Viet Nam’s PM successfully wraps up working trip to Cambodia
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh returned to Hanoi on November 13 afternoon, concluding his official visit to Cambodia and his attendance at the 40th and 41st ASEAN Summits and Related Summits. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501184280/viet-nams-pm-successfully-wraps-up-working-trip-to-cambodia/
Bus crash near border kills 16
At least 16 were killed and another 23 injured yesterday when a bus careened off an embankment in the Dangkrek Mountains as its brakes and transmission failed, police said. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bus-crash-near-border-kills-16-0
Open Development Cambodia publishes Hydropower profile page
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new online resource detailing Cambodia’s hydropower in both Khmer and English. Together with the website’s map explorer tool, the profile page aims to provide the up-to-date information on the country’s “hydropower dams, reservoirs, substations and transmission lines,” and ...
PM seeks ASEAN-EU stability push
Prime Minister Hun Sen appealed to both ASEAN and the EU to do their utmost to build peace and stability in the region and beyond, while decrying today’s situation where world peace is being threatened by some states. ...
Ry Sochan and Samban Chandara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-seeks-asean-eu-stability-push
Cambodia, Vietnam to boost cooperation between border provinces
Ministries, government agencies and localities from Vietnam and Cambodia will coordinate to formulate legal frameworks and cooperation mechanisms to facilitate collaboration, including in trade, between border provinces, it was recently agreed at a joint conference. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501280343/cambodia-vietnam-to-boost-cooperation-between-border-provinces/
NEC ensuring stronger security for Senate polls
The National Election Committee (NEC) is asking the Capital and Provincial Election Commission (CPEC) to cooperate with relevant parties to prepare security forces to protect and maintain public safety and social order during the upcoming Senate Elections. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501420475/nec-ensuring-stronger-security-for-senate-polls/
Sweden stops new aid
Sweden said yesterday it was stopping new aid for Cambodia, except in education and research, and would no longer support a reform programme after the CNRP was dissolved last week. ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5091718/sweden-stops-new-aid/
Cambodia says PM's visit to South Korea to further enhance ties
Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said Monday that the upcoming visit by Prime Minister Hun Sen to South Korea will broaden relations and cooperation between the two countries. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141208/cambodia-says-pms-visit-south-korea-further-enhance-ties
Cambodia, Australia vow to implement refugee deal
Cambodia and Australia have reiterated their commitment to comply with a refugee deal signed in September despite criticism from human rights groups and opposition parties in both countries, Xinhua news agency reported. ...
Bernama News Staff
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=1085060
China plays major role in global peace, health, development says Cambodian officials
China has been playing a major role in promoting global peace, public health and common development, Cambodian official and experts said. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501008204/china-plays-major-role-in-global-peace-health-development-says-cambodian-officials/
Border residents to cease land leases
Cambodian and Vietnamese authorities in a meeting yesterday agreed to remind their respective citizens living along the border to not lease land to each other and to help prevent transnational crimes. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/530484/border-residents-to-cease-land-leases/
Chicken farm razed in Preah Sihanouk
A grass fire raged through a chicken farm in Preah Sihanouk province on Wednesday, destroying two coops and the chickens within and causing $10,000 in damage, according to provincial authorities. ...
Sen David and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chicken-farm-razed-preah-sihanouk
Malaysia’s Sunway in $220 mil regional expansion
Malaysian-owned Sunway Hotels & Resorts will spend $223 million in a redevelopment and expansion plan on its hotels in Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam within three years, according to Malaysian media. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23471/malaysia---s-sunway-in--220-mil-regional-expansion/
Solar lights up Cambodia’s villages
Solar home systems are an appropriate solution to provide affordable, reliable and clean electricity in rural Cambodia, and the Green Microfinance Programme assists villagers to take out loans to purchase them. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080936/solar-lights-cambodias-villages/
Specialist food factory shapes up
Confirel Co. Ltd. and Pharma Product Manufacturing Enterprise will unveil its $7 million factory in Phnom Penh to process Kampong Speu palm sugar and Kampot pepper by July, the company said. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36732/specialist-food-factory-shapes-up/
Japan, Cambodia agree to work closely on developing Mekong region
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his Cambodian counterpart, Hor Namhong, agreed Thursday to keep working together over infrastructure development in Cambodia and four other countries along the Mekong River, the Foreign Ministry said. ...
The Japan Times News Staff
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/03/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-cambodia-agree-work-closely-developing-mekong-region/#.VZYTaEY2XHA
CNRP will propose changes to allow voting from abroad
Opposition lawmakers plan to submit proposed amendments to the national election law next week in order to allow Cambodians who work and live outside the country to register and vote from abroad. ...
Ben Sokhean and Brendan O’Byrne
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-will-propose-changes-to-allow-voting-from-abroad-133284/
Marching rights activists blocked at starting point
More than a hundred monks and rights activists marching to Phnom Penh for International Human Rights Day were blocked by soldiers and police at their starting point in Takeo province’s Kirivong district yesterday. ...
Vandy Muong
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/marching-rights-activists-blocked-starting-point
Open Development Cambodia publishes Fisheries Conservation Areas profile page
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new online resource detailing Cambodia’s fisheries conservation areas in both Khmer and English. Together with the website’s map explorer tool, the profile page aims to provide the up-to-date information on the country’s “community fishery, fish sanctuary, and flooded ...
Cambodia requires foreigners to pay for COVID-19 test, quarantine, treatment services
Cambodia has required foreigners to pay for COVID-19 lab test, quarantine and treatment services, Economy and Finance Minister Aun Pornmoniroth said in a letter dated Monday and released to the media on Tuesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50732293/cambodia-requires-foreigners-to-pay-for-covid-19-test-quarantine-treatment-services/