Deadline Extension - Cambodia Data-Driven Storytelling Contest
The purpose of this contest is to encourage professionals, researchers, and students, especially those who identify as Indigenous Peoples, to demonstrate the value of data through effective visual data storytelling, and to contribute to the open data community by increasing the accessibility of information on ...
Co-design workshop to strengthen ODC’s accessibility
As a part of its strategy to strengthen tools for sharing information about social accountability (for the Innovations for Social Accountability in Cambodia Project), Internews facilitated a Co-Design Workshop with Open Development Cambodia to improve its webpage on “Access to Public Service Information” in May.All ...
PM criticises EU during WTO meeting
Prime Minister Hun Sen has renewed accusations of double standards by the European Union over the possible suspension of the Kingdom’s Everything-but-arms trade status during his visit to Geneva. Mr Hun Sen is attending a three-day meeting on Aid for Trade Global Review in Switzerland and ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50621146/pm-criticises-eu-during-wto-meeting/
China a market for fragrant rice
Cambodia is campaigning to boost its luxury fragrant rice exports to China, the world’s largest market, said Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) vice-president Chan Sokheang on Thursday. Sokheang told The Post on Thursday that the CRF plans to achieve the quota that China provided Cambodia – ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-market-fragrant-rice
Top Glove wants to source for its own latex
TOP Glove Corp Bhd became the first rubber glove maker to move upstream by acquiring its own rubber plantation land to ensure a consistent supply of latex At for the purchase price of RM22mil, it translates to RM715 per ha, which is also 35% cheaper than ...
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/9/15/business/12014933&sec=business
UN Security Council vote up
Cambodia will know by the early hours of tomorrow whether its bid for a seat on the UN Security Council has been a success. The Kingdom is up against South Korea – the home country of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon – and Bhutan for the Asia-Pacific ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012101859285/National-news/un-security-council-vote-up.html
Multiple injuries as building collapses
Questions are being asked after an unfinished factory collapsed in Kandal province yesterday, injuring 16 construction workers, some seriously. Commune chief Nou Len told the Post shoddy workmanship was to blame for the collapse of the half-finished 120 by 70 metre factory on land owned ...
Cambodia's ruling party has no plan for coalition gov't with opposition party: spokesman
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) has no plan to establish a new coalition government with the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) after the general election on July 28, CPP’s spokesman and Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said Saturday. “Up to now, we don’t have ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-08/10/c_132619134.htm
Governors told to look at public land seizures
The Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the office of the Council of Ministers, Hing Thorasky, has issued a report ordering ministers and three provincial governors to check for irregularities among lower-level officers who have illegally seized public land. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/governors-told-look-public-land-seizures
National Social Protection Broadcasting Mechanism launched
Oxfam in collaboration with the General Secretariat of the National Social Protection Council (GS-NSPC), is developing a mechanism to broadcast information on social protection nationwide, which will also be capable of serving as an emergency broadcasting mechanism in the case of future pandemics, floods and ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50927009/national-social-protection-broadcasting-mechanism-launched/
Cambodian drops Myanmar from Foreign Ministers Retreat as its special envoy readies to visit Myanmar soon to meet with all stakeholders
ASEAN Member States welcome the appointment of Prak Sokhon as the Special Envoy of the ASEAN Chair on Myanmar and call on the Myanmar authorities to facilitate the missions of the ASEAN Chair’s Special Envoy, which will begin with the first visit to ASEAN. ...
Apsara National Authority preserves Khmer architecture in Angkor park
In the first quarter of 2022, the Apsara National Authority (ANA) – a state body tasked with managing the Angkor Archaeological Park – approved 314 of the 439 renovation and construction requests it received from residents of its managed area. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/apsara-national-authority-preserves-khmer-architecture-angkor-park
Soybean, mung bean exports double on-year
Cambodia exported a total of 64,660 tonnes of soybeans and mung beans in the first four months of this year, roughly doubling from the same period in 2021, with more than 96.5 per cent bought by Vietnam, according to the agriculture ministry. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/soybean-mung-bean-exports-double-year
‘White rice’ price soars amid India suspension
Rice exporters and millers in Cambodia say the price of white rice is soaring after India suspended exports of non-basmati rice in order to address internal food security issues following the falling yield of paddy rice due to climate change. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/white-rice-price-soars-amid-india-suspension
Cambodian Foreign Minister chairs Informal ASEAN Foreign Minister’s Meeting
Deputy Prime Minister Prak Sokhonn, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation chaired the annual Informal ASEAN Foreign Minister’s Meeting (IAMM), held in New York City, USA on Sept. 22, on the sidelines of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). ...
Khmer Times Staff
http://khmertimeskh.com/501157040/cambodian-foreign-minister-chairs-informal-asean-foreign-ministers-meeting/
Kirirom National Park, Bati district land granted to elites
Relatives of infamous Pheapimex CEO Choeung Sopheap received forest land in the center of Kirirom National Park, while a minister, tycoons and an apparent relative of first lady Bun Rany all received state land, according to official documents published in late December. ...
Keat Soriththeavy
https://vodenglish.news/kirirom-national-park-bati-district-land-granted-to-elites/
NEC voter lists protest period ongoing with 53 total complaints
The period for lodging official complaints with the National Election Committee (NEC) following the posting of the 2022 voter list and list of removed names is underway with a total of 53 complaints received to date through commune councils nationwide, according to NEC spokesman Som ...
Yuth Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-voter-lists-protest-period-ongoing-53-total-complaints
Wang due to visit Cambodia, Indonesia, PNG from today
The Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi will pay an official visit to Cambodia for the Seventh Meeting of the China-Cambodia Intergovernmental Coordination Committee, and he will also chair the Fourth Meeting of the China-Indonesia High-Level Dialogue Cooperation Mechanism. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501474067/wang-due-to-visit-cambodia-indonesia-png-from-today/
Cambodian Prime Minister Welcomes ACCOR Group’s Continued Investment
In a meeting with Dr. Hun Manet, Prime Minister of Cambodia, Monday, in France, Ms. Maud Bailly, Chief Executive officer of Sofitel, MGallery& Emblems, representing ACCOR Group, expressed optimism about the growth and improvement of the tourism sector in Cambodia in 2024. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501423738/cambodian-prime-minister-welcomes-accor-groups-continued-investment/