With CNRP gains come risks: panel
The mixed results of the June 4 commune elections may have allowed both major parties to save face, but the opposition’s large gains show it has a serious chance of winning next year’s national election – and that could attract violent backlash from the government, ...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-gains-come-risks-panel
Trade fair scrapped over Covid-19 fears
The Ministry of Commerce on November 19 cancelled the 15th edition of the Cambodia Import-Export Goods Exhibition due to Covid-19 concerns. Originally scheduled to be held from December 15-18 at the Koh Pich Convention and Exhibition Centre on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich island, the Kingdom’s ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/trade-fair-scrapped-over-covid-19-fears
Fish fossils found in Phnom Svay of Banteay Meanchey
Archeologists and researchers have identified rare fish fossils buried in the ground in Phnom Svay of Banteay Meanchey province.The news was released in a press release from the Ministry of Environment, stressing that the discovery was made by Mr. Lim Vanchan of the Fossil Study ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50755671/fish-fossils-found-in-phnom-svay-of-banteay-meanchey/
More rain forecast due to storm Molave, amid flooding crisis
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology yesterday announced that tropical storm Molave, currently causing havoc as it crosses the Philippines, will soon drop further rain on Cambodia, already suffering from devastating floods. Cambodia expects the impact of Molave from October 28 through 29, with ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50776745/more-rain-forecast-due-to-storm-molave-amid-flooding-crisis/
Japanese investments to diversify economy praised
The 22nd Cambodia-Japan Joint Committee met via video conference with more than 130 members of the private sector in attendance this week. Discussions focused on minimum wage, taxes, logistics, energy supply, automobile imports, human resource development and organising workshops to better understand supply chains, according ...
Husain Haider
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50927114/japanese-investments-to-diversify-economy-praised/
GDT collected $2.7B in tax revenue in 2021
The Minister of Economy and Finance’s General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected 11.402100 trillion riel ($2.781 billion) in tax revenue in 2021, 24% more than the plan of $538 million. However, this revenue is slightly less when compared to the same period of year 2020 ...
Sok Sithika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501015758/gdt-collected-2-7b-in-tax-revenue-in-2021/
Cabinet approves draft legal documents, nat’l strategy
The Council of Ministers or the Cabinet for the seventh legislature of the National Assembly yesterday approved three legal documents, one national strategy and two reports during its second plenary session, presided over by Prime Minister Hun Manet at the Peace Palace, said a senior ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501363709/cabinet-approves-draft-legal-documents-natl-strategy/
NEC delegation to learn about French polls system
Prach Chan, chairman of the National Election Committee (NEC), flew to France yesterday evening with 10 senior officials to gain experience and learn about the electoral system to improve the electoral process in Cambodia. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501254423/nec-delegation-to-learn-about-french-polls-system/
Stung Pursat I dam ‘in 2026’
South Korean-owned SPHP (Cambodia) Co Ltd’s under-construction $231 million, 80 megawatt (MW) Stung Pursat I hydropower dam is scheduled to be commissioned and operational in 2026, according to Pursat provincial governor Khoy Rida. ...
May Kunmakara and Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/stung-pursat-i-dam-2026
Disabled women speak of discrimination
A group of disabled women yesterday raised concerns over discrimination faced by girls in getting an education, despite progress being made in the Kingdom to improve their rights. They raised their concerns during a forum jointly organised by Pact Cambodia, Agile, USAID and the government ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/665912/disabled-women-speak-of-discrimination/
Quote 'Out of Context' Says Women's Minister
Women’s Affairs Minister Ing Kantha Phavi said yesterday that comments she made in a radio broadcast last week, in which she appeared to blame female Boeng Kak protesters for bringing police violence on themselves, were taken out of context from a radio interview given some ...
Property prices stagnant following election
Although house prices increased sharply in early 2013, they have remained stagnant following the national election last month. Kuy Vat, the President and CEO of VTrust Group, said housing prices in many projects remain unchanged, because most customers are waiting for the formation of the new ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/property-prices-stagnant-following-election
Cambodian Opp threatens general strike after ‘constitutional coup’
Cambodia’s main opposition party accused long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen of a ‘constitutional coup’ on Wednesday and said it could call a general strike as it steps up protests over its complaints of vote-rigging in July’s general election. “We condemn this National Assembly, this government ...
Pakistan Daily Times News Staff
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013%5C09%5C26%5Cstory_26-9-2013_pg4_4
Boeung Kak awaits justice
More than 30 families in the capital’s Boeung Kak community are still waiting for official land titles six weeks after City Hall officials measured ground at the site of a years-long land dispute, villagers have said. The Phnom Penh Municipality began measuring land in villages 6, ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/boeung-kak-awaits-justice
Cambodia’s opposition gains ground in council elections
The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) gained ground against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s party in local elections over the weekend, initial tallies indicated Monday, in a boost the opposition party’s leader Sam Rainsy said would help strengthen democracy at the grassroots level. The ruling Cambodian People’s ...
RFA’s Khmer Service
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/elections-05192014185200.html
Rainsy says CNRP could end Assembly Boycott Friday
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said that he made “tentative” plans with Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday to appear before King Norodom Sihamoni on Friday to sign a deal ending the CNRP’s boycott of its 55 National Assembly seats. Government and CPP officials said they could ...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-says-cnrp-could-end-assembly-boycott-friday-56266/
Abbott government beefs up staff for 'Cambodian solution'
The Abbott government has sent a senior official to Phnom Penh to take charge of a controversial scheme to resettle refugees from Australia, even before Cambodia signs an agreement to accept them. Australia has also boosted the staff of its embassy in the Cambodian capital by ...
Lindsay Murdoch
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/abbott-government-beefs-up-staff-for-cambodian-solution-20140816-104x0b.html
Hun Sen calls on Vietnam to invest in rice processing sector
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday called on the Vietnamese to invest in the Kingdom’s rice processing sector. Speaking at an annual dinner with the Vietnamese business community in Cambodia ahead of Tet – the Vietnamese Lunar New Year – Hun Sen said the Kingdom’s ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hun-sen-calls-vietnam-invest-rice-processing-sector
Virus prompts warning of meat consumption
Two wildlife NGOs yesterday issued separate statements calling on citizens to cease the trade and consumption of illegal wildlife amid fears stemming from novel coronavirus. The Wildlife Alliance in its statement said the virus, which infected more than 7,700 people in 18 countries, has been ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50685778/virus-prompts-warning-of-meat-consumption
Thai firm to build plant in Pursat
Thai-based Precise Electric Manufacturing Co Ltd is planning to build an electric equipment plant in Pursat province to cash in on the high demand in the Kingdom. The announcement was made during a meeting between Pursat provincial governor Mao Thornin and the firm’s representatives on ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thai-firm-build-plant-pursat