In Myanmar election, lessons for Cambodia
A Cambodian election observer in Myanmar says the country’s process holds lessons for Cambodia. Yet the NLD and the ruling junta have tried to resolve their differences, leading up to the opposition’s election victory, said Koul Panha, who has been in Myanmar since Nov. 3, ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/in-myanmar-election-lessons-for-cambodia/3053436.html
Upgraded training program for elite forest rangers
The first graduates of a special training program for elite forest rangers began work this month in Preah Vihear’s protected forest.The 29 newly-minted rangers will be responsible for leading efforts to stop illegal logging, land clearance, and poaching in a forest that is home to ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20991/upgraded-training-program-for-elite-forest-rangers/
Rein in credit, warns IMF
In light of global predictions of a slowdown in economic markets, led largely by China’s slackening growth, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday offered Cambodia advice on short and longer term measures to help maintain growth. It also warned that the country’s rapid credit growth ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31763/rein-in-credit--warns-imf/
Finance for women easier
Acleda Bank, a leading locally-owned commercial bank, has received a $30 million loan from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the US government’s development finance institution, through Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Women and the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Banking on Women program for supporting women-owned small ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31993/finance-for-women-easier/
Wing promotes Khmer riel circulation among its customers
Made by Cambodians for Cambodians, Wing (Cambodia) Limited Specialized Bank, the leading mobile banking services provider in Cambodia, is proud to join the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) in promoting Khmer Riel usage among its customers across the country by establishing service charges, as well ...
Khmer Times Team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36594/wing-promotes-khmer-riel--circulation-among-its-customers/
Japanese investors eye the Cambodian market
Ith Sam Heng, the Minister of Labour and Vocational Training, met yesterday with Yoshio Kondo, the director of Procast Asia, who is leading a delegation of businessmen from the Toukaizaikai Association, an organisation that has more than 300 member companies in the manufacturing industry and ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5087659/japanese-investors-eye-cambodian-market/
Second haul of illegal ivory in a month found in Svay Rieng
Military police in Svay Rieng province on Friday seized more than 250 kg of elephant tusks stashed inside 10 suitcases in a van heading for the Vietnamese border, officials said. This is the second such haul in the space of a month, leading to fears Cambodia ...
Saing Soenthrith and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/second-haul-of-illegal-ivory-in-a-month-found-in-svay-rieng-54762/
Cambodia will put refugees at risk: academics
Dangerous political instability in Cambodia could put asylum seekers at grave risk, a leading academic has warned, as Immigration Minister Scott Morrison gave his strongest indication yet that refugees may be resettled there. University of NSW emeritus professor Carl Thayer said he was shocked the government would ...
Sarah Whyte
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/cambodia-will-put-refugees-at-risk-academics-20140407-zqrv5.html
Students demand to see internet law
More than 200 university students yesterday called on the government to publicly release the latest version of the controversial cybercrime law, amid fears it will lead to a clampdown on their currently unrestricted use of social media sites like Facebook. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/students-demand-see-internet-law
Winds of change for energy industry
A leading Southeast Asia energy firm’s plans to create the Kingdom’s first wind turbine farm are one step closer to being realised. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50716170/gold-mine-extraction-expected-this-year-with-more-than-40-exploration-licences-issued/
Cambodian PM to Co-host World Summit 2022 in S. Korea
Prime Minister Hun Sen will lead a high level delegation to pay a visit to the Republic of Korea from Feb. 10 to 13, according to a press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFAIC). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501021639/cambodian-pm-to-co-host-world-summit-2022-in-s-korea/
A rock and a hard place
Some three hours’ drive from the scenes of violence unfolding in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park yesterday, the Cambodia National Rescue Party found distance no remedy for what it termed a calculated attempt at intimidation. As authorities blocked roads leading to a planned public meeting at the ...
Koam Chanrasmey and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rock-and-hard-place
Chevron aims for 2016
Oil production in Cambodia may not begin until 2016, or at least three years after the originally appointed date, Chevron officials reportedly said at a Ministry of Environment meeting on Friday. Government officials yesterday confirmed the feasibility of the time frame. If Chevron Overseas Petroleum Cambodia gained ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070257137/Business/chevron-aims-2016.html
Cambodia’s date with US biz
US companies will re-establish their commitment to Cambodia and the region today at the US-ASEAN Business Forum in Siem Reap, a high-profile meeting involving several heads of state and some of the biggest companies in the world. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will lead the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071357388/Business/cambodias-date-with-us-biz.html
US Debt Woes Could Affect Cambodia, Conference Told
Cambodia is concerned that US debt could lead to rising import costs. US lawmakers are currently trying to pass a deficit-cut deal before Aug. 2 when the US reaches its own debt ceiling of $14.3 trillion. Without a deal the US would default on its ...
Protesters block road to ministry
Around 300 people representing hundreds of families in Koh Kong province, who were evicted from their homes to make way for a sugar company owned by businessman and CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat, blocked the road that leads to the Ministry of Land Management on ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protesters-block-road-ministry
PM: Workers must train for Industry 4.0
Prime Minister Hun Sen has urged the Kingdom’s workforce to seek more technical training and strengthen their skills if they are to avoid job losses resulting from the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Hun Sen said the fourth industrial revolution is like a double-edged sword that will ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-workers-must-train-industry-40
Cambodian Public Bank accepts JCB Cards
Cambodian Public Bank Plc. (Campu Bank), a leading commercial bank in the Kingdom of Cambodia (“Cambodia”), and JCB International Co., Ltd. (JCBI), the international operating subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., today announced that Campu Bank has launched JCB merchant acquiring service to accept JCB cards ...
Benzinga News Staff
http://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/15/11/a5959372/cambodian-public-bank-accepts-jcb-cards
Regional leaders need to do more to curb trafficking, rights worker says
Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries need to do more to curb human trafficking, a leading human rights advocate says. Yet Asean was formed for the countries in the region to help each other with such issues, Lim Mony said. Trafficking in the region should ...
Regional ‘think tank’ launched to advise on China Mekong initiative
The Global Center for Mekong Studies (GCMS) comprises six leading regional “think tanks”: the China Institute for International Studies (CIIS); the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP); the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV); the Laos Institute of Foreign Affairs (IFA); the Myanmar Institute of ...
Aun Chhengpor
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/regional-think-tank-launched-to-advise-on-china-mekong-initiative/4050041.html