New NEC members approved
The National Assembly approved the replacement of three members of the National Election Committee yesterday. It also recognized 16 new members of parliament from the ruling CPP. ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5094772/new-nec-members-approved/
Study says China-backed dam in Cambodia would destroy Mekong
A Chinese-backed plan for Cambodia to build the Mekong River’s biggest dam would destroy fisheries that feed millions and worsen tensions with Vietnam, the downstream country with most to lose from dams on the waterway, according to a three-year study commissioned by the Cambodian government. ...
Kandal factory workers protest representatives’ firings
Nearly 500 New Archid factory workers in Kandal province protested for the second day in a row yesterday, demanding the company reinstate three worker representatives they claim were fired without cause – along with pay increases Chem Somphose, Vay Vanny and Eng Sovann were last ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kandal-factory-workers-protest-representatives-firings
Rainsy, Sokha court Cham in K Chhnang
Getting a head start on campaigning for the 2018 elections, opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha yesterday promised Cham voters in Kampong Chhnang’s Kampong Tralach district that a change in the country’s leadership would mean a change in its approach to land disputes as ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-sokha-court-cham-k-chhnang
CNRP ‘focused, quiet’
With members still languishing in jail and under fresh attack via a now two-week-old infidelity scandal, the Cambodia National Rescue Party emerged from a two-day meeting in Manila yesterday to announce it will not be hitting back, instead opting to focus on the upcoming elections. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-focused-quiet
CNRP leader diversifies social media playbook
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has waded into the Twittersphere, using his first tweet to congratulate US President-elect Donald Trump on his victory, and later calling on the few Cambodians who use the site to register to vote in next year’s commune elections. ...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-leader-diversifies-social-media-playbook
Complaint in Koh Kong over destroyed crops
Some 100 villagers in Koh Kong province’s Thma Bang district removed warning posts put up by environmental rangers and a conservation NGO around land that had been allegedly cleared by the residents since 2013 for farming, filing a complaint against the NGO for allegedly destroying ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/complaint-koh-kong-over-destroyed-crops
Pheapimex ties ‘cause for concern’
Alex Corporation, the firm behind a proposal for an ambitious Mondulkiri mining project, appears to be ultimately owned by ruling party Senator Lao Meng Khin and his wife, Choeung Sopheap, the Post has discovered, a scenario rights groups say should give cause for concern. ...
Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pheapimex-ties-cause-concern
Troubled road project along Cambodia-Laos border rolls on
Work by military engineers on a contentious road skirting Cambodia’s border with Laos – which has prompted a military stand-off in the area – has quietly resumed, local officials say, even as run-ins between Cambodian and Lao military patrols in the disputed area have further ...
Shaun Turton and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/troubled-road-project-along-cambodia-laos-border-rolls
Migrants stuffed into two homes
More than 100 Cambodian migrant workers were discovered in rented houses this week near Rong Kleu market in Thailand’s Sakaeo province, officials said yesterday. Banteay Meanchey provincial spokesman Ouk Keo Ratanak said Thai authorites found the workers on Wednesday crammed into two houses, and sent them ...
Labour day: Unions, CPP promote factory ties
About 3,000 union representatives, teachers and senior officials from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party gathered at a ceremony on Koh Pich yesterday to mark the 129th International Labour Day – as well as to bolster support for the ruling party, one official noted. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://bit.ly/1P3pXHC
Workers race to finish grand stupa for Chea Sim
The Labor Ministry on Friday announced that formal negotiations to set a new minimum wage for the country’s all-important garment sector—now at $128 a month—will begin in July, reviving the same schedule for talks it used with unions and employers for the first time last ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12289/workers-race-to-finish-grand-stupa-for-chea-sim/
Six people arrested for operating illegal marble mining
Stung Treng authorities have cracked down on illegal marble mining and arrested six people in Thala Boriwat district. ...
Yin Soeum
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50900965/six-people-arrested-for-operating-illegal-marble-mining/
Cambodia boosting agricultural product exports to China
The sanitary and phytosanitary standard on potential agricultural products are being negotiated to boost more exports from Cambodia to China. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50934440/cambodia-boosting-agricultural-product-exports-to-china/
Authorities repatriate over 600 citizens lured to work illegally in Cambodia
The Foreign Ministry and Vietnam’s representative agencies in Cambodia have coordinated with the two countries’ authorities to safely repatriate over 600 citizens who had been tricked or lured to Cambodia for illegal work so far. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501143752/authorities-repatriate-over-600-citizens-lured-to-work-illegally-in-cambodia/
Thai exports: Cambodia’s severe trade imbalance
The value of Cambodian exports to Thailand reached $163 million in the first half this year, an increase of about 21 per cent compared to the same period in 2012. Despite the rise, the number is minuscule next to imports from Thailand, because the Cambodian products ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thai-exports-cambodia%E2%80%99s-severe-trade-imbalance
$50M Oddor Meanchey-East Siem Reap transmission line nears completion
The construction of the 230kV Oddor Meanchey to East Siem Reap Grid Substation transmission line project worth $50 million has been completed over 95 percent as of the end of June of this year two years after novated to ODM Power Line Company Limited (OPL), ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501136148/50m-oddor-meanchey-east-siem-reap-transmission-line-nears-completion/
English Hun Sen biography launched
The Royal Academy of Cambodia (RAC) has announced the launch of the English-language version of the seminal work Samdech Techo Hun Sen: Man of Cambodia’s Destiny, after six months of translation. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/english-hun-sen-biography-launched
Mfone CEO to resign, company says still open to merger talks
MFONE CEO Yap Wai Khee will resign at the end of the month, officials said yesterday, fuelling questions about the future of the company. Yap Wai Khee, who held the position for about a year, will leave for family-related reasons, according to Atip Rittaporn, managing director ...
Paddy fields in Battambang rescued from drought
Officials said that the nearly 20,000ha Of paddy fields in Battambang’s Sangke district that faced drought have been rescued, with parts Of the province receiving some rain recently. Chhim Vichara, the director Of the provincial agricultural department, said on Tuesday that although some 18,000ha Of ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/paddy-fields-battambang-rescued-drought