Drought affects 13 provinces
Drought has affected about 20,000ha of rice fields in 13 provinces, with Kampong Cham being the most affected, said National Committee for Disaster Management spokesman Keo Vy on Sunday. Vy said early in the rainy season, torrential rain nationwide caused flooding and damage to roads ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drought-affects-13-provinces
Sar Kheng chastises border authorities over illegal logging
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has blamed local officials posted along the Cambodian-Thai border for failing to curb the flow of illegal loggers sneaking across the border to cut down trees in Thailand. Mr Kheng said on Saturday in Oddar Meanchey province that up to 100 Cambodian ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50551911/sar-kheng-chastises-border-authorities-over-illegal-logging/
NBC set to hold annual meet highliting agricultural issues
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) is set to hold the 6th Annual Macroeconomic Conference at the end of this year, which will focus on the Kingdom’s agriculture sector challenges. The conference on Agriculture Sector in a Rapid Structural Transformation and Uncertain Global Trade Environment ...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nbc-set-hold-annual-meet-highliting-agricultural-issues
Dispute could ‘spook investors’
Seung Hyung Lee did not know that blocking an excavator with his body would be part of his job description when he came to work in Cambodia. The senior vice-president of developer World City, however, found himself doing just that last week, when construction equipment ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15992/dispute-could----spook-investors---/
Cambodia highlights opportunities, challenges of upcoming ASEAN Community
Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong on Wednesday underscored the major opportunities and challenges of the ASEAN Community, which will be realized by the end of this year. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-10/14/c_134713139.htm
Small time landowners tricked into buying difficult plots
To maximise profits by reselling undeveloped land, some questionable local investors buy large plots of land, split it up into smaller units and sell it on to buyers who believe they will be able to build their own homes on them. Unwittingly, these buyers often ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/small-time-landowners-tricked-buying-difficult-plots
Despite health risks, processed meats remain a main course
At a small food shop in Phnom Penh recently, customers crowded in, eating hotdogs and meatballs. These kinds of processed meats are widely popular in Cambodia, and business was brisk. Few here seem to be concerned by new warnings from the World Health Organization that ...
Oum Sonita, Ros Puthineat
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/despite-health-risks-processed-meats-remain-a-main-course/3052068.html
Water Festival at low ebb
As the first day of the Water Festival rolled over Phnom Penh, the city was quiet.The riverside streets, once filled with teeming crowds from the provinces, were sparsely populated. If not for the workers setting up fireworks tubes on a repurposed river barge, there would ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/water-festival-low-ebb
Major set to open 100 cinemas next year
SET-listed Major Cineplex Group Plc has earmarked 1.2 billion baht to open 100 new cinemas nationwide next year in a bid to boost revenue by 10-15%.The investment budget will not cover further expansion in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, which will be made through partnerships ...
Nanat Suchiva
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/news/778761/major-set-to-open-100-cinemas-next-year
Coastal developments add new niche to property market
With the recent groundbreaking of the luxury Royal Sands residential project on Koh Rong by a Cambodian conglomerate Royal Group and two major luxury condominium projects being developed on or near the shoreline of Sihanoukville, real-estate agents say a new chapter has begun in the ...
May Kunmakara and Vincent MacIsaac
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19116/coastal-developments-add-new-niche-to-property-market/
Sand dredging licences secretly soaring
Despite the government’s vow to be more transparent with regulations and the issuing of sand-dredging licences, the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) has granted nearly 70 new such licences without holding public auctions or requiring companies to disclose environmental impact assessments (EIA) results to ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sand-dredging-licences-secretly-soaring
Gov’t eyes data gaps to ensure stable foundation for construction industry
A survey of foreign direct investment by the National Bank of Cambodia due to be completed at the end of this month will help fill data gaps in the construction industry and could lead to new regulations in the property market that will pave the ...
E-commerce law to debut by end of year
The draft law on e-commerce is set to be completed and enacted by the end of this year, ahead of the launch of the Asean Economic Community (AEC), which begins at the end of the year, commerce officials said yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16571/e-commerce-law-to-debut-by-end-of-year/
Police quash Veng Sreng memorial ceremony
Riot police and municipal security guards shunted a group of would-be mourners around Phnom Penh’s southern industrial precinct on Sunday morning as they attempted to mark the second anniversary of the day military police marched along Veng Sreng Boulevard firing assault rifles into crowds of ...
Matt Blomberg and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-quash-veng-sreng-memorial-ceremony-104291/
Upgraded training program for elite forest rangers
The first graduates of a special training program for elite forest rangers began work this month in Preah Vihear’s protected forest.The 29 newly-minted rangers will be responsible for leading efforts to stop illegal logging, land clearance, and poaching in a forest that is home to ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20991/upgraded-training-program-for-elite-forest-rangers/
Departments of Forestry and Fisheries to decentralize
The Ministry of Agriculture’s departments of Forestry and Fisheries will be placed under the control of the provincial agricultural administrations, according to an official letter released by Agricultural Minister Ouk Rabun on Monday. The move is part of an effort to decentralize government responsibilities and ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21232/departments-of-forestry-and-fisheries-to-decentralize/
Koh Rong Samloeun’s Asia-driven tourism boom
Just four years ago, the white sand beach at Koh Rong Samloeun’s Saracen Bay was empty. Now workers can be seen scrambling over the frames of new bungalows along the shoreline, and speed boats arrive hourly from the mainland to drop off crowds of tourists ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21542/koh-rong-samloeun---s-asia-driven-tourism-boom/
New checkpoints on Lao border
More border checkpoints will be opened between Cambodia and Laos after both countries agreed to increase bilateral trade yesterday. The decision came after a meeting in Phnom Penh between Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Lao counterpart Thongloung Sisoulith after a series of talks related ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26583/new-checkpoints-on-lao-border/
Government passes law to regulate organ donation
Ruling party lawmakers unanimously passed a law regulating how human cells, tissue and organs can be donated or used in the country during a session on Thursday at the National Assembly, with the CNRP continuing its boycott of parliament in protest of a legal assault ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-passes-law-to-regulate-organ-donation-114886/
The Cambodia population census: leaving no one behind
Cambodia will be conducting its third comprehensive and inclusive population census in March 2018. For any country, the population census is the first source of information that provides facts about the size of the population, the different age groups, the geographic distribution, the ethnical minorities ...
Derveeuw Marc GL
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/analysis-and-op-ed/cambodia-population-census-leaving-no-one-behind