GCC-ASEAN media delegation visits Saudi State History Exhibition
A Cambodian media delegation led by Kao Imran, Head of Arabic News at the Ministry of Information, together with their counterparts from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and ASEAN member countries yesterday visited the Saudi State History Exhibition, held at the headquarters of the Saudi ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501379447/gcc-asean-media-delegation-visits-saudi-state-history-exhibition/
Cambodia feted with IFAD Gender Award in Rome
Cambodia came under the spotlight in Europe recently as its project was bestowed with a prestigious honour in Rome. At the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) ’s annual Governing Council, the Tonle Sap Smallholder Development Project – Additional Financing (TSSD-AF) – co-financed by IFAD ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501443188/cambodia-feted-with-ifad-gender-award-in-rome/
One More Manufacturing opens door to local noodle production
One More Manufacturing Co Ltd on Saturday officially inaugurated “Mee Chiet” an instant-noodle processing factory with a production capacity of 150 million packages per year. The factory, which is located in Kouk Roka commune’s Trapaing Por village in the capital’s Prek Pnov district, will produce noodles ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/one-more-manufacturing-opens-door-local-noodle-production
Sokha charge calls are ‘judicial interference’
A Ministry of Justice spokesman and Cambodia’s Permanent Mission to the UN Office at Geneva (Unog) have described demands for the treason charge against Kem Sokha to be dropped as tantamount to interference in the judiciary. Rhona Smith, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/sokha-charge-calls-are-judicial-interference
Foreign ministry calls on S Korea to take on more Cambodian migrant workers
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn on Monday requested the government of the Republic of Korea to receive more Cambodian migrant workers. The request was made at a bilateral meeting with South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Kyung-wha during the Asean-Republic of ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/foreign-ministry-calls-s-korea-take-more-cambodian-migrant-workers
Released Boeng Kak Women Back to Old Ways
Less than two weeks after being released from prison, the 13 women convicted in May for protesting evictions at Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak community staged their first public action yesterday. The women, joined by about as many neighbors, submitted petitions to the Australian, French, U.K. and ...
Court Completes Investigation of Svay Rieng Triple Shooting
The Svay Rieng Provincial Court has wrapped up an investigation of February’s triple shooting of female garment workers in Bavet City, a case in which the city’s former governor, Chhouk Bundith, is still the only suspect, a court official said yesterday. The court has charged ...
Hun Sen Alludes to Mam Sonando in Warning Message
Journalists, NGO workers and politicians are not immune to the long arm of the law if they flout it, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday as he distributed land titles in Kampot province. Mr. Hun Sen’s comments come 10 days after independent radio station owner Mam ...
Missing girl feared trafficked
Meas Bopha, 47, sits in an outdoor pagoda over a lotus-filled pond on her property in Kampong Speu, home to 10 of her 12 children, and wipes back tears as she talks about her missing teenage daughter, Bophea, who vanished one morning last week. Bophea ...
Activist sent fleeing after report on graft
An opposition activist in Siem Reap province’s Varin district said he has fled his home upon receiving word that men in military dress were asking about his whereabouts after he spoke to the press about allegations of military corruption stuffed into a ballot box on ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activist-sent-fleeing-after-report-graft
King to Convene Parliament After Beijing Trip
King Norodom Sihamoni flew to Beijing on Monday, accompanied by Queen Mother Norodom Monineath for a routine medical checkup, but will return to Cambodia to preside over the opening session of the fifth mandate of the National Assembly, according to a statement released by the ...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/king-to-convene-parliament-after-beijing-trip-39273/
Cambodia reports 18th human case of bird flu this year
A 15-month-old boy in the capital’s Russei Keo district has been diagnosed with H5N1 virus, bringing the number of the cases to 18 so far this year, a joint statement by the World Health Organization and Cambodian Health Ministry said Wednesday. The latest death case ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2013-09/04/c_132691671.htm
King To Invite Both Parties to Open Assembly
Following a weekend of opposition demonstrations and rejection of official election results, King Norodom Sihamoni on Monday called for the two political parties embroiled in Cambodia’s post-election deadlock to open a legislative meeting on the Sept. 28 deadline. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has said ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodian-king-to-invite-both-parties-to-open-assembly/1746288.html
Union leader: Salary negotiation scheduled for this month
Government representatives and union leaders will soon hold meetings to discuss garment worker’s salary increase for 2014, according to a union leader Friday. “Negotiations with factory employers to increase the salary for workers in the garment sector is scheduled to take place some time this August,” ...
The Cambodia Herald
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=MjFjNzM2YTI3MGZ
Gov’t forwards publishing complaint to military court
A military court may pursue legal action against a Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker-elect and newspaper publisher after the Council of Ministers yesterday filed a complaint against him. Dam Sith, editor-in-chief of the pro-CNRP Moneaksekar Khmer newspaper, published the text of a speech given by CNRP ...
Meas Sokchea and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-forwards-publishing-complaint-military-court
A tale of two Boeung Kak protests
The presence of dozens of riot police yesterday swiftly ended the first day of Boeung Kak land-rights activist Yorm Bopha’s planned month-long protest in the capital’s Freedom Park. At virtually the same time, Surya Subedi, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, visited a ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tale-two-boeung-kak-protests
‘Reforms sink commerce ministry’s revenue by 50%’
A reduction in red tape saw Ministry of Commerce revenue decline 50 per cent last year compared to 2018, its annual report revealed. However, it said the bureaucratic reforms would boost the Kingdom’s competitiveness. The report showed that the government had eliminated some export procedures ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/reforms-sink-commerce-ministrys-revenue-50
Kingdom’s fuel prices fixed despite US-Iran row
Increase tensions between the US and Iran, one of the world’s largest oil producers, could cause prices to fluctuate, the Ministry of Commerce warned on Thursday. However, the ministry said fuel prices in the Kingdom will stick to those announced every 15 days, which are ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-fuel-prices-fixed-despite-us-iran-row
Second round of China FTA talks close
The second round of negotiations for a Cambodia-China Free Trade Agreement highlighted the potential for expanding trade, investment, services, and strengthening cooperation between the two countries in the upcoming years, Ministry of Commerce secretary of state Sok Sopheak said in a press release on Friday. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/second-round-china-fta-talks-close
A serious concern: Cambodians’ $8 billion microfinance debt
Impending COVID-19 health measures and high levels of micro debt pose a serious concern for the approximately 2.4 million Cambodians with a combined outstanding debt of $8 billion, according to a World Bank report released this week. ...
Harrison White
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50708402/a-serious-concern-cambodians-8-billion-microfinance-debt/