Deal signed with China over banana exports
The Kingdom on Thursday signed a joint phytosanitary protocol for banana exports to China, with officials saying this was The first move in promoting The product on The world stage. The agreement was signed by The Chinese ambassador to Cambodia Xiong Bo and Agriculture Minster ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/deal-signed-china-over-banana-exports
Strike takes Pchum Ben break
About 600 Tae Young factory workers are back on the job thanks to a court injunction – and the desire to pocket a little cash in time for Pchum Ben – but the return will only be temporary, workers said yesterday. the decision followed a Kandal ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012101059202/National-news/strike-takes-pchum-ben-break.html
Accounting and finance top job listings
Cambodia’s accounting and finance industries have seen the healthiest growth over the past three months, followed by jobs in sales, hospitality, management and marketing, according to the latest report by jobs website Everjob. More than 2,500 positions in the accounting and finance sectors were listed on ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30601/accounting-and-finance-top-job-listings/
CHRC tasked with drafting rights unit law
The government has tasked The Cambodia Human Rights Committee with preparing a draft law on establishing The National Human Rights Unit in The Kingdom, a move in line with The Paris Principles adopted by The United Nations in 1993. A CHRC statement yesterday said that on ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50642105/chrc-tasked-with-drafting-rights-unit-law/
Small parties left out
Minor political parties have come out swinging at the ruling and opposition political parties for overhauling the election system on a bi-party basis. Two election-related laws that the National Assembly is expected to pass later this week have been negotiated for months solely by the CPP ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/small-parties-left-out
Storms swamp capital streets in drain strain
Despite recent efforts by the authorities to improve drainage systems around the capital, heavy flooding and swamped roads were the norm over the past week as the kick-off to the rainy season saw pelting rain almost every afternoon, residents say. Old drainage systems put in place ...
Cambodian opposition holds rally at its headquarters
The main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) held a people’s congress at its headquarters here on Sunday after The government denied permission for The party to stage The rally at The Freedom Park. The congress, which was led by CNRP’s President Sam Rainsy and attended ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-03/30/c_133224942.htm
Water level rises in Mekong River and Tonle Sap Lake
The water level in The Mekong River has finally risen, thanks to The rainfall over The past few days, and hopefully The rain continues in The next few days so as to bring The water level to normal ...
Yin Soeum
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501060874/water-level-rises-in-mekong-river-and-tonle-sap-lake/
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new dataset on “Road detections from Microsoft- Maps aerial imagery”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Road detections from Microsoft- Maps aerial imagery”. This bilingual new dataset exists of all roads performing with Bing Maps imagery between 2020 and 2022, including Maxar and Airbus in Cambodia, and is publicly available to download ...
Open Development Cambodia updates a dataset on "Forest cover in Cambodia (2015-2021)"
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates a dataset on “Forest cover in Cambodia (2015-2021)” by adding new interactive map layers of forest cover in Cambodia from 2015-2021. This dataset gives data focused on Cambodia’s annual forest cover range from 2015 to 2021.=> Please click here to ...
Protesting Beer Promoters Say Company Threatened Firings
According to more than 30 Angkor Beer promoters who are protesting Cambrew Ltd’s failure to comply to an Arbitration Council ruling, the company has threatened them with firings. the protestors plan on continuing the strike until the company meets their demands. the Cambodian Food and ...
Trip to rally leads to beating
Three monks at the Sansam Kosal pagoda were beaten by the deputy chief monk as they left to participate in Saturday’s opposition rally, though the deputy maintained yesterday that the incident had more to do with truancy than politics. the incident came just days after ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trip-rally-leads-beating
Official Senate election results released
The National Election Committee yesterday announced The official Senate election results, confirming that The ruling CPP secured all 58 seats to be filled. According to The official results, The CPP received 11,202 votes, Funcinpec received 276, The Khmer National United Party received 182 and The ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50111835/official-senate-election-results-released/
CPP rewriting rules again, with amendments planned to political laws to redistribute CNRP seats
The Cambodian People’s Party is rewriting The nation’s political laws yet again, this time to allow The Cambodia National Rescue Party’s 55 parliamentary seats to be dished out to minor parties – with royalist Funcinpec The main beneficiary in The sweep – in The event ...
Niem Chheng, Ananth Baliga and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-rewriting-rules-again-amendments-planned-political-laws-redistribute-cnrp-seats
Obama's chief trade advisor to visit Cambodia, meet ASEAN ministers
The United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk, President Obama’s Chief Trade Advisor, will be visiting Cambodia’s Siem Reap province on Aug. 30-31 to participate in The 44th ASEAN Economic Ministers’ meetings and The ASEAN-U.S. Business Summit, according to a press release from The U.S. Embassy ...
Southeast Asia smartphone growth: 78% in 12 months
Southeast Asia is a growth market for the mobile industry, with Indonesia and the Philippines being key markets for growth, particularly in smartphones, reports GfK Asia. the Southeast Asian mobile phone market is on the rise, having grown by 24% in volume in the past 12 ...
http://e27.sg/2012/09/17/southeast-asia-smartphone-growth-78-percent-12-months/
No protests, please: EU, UK push for peaceful solution
In meetings with Interior Minister Sar Kheng held on Sunday, both the EU and British ambassadors said they did not want opposition demonstrations “which would frighten [the] Cambodian people,” state news agency AKP reported. While the US government has issued a strongly worded statement since ...
The Phnom Penh Post
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-protests-please-eu-uk-push-peaceful-solution
Commune vote pits CPP roots against CNRP momentum
As the country enters its first campaign period since the CNRP nearly upset the ruling party in 2013, the opposition party believes momentum is on its side. the researchers found that in the three communes they visited, the ruling party was deeply intertwined with the ...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/commune-vote-pits-cpp-roots-against-cnrp-momentum-129968/
Phnong petition over Mondulkiri land
In the letter seen by the Post on Thursday, villagers claim the companies representatives visited the commune to introduce the project’. But landowners claimed they needed the land to live and work on and pass down to their children. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnong-petition-over-mondulkiri-land
Finance sector wants no VAT
Banking and financial industry figures have called on the government to abolish the 10 percent value added tax on the sector and asked for further discussion. the industry thinks the tax will increase the burden on financial service users. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39655/finance-sector-wants-no-vat/