Environment ministry kicks off agroforestry project in Pursat
The Ministry of Environment announced the launch of a two-year project to stimulate local economies through the implementation of agroforestry and environmental agronomy in Kravanh district, Pursat province. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environment-ministry-kicks-agroforestry-project-pursat
Vietnam congratulates Cambodia on the establishment of 7th-tenure NA, Government
Vietnamese leaders on August 22 extended congratulations to their Cambodian counterparts on the occasion of the establishment of the 7th-tenure National Assembly (NA) and Government (2023-2028). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501347776/vietnam-congratulates-cambodia-on-the-establishment-of-7th-tenure-na-government/
Can Tho fosters tourism cooperation with Cambodia
Officials from the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism discussed ways To further promote bilateral cooperation in fields where both sides have strengths, especially in Tourism, at a working session in Can Tho on July 19. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501116185/can-tho-fosters-tourism-cooperation-with-cambodia/
More government meetings held over human trafficking
Top government officials continued high-level meetings over human trafficking on Monday as Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities ordered all building owners To report foreign residents and workers on their premises by September 24. ...
Mech Dara
https://vodenglish.news/more-government-meetings-held-over-human-trafficking/
Now, get your vaccination details on Bakong wallet
National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and the Ministry of Health announced the linking of Covid-19 vaccination information of individuals to the Bakong payment system. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501242305/now-get-your-vaccination-details-on-bakong-wallet/
Military forces on standby despite calm
Defence Minister Tea Banh reassured citizens that tensions along the Cambodian-Vietnamese border have eased and returned to normality. ...
Samban Chandara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/military-forces-standby-despite-calm
11 Activists Arrested While Petitioning US, French Embassies
District security guards this morning arrested 11 political activists taking part in a protest in front of the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh against the imprisonment of 23 protesters who were beaten and arrested earlier this month. The protesters, including union leader Rong Chhun and prominent ...
The Cambodia Daily News Staff
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/11-activists-arrested-while-petitioning-us-french-embassies-50916/
Beeline books $500m charge after overestimating market
VimpelCom, the Netherlands-based parent company of Cambodian mobile operator Beeline, booked an impairment charge of US$527 million on its operations in Cambodia and Vietnam, according to a 2011 company report. The impairment, or revaluation of VimpelCom’s assets in the two Southeast Asian countries, highlighted the company’s ...
Missing land activist found
A land activist involved in a dispute who disappeared in January reunited with his wife in Phnom Penh on Friday. Sum Meun disappeared in Oddar Meanchey province on January 20, with Human Rights Watch (HRW) calling on the government to reveal his whereabouts, while a ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/missing-land-activist-found
Ford targets the Kingdom’s lucrative emerging economy
Ford expects sales of its passenger vehicles in Cambodia to surge 30 per cent this year on rising purchasing power and strong brand appeal, a company representative said yesterday. Speaking at a luncheon organised by the Amcham Cambodia, Loflin said the US carmaker sees the ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ford-targets-kingdoms-lucrative-emerging-economy
Report slams dam payouts
Households displaced by the massive Lower Sesan II hydropower dam project in Stung Treng province are being under-compensated by as much as $80,000, according to a new study.The research, published by the Rivers Coalition of Cambodia and led by political aspirant Kem Ley, found that ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-slams-dam-payouts
Thieves rob Takeo voter registration location
Police in Takeo province’s Prey Kabbas district are investigating the theft of equipment from a Prey Lvea commune voter registration office on Thursday. National Election Committee voter registration department head Top Rithy said the thief or thieves broke the building’s lock and swiped all but the ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thieves-rob-takeo-voter-registration-location
Study finds worm more harmful than thought
Researchers have found that a little-studied variety of threadworm – strongyloides stercoralis – previously thought to be relatively benign is associated with “significant morbidity” in rural Cambodia. Peter Odermatt, a professor at Basel University in Switzerland who headed the team, said the researchers had been ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/study-finds-worm-more-harmful-thought
Sokha: CNRP will win elections
Kem Sokha has claimed official and unofficial opinion polls show the opposition CNRP is on track to win a majority at the commune elections in June.Addressing supporters at a fundraising drive in Auckland, New Zealand last week, the opposition leader said his party was making ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37388/sokha--cnrp-will-win-elections/
Cop’s dredging outfit closed
Following several warnings, officials in Prey Veng province’s Peamro district yesterday shuttered an illegal sand-dredging operation being run by a provincial police officer.Chum Chea, Prek Khsay Khor commune chief, said more than 10 officers on Wednesday halted the operation and confiscated machinery, with the operation ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cops-dredging-outfit-closed
4000 Garment Workers Protest Over Severance Pay
Two garment workers were injured yesterday during a factory protest in Kandal province when they clashed with 50 police and military police, a union representative said. About 4,000 garment workers of Tai Yang Enterprises in Ang Snuol district held a protest to demand their severance payments ...
Cambodia's Anti-Corruption Unit receives 800 complaints in 8 months
Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has received about 800 corruption-related complaints in the first eight months of this year, exceeding the whole last year of only 700 cases, Om Yintieng, ACU’s Chairman, said Thursday Cambodia is riddled with bribery and corruption. The Government of Cambodia sees corruption ...
Cambodian-Americans Protest Minister’s US Visit
Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong’s visit to meet U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington was met with a small protest Tuesday from Cambodian-Americans voicing a number of grievances. Video footage posted online shows a cluster of protesters outside the State Department building in Washington ...
Cambodia opposition leader Sam Rainsy endorsed by parliament, ends year-long stalemate
Cambodia’s parliament endorsed opposition leader Sam Rainsy as a lawmaker on Monday as part of a deal with long-term rival Prime Minister Hun Sen that both leaders hailed as an end to a year-long political crisis. Cambodia has been without an effective parliament since Sam Rainsy’s ...
Prak Chan Thul
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/28/us-cambodia-politics-idUSKBN0FX0I720140728
Property boom, not bubble
Phnom Penh is changing at a blinding pace, with major new residential and commercial projects set to transform the capital’s skyline within the next five years. Chrek Soknim, CEO of Century 21 Mekong Realty, one of nearly two dozen Century 21 Cambodia affiliates, sees oversupply ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12684/property-boom--not-bubble/