (TC) inaugurated the 260-km link, which connects VTI’s POP (Point of Presence) in Phnom Penh to HCM City, last Friday. ...
UN Rights Envoy Warns Against Continued Landlessness
Surya Subedi, the UN’s human rights envoy to Cambodia, expressed concern Friday over land concessions provided to private companies that are forcing people from their land in the provinces. “the royal government has the primary responsibility for respecting, protecting and fulfilling the rights of its ...
Cathay United Bank Plans To Buy Stake In Cambodia Counterpart
Cathay United Bank, the banking arm of Cathay Financial Holding Co., has agreed to acquire a 70 percent stake in a Cambodia bank, the financial holding company said Thursday. With the acquisition, Cathay United Bank will become the largest shareholder in Singapore Banking Corp. Ltd. (SBC Bank), while the original Singaporean investors will retain the remaining ...
Tramway in Capital Feasible by 2017, Firm says
A public tramway system in Phnom Penh could be completed by as early as 2017, a representative of a French urban consultancy company said yesterday. The municipality announced in October that Systra, a railroad consultancy firm based in France, was conducting a feasibility study on a ...
Riviera project to begin in 2013
Canadia’s Bank’s futuristic $100 million Riviera project on Koh Pich Island will begin construction early in 2013, according to a company spokesman. Riviera project manager Chen Hok said that two 28-storey buildings and three buildings of 38 storeys will be built in early 2013, while they ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/Real-Estate/riviera-project-to-begin-in-2013.html
Hun Sen completes land titling mission in Koh Kong
Prime Minister Hun Sen presented land titles Monday to 513 families in Thmorbang district, an official said. The land titles cover 1,504 hectares in Tropang Cheurtrav and Korki villages in Russey Chrum commune. The official said Monday’s ceremony marked the completion of a land-titling mission launched ...
Second can factory will cater to locals’ thirst
Crown Holdings, a metal packaging company, said this week it would build a second factory in Cambodia to keep up with the Kingdom’s growing beer industry. The Sihanoukville factory, which is expected to produce 725 million aluminium cans a year, will be begin operating in the ...
Silk producers look to sew up EU market ties
Cambodia’s silk producers say they must cut costs in order to continue reaching troubled European markets, the primary target for the Kingdom’s sericulture products. Insiders said Cambodian companies must start producing their own silk for the industry to survive. Silk craftspeople import some 400 tonnes of silk ...
North Korea talks trade pact with Cambodia
North Korea yesterday proposed to lower tax and trade barriers with Cambodia. The proposal, if made into a formal agreement, would join a long list of agreements between the two countries that have never been followed through. Hong Ki Chol said such an agreement could ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070457178/Business/north-korea-trade-pact.html
Cambodian vegetable farmers forced to compete with Vietnamese rivals
Cambodian vegetable farmers say they are being forced to compete with more efficient farmers in Vietnam who use farming techniques to make their vegetables grow faster. Farmers in Sambork Meas, a village on the Mekong River in Mokkompul commune in Bakkeng district in Kandal province, say ...
Locally Created Video Game Tops Apple's Downloads in Cambodia
A group of 12 Cambodians has developed a new video game for the iPhone that just two weeks after its release has become Cambodia’s most-downloaded game in Apple Inc.’s online store. Since it was released on November 30, “Asva the Monkey” has had more than 3,000 ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/locally-created-video-game-tops-apples-downloads-in-cambodia-6761/
Cambodia prepares to conserve disappearing cyclos
Cambodia is preparing to conserve the capital’s disappearing cyclos or rickshaws, which used to be a popular means of transport during the French colonial rule about 80 years ago. Cyclo is a three-wheeled bicycle with the driver perched on high above the rear wheel, and the ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-01/09/c_132091143.htm