Smart gives $1m from virus fund
Smart Axiata announced yesterday that it has begun disbursing funds from its $1 million COVID-19 Relief Fund to the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Open Institute, Friends International and Southeastern Globe Communications, according to a company statement. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50725375/smart-gives-1m-from-virus-fund/
Areng valley activist denies illegal logging allegations
An environmental activist in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley on Monday denied building an ecotourism information center with illegally logged wood after he was summoned to the local court to answer questions over alleged forestry crimes. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/areng-valley-activist-denies-illegal-logging-allegations-78939/
Rubber firm vows not to harm forests
Rubber and palm oil giant the Socfin Group has committed to a global “zero-deforestation policy” across Africa and Asia amid a legal dispute with ethnic Bunong communities in Mondulkiri province’s Bousraa commune. ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rubber-firm-vows-not-harm-forests
PM returns from Singapore hospital
Prime Minister Hun Sen returned to Cambodia yesterday after an urgent medical examination in Singapore due to exhaustion. The premier was forced to cancel diplomatic meetings and ceremonies last week and was rushed abroad for treatment. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-returns-singapore-hospital
PPAP works to soften virus hit
Listed state-owned port operator Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) has doubled down on its commitment to enhance its business performance during the global health crisis by reducing expenses and postponing non-urgent investment, director-general Hei Bavy told its annual meeting on Friday. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppap-works-soften-virus-hit
Food system needs to be strengthened, Hun Sen says
Prime Minister Hun Sen has urged strengthening the food safety and quality control system in Cambodia to enable healthy diets which he said are vital to human capital development. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/food-system-needs-be-strengthened-hun-sen-says
Microfinance ‘bad loans’ fall to 2.27% in October
The microfinance sector’s nonperforming loan (NPL) ratio decreased from 2.56 percent in September to 2.27 percent in October after rising from 1.33 percent in January and peaking in May at 2.61 percent. ...
Harrison White
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50788275/microfinance-bad-loans-fall-to-2-27-in-october/
Acleda, CDB ink $130M credit facility pact
Acleda Bank Plc, Cambodia’s largest locally-owned commercial bank, has signed a $130 million long-term facility agreement with Chinese state-owned China Development Bank Corp (CDB), the world’s largest development bank by assets, it said in a press release on Friday. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/acleda-cdb-ink-130m-credit-facility-pact
Battambang teachers use makeshift classrooms to tutor students
In late May, school teachers in Battambang’s Samlout district realized students were struggling to cope with studying at home – either via videos posted on social media or the daily telecasts on state broadcaster TVK. ...
Sokummono Khan and Hean Socheata
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/battambang-teachers-use-makeshift-classrooms-to-tutor-students/5528681.html
HAGL denies Ratanakkiri land clearing
Five civil society organisations urged the government to take action against Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL), a Vietnamese agribusiness firm, for alleged land clearing activities on areas allocated to indigenous communities in Ratanakkiri province’s Andong Meas district. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hagl-denies-ratanakkiri-land-clearing
IFC may provide ACLEDA $200 mn to help female entrepreneurs and SMEs
ACLEDA Bank Plc has proposed a five-year, $200 million blended finance investment from the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), disclosure documents reveal. ...
Husain Haider
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50825874/ifc-may-provide-acleda-200-mn-to-help-female-entrepreneurs-and-smes/
Cambodian agricultural partnership competition launched
Cambodian Agricultural Partnership Competition has recently kicked off with an aim to address key challenges in Cambodia’s agriculture sector including cold chain, storage capacity, and logistics, said the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh in a press release issued yesterday. ...
Phal Sophanith/AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50819600/cambodian-agricultural-partnership-competition-launched/
BookLab teaches children social skills
The Asia Foundation with support from Smart Axiata has launched BookLab – a children’s book creation event to produce 10 children’s storybooks, laying out different situations and problems for young readers to learn and explore. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/booklab-teaches-children-social-skills
Cambodia gains international recognisition as biodiversity-rich country
Cambodia has been internationally recognised for its rich biodiversity and the Kingdom’s Biodiversity Index is 7.5 (MacKinnon, 1997) although a higher score may be attainable when inventories are more advanced. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50860924/cambodia-gains-international-recognisition-as-biodiversity-rich-country/
Alcohol and curfew restrictions lifted beginning Saturday
Curfews and alcohol bans will to be lifted in “Yellow Zones” across the capital beginning today, Phnom Penh Capital Hall announced late Friday evening. ...
Husain Haider
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50860498/curfew-and-alcohol-ban-ends-for-phnom-penhs-yellow-zones/
Five Bunong members to testify over land dispute
Five Bunong indigenous people were summoned by Mondulkiri provincial police to testify on May 3 about a minor criminal complaint filed by a citizen who claimed the accused had built illegal structures on private property ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/five-bunong-members-testify-over-land-dispute
Kantha Bopha Foundation and Sathapana Bank collaborate to launch fundraising
Sathapana Bank launched a fundraiser via their mobile bank in collaboration with Kantha Bopha Foundation, on June 30. the fundraiser is to raise money for Kantha Bopha Hospital. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50885639/kantha-bopha-foundation-and-sathapana-bank-collaborate-to-launch-fundraising/
Quarantine Period to be Extended For One Week For Delta Variant
Quarantine period has been extended to 21 days for Delta and Delta Plus variants, stressed Prime Minister Hun Sen in his statement on the current COVID-19 situation in Cambodia this morning. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50884967/quarantine-period-to-be-extended-for-one-week-for-delta-variant/
30 arrested amid clash at new airport construction site
Kandal provincial police have arrested 30 people after a clash with protesters on September 12 over a land dispute at the new Phnom Penh International Airport construction site in Kandal Stung district’s Boeung Khyang commune. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/30-arrested-amid-clash-new-airport-construction-site
NCDM marshals resources to weather natural disasters
The National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) has deployed 82,500 people from various government ministries and marshaled resources such as 1,106 trucks, 320 long speed boats and 179 short speed boats to help rescue people from natural disasters. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ncdm-marshals-resources-weather-natural-disasters