Iron and steel
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Although Cambodia is believed to have iron ore resources and a number of exploration licenses have been granted, no significant finds have been reported. There is no commercial mining of iron ore in The country. While ambitious plans for mining and steel plants have been ...
Cambodia’s slide into repression
On Nov. 13, Cambodia’s dictatorial prime minister Hun Sen ousted opposition leader Sam Rainsy, stripping him of his seat in parliament and calling for his arrest. These latest actions against Rainsy are representative of Cambodia’s long muddle through a sort of unfree democracy. ...
Olivia Enos
http://dailysignal.com/2015/12/01/cambodias-slide-into-repression/
Military police at large after firing at truckers
Authorities in Prey Veng province are searching for a group of rogue military police officers who shot at, tied up and beat two local truckers who drove through a pair of checkpoints without stopping while transporting a load of rice along National Road 11 on ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/military-police-at-large-after-firing-at-truckers-80537/
As Phnom Penh's buildings rise, safety scales back
Vatha, a 42-year-old construction worker, has been toiling for four years at numerous building sites across Phnom Penh. He knocks down dilapidated dwellings and in their place builds houses and apartments that are bigger, better – and increasingly higher – as demand for residential property, especially ...
PM set to mend ties with US
Prime Minister Hun Sen has responded to US Congressman Ted Yoho, saying he is ready to improve Cambodia-US relations, and not take up issues of disagreements which have become a barrier between the two countries’ bilateral cooperation. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/pm-set-mend-ties-us
Land dispute with Thai firms long resolved, landless families told to submit applications
Oddar Meanchey provincial authorities remain puzzled about the Thai Appeal Court’s recent ruling in favour of more than 700 families who claimed to have been locked in a land dispute with three Thai-owned sugar companies in Samrong town and Chongkal district. ...
Monks banned from joining march to support Rong Chhun
Eight monks from Battambang province were prevented from joining activists and supporters in a protest in Phnom Penh on August 5 to demand the release of prominent union leader Rong Chhun, who was jailed last week over comments he made allegedly distorting information on Cambodia-Vietnam ...
Khuon Narim
https://cambojanews.com/monks-banned-from-joining-march-to-support-rong-chhun/
Red corn prices enjoy surge on demand for domestic feed
Prices of red corn have reportedly seen modest rises on surging demand for domestic feed production as the harvest season nears its end. In northwestern provinces, red corn is typically harvested twice a year between late June and August and then again between late October ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/red-corn-prices-enjoy-surge-demand-domestic-feed
Australia to continue assisting Cambodia’s vulnerable people
Australia has pledged to grant $50 million a year to support Cambodian vulnerable people, including people with disabilities, women who are victims of violence and the minority groups. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50811288/australia-to-continue-assisting-cambodias-vulnerable-people/
Oddar Meanchey coal power plant set for next year
A 265MW coal-fired power plant in Oddar Meanchey province is scheduled to begin operations early next year as construction of the plant’s infrastructure and transmission line connecting to East Siem Reap Substation nears completion, according to deputy provincial governor Di Rado. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/oddar-meanchey-coal-power-plant-set-next-year
Providing waste collection trucks
On 17 December 2021, the Embassy of Japan in Cambodia issued a press release on providing waste collection trucks.Japanese Government has agreed to provide Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects, KUSANONE, US$245,215, for providing waste collection trucks to 10 provinces in Cambodia. ...
Embassy of Japan in Cambodia
Korean first lady paves way for ill boy’s surgery
A 14-year-old boy with congenital heart disease who was lucky enough to meet with South Korean first lady Kim Keon-hee may get the chance of a lifetime and receive surgery and treatment at Asan Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea. After seeing his plight, many ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/korean-first-lady-paves-way-ill-boys-surgery
Smart rats sniffing out Cambodia's vast mine fields
It’s been a busy morning for Cletus, Meynard, Victoria and others of their furry band. Tiny noses and long whiskers twitching, they’ve scurried and sniffed their way across 775 square meters (8,300 square feet) of fields to eliminate a scourge that has killed thousands of ...
Denis D. Gray
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/smart-rats-sniffing-cambodias-vast-mine-fields-37154301
Migrant workers protest
Recent protests by thousands of migrant workers in Songkla and Kanchanaburi has exposed further evidence of how Thai exporters to giant American, European and Australian food chains have gone unaudited. Thousands of Cambodian and Burmese workers claimed during strikes early this month at Pattana Seafood factory ...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/288603/migrant-workers-protest
Open Data Day 2018: You are invited again!
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Open Development Cambodia (ODC) in collaboration with Open Data Communities, Open Data Activists, Open Source Enthusiast and Educator, representative of the Advocate for Free Culture & Open Knowledge in Cambodia and CSOs in both national and international, the organizer team members team is enthusiastic ...
Ponzi scheme victims petition prime minister for intervention
Furious investors who claim they were cheated out of thousands of dollars by a now defunct financial firm that directed them to buy stock in a Hong Kong-based ponzi scheme set up camp in front of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house on Thursday, imploring him ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ponzi-scheme-victims-petition-prime-minister-for-intervention-112235/
‘Terrorist’-turned-politician makes his return
Pardoned terrorist and political hopeful Sourn Serey Ratha returned from years of self-imposed exile Thursday, touching down at Phnom Penh International Airport to a muted welcome from a couple of hundred supporters, some of whom knew little about why they were there and came because ...
Zsombor Peter and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/terrorist-turned-politician-makes-his-return-96172/
Mondolkiri drivers say officials extort bribes
A group of minivan drivers blocked a highway in Mondolkiri province Tuesday in protest of what they claim is ongoing extortion by government officials of vehicles transporting ready-made furniture. “there are four to five checkpoints and we have to pay between 10,000 to 20,000 riel ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mondolkiri-drivers-say-officials-extort-bribes-71331/
Energy for transport
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In Cambodia, petroleum is traditionally the main source of energy for transportation. the petroleum fuels used for transportation include gasoline, diesel, heavy fuel and fuel oil. ...