Press release of the Club of Cambodian Journalists
On 24 October 2023, the Club of Cambodia Journalists issued a press release after noticing that a number of journalists have recently been detained by the authorities in connection with ethical and professional violations that have affected the promotion of the media in Cambodia. ...
Club of Cambodia Journalists
Increase flights to China, India, MoT tells Cambodia Airways
The Ministry of Tourism (MoT) asked Cambodia Airways Co Ltd to examine the possibility of expanding direct flights to China and India as well as other major tourism markets in the world which can contribute to the success of the several major campaigns set out ...
Nheng Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501426599/increase-flights-to-china-india-mot-tells-cambodia-airways/
U.S. reprimands Cambodia’s trafficking, online scam response: report
Cambodia was ranked lowest for its response to human trafficking by the U.S. for the third year in a row, with a new report saying that Cambodian officials have not done enough – and in some unnamed cases, have been complicit – in human trafficking ...
Mech Dara and Danielle Keeton-Olsen
https://cambojanews.com/u-s-reprimands-cambodias-trafficking-online-scam-response-report/
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new dataset on “Digital Elevation Model from SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) in Cambodia”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Digital Elevation Model from SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) in Cambodia”. This bilingual new dataset of the SRTM V3 has a high resolution of 30 meters and allows for downloads.=> Please click here to go to ...
Electricity production
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In Cambodia, electricity demands have been forecast to grow at 17.9 percent annually from 2012 to 2020.1 Distribution of electricity around the country has been a challenge: according to UN data, 79 percent of people live in rural areas,2 and the entire national population had grown ...
IMF’s Cambodia outlook upbeat
Tokyo: The International Monetary Fund has upgraded its outlook on Cambodian GDP growth in 2011 from 6.5 per cent to 6.7 per cent just days after government officials announced a full percentage-point reduction in economic expectations. Stabilisation in the real estate sector, as well as strong increases ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011101752154/Business/imfs-cambodia-outlook-upbeat.html
Strike at seafood giant
About 800 Cambodian workers in Thailand went on strike yesterday against a major global seafood exporter they accuse of exploiting them. The factory, which has been identified by workers and rights groups as Phatthana Seafood Co Ltd in Thailand’s Songkhla province, allegedly scrapped a 20 baht ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012040955512/National-news/strike-at-seafood-giant.html
Cambodian forest shrinks to only 47pct in last 40 over years
Cambodia’s forest cover was over 73 per cent in 1975 but it has shrunk to only about 47 per cent last year. In its Human Development Report Cambodia 2019, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said deforestation was mainly caused by rising wood demand for ...
New Straits Times Staff
https://www.nst.com.my/world/region/2019/11/542639/cambodian-forest-shrinks-only-47pct-last-40-over-years
China Unicom enters Cambodia
China Unicom, the country’s largest telecoms operator, has expanded into Cambodia to build optical telecommunication pathways in the Kingdom as part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The Hong Kong-listed company officially opened its China Unicom (Cambodia) subsidiary on Monday to become the latest industry ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-unicom-enters-cambodia
Masseuses protest sackings
Noise from a loudspeaker yesterday cut through the usual peace on street 282 in Phnom Penh’s Beoung Keng Kang 1 neighbourhood, as five former massage workers at upscale spa Aziadee protested the sudden termination of their contracts. Waving posters in front of the shop ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013011760832/National/masseuses-protest-sackings.html
Police Surround Homes in Search of Alleged Secessionists
Dozens of police in search of two Kratie province “secessionist ringleaders” surrounded the homes of two of their relatives in Kompong Cham province for nearly 12 hours yesterday while threatening those inside, a relative of the two men said. The alleged secessionist movement has been used ...
Reporting on Sonando Case Shows Differences in Local Media
The 20-year jail sentence for independent radio station owner Mam Sonando made headlines around the world yesterday, but coverage of Mr. Sonando’s case was markedly different in local Khmer-language media yesterday, particularly national TV where not a mention was made. While the three major Khmer-language newspapers- ...
Pregnancy terminated in bid to regain old job
A woman fired from the Conpress Holding garment factory last week said she terminated her pregnancy of three months on Sunday in a desperate bid to gain reinstatement for herself and three other workers fired last week for unionising. Huk Pov, Free Trade Union president ...
More Workers stopped From Entering Thailand
Police at border checkpoints have in the past weeks stopped more than 2,200 people in Banteay Meanchey province from crossing into Thailand to look for better paid work, officials said yesterday. The focus on Cambodian workers migrating to Thailand-many illegally-comes amid a shortage of labor at ...
NEC Says Final Election Results Will Be Released in Two Weeks
The final results of Sunday’s national election will not be announced until mid-August, the secretary-general of the National Election Committee (NEC) said Monday. The latest possible release date would be early September, Tep Nytha said, adding that the speed with which they were announced depended on ...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/nec-says-final-election-results-will-be-released-in-two-weeks-37399/
Cambodian opposition stages new rally in capital amid post-election deadlock
Cambodia’s main opposition party staged another mass rally in the capital on Sunday, vowing to keep up its political fight in the aftermath of national elections they say were rigged. Around 10,000 people turned out for the protest in Phnom Penh. The demonstration was part of ...
The Washington Post Staff
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/cambodian-opposition-stages-new-rally-in-capital-amid-post-election-deadlock/2013/10/06/b3d36554-2e65-11e3-9ddd-bdd3022f66ee_story.html
PM, Rainsy meet nailed down: gov’t
Two days after opposition calls for renewed negotiations, Information Minister Khieu Kanharith announced yesterday evening that the ruling party will sit down with its opposition counterparts on Thursday to talk election reform, though opposition leaders last night weren’t so sure. Speaking at a gathering of journalists ...
Stuart White and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-rainsy-meet-nailed-down-gov%E2%80%99t
Outsider party urges CNRP to ‘take a seat’
The head of the tiny Khmer Economic Development Party (KEDP), which failed to win a single seat in the July 28 elections, yesterday called on the opposition to take its 55 seats at the National Assembly and form a coalition with the ruling Cambodian People’s ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/outsider-party-urges-cnrp-%E2%80%98take-seat%E2%80%99
Cambodia's Preah Vihear heritage site receives less visitors in first nine months
The number of tourists visiting Cambodia’s Preah Vihear Temple, a world heritage site, has declined by 30 percent in the first nine months of the year, tourism data showed Wednesday. The figures provided by Preah Vihear provincial tourism department said a total of 54,000 domestic and ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/travel/2013-10/09/c_132782239.htm