New strategy lures skittish villagers to solar
The greatest barrier to bringing solar power to Cambodia’s villages is not the cost, the lack of trained engineers, or the lack of equipment, analysts say. The SNV is only funded for the next three years. Mr. Barbian said he hopes the government will be ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15862/new-strategy-lures-skittish-villagers-to-solar/
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
Takeo’s Bati district could become a hotspot for garment factories
Land prices in Krang Thnong commune, in Takeo’s Bati district near National Road 2, have recently multiplied by up to ten times compared to five years ago after two garment factories started being constructed in the rural community this year, locals claim.Meanwhile, the area might ...
Dit Sokthy and Hanamariya Halim
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/takeos-bati-district-could-become-hotspot-garment-factories
Families told: Leave historic site
The roar of engines from tourist buses and cars drowns out the nearby sounds of crickets and flowing water as 39-year-old souvenir seller Touy Samoeurn spoke about the situation plaguing her. Ms. Samoeurn has spent more than 10 years calling Kulen Mountain home, residing in ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27654/families-told--leave-historic-site/
Vouchers to enjoy holidays
The government plans to create “cheque de vacances” or holiday vouchers by 2017 to encourage middle-income Cambodians to travel within the country, according to an official from the Ministry of Tourism yesterday. Chhay Khunlong, deputy director-general of tourism at the ministry, said holiday vouchers will enable ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30244/vouchers-to-enjoy-holidays/
‘Inadequate’ facilities may create school drop-outs
Approximately 3 million students in 12,000 state schools across the country are at risk of drop-out or under-performance as a result of inadequate basic infrastructure, according to research by a coalition of civil society groups.The warnings came following a forum convened in the capital on ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/inadequate-facilities-may-create-school-drop-outs
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/
Rice exports up, but cash shortage hitting
Rice exports for the first quarter of the year jumped 8.5 percent to 162,220 tons from 149,464 tons for the same period last year, but in March the figure dropped 14.5 percent, or 9,592 tons, to 66,275 tons in the face of competition from Thailand, ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23629/rice-exports-up--but-cash-shortage-hitting/
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/
Single-visa initiative puts Myanmar flights on course
Myanmar’s Ministry of Tourism is pushing forward with the implementation of a “two countries, one destination” campaign that hinges on establishing direct flights between the historic cities of Bagan and Siem Reap. The campaign’s single-visa programme would allow tourists holding either a Myanmar or Cambodia ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/single-visa-initiative-puts-myanmar-flights-course
Bird flu found in Phnom Penh
Nearly 300 chickens and ducks were culled after a new case of H5N1, or bird flu, was found in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district last week, officials said. Seang Borin, director of the municipal agriculture department, said yesterday that 292 chickens and ducks were killed in ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50102046/bird-flu-found-in-phnom-penh/
Rise in foreign tourist arrivals
The number of foreign tourists arriving in Cambodia increased 23 per cent in the third quarter of the year compared to the same period last year, according to new statistics from the Ministry of Tourism. The data show the number of tourists who arrived in the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012110259529/Business/rise-in-foreign-tourist-arrivals.html
Indonesia to import 100,000 tons of rice from Cambodia
Indonesia will import 100,000 tons of rice from Cambodia next month, Trade Ministry director general for foreign trade Deddy Saleh has said. The importation is a follow up from a joint trade agreement signed in August this year. “For the first batch, we will import 100,000 tons ...
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/11/01/indonesia-import-100000-tons-rice-cambodia.html
Cambodia sees 2.65 bln USD trade deficit in 2012
Cambodia recorded a trade deficit of 2.65 billion U.S. dollars in 2012, according to the government’s statistics on Wednesday. The country’s total import and export volume had reached 13.63 billion U.S. dollars last year, up 19 percent from 11.48 billion U. S. dollars in a year ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-01/09/c_132091653.htm
Potential seen for National Road 4
Land prices along National Road 4 still have the potential to rise, despite the relocation of a number of factories to National Road 3, property experts say. The price of land goes from $100 to $300 per square metre from Chaom Chao cycle to the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/Real-Estate/potential-seen-for-national-road-4.html
Garment Workers Strike, Demand Higher Wages
About 4,000 workers at the M&V Textile factory in Kompong Chhnang province, which supplies well-known brands such as H&M and Gap, went on strike yesterday morning to demand a pay raise, a union representative said. Meas Sokhen, a representative of the Free Trade Union, said ...
Fixed-line users rise
The number of fixed-line telephone subscribers in Cambodia increased by four per cent in 2012 compared to 2011, standing in sharp contrast to a mobile phone subscriber growth of 22 per cent in the same period, statistics show. According to figures from the Ministry of Posts ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060466029/Business/fixed-line-users-rise.html
IPU Finds Assembly Has Little Loans Oversight
Cambodia’s National Assembly is lacking, compared to other countries’ parliaments, in the oversight it exercises over new loans taken out by the government from international financial institutions, according to a new report. The study, published Tuesday by Geneva-based Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the World Bank, found ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/ipu-finds-assembly-has-little-loans-oversight-36432/
Organic rice exports rise in first half
Responding to growing demand in US and EU markets, organic rice exports have surged, reaching 200 tonnes in the first six months of this year, compared with 100 tonnes for all of last year. Exports of organic rice are meagre compared with other varieties, such ...
Rann Reuy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/organic-rice-exports-rise-first-half
Former Boeng Kak activists protest at City Hall
About 50 residents evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood in 2008 and 2009 to make way for a senator’s real estate project once again protested in front of City Hall Monday to demand better compensation. They are among some 3,000 families who were forced ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/former-boeng-kak-activists-protest-at-city-hall-57647/