Monks push for Prey Lang protection
After marching for Prey Lang forest, the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice now plans to station monks in the forest for two week anti-logging “patrols.” ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13330/monks-push-for-prey-lang-protection/
Families Claim Officials Extort Fees at Checkpoints
More than 30 families living in Pursat province’s Dangkeab village have filed complaints with their village chief against environmental officials, whom they claim extorted money from them to pass illegal checkpoints as they transported firewood from a nearby forest to the village, authorities said yesterday. “Since ...
Local authorities searching for forest arsonists in Battambang
Specialists from Battambang province’s Forestry Administration, along with Samlot district authorities, are conducting a joint search for arsonists responsible for the recent forest fire in the Dos Kramom mountain area located in Ta Sanh commune. the suspects are presumed to have secretly burned the forest to ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/local-authorities-searching-forest-arsonists-battambang
National Assembly passes $6 billion 2018 budget
The National Assembly, with only ruling party lawmakers in attendance, voted on Friday to pass The national budget for 2018 and to add two additional positions to 10 parliamentary committees, a day after a Supreme Court ruling dissolved The only oTher party to hold seats in The ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-assembly-passes-6-billion-2018-budget
River floodgates opened as rainfall persist: official
People living in the delta region along the Prek Tnaot River in Kampong Speu province should be on the lookout for flash floods as water levels in some large reservoirs have risen above caution levels and water resources officials have opened some sluice gates to ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/river-floodgates-opened-rainfall-persist-official
NEC issues 2023 election procedures
As the 2023 national election approaches, the National Election Committee (NEC) has rolled out the rules and procedure for all relevant parties. the regulations were issued following consultation meetings with relevant parties, including representatives from political parties and election observation civil groups. ...
Rann Reuy
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-issues-2023-election-procedures
ADB offers Covid recovery package
Cambodia could potentially benefit from a $20.5 billion financial package for the Asia-Pacific committed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and use the funds to support its post-Covid-19 economic recovery, as extreme weather events compounded by a worsening regional food crisis and the still-ongoing Ukraine ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/adb-offers-covid-recovery-package
Cambodia-China tourism forum held in Phnom Penh
The first high-level Cambodia-China Tourism Forum was held here on Thursday, aiming at exploring opportunities to furTher promote tourism ties between The two countries. ...
Liang yu
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-05/18/c_137187142.htm
Khmer Power Party targets Sokha, PM
The fledgling Khmer Power Party has backed calls for Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy leader Kem Sokha to resign as The National Assembly’s deputy president. ...
Vong Sokheng and Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/khmer-power-party-targets-sokha-pm
Pledges to cut transport fees ignored, say logistics firms
Nearly two months since the government pressed ports and trucking companies to reduce cargo transport fees, local logistics firms say the initiative has been largely ignored. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pledges-cut-transport-fees-ignored-say-logistics-firms
Foreign national pleads ignorance in drug case
A Nigerian man charged with drug trafficking told the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday that he did not know the packet he was handling contained methamphetamine. ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/foreign-national-pleads-ignorance-drug-case
Vietnam border boost for farms
Cambodia and Vietnam yesterday inaugurated the O’Yadav International Border Checkpoint in Ratanakkiri province in a move hailed as a boon to the northeastern agriculture industry. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5074019/vietnam-border-boost-farms/
Phnom Penh, Lowell enter ‘Sister City’ relationship
Phnom Penh on Wednesday cemented a “sister city” relationship with Lowell, Massachusetts, which has the second largest Cambodian-American population in the U.S. after Long Beach, California. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-lowell-enter-sister-city-relationship-76170/
GMAC calls for law enforcement to ensure garment sector stability
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has called on all trade unionists to respect The law and halt violence if They want stability in Cambodia’s garment sector. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/gmac-calls-for-law-enforcement-to-ensure-garment-sector-stability-8160
Chinese tourists overtake S Koreans at Angkor
China has overtaken South Korea to become the largest tourist source to at the Angkor world heritage site, state-run Agency Kampuchea Press (AKP) reported yesterday. ...
Agence Kampuchea Press team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14009/chinese-tourists-overtake-s-koreans-at-angkor/
21 opposition activists overseas fined, banned from running for office for 20 years
Twenty-one opposition members and activists were banned from holding elected office for at least 20 years after being convicted in absentia of inciting voters to spoil their national election ballots by the Phnom Penh Municipal Election Committee (PEC) on Tuesday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://cambojanews.com/21-opposition-activists-overseas-fined-banned-from-running-for-office-for-20-years/
Kingdom welcomes 13 newborn Irrawaddy dolphins in 2019
The Kingdom has welcomed 13 newborn Irrawaddy dolphins in Kratie and Stung Treng provinces so far this year, according to The World Wildlife Fund. WWF yesterday said in a report its research team spotted The latest calf during an expedition to The Kampi dolphin pool ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50669819/kingdom-welcomes-13-newborn-irrawaddy-dolphins-in-2019/
Large-scale logging halted in Kampong Speu, Pursat provinces
Police from Kampong Speu and Pursat provinces and officials from environmental non-profit Wildlife Alliance cracked down on illegal logging and wildlife poaching activities in the Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary and the National Park in the Cardamom Mountains. A report from Wildlife Alliance posted on social ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/large-scale-logging-halted-kampong-speu-pursat-provinces
HIV dollars stretching far: study
A dollar invested in aiding HIV patients was worth almost twice that to the people it was targeting with help, according to a new study by the NGO KHANA. ...
CMAC ups cooperation with Thai counterpart
Cambodian and Thai mine authorities have agreed to step up cooperation in demining activities along the two countries’ frontier, the former’s top official said on Thursday. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-ups-cooperation-thai-counterpart