Second haul of illegal ivory in a month found in Svay Rieng
Military police in Svay Rieng province on Friday seized more than 250 kg of elephant tusks stashed inside 10 suitcases in a van heading for the Vietnamese border, officials said. This is the second such haul in the space of a month, leading to fears Cambodia ...
Saing Soenthrith and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/second-haul-of-illegal-ivory-in-a-month-found-in-svay-rieng-54762/
Appropriate technology is a mechanism to promote nationally appropriate actions for greenhouse gas emission reduction
Phnom Penh – 21 March 2014, a workshop on Energy and Environment Technology: Capacity-Building Cooperation for the Development of NAMA in a MRV manner was organized by the Climate Change Department of the Ministry of Environment (CCD) in cooperation with the Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center, ...
Ministry of Environment
Rubber prices tumble as industry panics
Cambodia’s steadily declining rubber prices have hit critically low levels that are destined to only get worse as Thailand prepares to offload huge rubber stocks, the secretary-general of the Association for Rubber Development of Cambodia said Thursday. As the price of natural rubber has paralleled a ...
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/rubber-prices-tumble-as-industry-panics-58889/
Thailand sends 7,507 illegal migrant workers back to Cambodia: spokesman
Thai authorities have sent 7, 507 illegal Cambodian migrant workers back to Cambodia since the start of this month, a Cambodian spokesman said Wednesday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-06/11/c_133399545.htm
Ministry of Interior orders authorities to take legal measures against violent acts
Interior Minister Sar Kheng ordered cities and provincial authorities to take action to prevent rallies, following a violent clash at the Freedom Park, injuring dozens of security guards and protesters. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=OTkxOTI4NGMyYzc
Ministry says it is making efforts to stop abuse
The Foreign Affairs Ministry on Friday defended the Cambodian Embassy and consulates in China, which have been accused of ignoring female citizens in peril there, and said it has made efforts to cut off the flow off women being sold into brothels or forced marriages. In ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-says-it-is-making-efforts-to-stop-abuse-65563/
Cambodia announces new Visa fee for foreigners
Cambodia has announced the new Visa fee for foreigners who wish to visit Cambodia, according to a statement by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=Yjc5MTVkYjcwNzU
Press release on e-Visa fee
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia wishes to inform all foreign nationals, who wish to enter Cambodia, of the new e-Visa fee. ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Cambodia sees 44% rise in new company registrations in 7 months
Cambodia has granted operating licenses to 2,424 new companies in the first seven months of 2014, up 44 percent compared with 1,688 firms over the same period last year, according to the latest report of the Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=238871
Koh Kong villagers seek PM’s help in capital
Villagers from Koh Kong province have descended on the capital, ready to petition Prime Minister Hun Sen and the government today to intervene in their long-running land dispute with prominent businessman Heng Huy. Phav Nhoeung, a representative of 15 families in Sre Ambel district’s Chi Khor ...
Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-villagers-seek-pm%E2%80%99s-help-capital
Justice deferred: ‘The 23’ look forward to appeal date
The Appeal Court has set a date to hear the case of 23 garment workers and unionists who were convicted in May in connection with violent protests calling for a doubling of the sector’s minimum wage. ...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/justice-deferred-%E2%80%98-23%E2%80%99-look-forward-appeal-date
Cambodian police burn 5.1 tons of fake medicines
About 5.1 tons of counterfeit medicines were burned down on Friday at a dumpsite on the outskirts of capital Phnom Penh by Cambodian economic police. ...
China.org.cn News Staff
http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2014-11/28/content_34177271.htm
Cambodian police scour jungle for Vietnamese 'Montagnards' refugees
Cambodian police said Wednesday they were scouring remote northeastern jungles for a group of Vietnamese Montagnards who crossed the border in an apparent attempt to seek asylum. Rights groups say 13 of the hill tribe people, including one woman, fled persecution in Vietnam late last month ...
The Sun Daily News Staff
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1258248
Cambodia's rice exports reach over 335,000 tonnes in 11 months
Cambodia exported 335,925 tonnes of rice in the first 11 months of the year, up from 332,009 tonnes in the same period last year. ...
Bernama News Staff
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=1090939
Thai defense minister to visit Cambodia to promote ties
Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Prawit Wongsuwan will lead a military delegation to pay a two-day official visit to Cambodia on Dec. 24 and 25 to further boost bilateral ties and cooperation, said a press statement issued by the Cambodian defense ministry on ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=260184
Trafficked bride back from China
Yet another Cambodian woman returned home from China yesterday after allegedly escaping her trafficker and the man she was forced to wed. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trafficked-bride-back-china
Judicial reshuffle: Top judiciary posts filled by Sihamoni
King Norodom Sihamoni yesterday shook up the composition of the Supreme Council of the Magistracy, officially instituting seven new members to the body overseeing the nation’s judiciary, while also disbarring one former prosecutor. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/judicial-reshuffle-top-judiciary-posts-filled-sihamoni
Minister to be questioned over HIV outbreak
Health Minister Mam Bunheng has been summoned for questioning next week by the National Assembly’s health commission over the outbreak of HIV among villagers in Battambang province’s Roka commune, the commission’s secretary-general said Friday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-to-be-questioned-over-hiv-outbreak-76629/
Cambodia ‘not free’: report
Following reports of endemic corruption and suppression of dissent in the Kingdom last year, Cambodia was once again classified by global watchdog Freedom House as “not free” in a generally bleak report released yesterday. In Freedom of the World 2015, Freedom House’s assessment of the real-world ...
Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-not-free-report
No room for refugees: Kheng
Montagnards seeking asylum in Cambodia and who are found to be fleeing persecution in Vietnam will not be allowed to stay in the Kingdom if a third country does not accept them, Interior Minister Sar Kheng said yesterday. Speaking after opening a workshop on violence against ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-room-refugees-kheng