ANZ report shows a vulnerable Cambodia
Cambodia and Thailand’s financial exposure to Europe would make the two counties the most vulnerable regionally, an ANZ Bank report showed. the Kingdom’s exports and tourism sectors were on increasingly unstable ground as Europe’s debt crisis advanced. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070957290/Business/anz-report-vulnerable-cambodia.html
Renaissance Minerals trenches 17m at 2.9g/t gold in Cambodia
Renaissance Minerals (ASX:RNS) has trenched several high grade gold assays within its Okvau licence in Cambodia. In addition to a drilling program testing the potential for extensions to its 1.2 million ounce Okvau Deposit, the Company has been focusing exploration activities along a 5 kilometre prospective trend ...
Proactive Investors
http://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/news/55781/renaissance-minerals-trenches-17m-at-29gt-gold-in-cambodia-55781.html
Journey to circular economy model is ‘well under way’
The government is currently preparing policy and strategy that will promote The circular economy model to The business, investment and local environmental communities. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50782648/journey-to-circular-economy-model-is-well-under-way/
WHO confirms C-19 transmission unlikely on food
Controversy over seized buffalo meat from India continues as the World Health Organization (WHO) said Covid-19 could not be contracted through contact with food or food packaging while the Health Ministry is staying keeping mum on the subject. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50903506/who-confirms-c-19-transmission-unlikely-on-food/
World Bank says RCEP, bilateral FTAs will boost Cambodia’s economy
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) free trade pact and bilateral free trade agreements (FTA) will be a booster for Cambodia’s economic growth in The coming years, according to The World Bank’s economic update report released on Tuesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501053587/world-bank-says-rcep-bilateral-ftas-will-boost-cambodias-economy/
Candlelight Party cries foul as CPP appears to have won landslide at polls
The opposition Candlelight Party is calling Sunday’s commune council elections The “worst ever,” alleging They were beset by voter suppression and intimidation, as The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) looks set to win by a landslide. ...
Sorn Sarath, Sovann Sreypich, and Kheang Sokmean
https://cambojanews.com/candlelight-party-cries-foul-as-cpp-appears-to-have-won-landslide-at-polls/
Tboung Khmum to be first mine-free province under PM’s mine action project
As the country’s mine action centres mobilize to tackle and fast-track measures to make Cambodia mine-free by 2025, Tboung Khmum will be the first mine-free province under the “Samdech Techo Project for Mine Action”. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501113703/tboung-khmum-to-be-first-mine-free-province-under-pms-mine-action-project/
PM Hun Sen calls for attention to UXO in Mekong River
Prime Minister Hun Sen has appealed to the Mekong River Commission (MRC) to pay attention to the unexploded ordnance (UXO) under water in the Mekong River. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501269095/pm-hun-sen-calls-for-attention-to-uxo-in-mekong-river/
In Siem Reap, Rainsy Again Calls for Hun Sen to Step Down
SIEM REAP CITY – Opposition leader Sam Rainsy was greeted Tuesday by 15,000 supporters and a small dust storm at the CNRP’s first post-election rally in Siem Reap, where he once again called on Prime Minister Hun Sen to stand down. Arriving on a scheduled flight ...
Alex Willemyns and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-siem-reap-rainsy-again-calls-for-hun-sen-to-step-down-49065/
Illegal loggers take to waterways
Stung Treng provincial police yesterday cracked down on an illegal timber operation that was transporting logs along the Sekong river in Stung Treng city. Provincial police chief Major General Mao Dara said the illegal timber operation was using rafts to float illegally felled trees along ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50532806/illegal-loggers-take-to-waterways/
Forest activists decry illegal logging
Prey Lang forest activists in Kampong Thom province on Wednesday claimed that illegal logging is continuing unabated, no thanks to local authorities and powerful individuals whom they allege are aiding the perpetrators. While acknowledging that forest clearing still exists in the area, forestry officials claimed the ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-activists-decry-illegal-logging
City Hall asks Japan for water treatment plant
City hall is requesting the Japanese government for help in constructing an additional water treatment facility in Phnom Penh, an official said yesterday. Deputy Governor Nuon Pharoth said during a press conference yesterday that he led a delegation to Japan last week to discuss the ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50545739/city-hall-asks-japan-for-water-treatment-plant/
Government to take over Veng Sreng, stop collecting tolls
Less than a month after Phnom Penh Tollway began collecting money from commuters using the factory-lined Veng Sreng Boulevard in outer Phnom Penh, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Monday that the government would buy out the private firm and, as a New Year’s gift ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-to-take-over-veng-sreng-stop-collecting-tolls-104074/
Capital police vow to keep order as activists prepare to deliver petition to King
Opposition activists from across Cambodia are expected to descend on Phnom Penh today, bringing a petition for CNRP lawmakers to deliver to the King, even as the National Assembly’s permanent committee determines whether to allow a criminal case against the party’s acting president, Kem Sokha, ...
Meas Sokchea, Chhay Channyda and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-police-vow-keep-order-activists-prepare-deliver-petition-king
Cambodian refugees in US reflect on failures in resettlement
As the United States commits to admitting 10,000 refugees from the current conflict in Syria, Cambodian refugees who arrived in the U.S. some 35 years ago say more needs to be done to help refugees resettle in order to prevent further suffering and future social ...
Elizabeth Lee
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodian-refugees-united-states-reflect-resettlement/3016575.html
Homes lost in Kandal to riverbank collapse
Twenty families lost their homes when a riverbank collapsed into the Mekong yesterday in Kandal’s Loeuk Dek district, according to local authorities. Nov Samnang, Loeuk Dek district governor, said yesterday that three houses were partially submerged in the river, while 17 others were intentionally dismantled ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/homes-lost-kandal-riverbank-collapse
Sihanoukville port announces bookbuild and IPO date
The state-owned enterprise that operates Cambodia’s only deep-sea port officially announced that it will launch its six-day bookbuild and public roadshow starting next Tuesday with an expected initial public offering (IPO) on The Kingdom’s stock market set for May 31, The company’s sole underwriter said ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sihanoukville-port-announces-bookbuild-and-ipo-date
CNRP would slash ministry funds by 20%, spokesman says
The CNRP will cut all ministry budgets by 20 percent if it wins next year’s national election to free up funds to provide $500,000 annually to each commune, The party’s spokesman said on Monday, a proposal dismissed by The ruling party as empty election season ...
Ben Paviour and Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second2/cnrp-slash-ministry-funds-20-spokesman-says-130259/
New Battambang CNRP Chief Sin Rozeth chided over admin errors
Prominent opposition Commune Chief Sin Rozeth has been formally chastised by Battambang officials for seemingly minor violations – such as erroneously declaring certain services free and keeping her own records – in a case one analyst said reflected the harassment opposition officials have faced since ...
Niem Chheng and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-battambang-cnrp-chief-sin-rozeth-chided-over-admin-errors
Baby bonus extended
Women in the armed forces will receive a $200 bonus when they give birth to a child, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday. Addressing a graduate ceremony, Mr Hun Sen said female public servants have received a baby bonus since 2006, but mothers in the armed ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5085353/baby-bonus-extended/