Helping farmers keep their cool
One of a farmer’s greatest enemies is heat. As many as 50 percent of the fruit and vegetables harvested in Cambodia are lost because of heat – lettuce wilts, onions become slimy, tomatoes turn to mush. Because of a lack of cold storage at most of ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23636/helping-farmers-keep-their-cool/
Rainsy quits amid threats, but CNRP still in danger
Sam Rainsy, the longtime leader of Cambodia’s beleaguered democracy movement, resigned as president of the opposition CNRP on Saturday in the face of the government’s threats to dissolve the entire party over his criminal record. The brief letter said only that he was resigning for ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-quits-amid-threats-but-cnrp-still-in-danger-125007/
Under pressure, NGO coalition seeks closer ties with government
An NGO coalition launched a program to collaborate more closely with the government on Wednesday, a week after an Interior Ministry spokesman admitted to threatening several organizations in order to “scare” them ahead of commune elections. CCC executive director Soeung Saran said the problems between ...
Brendan O’byrne
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/under-pressure-ngo-coalition-seeks-closer-ties-with-government-131362/
China to hold second military exercises with Cambodia
China will hold its second military exercise with Cambodia in March focusing on counter terrorism, the Cambodian army said on Wednesday, in another sign of the Southeast Asian country strengthening ties with Beijing. The Royal Cambodian Armed Forces said in a statement the exercise would ...
Prak Chan Thul
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cambodia-china/china-to-hold-second-military-exercises-with-cambodia-idUSKBN1FD1QW
Deal for yuan trade with China in works
Officials in Cambodia and China’s Guangdong province are cooperating to establish trade using yuan instead of US dollars, part of the two countries’ increasingly close economic relationship. The suggestion to use yuan directly, instead of using US dollars as an intermediary currency, was made by ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/deal-yuan-trade-china-works
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new page on Priority health concerns
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new page on “Priority health concerns” under Social development in both Khmer and English.=>Please click here to get in to Priority health concerns page. ...
Cambodia pledges to fight terrorism threat
Cambodia has vowed to improve collaboration with regional partners in a bid to enhance counter-terrorism cooperation while there is no sign of terrorism in the country, according to a senior government official.The pledge was made during a two-day Asean Defence Ministers meeting that kicked off ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50107117/cambodia-pledges-fight-terrorism-threat/
Nest of endangered royal turtles found in Koh Kong province
Conservationists in Koh Kong province have found a nest of 16 eggs of the critically endangered royal turtle, the Wildlife Conservation Society announced today. The discovery in Sre Ambel district, the first of the year, was made on February 3 by WCS staff working with the ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nest-endangered-royal-turtles-found-koh-kong-province
PM: Save our flooded forests
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on the Agriculture Ministry to do more to prevent land grabbing in the country’s endangered flooded forests.Speaking at the closing ceremony of the Agriculture Ministry’s annual meeting yesterday, Mr. Hun Sen said encroachment risks wiping out fish populations that ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37427/pm--save-our-flooded-forests/
Preah Sihanouk land brokers given warning
Preah Sihanouk’s provincial governor on Wednesday warned that legal action would be taken against any brokers trying to grab land in the Kbal Chhay area, where it is prohibited to build property or sell land plots. The warning came after provincial authorities discovered that in recent ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50103182/preah-sihanouk-land-brokers-given-warning/
Cambodia's Angkor Wat Temple attracts 1.36 mln foreign visitors in 8 months, up 31%
About 1.36 million international tourists visited Cambodia’s Angkor Wat Temple, one of the World Heritage Sites, in the first eight months of this year, a 31 percent rise compared with 1.04 million during the same period last year, a report of Siem Reap provincial tourism ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/2012-09/26/c_131874967.htm
Visitors to Cambodia Increase by 27 Percent
The number of visitors to Cambodia increased 27 percent to 1.27 million people in the first four months of the year compared to the same period last year, according to figures released yesterday by the Ministry of Tourism. Kong Sopheareak, director of the tourism statistics department, ...
ACU donations in spotlight
Lawyers have called on Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit to implement transparent reporting on monetary donations it receives from individual politicians and government groups. During an anti-corruption training session on Friday, they pointed out the incapacitating influence the ACU would face if it tried to investigate a ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062556994/National-news/acu-donations.html
Controversial figure in land dispute arrested
Touch Seouly, the head of an NGO involved in a years-long land dispute that has sparked violent and sometimes fatal clashes across several provinces in the south, was arrested on Friday after villagers in Kampot province lodged a new round of complaints with authorities. Kampot provincial ...
Two Soldiers Shot Dead by Thai Military After Crossing Border
The Thai military shot dead two Cambodian soldiers from Preah Vihear province on Friday after they crossed illegally into Thai territory to log for luxury rosewood, officials said yesterday. Three soldier based in Choam Ksan district’s Sra Em commune crossed into Thailand’s Sisaketh province to search ...
Clean water for city outskirts
The inclusion of 20 communes to the central Phnom Penh water supply in the past year has resulted in a dramatic increase in demand and subsequent shortages, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority officials said yesterday. “Water demand in Phnom Penh is growing fast day to-day, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030861829/National/clean-water-for-city-outskirts.html
Dragon building roars to life
Champagne greeted the movers and shakers at the highest level of Cambodia’s tallest building yesterday in a ceremony that marked substantial completion of the structure of Vattanac Capital Tower. Designed in the shape of a dragon with particular attention to the Chinese art of placement for ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012051056079/Business/dragon-building-roars-to-life.html
No deal in SL Garment factory face-off
A long day of negotiations failed to resolve a factory dispute yesterday at a company that supplies to major international brands Gap, Levi’s and H&M. After more than 1,500 workers from SL Garment Processing (Cambodia) factories in the capital’s Meanchey district marched to the Ministry of ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052356325/National-news/no-deal-in-factory-face-off.html
Factory Workers Continue to Strike for Higher Wages
About 4,000 garment workers from factories that produce clothing for international brands H&M, Gap and Levi Strauss continued protesting yesterday in Phnom Penh for higher wages, union representatives said. Singaporean-owned SL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd. parked three large trucks in front of their Meanchey district factories ...
US big brand boycott called for by workers
Some 100 workers, along with the president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions, delivered a letter yesterday to the US Embassy in Phnom Penh asking Americans to boycott clothing made by Tai Yang Enterprises. Surrounded by protesters, CCU President Rong Chhun said that the group was ...