Agricultural firms urged to enter Cambodia
Thai makers of farm products and agricultural machinery should expand into Cambodia to capitalise on that country’s rising demand for such products, according to Commerce Minister Apiradi Tantraporn. ...
The Nation's Team
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Agricultural-firms-urged-to-enter-Cambodia-30287537.html
Thailand, China launch railway project
Thailand and China launched a railway project here Saturday, marking the beginning of bilateral cooperation to develop Thailand’s first standard-gauge double-track railway line. ...
Xinhua News Staff
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18868/thailand--china-launch-railway-project/
Rubber exports stable
While international rubber prices rebounded late last year, Cambodia’s exports in 2016, however, remained relatively unchanged compared with 2015, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34466/rubber-exports-stable/
BigPhone now in Cambodia
Mobile World Investment (MWG), one of the largest mobile phone and electronics distribution chains in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City, has opened its first overseas store in Cambodia. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39837/pigphone-now-in-cambodia/
NEC bids to learn from its mistakes
Preventing spoiled ballots and improving complaint resolution were top of the agenda when the National Election Committee met at the weekend to discuss ways to improve the commune polls. ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5065732/nec-bids-learn-mistakes/
Election monitor: Sample-based observation most effective
Transparency International has pledged a rapid assessment of potential irregularities in Sunday’s commune elections by sending 1,100 observers across Cambodia—including, if needed, by boat and helicopter. ...
Hannah Hawkins
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/election-monitor-sample-based-observation-most-effective-130668/
Cambodian army chief visits China to promote friendly relations
Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces Gen. Pol Saroeun left here Sunday for a five-day visit to China to bolster ties and cooperation between the two countries. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141116/cambodian-army-chief-visits-china-promote-friendly-relations
Cambodia-South Korea Free Trade Agreement: Increasing potential for downstream sectors
The Cambodia-South Korea Free Trade Agreement can help boost Cambodian exports of garments, textiles, and footwear to South Korea. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501082487/cambodia-south-korea-free-trade-agreement-increasing-potential-for-downstream-sectors/
44 Faint at Phnom Penh Garment Factory Chim Ly
Forty-four garment workers on Friday fainted at the Chim Ly garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district, a police official said yesterday. Kambol commune police chief Phan Phoeun said that at first only a few workers fainted, then others followed suit “because they saw other ...
Activist Tep Vanny makes new bid for release from Cambodia prison
Boeung Kak community land activist Tep Vanny is making another bid for release in a case that sent her to prison over a 2013 protest outside the home of Prime Minister Hun Sen. Vanny’s sister, Huot Chansovann, filed a petition on Monday to Hun Sen’s ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activist-tep-vanny-makes-new-bid-release-cambodia-prison
Rainsy gets help from US Congress
Sixteen members of the US Congress have signed a joint letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen calling on the premier to “immediately cease the harassment and persecution” of the opposition.The letter, sent late last week, pointed to the National Assembly’s decision last month to expel ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-gets-help-us-congress
Beeline Mobile Operator Changes Management
The Dutch mobile telephone operator Beeline has replaced its general manager Gael Campan with Siddhanta Kothari, who previously worked in Vietnam as chief financial officer of GTel Mobile JSC, a subsidiary of Beeline’s owner VimpelCom. Beeline spokeswoman Nhem Socheata said on Friday that the change in ...
Thai Seafood Factory Receives Glowing Review
Thai police investigating allegations of myriad labor violations at a seafood factory employing hundreds of Cambodian migrant workers have given the facility a clean bill of health. A report last week by a Cambodian NGO, the Community Legal Education Center (CLEC), based on interviews with workers ...
Freedom Park tune cut short
In keeping with authorities’ indefinite ban on assembly, security forces yesterday morning dispersed a small gathering of nine youth activists who had planned to call for new elections and justice on behalf of recently slain protesters while singing songs about nonviolence in Freedom Park. Hoping to ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/freedom-park-tune-cut-short
Rubber exports increase 17%
Cambodia exported 27,445 tonnes of rubber worth $40 million in the first month of the year, up 17 per cent compared to the same period last year, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries official Khuon Phalla told The Post on Thursday. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rubber-exports-increase-17
Government preparing for garment workers’ vaccination
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MoLVT) has called for preparation for vaccination of garment workers, as the government prioritised them in the list of people to be vaccinated against the COVID-19. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50829140/government-preparing-for-garment-workers-vaccination/
Cashew exports increase 345% in January-July 2021
The Kingdom exported 866,207.77 tonnes of cashew nuts in the first seven months of 2021, a 345.29 per cent year-on-year surge, with Vietnam as the main buyer, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries reported. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cashew-exports-increase-345-january-july-2021
Cambodia, Brazil sign agreement to strengthen technical cooperation
The Kingdom of Cambodia and the Federative Republic of Brazil have signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement to constitute a framework that aims to promote technical cooperation in the areas given priority by both Parties, according to the Royal Embassy of Cambodia in Bangkok. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50886566/cambodia-brazil-sign-agreement-to-strengthen-technical-cooperation/
ASEAN 56th anniversary celebrated
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation August 8 organised the ASEAN Day 2023 to celebrate the 56th anniversary of the founding of the regional bloc. ...
Samban Chandara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/asean-56th-anniversary-celebrated
Troubled community radio station relocates to home
The head of a Kratie-based community radio station has been forced to move out of his studio after failing to pay rent and nearly a week of campaigning for public donations only raised $103. ...
Prak Chan Thul
https://kiripost.com/stories/troubled-community-radio-station-relocates-to-home