Japan firm chooses Battambang for cashew nut shell fuel project
Japanese firm Top Planning Japan Co Ltd’s (TPJ) apparent interest in investing in facilities in Battambang province to convert cashew nut shells into fuel and process the fibre-rich seeds for export has been greeted with much enthusiasm among local authorities and has dramatically heightened prospects ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/japan-firm-chooses-battambang-cashew-nut-shell-fuel-project
Cambodia, Laos step up cooperation
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on February 13 started an official visit to neighbouring Laos. Sry Thamarong, minister attached to the prime minister, said that PM Hun Sen held bilateral talks with his Lao counterpart Sonexay Siphandone to discuss ways to further enhance bilateral ties ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501238347/cambodia-laos-step-up-cooperation/
Concerns raised over plastic pollution threat to Cambodia's marine life
After a pregnant whale was found dead on a beach in Phuket, Thailand from choking on plastic waste earlier this week, a Cambodian conservation official expressed concerns that non-biodegradable pollution could pose a threat to the country’s rare marine species, such as sea turtles, dugongs ...
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/concerns-raised-over-plastic-pollution-threat-to-cambodia-s-marine-life
PPAP revenue rise to $8m, all round growth in Q1’24
Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) posted a 7.1 percent year-on-year revenue hike at $8.1 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2024 from $7.5 million, with container throughput climbing 20.4 percent to 93,153 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units). ...
Sangeetha Amarthalingam
https://kiripost.com/stories/ppap-revenue-rise-to-8m-all-round-growth-in-q124
Cambodian forest shrinks to only 47pct in last 40 over years
Cambodia’s forest cover was over 73 per cent in 1975 but it has shrunk to only about 47 per cent last year. In its Human Development Report Cambodia 2019, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said deforestation was mainly caused by rising wood demand for ...
New Straits Times Staff
https://www.nst.com.my/world/region/2019/11/542639/cambodian-forest-shrinks-only-47pct-last-40-over-years
Police search for clues about dead foreigner
Police in Kep province on Tuesday contacted authorities in Phnom Penh and all 23 other provinces in their attempt to identify a Caucasian man whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase floating in an inlet on Monday, but came no closer to solving the ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-search-for-clues-about-dead-foreigner-95973/
Phnom Penh extends curfew for another week to curb Covid-19 spread
Phnom Penh Authorities decided to extend the curfew for another week from today till May 27, with stricter enforcement. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50859758/phnom-penh-extends-curfew-for-another-week-to-curb-covid-19-spread/
Search for suspected ‘Delta’ variant at Phnom Penh market
The COVID Research Subcommittee says that a search operation for suspected ‘Delta’ variant infection is currently underway in Deum Kor market, between Mao Tse Tong Boulevard (St. 245) and Monireth Boulevard (St. 217), in Khan Tuol Kork, Phnom Penh after after a Delta Kovid-19 virus-positive ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50907691/search-for-suspected-delta-variant-at-phnom-penh-market/
Cambodia’s textile body GMAC is now officially renamed TAFTAC
Cambodia’s industry trade body Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) will now be known as the Textile, Apparel, Footwear, and Travel Goods Association in Cambodia (TAFTAC) after it was officially renamed in a recently held ceremony attended by Cambodia’s army commander Lieutenant General Hun Manet. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501190624/cambodias-textile-body-gmac-is-now-officially-renamed-taftac/
250 Families near Ta Mok lake complain to UN to help monitor their land disputes
About 40 people representing 250 families living next to Ta Mok Lake in Sangkat Samrong, Khan Prek Pnov, Phnom Penh, on Monday filed a petition to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia (UN) to request this body to help monitor land disputes and ...
Khut Sokun
https://www.vodkhmer.news/2022/10/03/thousands-of-mobilised-russians-sent-home-unfit-for-military-duty-2/
Anti-Trafficking Initiatives in Southeast Asia with Key Events in Thailand and Cambodia by A21
A21, a global nonprofit organization committed to eradicating human trafficking through awareness, intervention, and aftercare, is proud to announce two landmark events in Pattaya, Thailand, and Cambodia. These initiatives underscore A21’s ongoing dedication to fortifying and expanding anti-trafficking efforts across The SouTheast Asia region. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501401880/anti-trafficking-initiatives-in-southeast-asia-with-key-events-in-thailand-and-cambodia-by-a21/
Defence Minister in Vietnam to boost military ties
Defence Minister General Tea Seiha will hold talks with his Vietnamese counterpart General Phan Van Giang on strengthening friendly relations and cooperation between the two armies and peoples. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501391287/defence-minister-in-vietnam-to-boost-military-ties/
BarCamp Battambang empowers youth and entrepreneurs through digital innovation
BarCamp Battambang 2024’s ‘Digital Technology and New Business Conference’ will be held on October 25 to 26, 2024, aiming to understand the digital technology and content strategies that benefit young people and new business owners to study and implement digital technology. ...
Kuch Sikol
https://kiripost.com/stories/barcamp-battambang-empowers-youth-and-entrepreneurs-through-digital-innovation
Government issues a directive to curb air pollution in Kingdom
With concern over increased air pollution affecting people’s health, the government yesterday issued a directive ordering all institutions to prevent and reduce emissions. According to a directive signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday, pollutants are produced by factories, vehicles, forest fire, rubbish and waste burning ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50676086/government-issues-a-directive-to-curb-air-pollution-in-kingdom
PM nixes ban on dual-national party leaders
In his latest abrupt policy backtracking, Prime Minister Hun Sen used a speech on Thursday to rescind a recently announced plan to ban dual nationals from leading political parties—an effort that had ostensibly been aimed at the self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/104769-104769/
Teaching young women digital literacy
SHE Investments, a social enterprise to support women micro-small entrepreneurs (MSMEs) is joining as a Cambodian partner for Youth Business International’s Rapid Response Recovery Programme, funded by Google.org, to support women entrepreneurs to build digital literacy skills to enable them to recover and rebuild from ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50739209/teaching-young-women-digital-literacy/
Social accountability
Access to information and open budgets play a crucial role in promoting good governance and social accountability in Cambodia. Social accountability profile page was designed to provide information on budget at the sub-national level, sub-national administrative, education, and healthcare services. Read more ...
Naga 3 pushed back till Sept 2029
Hong Kong-listed casino operator and developer NagaCorp Ltd, known for its flagship NagaWorld integrated resort in Phnom Penh, on June 4 announced that it has moved the $3.5 billion Naga 3 project’s planned completion date from September 30, 2025 to exactly four years later, in ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/naga-3-pushed-back-till-sept-2029
Thailand boosting rubber exports a concern
Rubber growers and exporters have expressed concern that prices will continue to fall as Thailand seeks to boost its natural rubber exports, industry insider Men Sopheak said. In March, the International Tripartite Rubber Council (ITRC), which comprises Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, agreed to reduce rubber ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thailand-boosting-rubber-exports-concern
CBC wins consumer credit reporting award
Independent financial information provider Credit Bureau (Cambodia) Co Ltd (CBC) scooped an award for “Excellence in Consumer Credit Reporting”, CBC said in a January 5 press release. UK-based “reputed international business magazine” Global Business Outlook (GBO) honoured the locally-owned CBC for its “exceptional performance” in Cambodia’s ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cbc-wins-consumer-credit-reporting-award