Youth-led conference addresses climate change
The first-ever Cambodia Youth Climate Change Conference (CYCCC) marked a significant milestone in The country’s efforts to address climate change. ...
Hong Raksmey
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/youth-led-conference-addresses-climate-change
NEC releases official National Election voter list
With the National Election fast approaching, the National Election Committee (NEC) released an official voter list on Monday, with more than 9,700,000 registered voters. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501242848/nec-releases-official-national-election-voter-list/
Cambodia Airways launches Phnom Penh-Beijing direct flight
Cambodia Airways has launched its first direct flight between Phnom Penh and Beijing, aiming to meet rising travel demand between the two destinations, the airline operator said in a press release on Tuesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501264238/cambodia-airways-launches-phnom-penh-beijing-direct-flight/
Over 70,000 security forces on standby for election
More than 70,000 security and law enforcement officers will be on standby for the National Election on July 23 to enforce the law and order, and ensure a smooth polling day. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501323752/over-70000-security-forces-on-standby-for-election/
UN official sees Cambodia’s plunged poverty rate as positive step towards LDC graduation
Cambodia’s remarkable decline in poverty rate is a positive step towards the Southeast Asian country’s graduation from the Least Developed Country (LDC) status, a United Nations official said on Tuesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501326643/un-official-sees-cambodias-plunged-poverty-rate-as-positive-step-towards-ldc-graduation/
NGOs and associations need to submit financial statements to Royal Government
All Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and associations need to summit their financial statements to the Royal Government routinely, if not they will be responsible before the law, said Prime Minister Hun Sen Saturday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501301655/ngos-and-associations-need-to-submit-financial-statements-to-royal-government/
Koh Kong families settle years-long land dispute involving U.K. sugar conglomerate
In Koh Kong province, 200 families embroiled in a conflict over land allegedly stolen by sugar producers in 2006 have finally reached a settlement in late 2022. The NGO Equitable Cambodia released a statement announcing The settlement this week. ...
Khuon Narim
https://khmer.cambojanews.com/koh-kong-families-settle-years-long-land-dispute-involving-u-k-sugar-conglomerate/
RCEP offering Cambodia platform for structural transformation
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is offering The Kingdom an ideal platform for economic structural transformation, a study carried out by a leading economic research institute has found. ...
Sreekanth Ravindran
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501381922/rcep-offering-cambodia-platform-for-structural-transformation/
Nearly 84,000 vehicles travel on Chinese-invested expressway in Cambodia during New Year holiday
Some 83,900 vehicles have traveled on the Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway during the New Year holiday, starting from Saturday to Monday, a senior Cambodian official said on Tuesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501417172/nearly-84000-vehicles-travel-on-chinese-invested-expressway-in-cambodia-during-new-year-holiday/
EU offers support in green transition and trade
The European Union plans to launch two initiatives aimed at promoting The green transition and fostering sustainable trade in Cambodia, according to new EU Ambassador to Cambodia, Igor Driesmans. ...
Mao Sreypich
https://kiripost.com/stories/eu-offers-support-in-green-transition-and-trade
Government expedites land registration in Tonle Sap Zones
The government is establishing a commission to expedite land registrations in The Tonle Sap zones. It will handle registration for both state and private lands in a timely, accurate and effective manner. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501438230/government-expedites-land-registration-in-tonle-sap-zones/
Apsara opens a hiking path linking botanical gardens to temples
The Apsara Authority has created a new hiking path through The natural forest from Angkor Botanical Garden to Angkor Wat Archaeological Park. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501439413/apsara-opens-a-hiking-path-linking-botanical-gardens-to-temples/
Dredging suspended in Banteay Srei district
Sand-dredging was suspended in Siem Reap province’s Banteay Srei district on Monday after it was found that unlicensed operations had polluted creeks, leaving fish dead and impacting residents. Banteay Srei district governor Khim Finan told The Post on Tuesday that it had been found that ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dredging-suspended-banteay-srei-district
Villager freed after road block
Provincial authorities released land protester Bun Ratha, who was detained on Friday and sent to Kratie prison, after his supporters blocked traffic on National Road 73 yesterday. More than 500 villagers from Chhlong district’s Kampong Damrei commune, who are in a dispute with rubber company Kasotim ...
Railway families relocated
Some 320 families who are living near disused railway tracks in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district have agreed to relocate to a new site along O’Veng canal in Kilometre 6 commune. Russey Keo district governor Chea Pisey wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday that ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/railway-families-relocated
Takeo’s Bati district could become a hotspot for garment factories
Land prices in Krang Thnong commune, in Takeo’s Bati district near National Road 2, have recently multiplied by up to ten times compared to five years ago after two garment factories started being constructed in the rural community this year, locals claim.Meanwhile, the area might ...
Dit Sokthy and Hanamariya Halim
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/takeos-bati-district-could-become-hotspot-garment-factories
Unions and civil society rally for voting leave
Several more trade unions and civil society organisations have added their voice to calls for factory workers to be given three days off to vote. A letter signed by ten groups yesterday urged the Labour Ministry to intervene and order employers to give staff the day ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38999/unions-and-civil-society-rally-for-voting-leave/
Tiger claim to be probed
Conservationists Fauna and Flora International was to send a team to Pursat province today to investigate a man’s claim that he was attacked by a tiger. Ngem Nget, a 51-year-old farmer in Phnom Kravanh district’s Santre commune, reported that while foraging in the Cardamom Mountains on ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tiger-claim-be-probed
Illegal gold mines raided in Preah Vihear
Authorities in Preah Vihear province on Friday broke up six camps they say were being used to illegally mine for gold on land the government has granted to a Chinese company. Provincial industry and mines director Kong Makara said Sunday that authorities including local police and ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-gold-mines-raided-in-preah-vihear-66713/
[Herald Interview] KFS seeks to boost youth employment
Korea Forest Service (KFS) has been working to promote overseas partnership with Southeast Asia countries by aiming to expand afforestation by 1 million hectares by 2050 from 314,000 hectares in 2013. It established relations with Indonesia to collaborate in planting trees on 700,000 hectares, and ...
Park Hyong-ki and Lee Kwon-hyung
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150205000903