NZ-funded climate-smart farming programme ‘pays off for subsistence farmers in Cambodians’
An international development program, funded by the New Zealand government, that powers subsistence farmers in Cambodia to build resilience to climate change and lift themselves out of poverty, has shown remarkable success, according to the American NGO that implements it, International Development Enterprises (iDE). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501023207/nz-funded-climate-smart-farming-programme-pays-off-for-subsistence-farmers-in-cambodians/
Drills, base visit on agenda for peacekeeping homage
Two ships from the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) have docked at Preah Sihanouk Autonomous Port to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the JMSDF’s first Peacekeeping Operation (PKO), with a military drill and visit to Ream Naval Base planned for their crews’ three-day visit. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/drills-base-visit-agenda-peacekeeping-homage
Drills, base visit on agenda for peacekeeping homage
Two ships from the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) have docked at Preah Sihanouk Autonomous Port to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the JMSDF’s first Peacekeeping Operation (PKO), with a military drill and visit to Ream Naval Base planned for their crews’ three-day visit. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/drills-base-visit-agenda-peacekeeping-homage
PM: No human rights without peace
Prime Minister Hun Sen once again spoke on weighty matters of war and peace, reiterating that development and democracy would not be possible without peace. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/pm-no-human-rights-without-peace
CMAC secures US support for operations through 2025
The US, through the Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), on March 9 signed a cooperative agreement to provide $6,355,720 in grants for the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) to support the clearance of cluster munitions-affected areas for 45 months from March until November 2025. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-secures-us-support-operations-through-2025
Nearly 52K candidates logged for commune elections in first day
The National Election Committee (NEC) announced that it received 51,950 candidacy applications from 16 political parties for the fifth mandate commune council elections scheduled for June 5 – on just the first day of the March 4-6 registration period. ...
Over 2,000 attend Siem Reap tree ordination
More than 2,000 people including monks, teachers, students, Forestry Administration officials, local authorities and residents gathered to ceremonially ordain trees in the O’Teuk Chenh forest community in two villages of Tram Sasar commune in Siem Reap town on March 8. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/over-2000-attend-siem-reap-tree-ordination
Sasakawa asked to assist Sokhonn
Prime Minister Hun Sen asked Japanese special envoy Yohei Sasakawa to continue working with Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn in his role as ASEAN special envoy on Myanmar in the effort to revive its democracy. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/sasakawa-asked-assist-sokhonn
PM orders Tonle Sap heli patrols
Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered the military to use helicopter patrols to prevent fisheries-related crimes around the Tonle Sap Lake and to help apprehend any large-scale fisheries offenders and prosecute them to ensure the sustainability of the lake’s fish population. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-orders-tonle-sap-heli-patrols
Strategic National Road 21 stretch opens
A nearly 64km stretch of National Road 21 connecting the Takhmao roundabout in Kandal province’s Takhmao town to the Cambodian-Vietnamese international border checkpoint between Chrey Thom and Vietnam’s Long Binh was formally inaugurated on March 23. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strategic-national-road-21-stretch-opens
ADR mechanism takes shape
The Ministry of Justice’s working group on its Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanism is racing to disseminate concept notes about it to all relevant stakeholders, as it expects the process to be finalised and approved for use this year. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/adr-mechanism-takes-shape
Land rights activist flees Cambodia, saying she received death threat
Land rights activist Sat Pha, who was convicted of incitement last August in relation to a protest one year earlier outside the Chinese embassy, has fled Cambodia saying a death threat was posted on her door in Phnom Penh. ...
Khuon Narim
https://cambojanews.com/land-rights-activist-flees-cambodia-saying-she-received-death-threat/
Stung Treng vets jab 7,794 cows against FMD
Veterinarians in Stung Treng province vaccinated 7,794 cattle against foot and mouth disease (FMD) from March 23 to May 30, according to the Veterinary Bureau under the provincial Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/stung-treng-vets-jab-7794-cows-against-fmd
Gov’t committed to promoting child rights
Prime Minister Hun Sen has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to promoting child rights, urging all state institutions and relevant authorities to make every effort to increase the power of children, especially girls. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-committed-promoting-child-rights
Kingdom joins int’l transport forum
Cambodia has joined the International Transport Forum (ITF) as the organisation’s 64th member country. Ministers of transport from the 63 current member states agreed to admit the Kingdom to the ITF on May 19 at their Summit in Leipzig, Germany. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-joins-intl-transport-forum
Sar Kheng to officials: Focus on security, order during June 5 commune vote
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng on April 29 told authorities and forces to focus on security and public order for all parties involved in the upcoming commune council elections, according to National Police. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-officials-focus-security-order-during-june-5-commune-vote
S Reap officials seize contraband charcoal
The Siem Reap provincial Forestry Administration’s (FA) mobile team and local officials in Chi Kraeng district seized four charcoal trailers at the intersection of National Road 6 in Kok Thloak Krom commune on May 3 for transporting it across the provincial border. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/s-reap-officials-seize-contraband-charcoal
Candlelight’s Battambang complaints ‘too late’
The Battambang Provincial Election Commission has rejected the Candlelight Party (CP)’s 19 complaints relating to the closure of polling stations during the 5th-mandate commune council elections on June 5. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/candlelights-battambang-complaints-too-late
NEC wrapping up elections training
The National Election Committee (NEC) provided a three-day training on “election, ballot counting and result declaration” on May 2-4 to officials of the municipal and provincial election commissions, representatives from political parties and NGOs. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-wrapping-elections-training
Court returns disputed land to firm in Preah Vihear
A joint force, acting on the Preah Vihear Provincial Court order, on May 13 confiscated 23.4ha of state land from an individual and returned it to Mekong Rubber Plantation Co Ltd after he was judged to have illegally occupied the land – which had been ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/court-returns-disputed-land-firm-preah-vihear